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Theory Underground aims to make challenging philosophical and theoretical work accessible, not by summarizing, but by aiding those who seek to engage in this work as a way of life. Keep up with everything at theoryunderground.com

Episode Date
Post-Bernie Pluralism and Evil | LACK podcast visits TU - Nina Power and Benjamin Studebaker
May 02, 2024
Theory Underground: AMERICAN IDIOTS EUROPEAN TOUR
Apr 30, 2024
"There's a lot of rot." Ashley Frawley on Sociology, James Lindsay, Trucker Protests, and Freedom
Apr 26, 2024
Slavoj Zizek on The Event and the Metacrisis - accepts Nick Land debate challenge!
Apr 22, 2024
Theory Underground's AMERICAN IDIOTS - EU TOUR organizer/participant call-in
Apr 18, 2024
Announcing the Intro to Ivan Illich course at Theory Underground - June 2024!
Apr 17, 2024
James Ellis of Hermitix on Nick Land, Philosophy and The Occult, and Zero Accelerationism
Apr 16, 2024
Doug Lain on "the Left" and why Russel Brand, Matt Taibbi, and Glenn Greenwald matter
Apr 11, 2024
Universal vs. "Class" politics + What IS "conservative"? with Christine Louis-Dit-Sully
Apr 10, 2024
Original CCRU member's new media theory - Anna Greenspan on Wave Theory, Megacities, and China!
Apr 08, 2024
What we're all about | M-C-M^ vs C-M-C^ | Timenergy vs Energy-time | Schedules vs. Free-binging
Apr 06, 2024
Sahil lecture 2 on Das Kapital - Volume One - Chapter 1/2| M-C-M^ vs. C-M-T3^
Apr 06, 2024
Justin Murphy on Nick Land, Catholic Accelerationism, and The Future
Apr 05, 2024
Deleuze vs. Hegel & Heidegger, Death, & A Thousand Plateaus w Dr. Brent Adkins on Gilles' birthday!
Apr 02, 2024
Estranged Labor AKA Alienated Labor, Marx's 1844 Manuscripts pt.1 and Timenergy | M-C-M^ vs. C-M-C^
Mar 31, 2024
Deleuze's IRL Student Tells ALL | Plus Learning French with Terence Blake
Mar 28, 2024
Das Kapital - Volume One - Chapter One | M-C-M^ vs. C-M-C^
Mar 27, 2024
In defense of stories and happy endings! Jela Krečič talks realism and film at Theory Underground
Mar 25, 2024
Leibniz and Marx, interpretation and reading, capital vs. timenergy, geometry vs. algebra! Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose!!!!
Mar 20, 2024
Jacques Lacan vs. Gilles Deleuze with Todd McGowan, Michael Downs, Dave and Nance at Theory Underground
Mar 18, 2024
Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!
Mar 18, 2024
You won't want to miss this lecture | Intro to CMT at Theory Underground | Snelgrove-McKerracher
Mar 13, 2024
The Liberal Arts vs. The Neoliberal University, or Scholē vs. Schooling and Timenergy Theory for normies - The Snelgrove McKerracher synthesis
Mar 08, 2024
Anna Kornbluh on Immediacy Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024)
Mar 06, 2024
Alenka Zupančič on The Ljubljana School, Sex, Repression, and Freud / Lacan / psychoanalysis
Mar 01, 2024
Leon Brenner on The History of Autism Theories
Jan 02, 2024
THE THEORY SCENE | Logic for the Global Brain PP Conference presentation
Nov 01, 2023
Intro to Nick Land LECTURE 1 - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari etc.
Oct 29, 2023
Everything is Broken / I need a Break (WEBSITE DOWN!)
Oct 18, 2023
Theory Underground at The McLuhan Institute with Andrew McLuhan - on Critical Media Theory
Oct 01, 2023
Dave and Mikey interview Slavoj Žižek! for the Theory Underground book launch + Elton and Bryan
Sep 08, 2023
Intentionality in Brentano, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, and Lacan | Ft. Brian Becker
Jul 14, 2023
KILLING OURSELVES WITH TEXTS | Ft. Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
Jul 02, 2023
Cellphone addiction, McLuhan, and more! Cadell Last interviews us on CMT [Philosophy Portal Mirror]
Jun 29, 2023
The Cultural Revolution and The Left | Tony of 1Dime
Jun 13, 2023
Healing vs. Therapism, Class, Religion, and Heidegger with Samuel Loncar
Jun 09, 2023
Both sides are wrong about Heidegger’s Nazism
May 31, 2023
Annsplaining Digital Literacy - Ann’s debut solo stream
May 26, 2023
Heidegger on the 3 major discoveries of phenomenology, and his radical critique of Husserl
May 25, 2023
Heidegger vs. Traditional Philosophy of Science
May 09, 2023
Young Žižekians talk Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? with Cadell Last
May 07, 2023
The CONCLUSION of Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? - Dave with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
May 05, 2023
The Introduction of Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? - Dave with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
Apr 30, 2023
Todd McGowan on Michael Downs AKA The Dangerous Maybe #FreeMikey
Apr 28, 2023
Three Reasons we’re reading Being and Time this Summer | Nick Castellucci of the Vanishing Mediators
Apr 24, 2023
Self-phone addiction, philosophy of technology, McLuhan, Heidegger, and the announcement of a new course!
