Trash Talks
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTwo friends read theory, crack jokes, and analyze what they find in the trash can of ideology.
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Ecrits: Lacan's Dialectic of Desire
May 14, 2021 22:22 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBWoody 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 Formalism, metaphor, metonymy, The Interpretation of Dreams Get extra episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Email: trashtalkspo...
Trump and Dump
March 20, 2021 23:34 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBIn 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 probably play Green Day’s Time of Your Life while you listen to this one for the vibes - I wanted to put it in but I didn’t want to pay licensing fees.
Not An Adam Curtis Interview
March 11, 2021 19:10 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBWoody 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: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83
[1] Propaganda *TEASER*
March 02, 2021 23:51 - 6 minutes - 4.96 MBIn 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, communism, democracy, liberalism, United Fruit, CIA, foreign intervention, coup, Guatemala, Iran, public relations, New York Times, TikTok, CSIS, Adrien Zenz, Victims of Communism Memorial F...
Baudrillard vs. Biden's Reality Czar
February 12, 2021 22:10 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBA 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: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83
The Politics of Logging Off
January 26, 2021 20:10 - 1 hour - 31.2 MBWe 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 https://spoti.fi/33m0C83
COUP LET THE DOGS OUT
December 15, 2020 21:40 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBWoody 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: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83
SOVEREIGN CITIZENS (they rule)
November 23, 2020 21:56 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBSovereign 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 group: Trash Talks Academy Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Twitter: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83
The Work of Art in the Age of Lil Miquela
November 02, 2020 20:14 - 1 hour - 131 MBThis 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 this? Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83 Email us: [email protected]
PILLED TO THE GILLS
October 15, 2020 02:59 - 1 hour - 116 MBWe'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
EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME: Faciality
July 12, 2020 23:41 - 1 hour - 143 MBFriend 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, lots of info, tons of fun for the whole family! Ok, maybe not the whole family, but the part of the family that wants to learn theory is gonna love it. Read Dr. Vasileva’s work on Deleuze an...
AN EXPERT EXPLAINS DELEUZE TO US
June 25, 2020 00:58 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBFinally! 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: https://anglia.academia.edu/ElizabethVasileva Watch the livestream: Trash Talks on Youtube Get more content on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Tweet at us: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod Emai...
COINTELPRO & SOCIETIES OF CONTROL w/Aminah
June 12, 2020 20:58 - 2 hours - 92.7 MBThis 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 from the inside out and how the noble party, which started the Free Breakfast for Children Program (just one of 60 important social programs they championed) is still suffering the effects of th...
EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME: On Several Regimes of Signs
May 28, 2020 00:50 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBThis 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, faciality, assemblage, line of flight Additional content: www.patreon.com/TrashTalksAcademy Watch the livestream: https://youtu.be/ZB9VBYEPpE8 Tweet @ us: https://twitter.com/trashtalksp...
REOPEN AMERICA !
May 20, 2020 23:02 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBWhat 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, Baudrillard Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83 www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy
EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME: Rhizome
May 06, 2020 19:47 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB“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 plugged into us. Am I getting it right? Of course there is no “I”, but then again we are not trying to reach the point where we no longer say I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance wh...
The Culture Industry
May 01, 2020 23:29 - 1 hour - 136 MBAdorno 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, maybe you listen and find out; I’m not going to tell you everything—I’m just the episode description. Sound-mixing by Olaf Woldan Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83 https://www...
QUARANTINED w/Katy in Bali
March 15, 2020 20:38 - 1 hour - 106 MBNew 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 culture; China’s wild response on social media; civil unrest; and what happens when America’s soft power congeals into hardened sewage. KATY @killerweixin based in China Mainland for 10...
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
March 05, 2020 20:37 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBIn 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 in the face of a much more insidious disease: centrism. Get tickets to Woody’s show: ceaselessfun.com Sound-mixing by Olaf Woldan Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83 ...
SELF-LOVE INSPIRATION (Very motivational edition)
February 14, 2020 23:55 - 1 hour - 106 MBHey kids, we’re back with a highly motivational episode that was originally recorded for the new year. But you know what, shit happens and better late than never, right? Don’t complain. In this episode, Lana and Woody reflect on the past, make wishes for the future, and break down all the components of self-confidence. Skip to 23:50 for the self-help good stuff. Happy Valentine’s Day and don’t forget about the most important Valentine of all—YOU!
