Why Theory

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Episodes: 182

Débora Pimentel
 May 16, 2020
This is the best podcast ever made

Neil McMillan
 Jan 11, 2019
I've found nothing else like this, congratulations on a very insightful show. My only beef is with the neoliberalism episode where some reference to Foucault would've been really useful. Everything else has been great. Many thanks.

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Why Theory brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomena.

Episode Date
Lesbian Christmas
Dec 20, 2024
Hegelian Praxis
Dec 08, 2024
The Beautiful Soul
Nov 25, 2024
Hegel & Feminism
Nov 11, 2024
Aufhebung (Sublation)
Oct 26, 2024
Contemporary Horror
Oct 14, 2024
Fredric Jameson
Sep 29, 2024
Horror Film
Sep 16, 2024
Heist Film
Sep 02, 2024
Sports Film
Aug 18, 2024
New Introductory Lectures
Aug 04, 2024
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Jul 22, 2024
Suture
Jul 09, 2024
Extimacy
Jun 23, 2024
Prequel
Jun 11, 2024
Modernist Novel
May 27, 2024
Endings
May 11, 2024
Parallax View
Apr 28, 2024
Seminar 11
Apr 13, 2024
Seminar 7
Mar 30, 2024
Critique Of Pure Reason -- Introduction
Mar 16, 2024
Blue Velvet
Mar 03, 2024
Critique Of Pure Reason -- Preface
Feb 18, 2024
Symbolic Castration
Feb 05, 2024
Dialectical Reversal
Jan 22, 2024
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Jan 08, 2024
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Dec 24, 2023
1980s Christmas
Dec 12, 2023
Discourse on Method
Nov 26, 2023
Envy
Nov 13, 2023
Science Fiction Cinema
Nov 02, 2023
Monadology
Oct 12, 2023
The Prince
Oct 01, 2023
Surplus Enjoyment
Sep 16, 2023
Surplus Value
Sep 02, 2023
Oppenheimer
Aug 19, 2023
Barbie
Aug 05, 2023
Creative Writers & Daydreaming
Jul 22, 2023
Uncanny
Jul 10, 2023
Poststructuralism
Jun 24, 2023
Tribute to Mari Ruti
Jun 12, 2023
Succession
May 29, 2023
Bottle Episode
May 28, 2023
Beyond Good and Evil
May 15, 2023
The Racist Fantasy
Apr 30, 2023
Twitter
Apr 16, 2023
The Radical Western
Mar 31, 2023
Western
Mar 18, 2023
Critique of Dialectical Reason
Mar 05, 2023
Analysis Terminable & Interminable
Feb 18, 2023
Negation
Feb 05, 2023
Being and Nothingness Side B
Jan 23, 2023
Being and Nothingness Side A
Jan 08, 2023
Misfit Christmas
Dec 21, 2022
Debt
Dec 10, 2022
Enjoyment Right & Left
Nov 26, 2022
Technology
Nov 12, 2022
Love
Oct 29, 2022
Badiou
Oct 15, 2022
Event
Oct 02, 2022
Neurosis
Sep 17, 2022
Hegel's Absolute Knowing
Sep 04, 2022
Hegel's Religion
Aug 20, 2022
Screwball Comedy
Aug 06, 2022
Mourning and Melancholia
Jul 23, 2022
Wild Psychoanalysis
Jul 09, 2022
Abortion Theory
Jun 25, 2022
Quilting Point
Jun 11, 2022
Seminar 3
May 29, 2022
Hamlet
May 14, 2022
Streaming
May 01, 2022
The Woman Doesn't Exist (Aphorism 8)
Apr 17, 2022
Film Noir
Apr 03, 2022
Dualism & Multiplicity
Mar 19, 2022
Mystic Writing Pad
Mar 06, 2022
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Feb 20, 2022
Superhero Film
Feb 07, 2022
Hegel's Spirit
Jan 22, 2022
Metalanguage (Aphorism 7)
Jan 08, 2022
The Christmas Film
Dec 23, 2021
Casablanca
Dec 12, 2021
Retroactivity
Nov 27, 2021
Id
Nov 14, 2021
Ego
Oct 31, 2021
Superego
Oct 17, 2021
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Oct 03, 2021
Introduction to Biopower
Sep 19, 2021
Heidegger and Hegel
Sep 05, 2021
Breaking Bad
Aug 22, 2021
Twin Peaks The Return
Aug 09, 2021
Four Discourses
Jul 25, 2021
Read My Desire, Pt. 3: Sex, Difference, Relation
Jul 12, 2021
