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Death Drive Radio
by Nicholas Tolliver and Tyler Mraz
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Episodes
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From Cop to Colony: The Imperial Boomerang
For Césaire, fascism began with colonialism. He argued that the horrors of Nazism are a reflection of European colonial empires and their violence. This relationship between periphery and center continues today where the violence of the empire always returns like a boomerang. This video examines...
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The Autistic Subject - An Interview with Dr. Leon S. Brenner
In this episode we have on Dr. Leon S Brenner to discuss his book, The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language. Through the lens of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Brenner presents autism as a "mode of being", occupying its own linguistic structure alongside the neurotic and the...
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Interview with Dr. Derek Hook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology
What explains the "madness" of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class? Any serious analysis of Race must take into account its contradictory, libidinal, and bodily aspects (in addition to discursive and economic...
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The Death Drive: An Introduction from Freud to Lacan
In this episode we offer an introduction to the Death Drive, starting from Freud's coining of the term, Lacan's contribution to the idea, and ending with its effects on society. The Death Drive is a fundamental psychoanalytic concept that informs so much of our worldview, how lack and excess...
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Interview with Gerald Horne: Settler Colonialism and its Vicissitudes
In this episode, we’ve invited Dr. Gerald Horne to speak about how the violent domination and exploitation of our colonial past impacts our politics and culture today. Through a discussion of whiteness, colonial history, and capitalist exploitation, we highlight the connections between the 15th...
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Interview with Harsha Walia on Borders: How Capitalism Divides and Dominates
In this video we have on Harsha Walia, renown Author, Activist, and Scholar to discuss pertinent issues regarding immigration, borders, and imperialism. Harsha has dedicated her studies and activism to justice for migrants and displaced peoples across the globe. In this interview, she offers...
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Commodity Fetishism: An Introduction
Using Marx's concept, Commodity Fetishism, we aim to answer these questions: Why are we increasingly isolated from each other, only able to relate through markets, objects? Why is production so disconnected from human needs despite our immense production capacity? What is the true cost of...
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Biopolitics & Biopower: An Introduction
Our second video on Michel Foucault offers an overview of Michel Foucault's Biopower and Biopolitics. We discuss how, with the rise of capitalism and the state, Biopolitics is employed to control and manage populations. We outline a genealogy of Biopolitics from slavery, settler colonialism,...
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Killing the Congo: Understanding the Conflict in the Eastern Congo
In this video, we provide an overview of the current conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We begin with the historical development of the Congolese State and the institutionalization of graft and corruption. We analyze the far-reaching consequences of colonialism and...
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Vijay Prashad - Hyperimperialism, Palestine, NATO, and the Election of Donald Trump
In this video, we speak to Vijay Prashad about the changing material conditions of contemporary imperialism. Vijay sheds light on a number of topics, including Palestine, Donald Trump, NATO, and Ukraine, elaborating on his theory of Hyperimperialism to help us better understand the political...
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Body Without Organs
This is a brief introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s notoriously fuzzy concept, the Body Without Organs. We first discuss D&G's unique version of materialism founded on desire and reproduction. We then outline what the Body without Organs is not: Organism, Signification, and Subjectification.…
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and Societies of Control [PART TWO]
In this video, we will challenge Deleuze and Guattari's theories of Schizophrenia and the Body without Organs using Baudrillard theories of hyperreality and the code to cultivate a better understanding of the system that David occupies in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. We highlight how cybernetic...
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Deleuze, Cyborgs, and Schizophrenia [PART ONE]
The anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022), directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and the broader Cyberpunk universe, created by Mike Pondsmith, is a prime specimen of the cyberpunk genre. Paying close attention to David, the protagonist, we use Cyberpunk to synthesize the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and...
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Interview with Silvia Federici: Witch-Hunting, Patriarchy, and Capitalism
If you want to understand how witch-hunting and patriarchy contribute to the stratification and repression of the working class, listen to this interview where we speak with feminist historian and philosopher, Silvia Federici, focusing on her book, Caliban and The Witch. Her work focuses on...
