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1980s Christmas

82 min • 12 december 2023

In their annual Christmas episode, Ryan and Todd look at the 1980s Christmas film, focusing on Christmas Story, Trading Places, Scrooged, Christmas Vacation, and Home Alone. They discuss the nostalgia that predominates this period of Christmas films and how this limits the political reach of these works.

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1980s Christmas

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Common Sense

On Narcissism

Group Psychology

Racecraft

A.I.

Slavoj Žižek: An Overview

Euphemism

The Symptom

The Public

Embracing the Void

Seminar 16

David Lynch

Seminar X: Anxiety

Lesbian Christmas

Hegelian Praxis

The Beautiful Soul

Hegel & Feminism

Aufhebung (Sublation)

Contemporary Horror

Fredric Jameson

Horror Film

Heist Film

Sports Film

New Introductory Lectures

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Suture

Extimacy

Prequel

Modernist Novel

Endings

Parallax View

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Critique Of Pure Reason -- Preface

Symbolic Castration

Dialectical Reversal

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Discourse on Method

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Monadology

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Surplus Enjoyment

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Creative Writers & Daydreaming

Uncanny

Poststructuralism

Tribute to Mari Ruti

Succession

Bottle Episode

Beyond Good and Evil

The Racist Fantasy

Twitter

The Radical Western

Western

Critique of Dialectical Reason

Analysis Terminable & Interminable

Negation

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Debt

Enjoyment Right & Left

Technology

Love

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Neurosis

Hegel's Absolute Knowing

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