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Deconstructing DavanlooEpisode 8 - The Case of the German Architect, part 2Deb and Maury catch up after taking some time off for the winter holidays. They share what they each have been reading and listening to, and how these relate to what they've been discussing on the podcast. They also read and respond to some listener comments and questions before delving back into the Case of the German Architect. The two attempt to look at the case from a relational perspective to account for alternative conceptualizations of what could be happening in the session.References:Davanloo, H. (1990). Unlocking the Unconscious. WileyDorpat, T. L. (1996...
2026-01-1555 min
Give and TakeEpisode 314: What Makes a Movie a Christmas Movie?, with Todd McGowan and Ryan EngleyIt’s the holiday season and for many of you that means curling up on the couch with some popcorn and some candy and watching one of your favorite feel good Christmas movies. What if all those cozy Christmas movies aren’t really about comfort at all—but about desire, loss, and what we’re missing deep down inside? Today I’m joined by Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley from the Why Theory podcast to psychoanalyze our favorite holiday films. From small-town miracles to last-minute reconciliations, we’re digging into what these movies reveal about enjoyment, fantasy, and why Christmas ke...
2025-12-181h 06
Pods Against Tomorrow: Reinvestigating Film NoirOut of the Past (1947) with Todd McGowanPods Against Tomorrow reinvestigates the noir genre one film at a time. Join our hosts, Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush, along with a rotating guest — our "Ace in the Hole" — as they delve into an analysis of classic, neo-, and pastiche film noirs. Each episode explores the timeless themes that shaped the film noir genre and changed American pop culture forever.This week's Ace in the Hole is Todd McGowan, a film scholar, philosopher, and Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and...
2025-11-031h 26
Žižek And So OnPREVIEW - Why Television PART 2 w/ Ryan EngleyAlright, Tim is stuck in the freezer again and we have TWO NEW EPISODES with good friend of the show and one half of the Why Theory Podcast with Todd McGowan, RYAN ENGLEY.Head over to PATREON to support the show and get access to all our other interviews, short sessions, and more!We’re talking canned laughter, the history of television and the aesthetics of television, memory, and forgetting.LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE HERE!LISTEN TO EPISODE TWO...HERE!Up next we have a series of episodes for Žiže...
2025-11-0313 min
Žižek And So OnTelevision Theory w/ Ryan EngleyAlright, welcome back to Žižek & So On, Tim is still away staring at the dot and this week we have PART ONE of our interview with good friend of the show and one half of the Why Theory Podcast with Todd McGowan, Ryan Engley! We're talking canned laughter, the history of television, the aesthetics of television, memory, and forgetting.Up next we have some episodes for Žižek’s forthcoming book QUANTUM HISTORY!See you in Paris,Ž&…
2025-10-2151 min
The IntellectualPOP LIFE EP. 53: A CRITIQUE OF DESIRE w/ RUSSELL SBRIGLIA Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: POP LIFE EP. 53: A CRITIQUE OF DESIRE w/ RUSSELL SBRIGLIAPub date: 2025-09-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationListen to Misconstruity here: https://misconstruity.com/home
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2025-10-041h 12
New Books in Intellectual HistoryTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
New Books in BiographyTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
New Books in French StudiesTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
New Books in Literary StudiesTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP PodcastTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
New Books in PsychologyTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
New Books in PsychoanalysisTodd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. The book frames Lacan's thought in the history of philosophy and explains it through jokes, films, and popular culture. In this light, Lacan becomes a thinker of philosophical importance in his own right, on a par...
2025-09-291h 01
Žižek And So OnCritique of Pure Desire w/ Russell SbrigliaBUY THE ALBUM HERE! Alright, this week we’re drinking the blood from Oedipus’s eyes with returning guest and friend of the show, the great Russell Sbriglia to talk about his new album Critique of Pure Desire which, according to Ryan Engley, sounds like if King Crimson were throwing an Eyes Wide Shut party. The album is a psychedelic mix of philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, and film through Slavoj Žižek, Lacan, Hegel, Hitchcock, Melville, Antigone, Hamlet, Poe, Blade Runner, Chopin, La Jetée…and even features guest vocals from Žižek himself.We’re talking the c...
