*THIS EPISODE IS IN ENGLISH*
Johan and Steven had the good fortune of getting philosopher and media theorist Ryan Engley onto the program, joining from California to talk about ‘seriality’ and the _serial_ nature of culture, politics and social communication as such. Can television teach us ways to break out of the ruling ideology? As foundation for this discussion session we delve into Ryan’s essay Psychoanalytic Seriality as Media Theory: From Freud’s Couch to Yours

…which can be read in its entirety here:
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/103108

Please do yourself a favour also and listen to one of the most outstanding podcasts of our times, which Ryan has been making for the last 5 years together with Todd McGowan, called Why Theory
https://soundcloud.com/whytheory

Ryan mentions this article on the current state of binge-watching as well: 
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/12/16/22838792/binge-watching-weekly-tv-netflix-hbo-max-disney-plus

(this episode was recorded in February 2022)

Psychoanalytic Seriality — with Ryan Engley

This is a special Why Theory episode that was recorded live at the Impakt Festival that took place in Utrecht, Netherlands. Ryan and Todd discuss the theme of the festival--"the curse of smooth operations"--in terms of our relationship to technology. They question how technology provides enjoyment for us. 

The introduction ends at 4:53, and the question and answer period starts at 57:48.

Technology

KVANTUM rehearsal takes 2023-01-01
Recorded on Motorola phone

Dr. Emo

A eletrônica sempre manteve um caráter etéreo por sua capacidade de fazer sons e imagens trafegarem invisíveis pelo espaço! 
Está online, mais um álbum de EUMATHEUS ⌨️
https://discoseumatheus.bandcamp.com/album/todos-querem
( Todos querem )
O trigésimo terceiro (33º), com 12 musicas tão vivas quanto as ondas do coração que pulsa por amor! 

01. Conexionismo
02. Prepare-se
03. Todos querem
04. Sem nenhum disfarce
05. 1987 Instante crush
06. Só você vai ver
07. Minha amada synthwave
08. A conquista final
09. Energia que reside
10. A natureza
11. Tempo indeterminado
12. Ascensão

ouça agora mesmo, free download no bandcamp!

A conquista final

Written and performed by Sara Lundén
Drums by Steven Cuzner
Recorded by Tomas Hakava in Aspudden, spring 2007

Le Mans – SARALUNDEN featuring SC

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the possibilities for the marriage of psychoanalysis and existentialism, including the ideas that might render this marriage ultimately untenable. They explore how psychoanalysis and existentialism each provides a critique of the other, touching on Jacques Lacan's critique of Jean-Paul Sartre and Sartre's version of existential psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis and Existentialism

In this episode, Ryan and Todd explore the radicality of Immanuel Kant's notion of freedom, which he ties to our ability to give the moral law to ourselves. This paradox that the law is the source of our freedom serves as the basis for a discussion that touches both Kant's place in the history of philosophy and his relationship to psychoanalysis.

Kant and Freedom

In this episode of a continuing series on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Ryan and Todd go over the three subsection of the Consciousness chapter: sense certainty, perception, and force and understanding. They move from a discussion of Hegel's clarity in sense certainty to his opacity in Force and Understanding. They contend that this last section of Consciousness represents one of the major moments in both Hegel's thought and in all of modern philosophy.

Hegel's Consciousness

Johan och Steven snackar om Walter Benjamins berömda och fortfarande besvärligt relevanta essä "Konstverket i reproduktionsåldern" (1935) — i ett försök att förstå om det är så att fascismen (dvs estetiseringen av politiken) är det vi alla ofrivilligt eller ej hela tiden sysslar med och tar del av. Och i så fall, om det verkligen går att konfrontera detta genom att politisera konsten.

Walter Benjamin!

In this episode, Ryan and Todd chronicle the varied evolution of the concept of jouissance in the thought of Jacques Lacan and offer their idea of the best formulation of this concept. They touch on the key moments, from the association of jouissance with transgression in Seminar VII to the identification of jouissance with the failure of the sexual relationship in Seminar XX.

Jouissance

These uploads are mostly from old collaborations, with my brother, the death metal guitar innovator Leif Cuzner; with my friend, the Norwegian electronic composer Alexander Rishaug; or with my old compadre, minimal wave genious Saralunden. Stuff that has never been published in any other forum, recordings that were important at the time but somehow got buried, surviving only on a single cassette tape, a scrapy cd-r or a dying hard-drive.

Le Mans – SARALUNDEN featuring SC

Steven Cuzner

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