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Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsTODD MCGOWAN, TOBIAS WIGGINS, GRIFFIN HANSBURY, MYRIAM SAUER, M.E. O'BRIEN – THIS WEEK AT RENDERING UNCONSCIOUSTHIS WEEK on Rendering Unconscious! https://renderingunconscious.substack.com
RU178: TODD MCGOWAN ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, FILM, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, HITCHCOCK, BREAKING BAD: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru178-todd-mcgowan-on-psychoanalysis
On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, I sat down with one of my favorite guests, Todd McGowan.
Todd discusses the book he’s writing on right-wing and left-wing enjoyment and the class he’s teaching on Breaking Bad. He mentions using philosophers like Kant, Peter Singer, and Martha Nussbaum. We also discuss the impact of technology on social interactions, the role of language in psychoanalysis, and the challenges of teaching and analyzing in the...2025-03-2515 min
Bungacast/473/ Make Alienation Great Again ft. Todd McGowanOn Embracing Alienation.
Todd McGowan is back on the pod, talking to George and Alex about his book, Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try To Find Ourselves.
Why is alienation good actually? What does it give us?
How is alienation related to subjectivity and freedom?
What is the problem with anti-alienation politics of Left and Right?
What happened to the 1960s concern with alienation, where did it go?
Why is an embrace of the public realm, against therapy culture, the right response?
What is the...2025-03-041h 16
PsycheTodd McGowan: Civilization and Its DiscontentsI speak to Todd McGowan about Sigmund Freud's book Civilization and Its Discontents.2025-02-171h 00
Žižek And So OnPure Excess w/ Todd McGowanAlright, welcome back to Žižek and So On this time we’re talking again with old mate Todd McGowan. This was recorded on Valentines Day 2025 and Tim was busy shopping for eggs.We’re diving into Todd’s new book Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity to talk inutility and the promise of pure excess in the commodity form. Why can’t we have McDonalds at home? What is capitalism’s magic trick, and where are the dead birds? Up next we’ve got an episode dedicated solely to Todd’s book staging a series of example...2025-02-161h 20
Give and TakeEpisode 277: Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity, with Todd McGowanMy guest is Todd McGowan. HIs newest book is Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity. In it he 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.
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PsycheTodd McGowan: Pure ExcessGreat conversation with Todd McGowan about his latest book Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity. 2025-01-311h 06
The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita BhhatiaEP 156 The genius of David Lynch Ft: Todd McgowanKant, Hegel, Kafka and Freud- Do we need to understand these philosophers before interpreting David Lynch? How did he manage to get into your subconscious mind and get you inside the storytelling? Trying to know him better through his films and also then understanding how his meditations would have worked for him tapping into his subconscious mind. From Eraser head to Dune- AND GIVE DUNE ANOTHER CHANCE- according to our guest Todd Mcgowan- a Scholar, professor of Film and Theory and author of The impossible David Lynch! 1) Removing the wall. 2) Which film best describes this?3) a...2025-01-2635 min
PsycheTodd McGowan: Embracing AlienationTodd McGowan is back on the podcast to discuss themes from his book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try To Find Ourselves. You'll love his discussion of the 2024 film The Substance. I'm also grateful that he shared vulnerable, personal anecdotes he's never shared online before. 2025-01-1059 min
New Books in Political ScienceTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2025-01-041h 05
New Books in Intellectual HistoryTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2025-01-041h 05
New Books in American PoliticsTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2025-01-041h 05
New Books in Politics and PolemicsTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2025-01-041h 05
Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2025-01-041h 05
No Small Thing226: Christmas w/ Todd McGowan! (Limited Edition!)Our second hopefully annual conversation with Professor Todd McGowan about Christmas movies and Psychoanalysis! What a better way to process the comedown of the holidays by thinking about what makes Christmas so fun yet so depressing. We talk about the movie Carol and lesbian/ queer Christmas as well as a host of other rambly curiosities. Todd is one of our favorite guests and conversation partners so we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.2024-12-311h 17Give and TakeEpisode 268: Embracing Alienation, with Todd McGowanMy guest is Todd McGowan. Todd teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. In his new book Embracing Alienation, McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying to overcome alienation and accede to an unalienated existence, it argues, we should instead redeem alienation as an existential and political program.
