Žižek And So On
Episodes
The Gaze
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Viciss...
PREVIEW - Hitchcock
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 B...
Talking Shit
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas are talking shit: subjectivity, the secrets of the Egyptians, and the Anal Object. Enjoy!
PREVIEW - Did Marx Invent the Symptom?
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join our Patreon for the full episode! We dive into the first part of The Sublime Object of Ideology (again) and discuss Marx, Freud, the Symptom, an...
Return to Freud
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking Freud's essay "Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through". How does remembering come to be replaced by repetition in...
PREVIEW - How To Read Lacan
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All work and no play makes Jake a dull boy and now he’s back to talk Žižek’s book "How to Read Lacan" and the empty gesture. Join our ...
UNLOCKED - They Live
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocked from our PATREON We're live with They Live—our episode on Žižek's famous interpretation of John Carpenter's wonderful 1988 f...
PREVIEW - Hegel & the Beautiful Soul
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's PATREON EPISODE, the fellas talk the concept of the Beautiful Soul in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, it's political posit...
UNLOCKED: Red Pilled on The Matrix
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocked from our PATREON Welcome to the desert of the Real. We're talking the Matrix, and the much discussed new installment, The Matrix Resurrec...
The Wheels Are Coming Off w/ Matt Christman
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Matt Christman (of Chapo Trap House) joins us to talk hinge points, the experience of history, and the impasse of electoral politics. Than...
PREVIEW - The Matrix Repetitions
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to our patreon for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Welcome to the desert of the Real. We're talking the Matrix,...
PREVIEW - Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black - PART TWO
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the full episode on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon We're back with Jack Black. More on Lacanian theory and comedy, wi...
Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black - PART ONE
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas are joined by Jack Black, Senior Lecturer at Centre for Culture, Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University. Oriented around...
Christian Atheism
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking Jesus Christ, Žižek's Christian Atheism, and Christmas. How do Christ and God figure in Žižek's work? Is God Dead? Also, the Big (m)...
Jaws
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, reading through Rex Butler's 'Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory,' the fellas talk the Master Signifier and Jaws, and somehow devolve in...
PREVIEW - Neofeudalism or Bust?
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon After a harrowing month, we reassemble to reassess the assemblage of today's cap...
Violence
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the gang discusses Zizek’s 2008 work Violence: wherein a girl gets a dragon tattoo, Pete gets mystical, and it rains again in Australia. ...
PREVIEW - They Live
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're live with They Live—our episode on Žižek's famous interpretation of John Carpenter's wonderful 1988 film. We touch on Ž's p...
Alenka Zupančič & The Ideology of the End
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's episode the gang discuss Alenka Zupančič’s recent work on freedom-as-a-possibility, repetition, and The End. Jake gets a hairc...
PREVIEW - The Purloined Letter
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the return to the PATREONhttps://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon episodes the fellas discuss Žižek’s writing on Lacan’s notion of “the letter...
The Next Episode
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fellas are back—and are accompanied by a new member. We dive into two recent articles from the Philosophical Salon. The first is by Fabio Vighi,...
PREVIEW - Death Drive
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The lads compare notes on Freudian-Lacanian-Zizekian concept of the death drive. For access to the full episode and many more: https://www.patreon.c...
Das Neighbor
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we talk Žižek’s concept of the Neighbor. In contrast with Levinas’ ethics of the Other, Žižek understands the neighbour to be the s...
UNLOCKED - War Communism w/ Slavoj Žižek - PART TWO
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
UNLOCKED PATREON EPISODE: Žižek on the politics of psychoanalysis—with reference to Gabriel Tupinambá's new book "The Desire of Psychoan...
War Communism w/ Slavoj Žižek - PART ONE
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part ONE of our interview with Slavoj Žižek. Covid & philosophy; why we need "War Communism" &... Join us on patreon to hear more ...
PREVIEW - The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon Preview - Better late than never, we take on Zizek's 2019 book "The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto''. We discuss how the Manifesto falls...
For Examples
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, we're talking the groundwork for understanding how and why Žižek uses examples. With reference to Robert Pfaller’s chapter in “Inte...
PREVIEW - Do You Believe In Interpassivity?
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are back this week with a Patreon exclusive episode on the concept of Interpassivity. We locate the origin of the term somewhere in-between the tho...
PREVIEW - Ideology and Antisemitism
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Essential to Zizek's thinking on ideology is his denunciation of antisemitism. In this episode, &SoOn discusses how Lacan's 'pathologically jealou...
Capitalism and Desire w/ Todd McGowan
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with Todd McGowan we discuss his 2016 book Capitalism and Desire. Todd brings us through what he argues is the essential role of d...
PREVIEW - Coup d'wha?
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Coup d’etat? Unambiguously, NO. Terrorism? Let's think about why that term would be advantageous for the state to use. Insurrection? The right dee...
