Episode 1

Luís and Björn engage with Zizek's reading of Walter Benjamin's take on history through the concept of the death drive. It is the continuation of their quite close (and widening) reading of Zizek's first book The Sublime Object of Ideology.Helping hands here are the musical score, Adorno, Marquis de Sade, Sophocles' Antigone, "Let them Rot" by Alenka Zupancic, the spaghetti-western, a bad James Bond movie, the advice not to forget to die, Marcel Duchamp once again, etc. 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Luís and Björn continue the celebration of 35 years of The Sublime Object of Ideology, the first English book by Slavoj Žižek, diving into the INTRODUCTION!The talk tackles the idea of SUBJECT through Habermas, Foucault, Althusser and Lacan, and engages in a second part with the notion of ANTAGONISM. 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

In the first episode Björn and Luís kick off with a celebration-reading of Slavoj Žižek's first English book, "The Sublime Object of Ideology", published in december 1989, exactly 35 years ago. They discuss their approach, the importance of the past to the present times, and how all this becomes visible through the "miracle" operated by Slavoj Žižek in "The Sublime Object". 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