Name: Seminar 11 by Why Theory
Duration: 1 h 26 min 40 s
Description: Ryan and Todd unpack Jacques Lacan's most well-known seminar--Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. In doing so, they focus on Lacan's own exclusion as a starting point and then delve into two concepts that Lacan does not list among the fundamental ones--subjectivity and the objet a.

Is the obvious difficulty in formulating Ryan's (I mean that descriptively, not pejoratively) thoughts around something difficult and threatening to talk about a kind of invasion of The Real? I appreciate Ryan's self-authorization in trying to speak freely.

Here in Australia I have no exposure to the other crimes of AMC, but the great justice of their Roadside Picnic adaptation never getting made is very sweet. The trailer looked like utter garbage. don't fuck with the Strugatskies

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Performance about intensive duck farming. 
Drums : Pavel Matela

Hrůzafest 2023
Miřenice CZ

Situations - Kachna

Ryan and Todd explore the idea of surplus enjoyment as the basis for a theory of capitalism. They consider the psychic hold that capitalism has in terms of the surplus enjoyment that it both promises and provides.

Surplus Enjoyment

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"Cat's Flux" from ROKURE007 - Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones)

(Gallego) 
O vento, coma os soños, disipa os nosas néboas soterradas
Leva as nosas pedras ennegrecidas, rechinando de pena.
O lóstrego fragmentaos e esnaquízaos. Para que a terra poida voltar a dixerilos.
Durante unha noite o raposa aconsella antes de que se pechen as portas dos soños.

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(fr)
Le vent, comme les rêves, chasse nos brumes enfouies
Charrie nos cailloux noircis, grinçant de chagrin.
Le tonnerre les fragmente et les égrène. 
Pour que la terre les digère à nouveau. 
Le temps d'une nuit la renarde avise et conseille avant que la porte des songes ne se referme.

Raposa

Ryan and Todd interpret David Lynch's Blue Velvet by paying special attention to the Kantian dimension of the film. They consider the film in terms of the thing-in-itself and the sublime.

Blue Velvet

Ryan and Todd continue their exploration of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with the Introduction. They discuss the importance of his critique of dogmatic metaphysics and the incredible discovery of the synthetic a priori judgment.

Ryan's sports article: https://link.springer.com/journal/41282/online-first

Critique Of Pure Reason -- Introduction

Bassfour

Ryan and Todd unpack Jacques Lacan's most well-known seminar--Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. In doing so, they focus on Lacan's own exclusion as a starting point and then delve into two concepts that Lacan does not list among the fundamental ones--subjectivity and the objet a.

Seminar 11

Ryan and Todd analyze Slavoj Zizek's contribution in what may be his magnum opus--The Parallax View. They discuss how he builds on the concept of parallax as originally articulated by Kojin Karatani and its implication for Zizek's understanding of politics.

Parallax View

Why Theory brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomena.

Seminar 11

Why Theory

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