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Interview with Alenka Zupancic: Ontology of Sex
In this interview, we speak with feminist philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist, Alenka Zupančič, focusing on important ideas from her book, What is Sex? Zupančič theorizes about sexual difference and the social construction of sex using the Lacanian psychoanalytic lens to highlight the…
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Interview with Slavoj Zizek: Death Drive and Dialectics
With Death Drive and Dialectics as our starting point, Zizek takes us on a journey through Hegel, Lacan, Ideology, US Politics, Climate Change, the failures of liberal democracy, leftist politics, data capitalism, neoliberalism, fascism, sexuality and so much more, in classic Zizek fashion
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Objet a: Desire in the Age of Capitalism
In this video we discuss one of Lacan's most significant contributions to psychoanalysis and the study of ideology: Objet a. Objet a, or the Object Cause of Desire, forces us to rethink the formal status of desire not only as it pertains to our personal lives, but also to those systems of control...
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Interview With Todd McGowan: The Enjoyment of Politics
In this video, we bring on Professor Todd McGowan, Host of Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley, and author of many excellent books, including his most recent one: Enjoyment Right and Left. During the interview, we discuss his new book and theorize with Professor McGowan on contemporary US…
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Dialectics: Hegel's Contribution to Leftist Philosophy
In this video, we discuss Hegel’s philosophy of dialectics, common misconceptions, and how Hegel’s dialectic can help leftists systemically critique ideology and power. If you learn one thing from this fucking video it is that dialectics is not thesis, antithesis, and synthesis!!!!!
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The Unconscious
Part of our series on psychoanalytic concepts, this video outlines the basics of the unconscious, briefly examining Freud and Lacan's contributions to its definition. Short, but sweet.
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Kant, Sade, Batman, and the Joker: Ethics of the Void
Theses: Pure Good and Pure Evil are, in a sense, interchangeable. The "Law" needs its violation as much as the violation needs the "Law". The usual, dualistic interpretation (Good and Evil) sees Batman and the Joker (Kant and Sade) as opposites whose ethical incompatibility brings them into...
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Trump and Hyperreality: Circuits of Fantasy
We recording this during Trump's first term in office intrigued by Trump's immunity to the vicissitudes of scandal and unsatisfied with the liberal "Trump Bad" critique. While in ways out of date, our analysis still contains plenty of insights into the hyperreal political machine that created and...
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A Genealogy of Policing: Why the Police Can't Be Reformed
Our first video with visuals! Sit down, get some popcorn, and watch this feature-length deep dive into US history that lays out the essential function of policing: To Serve and Protect Property. In this video, we critique police reform from an abolitionist standpoint using a critical history of…
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Deleuze, Societies of Control, and WALL-E
In this video, we contextualize some of Gilles Deleuze’s most important ideas from “Postscripts on the Societies of Control”: Financialization, Corporatization, Digitalization, Consumerism, and the Internet. Thirty years have passed since its publication, yet its predictions and insights remain...
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The George Floyd Protests, Looting and Slavoj Zizek's "Violence"
What is the looting of a store compared to generations of corporate plunder and systemic looting brought to bear on black communities? Slavoj Zizek's Violence is a lesson in framing and the reactionary moralization that relies on poor framing. In this video, we use Slavoj Zizek’s book Violence to...
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Foucault's Philosophy | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The taker of many a undergrad's Critical Theory virginity, Michel Foucault has armed countless sons and daughters with the intellectual alibi needed to be all the more insufferable at Thanksgiving. Jokes aside, reading Foucault and understanding his definition of power, its history, relations…
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Theorizing With Althusser: A Guide To Understanding Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses
Behold! The first video we ever shared. No visuals. No edits. Audio that sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a well. Still great content and it only gets better. We analyze Luis Althusser’s magnum opus, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, giving biographical and philosophical...
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