Engaging with Shakespeare’s great tragedies, contemporary films such as Don’t Wo...2024-11-301h 15
HermitixEmbracing Alienation with Todd McGowanThis episode I'm joined once again by Todd McGowan to discuss his book Embracing Alienation.
Book link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/740010/embracing-alienation-by-todd-mcgowan/9781915672223
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Theory UndergroundTodd McGowan on Hegel's Theory of Death in Phenomenology of Spirit vs. Nick Land's Fanged NoumenaEnroll for Mikey's seminar here https://theoryunderground.com/product/freemikey Enroll for Mikey's Intro to Zizek starting in September: https://theoryunderground.com/product/zizek-1/
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Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU307: DRS WALTER "MAC" DAVIS & TODD MCGOWAN ON THE LAST CATHOLICRU307: WALTER DAVIS & TODD MCGOWAN ON THE LAST CATHOLIC http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru307-walter-davis-todd-mcgowan-on-the-last-catholic/
Rendering Unconscious episode 307.
Professor Emeritus Walter A. Davis, Ohio State University, is an actor and playwright, as well as psychoanalyst and theoretician. His many books include Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre (2007) and Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud (1989). His newest book is The Last Catholic: A Novel (2024). https://amzn.to/4cS2Dxc
Dr. Davis contributed a chapter on the film Persona to the collection Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023...2024-09-051h 17
Theory UndergroundIs this a theory of COSMIC drive!? Todd McGowan on Schelling's Theory of DRIVE!Enroll for Mikey's seminar here https://theoryunderground.com/product/freemikey Enroll for Mikey's Intro to Zizek starting in September: https://theoryunderground.com/product/zizek-1/
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Žižek And So OnWhy We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves w/ Todd McGowanAlright, Todd McGowan is back again on the podcast to talk more about his most recent book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves.
TO HEAR OUR FIRST CONVERSATION WITH TODD ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK YOU CAN LISTEN HERE!
You can also listen to our episode on Alienation as a concept in Żižek's work here!
Are there good and bad forms of alienation? We're talking the politics of non-belonging, alienation in cinema, the defence of lost causes, Friends and the failure of beginnings and the impossibility of endings, Lacan's debt to Jean Paul S...2024-08-1243 min
RSam PodcastTodd McGowan: Hegel, Contradiction and Embracing AlienationProf. Todd McGowan is a professor of English at the University of Vermont and Professor and Director of Film and Television Studies. He’s authored numerous books on Hegelian philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existentialism and film studies, including Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, Enjoyment Right & Left and Embracing Alienation. He also hosts the superlative Why Theory podcast and co-organises the Lack conference. Prof. McGowan is in continuous dialogue with his fellow travellers Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Adrian Johnston and others in contemporary Hegelian-Lacanian theory. In this episode, we discuss the Hegel renaissance, Hegelian contradiction, Dialetheism and Paraconsistent logic...2024-08-091h 36
Žižek And So OnEmbracing Alienation w/ Todd McGowanAlright this week Todd McGowan is back on the podcast to talk about his most recent book Embracing Alienation Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves.
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The subject is divided from itself even in the form in which it is completely at home...so in this first episode we're talking the status of alienation in our current context of serial crisis and what Anna Kornbluh describes as cultural immediacy.
Wh...2024-08-0552 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU302: DRS TODD MCGOWAN & WALTER A. DAVIS ON HEGEL, BERGMAN, PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOANALYSISRU302: TODD MCGOWAN & WALTER A. DAVIS ON BERGMAN, HEGEL, PSYCHOANALYSIS http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru302-todd-mcgowan-walter-a-davis-on-bergman-hegel-psychoanalysis/
Rendering Unconscious episode 302.
