Parhaat Lacanian Analysis Podcastit (2024)

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A Lacanian Analysis of Kanye's Reactionary Turn (feat. Robert Beshara) 1:34:54

12d ago1:34:54

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We welcome Lacanian scholar Robert Beshara back to the show to discuss his new book A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love. It particularly focuses on the 5-year period from 2016 to 2021 (the Shaky-Ass Years) in an effort to think psychoanalytically about Ye's complex subjectivity, his struggle with manic-depression, the…

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The Revival of Western Marxism? Losurdo Study Group (Session V) 1:53:22

2d ago1:53:22

1:53:22

2011 witnessed a resurgence of protest movements from the Movement of the Squares, Occupy Wall Street, to the Arab Spring. These events propelled Marxist intellectuals Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou into the limelight, resulting in a surge in their popularity. But was the precondition of their popularity based on the absence of anti-imperialism in t…

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The Death of Western Marxism - Losurdo Study Group (Session IV) 1:50:18

5d ago1:50:18

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We discuss Part IV: "The Triumph and Death of Western Marxism" with particular focus on the work of Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism and On Revolution. We discuss Losurdo's analysis of "recognition" from Hegel and how revolution is theorized as recognition in Marx and Engels and how subsequent liberal theories of revolution in Arendt…

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Western Marxism and Anticolonial Revolution - Losurdo's Western Marxism Study Group (Session III) 2:03:24

17d ago2:03:24

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We examine Losurdo's criticism of western Marxism in relation to anticolonial revolution following the Second World War. We discuss Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Max Horkheimer's Authoritarian State, Althusser's antihumanist turn, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Adorno's Nietzschean pessimism, and Tronti's worker…

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"The Two Marxisms" Losurdo's Western Marxism Study Group (Session II) 1:41:27

23d ago1:41:27

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In our second session, we discuss Domenico Losurdo's theory of the birth of Western Marxism as a response to the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. We begin with a few remarks on the Marxist theory of intellectuals and power, particularly how imperialism fragments the intellectual in relationship to the working class. We then dis…

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Domenico Losurdo's Western Marxism Study Group (Session I) 2:01:23

26d ago2:01:23

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We are discussing Domenico Losurdo's newly translated work, Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn in a public study group. Our aim is to learn the practical challenges facing Marxist politics in our time through a close reading method. Each session begins with a brief talk on the salient themes and concepts and then pr…

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The Most Important French Marxist You've Never Heard Of: Michel Clouscard (feat. Aymeric Monville) 1:49:02

1M ago1:49:02

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We are joined by Aymeric Monville, author of Neocapitalism According to Michel Clouscard and publisher of Delga Editions to discuss the work of French Marxist philosopher Michel Clouscard. In this interview, we discuss Clouscard's thought, his major works, concepts and ideas. Michel Clouscard was a prominent French Marxist philosopher whose work ai…

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Jacques Rancière's Theory of Emancipation (feat. Stuart Blaney) 1:54:14

1M ago1:54:14

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We are joined by philosopher Stuart Blaney to discuss the thought of Jacques Rancière, his work on 19th century worker autodidacts and his theories of emancipation, aesthetics and equality. This conversation is based around a forthcoming book by Stuart Blaney that is entitled, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault with Bloomsbury Books. Ple…

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Marxism Contra the Extra-Class Left: Nietzscheanism & Marxism after 2008 (feat. Conrad Hamilton) 2:24:41

2M ago2:24:41

2:24:41

We explore the big philosophical questions at the heart of Marxism. Does Marxism require a supplementary philosophy such as Nietzscheanism or Freudianism to properly ground its practice? How have the changing material conditions post-2008 shaped Marxist thought and practice? What is the best Marxist response to speculative realism, a major movement…

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Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism? feat. John McClendon 2:20:55

4M ago2:20:55

2:20:55

We welcome Marxist philosopher John McClendon to the show for an in-depth conversation on his philosophical outlook, his work on African American philosophy, and the role of philosophy in Marxist thought and practice. We then discuss McClendon's important book on C.L.R. James's Notes on Dialectics and its implications for Marxist philosophy in our …

