Just Two Dudes Reading Theory
by Chris Newman, Preston Taylor
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Jaques Lacan - The Paradoxes of Ethis, or, Have You Acted In…
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About this podcast
Welcome to Just Two Dudes Reading Theory! Where we attempt to take on both classic and more underground selections from the world of theory. Each episode we'll be reading and discussing a different text, including works of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, post-humanism, feminism, deconstruction, and much more!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 108 episodes
- Jaques Lacan - The Paradoxes of Ethis, or, Have You Acted In Conformity With Your Desire? · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 40Join us as we read the last lecture from Lacan's Seminar VII — The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Enjoy! (Or not! or else...) Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash
- Dreaming and Narrative Theory - Richard Walsh · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 39We're talking dreams and narratology. Enjoy! Photo by National Gallery of Art on Unsplash
- Giorgio Agamben - What Is An Apparatus? · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 38Join us as we read a classic! Photo by Homa Appliances on Unsplash
- Sigmund Freud - Compulsive Actions and Religious Exercises · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 35Whoops! We uploaded the wrong file! This is now corrected — enjoy our discussion of Freud's essay, Compulsive Actions and Religious Exercises. Photo by Dmitry Dreyer on Unsplash
- Byung-Chul Han - The Tonality of Thought · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 36Join us as we talk about a lecture by Byung-Chul Han. Photo by Marcela Laskoski on Unsplash
- Ursula Le Guin - Is Gender Necessary? Redux · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 37Join us as we read Ursula Le Guin's essay on sexuality and gender. Enjoy! Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash
- Roland Barthes - Musica Practica · 60 min · Season 3 Episode 34We love reading Roland Barthes. To be fair, we don't always understand him, which is part of the fun. Enjoy! Photo by Sudhith Xavier on Unsplash
- László Krasznahorkai - The Last Wolf & Herman · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 33Join us as we discuss some work from last year's Nobel laureate in literature, László Krasznahorkai. Enjoy! Photo by Neil Rosenstech on Unsplash
- The Ecstacy Of Communication - Jean Baudrillard · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 32Join us as we read Baudrillard's essay, The Ecstasy of Communication. Enjoy!
- What is Philosophy? (C0nclusion) Deleuze and Guattari · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 31We're finishing it up! Enjoy, Photo by Aynaz shahtale on Unsplash
- What is Philosophy? (Chapter 7: Percept, Affect, and Concept) · 1 h 14 min · Season 3 Episode 30We're chugging along! enjoy! :) Photo by Jack Hamilton on Unsplash
- Theodor Adorno — Resignation · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 29We're reading Adorno's seminal late essay — enjoy! Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
- What is Philosophy? (Chapter 6: Prospects and Concepts) Deleuze and Guattari · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 28Moving forward! On to Chapter 6. Enjoy! Photo by Shapelined on Unsplash
- The Universality of Non-Belonging - Todd McGowan · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 27Join us as we read a nice piece from Todd McGowan. Enjoy! Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
- What is Philosophy? (Chapter 5: Functives and Concepts) - Deleuze and Guattari · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 26This week, we're discussing the 5th chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? Enjoy! Photo by Adil Janbyrbayev on Unsplash
- Jennifer Todd - Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and the Motivation to make Political Art · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 25Join us this week as we take a break from Deleuze and Guattari. Enjoy!
- Tyson Yunkaporta - Outside of the Land Looking in: Van Gogh's Seasons through Indigenous Eyes · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 24Join us this week as we read Tyson Yunkaporta's views on Van Gogh. Enjoy! https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/outside-of-the-land-looking-in-van-goghs-seasons-through-ind…
- What is Philosophy? (Chapter 4: Geophilosophy) - Deleuze and Guattari · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 23We're talking Geophilosophy! Enjoy Photo by Gert Boers on Unsplash
- What is Philosophy? (Chapter 3: Conceptual Personae) - Deleuze and Guattari · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 22We're continuing our read of Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What Is Philosophy? Enjoy!
- What is Philosophy? (Chapter 2: The Plane of Immanence?) - Deleuze and Guattari · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 21We're continuing on with Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What is Philosophy? This week we're reading Chapter 2: The Plane of Immanence