Professor Emeritus Walter A. Davis, Ohio State University, is an actor and playwright, as well as psychoanalyst and theoretician. His many books include Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre (2007) and Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud (1989). His newest book is The Last Catholic: A Novel (2024). https://amzn.to/4cS2Dxc
Dr. Davis contributed a chapter on the film Persona to the collection Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and...2024-07-231h 26
Theory UndergroundThe Month of July at Theory Underground, 2024 - Todd McGowan, Benjamin Studebaker, Michael Downs, Jacques Lacan, Levinas, Bourdieu....The Sunday events at TU are made just for the TU membership.
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Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical s...2024-06-2906 min
Theory Underground"Here's where you begin with Lacan" Todd McGowanTodd McGowan of Why Theory? podcast is teaching Seminar 11 at Theory Underground in July 2024. It takes place on Saturdays at 12 PM Eastern Time. You can enroll here: https://theoryunderground.com/courses/mcgowan-1
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Don’t have time for that but want to help anyway? Cons...2024-06-172h 08New Books in Intellectual HistoryTodd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think of our existential and political projects as attempts to overcome or eradicate alienation: therapists imagine that they help patients to attain self-identity; political revolutionaries strive for a society in which they can live in harmony with others; ecological activists work toward a future form of existence in touch with the rest of the natural world. In Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves (Repeater, 2024), Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on...2024-05-1857 minNew Books in Politics and PolemicsTodd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think of our existential and political projects as attempts to overcome or eradicate alienation: therapists imagine that they help patients to attain self-identity; political revolutionaries strive for a society in which they can live in harmony with others; ecological activists work toward a future form of existence in touch with the rest of the natural world. In Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves (Repeater, 2024), Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on...2024-05-1857 min
New Books in Critical TheoryTodd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think of our existential and political projects as attempts to overcome or eradicate alienation: therapists imagine that they help patients to attain self-identity; political revolutionaries strive for a society in which they can live in harmony with others; ecological activists work toward a future form of existence in touch with the rest of the natural world. In Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves (Repeater, 2024), Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on...2024-05-1857 min
culturalstudiesTodd McGowan on Freud, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and MarxTodd McGowan on right-wing populism, capitalism’s death spiral, psychoanalysis, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and Marx
You can read about Todd’s work here:
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U1zFKsBudd3BcgSAw
https://soundcloud.com/whytheory
2024-05-1557 min
The Mike Fallat Podcast#253 - Todd McGowan (Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets)Mike interviews Todd McGowan.Welcome to our podcast series, where we embark on a journey through the complex interplay of capitalism and human desire, as illuminated by Todd McGowan's thought-provoking book, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets." Join us as we delve into the psychological dimensions of free markets, uncovering the hidden costs that shape our lives and societies.In "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets," Todd McGowan offers a compelling exploration of the psychic underpinnings of capitalist societies. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and philosophical insights, McGowan delves into...2024-05-101h 13
NBN Book of the DayTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2024-02-1954 minOff the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2024-02-1952 minNew Books in Critical TheoryTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2024-02-1954 minNew Books in Intellectual HistoryTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2024-02-1954 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU277: DR TODD MCGOWAN ON THE RACIST FANTASY: UNCONSCIOUS ROOTS OF HATREDRendering Unconscious episode 277.
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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
No Small Thing219: Christmas and Desire w/ Todd McGowanChristmas can be one of the strangest seasons of the year because we are supposed to be happy and full of cheer, but often Christmas afternoon is the most depressing day of the year. In this episode we talk with one of our favorite thinkers- Todd McGowan! We use Christmas and desire as a spring board for an hour of curious conversation!2023-12-271h 11
Points of DepartureThe never-ending desire of Capitalism with Todd McGowanIn this episode, author and professor Todd McGowan examines the past, present and future of Capitalism.2023-09-2539 min
PsycheTodd McGowan & Peter Rollins: Hegel & Radical ChristianityIn this conversation, Todd McGowan and Peter Rollins help us unpack the meaning of the following quote from McGowan's book on Hegel:
"The embrace of Christianity radicalizes Hegel as a thinker and enables him to theorize the radicality of Christianity."
