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Interview with Dr. Derek Hook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology
What explains the "madness" of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class? Any serious analysis of Race must take into…
The Death Drive: An Introduction from Freud to Lacan
In this episode we offer an introduction to the Death Drive, starting from Freud's coining of the term, Lacan's contribution to the idea, and ending with its effects on society. The Death Drive is a…
Interview with Gerald Horne: Settler Colonialism and its Vicissitudes
In this episode, we’ve invited Dr. Gerald Horne to speak about how the violent domination and exploitation of our colonial past impacts our politics and culture today. Through a discussion of…
Interview with Harsha Walia on Borders: How Capitalism Divides and Dominates
In this video we have on Harsha Walia, renown Author, Activist, and Scholar to discuss pertinent issues regarding immigration, borders, and imperialism. Harsha has dedicated her studies and activism…
Commodity Fetishism: An Introduction
Using Marx's concept, Commodity Fetishism, we aim to answer these questions:Why are we increasingly isolated from each other, only able to relate through markets, objects? Why is production so…
Biopolitics & Biopower: An Introduction
Our second video on Michel Foucault offers an overview of Michel Foucault's Biopower and Biopolitics. We discuss how, with the rise of capitalism and the state, Biopolitics is employed to control and…
Killing the Congo: Understanding the Conflict in the Eastern Congo
In this video, we provide an overview of the current conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We begin with the historical development of the Congolese State and the…
Vijay Prashad - Hyperimperialism, Palestine, NATO, and the Election of Donald Trump
In this video, we speak to Vijay Prashad about the changing material conditions of contemporary imperialism. Vijay sheds light on a number of topics, including Palestine, Donald Trump, NATO, and…
Body Without Organs
This is a brief introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s notoriously fuzzy concept, the Body Without Organs. We first discuss D&G's unique version of materialism founded on desire and reproduction.…
Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and Societies of Control [PART TWO]
In this video, we will challenge Deleuze and Guattari's theories of Schizophrenia and the Body without Organs using Baudrillard theories of hyperreality and the code to cultivate a better…
Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Deleuze, Cyborgs, and Schizophrenia [PART ONE]
The anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022), directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and the broader Cyberpunk universe, created by Mike Pondsmith, is a prime specimen of the cyberpunk genre. Paying close…
Interview with Silvia Federici: Witch-Hunting, Patriarchy, and Capitalism
If you want to understand how witch-hunting and patriarchy contribute to the stratification and repression of the working class, listen to this interview where we speak with feminist historian and…
Interview with Alenka Zupancic: Ontology of Sex
In this interview, we speak with feminist philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist, Alenka Zupančič, focusing on important ideas from her book, What is Sex? Zupančič theorizes about sexual difference…
Interview with Slavoj Zizek: Death Drive and Dialectics
With Death Drive and Dialectics as our starting point, Zizek takes us on a journey through Hegel, Lacan, Ideology, US Politics, Climate Change, the failures of liberal democracy, leftist politics,…
Objet a: Desire in the Age of Capitalism
In this video we discuss one of Lacan's most significant contributions to psychoanalysis and the study of ideology: Objet a. Objet a, or the Object Cause of Desire, forces us to rethink the formal…
Interview With Todd McGowan: The Enjoyment of Politics
In this video, we bring on Professor Todd McGowan, Host of Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley, and author of many excellent books, including his most recent one: Enjoyment Right and Left. During the…
Dialectics: Hegel's Contribution to Leftist Philosophy
In this video, we discuss Hegel’s philosophy of dialectics, common misconceptions, and how Hegel’s dialectic can help leftists systemically critique ideology and power. If you learn one thing from…
The Unconscious
Part of our series on psychoanalytic concepts, this video outlines the basics of the unconscious, briefly examining Freud and Lacan's contributions to its definition. Short, but sweet.
Kant, Sade, Batman, and the Joker: Ethics of the Void
Theses: Pure Good and Pure Evil are, in a sense, interchangeable. The "Law" needs its violation as much as the violation needs the "Law".The usual, dualistic interpretation (Good and Evil) sees…
Trump and Hyperreality: Circuits of Fantasy
We recording this during Trump's first term in office intrigued by Trump's immunity to the vicissitudes of scandal and unsatisfied with the liberal "Trump Bad" critique. While in ways out of date,…
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