2025-08-261h 00
Talk GnosisWhy Movies, Why Theory, Why Gnosis w/Todd McGowan & Ryan EngleyIn this episode of Talk Gnosis, we welcome Why Theory’s Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley to read pop culture with a critical eye. We dig into how psychoanalysis and continental philosophy can change the way you watch: why form often says more than content, how constraints (think the classic Production Code of Old Hollywood) seeded subversion, and what it means to treat every film as a “garbled message” you’re free to interpret.
From Barbarella’s accidental feminism to the fourth‑wall’s cynical wink, from superheroes and the meaning of failure to why “kindness is punk,” we trade easy nostalgia and...
2025-08-2300 minThe Gnostic Wisdom NetworkWhy Movies, Why Theory, Why Gnosis w/Todd McGowan & Ryan EngleyIn this episode of Talk Gnosis, we welcome Why Theory’s Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley to read pop culture with a critical eye. We dig into how psychoanalysis and continental philosophy can change the way you watch: why form often says more than content, how constraints (think the classic Production Code of Old Hollywood) seeded subversion, and what it means to treat every film as a “garbled message” you’re free to interpret.
From Barbarella’s accidental feminism to the fourth‑wall’s cynical wink, from superheroes and the meaning of failure to why “kindness is punk,” we trade easy nostalgia and...
2025-08-2300 min
New Books in Politics and PolemicsTodd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now threatens the habitability of the planet.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, McGowan shows how the production of commodities explains the role of exces...
2025-08-201h 05
New Books in SociologyTodd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now threatens the habitability of the planet.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, McGowan shows how the production of commodities explains the role of exces...
2025-08-181h 05
New Books in Critical TheoryTodd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now threatens the habitability of the planet.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, McGowan shows how the production of commodities explains the role of exces...
2025-08-181h 05
Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now threatens the habitability of the planet.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, McGowan shows how the production of commodities explains the role of exces...
2025-08-181h 05
New Books in Big IdeasTodd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now threatens the habitability of the planet.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, McGowan shows how the production of commodities explains the role of exces...
2025-08-181h 05
The Academic MinuteRyan Engley, Pomona College – Seriality and Our PsychesOn Pomona College Week: Did you binge-watch last weekend?
Ryan Engley, assistant professor of media studies, examines why we stay up to keep watching.
Ryan Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. His current book manuscript, Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life, casts the notion of seriality as a social and cultural formation, claiming that the serial has a primary place in psychic life. The book explores this by looking to varied forms of serial media, from Victorian serials to video games, podcasts to streaming television’s binge culture, to...
2025-08-1500 min
The NanceCastTodd McGowan Answers 'What Is Intelligence?'The Dangerous Maybe is back once again! This time we’re joined by a prestigious friend, Todd McGowan!! Todd doesn’t appreciate it when people go on about just how impactful he is/has been on contemporary Theory and Philosophy, so I won’t—but I will say that I respect and look up to Todd more than just about anybody else.This conversation is a continuation of what Mikey and I have been talking about, and also follows on from one of Todd’s recent Why Theory? episodes with Ryan Engley—another awesome guy you should get to know...
2025-05-281h 57
Žižek And So OnSHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SHIT OF HISTORY: NO FICKLE MATTERTo listen to the FULL EPISODE head to our PATREONAlright, we’re back from the LACK Conference at Otterbein University and Tim’s still at the airport screaming that the queue is the destination. Great to see so many friends— Jack Black, Neo Winter Scott, Jon Hegglund, Matthew Flisfeder, Clint Burnham, Katherine Everitt, Todd McGowan, Anna Kornbluh, Russell Sbriglia, Ryan Engley, Derek Hook, Mikey Downs and the crew…too many to name and of course, Žižek himself.In this SHORT SESSION, we’re diving into the extended version of my LACK presentation The Shit of Hist...
2025-04-1216 min
Pomona College SagecastWhat's Next in Film and Television with Aditya Sood '97Aditya Sood '97 is the president of the film and television production company Lord Miller and is credited with helping produce many major motion pictures, including The Martian, Deadpool and the animated film series Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. He sits down on Sagecast with Pomona College Assistant Professor of Media Studies Ryan Engley to discuss Hollywood's changing business landscape.Hosted by: Prof. Ryan EngleyProduced by: Travis Khachatoorian and Marilyn ThomsenTranscript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/040225_SoodEngleySagecast.txt
2025-04-0241 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU277: DR TODD MCGOWAN ON THE RACIST FANTASY: UNCONSCIOUS ROOTS OF HATREDRendering Unconscious episode 277.