We are also joined by David Roberts.
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The Collision VisionEp. 16 - Build, Sell, Learn, Build Again with Todd McGowan Todd McGowan is the owner of Relentless Collision, a 3-store (soon to be more) MSO out of Raleigh, NC. Todd is a serial entrepreneur in the collision repair industry, having built a collision business before, selling Haddock Collision- a 5-store MSO- to a major consolidator in 2014. On this episode, Todd and Cole talk about Todd’s experience scaling and selling in round one, what he’s doing differently this time around with Relentless Collision, his thoughts on the future of consolidation, and much more. Enjoy the show! We thank US Autocure for sponsoring this episode. H...2023-05-0933 minNew Books in Critical TheoryTodd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)Today I talked to Todd McGowan about his book Enjoyment Right & Left (Sublation Media, 2022).While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a world that appears completely divided between right and left, McGowan calls for a universal form of enjoyment that unites people in an egalitarian project. Todd McGowan's previous books include Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and The Impossible David Lynch, among others. He teaches theory and...2023-04-111h 06New Books in Politics and PolemicsTodd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)Today I talked to Todd McGowan about his book Enjoyment Right & Left (Sublation Media, 2022).While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a world that appears completely divided between right and left, McGowan calls for a universal form of enjoyment that unites people in an egalitarian project. Todd McGowan's previous books include Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and The Impossible David Lynch, among others. He teaches theory and...2023-04-111h 06Off 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...2023-03-2343 min
New 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...2023-03-2343 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 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 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 min
New 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...2023-03-2343 minNBN 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 min
New 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
Varn VlogTodd McGowan on Right and Left EnjoymentPlease support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Todd McGowan is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of 15 books, including Universality and Identity Politics (2020), Emancipation After Hegel (2019), and Capitalism and Desire (2016). We discuss his recent book for Sublation Media, "Enjoyment: Left and Right."Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan...2023-02-231h 22
PsycheDr. Todd McGowan: Enjoyment Right & LeftIn this episode, I speak to Dr. Todd McGowan
Todd is a professor in the Department of English at The University of Vermont. He is also the co-host of the podcast, Why Theory.
In this episode, we discuss his book, Enjoyment Right & Left.
Episode Highlights:
Death, Existentialism & Heidegger
Enjoyment vs Pleasure
Death Drive Jouissance
Carl Schmitt
Symbolic Castration
Thirteenth Floor (1999) & Heathers (1988)
Much More!2023-02-101h 20
Talk GnosisHegalian Christianity w/Todd McGowanGerman philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is considered by many to be one of the most important thinkers to have ever lived. And he had a lot to say about Christianity, maybe even enough to say he changed how we thought about the faith forever.
However, Hegel is notoriously difficult to follow, so Dr. Todd McGowan, author of “Emancipation After Hegel,” comes on the show to talk Hegel with the Talk Gnosis crew. We dialogue about dialectics, bringing heaven down to main street, the death of God, death in German, similarities and differences between Hegel’s thought and Gnosticism, why aliena...2023-02-0900 min
PsycheThe Fecundity of the Barrier: Todd McGowan & ContradictionIn this episode, I speak to Dr. Todd McGowan. Todd is a professor in the Department of English at The University of Vermont. He is also the co-host of the podcast, Why Theory.
In this episode, we discuss his book, Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution.
In this conversation we explore various topics:
Todd's conservative Christian upbringing
Freud & the unconscious
Hegel's understanding of contradiction
The philosopher Heraclitus
Hegel's understanding of God and Christianity
Happiness & meaning
Don Draper & Mad Men
Much more!
