Why Theory

On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their film genre series to discuss the neo noir. ... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the notion of divine violence. The conversation dra... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Frantz Fanon duology by talking about his fi... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Frantz Fanon's decolonial classic, Black Skin, ... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd theorize the adaptation as a form of film. The episode take... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Christopher Nolan's recent film. The conversati... more

On this episode, Ryan & Todd theorize the World Cup as a public event that enables the non... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Sartre inflected trifecta of episodes by eng... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover writer-director Tony Gilroy's 2007 political thri... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Jean-Paul Sartre's 1945 lecture titled "Existen... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's idea of the "impossible professions." F... more

Following up some of the discussion points introduced in the previous episode on Ambition,... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd tackle the fading specter of ambition as a tragic or negati... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to discuss the... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd take a short break from their Kant Odyssey to discuss one o... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the next major idea in Kant's first critique: the tra... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant and discuss the Transcendental Aesthetic fro... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to the topic of the superego to discuss--for the fir... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the topic of structural violence in both U.S. and glo... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the recently concluded first season of Apple's ... more

On this year’s exploration of the Christmas film genre, Ryan and Todd look to three films ... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the episode--a fading television art. Beginning wit... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd continue their commentaries on Jacques Lacan's seminars... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd continue their series of commentaries on Lacan's Seminars, ... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Gaze & Voice duology. While gaze & voice bot... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss one of psychoanalytic theory’s most influential ide... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd pay tribute to the recently deceased film actor, director, ... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd conclude their Marx duology by working through the excellen... more