Žižek And So On
Episodes
Žižek's Squashed Birds
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On, we’re beginning our new series on Quantum Physics in the work of Slavoj Žižek and for this week we h...
PREVIEW - Why Television PART 2 w/ Ryan Engley
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, Tim is stuck in the freezer again and we have TWO NEW EPISODES with good friend of the show and one half of the Why Theory Podcast with Todd ...
Television Theory w/ Ryan Engley
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On, Tim is still away staring at the dot and this week we have PART ONE of our interview with good friend of...
Žižek's Concrete Eurocentrism w/ Matthew Flisfeder
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, this week is PART ONE of our conversation with returning guest and friend of the show MATTHEW FLISFEDER author of Algorithmic Desire towar...
Critique of Pure Desire w/ Russell Sbriglia
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BUY THE ALBUM HERE! Alright, this week we’re drinking the blood from Oedipus’s eyes with returning guest and friend of the show, the great R...
The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan Part 2 w/ Todd McGowan
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, Michael Downs is with us again and Todd is back to talk more about his new book The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan. Listen to PA...
The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright this week we’re back and joined by Michael Downs to talk with longtime friend of the show Todd McGowan about his brand new book The Cambridg...
PREVIEW - Accelerationism 2 w/ Michael Downs
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright this is a PATREON PREVIEW & this week we’re back again with our series on Slavoj Žižek’s Against Progress with PART TWO of the long-...
Accelerationism w/ Michael Downs
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright this week we’re continuing our series on Slavoj Žižek’s Against Progress with another long-awaited conversation with theorist and friend...
Against Progress w/ Jack Black
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, this week Tim is shopping for two birds that look alike and we’re joined by friend of the podcast Jack Black whose latest book is The Psych...
SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SOME TICKLISH SUBJECTS
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!Alright, we’re back with another Patreon SHORT SESSION and this week Tim is at the shops buying a Tickle Me Elmo and...
Post-Comedy w/ Alfie Bown
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, this week Tim is still away and certainly not obsessed with Anomancy a truth procedure which involves reading the folds and wrinkles of someo...
SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SHIT OF HISTORY: NO FICKLE MATTER
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To listen to the FULL EPISODE head to our PATREONAlright, we’re back from the LACK Conference at Otterbein University and Tim’s still at the airpo...
Psychocinema w/ Helen Rollins
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, while Tim's busy making two minute noodles we're speaking with Helen Rollins! Check out her website here!Helen is a filmmaker, academ...
PREVIEW - Capitalism & the Commodity (PURE EXCESS)
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!Alright, we’re back with a new PATREON EPISODE while Tim's still on an island painting a face on a volleyball &a...
Pure Excess w/ Todd McGowan
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, welcome back to Žižek and So On this time we’re talking again with old mate Todd McGowan. This was recorded on Valentines Day 2025 and Ti...
PREVIEW - The Parallax of Rumours
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, we’re back for 2025 with a new PATREON episode and while Tim's drinking margaritas on a beach somewhere we...
Rumors on the Couch
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright...as you know Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar are the founding members of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis with Alenka Zupančič as par...
PREVIEW - Hard to Kill w/ Peter Rollins
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, this is a PATREON PREVIEW and we're back with the wonderful PETER ROLLINS talking Donald Trump's Sharpie &a...
Death of God w/ Peter Rollins
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’ve got some Good News…God is Dead! But does he know he’s dead? This week is PART ONE with the wonderful PETER ROLLINS and we’re t...
PREVIEW - SHORT SESSIONS: HAVING YOUR CAKE & EATING TABOO
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, we're on our season break & here is the fourth episode of our new PATREON series SHORT SESSIONS and we’...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Social Division
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re Living in the End Times and this is the FOURTH and FINAL episode in our series on The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, or as Ž...
PREVIEW - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Social Division
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, we’re Living in the End Times, and this is the fourth and final episode in our series on The Four Ho...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Nature & Ecology
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re Living in the End Times! The commons of our culture has been captured and this is the third episode in a series we’re doing o...
PREVIEW - Whistleblowers at the End of the World
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, here's another PATREON EPISODE PREVIEW This week we’re talking Spies for the People, Whistleblowers, Wik...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Biogenetics
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket! Alright, we’re Living in the End Times, the commons of our nature has been captured and this is the second ...
PREVIEW - SHORT SESSIONS: NEUROTHEOLOGY
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN HERE! Alright, this is the third episode of our new Patreon series SHORT SESSIONS and we’re taking a look at one of Slavoj Žižek’s most ...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Intellectual Property
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re Living in the End Times, the commons of our culture has been captured and this is the first episode in a series we’re doing on The ...