2022-09-091h 08
The Mindset and Self-Mastery ShowThe Journey From Worst To First With Eric Todd JohnsonIn this episode, Nick speaks with Eric Todd Johnson, a seasoned attorney who has confronted the challenges that arise in billion-dollar business deals and in billion-dollar litigation, and prevailed. He struggled until he learned how attorneys confront adversity. He had poor grades in high school and college and was rejected by every law school that he applied to until finally being accepted into law school.. just barely. He started as the worst but rose to become the top of his class. He even wrote a book about it called “Worst to First”.
About Eric Todd Johnson
Eric is a seasoned attorn...2022-07-1439 min
Rev Left RadioLearning About Lacan w/ Todd McGowanTodd McGowan returns to the show, this time to discuss the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. Breht and Todd explore many of his core concepts, his relation to Freud and Freud’s theory, his politics, his contributions to psychology, how his insights can useful for us today, and so much more. Check out Todd's podcast “Why Theory?” on your preferred podcast app! Previous episdoes with Todd: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/capitalism-and-desire-in-dialogue-with-psychoanalysis https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/hegel Outro music: "Cold Blood" by Josiah and the Bonnevilles Support Rev Lef...2022-07-111h 39
Pod Damn AmericaFatal Juicense w/ Todd McGowanWe discuss the pharaoh's curse placed on assassinated Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, before an interview with professor Todd McGowan on mass shootings, and dire warnings from the Economist on Chile's new constitution.
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paidprotest7.eventbrite.com/2022-07-091h 11Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2022-05-191h 05New Books in American PoliticsTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2022-05-191h 01New Books in Politics and PolemicsTodd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both centrists and conservatives, associate universalism with twentieth-century totalitarianism and hold that it is bound to lead to catastrophe.This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political though...2022-05-191h 01
Thriving ForwardJody Todd Manly - Mt Hope Family CenterIn this episode Sarah interviews Jody Todd Manly, the Clinical Director of Mt. Hope Family Center. Mt. Hope Family Center is a unique program that both provides direct clinical services and conducts research to help improve the lives of children and families who have experienced violence, abuse, neglect, or trauma. Listen in and learn more!For more information:Website - https://www.psych.rochester.edu/MHFC/ TRANSFORM Research Center - http://thetransformcenter.org/ Call the Center at: 585-275-2991Support the show2022-03-1633 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU178: DR TODD MCGOWAN ON HITCHCOCK, BREAKING BAD, FILM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICSDr. Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007), The Impossible David Lynch (2007) and Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) and Universality and Identity Politics (2020). https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan
This episode is also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/GAHpxcSv15k
Join us Sunday, De...2021-12-131h 08
THE 'ART OF THINKING' with Greg ScorzoThe Impossible David Lynch THE 'ART OF THINKING.' Greg Scorzo with Todd McGowanIn this Art of Thinking podcast, philosopher Greg Scorzo talks to Todd McGowan about his book, The Impossible David Lynch (2002). The podcast examines Todd’s theories explaining the meaning of three David Lynch movies: Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead. Also discussed is how McGowan analyses all three movies using the Lacanian conceptualisations of desire and fantasy. Throughout the podcast, Scorzo and McGowan discuss what Lynch’s movies can teach us about politics, the superego, jealousy, love, truth, responsibility, capitalism, time off of work, and the potential we all have to follow our fantasies to the very end. This podcast cont...2021-11-212h 56
Engaging WithLacan, Featuring Todd McGowanIn this episode, I speak with Todd McGowan about the ideas of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan. Todd McGowan is professor of theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is also an author and one of the hosts of the excellent podcast, Why Theory. For more info on Todd's work, please visit the links below. Why Theory: https://soundcloud.com/whytheory Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Todd-McGowan/e/B001IU0F3I%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Todd's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U...2021-10-211h 28