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How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold - An interview with Philipp Felsch 1:41:55

4M ago1:41:55

1:41:55

The postwar period witnessed a renaissance in Nietzschean thought and interpretation, most notably with the French postmodernist readings generated by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. But what drove the French Nietzschean renaissance was in many ways supported by the work of two Italian philologists Giorgio Colli and his former …

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The Lessons of the Cultural Revolution in China (feat. Tony ‪@1DimeRadio‬) 1:41:54

4M ago1:41:54

1:41:54

We are joined by scholar and socialist thinker Tony, creator of @1Dimee, an important YouTube channel that offers educational videos for a mass popular audience. In this discussion, Tony and host Daniel Tutt discuss his research, writing and video work around The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 - 67. We examine what gave ri…

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Why Poetry Needs Psychoanalysis - An Interview with Bianca Stone 2:04:06

5M ago2:04:06

2:04:06

We welcome the poet laureate of Vermont, Bianca Stone to the show for a conversation on poetry and psychoanalysis. In recent years, Bianca has turned to psychoanalysis as a way to teach poetry and as a method to better understand the process of writing poetry. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss how poetry relates to philosophy and politi…

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The Way is Shut feat. Benjamin Studebaker 1:37:22

5M ago1:37:22

1:37:22

We are joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to discuss his book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut, a sharp and accessible work on the political deadlocks of our present. The American economic system is slowly subjecting Americans to enormous amounts of stress, and the United States lacks the state capacity requi…

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Intellectual Life in Times of Ideological Disorder - A Conversation with Tyler Austin Harper 1:36:42

5M ago1:36:42

1:36:42

We are joined by writer and literary scholar Tyler Austin Harper, whose writing in The Atlantic and New York Times has raised debates on class, race and the meaning of the left in ideologically turbulent times. In this conversation, we discuss the meaning of the left, how Marxism is to be interpreted in terms of class analysis, the merits of differ…

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The Rise and Fall of Marxist Perspectives feat. Gabriel Raeburn 2:16:40

5M ago2:16:40

2:16:40

We are joined by historian Gabriel Raeburn to discuss the thought of Eugene Genovese, a firebrand Marxist historian who fundamentally transformed the academic study of slavery in the United States and who, with Christopher Lasch, attempted to launch Marxist Perspectives, a serious Marxist-centered journal that brought together the entirety of the g…

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The Politics of Music (feat. Scribe Wolf) 1:39:34

6M ago1:39:34

1:39:34

We are pleased to welcome longtime friend of the show Scribe Wolf, aka A. H. Ra. In this discussion we focus on the book Noise: The Political Economy of Music by theorist Jacques Attali, a highly influential work that crosses disciplinary borders from history, music, to critical theory and Marxism. This is a wide-ranging and improvisational convers…

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Gaza Now: A Palestinian Perspective (feat. Mohammed Sulaiman) 2:00:44

6M ago2:00:44

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We welcome Dr. Mohammed Sulaiman for a follow-up interview on the situation in Gaza where as of the time of recording (March 13, 2024) Israel has killed over 30,000 Palestinians. Building off our first discussion, this interview explores a number of questions listeners have wanted to raise with Mohammed about the war on Gaza. We discuss the legacy …

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Politically Red: What Does it Mean to Read as a Marxist? (feat. Sara Nadal-Melsió & Eduardo Cadava) 1:35:06

7M ago1:35:06

1:35:06

We welcome Marxist scholars Sara Nadal-Melsió & Eduardo Cadava for a discussion on their new book "Politically Red". If as Brecht said "reading is class struggle" what does that mean for us as Marxists? How are we to orient ourselves in reading groups? How is reading political? Politically Red focuses on the work of Walter Benjamin, Frederic Jameso…

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Marxism and the Absence of Socialism in America: A Conversation with Carlos Garrido 1:48:15

7M ago1:48:15

1:48:15

We welcome philosopher Carlos Garrido for a conversation on the theoretical and practical challenges facing the left in America. Garrido is the author of The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism and he specializes in Marxist theory, the history of socialism in America and pragmatist philosophy. He is a director and philosopher at the @Mi…

