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Žižek And So On

…and so on.

The podcast exploring the work of Slavoj Žižek & the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis

society & culture philosophy

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00:45:30

Talking Shit

Žižek And So On ·

2022/03/23

This week, the fellas are talking shit: subjectivity, the secrets of the Egyptians, and the Anal Object. Join our Patreon for more episodes! https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Website: https://www.zizekandsoon.com/

00:03:13

PREVIEW - Did Marx Invent the Symptom?

Žižek And So On ·

2022/03/14

Join our Patreon for the full episode! We dive into the first part of The Sublime Object of Ideology (again) and discuss Marx, Freud, the Symptom, and the Commodity Form. Enjoy! Instagram Youtube Website

00:49:39

Return to Freud

Žižek And So On ·

2022/03/02

We're talking Freud's essay "Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through". How does remembering come to be replaced by repetition in analysis? Why did Tony Soprano fix Dr. Melfi's car? And how does Nietzsche's concept of eternal return compare with Freud's notions of repetition and working through? Sign up to our Patreon for extra episodes, and to join our Discord: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Youtube https://www.zizekandsoon.com/

00:07:40

PREVIEW - How To Read Lacan

Žižek And So On ·

2022/02/24

All work and no play makes Jake a dull boy and now he’s back to talk Žižek’s book "How to Read Lacan" and the empty gesture. Join our Patreon for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon

00:46:30

They Live

Žižek And So On ·

2022/02/17

Unlocked from our Patreon We're live with They Live—our episode on Žižek's famous interpretation of John Carpenter's wonderful 1988 film. We touch on Ž's points concerning "the glasses" of the critique of ideology versus the conventional notion of ideology—the rose colored glasses. We also think about the film as a Žižekian example, and push an interpretation of the film's alien beings as the "figure of" ideology. For more episodes and access to our Discord, join our

00:03:07

PREVIEW - The Beautiful Soul

Žižek And So On ·

2022/02/10

On this week's Patreon episode, the fellas talk the concept of the Beautiful Soul in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, it's political position, and place in Zizek's work. Sartre, Anne Frank, and Neil Young come up too For access to the full ep and our Discord community, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Also, Mike won't shut up about our new website: https://www.zizekandsoon.com/

01:01:09

Red Pilled on The Matrix

Žižek And So On ·

2022/02/02

Unlocked from our patreon: Welcome to the desert of the Real. We're talking the Matrix, and the much discussed new installment, The Matrix Resurrections. For more episodes and access to our Discord, join our pateron. We read this article for this episode. as well as this.

00:52:54

The Wheels Are Coming Off w/ Matt Christman

Žižek And So On ·

2022/01/26

This week, Matt Christman (of Chapo Trap House) joins us to talk hinge points, the experience of history, and the impasse of electoral politics.Thanks Matt! Join our Patreon for more episodes and access to our Discord: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Micheal wants you to check out our new website: https://www.zizekandsoon.com/

00:07:09

PREVIEW - The Matrix Repetitions

Žižek And So On ·

2022/01/19

Subscribe to our patreon for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Welcome to the desert of the Real. We're talking the Matrix, and the much discussed new installment, The Matrix Resurrections. We read this article for today's episode: https://www.lacan.com/zizek-matrix.htm as well as this: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-muddle-not-a-movie-slavoj-i-ek-reviews-matrix-resurrections

00:10:50

PREVIEW - Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black pt. 2

Žižek And So On ·

2022/01/11

Listen to the full episode on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon We're back with Jack Black. More on Lacanian theory and comedy, with examples ranging from the Black Eyed Peas to Philomena Cunk. We begin with discussing celebrity and false comedy, and later engage (again) with covid and conspiracy theory. We also get the dish on Jack's favourite premier league team, interpassivity and sports, and decide, once and for all, that the Matrix surpasses Blade Runner as the paradigmatic film

