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Žižek's System: The Dialectical Gaze
Jun 22, 2026
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PREVIEW - Žižek's System: Znak, označitelj, pismo
Jun 10, 2026
5m 32s
Žižek's System: Žižek on Race
Jun 2, 2026
1h 14m 00s
Žižek's System: The Sublime Object
May 4, 2026
1h 00m 15s
(UNLOCKED) SHORT SESSIONS: SUPERPOSITIONS & ENLIGHTENED DOOMSAYING
Feb 16, 2026
36m 20s
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() Žižek's System: The Dialectical Gaze | 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&… | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | ![]() PREVIEW - Žižek's System: Znak, označitelj, pismo✨ | Žižek's thoughtFrench structuralism+4 | Berta M Perez | European Graduate SchoolZnak, označitelj, pismo | — | ŽižekMasters Thesis+5 | — | 5m 32s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Žižek's System: Žižek on Race✨ | Žižek's thoughtrace+4 | Tim BryarDimitri | European Graduate School | — | Žižekrace+6 | — | 1h 14m 00s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Žižek's System: The Sublime Object✨ | Žižek's thoughtideology+4 | Frank RudaDim Bryar+1 | European Graduate SchoolThe Sublime Object of Ideology | — | ŽižekSublime Object of Ideology+5 | — | 1h 00m 15s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() (UNLOCKED) SHORT SESSIONS: SUPERPOSITIONS & ENLIGHTENED DOOMSAYING✨ | Quantum PhysicsPolitical Theory+4 | — | — | — | ŽižekQuantum History+5 | — | 36m 20s | |
| 1/19/26 | ![]() Quantum History w/ Slavoj Žižek✨ | quantum historymaterialist philosophy+3 | Slavoj Žižek | Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy | — | quantum variationssuperposition+3 | — | 52m 23s | |
| 11/24/25 | ![]() Žižek's Squashed Birds✨ | Quantum PhysicsSlavoj Žižek+4 | — | — | — | quantum historyprogress+5 | — | 26m 35s | |
| 11/3/25 | ![]() PREVIEW - Why Television PART 2 w/ Ryan Engley✨ | televisioncanned laughter+4 | Ryan Engley | Why Theory PodcastQUANTUM HISTORY | — | televisioncanned laughter+4 | — | 13m 35s | |
| 10/21/25 | ![]() Television Theory w/ Ryan Engley✨ | televisioncanned laughter+4 | Ryan Engley | QUANTUM HISTORY | — | television theorycanned laughter+4 | — | 51m 34s | |
| 9/23/25 | ![]() Žižek's Concrete Eurocentrism w/ Matthew Flisfeder✨ | Eurocentrismconcrete universality+4 | Matthew Flisfeder | University of WinnipegAlgorithmic Desire toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media+1 | — | ŽižekEurocentrism+5 | — | 1h 10m 24s | |
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| 8/26/25 | ![]() Critique of Pure Desire w/ Russell Sbriglia✨ | philosophypsychoanalysis+5 | Russell Sbriglia | Seton HallPalgrave+13 | — | Critique of Pure DesireRussell Sbriglia+8 | — | 1h 00m 11s | |
| 8/4/25 | ![]() The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan Part 2 w/ Todd McGowan | Alright, Michael Downs is with us again and Todd is back to talk more about his new book The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan. Listen to PART ONE HERE!We’re talking why the master signifier and the quilting point shouldn't be used interchangeably, the crucial difference between das Ding and objet petit a, and Lacan's three big missteps with the four discourses, sexuation, and the sinthome.We get into gambling theory, the "Joy Machine" at airports, Yahoo's gambling origins, whether we're living through a decline of symbolic efficiency or just more superego pressure, and why AI might be the ultimate big other.Shared fantasy, traversing the fantasy, and the impossibility of the sexual relationship…what does this have to do with Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”?Support us on PATREON for Discord access, extra episodes, and our SHORT SESSIONS series.See you in Paris, Ž&... | — | ||||||
| 7/21/25 | ![]() The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan w/ Todd McGowan | Alright this week we’re back and joined by Michael Downs to talk with longtime friend of the show Todd McGowan about his brand new book The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan.This is a book a lot of us have wanted for a long time!McGowan's book on Lacan demonstrates yet again how right Lacan was when he insisted that people who are not clinical analysts can also be full members of his school. It's not that we philosophers should learn from clinicians - clinicians can learn from us what they are doing. Finally, someone dared to state openly the obvious truth: like all anti-philosophers from Kant onwards, Lacan is also and foremost a philosopher! - Slavoj ŽižekIs Lacan a philosopher? Is Lacan a dialectical thinker?In PART ONE of the interview with Todd we’re talking Lacan’s turn to the nonrelation and the Borromean knot and how it marks a break from his dialectical thought, and why you should skip the Écrits entirely and read the seminars instead. We trace Lacan’s philosophical project through Kant and Hegel, explore Lacan's theory of the subject, Žižek’s quantum history, the Copenhagen interpretation, and Sean Carroll as a Deleuzean physicist.Support us on PATREON and get access to our Discord, interviews, extra episodes each month, and our SHORT SESSIONS series for $5/month.PART TWO of the interview will be out next!See you in Paris,Ž&... | — | ||||||
| 7/7/25 | ![]() PREVIEW - Accelerationism 2 w/ Michael Downs | Alright this is a PATREON PREVIEW & this week we’re back again with our series on Slavoj Žižek’s Against Progress with PART TWO of the long-awaited conversation with theorist and friend of the show Michael Downs, author of the Dangerous Maybe Blog on Medium and his new book Capital Vs Timenergy: A Žižekian Critique of Nick Land to discuss Žižek’s essay Accelerationism.LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!We’re talking Lacan’s theory of language and the co-evolution of the brain and the Big Other, Žižek’s dialectical method, the difference between Land’s and Žižek’s conceptions of the death drive, Cute Accelerationism and so on and so on. See you in Paris,Ž&...Also check out Pods Against Tomorrow hosted by Hugh Manon Professor of Screen Studies at Clark University and Abe Doubleday-Bush where they reinvestigate the noir genre one film at a time. I joined them the other day to discuss Joseph Losey and Dalton Trumbo's down-and-dirty 1951 cult noir, THE PROWLER. Which you can listen to...HERE! | — | ||||||
