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Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy 2025 // 231
It's the bi-yearly event in the ongoing race war between analytic and continental philosophy. Philosophers of all stripes invited themselves to parta…
4 months ago
The Nick Fuentes Signifying Chain // 230
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A Signifying Chain (or symbolic chain, or signifying web) is a structuralist concept de…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan // 229
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The Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Ma…
5 months ago
Jacques Lacan - Fantasy $♢a // 228
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We conclude our Lacan series with what Fink says is the desired end of Lacanian psycho…
5 months ago
Sigmund Freud in Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes
Richard Ledes, director of the films Adieu Lacan and V13, explains his process, namely, adapting French plays about psychoanalysis into English-langu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Jacques Lacan on the Pervert // 225
The Pill Pod looks at the structure of the perverts in Episode 5 of our series on Lacan. Find the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian Interpretation // 224
The Pill Pod looks at the chatbot psychosis phenomenon and compares it to Lacan's clinical structure of psychosis.
This is Episode 4 of our series on …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Capitalist Realism // 221
1Dime joins Erik and Victor to discuss Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism. We cover the popularity of the book, the term, and then wonder whether left-…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Jacques Lacan on the Big Other (preview) // 220
We wanted to review some Lacan because everybody's still desiring, and Bruce Fink's Lacanian Subject (1995) is quite often touted as the best unoffic…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Peter Thiel's Deranged Apocalypticism // 219
In a recent interview with the New York Times Peter Thiel, one of the world's most powerful men, gave ample evidence that he should be institutionali…
7 months, 3 weeks ago