Woody and Lana try to make sense of "The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious" (a famously hard reading) from Lacan's Ecrits (a famously hard book).    Freud, Hegel, Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Psychoanalysis, Structural Linguistics, Structuralism, Russian Formalism, metaphor, metonymy, The Interpretation of Dreams   Get extra episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy  Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy  Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

In a special bonus episode Woody sits down with a friend who didn’t want to use his real name because of his “job” or something (coward). This is a deep dive into President Deals himself, Donald J Trump. How’d he get in, what does he mean for America, and where are we going from here? You should probably play Green Day’s Time of Your Life while you listen to this one for the vibes - I wanted to put it in but I didn’t want to pay licensing fees.

Woody and Lana chat about the new doc, individualism vs. collectivism, and why even Adam Curtis has bad China takes.   Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Lacan, China     Get extra episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy  Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy  Email: [email protected]   Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

In this first episode of her new investigative series “Balkanizing China,” Lana explores how propaganda works in a liberal democracy.  To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy   Eddie Bernays, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, the Gulf War, Uyghur genocide, communism, democracy, liberalism, United Fruit, CIA, foreign intervention, coup, Guatemala, Iran, public relations, New York Times, TikTok, CSIS, Adrien Zenz, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, mass media, public interest, expert testimony, victim testimony, atrocity propaganda, “believe science,” NED, front groups, geopolitics Send us an email: [email protected]

A close reading of the NYT article "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis," which can be read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/biden-reality-crisis-misinformation.html    Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy  Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy  Email: [email protected]   Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

We read Jodi Dean's "Communicative Capitalism" and discuss the politics of logging off.    (Zizek, psychoanalysis, technofetishism, interpassivity, depoliticization)   Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy  Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy  Email: [email protected]   Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

Woody and Lana talk psychoanalysis and fantasies of coup and civil war surrounding the election. Lacan, jouissance, fantasy structure, election, Trump, liberalism    Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Twitter: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod Email: [email protected] Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

Sovereign citizens (an oxymoron), the only cool libertarians (another oxymoron). We discuss libertarianism, anarchism, sovereign citizens (freemen), tax protesters, the redemption movement, identity, paper terrorism, financial schemes, legal grifting, QAnon, the FBI, CPS, and so on.   Facebook group: Trash Talks Academy Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy Twitter: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod Email: [email protected]   Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

This week we talk theory and virtual influencers. Who is Lil Miquela? What's her relation to capital? Why are tech bros obsessed with authenticity? How can performance studies and Teri Silvio's animation theory help us unpack the simulation?  And what would Walter Benjamin have to say about all this?   Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83 Email us: [email protected]      

We're back, and we're pilled!   Watch the livestream: Trash Talks on Youtube Get more content on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trashtalksacademy  Tweet at us: www.twitter.com/trashtalkspod  Email us: [email protected]     Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83