Clown 101 with Dean Evans
October 31, 2019 22:04 - 1 hour - 51 MBThis 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 of performance and an archetype that exists in almost every world culture. What do you talk about with a clown? Here’s a search engine tailored list of what we did: Where did clowns com...
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY: The Joker vs. Erving Goffman
October 09, 2019 21:12 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBDid 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 about incels. Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83 Sound mixing by Olaf Woldan More content at patreon.com/TrashTalksAcademy
Hijacked by Hegel
October 04, 2019 21:45 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBAn 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 history? Why are we only free inside the constraint of law? Tune in to hear these extremely complicated concepts explained by two people who have read exactly one chapter of Hegel. Theme song by Sun K...
Sucking on the Teet of Capital
September 27, 2019 22:45 - 1 hour - 116 MBImagine 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 psychoanalysis to discover what’s REALLY in those Herbalife shakes.
An Amazing Opportunity!: MLMs, Capitalism, & Religion
September 19, 2019 20:12 - 1 hour - 179 MBIt’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 at Multi-Level Marketing schemes through the lens of Durkheim’s “Elementary Forms of Religious Life” and discover that capitalism has all the hallmarks of a religion. It’s good stuff, folks. ...
An Amazing Opportunity!: MLMs, Capitalism, & Religion
September 19, 2019 20:12 - 1 hour - 179 MBIt’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 at Multi-Level Marketing schemes through the lens of Durkheim’s “Elementary Forms of Religious Life” and discover that capitalism has all the hallmarks of a religion. It’s good stuff, folks. ...
Mediation & Dating *UNLOCKED*
September 13, 2019 11:41 - 32 minutes - 18.8 MBA continuation on our Online Dating episode. Get more content at Patreon.com/TrashTalksAcademy
Illuminati Secrets Revealed
August 24, 2019 00:12 - 1 hour - 122 MBIs 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 connecting them with strings because we’re gonna bust this whole thing WIDE open. Visit us at patreon.com/trashtalksacademy for additional content
The Swiping Subject: Online Dating & The Self
August 13, 2019 23:52 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBThis 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 in, folks! Oh, and find part 2 on dating apps and mediation in our Patreon: patreon.com/trashtalksacademy
#selfcare
August 08, 2019 23:41 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBSelf 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 water, turn off Netflix and treat yourself to some gotdang discourse, you turkey! You’ll be glad you did. Articles: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-politics-of-selfcare http...
Think and Grow Rich, Bitch
July 31, 2019 18:44 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBWhat 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.
More Signs and Stuff
July 24, 2019 02:14 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBYour last two brain cells discussing Lacan (Part 2 of Semiotics)
Semiotics 1: The Science of Signs
July 17, 2019 22:54 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBA 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. Saussure vs. Peirce. Semiology vs. Semiotics. Signifier vs. Signified. Arbitrary vs. motivated. Parole vs. Langue. Synchrony vs. Diachrony. Icons, indexes, symbols. Firstness, secondness, thirdness. Pa...
THEORY
July 09, 2019 23:27 - 59 minutes - 106 MBBack 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 theory do for me? Science, we’re calling you out. Philosophy, or the art of concept creation. Ideology and its trashcan. Tips & tricks.
FLeXIng
May 15, 2019 20:06 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBFlexing? You call this flexing? All you do is listen to trash talks all day. How bout you get a girlfriend get a job, save your money— come on now that’s flexing. We were big drunk for this one, so buckle up.
TrASh
May 08, 2019 18:03 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBOne 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/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals
rEALiTy Tv
May 01, 2019 07:45 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBReality 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: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/the-reality-principle https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Hearn2/publication/254111729_Confessions_of_a_Radical_Eclectic_Reality_Television_Self-Branding_Social_Media_and_Autonom...
pErSonAL bRaNdS
April 25, 2019 23:01 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBThis week, Lana and Hoodrow do a deep dive into *Personal Brands* and learn a thing or two about authenticity, neoliberalism, and Zen Buddhism. Names dropped: Hume, Baudrillard, Foucault, Weber, William F Hanks, Ilana Gershon, AOC, Beto, Trump Articles: www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecas…ver/#548804bd2408 www.forbes.com/sites/soulaimagou…you/#24e812e2582b www.forbes.com/sites/goldiechan/…ing/#79981dac58a7 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/…8/hau6.3.017