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Read My Desire, Pt. 2: Democracy, Anxiety, Film Noir
In this second of three episode devoted to Joan Copjec's Read My Desire, Ryan and Todd focus on Copjec's insights into the strength through weakness …
5 years, 3 months ago
Graduate School
In this special requested episode, Ryan and Todd recount their experience of graduate school. They discuss the difficulties of engaging in theory and…
5 years, 3 months ago
Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
Ryan and Todd devote this episode to unpacking Joan Copjec's groundbreaking first book, Read My Desire. In this first part of a two part series, they…
5 years, 4 months ago
Sublime Object of Ideology
Ryan and Todd discuss the emergence of Slavoj Zizek's first book in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology. They work through its impact and histori…
5 years, 4 months ago
Alexandre Kojeve
In this episode, Ryan and Todd delve into the life and thought of relatively unknown theorist Alexandre Kojeve, who they claim may be the most influe…
5 years, 5 months ago
Psychoanalysis & Narrative
In this episode, Ryan and Todd conceptualize narrative structure in psychoanalytic terms, addressing how the master signifier, the subject supposed t…
5 years, 5 months ago
Alienation
In this episode, Ryan and Todd trace the concept of alienation from its theorization by Hegel, through its development in Marx, to its elaboration in…
5 years, 6 months ago
Hegel's Reason
This episode is the fourth in a series of episodes that Ryan and Todd are devoting to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Here, we go through what Hegel…
5 years, 6 months ago
Feminism & Psychoanalysis with Mari Ruti
In this episode, Ryan and Todd are joined by guest cohost Mari Ruti to discuss the relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. Delving into the…
5 years, 6 months ago
Screen Memories
In this episode, Ryan and Todd analyze the theoretical riches of Freud's early text on "Screen Memories." They relate this work to the relationship b…
5 years, 7 months ago