Ecrits: Lacan's Dialectic of Desire
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Woody and Lana try to make sense of "The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious" (a famously hard reading) from Lacan's Ecrits (a famously hard book). Freud, Hegel, Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Psychoanalysis, Structural Linguistics, Structuralism, Russian Formalism, metaphor, metonymy, The Interpretation of Dreams Get extra episodes on Patreon: Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin
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Trump and Dump
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In a special bonus episode Woody sits down with a friend who didn’t want to use his real name because of his “job” or something (coward). This is a deep dive into President Deals himself, Donald J Trump. How’d he get in, what does he mean for America, and where are we going from here? You should probably play Green Day’s Time of Your Life while you listen to this one for the vibes - I wanted to put it in but I didn’t want to pay licensing fees.
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Not An Adam Curtis Interview
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Woody and Lana chat about the new doc, individualism vs. collectivism, and why even Adam Curtis has bad China takes. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Lacan, China Get extra episodes on Patreon: Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin
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[1] Propaganda *TEASER*
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In this first episode of her new investigative series “Balkanizing China,” Lana explores how propaganda works in a liberal democracy. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Patreon: Eddie Bernays, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, the Gulf War, Uyghur genocide, communism, democracy, liberalism, United Fruit, CIA, foreign intervention, coup, Guatemala, Iran, public relations, New York Times, TikTok, CSIS, Adrien Zenz, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, mass media, public interest, expert testimony, victim testimony, atrocity propaganda, “believe science,” NED,...
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Baudrillard vs. Biden's Reality Czar
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A close reading of the NYT article "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis," which can be read here: Patreon: Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Email: Theme song by Sun Kin
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The Politics of Logging Off
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We read Jodi Dean's "Communicative Capitalism" and discuss the politics of logging off. (Zizek, psychoanalysis, technofetishism, interpassivity, depoliticization) Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Patreon: Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin
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COUP LET THE DOGS OUT
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Woody and Lana talk psychoanalysis and fantasies of coup and civil war surrounding the election. Lacan, jouissance, fantasy structure, election, Trump, liberalism Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Patreon: Twitter: Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin
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SOVEREIGN CITIZENS (they rule)
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Sovereign citizens (an oxymoron), the only cool libertarians (another oxymoron). We discuss libertarianism, anarchism, sovereign citizens (freemen), tax protesters, the redemption movement, identity, paper terrorism, financial schemes, legal grifting, QAnon, the FBI, CPS, and so on. Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Patreon: Twitter: Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin
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The Work of Art in the Age of Lil Miquela
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This week we talk theory and virtual influencers. Who is Lil Miquela? What's her relation to capital? Why are tech bros obsessed with authenticity? How can performance studies and Teri Silvio's animation theory help us unpack the simulation? And what would Walter Benjamin have to say about all this? Theme song by Sun Kin Email us: [email protected]
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PILLED TO THE GILLS
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We're back, and we're pilled!
info_outlineThis week Black educator, artist, and revolutionary Aminah joins Woody & Lana to talk COINTELPRO and Gilles Deleuze’s famous essay Postscript on the Societies of Control.
We get into COINTELPRO’s history, mission, and tactics. We talk specifically about how the FBI took down the Black Panthers from the inside out and how the noble party, which started the Free Breakfast for Children Program (just one of 60 important social programs they championed) is still suffering the effects of the covert FBI takedown.
Then we read through Deleuze’s short essay on Societies of Control, providing commentary on the essay’s increasing relevance and its applicability to the FBI’s covert intelligence operations. Fluent French speaker Aminah elucidates portions of the essay which are lost in the English translation.
Correction to Lana’s comment on the origin of policing in the United States: policing in the South started during the antebellum period in the form of slave patrols, whose job was to catch runaway slaves and discipline defiant slaves.
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Link to film “The FBI’s War on Black America”: https://youtu.be/LYbxsXBYyk0
Link to “Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze: https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
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Listen to Aminah’s music on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aminah-jahad-raysor
Follow Aminah on IG: www.instagram.com/m.c._dreaminah
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