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Oct 22	#195	#187
Oct 21	—	#196
Oct 14	—	#196

Latest episodes

Iñárritu's Digger

October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

REUPLOAD BECAUSE HALF THE EPISODE WAS MISSING: In this early release episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Alejandro González Iñárritu's recent film Digger. Widely panned upon its release a couple of weeks ago--though seemingly embraced by…
Future of an Illusion

October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's Future of an Illusion, a text that would become overshadowed by his subsequent publication, Civilization and Its Discontents. The hosts discuss the relationship between the two texts--paying…
Neo Noir

September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their film genre series to discuss the neo noir. As opposed to the classic noir period, which is named retroactively by French film critics (1941-1958), neo noir films were aware of how they fit…
Divine Violence

September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the notion of divine violence. The conversation draws principally on an encounter staged between the term's evocation in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay, "Toward a Critique of Violence" and the term's…
Wretched of the Earth

August 30, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Frantz Fanon duology by talking about his final completed work, Wretched of the Earth. The episode focuses on Fanon's "stretching" of both Marxism and psychoanalysis to ground his unique…

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Black Skin, White Masks

August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Frantz Fanon's decolonial classic, Black Skin, White Masks. The hosts work through the conversation surrounding his credentials as a psychoanalyst, his engagement with Freud, Lacan, Octave Mannoni…
Adaptations

August 2, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd theorize the adaptation as a form of film. The episode takes its point of departure the continuing conversation over Nolan's Odyssey. Film adaptations, according to the hosts, must represent an intervention…
The Odyssey

July 19, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Christopher Nolan's recent film. The conversation begins with Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey that Nolan consulted and adapted to the screen. Much of the conversation is focused on teasing…
Theorizing the World Cup

July 6, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

On this episode, Ryan & Todd theorize the World Cup as a public event that enables the non-expert to see complex theoretical notions, such as Alain Badiou's conceptualization of the event and Jean-Paul Sartre's idea of self-transcendence…
What Is Literature? (Literature and Existentialism)

June 21, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Sartre inflected trifecta of episodes by engaging his 1947 essay series What Is Literature? The hosts begin by talking about how much Sartre's method has meant to them respectively before…
Michael Clayton

June 7, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover writer-director Tony Gilroy's 2007 political thriller masterpiece, Michael Clayton. The hosts weave in Sartre's notion of committing oneself to a project from the previous episode and work through the…
Existentialism Is A Humanism

May 24, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Jean-Paul Sartre's 1945 lecture titled "Existentialism is a Humanism." In it, Sartre answers criticism that existentialism has received from lay people, concerned Christians, and Marxists, and…