PREVIEW: Adrian Johnston & The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re back again with ADRIAN JOHNSTON to discuss more of his book INFINITE GREED: THE INHUMAN SELFISHNESS OF CAPITAL. FULL EPISODE ON OUR ...
Infinite Greed w/ Adrian Johnston
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, you've been asking for it, and here it is... Adrian Johnston is back talking about his new book INFINITE GREED: THE INHUMAN SELFISHNESS O...
Žižek's Scatology
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re back…plumbing the depths of psychoanalytic marxism! This week we discuss Slavoj Žižek’s Scatology through Adrian Johnston’s m...
Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves w/ Todd McGowan
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, Todd McGowan is back again on the podcast to talk more about his most recent book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ours...
Embracing Alienation w/ Todd McGowan
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright this week Todd McGowan is back on the podcast to talk about his most recent book Embracing Alienation Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselv...
PREVIEW - Let's Get Alienated!
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re back…LET'S GET ALIENATED! This is a PATREON PREVIEW of this weeks episode where we discuss Todd McGowan's latest book Embra...
A Reader's Guide: The Sublime Object of Ideology w/ Rafael Winkler
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exciting news! For the first time Bloomsbury has published a book length overview and guide to Slavoj Žižek's 1989 text The Sublime Object of Id...
PREVIEW - Fantasy
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, this week on our PATREON we’re talking Fantasy & reading from Slavoj Žižek’s Plague of Fantasies. It’s coffin pillows, being ther...
SHORT SESSIONS: Carol & the End of the World
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re trying something different, a brand new monthly – or thereabouts – PATREON series on the podcast called SHORT SESSIONS…This wee...
PREVIEW - It's Complex, Stupid! w/ Alenka Zupančič
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Welcome back...is it the Same Shit on a Different Day or Different Shit on the Same Day? This is PART TWO of our int...
Disavowal w/ Alenka Zupančič PART ONE
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, the End is Near and this week we're talking with Alenka Zupančič about her latest book Disavowal with Polity Press that came out this w...
PREVIEW - Nightmare on Alenka Street
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Support the podcast on PATREON and LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, the podcast is back for a new season. Don’t wake up! This episode we’...
In New York w/ Slavoj Žižek
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Slavoj Zizek! We discuss his new book, Christian Atheism, Judith Butler, the mafia, and where to find a good diner in Ne...
Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the second half of our conversation with Mladen Dolar. We talk about the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, ...
Enjoy Your Obscenity w/ Russ Sbriglia
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Russ Sbriglia to discuss Zizek's upcoming events in the tristate area. Slavoj will be at Seaton Hall University in New Jerse...
PREVIEW - The Ljubljana School w/ Mladen Dolar - PART TWO
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the second half of our conversation with Mladen Dolar. We talk about the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, ...
Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we present the third episode in our series of interviews with the Troika — after Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupančič . We’re speaking...
PREVIEW - Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FULL EPISODE HERE This week, we present the third episode in our series of interviews with the Troika — after Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupan...
UNLOCKED - Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new b...
PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new b...
Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas scroll through Zizek's new substack. Tying together three articles, we move from 'tech talk' (Elon Musk, Apple Visio...
PREVIEW - Inherent Transgression
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FULL EPISODE HERE This is an excerpt from this week's Patreon episode. We're talking the inherent transgression of the law. Michael buys ti...
UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Move your Buridan's Ass! This is an UNLOCKED PATREON episode demanded by the listeners wherein the fellas discuss Žižek's new book on Freedo...
PREVIEW - Rumours & Gossip
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FULL EPISODE HERE This week the gang are talking Mladen Dolar’s “On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters” from Objective Fictions as we prepare f...
Zizek's Jokes
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2024 and we’re back! We're talking what happens when you mean one thing but say amother. What role do jokes have throughout Žižek&#...
PREVIEW - Podžilla
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! That's right, we're talking Godzilla Minus One this week. Also, the fall, the good, Schindler's List, ...
Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the second half of our conversation with Alenka Zupančič; focusing on the different modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and h...
What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're speaking to Alenka Zupančič, author of many texts, including What IS Sex, and Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax. Zupančič. As a...
True Lies
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas are back discussing Alenka Zupančič's Problemi essay, 'Lying on the Couch'. How does the psychoanalytic framework ...
UNLOCKED - Derrida & Zizek
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we’re back with another UNLOCKED PATREON episode and we’re talking Jacques Derrida, the difference between parallax and di...
PREVIEW - The Struggle for Freedom
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week the fellas discuss Zizek's new book on Freedom. They touch on the freedom of philosophy, the pitfalls o...
Zizek Interview PART 2: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Žižek & So On Podcast LISTEN: https://www.tinyurl.com/zizekpodcasts This is PART TWO of our interview with Slavoj Žižek for the official book...
