May 14, 2021
Woody and Lana try to make sense of "The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious" (a famously hard reading) from Lacan's Ecrits (a famously hard book).
Freud, Hegel, Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Psychoanalysis, Structural Linguistics, Structuralism, Russian Formalism,...
Mar 20, 2021
In a special bonus episode Woody sits down with a friend who didn’t want to use his real name because of his “job” or something (coward). This is a deep dive into President Deals himself, Donald J Trump. How’d he get in, what does he mean for America, and where are we going from here? You should probably play...
Mar 11, 2021
Woody and Lana chat about the new doc, individualism vs. collectivism, and why even Adam Curtis has bad China takes.
Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Lacan, China
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Mar 2, 2021
In this first episode of her new investigative series “Balkanizing China,” Lana explores how propaganda works in a liberal democracy.
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Eddie Bernays, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, the Gulf War, Uyghur genocide, communism,...
Feb 12, 2021
A close reading of the NYT article "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis," which can be read here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/biden-reality-crisis-misinformation.html
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