Rendering Unconscious Podcast now has it's own Instagram page! Follow: https://www.instagram.com/renderingunconscious/
Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan
He is the author of:
Universality and Identity Politics (2020) https://amzn.to/3NTDtna
Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) https://amzn.to/3RRDhpN
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017) https://amzn.to/3S9AYzS
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) https://amzn.to/3RU7nsI
Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014) https://amzn.to/41PtwwQ
The Fictional Christopher...
2024-01-0958 min
salveiEP 10 | ANATOMIA DE UMA QUEDA, FRANÇA E O LABIRINTO, DEVE TER ALGO DE ERRADO COMIGO e maisa nossa conversa é dividida em 3 blocos: o que estamos lendo, vendo e ouvindo. tudo isso com uma convidada ilustre. recebemos Gustavo Frota Lima e Silva, cientista político, doutorando na USP e pesquisador do Núcleo Direito e Democracia do CEBRAP.pra salvar lendo: "SORROW AND BLISS" (Harper Collins UK) - publicado no Brasil pela ed. Universo dos Livros como “DEVE TER ALGO DE ERRADO COMIGO”, tradução de Laura Folgueira; "PAGU NO METRÔ", Adriana Armony (Ed. Nos); agoodmovietowatch.com vendo: “NÃO ESPERE MUITO DO FIM DO MUNDO”, de Radu Jude (mesmo diretor de “MÁ S...
2023-12-0738 min
LCLC Oral HistorySeason 2, Episode 5: Ryan EngleyIIn this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Ryan Engley about current topics and trends in media studies. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College, Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. Engley co-hosts the popular podcast Why Theory, along with Todd McGowan, which brings Continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine contemporary phenomena. This LCLC podcast episode is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and anyone interested in sharing their (humanities-oriented) work at academic conferences. Ryan and Matthew review topics and approaches at the forefront of media studies today to aid those...
2023-09-1226 min
Žižek And So OnSeriality Continued w/ Ryan EngleyIn this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where the conversation really gets going, folks. Don’t miss it!
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2023-06-281h 18
Žižek And So OnPREVIEW - Seriality pt. 2 with Ryan EngleyLISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!
In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where the conversation really gets going, folks. Don’t miss it!
Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. $5/month! You will also get access to our Discord server, a thriving community of Zizekians.
2023-06-2104 min
Žižek And So OnWhy Seriality w/ Ryan EngleyThis week, the fellas speak to Media Professor Ryan Engley of 'Why Theory'. We talk Freud, Lacan, the correct spelling of Todd McGowan, and how Seinfeld reveals the existential concept of seriality.
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2023-06-1459 min
New Books in AnthropologyTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2343 minNew Books in Big IdeasTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2342 min
New Books in EconomicsTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2343 minOff the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2342 minNew Books in Critical TheoryTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2343 minNew Books in PsychoanalysisTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2342 min
NBN Book of the DayTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2343 minNew Books in PsychologyTodd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and ho...
2023-03-2343 min
jonathan_foster5:2 Meaning Making (along with Lauren Kilber)Episode 2 is all about meaning making. In most of Americanized Christianity, it’s too often just assumed that once you pray the prayer (e.g., get God inside of you, get saved, do the thing, drink the juice, or whatever) that meaning will just naturally show up. Turns out, meaning making is much more difficult. And I personally don’t think God is just going to fix it for you. Because God is a relational God, which among other things, means S(H)e’s not going force anything upon you. God is love. And love doesn’t control.
Do...
2022-08-1634 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 12: Ryan EngleyIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Ryan Engley. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Pamona College, Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. Along with Todd McGowan, Engley co-hosts the popular podcast Why Theory, which brings Continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine contemporary phenomena. This LCLC podcast episode is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates and anyone interested in sharing their (humanities oriented) work at academic conferences. Ryan and Matthew review all the nuts and bolts of conferencing including preparing submission documents, presenting, handling Q and A, networking and other related...
