<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's <em>Future of an Illusion</em>, a text that would become overshadowed by his subsequent publication, <em>Civilization and Its Discontents</em>. Th...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their film genre series to discuss the <em>neo noir</em>. As opposed to the classic <em>noir</em> period, which is named retroactively by French film critic...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the notion of divine violence. The conversation draws principally on an encounter staged between the term's evocation in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay,...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Frantz Fanon duology by talking about his final completed work, Wretched of the Earth. The episode focuses on Fanon's "stretching" of bot...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Frantz Fanon's decolonial classic, <em>Black Skin, White Masks</em>. The hosts work through the conversation surrounding his credentials as a psychoanalys...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd theorize the adaptation as a form of film. The episode takes its point of departure the continuing conversation over Nolan's <em>Odyssey. </em>Film adaptations, a...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Christopher Nolan's recent film. The conversation begins with Emily Wilson's translation of <em>The Odyssey</em> that Nolan consulted and adapted to t...
<p>On this episode, Ryan & Todd theorize the World Cup as a public event that enables the non-expert to see complex theoretical notions, such as Alain Badiou's conceptualization of the event a...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Sartre inflected trifecta of episodes by engaging his 1947 essay series <em>What Is Literature?</em> The hosts begin by talking about how much Sartre&#...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover writer-director Tony Gilroy's 2007 political thriller masterpiece, <em>Michael Clayton</em>. The hosts weave in Sartre's notion of committing oneself to...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Jean-Paul Sartre's 1945 lecture titled "Existentialism is a Humanism." In it, Sartre answers criticism that existentialism has received from lay...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's idea of the "impossible professions." First articulated in 1925, Freud is drawn to the idea that psychoanalysis is like government and e...
<p>Following up some of the discussion points introduced in the previous episode on Ambition, this episode takes a stab at the deadly sin of Avarice. Beginning first with a historical and etymological...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd tackle the fading specter of ambition as a tragic or negative quality. Far from being a minor rhetorical or social phenomenon, the two trace the embrace of ambition t...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant's <em>Critique of Pure Reason</em> to discuss the Transcendental Analytic section of the text. Topics include: form and content, Kantian causality,...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd take a short break from their Kant Odyssey to discuss one of the podcast's most admired filmmakers: Rob Reiner. Coincidentally being released on Oscar's Sunda...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the next major idea in Kant's first critique: the transcendental deduction. While explicating the trajectory of Kant's argument, the pair continue to track the ...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant and discuss the Transcendental Aesthetic from his <em>Critique of Pure Reason. </em>The hosts work through a sketch of Kant's idea, why he's proposing ...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to the topic of the superego to discuss--for the first time at length--the enjoyment particular to it. Superegoic enjoyment is an idea that first appears in Fr...
<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the topic of structural violence in both U.S. and global contexts. Beginning with an implicit debt to Slavoj Žižek's influential book <em>Violence,</em> the...