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The Vicissitudes of Identity Politics On the Left (feat. Sudip Bhattacharya) 1:28:09

7M ago1:28:09

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I'm joined by Sudip Bhattacharya for a discussion on how to navigate debates on identity politics and class on the left. What are the best ways for socialists to engage in these debates without risking they end up in unproductive division and hostility? This is a productive conversation full of helpful social and political analysis. Sudip Bhattacha…

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Drugs in America: From Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge feat. Ben Fong 1:26:03

8M ago1:26:03

1:26:03

We are joined by scholar Benjamin Fong to discuss his excellent new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge. We discuss the history of drug policy, the role of the state in enforcing and distributing drugs, and we focus on the history of alcohol, opioids, psychedelics and marijuana. We conclude with a conversat…

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Lacan on Religion and Theology feat. Mark Gerard Murphy 1:19:57

9M ago1:19:57

1:19:57

Jacques Lacan frequently discusses religious themes in his work, from rethinking the concept of belief, to the meaning of the return to religion in modern life. In this episode, we are joined by scholar Mark Gerard Murphy to discuss his work on Lacan and theology and to introduce some salient ideas that Lacan introduces in the field of theology and…

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Is Liberal Socialism a Contradiction? (feat. Matt McManus) 1:36:00

9M ago1:36:00

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Is liberal socialism a contradiction in terms? An oxymoron? Or are liberalism and socialism necessary for the realization of the political objectives that each share and profess? We are joined by Matt McManus, author of the forthcoming book, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism to make the case for his vision of a renewed liberal socialism for…

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Marxism and the Radical Enlightenment: A Debate feat. Max Tomba and Landon Frim 2:04:39

10M ago2:04:39

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What is the legacy of the Enlightenment in political struggles today and how are socialists and Marxists to relate to the Enlightenment? Must we rely on first principles and an a priori theory of knowledge in our understanding of capitalism and exploitation? Or must we proceed on the basis of an appeal to empiricism and experience primarily in our …

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Sartre’s Marxist Turn? A Discussion on the Critique of Dialectical Reason feat. Terry Pinkard 1:28:20

10M ago1:28:20

1:28:20

We are joined by philosopher Terry Pinkard to discuss Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, his second major philosophical work next to Being and Nothingness. Dr. Pinkard is one of the foremost Hegel scholars in the world and he has recently written a book on Sartre's Critique entitled Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Sartre’s Appropriation o…

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Palestine and the Actuality of Struggle: A Forum with BICAR 1:54:39

11M ago1:54:39

1:54:39

Palestine and the Actuality of Struggle: A Forum with the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis & Research (BICAR) Featuring presentations from Nadia Bou Ali, Ray Brassier, Sami Khatib and Maya Andrea Gonzalez. Panel moderated by Daniel Tutt Read the BICAR statement on Palestine: https://bicarlebanon.org…

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The War On Gaza, Hamas and Political Islam feat. Mohammed Sulaiman 2:08:47

12M ago2:08:47

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Our guest Mohammed Sulaiman was raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza strip. He has survived multiple Israeli bombings of Gaza over the last two decades, including a 2013 shelling of his home while he was conducting an interview with CNN. Currently, his entire family is in Gaza as Israel continues to unleash a brutal massacre and bombardme…

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Marx and Critical Social Ontology: Learning from the Later Lukács feat. Michael J. Thompson 1:30:52

12M ago1:30:52

1:30:52

The purpose of Marxist theory is not only to diagnose the negative forces and effects of capitalist society; emphasis must also be placed on the need for social transformation that would enhance human progress at the social and individual level. But the trends of current critical and Marxist theory have turned away from a more positive vision of cr…

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Palestine: Understanding the War on Gaza feat. Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader 1:44:53

12M ago1:44:53

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We are joined by philosopher Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader, the Dean of Research at Bethlehem University in Palestine for a roundtable on the war on Gaza, otherwise known as the "2023 Hamas-Israel war". We discuss the politics of the current war, the status of Islamist politics in Palestine and the region, the role of the media, Islamophobia and …

