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Conspiracy Theories
Todd and Ryan discuss the structure of conspiracy theories, how their internal logic logic works and their ultimate reliance on imagining what Lacan …
7 years, 6 months ago
Sexuation (Aphorism 2)
In this episode, Todd and Ryan come to grips with another of Lacan's many aphorisms: "there is no sexual relationship." After first defining Lacan's …
7 years, 7 months ago
Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Aphorism 1)
The first in what will be a series of podcasts on the key aphorisms of Jacques Lacan, this podcast addresses the dictum, "Don't give ground relative …
7 years, 8 months ago
Psychoanalysis and Racism
Ryan and Todd discuss the encounter between psychoanalytic theory and the problem of racism. They focus on the role that enjoyment plays in racism an…
7 years, 8 months ago
Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology
This episode provides an introduction to the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Ryan and Todd explore key issues from the notoriously diffic…
7 years, 9 months ago
Secular Morality
Ryan and Todd address the peculiar rise of a new secular morality that they find much more exacting than contemporary religious morality. This secula…
7 years, 9 months ago
Theoretically Christmas (side B)
In this conclusion of their discussion of the Christmas film, Ryan and Todd begin with the film Die Hard and the problem of racism, move to an analys…
7 years, 10 months ago
Theoretically Christmas (side A)
In this episode, Ryan and Todd explore the idea of the Christmas film through psychoanalysis and Hegel. They begin by theorizing the Christmas film a…
7 years, 10 months ago
(Neo)liberalism
In this episode, Ryan and Todd debate the political viability of the term "Neoliberalism." They explore what neoliberalism signifies and whether or n…
7 years, 10 months ago
Das Ding
Quick note: This episode was distance recorded in a way different from other Why Theory episodes. Technology was not our friend before this recording…
7 years, 11 months ago