Why Theory

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

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Karl Marx's posthumously published Economic and... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the so-called "End of History" in Hegel's thoug... more

In episode 201, Ryan and Todd work their lists of the Top 10 Television Series of the 21st... more

In Why Theory's 200th episode, Todd and Ryan work through their own respective lists o... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their film genre series to discuss the musical th... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd put the idea of common sense through the theoretical wringe... more

In this episode (recorded prior to such events as the Trump - Musk breakup and the Nationa... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd work through Sigmund Freud's under discussed Group Psyc... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd dedicate a full-length treatment to one of the podcast'... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the effect artificial intelligence is having on hig... more

Kicking off a new Overview sub series of podcasts, Ryan and Todd discuss the influential i... more

Ryan and Todd discuss the political implications of the societal tendency toward euphemism... more

Ryan and Todd define and explore the key psychoanalytic concept of the symptom. They contr... more

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the erosion of the public under contemporary capita... more

On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Rick Boothby's terrific recent book, Embracing ... more

Ryan and Todd discuss Lacan’s Seminar XVI: From an Other to the other. They focus on Lacan... more

Ryan and Todd pay tribute to David Lynch’s life and work by discussing each of his ten fea... more

Ryan and Todd work through Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X: Anxiety. Since this is the seminar t... more

In their annual Christmas special, Ryan and Todd explore the Lesbian Christmas film and th... more

Ryan and Todd explore the possibilities for praxis in the vein of the notorious philosophe... more