2022-07-221h 04
InForm:PodcastInForm: Psychoanalysis in the Classroom with Ryan EngleyIn this episode of Inform: Podcast I interview Why Theory's Ryan Engley about psychoanalysis in the classroom. (Tod McGowan, the other half of Why theory was interviewed about this same topic on an earlier episode of InForm.) Our conversation ranges all over the place, but one of the consistent themes is the idea of sustaining the analysand's/student's desire/curiosity. Some of our references include: Lacan's Seminar 17 T.R. Johnson's book The Other Side of Pedagogy The Pedagogy of the Oppressed The TV Show: Peep Show, and (of course) Mad Men
2022-03-221h 24
Speaking BodyInForm: Psychoanalysis in the Classroom with Ryan EngleyIn this episode of Inform: Podcast I interview Why Theory's Ryan Engley about psychoanalysis in the classroom. (Tod McGowan, the other half of Why theory was interviewed about this same topic on an earlier episode of InForm.) Our conversation ranges all over the place, but one of the consistent themes is the idea of sustaining the analysand's/student's desire/curiosity. Some of our references include: Lacan's Seminar 17 T.R. Johnson's book The Other Side of Pedagogy The Pedagogy of the Oppressed The TV Show: Peep Show, and (of course) Mad Men
2022-03-221h 24
Machinic Unconscious Happy HourTodd McGowan & Ryan Engley - Guattari Avec LacanTodd McGowan & Ryan Engley of the Why Theory podcast joined us for a discussion of the complicated personal and theoretical relationships between Jacques Lacan and Felix Guattari. There is the backdrop of the broad implications of theories of the unconscious and capitalism.
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2021-07-051h 49
Pomona College SagecastMedia Studies and Psychoanalysis with Professor Ryan EngleyRyan Engley, assistant professor of media studies and co-host of the Why Theory podcast joins us for the final episode of this Sagecast season.
Engley unpacks for us the intersection of psychoanalysis and media studies, where he focuses his research. He also chats about his love for television and seriality, as well as the importance discussing mental health in his courses.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-051921-RyanEngley.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/3JRkPAQt72I
2021-05-2654 min
DinDengEP - 004 Authoritarian In School [TH]วันนี้ #Analysand ชวนมาพูดคุยถกประเด็นร้อนว่าด้วยอำนาจนิยมในโรงเรียนกับแขกรับเชิญที่มาจาก #Dindeng ซึ่งพูดคุยแตกประเด็นยิบย่อยหลากหลายไปด้วยกัน ผู้ฟังท่านใดสนใจติชมสามารถ comment ไว้ได้ที่ SoundCloud, YouTube หรือส่ง E-mail มาได้ที่ analysand@protonmail.com ครับ
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- Todd McGowan (เกิด 1967): นักปรัชญาสกุล Lacanian หนังสือของเขาพูดเกี่ยวกับจิตวิเคราะห์และประเด็นทางสังคม วัฒนธรรม เช่น McGowan, Todd. 2016. Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press) นอกจากนี้เขายังทำ Podcast ชื่อ Why Theory คู่กับ Ryan Engley อีกด้วย
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): นักปรัชญาชื่อดังแห่งยุคสมัย Enlightenment หนังสือเล่มสำคัญของเขาคือ: Kant, Immanuel. 1999. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, ed. by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831): นักปรัชญาชื่อดังแห่งสกุลความคิด German Idealism หนังสือเล่มสำคัญที่สุดของเขา เพิ่งมีฉบับแปลเป็นภาษาอังกฤษอย่างได้มาตรฐานวงการปรัชญาเมื่อไม่นานมานี้ คือ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich. 2018. Cambridge Hegel Translations: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit, ed. by Terry Pinkard and Michael Baur (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Louis Althusser (1918-1990): นักปรัชญาต้นธารสกุลความคิด Structural Marxism ข้อเขียนเขาที่มีแปลไทยคือ Althusser, Louis. 2014. อุดมการและกลไกทางอุดมการของรัฐ, 2nd edn (Text)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883): นักปรัชญาต้นธารสกุลความคิด Marxism หนังสือเล่มสำคัญของเขาคงเป็นอื่นไปไม่ได้นอกเสียจาก Das Kapital ซึ่งมีแปลไทย (จากภาษาจีน) คือ Marx, Karl. 1999. ว่าด้วยทุน เศรษฐศาสตร์การเมือง เล่ม 1 (ธีรทรรศน์)
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984): นักปรัชญาผู้ที่หลายคนมองว่าเป็นแกนหลักของสกุลความคิดหลังสมัยใหม่ ข้อเขียนเขาที่มีแปลไทยคือ Foucault, Michel. 2015. ร่างกายใต้บงการ :ปฐมบทแห่งอำนาจในวิถีสมัยใหม่, 3rd edn (โครงการจัดพิมพ์คบไฟ)
- Theses On Feuerbach เป็นข้อเขียนชิ้นเล็กๆ ของ Karl Marx ที่ 'ค้นพบ' หลังแกเสียชีวิตไปแล้ว อ่านภาษาไทยได้ที่: https://www.marxists.org/thai/archive/marx-engels/1845/theses/index.htm
