Ep 189: Epiphenomena

This is in response to episode 489 of Sam Harris' "Making Sense" podcast - in a section only available via subscription. I have clipped the approximately 60 seconds worth of material I am narrowly responding to for fair use in this commentary. The case unpacked is, roughly, that ...  Show more

A analysis in Popperian style of Candace Owens' "mode" of debate and discussion, approach to evidence and thinking and a comparison to the more mainstream evaluations of this debate. 

Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge (Seminar XIXa). If you prefer to watch the video recording of this lecture, head to our YouTube channel. And for all the latest, be sure to join our summer series on Lacan’s later teaching! This ...  Show more

The title of this episode, “Real Knowledge,” should be read as a question — and one we continue to ask at Lectures on Lacan, even in our lecture and discussion series on Seminar XXII. As always, you can access the video recording of this podcast episode at our YouTube channel. An ...  Show more

This has been on youtube a couple weeks. Feel like it needs to be here as well. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/2-be-better--5828421/support. 

Here is the second episode in a 12 part series that could only be found on youtube until now! In this lecture, I begin using a particular piece of dramatic art -- the Disney film Pinocchio -- to provide a specific example of the manner in which great mythological or archetypal th ...  Show more