Žižek And So On

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Žižek And So On episodes

June 25, 2020 PREVIEW - POWER, APPEARANCE, & OBSCENITY
On this patreon-exclusive episode, we talk about Žižek's June 22nd article "POWER, APPEARANCE, AND OBSCENITY". We touch on the topics of populism, political correctness, covid, the current protests, and object oriented ontology.
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Here's the link to the article:
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/power-appearance-and-obscenity-five-reflections/
4 min
June 17, 2020 Sbriglia Speaks
This week, we speak to Dr. Russell Sbriglia, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Literature Studies at Seton Hall University. Our conversation orients around his new collection, “Subject Lessons”, edited with Slavoj Žižek. We talk Žižek, Hegel, subjectivity, and the “Ljubljana School’s” critique of New Materialism and Object Oriented Ontology.
1 hr 36 min
May 12, 2020 Slavoj Žižek on Hegel, Marx, and Utopia
This week’s episode of Žižek and So On, includes an interview with Slavoj himself, conducted on February 1st of this year. In the interview Žižek parses out what he calls the “post-modern deadlock.” This theoretical and political impasse, specific to the epoch of post modernism, is the product of a tension between what he identifies as the broad realist approach and the transcendental. In exploring this deadlock, Žižek speaks about the limits of Marx’s historical materialism, Judith Butler’s gender theory, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, each as separate examples of transhistorical ontology. Beyond this impasse, and in response to the current global situation, Žižek proposes historicizing historicism, in the practice of Hegel, so that we might see the emergence of an immanent, yet entirely new version of utopia, and that in the event of the catastrophic, there is something at work which is both potentially emancipatory, and universal.
39 min
May 03, 2020 PREVIEW - Žižek as Sacrificial Intellectual, PANDEMIC!, & Communism
A preview of the upcoming episode, a patreon exclusive, where Peter and Jacob discuss their interview with Eliran Bar-El; Žižek’s newest book PAN(DEM)IC; Communism and his role as the “sacrificial intellectual”.
3 min
April 29, 2020 7 - Eliran Bar El on PANDEMIC!, and the Anti-Anti-Zizek
This week on Zizek and So On we spoke with Eliran Bar-El (PhD), researcher at The University of Cambridge for Sociology. We discovered Eliran in reading his article titled “Anti-Anti-Zizek: Public Intellectuals and Global Pandemic” which is his response to the criticism regarding Zizek’s book PAN(D)EMIC!, his most recent work on the COVID-19 crisis. Eliran explains that the style of criticism surrounding Zizek evidences the uniqueness of his public interventions, and with reference to his background in sociology, we explore in conversation the notion that Zizek’s form of dialectic is best described as a kind of performance: that of the sacrificial intellectual.
1 hr 2 min
April 26, 2020 6 - Matt McManus on Postmodern Conservatism
This week, we spoke to Matt McManus, professor and author of several recent books including: The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism, and, out today, Myth and Mayhem: a Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson. Matt takes us through his work on postmodern conservatism and the implications of a leftist response through a return to universalist, emancipatory politics.
41 min
April 24, 2020 6 - Matt McManus on Postmodern Conservatism
This week, we spoke to Matt McManus, professor and author of several recent books including: The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism, and, out today, Myth and Mayhem: a Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson. Matt takes us through his work on postmodern conservatism and the implications of a leftist response through a return to universalist, emancipatory politics.
46 min
April 14, 2020 PREVIEW - Off the Cuff on Postmodern Conservatism
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A preview for our first exclusive patreon content where we talk off the cuff on postmodernism, and upcoming guest Matt McManus' proposal for a thinking of postmodern...conservatism. The episode is our thinking-through topics relating to contemporary politics, postmodern philosophy (is it conservative?), Žižek's universalism, the pretensions of Neil deGrasse Tyson, and much more—in preparation for our conversation with Matt later this week.

4 min
April 09, 2020 The Sublime Object of Ideology
This week on Žižek and So On, the hosts talk the 1989 English publication of The Sublime Object of Ideology. Access to this complicated and great work is gained by way of the book’s title, as it denotes a synthesis of Marx, Lacan, and Hegel that allows Žižek to perform a nuanced analysis of ideology. Our reading of the book discovers in this new form of analysis, a connection between Žižek’s understanding of ideology and the ontological project at hand in his later work.
43 min
March 31, 2020 Žižek, Hegel, & Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
This week, on Zizek and So on, we interview Todd McGowan, professor of English at the University of Vermont. Todd’s thought centralizes on the likes of Hegel, Lacan, Freud and Marx, and he is the author of several books, most notably, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets”, and last year's “Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution.” His newest book “Universality and Identity Politics” is set to come out this July.
Todd also co-hosts a terrific podcast with Ryan Engley called "Why Theory?" And we encourage you guys to seek it out.
Todd spoke with us this week about the unity of Hegel and Lacan that is present in both his work and Zizek’s, about post-structuralism, the concept of contradiction, and the problem of the subject.
47 min