- งานเขียนงานแปลของแขกรับเชิญใน #Dindeng: http://www.dindeng.com/author/ice_rockstar/
2020-12-1646 minSpeaking BodyInForm: Ryan Engley of Why TheoryINTRO: On this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared sit down and talk with Ryan Engley from the Why Theory Podcast about ordinary psychosis and the classroom as a psychoanalytic space. REFERENCES: T.R. Johnson's book "The Other Side of Pedagogy" (Amazon) Some info on Ordinary Psychosis (Text 1, Text 2, Text 3, Text 4, Text 5) Bruce Fink's book "A Clinical Introduction to Lacanain Psychoanalysis: Theory & Technique" (Amazon) Heathers (IMDB) 1408 (IMDB) Jacob's Ladder (IMDB)Intimate Strangers (IMDB, Prime Video)
2020-09-251h 27InForm:PodcastInForm: Ryan Engley of Why TheoryINTRO: On this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared sit down and talk with Ryan Engley from the Why Theory Podcast about ordinary psychosis and the classroom as a psychoanalytic space. REFERENCES: T.R. Johnson's book "The Other Side of Pedagogy" (Amazon) Some info on Ordinary Psychosis (Text 1, Text 2, Text 3, Text 4, Text 5) Bruce Fink's book "A Clinical Introduction to Lacanain Psychoanalysis: Theory & Technique" (Amazon) Heathers (IMDB) 1408 (IMDB) Jacob's Ladder (IMDB)Intimate Strangers (IMDB, Prime Video)
2020-09-251h 27
Žižek And So OnŽižek, Hegel, & Lacan w/ Todd McGowanThis week, on Zizek and So on, we interview Todd McGowan, professor of English at the University of Vermont. Todd’s thought centralizes on the likes of Hegel, Lacan, Freud and Marx, and he is the author of several books, most notably, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets”, and last year's “Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution.” His newest book “Universality and Identity Politics” is set to come out this July.
Todd also co-hosts a terrific podcast with Ryan Engley called "Why Theory?" And we encourage you guys to seek it out.
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2020-04-0146 min
Machinic Unconscious Happy HourRyan Engley - How To Make A Lacanian QuiltDr. Ryan Engley, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and co-host of the Why Theory podcast, joined me to discuss Lacan, the serial, and it's psychoanalytic elements.
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2019-12-231h 55
Careers in the Public HumanitiesEpisode 9: Roundtable Discussion with Creators and Producers of Careers in the Public HumanitiesIn this episode of Careers in the Public Humanities, the creators and producers of the podcast get together to discuss what we've learned through this show. In this conversation, Rachel Boccio, Michele Meek, Ryan Engley, Catherine Winters, and Michael Landreth talk about how we understand Public Humanities, what responsibility universities have, and how we can understand our own work in academia and beyond.
2019-09-131h 02Give and TakeEpisode 131: Why Theory, with Todd McGowan and Ryan EngleyMy guests are Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley. They are the co-hosts of Why Theory, a podcast that brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomenon.Special Guests: Ryan Engley and Todd McGowan.
2018-10-191h 17
Careers in the Public HumanitiesEpisode 6: Dr. Paul Erickson, American Academy of Arts & SciencesIn this wide-ranging episode of Careers in the Public Humanities, PhD candidate Ryan Engley speaks with Dr. Paul Erickson, Program Director for The Humanities, Arts, and Culture; and American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, MA. The two discuss Paul's career path, the state of the humanities in 2018 (particularly English majors and departments), how Paul envisions the public humanities, how to successfully target an application for external funding, and much more. Thanks so much for listening! We hope you enjoy the conversation.
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2018-07-231h 02
Careers in the Public HumanitiesEpisode 4: Dr. Elizabeth Francis, Executive Director of Rhode Island Council for the HumanitiesIn this episode of Careers in the Public Humanities, PhD candidate Ryan Engley interviews Dr. Elizabeth Francis, the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Together they discuss the importance of placemaking and engaging with community in all humanities projects.
2018-01-2541 min