Podcast Episodes

PREVIEW - Content on Form

On this week's patron ep, we talk the relation between form and content. Zizek suggests that, "the very gap between content and form is to be reflect…

4 years, 2 months ago

Ayn Rand

This week, the fellas talk through Žižek's 2002 essay, 'The Actuality of Ayn Rand'. For Žižek, Rand's over-orthodoxy to the capitalist ideal (uninten…

4 years, 2 months ago

PREVIEW - Did Somebody Say Melancholy?

The fellas are back, working through Zizek's writing on the Freudian concept of melancholy in his 2001 work, 'Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?'. The…

4 years, 3 months ago

UNLOCKED - The Beautiful Soul

UNLOCKED PATREON EP: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? The fellas talk the concept of the Beautiful Soul in Hegel's Phenome…

4 years, 3 months ago

PREVIEW - A Pascalean Wager

To hear the whole episode, subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/zizekandsoon Just when we thought we were done with covid, it pulled us back in. Pet…

4 years, 4 months ago

The Möbius Strip

This week the fellas talk Žižek's use of the Möbius strip. Žižek writes that "the Möbius strip stands for the basic dynamics of the order of being, f…

4 years, 4 months ago

PREVIEW - Last Exit to Communism

Yes, folks, Jake's in the house and Will is in the Hamptons (???). Michael thinks it's winter, and Peter's super(calafragalisticexpialadoshus). More …

4 years, 5 months ago

PREVIEW - Politics of Enjoyment

Our new Patreon episode:

A long-overdue topic, for an overdue episode (sorry about that). We're talking jouissance, the contemporary political scene,…

4 years, 5 months ago

UNLOCKED - Hitchcock

All the way back in our first episode we said we needed to do an episode on Zizek and Hitchcock. And here it is! This week we read "The Hitchcockian …

4 years, 6 months ago

The Gaze

This week, the fellas talk the Lacanian notion of 'the Gaze' as discussed in Todd McGowan's 'Looking for the Gaze: Lacanian Film Theory and Its Vicis…

4 years, 6 months ago