The Capitalist Gaze

Alright, today’s episode is part of our SERIES on Žižek’s Quantum History and we’re taking a look at superpositions and enlightened doomsaying.How does Žižek's work on Quantum Physics relate to his political work? Was Žižek just "wrong" about the pandemic? At the level of factual ...  Show more

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is back on the show to talk about his new book Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy. We’re talking Quantum Variations, Superposition, Wave Collapse, Catastrophe, & So On.Thank you to everyone for supporting our project and keeping us going. The series on Qua ...  Show more

On episode 2 of Overthink, Ellie  and David  discuss how millennials love talking about hating capitalism, the influence capitalism has had on our understanding of time, and the blurring line between who you are as a worker and who you are as an individual. Then they discuss h ...

Why do so many of us often feel like shit when we leave work? Where does that ambient feeling of alienation come from? That nagging sense that we've somehow been taken advantage of? That subtle anger — or sometimes even outright hatred — many of us feel towards our supervisors ...

Partie 1 - De l’importance de prendre du recul sur les mots et concepts dominants. Une critique du capitalisme et de ses “boniments”

François Bégaudeau est un écrivain, ancien enseignant et journaliste qui s’est fait notamment connai ...

"Post capitalism is not simply another 'ism' to replace previous ideologies. It's not a euphemism for socialism or anarchism or Nordic capitalism—although it may contain some elements of each. Post capitalism is a conceptual container for social pluralities b ...