5 Star Tossers

5 Star Tossers try to make sense of the Paul Verhoeven "Masterpiece of Shit" "Showgirls." Did we? We sure wrestled over it, and we churned out some humiliating memories, some Marxist feminist theories à la Silvia Federici, a hypothesis about the difference between satirizing violence and satirizing sex, a theory of the hoax, and we introduce Deleuze's cinematic concept "the crystalline element."

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The Five Star Tossers joyfully lambaste the Béla Tarr movie The Turin Horse. This leads them to think about what happens when you try to mash Marxist and Nietzschean ideas together.

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This week The 5 Star Tossers look at the cultural phenomenon that is the Golden Buzzer from America's Got Talent. We do a shallow deep dive into Kant's Critique of Judgment to think about the Christian humanism at the heart of any universal celebration of beauty and talent. We also introduce for the first time our Star il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, so expect some Saussurean talk about fracking the signifier. Also, if you want to meet someone who thinks Susan Boyle can't sing, we somehow managed to find one amongst us.

Here's a link to the Databyss Page, it includes some youtube clips of the Golden Buzzer: 

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We look at Werner Herzog's fascinating film Grizzly Man. Herzog compiles and analyzes the footage Timothy Treadwell filmed when he traveled to Alaska each summer for 13 years to live with Grizzly bears. We think about the colonizing tendencies in both Herzog and Treadwell, and discuss, via Jacques Derrida, the fabled relation between man and animal.

Jake's Databyss notes: https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

We discuss Eyes Wide Shut from a psychoanalytic angle. Specifically, we discuss the closing line of the movie by way Jacques Lacan's provocative statement that "There is No Sexual Relation."
Here is the link to Jake's Databyss notes for the Podcast: 

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Watching the movie Futurama, Sagi develops a theory about the distinction between the Jew and the Christian. Jake tries to connect this theme to the Polyp and the material gags of comedy. We refer to the following Databyss page throughout the podcast, it's basically our notes:

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The 5 Star Tossers analyze They Live, via Zizek, via Marx, and via their own star Marx Grudge

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