Žižek And So On

Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. As part of our ongoing series on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought we are once again talking to the brilliant Adrian Johnston.
We’re talking RoboMarx, AI and the general intellect, why the coming age of leisure is a dangerous myth…and how the technofeudal hypothesis is not pessimistic enough! 
Do we need some Cyber Leninism? What is the duty of a public intellectual? What comes after Slavoj Žižek?
PART TWO will be out next on PATREON.
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Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This week continues OUR SERIES on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought & we’re taking a look (once again) at the logic of interpassivity in Žižek through the work of Robert Pfaller.
What the fuck is interpassivity? We’re talking why commodities are the real fetishists who do the believing for us, hired mourners weeping at funerals so you can plan the inheritance, brushing your teeth by moving your whole head, and why the Greek chorus was just performing emotional labor so the audience could eat dolmathas in peace.
Was your Tamagotchi maintaining your belief in the Big Other?
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See you in Paris,
Ž&…

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Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This is another PATREON EPISODE in our ongoing series on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought & we’re taking a look at Adrian Johnston’s critique of Slavoj Žižek.
Can you have a materialism without matter? Does a genuine dialectical materialism need a detour through theology and the mystical "Night of the World"? What happens when you try to ground the emergence of subjectivity in the bizarre realities of quantum physics?
Along the way we get into the transcendental ontological parallax, Lenin’s Materialism and Empiriocriticism, the crisis of the disappearing electron, Penrose's microtubules, and why kicking away the theological ladder might be harder than it looks.
Up next we move from the quantum void to the delegation of enjoyment with Robert Pfaller on Interpassivity.
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See you in Paris or the Urgrund, 
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Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This week continues our NEW SERIES on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought & we’re taking a look at Danny Nobus’s session on Žižek’s reading of Sophocles' Antigone.
Can a revolutionary subject ever be an isolated individual? What happens when an act suspends both public law and private family ties without any guarantees in the Big Other?
Along the way we get into Alenka Zupančič’s reading of Antigone, Bartleby politics, Žižek’s three Brechtian rewrites of the play, the structural role of the chorus, and alternative models of materialist ethics in Paul Claudel’s The Hostage and Agota Kristof’s The Notebook—where taking a bullet for someone you hate might just be the purest ethical gesture available.
What is the dialectic of contingency and necessity in Antigone's double burial? Will we get two crates of Danny’s champagne? How does a groundless act retroactively posit its own presuppositions and transforms into symbolic law?
Make sure to check out Russ Sbriglia’s new album Critique of Pure Desire here!
Up next we move from the tragic act to Žižek’s Quantum History with Adrian Johnston.
See you in Paris,
Ž&…

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!
Alright, this week we’re back with another SHORT SESSION in our ongoing series exploring the systematic aspects of Slavoj Žižek’s thought, working alongside the European Graduate School's Leading Thinkers course.
Frank Ruda is back on the menu, and this week we’re talking Žižek’s second doctoral dissertation, The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan. Why do certain contingent historical anomalies arrive "right on time"? We look awry at the bizarre historical phenomena of Kaspar Hauser and the 1898 novella Futility and ask why weren't they just a random bum and a stupid ship? 
We also take a look at Hegel’s famous essay Who Thinks Abstractly? to show why Reason isn't Understanding plus something else.
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.
See you in Paris,
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