Acid HorizonHegel: The Case For Contradiction with Todd McGowanIn this episode, Craig, Will, Matt, and Adam are joined by University of Vermont Professor Todd McGowan to discuss Hegel's concept of contradiction as he lays it out in his book, Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution. Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, Hegel's philosophy came to bear the stigma of a totalizing system responsible for seeing an era of global atrocities. McGowan attempts to disabuse readers of this perception. Instead, he endeavors to demonstrate that Hegel's system of logic is, in fact, a system that opens itself up to new possibilities and forms of autonomous...2021-10-101h 00
The Cluttered DeskS11E5: An analysis of Todd McGowan's "Citizen Trump"Welcome to The Cluttered Desk Podcast! In this episode, Colin and Andrew discuss Todd McGowan's essay on Donald Trump, "Citizen Trump," published in the journal Continental Thought & Theory. Here is a link to McGowan's essay: https://www.academia.edu/45646627/Citizen_Trump *** The Coda: Colin drinks tea...Andrew drinks coffee. They do not specify brands. *** Here are links for this episode: Andrew's recommendation: The podcast, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Colin's recommendation: Anna Kornbluh's The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Spaces, pour-over cof...2021-08-311h 06
UVM English Department PodcastUVM English Department Presents... A Book Banter Movie Night with Professor Todd McGowanIn this episode of Book Banter, hosts Connor Adams, Henry Chugh, and the rest of the Book Banter crew talk with Professor Todd McGowan about the 2020 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma.Special thanks to Professor McGowan for joining us in our discussion!Theme by Gideon Parker2021-08-041h 15
Diet Soap Returns (Help us pick a name)Episode 367: Can Hegel Help Us Today? (w/ Todd McGowan) Todd McGowan is committed to the idea that theoretical exploration of questions about existence, the psyche, and society can contribute to radical politics. He is the author of "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" and a cultural critic. In this podcast, he talks to Douglas Lain about Hegel and claims the old philosopher is perhaps more radical than Karl Marx. 2021-07-1556 min
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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Twitter: @unconscioushh2021-07-051h 49
InForm:PodcastInForm: Todd McGowan & Psychoanalysis in the ClassroomIntro: Psychoanalytic superstar Todd McGowan makes his second appearance on the InForm: Podcast. In this episode (after Neil makes an error), we talk about psychoanalysis in the classroom. Longer Show Notes: At the top of the show, you hear Neil realizing he has forgotten to hit record after we have all been talking for 25 min. But after that, you can hear Neil, Jared, and Todd discuss: How Todd started to get interested in psychoanalysis as a graduate student and the impact of reading Žizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology had o...2021-04-281h 32
Žižek And So OnCapitalism and Desire w/ Todd McGowanIn our conversation with Todd McGowan we discuss his 2016 book Capitalism and Desire. Todd brings us through what he argues is the essential role of desire in capitalism—not as something which is repressed by the system, as many have argued, but rather how capitalism perpetuates itself through the very structure of desire. Without coming to terms with this, he says, any attempt to formulate a new system, or find the exit from capitalism, plays into the terms capitalism lays out in the form of “the promise.”
Get the book here.
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Fantasy/AnimationInception (2010) (with Todd McGowan)Are we dreaming, or are we awake? How do we choose which realities to believe in? What levels of fictionality count? Find out in Episode 65, which works its way through the dream logic and desires of Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), a film that probes deep into our unconscious to revel in how dreams allow us to participate in a shared fantasy. Joining Chris and Alex as they kick back through the layers of Inception’s rhizomatic, mazelike structure is Todd McGowan, Professor of Film Studies in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Vermont, and author of a...2021-01-181h 14Bungacast/167/ The Kingdom of God Is on Main Street ft. Todd McGowanOn freedom, authority and responsibility.