| 6/24/25 | ![]() Accelerationism w/ Michael Downs | Alright this week we’re continuing our series on Slavoj Žižek’s Against Progress with another long-awaited conversation with theorist and friend of the show Michael Downs, author of the Dangerous Maybe Blog on Medium and his new book Capital Vs Timenergy: A Žižekian Critique of Nick Land to discuss Žižek’s essay Accelerationism.Is Žižek an Accelerationist?In PART ONE of our conversation we’re talking accelerationism and degrowth, all things Nick Land, cyber-positivity, forced choices, the zero point of modernity, and get into the CCRU, cute accelerationism, AI as metaphysical horror, the barred and unbarred Big Other, Providence, techno-Telos, face tentacles, vinyl records, and the Lacanian subject.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&... | — | ||||||
| 5/26/25 | ![]() Against Progress w/ Jack Black | Alright, this week Tim is shopping for two birds that look alike and we’re joined by friend of the podcast Jack Black whose latest book is The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization and we’re talking through Žižek’s new book Against Progress. What becomes of squashed birds? We’re talking Slavoj Žižek’s work on quantum physics, collapsed wave functions, fetishistic splits, retroactive redemption, disavowal, Jack’s mother’s poetic swearing, and whether the only real option is one that starts again. And again. And again. Support us on PATREON for more episodes, interviews, SHORT SESSIONS and our DISCORD.Big thanks to Jack and as always… See you in Paris,Ž&... | — | ||||||
| 5/12/25 | ![]() SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SOME TICKLISH SUBJECTS | LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!Alright, we’re back with another Patreon SHORT SESSION and this week Tim is at the shops buying a Tickle Me Elmo and we’re taking a look at some aspects of laughter in a few different ways.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.So what’s so ticklish about the ticklish subject? Can it tickle itself?We’re talking Žižek’s totalitarian laughter, Adam Phillips on the erotic grammar of tickling, Trump as the David Brent of Empire, Romanian orphanages and Rhesus monkeys, and the dialectic of cringe and tickling.Whatever you do, don’t google "competitive tickling".Check out Aaron Schuster's piece on tickling here.Jamil Khader's RELOADING LAUGHTER: ŽIŽEK AND A THEORY OF COMEDYSee you in Paris,Ž&... | — | ||||||
| 4/28/25 | ![]() 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 | — | ||||||
| 4/12/25 | ![]() 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&… | — | ||||||
| 3/25/25 | ![]() 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&... | — | ||||||
| 3/4/25 | ![]() 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&… | — | ||||||
| 2/16/25 | ![]() 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&… | — | ||||||
| 1/13/25 | ![]() PREVIEW - The Parallax of Rumours | LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, we’re back for 2025 with a new PATREON episode and while Tim's drinking margaritas on a beach somewhere we’re talking Binocular rivalry, the authorlessness of AI, the Dead Internet Theory, Mr Beast…and what happens when a Rabbi, Businessman, and a poor ordinary Jew talk to God. This is PART TWO in our series on Mladen Dola’rs Rumors through Zizek's recent comments on psychoanalysis, and the strange logic of knowledge in the age of information overload. Can we know too much? Is the production of knowledge necessarily good? What’s the difference between rumour and conspiracy? Is it a conspiracy or platform capitalism functioning smoothly? Thanks to our PATREONS for another year of the show! 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&… | — | ||||||
| 12/9/24 | ![]() Rumors on the Couch | Alright...as you know Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar are the founding members of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis with Alenka Zupančič as part of their Troika, and this week we have our first episode of a new series we're doing on Mladen Dolar's upcoming book Rumors as part of the Theory Redux editions with Polity Press. A little birdie told me that Tim is busy moving house and we're talking the general rumorization of society from Socrates to Trump, Franz Kafka's the Trial, Lacan's ethology, JD Vance and his couch, Castaways, and Cindy Crawford. A lot of people are talking about it! Thanks to everyone for all of the support and apologies for the episode delay...rumors abound! SUPPORT THE PODCAST HERE - for more episodes, interviews, SHORT SESSIONS and our Discord! See You in Paris! Ž&... | — | ||||||
| 11/25/24 | ![]() PREVIEW - Hard to Kill w/ Peter Rollins | LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, this is a PATREON PREVIEW and we're back with the wonderful PETER ROLLINS talking Donald Trump's Sharpie & the rise of Obscene Masters, Paul Tillich, Simone Weil, Badiou and fidelity to an Event, Religion as a truth procedure, Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins, and of course...Seamus gambling with God. LISTEN TO THE FIRST PART OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH PETER HERE! Big thanks to Peter and all of you over the years who have asked us to have a chat with him and we look forward to doing it again! Stay tuned because we have a few very exciting guests before the end of the year... 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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