Žižek And So On

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is back on the show to talk about his new book Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy.
We’re talking Quantum Variations, Superposition, Wave Collapse, Catastrophe, & So On.
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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 have a SHORT SESSION taking a look at some of the work leading up to Žižek’s Quantum History. 
What does it mean for history to progress if every forward movement leaves something broken behind? Can a crushed possibility haunt the present? How does retroactivity work when Žižek is talking about QUANTUM HISTORY, is everything up for grabs?
Where are all the dead birds?
Short sessions, variable length sessions, however you wanna put it, in these episodes we’ll wrap them up because of something that is said, rather than the tyranny of the clock.
Up next we’re talking superpositions…with some special guests!
See you in Paris,
Ž&...

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.
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We’re talking canned laughter, the history of television and the aesthetics of television, memory, and forgetting.
LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE HERE!
LISTEN TO EPISODE TWO...HERE!
Up next we have a series of episodes for Žižek’s forthcoming book QUANTUM HISTORY!
See you in Paris,
Ž&…

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 television, the aesthetics of television, memory, and forgetting.
Up next we have some episodes for Žižek’s forthcoming book QUANTUM HISTORY!
See you in Paris,
Ž&…

Alright, this week is PART ONE of our conversation with returning guest and friend of the show MATTHEW FLISFEDER author of Algorithmic Desire  toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media. and his latest book The Hysterical Sublime: Humanism in the Age of Post-Human Capitalism. 
Matt is professor of Rhetoric & Communications at the University of Winnipeg and in this episode we’re talking about Slavoj Žižek’s Eurocentrism, concrete universality in his work, why universality appears from the split within the particular, Žižek’s holographic history (choices-not-chosen and the fantasies they generate), super-anthropocentrism and dialectical humanism, Althusser’s theoretical anti-humanism vs. practical humanism, degrowth vs. building the infrastructures we actually need, and how geoengineering fixes demand global coordination with real legal form and so on and so on.
Stay tuned for PART TWO out next!
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Ž&…