00:57:09

Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black pt. 1

Žižek And So On ·

2022/01/07

This week, the fellas are joined by Jack Black, Senior Lecturer at Centre for Culture, Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University. Oriented around Jack's new book, 'Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy' (Routledge), we talk 'true' and 'false' comedy, the concrete universal, the Office, and racist jokes. Thanks Jack! Get the book: https://www.routledge.com/Race-Racism-and-Political-Correctness-in-Comedy-A-Psychoanalytic-Exploration/Black/p/book/9780367508937 Twitter:

01:05:27

Christian Atheism

Žižek And So On ·

2021/12/21

We're talking Jesus Christ, Žižek's Christian Atheism, and Christmas. How do Christ and God figure in Žižek's work? Is God Dead? Also, the Big (m)Other. From the pod to you, merry Christmas—especially to the atheists. Thanks to all our listeners. https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Reading this week: "The Deposed God" from Disparities

00:57:20

Jaws

Žižek And So On ·

2021/12/15

This week, reading through Rex Butler's 'Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory,' the fellas talk the Master Signifier and Jaws, and somehow devolve into a Lacanian interpretation of Austin Powers. Join our Patreon for more eps! https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon The Book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-live-theory-9780826469953/

00:04:21

PREVIEW - Neofeudalism or Bust?

Žižek And So On ·

2021/12/09

For our patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon After a harrowing month, we reassemble to reassess the assemblage of today's capitalism. But first, have you seen the new Beatles doc? In a recent article, Zizek has used the term "neofeudalism" to describe new dynamics of capitalism. We go back to the source for this terminology—an article by Jodi Dean—and discuss whether the term is more useful in diagnosing features of political economy than (a critique of) capitalism. Then we move

00:52:24

Violence

Žižek And So On ·

2021/11/10

This week, the gang discusses Zizek’s 2008 work Violence: wherein a girl gets a dragon tattoo, Pete gets mystical, and it rains again in Australia. For access to our patron episodes and to join our Discord server: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon

00:04:02

Preview - They Live

Žižek And So On ·

2021/11/02

We're live with They Live—our episode on Žižek's famous interpretation of John Carpenter's wonderful 1988 film. We touch on Ž's points concerning "the glasses" of the critique of ideology versus the conventional notion of ideology—the rose colored glasses. We also think about the film as a Žižekian example, and push an interpretation of the film's alien beings as the "figure of" ideology. To hear the full episode, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon

00:54:02

45 - The Ideology of the End

Žižek And So On ·

2021/10/20

For this week's episode the gang discuss Alenka Zupančič’s recent work on freedom-as-a-possibility, repetition, and The End. Jake gets a haircut, Will touches Marx’s chair, it rains in Australia and Pete has a lousy connection. To subscribe to this and other patron episodes, and to join our powerful Discord server: click here

00:02:58

PREVIEW - The Purloined Letter

Žižek And So On ·

2021/10/12

For the return to the patron episodes the fellas discuss Žižek’s writing on Lacan’s notion of “the letter always arriving at its destination”. For Žižek, the letter’s destination becomes a descriptive model triad of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real, and how the three concepts interact. In this episode, & So On explore’s the subject’s interpellation and misrecognition, contemplates Moby Dick, and questions the actuality of the dental dam. To subscribe to this and other patron

00:59:13

43 - The Next Episode

Žižek And So On ·

2021/10/04

The fellas are back—and are accompanied by a new member. We dive into two recent articles from the Philosophical Salon. The first is by Fabio Vighi, who charges Žižek with capitulating too easily to new forms of social domination with his acceptance of lockdowns. Vighi argues that we now live “in a neo-feudal inferno where our Lords enslave us in order to protect us, and protect us in order to enslave us.” In his response, Žižek charges Vighi with missing the crucial lesson that the “brutal reality

00:02:59

42 Preview - Death Drive

Žižek And So On ·

2021/05/13

The lads compare notes on Freudian-Lacanian-Zizekian concept of the death drive. For access to the full episode and many more: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU&ab_channel=carrieunderwoodVEVO

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