Theorist Todd McGowan joins us to talk about the End of History, what Hegel can teach us about emancipation, and why Slavoj Zizek’s reinterpretation of Hegel is so important. If contradiction is the basis of modern politics, what is its link to freedom? And what is the connection between freedom and authority? Are stable sources of authority even possible in modernity? We also put some listener questions to Todd, as we learn that the Right, just as much as the Left, evades authority and is unwilling to take responsibility....2020-12-2155 min
I Like to ReadTeen Movies, Shakespeare, and Film Theory with Todd McGowanWatch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gcR7aa8yDAg Todd's work: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/79863.Todd_McGowanGOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58041478-iliketoreadpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/iliketoreadpod/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/rpolansky77FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/iliketoreadpodMEDIA MAVEN BLOG: https://rpolansky77.wixsite.com/website2020-09-2056 min
(E)STRANGE(D)37 - When the Future Comes First (ft. Todd McGowan) - Todd's top film of each decadeFilm and political theorist Todd McGowan joins us to discuss his favorite film from each decade of cinema history. Todd's most recent book, 'Universality and Identity Politics' has just been released. Previous works include 'Capitalism and Desire,' 'Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Project of Psychoanalysis' and numerous works on film theory.2020-08-021h 32
Machinic Unconscious Happy HourTodd McGowan - Dial D For DialecticsTodd McGowan returns to discuss Hegelian Dialectics. Dr. Todd McGowan is a professor in the Department of English as the University of Vermont, and co-host of the Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engeley. He's published a number of books on psychoanalysis, film and more.
Todd's Links:
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834
https://www.otherpress.com/authors/todd-mcgowan/
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Instagram: @podcast_co_cooper_cherry2020-06-011h 13InForm:PodcastInForm: Why Theory's Todd McGowanIntro: Today on InForm:Podcast we are lucky enough to talk with super-theorist Todd McGowan. Content: We reached out to Todd McGowan and asked if he would be willing to talk about how his experience in analysis (as an analysand) influenced the ways that he thinks, works, and lives. Todd responded to our request and was very generous with his time. (He talked with us for over 90 min!)In addition to talking about the effects of analysis on Todd's life we also talk about politics, Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler, and a...2020-05-261h 35
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU75: Rendering Dr Todd McGowan Unconscious, Universality, Identity Politics, Culture, FilmProfessor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007), The Impossible David Lynch (2007) and Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019). His latest book Universality and Identity Politics is forthcoming from Columbia University Press, July 2020: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/universality-and-identity-politics/9780231197700
Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter "Th...2020-05-011h 12
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.
Todd spoke with...2020-04-0146 min
New Books in PhilosophyTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2020-03-2352 minNew Books in PsychoanalysisTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2020-03-2352 minOff the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to which the dialectic has so often been reduced, and to show that the concept of contradiction understood in Hegelian fashion is intrinsically subversive of authority. By championing contradiction over ‘difference’ it defies the rhetoric of much leftist theory as it has been formulated in the wake...2020-03-2352 min
Machinic Unconscious Happy HourDr Todd McGowan - The Chad LacanDr. Todd McGowan, professor in the Department of English as the University of Vermon, and co-host of the Why Theory podcast joined me to discuss one of my absolute favorite thinkers, Jacques Lacan.
We discuss Lacan's formulation of desire, jouissance, das ding, and much more in this jam packed episode.
