Spirit is a Bone

Ep. 7: Che vuoi?

After a long hibernation, Björn and Luís continue their reading of The Sublime Object of Ideology, turning to a strange question: Che vuoi? From the quilting point to the formidable structure of Jacques Lacan’s graph of desire, they trace this enigma across a series of examples, from Don Giovanni to Mad Men, from Charlie Chaplin to Rogier van der Weyden. Thanks for listening! Subscribe to receive new posts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit spiritisabone.substack.com [https://spiritisabone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep. 6: From Symptom to Sinthome in Slavoj Žižek “The Sublime Object”

What is a symptom? Luís and Björn continue their journey through Slavoj Žižek’s first book “The Sublime Object” traversing Freud, Lacan and plenty of social and cultural examples from Kafka, Wagner, Joyce, Josquin Desprez and theorists like Carlo Ginsburg, Erwin Panofsky, Georges Didi-Huberman, Mladen Dolar, Robert Pfaller, Gilles Deleuze and Lawrence Kramer…They explore ways of interpreting the symptom from meaningful to meaningless and its relation to enjoyment. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit spiritisabone.substack.com [https://spiritisabone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep. 5: Immediacy with Anna Kornbluh

Taking as a lead the idea of IMMEDIACY, theorised in a new book by Anna Kornbluh, Luís and Björn talk about immediacy-jargon, speed-reading, the aleph of Borges, sunflowers and Van Gogh immersion, opera, museum practice, ethnomusicology, auto-theory and auto-fiction, meister Eckhart, mysticism and beatific vision, Cusanus, art curators, once-in-a-lifetime-experience, church interior paintings, Bruegel, grey in grey, iconoclasm, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, Carl Sagan, palazzo entrances, Pliny, Roland Barthes, trompe l’oeil, sprezzatura, anachronism, ocenaic feelings, ostranenie... Sir, this is an Arby’s! Thanks for reading! Subscribe to receive new posts and support our work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit spiritisabone.substack.com [https://spiritisabone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep. 4: Interpassivity with Pfaller, Žižek & Dolar

In this episode, Björn and Luís dissect the concept of interpassivity as developed by Robert Pfaller, Slavoj Žižek, and Mladen Dolar. Traveling from contemporary art to morning breakfast cereals, and from beer advertising to the music of Josquin Desprez, they trace the strange detours, displacements, and substitutions through which enjoyment circulates. Thanks for reading! Subscribe to receive new posts and support our work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit spiritisabone.substack.com [https://spiritisabone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 3

Björn and Luís stumble through the first chapter of Slavoj Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology - "How did Marx invent the Symptom?" The talk explores the short-circuit happening between Marx' critique of capitalism and Freud's discovery of the unconscious, tracing how this dynamic interplay stages a theatrical unfolding of concepts like commodity, real abstraction, symptom, and objective belief, among others. Click here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urhbJmDJoYs&t=2946s&ab_channel=SPIRITISABONE] to watch on Youtube. Thanks for reading Spirit is a Bone! Subscribe to receive new posts and support our work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit spiritisabone.substack.com [https://spiritisabone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]