Please like and share our episodes on whatever platform, and if you want to support us materially, you can subscribe to our Patreon. We have already lined-up what will be some terrific interviews and collaborations over next few months, so we hope you stay tuned. The three of us agree that working on and producing the show has been the best and most redeeming part of an otherwise bizarre 12 months. We want to thank all of you – and especially our patrons – for listening, supporting, and engaging with us this past year. This episode marks the anniversary of &SoOn. We also try to think through the constitutive role interpassivity plays in the subject/object relation, and how this might furnish an anti-ideological position – or, a secondary ideology that does not rest on becoming a subject, and liberates us from the injunction to “enjoy!” We discuss a few infamous examples of interpassivity from Žižek’s texts like “canned laughter” and “TiVo”, and consider how interpassivity structures the subject’s relating to the Other as the subject supposed to know, believe, and enjoy. Referring to texts of each, we define interpassivity within the scope of Althussier’s influence in the 90s, as the immanent response/critique to the prevailing ideology of “interactivity”. We locate the origin of the term somewhere in-between the thought of Žižek’s and Robert Pfaller. We are back this week with a Patreon exclusive episode on the concept of Interpassivity. Vighi: SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, EMERGENCY CAPITALISM, AND THE CAPITULATION OF THE LEFT Žižek: LES NON-DUPES ERRENT Thanks to all our listeners, new and old, and our patrons who have stuck with us during our hiatus. Following Žižek, we discuss how Vighi’s position is maintained by the fantasy of a consistent ordering of the antagonism at the heart of the social and the symbolic order. The argument laid out by Vighi is, Žižek argues, dangerously close to a paranoid conspiracy theory. Vighi argues that we now live “in a neo-feudal inferno where our Lords enslave us in order to protect us, and protect us in order to enslave us.” In his response, Žižek charges Vighi with missing the crucial lesson that the “brutal reality of the pandemic a contingent event,” not some mega-plot knowingly developed and orchestrated by the establishment. The first is by Fabio Vighi, who charges Žižek with capitulating too easily to new forms of social domination with his acceptance of lockdowns.

We dive into two recent articles from the Philosophical Salon. The fellas are back-and are accompanied by a new member.

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