Žižek And So On

The podcast exploring the work of Slavoj Žižek & the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis

Žižek And So On is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 168 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Žižek's System: Interpassivity

  Aug 18, 20261 hour

  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? To follow along with all the episodes in this series and to get access to all our interviews, Patreon episodes, and SHORT SESSIONS please SUPPORT US to keep the project going. See you in Paris, Ž&…

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  PREVIEW - Žižek's System: The Transcendental Ontological Parallax

  Aug 3, 20267 min

  LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! 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. To follow along with all the episodes in this series and to get access to all our interviews, patreon episodes, and SHORT SESSIONS support us here! See you in Paris or the Urgrund, Ž&…

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  Žižek's System: Antigone

  Jul 20, 20261h 12m

  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&…

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  PREVIEW - Žižek's System: The Most Sublime Hysteric

  Jul 6, 20267 min

  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, Ž&...

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  Žižek's System: The Dialectical Gaze

  Jun 22, 20261h 4m

  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 the work of philosopher Berta M. Pérez focusing on her essay “The Courage to Hold onto a Paradox” and her book The Dialectical Gaze: Hegel with Žižek . Why does every apparently coherent order depend on an excluded element? WTF is the transcendental turn? Along the way we return to some of Žižek’s key examples: Lévi-Strauss’s divided village, Hegel’s monarch as the empty point of decision, & the strange loop of subject and substance. The European Graduate School are running a Leading Thinkers Course on Slavoj Žižek and I know a lot of our listeners are attending the course which is exciting and a big thanks to all of you who have been reaching out to us over the course of the series so far! The course runs for ten weeks or so with Frank Ruda, Mladen Dolar, Adrian Johnston, Robert Pfaller, Zahi Zalloua, Dany Nobus, Alenka Zupančič, Berta Perez, and at the end Žižek…on…himself….so we’re going to be doing these episodes alongside the course. Up next we stay with Žižek’s Hegel, but move from Pérez’s account of the Dialectical Gaze to the early Žižek of The Most Sublime Hysteric with Frank Ruda. See you in Paris, Ž&…

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