Žižek And So On

• Post-Comedy w/ Alfie Bown

  Alright, this week Tim is still away and certainly not obsessed with Anomancy a truth procedure which involves reading the folds and wrinkles of someones anus to discover profound insights into health, love, and destiny…he is rather off the wagon only to run someone down and will be back soon.In the meantime we’re talking to Alfie Bown author of Post-Comedy which is Alfie's latest book in the same series as Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic, Helen Rollins and many others.Get a copy of Post-Comedy here!We’re talking anxiety, ideology, the form of comedy today, and the ontology of laughter.We’re getting into the disappearance of the laugh track, cringe comedy, crowd work & platform capitalism, the politics of offence, didactic humour, and how since comedy is surprises, if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh...that’s funny too.See you in Paris,Ž&...LOLAlso, check out the new series on Little Hans by Kate Merritt and Manuel Gabbert which you can find on YouTube and the Everyday Analysis page as well as all everything else going on at @everydayanalysis

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• SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SHIT OF HISTORY: NO FICKLE MATTER

  To listen to the FULL EPISODE head to our PATREONAlright, we’re back from the LACK Conference at Otterbein University and Tim’s still at the airport screaming that the queue is the destination. Great to see so many friends— Jack Black, Neo Winter Scott, Jon Hegglund, Matthew Flisfeder, Clint Burnham, Katherine Everitt, Todd McGowan, Anna Kornbluh, Russell Sbriglia, Ryan Engley, Derek Hook, Mikey Downs and the crew…too many to name and of course, Žižek himself.In this SHORT SESSION, we’re diving into the extended version of my LACK presentation The Shit of History: No Fickle Matter—a theory of waste in capitalism as structural, not accidental.We’re talking Adrian Johnston’s coprophagic capitalism, Slavoj Žižek’s violence typology, offshore detention, DOGE, plastic recycling, human waste, and James Mcann’s public toilet analysis.Big thanks to our PATREONS for the ongoing support and to James Donald Forbes McCann!You can find his special here! ...or find him on YouTube and everywhere else.⁠Support us on PATREON and get access to our Discord, interviews, extra episodes each month, and our SHORT SESSIONS series for $5/month.⁠See you in Paris,Ž&…

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• Psychocinema w/ Helen Rollins

  Alright, while Tim's busy making two minute noodles we're speaking with Helen Rollins! Check out her website here!Helen is a filmmaker, academic, and writer from Northern Ireland who writes and lectures on film and psychoanalysis. Her latest book, Psychocinema, was published in 2024 in the Theory Redux series.We’re talking the le non-duped err and messy bedrooms, the Gaze, the Master’s Discourse, the form of cinema, the politics of film as an industry today, and why film itself is a psychoanalytic experience. And here’s an endorsement from Slavoj Žižek for Helen’s new book…“Helen Rollins’ Psychocinema does something that is very rare: it aims at changing the very frame of how cinema and psychoanalysis are related. Rollins shows that viewing a film is in itself a psychoanalytic experience, the effect of film on the viewer is that of psychoanalysis on the analysand. Watching a film confronts us with the truth of our desire in all its inconsistencies, with the lack that sustains this desire. This ground-breaking thesis is demonstrated by dozens of illustrious examples, and they make the book not only insanely readable but also an important contribution to today’s politics of emancipation.I didn’t dare even to imagine that a book like Psychocinema could exist. But miracles happen, and Rollins’s book is one of them.”Thanks Helen!See you in Paris, Ž&...

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• PREVIEW - Capitalism & the Commodity (PURE EXCESS)

  LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!Alright, we’re back with a new PATREON EPISODE while Tim's still on an island painting a face on a volleyball & we're taking another look at Todd McGowan's new book Pure Excess.Capitalism promises things beyond their usefulness, the enjoyment of a useless excess, an excess which is presented as pure when it is necessarily impure — there is always a hidden sacrifice.We're talking Jackie Kennedy's fake pearl necklace selling for $200,000, Paper Water and the Resnick's, Trump's Air Rights, and why we can't have McDonalds at home. Big thanks to our ⁠PATREONS⁠ for the ongoing support!⁠⁠Support us on PATREON and get access to our Discord, interviews, extra episodes each month and our new SHORT SESSIONS series for $5 a month!⁠⁠See you in Paris, Ž&…

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• Pure Excess w/ Todd McGowan

  Alright, welcome back to Žižek and So On this time we’re talking again with old mate Todd McGowan. This was recorded on Valentines Day 2025 and Tim was busy shopping for eggs.We’re diving into Todd’s new book Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity to talk inutility and the promise of pure excess in the commodity form. Why can’t we have McDonalds at home? What is capitalism’s magic trick, and where are the dead birds? Up next we’ve got an episode dedicated solely to Todd’s book staging a series of examples to explore the theoretical underpinnings of the book. SUPPORT THE PODCAST HERE to access our Discord, more interviews, more episodes and our SHORT SESSIONS!See you in Paris,Ž&…

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