Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This week we have another interview with the brilliant Adrian Johnston.

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We’re talking Adrian’s Munich paper on Quantum History, why Hegel was never a determinist, the open past, Benjamin’s angel of history, technofeudalism vs. the labour theory of value, Dupuy’s enlightened catastrophism, and why history is NOT on our side!

Are we left to choose between a parallactic apple and orange where Žižek picks the apple: quantum physics and mysticism, and Adrian picks the orange: biology and a secular materialism?

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Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This is another PATREON EPISODE in our ongoing series on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought & we’re taking a look at Adrian Johnston’s critique of Slavoj Žižek.

Can you have a materialism without matter? Does a genuine dialectical materialism need a detour through theology and the mystical "Night of the World"? What happens when you try to ground the emergence of subjectivity in the bizarre realities of quantum physics?

Along the way we get into the transcendental ontological parallax, Lenin’s Materialism and Empiriocriticism, the crisis of the disappearing electron, Penrose's microtubules, and why kicking away the theological ladder might be harder than it looks.

Up next we move from the quantum void to the delegation of enjoyment with Robert Pfaller on Interpassivity.

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Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. As part of our ongoing series on the systematic aspects of Žižek’s thought we are once again talking to the brilliant Adrian Johnston.

We’re talking RoboMarx, AI and the general intellect, why the coming age of leisure is a dangerous myth…and how the technofeudal hypothesis is not pessimistic enough!

Do we need some Cyber Leninism? What is the duty of a public intellectual? What comes after Slavoj Žižek?

PART TWO will be out next on PATREON.

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