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Bottle Episode
Ryan and Todd explore the concept of the bottle episode from the production and analysis of television. They discuss a variety of its manifestations …
3 years, 4 months ago
Beyond Good and Evil
Ryan and Todd explore the important ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, focusing especially on Nietzche's historical critique of m…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Racist Fantasy
Ryan and Todd discuss Todd's recent book The Racist Fantasy, which explores the psychic structure that underlies racism and that allows it to deliver…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ryan and Todd delve into the formal limitations that define the medium of Twitter. They analyze the politics of Twitter and the impact of the takeove…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Radical Western
Ryan and Todd delve into the western in its most radical manifestation, but they use as a starting point, the paradigmatic western Shane. They then e…
3 years, 6 months ago
Western
In their second episode devoted to the classical Hollywood genres, Ryan and Todd explore the western by focusing on some of the most popular and some…
3 years, 7 months ago
Critique of Dialectical Reason
Ryan and Todd lay out the key points in Jean-Paul Sartre's vast attempt to marry existentialism and Marxism--The Critique of Dialectical Reason. They…
3 years, 7 months ago
Analysis Terminable & Interminable
Ryan and Todd delve into Freud's late essay "Analysis Terminable and Interminable." They focus on the role that the death drive plays in this essay a…
3 years, 8 months ago
Negation
Ryan and Todd engage with Freud's late essay "Negation" (1923). They look at the radical insights that he comes to as well as address the moments whe…
3 years, 8 months ago
Being and Nothingness Side B
Ryan and Todd conclude their discussion of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness with a focus on Sartre's conception of freedom. They discuss the …
3 years, 8 months ago