Todd's Links:
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834
https://www.otherpress.com/authors/todd-mcgowan/
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Instagram: @podcast_co_cooper_cherry2019-08-261h 15
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU39: Professor Todd McGowan on Signification of the Phallus from Reading Lacan's EcritsToday's discussion is with Professor Todd McGowan, about his chapter on "The Signification of the Phallus" in Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (Routledge, 2019) edited by Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neil: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-Signification-of-the-Phallus-to-Metaphor/Vanheule-Hook-Neill/p/book/9780415708029
Dr. Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Poli...2019-08-051h 00
Against Everyone with Conner HabibAEWCH 70: TODD McGOWAN & PETER ROLLINS or PSYCHOANALYSIS vs THE LEFTThe first AEWCH live event featuring me talking with philosopher/theologian Peter Rollins & psychoanalytic critic/film studies prof Todd McGowan! Lacan vs Deleuze, Peterson vs Zizek, Psychoanalysis vs the Left! Recorded live in front of a studio audience (with Q&A!) in Belfast!2019-05-141h 18
(E)STRANGE(D)6 - The Universe's Tics And Grimaces (ft. Todd McGowan) - 'Annihilation'With special guest Todd McGowan, we talk about how 'Annihilation' shows that human's aren't 'natural'; they constitute (in Zupančič's terms) 'the tics and grimaces' of the universe.2019-05-0754 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis, Art, Occulture, PoliticsRU14: Rendering DR TODD MCGOWAN Unconscious - Psychoanalysis, philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Freud, LacanTodd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007), and The Impossible David Lynch (2007). Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter "The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower" to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary La...2019-01-1457 minGive 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
1: Erica's ListTodd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016) Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)Pub date: 2017-03-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTodd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are drawn to capitalism because, under an overt promise to bring us what we want, it gives us what we need: lack....2018-02-0159 min
1: Erica's ListTodd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016) Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)Pub date: 2017-03-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTodd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are drawn to capitalism because, under an overt promise to bring us what we want, it gives us what we need: lack.
Eve...2018-02-0159 min
1: Erica's ListEpisode 70: Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy, with Todd McGowan Podcast: Give and Take (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 70: Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy, with Todd McGowanPub date: 2017-12-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest is Todd McGowan. He teaches courses in film theory, history, and genre at the University of Vermont. His areas of interest include Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. He's the author of numerous books, including most recently Only a Joke Can...2018-02-011h 20
1: Erica's ListTodd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016) Podcast: New Books NetworkEpisode: Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)Pub date: 2017-03-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTodd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are drawn to capitalism because, under an overt promise to bring us what we want, it gives us what we need: lack.
Every commodity disappoints. And that’s t...2018-02-0159 minGive and TakeEpisode 70: Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy, with Todd McGowanMy guest is Todd McGowan. He teaches courses in film theory, history, and genre at the University of Vermont. His areas of interest include Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. He's the author of numerous books, including most recently Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy. Special Guest: Todd McGowan.2017-12-061h 20
The KickSpike & Denzel Joints (feat. David Sterritt and Todd McGowan) | Episode 57Spike Lee turning 60 this week gives us ample reason to reflect on the pioneering American filmmaker. With the help of two guest scholars, Chance and Noah revisit three of the writer-director's collaborations with Denzel Washington.
5:00 - Chance interviews veteran critic and author David Sterritt to set the table for discussing Spike Lee's legacy and status as an American icon.
20:00 - Your hosts review 1990's MO BETTER BLUES, which features a fresher-than-fresh Denzel Washington making and destroying his life with jazz.
33:55 - We move to 1998's HE GOT GAME to discuss a movie starring NBA legend Ray Allen and which is "...2017-03-231h 15New Books in Big IdeasTodd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are drawn to capitalism because, under an overt promise to bring us what we want, it gives us what we need: lack.
Every commodity disappoints. And that’s the point.
Satisfaction, that moment when all is well and good, flutters rapidly, blessedly away. What is so great, so crucial, about lack? Though we pine for relief, nothing kills desire like abundance. (Spoiler alert: should there be an e...2017-03-1959 minNew Books in PsychoanalysisTodd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are drawn to capitalism because, under an overt promise to bring us what we want, it gives us what we need: lack.
Every commodity disappoints. And that’s the point.
Satisfaction, that moment when all is well and good, flutters rapidly, blessedly away. What is so great, so crucial, about lack? Though we pine for relief, nothing kills desire like abundance. (Spoiler alert: should there be an e...2017-03-1959 minOff the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastTodd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are drawn to capitalism because, under an overt promise to bring us what we want, it gives us what we need: lack.Every commodity disappoints. And that’s the point.Satisfaction, that moment when all is well and good, flutters rapidly, blessedly away. What is so great, so crucial, about lack? Though we pine for relief, nothing kills desire like abundance. (Spoiler alert: should there be an e...2017-03-1959 min