Zizek Interview PART 1: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Žižek & So On Podcast Today we’re speaking with Slavoj Žižek for PART ONE of the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing of Žižek’...
UNLOCKED - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocked from our patreon: this week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam Unive...
PREVIEW - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam...
The Mask
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, it's our 100th episode and we're talking masks. From Jim Carrey's The Mask to the Kardashians it's an important concept that ...
PREVIEW - Derrida & Žižek
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, we’re back with another PATREON episode and we’re talking Jacques Derrida, the difference between parall...
Looking Awry
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Wi...
PREVIEW - Moby Dick & Lacan
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FULL EPISODE HERE This is a PREVIEW for PART TWO of our conversation with professor RUSSELL SBRIGLIA and we're talking Lacanian theory and Moby Di...
Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of our interview with Russell Sbriglia on his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek. We...
PREVIEW Barbenheimer
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week, since everyone else is, we're talking Barbie and Oppenheimer. We talk the role of fantasy in ideology...
PREVIEW - Žižek & Quantum Physics w/ Adrian Johnston
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This is a PREVIEW of PART TWO of our conversation with Adrian Johnston, you can hear the whole thing and support us o...
Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s summer and the fellas are back! Today we're talking with Adrian Johnston, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Un...
Seriality Continued w/ Ryan Engley
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where...
PREVIEW - Seriality pt. 2 with Ryan Engley
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barb...
Why Seriality w/ Ryan Engley
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas speak to Media Professor Ryan Engley of 'Why Theory'. We talk Freud, Lacan, the correct spelling of Todd McGowan, and ho...
PREVIEW - Freud and Frankenstein
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can ...
Illusions Without Owners w/ Robert Pfaller
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UNLOCKED - Ž & So On is back with part two of our conversation with Austrian philosopher, and lovely guy Robert Pfaller. We’re talking les non-...
Hegel and the Wound of Spirit
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UNLOCKED: Today we're talking Žižek's chapter in his book Absolute Recoil called "The Violence of the Beginning". The reading begins with the notio...
PREVIEW - Looking Awry
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Para...
Zizek & Digital Culture w/ Clint Burnham
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas speak to Clint Burnham, professor at Simon Frasier University, and author of "Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žiž...
PREVIEW - Chat GPŽ
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To hear the rest of our discussion head to our PATREON. In which the fellas dish on the recent developments in AI technology, the Žižek-Herzog (ba...
Zizek & Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas chat with Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Design ...
PREVIEW - Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, this week we’re speaking with the Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art...
How is Lacan Hegelian?
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, &... talks Hegel's influence on Lacan. Working off Zizek's Most Sublime Hysteric, the fellas find themselves in Germany, a danc...
PREVIEW - The Wound of Spirit
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a preview of a full episode available on our patreon. Today we're talking Žižek's chapter in his book Absolute Recoil called "T...
Žižek Responds!
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, the gang is back and this week we're talking the newly published book "Žižek Responds!" where we focus on Todd McGowan's ...
PREVIEW - Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part 2
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our conversation with Dr. Flisfeder on his book "Algorithmic Desire, Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media". Matt al...
Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part I
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of our interview with Dr. Matthew Flisfeder, associate professor at the University of Winnipeg, and writer of books on Žižek and fi...
PREVIEW - Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: PART TWO
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a preview of part two of our conversation with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss the Pervert...
The Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: Part One
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we're back! Today we're talking with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss film, ideology, AI, pol...
For We Know Not What We Pod
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Though we've been busy working through the ongoing reading group with Matthew Flisfeder on Žižek's For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Po...
Lacanian Ethics
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're discussing Zizek's 2005 book "Interrogating the Real", and his afterword on Lacanian ethics. What does not giving way relative to on...
PREVIEW - Surplus Enjoyment
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a clip from the full episode, available on our patreon. Today we're talking about Žižek's new book "Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non...
The Capitalist Gaze
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss friend of the podcast Todd McGowan's 2013 essay, The Capitalist Gaze. As Todd explains it, "Although the structure of capit...
PREVIEW - Content on Form
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 reflecte...
Ayn Rand
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 (unin...
PREVIEW - Did Somebody Say Melancholy?
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fellas are back, working through Zizek's writing on the Freudian concept of melancholy in his 2001 work, 'Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?'. The ...
PREVIEW - A Pascalean Wager
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. Pete...
The Möbius Strip
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 bei...
PREVIEW - Last Exit to Communism
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yes, folks, Jake's in the house and Will is in the Hamptons (???). Michael thinks it's winter, and Peter's super(calafragalisticexpialadoshus). More i...
PREVIEW - Politics of Enjoyment
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our new Patreon episode: A long-overdue topic, for an overdue episode (sorry about that). We're talking jouissance, the contemporary political scene, ...