"Civilized" Sexual Morality
In this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their Freud series to explore an under-read 1908 essay, "'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Modern Ner...
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REUPLOAD BECAUSE HALF THE EPISODE WAS MISSING: In this early release episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Alejandro González Iñárritu's recent fil...
Future of an Illusion
On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's Future of an Illusion , a text that would become overshadowed by his subsequent publication,...
Neo Noir
On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their film genre series to discuss the neo noir . As opposed to the classic noir period, which is n...
Divine Violence
On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the notion of divine violence. The conversation draws principally on an encounter staged between the...
Wretched of the Earth
On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Frantz Fanon duology by talking about his final completed work, Wretched of the Earth. The epi...
Black Skin, White Masks
On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Frantz Fanon's decolonial classic, Black Skin, White Masks . The hosts work through the conversation...
Adaptations
On this episode, Ryan and Todd theorize the adaptation as a form of film. The episode takes its point of departure the continuing conversati...
The Odyssey
On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Christopher Nolan's recent film. The conversation begins with Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyss...
Theorizing the World Cup
On this episode, Ryan & Todd theorize the World Cup as a public event that enables the non-expert to see complex theoretical notions, such a...
What Is Literature? (Literature and Existentialism)
On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Sartre inflected trifecta of episodes by engaging his 1947 essay series What Is Literature? Th...
Michael Clayton
On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover writer-director Tony Gilroy's 2007 political thriller masterpiece, Michael Clayton . The hosts weave in...
Existentialism Is A Humanism
On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Jean-Paul Sartre's 1945 lecture titled "Existentialism is a Humanism." In it, Sartre answers criticis...
Impossible Professions
On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's idea of the "impossible professions." First articulated in 1925, Freud is drawn to the idea t...
Avarice
Following up some of the discussion points introduced in the previous episode on Ambition, this episode takes a stab at the deadly sin of Av...
Ambition
On this episode, Ryan and Todd tackle the fading specter of ambition as a tragic or negative quality. Far from being a minor rhetorical or s...
Transcendental Analytic (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)
On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to discuss the Transcendental Analytic section of the text. Topics i...
Rob Reiner: An Overview
On this episode, Ryan and Todd take a short break from their Kant Odyssey to discuss one of the podcast's most admired filmmakers: Rob Reine...
Transcendental Deduction (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)
On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the next major idea in Kant's first critique: the transcendental deduction. While explicating the traje...
Transcendental Aesthetic (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)
On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant and discuss the Transcendental Aesthetic from his Critique of Pure Reason. The hosts work thro...