Alright, Todd McGowan is back again on the podcast to talk more about his most recent book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves. ⁠TO HEAR OUR FIRST CONVERSATION WITH TODD ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK YOU CAN LISTEN HERE!⁠ ⁠⁠You can also listen to our episode on Alienation as a concept in Żižek's work here!⁠⁠ Are there good and bad forms of alienation? We're talking the politics of non-belonging, alienation in cinema, the defence of lost causes, Friends and the failure of beginnings and the impossibility of endings, Lacan's debt to Jean Paul Sartre, identitarian politics, and Slavoj Žižek. ⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR PROJECT ON PATREON!⁠⁠ Up next we have a new SHORT SESSION on Žižek's recent Substack which you can find here! Enjoy!