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Žižek And So On episodes

February 29, 2024 PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh
This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new book Immediacy, or The style of Too Late Capitalism. So we did!
We’re talking mediation, the negative, Van Gogh immersive experiences, Sartre, Žižek’s early work on film, and the end of futurity.
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Our next interview is with MLADEN DOLAR...
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9 min
February 21, 2024 Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life
This week, the fellas scroll through Zizek's new substack. Tying together three articles, we move from 'tech talk' (Elon Musk, Apple Vision, the profound suffering of microchimpanzees), to a Zizekian theory of sexuality, and finally to the fine art of smoking (and other surplus enjoyments).
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Zizek's Substack articles:
ELON MUSK RUINED MY SEX LIFE
NOTES TOWARDS A HEGELIAN SYSTEM OF SEXUALITY
SMOKING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS

1 hr 1 min
February 09, 2024 PREVIEW - Inherent Transgression
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This is an excerpt from this week's Patreon episode. We're talking the inherent transgression of the law. Michael buys tickets for the big apple, Peter is freezing in a field, and Will reviews Stalker and the Third Man.
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5 min
January 24, 2024 UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom
Move your Buridan's Ass!
This is an UNLOCKED PATREON episode demanded by the listeners wherein the fellas discuss Žižek's new book on Freedom. They touch on the freedom of philosophy, the philosophy of freedom, the pitfalls of Anarchism, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Canadian Thanksgiving.

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50 min
January 18, 2024 PREVIEW - Rumours & Gossip
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This week the gang are talking Mladen Dolar’s “On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters” from Objective Fictions as we prepare for the big interview!
Mladen Dolar is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist, and film critic. He is one third of the Troika with Alenka Zupančič and Slavoj Žižek and the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis
Rumours brought down old mate Socrates and there’s one going round that the big Other doesn’t exist.
In the beginning there was – not the Word, logos, as in the Bible, not the act, as with Faust – in the beginning, there was a rumour.
Will combats 5G with a Feng Shui mirror, Michael covers his windows in aluminium foil, and Peter defends himself against the metric system.
Enjoy!
7 min
January 10, 2024 Zizek's Jokes
It's 2024 and we’re back! We're talking what happens when you mean one thing but say amother.
What role do jokes have throughout Žižek's work? This week we’re taking a look at Žižek’s Jokes via Todd McGowan, Jamil Khader, and Broderick Chow.
In pod news, the final jewel of our Ljubljana crown…we’re talking to Mladen Dolar! Keep an eye out for upcoming episodes on his work as we prep for the interview.
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Read along: Broderick Chow , Alenka Zupancic, Zizek's Jokes
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53 min
December 13, 2023 PREVIEW - Podžilla
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That's right, we're talking Godzilla Minus One this week. Also, the fall, the good, Schindler's List, Lacan and his (Hegelian) concept of empty speech, and what's new in the movies. Thanks everyone!Enjoy!
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3 min
November 29, 2023 Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič
This week, the second half of our conversation with Alenka Zupančič; focusing on the different modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and her forthcoming work on disavowal.
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51 min
November 26, 2023 PREVIEW - Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič
This is a PREVIEW of the second conversation we had with Alenka Zupančič, focusing on the different modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and her forthcoming work on disavowal.
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Special thank you to our Patreons and all listeners who have reached out over the last four years asking if we could speak with Alenka.
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9 min
November 22, 2023 What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič
This week, we're speaking to Alenka Zupančič, author of many texts, including What IS Sex, and Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax. Zupančič. As a member of the "troika" (along with Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Zizek) Alenka is a central figure of the Lacanian-Hegelian Slovenian school we all know and love.
We’re talking the early days of the troika, What IS Sex, the modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and disavowal.
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Special thank you to our Patreons and all listeners who have reached out over the last four years asking if we could speak with Alenka.
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48 min