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What is the Warm-Stream of Marxism? feat. Tijana Okić 1:34:15

1y ago1:34:15

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We welcome Tijana Okić back to the show for a discussion on the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch's idea of the warm and cold stream in Marxism. How are we to understand this distinction and which Marxist thinkers fit into these two streams? Can the cold and the warm streams be synthesized? Tijana Okić is a philosopher, feminist and translator. She c…

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Understanding Class Politics: Bourdieu with Marx feat. Lisa Mckenzie 1:24:25

1y ago1:24:25

1:24:25

What are the best theoretical frameworks for understanding class politics? Marx offers an understanding of class as tied to relations of productive labor and property ownership in capitalist society. The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu offers an understanding of class which goes beyond Marx in many ways, offering a richer and more varied idea of…

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Daniel Bensaïd and the Renewal of Marxism feat. Darren Roso 2:09:50

1y ago2:09:50

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We are joined by socialist author Darren Roso to discuss his forthcoming book Daniel Bensaid: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager which is the first major study of Bensaïd's thought. Daniel Bensaïd completed his Ph.D. on Lenin right as May 68 took off and his work has contributed to contemporary Marxist philosophy and practice…

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In Defense of Žižek? A Discussion with Matthew Flisfeder 1:23:45

1y ago1:23:45

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Slavoj Žižek is a provocative intellectual, constantly taking positions on social and political issues that upset convention and lead him to face derision from both the right and the left. Given the often erratic stances that he takes, from his support for the Ukraine war, to Donald Trump in 2016, some have wondered whether the Giant of Ljubljana h…

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On the Meaning of Revolution feat. C. Derick Varn (Part II) 2:36:19

1+ y ago2:36:19

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We continue our conversation on the meaning of revolution with C. Derick Varn, by turning to the theoretical basis of "post" Marxist thinkers from the Althusserian school, Laclau and Mouffe, Hardt and Negri and Alain Badiou. We discuss some of the pitfalls of these contemporary Marxist theorists and the basis by which they revise core tenets from M…

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On the Meaning of Revolution feat. C. Derick Varn (Part I) 2:23:09

1+ y ago2:23:09

2:23:09

Is revolution dead? The left is divided over how to make revolution, and many Marxist and post-Marxist theorists have developed radically new conceptions of revolution that are often highly divergent from how Marx, Engels and Second International Marxists dealt with revolution. Our age is notoriously known as post-revolutionary, and liberal realism…

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The Story of Agnes Smedley: From Peasant to Socialist Heroine feat. Stephen MacKinnon 1:29:49

1+ y ago1:29:49

1:29:49

Agnes Smedley is an American writer and socialist heroine born in 1892 in Missouri. Her family relocated all across the American west including near the Ludlow Massacre of coal mining workers. Smedley managed to escape the conditions of poverty she was born into and went on to become one of the most important personalities of revolutionary socialis…

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Tragedy, Parody and Psycho-Power feat. Ali Benziane 1:24:47

1+ y ago1:24:47

1:24:47

We welcome the brilliant poet and thinker Ali Benziane. Dr. Benziane is an autodidactic philosopher currently working closely with friend of the show, the famous French actor and philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem. We discuss some philosophical and metaphysical perspectives on the post-covid world, looking at Ali's notion of a new mechanism of global p…

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New Currents in Marxism: From Degrowth Communism to Neo-Kautskyism feat. Richard Seymour 1:29:57

1+ y ago1:29:57

1:29:57

We welcome writer and Marxist thinker Richard Seymour back onto the show for a spirited discussion on new currents in Marxist thinking. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss the contradictions and tensions between the concept of "degrowth communism", coined by eco-socialist thinker Kohei Saito, to another trend in Marxist and socialist thin…

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Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis feat. Mary L. Edwards 1:44:22

1+ y ago1:44:22

1:44:22

We are joined by Mary L. Edwards to discuss her new book Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others. We discuss Sartre's concept of bad faith, the in-itself and the for-itself and the challenge that his philosophy poses to psychoanalysis. We also discuss Sartre's psychobiographies on Jean Genet and Gustave Flaubert and what these works hav…

