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Deleuze Before Guattari
In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Gilles Deleuze's early thought, prior to his collaboration with Felix Guattari. They focus primarily on his ma…
6 years ago
Deleuze with Guattari
In this episode, Ryan and Todd analyze the confrontation that Deleuze and Guattari enact with psychoanalytic theory. They think through conceiving de…
6 years ago
Imaginary
In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the final of Jacques Lacan's three orders--the imaginary. They examine how the concept developed historically …
6 years, 1 month ago
Symbolic Order
In this episode, Ryan and Todd examine the conception of the symbolic order, as developed by Jacques Lacan and those who follow him. They discuss how…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Real
In this first of three episodes, Ryan and Todd discuss Jacques Lacan's register of the real. They detail the role that it plays within Lacan's theore…
6 years, 1 month ago
Lacan's Seminar 1: Freud's Papers on Technique
In this first episode in a series devoted to Lacan's seminars, Ryan and Todd lay out their reading of Seminar 1. They discuss Lacan's critique of alt…
6 years, 2 months ago
Aura
In this episode, Ryan and Todd analyze Walter Benjamin's famous essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." This dive into the con…
6 years, 2 months ago
Competing Universalities
In this special episode, Ryan and Todd debate two different conceptions of universality. Ryan locates universality in the quilting point, whereas Tod…
6 years, 3 months ago
Interpassivity
In this episode, Ryan and Todd define and explore the implications of interpassivity, a concept developed by Robert Pfaller and popularized by Slavoj…
6 years, 3 months ago
Big Other (Aphorism 6)
In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the Lacanian aphorism, "The big Other does not exist." They try to understand what Lacan means with the notion…
6 years, 4 months ago