This week, the fellas speak to Clint Burnham, professor at Simon Frasier University, and author of "Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture". We get into Žižek & the internet, perversion and technology, and viral psychoanalysis.
Clint Burnham is the author of The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995), ... Show More
Nov 3
PREVIEW - Why Television PART 2 w/ Ryan Engley
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 McGowan, RYAN ENGLEY.Head over to PATREON to support the show and get access to all our other interviews, short sessions, and more ... Show More
13m 35s
Oct 21
Television Theory w/ Ryan Engley
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 the show and one half of the Why Theory Podcast with Todd McGowan, Ryan Engley! We're talking canned laughter, the history of televisio ... Show More
51m 34s
Feb 2023
Urban Legends in the Internet Wilderness with the Digital Folklore Podcast
For this episode we chat about the sensational tales of cyberspace, from Slenderman to the Momo suicide game, with the guys behind the new podcast Digital Folklore, an immersive experience that explores online culture, internet monsters, memes, and urban legends as an accessible ... Show More
55m 40s
Sep 2020
46/Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotional Cost of Disinformation (with Shui-yin Sharon Yam)
<p>This is a conversation with <a href="https://www.sharonyam.com/">Shui-yin Sharon Yam</a>, a US-based Hongkonger academic who has been writing on various topics.</p>
<p>It is a long conversation about Hong Kong, being a member of the diaspora who may not be able to go bac ... Show More
1h 41m
Jan 2014
An Evening With Slavoj Zizek
Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosoph ... Show More
1h 32m
Oct 2021
Cult Dynamics and Conspirituality with Matthew Remski: Routine Checkup
This week Sickboy is bringing you a very special conversation from Jeremie's other podcast that he hosts with his far more eloquent and cool wife, Bryde. Matthew Remski is a long-term meditator and yoga practitioner. An author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, his current work ... Show More
58m 15s
Sep 2020
The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Beauty With Nyome Nicholas-Williams
<p>Welcome to our brand new limited podcast series, The Skin You're In! Each week, for six weeks, we'll be exploring what it means to be alive today, and the biggest issues affecting our generation. From period poverty to body positivity, gender, disability, feminism and rac ... Show More
30m 47s
Jan 2021
Slavoj Žižek's "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce"
In this episode, I present Slavoj Žižek's "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce." I'm hard on Žižek here, but in any case this text serves as a good introduction to his philosophy. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandp ... Show More
49m 23s
Apr 2020
#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Sam Harris and Caitlin Flanagan discuss the ethics of abortion, the fact that universities with immense endowments are laying off staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Woody Allen autobiography, the moral hypocrisy of Hollywood, the lessons of "Tiger King," and other topics. If ... Show More
37m 59s