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Trash Talks
by Trash Talks
Two friends read theory, crack jokes, and analyze what they find in the trash can of ideology. Get bonuses & companion content at https://www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy
Episodes
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Ecrits: Lacan's Dialectic of Desire
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...
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Trump and Dump
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...
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Not An Adam Curtis Interview
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: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Email:...
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[1] Propaganda *TEASER*
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: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Eddie Bernays, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, the Gulf War, Uyghur genocide,...
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Baudrillard vs. Biden's Reality Czar
A close reading of the NYT article "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis," which can be read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/biden-reality-crisis-misinformation.html Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Email:...
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The Politics of Logging Off
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: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin...
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COUP LET THE DOGS OUT
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: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Twitter: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod Email:...
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SOVEREIGN CITIZENS (they rule)
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…
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The Work of Art in the Age of Lil Miquela
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...
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PILLED TO THE GILLS
We're back, and we're pilled! Watch the livestream: Trash Talks on Youtube Get more content on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Tweet at us: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod Email us: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83
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EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME: Faciality
Friend of the show Dr. Elizabeth Vasileva is back to talk through plateau lucky number 7, 'Year Zero: Faciality.' What is Deleuze and Guatarri's concept of the face and how can it help us understand racism? We also get into some good stuff identity and the Body without Organs. Lots of laughs…
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AN EXPERT EXPLAINS DELEUZE TO US
Finally! Dr. Elizabeth Vasileva, who wrote her dissertation on Deleuze and Anarchist Ethics, explains some basic concepts to us. We talk Difference and Repetition, metaphysics, machines, becoming, and more. Read Dr. Vasileva's work on Deleuze and Anarchism here:...
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COINTELPRO & SOCIETIES OF CONTROL w/Aminah
This 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…
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EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME: On Several Regimes of Signs
This week, Lana & Woody discuss "587 BC- AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs" from A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari. Topics: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Guattari erasure, semiotics, Saussure, CS Peirce, Anti-Oedipus, signifier, signified, signifying regime, post-signifying regime,...
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REOPEN AMERICA !
What are these wacky lockdown protests all about? Why do people love Trump and hate masks? What IS the price of freedom? We do a deep dive into the discourse and talk castration, jouissance, ideology, astroturfing, faciality, and the figure of the debtor-addict. Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari,...
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EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME: Rhizome
"The two of us recorded this podcast together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. There is no ideal speaker-listener, only us, your multiplicitous podcast hosts, and you, the actual listener—we form an assemblage, we are machines, plugged into machines, machines are...
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The Culture Industry
Adorno and who-heimer? The Frankfurt what-now? Your favorite podcasters (Lana & Woody) are back to discuss the Culture Industry chapter of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment. What is the entertainment industry? Whose interests are being served? What is mass culture? I don't know,...
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QUARANTINED w/Katy in Bali
New Trash Talks series QUARANTINED wherein Lana speaks to friends around the world about their experiences with COVID-19 / Coronavirus / SARS 2.0 and quarantine. In this episode, Lana chats with Shanghai-based American Katy about the origins, spread, and threat of the virus; shut-in / livestream...
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Love in the Time of Coronavirus
In the wake of Super Lame Tuesday and the looming pandemic, Lana calls up Woody for some friendly and uplifting theory talk. The two discuss the symptoms and spread of the Coronavirus, what love means in times like this, why neoliberalism is the real killer, and most importantly, how to keep hope...
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Clown 101 with Dean Evans
This week Lana and Woodrow sit down with the world renowned clown, mime, and generally cool guy Dean Evans for our first ever interview! Clowns; you mean them guys with the crazy hair and the big shoes? No (you fool, you oaf) we mean a different, much cooler thing. Something that's both a style…
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WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY: The Joker vs. Erving Goffman
Did I ever tell you how I got these scars? Oh, that's a different movie? Ok yea we knew that. Using the power of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Erving Goffman's social theory, and their big ol' brains, Lana and Woody figure out what this movie "The Joker" is really about. Spoiler alert: it's not...
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Hijacked by Hegel
An episode without a theme? How delightfully droll! How will our heroes fill an hour when they have nothing prepared but their own genius minds? Would you believe it's mostly by talking about some dead white guy? Because yea this episode accidentally got hijacked by-- What is the spirit of…
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Sucking on the Teet of Capital
Imagine a world where everything your body needs is pumped into your mouth paste form by some sort of Amazon drone. Wow! You could really get a lot of work done with all your extra time. In a follow up to "An Amazing Opportunity!: MLMs, Capitalism, & Religion"—we use the anthropology of food and...
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An Amazing Opportunity!: MLMs, Capitalism, & Religion
It's me: someone you went to high school with whose life has taken some TURNS and I want to help you be your own boss! Let me just say right off the. At that this is NOT a scam, once you get 4 to 5 people working under you you will be making real MONEY. Just kidding, it's us. In this ep we look…
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Mediation & Dating *UNLOCKED*
A continuation on our Online Dating episode. Get more content at Patreon.com/TrashTalksAcademy
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Illuminati Secrets Revealed
Is it the globalists? The New World Order? Bilderberg Group? CIA? FBI? No! It's us, Woody and Lana, your beloved Trash Talks hosts, and this week were talking conspiracy theories. Why do we love them and what are they doing to our minds? Bust out your big wall of pictures and get ready to start...
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The Swiping Subject: Online Dating & The Self
This week we crack open some white claws and discuss the following: What kind of self does the dating app assume and construct? What genre is the dating profile? What are the semiotics of your tinder photos? Why do we even use dating apps in the first place? Dating talk starts about 30 minutes…
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#selfcare
Self care: is it good or bad? Would you be surprised to find out the answer is BOTH? Is that not a satisfying answer? Well just listen, we promise we really tease it apart good in this one. Also reality isn't black and white; it's social actually (that's in the episode too). Pour a glass of…
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Think and Grow Rich, Bitch
What would Lacan say about anime profile pictures? Why do we engage in self-help? Is self-help a neoliberal grift? What are the connections between religion, philosophy, and politics? What is progress fetishism? Hold on to your wallets kids, today we're critiquing self-help.
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More Signs and Stuff
Your last two brain cells discussing Lacan (Part 2 of Semiotics)
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Semiotics 1: The Science of Signs
A shorter work week sounds great. Rules and psychological change. Try a social media diet. DMs are like Walmart anchor sales. Gamer girl bath water. Eggs and other gooey stuff. Exchanging signs of sexuality. Marianne Williamson and Mark Fisher have a lot in common. Mental health & pathologies....
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THEORY
Back with a rebrand. Too much praxis, not enough theory. An Academy outside the Academy. Tour talk. Strippers? Theory. Who cares? Segments. Go off! Critique of the scooter. Critique of astrology. And then we really get into it. Are the humanities a playhouse for the intellectual elite? What can...
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TrASh
One man's trash is another man's treasure? We'll be the judge of that. This week Lana and Hoodrow take a look at a planet covered in trash and ask what it all means (hint: it's our planet; it's Earth). What is trash really? Let's find out. Articles: https://reallifemag.com/trash-life/...
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rEALiTy Tv
Reality TV! What is it? Where does it come from? This week, Lana and Hoodrow overthink the genre America loves to hate. Now please accept this rose or we'll vote your ass off the island. No, I'm not forgetting how that show works, it's pastiche. Articles:...
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Two friends read theory, crack jokes, and analyze what they find in the trash can of ideology. Get bonuses & companion content at https://www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy
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