Žižek And So On

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Žižek And So On episodes

August 08, 2022 PREVIEW - Content on Form
On this week's patron ep, we talk the relation between form and content. Zizek suggests that, "the very gap between content and form is to be reflected back into the content itself, as an indication that the content is not all, that something was repressed/excluded from it". For Zizek, both form and content are incomplete; form itself becomes part of its content.
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3 min
July 28, 2022 Ayn Rand
This week, the fellas talk through Žižek's 2002 essay, 'The Actuality of Ayn Rand'. For Žižek, Rand's over-orthodoxy to the capitalist ideal (unintentionally) undermines the ruling ideological edifice. Will has a haircut, Peter has a t-shirt, and Michael's roof is leaking. Subscribe to our Patreon for more content!
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1 hr 1 min
July 14, 2022 PREVIEW - Did Somebody Say Melancholy?
The fellas are back, working through Zizek's writing on the Freudian concept of melancholy in his 2001 work, 'Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?'. The conversation orients around the melancholic as an expression of postmodern ideology, the function of objet petit a as a lost object, and where melancholy as a political orientation finds its limits. This patron ep is a bit short, but cut us some slack, Peter is baking in the sun on some farm. Enjoy!
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9 min
June 30, 2022 UNLOCKED - The Beautiful Soul
UNLOCKED PATREON EP: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? 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 our Discord community and all of our other Patreon episodes join our Patreon: www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Also, Mike won't shut up about our new website: www.zizekandsoon.com/
1 hr
June 14, 2022 PREVIEW - A Pascalean Wager
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Just when we thought we were done with covid, it pulled us back in. Peter's got no mic. We're talking Pascal's Wager, freedom, Sartre's "No Exit", Hell (is other people), and scientific determinism.
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Today's reading is from Sublation Mag
5 min
June 02, 2022 The Möbius Strip
This week the fellas talk Žižek's use of the Möbius strip. Žižek writes that "the Möbius strip stands for the basic dynamics of the order of being, for what was traditionally called the dialectical 'coincidence of opposites'". While working through the concept, &SoOn talks art, Top Gun, and Midnight In Paris.
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55 min
May 22, 2022 PREVIEW - Last Exit to Communism
Yes, folks, Jake's in the house and Will is in the Hamptons (???). Michael thinks it's winter, and Peter's super(calafragalisticexpialadoshus). More importantly—we're talking Zizek & Communism, the contemporary political deadlock, and why we need a third (red) pill. Enjoy!
We read from Zizek's recent article "Last Exit to Communism" from https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/last-exit-to-communism
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6 min
April 30, 2022 PREVIEW - Politics of Enjoyment
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A long-overdue topic, for an overdue episode (sorry about that). We're talking jouissance, the contemporary political scene, and the coming winter in Australia. Enjoy!
The reading for this week is Jodi Dean's essay, "Why Žižek for Political Theory?".
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5 min
April 22, 2022 UNLOCKED - Hitchcock
All the way back in our first episode we said we needed to do an episode on Zizek and Hitchcock. And here it is! This week we read "The Hitchcockian Blot" essay in Looking Awry. Along with this text, we talk about Rear Window, Psycho, and The Birds &... Enjoy!
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52 min
April 07, 2022 The Gaze
This week, the fellas talk the Lacanian notion of 'the Gaze' as discussed in Todd McGowan's 'Looking for the Gaze: Lacanian Film Theory and Its Vicissitudes'.
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1 hr 2 min