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Lukács, Irrationalism and Marxist Reason 50:41

1+ y ago50:41

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In this episode, I expound on Lukács's later work and the meaning of irrationalism. I analyze Marxist reason in contradistinction to neo-Kantian thought and touch on what is most distinctive about philosophy for Marx and Engels and how Marx breaks with both Kant and Hegel. From a Marxist point of view, the practical aim of philosophy is to bring ab…

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Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn feat. Doug Greene 1:55:38

1+ y ago1:55:38

1:55:38

We sit down with Doug Greene to discuss his latest work on Stalinism. In this interview, Greene describes who Stalin was, what his role in the Bolshevik movement was and how he came to power. Greene then provides a compelling analysis of different paradigms of how Stalinism has been conceptualized by intellectuals from Arthur Koestler, Jean-Paul Sa…

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The New Irrationalism - A Conversation with John Bellamy Foster 1:50:41

1+ y ago1:50:41

1:50:41

We are back! And we changed our podcast name to Emancipations Podcast! In this episode, we are pleased to welcome Marxist thinker John Bellamy Foster to discuss his recent article The New Irrationalism in the Monthly Review (https://monthlyreview.org/2023/02/01/...). This article started a conversation on the legacy of Lukács's Destruction of Reaso…

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The Enigma of Christopher Lasch feat. Christian Lorentzen 1:24:16

1+ y ago1:24:16

1:24:16

We are joined by literary critic and actor Christian Lorentzen to discuss the legacy and thought of Christopher Lasch. In this wide-ranging conversation, Lorentzen and host Daniel Tutt discuss Lasch's socialist politics, why he's so often misunderstood by the contemporary left and how he read literature. We assess the reasons why Lasch remains so p…

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Adorno On Ideology feat. Jacob Bard-Rosenberg 1:59:00

1+ y ago1:59:00

1:59:00

In 1954 Adorno wrote, "if one were to condense what the ideology of mass culture comes down to into a single sentence, one would have to represent it with the parodic statement: “become what you are.” Adorno offered a series of important lectures on the concept of ideology with Max Horkheimer in the wake of the Second World War. They argued against…

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Lacanian Marxism On Today’s Left with Jensen Suther 1:32:48

2y ago1:32:48

1:32:48

We sit down with philosopher Jensen Suther for a conversation on Lacanian Marxism on today's left. Jensen Suther earned his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and was recently elected as a Junior Fellow to the Harvard Society of Fellows. His forthcoming book, Spirit Disfigured: The Persistence of Freedom in the Modernist Novel, argu…

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Ressentiment: A Liberal Concept? feat. Sjoerd van Tuinen 1:15:58

2y ago1:15:58

1:15:58

Our final episode for the year! Thank you all for your support this year. In this episode, we sit down with the philosopher Sjoerd van Tuinen to discuss the concept of ressentiment and the politics of resentment. Dr. van Tuinen has many essays on ressentiment and a forthcoming book on the topic. Please pitch in to support us at https://www.patreon.…

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An Introduction to the Philosopher Kojin Karatani 2:48:28

2y ago2:48:28

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Kojin Karatani is one of the most interesting and important Marxist philosophers working today. Listen to our conversation about his main ideas...featuring Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. The workshop we held on Karatani's The Structure of World History can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE03jn2k3GYDWu4I9kdRXvq-FXy1vPVkO Suppo…

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IFS-005 | Chapter 2, The Freudian Unconscious & Ours 52:10

2y ago52:10

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In this podcast episode, I cover chapter 2 of Lacan's Seminar XI: The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis. When we read this chapter, we will see Lacan start to cover the unconscious in this chapter. The main focus is on talking about the Freudian unconscious, and some time is spent covering the unconscious that is "structured like a language" (i.e…

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IFS-004 | An Addendum... 25:54

2y ago25:54

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In this episode of InForm: Seminar, I respond to some listener questions and talk a bit more about the difference between psychoanalytic training v. psychoanalytic formation. I also say more about treating the real with the symbolic. All this content will probably not make much sense if you have not listened to episode 003.…

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