Rendering Unconscious episode 277.

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Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan

He is the author of:

Universality and Identity Politics (2020) https://amzn.to/3NTDtna

Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) https://amzn.to/3RRDhpN

Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017) https://amzn.to/3S9AYzS

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) https://amzn.to/3RU7nsI

Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014) https://amzn.to/41PtwwQ

The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013) https://amzn.to/3vAOK5v

Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013) https://amzn.to/47wh6eF

The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007) https://amzn.to/3RPHVVf

The Impossible David Lynch (2007) https://amzn.to/41OuARL

He’s here to discuss his new book The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://amzn.to/48tw4Du

Listen to his podcast Why Theory? with Ryan Engley.

Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter “The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower” to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler. https://amzn.to/3vmvdWs

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Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com

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The song at the end of the episode is “Surreal and dreamlike” from the album “All poets are p0rn0graphers” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.

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