Read My Desire, Pt. 2: Democracy, Anxiety, Film Noir
Jun 27, 2021
Graduate School
Jun 27, 2021
Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
Jun 13, 2021
Sublime Object of Ideology
May 30, 2021
Alexandre Kojeve
May 17, 2021
Psychoanalysis & Narrative
May 02, 2021
Alienation
Apr 18, 2021
Hegel's Reason
Apr 04, 2021
Feminism & Psychoanalysis with Mari Ruti
Mar 21, 2021
Screen Memories
Mar 07, 2021
Civilization and Its Discontents
Feb 22, 2021
Jouissance
Feb 06, 2021
Lacan's Seminar 2
Jan 24, 2021
Domestic Terrorism
Jan 10, 2021
Tenet
Jan 02, 2021
Popular Music
Dec 21, 2020
German Idealism
Dec 09, 2020
Hegel's Self-Consciousness
Nov 24, 2020
Election Special
Nov 08, 2020
Deleuze after Guattari
Nov 02, 2020
Deleuze Before Guattari
Oct 19, 2020
Deleuze with Guattari
Oct 05, 2020
Imaginary
Sep 20, 2020
Symbolic Order
Sep 06, 2020
The Real
Aug 23, 2020
Lacan's Seminar 1
Aug 09, 2020
Aura
Jul 26, 2020
Competing Universalities
Jul 14, 2020
Interpassivity
Jun 28, 2020
Big Other (Aphorism 6)
Jun 14, 2020
Capitalism & Racism
Jun 03, 2020
Hegel's Consciousness
May 23, 2020
Oedipus Complex
May 09, 2020
Missing Signifier
Apr 24, 2020
Zaddy Fascism
Apr 18, 2020
Penis Envy
Apr 04, 2020
Coronavirus and Its Discontents
Mar 21, 2020
Unconscious (Aphorism 5)
Mar 11, 2020
Kant and Freedom
Feb 23, 2020
Mirror Stage
Feb 08, 2020
New Materialisms
Jan 23, 2020
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Jan 08, 2020
objet a
Dec 24, 2019
Psychoanalysis and Existentialism
Dec 07, 2019
Hegel and Race
Nov 18, 2019
Defending Freud (side B)
Nov 07, 2019
Defending Freud (side A)
Oct 23, 2019
Psychoanalysis and Capitalism
Oct 09, 2019
Psychoanalysis and Disability
Sep 20, 2019
Mad Men
Sep 01, 2019
Incels, Misogyny, and Castration
Aug 14, 2019
Signifier Vs. Sign (Aphorism 4)
Jul 30, 2019
Contradiction
Jul 08, 2019
An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel
Jun 24, 2019
An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Lacan
Jun 10, 2019
An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Marx
May 29, 2019
Immediacy
May 14, 2019
A Signifier for the Left
May 07, 2019
Us
Apr 20, 2019
Cynicism (Aphorism 3)
Apr 05, 2019
Conspiracy Theories
Mar 21, 2019
Sexuation (Aphorism 2)
Mar 04, 2019
Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Aphorism 1)
Feb 10, 2019
Psychoanalysis and Racism
Jan 26, 2019
Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology
Jan 08, 2019
Secular Morality
Dec 30, 2018
Theoretically Christmas (side B)
Dec 16, 2018
Theoretically Christmas (side A)
Dec 12, 2018
(Neo)liberalism
Nov 21, 2018
Das Ding
Nov 12, 2018
Rupture
Oct 29, 2018
Surveillance, Punishment, Crime
Oct 12, 2018
Dialectics
Oct 05, 2018
Desire & Drive
Sep 15, 2018
Political Enjoyment
Aug 31, 2018
Master Signifier
Aug 16, 2018
The Universal and The Particular
Jul 27, 2018
Where to Start 3: Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, Butler, Derrida
Jul 14, 2018
Sports: Ideology, Enjoyment, Contradiction
Jun 17, 2018
Where to Start 2: Hegel, Marx, Fanon, Deleuze, Foucault
May 18, 2018
Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists
May 09, 2018
CGI, Anxiety, The Last Jedi
Apr 19, 2018
The Oscars in 2018 and Beyond
Feb 28, 2018
Ideology
Feb 01, 2018
Seriality
Jan 09, 2018
Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be
Dec 26, 2017
Fake News
Dec 05, 2017
LACK 2017: Social Tie, Universality, Plus, Arrival
Nov 11, 2017
Blade Runner 2049
Oct 23, 2017
Theories of Comedy
Oct 23, 2017