Apr 11, 2023
Week 12 Theory Underground update - Announcing Digital Literacy & Critical Media Theory
Mar 27, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101 Bartleby the enjoyment of scapegoating - D&M S2e21
Mar 22, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101 The Politics of Enjoyment and Timenergy as a Universal Lack - D&M S2e20
Mar 20, 2023
Unveiling by Alenka Zupančič’s ”What is Sex?” COURSE- with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
Mar 18, 2023
Week 9 - Dave is done for + ”the discourse”
Mar 06, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Jouissance and BBQ | S1:ep19
Mar 06, 2023
Week 8 In Review - Vaush (and others) calling Žižek transphobic + FTKNWTD course launches
Feb 27, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Blue Collar Anti-PC ”Inherent transgression” Jouissance in the workplace | D&M S2:e18
Feb 24, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: The theft of enjoyment, Das Ding, and Scapegoating | D&M S2:e17
Feb 24, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Universality, Commodity Fetishization, Aliens and Project Blue Beam | D&M S2:e16
Feb 24, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Dialectical Antagonism and Contradiction vs. Opposition | D&M S2:e15
Feb 23, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: PSA Against Lurk Culture + McGowan vs. Žižek on Universality . | D&M S2:e14
Feb 23, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: The homology between Freud’s Dream and Marx’s Commodity | D&M S2:e13
Feb 21, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Transposing inherent systemic deadlocks onto a supposed outside object or other | D&M S2:e12
Feb 21, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: How to satisfy the other? Ideology has the easy solution... | D&M S2:e11
Feb 20, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: How Slavoj forever changed Ideology Critique | D&M S2:e10
Feb 20, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: The function of LAW (protect me from the other’s enjoyment) | D&M S2:e09
Feb 20, 2023
Week 7 In Review + IN DEFENSE OF LECTURES
Feb 20, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: ”LOVE YOURSELF” the Superegoic Injunction to Enjoy (Kat from Euphoria example) | D&M S2:e08
Feb 20, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: The Function of Ideology and The big Other vs. the superego | D&M S2:e07
Feb 19, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Lacanian theory applied to thinking about social change | D&M S2:e06
Feb 19, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: The role of prohibition in socialization + The importance of Todd McGowan | D&M S2:e05
Feb 19, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Inherent Transgression and Activism Today | D&M S2:e04
Feb 19, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: The Sublime Object/Jouissance/Real of Ideology | D&M S2:e03
Feb 18, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Jouissance, death drive, and social change | D&M S2:e02
Feb 18, 2023
ŽIŽEK 101: Chomsky’s Error and The Fichtean Anstoss | D&M S2:e01
Feb 18, 2023
LACAN 101: DRIVE vs. DESIRE | D&M S1:E20
Feb 17, 2023
LACAN 101: Key Žižek passages on Death Drive | D&M S1:E19
Feb 17, 2023
LACAN 101: Death drive throughout Lacan’s career | D&M S1:e18
Feb 17, 2023
LACAN 101: Social change and death drive | D&M S1:e17
Feb 17, 2023
LACAN 101: Death drive can be good too | D&M S1:e16
Feb 16, 2023
LACAN 101: Trump and death drive | D&M S1:e15
Feb 16, 2023
LACAN 101: ”We” really want Jouissance over Pleasure | D&M S1:e14
Feb 16, 2023
LACAN 101: DEATH DRIVE | D&M S1:e13
Feb 16, 2023
LACAN 101: Traversing the Fantasy | D&M S1:e12
Feb 15, 2023
LACAN 101: Scapegoating and Jouissance | D&M S1:e11
Feb 15, 2023
WEEK 6 IN REVIEW | Hannah Arendt on Karl Jaspers + An update on the living situation in Mexico
Feb 15, 2023
LACAN 101: Fundamental Fantasy and Ideology | D&M S1:e10
Feb 15, 2023
Todd McGowan - Why the Left needs Theory - Identity Politics, Universality, and Enjoyment Right and Left
Feb 15, 2023
WEEK 5 IN REVIEW | Complications in Mexico + Men in Dark Times preface (Arendt / Jaspers)
Feb 04, 2023
WEEK 4 IN REVIEW - A short one!
Jan 31, 2023
PMC Lectures 1: How progressives tried to save capitalism by dividing the working class
Jan 26, 2023
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Fear of Falling - PMC course essential (assisted) reading Week 1 excerpt 2
Jan 26, 2023
Thomas Frank’s Listen, Liberal - PMC course essential (assisted) reading Week 1 excerpt 1
Jan 25, 2023
WEEK 3 IN REVIEW - Dirtbags and Woke PMCs both miss the point
Jan 23, 2023
Week 2 In Review (Theory Underground Community Update)
Jan 20, 2023
The Idea of the University 1
Jan 20, 2023
LACAN 101: Fantasy, jouissance, and prohibition
Jan 16, 2023
LACAN 101: Need, demand, and desire
Jan 15, 2023
LACAN 101: Holistic Ego vs. Barred Subject
Jan 14, 2023
Why PMC critique matters
Jan 13, 2023
LACAN 101: The Unconscious + Mikey speed runs everything so far
Jan 13, 2023
Intro to Karl Jaspers’ positive critique of the University!
Jan 12, 2023
LACAN 101: Lack, objet petit a, jouissance
Jan 12, 2023