Politics of the Problem w/ Agon Hamza
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast this week we interview Agon Hamza, the author and editor of a number of books, including “Reading Marx'', co-written with Frank Ruda ...
UNLOCKED: Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we take a second pass at Žižek’s new book “Hegel in a Wired Brain”, and further discuss the concept of the wired brain and its...
PREVIEW - Mad World: The Failed Catastrophe
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take a dive into Žižek's new book: Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost. Thanks for joining us this year, everybody! See you in 2021...
PREVIEW - Philosophy or Psychoanalysis? Yes, Please!
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are back with a discussion on a 2019 interview with Alenka Zupančič in Crisis and Critique. This piece brings us back to thinking through t...
PREVIEW - The Superego and the Act
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Patreon exclusive episode & So On discusses the superego and the act. How does Zizek understand authentic action within the context of the...
Event
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take on Žižek’s concept of the Event and ask: what happens when something happens? Join our Patreon for more exclusive content!
PREVIEW - Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART TWO
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Patreon exclusive episode, Jake, Peter, and Will pull back the veil of Samsara and chat about the limitations of mindfulness, whether meditati...
Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART ONE
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss Zizek's approach to Buddhism. From the first Noble Truth, Buddhism describes human existence as an endless cycle of suffering, a...
UNLOCKED: On The Toilet
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, we get into Žižek's semiotic triangle of German, French, and English/American toilets. We discuss the metaphysical stance of...
PREVIEW - Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this patreon-exclusive episode, we take a second pass at Žižek’s new book “Hegel in a Wired Brain”, and further discuss the concept of the ...
Hegel In A Wired Brain - PART ONE
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take on Žižek's recent book, "Hegel In A Wired Brain" in what will be become an ongoing series. By way of introduction, we discuss: ou...
Avoid Your Symptom
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the fellas discuss two recent articles concerning the ongoing pandemic, “The Will Not to Know,” by Slavoj Zizek, and “Social Distanci...
PREVIEW - On The Toilet
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 20, a Patreon exclusive, is all about toilets. We discuss Žižek’s three examples of toilets (the German, French, and Anglo thrones) that...
The Subject Supposed to Object? w/ Russell Sbriglia
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we return to topics we discussed previously with Dr. Russell Sbriglia, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Literature Studies...
UNLOCKED: Cinema: The Third Pill
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, we take another stab at our failed attempt to talk about Žižek and film. Earlier in the week we spoke to Dr. Matthew Flisfeder, the au...
PREVIEW - Cinema: The Third Pill
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An excerpt from our most recent patreon-exclusive content. This episode, we take another stab at our failed attempt to talk about Žižek and film. Ea...
PREVIEW - The Bean Can of Ideology
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Patreon exclusive episode, we discuss our evolving thoughts on the covid crisis, then turn to a post-op on the Ben Burgis interview. We wonder...
Ben Burgis, Infinite Guest
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we speak to Ben Burgis, professor at Georgia State Perimeter College and author (and co-author) of recent Zero Books publications "Give The...
PREVIEW - Eurocentrism and it’s Discontents
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this patreon-exclusive episode we discuss Žižek's eurocentrism. For Žižek, Eurocentrism isn't to be understood as a nationalist idea, but inste...
PREVIEW - Lenin and McCommie
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon-exclusive content @ https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon On this episode, we talk about Žižek's intro to Lenin 2017, as well as his 2009...
Marx in the Cave: Frank Ruda on Marx, Plato, & So On
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Check out our patreon page for extra content: https://www.patreon.com/join/zizekandsoon On this episode, we talk to German philosopher Frank Ruda, sen...
PREVIEW - POWER, APPEARANCE, & OBSCENITY
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this patreon-exclusive episode, we talk about Žižek's June 22nd article "POWER, APPEARANCE, AND OBSCENITY". We touch on the topics of populism, p...
Sbriglia Speaks
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we speak to Dr. Russell Sbriglia, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Literature Studies at Seton Hall University. Our conver...
Slavoj Žižek on Hegel, Marx, and Utopia
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode of Žižek and So On, includes an interview with Slavoj himself, conducted on February 1st of this year. In the interview Žiže...
PREVIEW - Žižek as Sacrificial Intellectual, PANDEMIC!, & Communism
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A preview of the upcoming episode, a patreon exclusive, where Peter and Jacob discuss their interview with Eliran Bar-El; Žižek’s newest book PAN(...
PREVIEW - Off the Cuff on Postmodern Conservatism
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.patreon.com/join/zizekandsoon A preview for our first exclusive patreon content where we talk off the cuff on postmodernism, and upcoming ...
The Sublime Object of Ideology
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Žižek and So On, the hosts talk the 1989 English publication of The Sublime Object of Ideology. Access to this complicated and great wo...
Žižek, Hegel, & Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, on Zizek and So on, we interview Todd McGowan, professor of English at the University of Vermont. Todd’s thought centralizes on the likes...