

RSam Podcast
Rahul Samaranayake
Philosophy & Theory | AI & CogSci
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Jun 29, 2023 • 47min
Dr Grace Tarpey on Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of Love | RSam Pod #21
Dr Grace Tarpey is a Psychoanalyst and Philosophy Academic with significant years of experience in Psychoanalytic clinical private practice, Psychotherapy and Counselling. Her PhD thesis is on the topic of 'self-Other relations for an ethics-of-love' in the context of contemporary postmodern culture. She's also currently writing a book on 'The Ethics of Love.' In this episode, we discuss Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion.
Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of Love: https://lacancircle.com.au/psychoanalysislacan-journal/psychoanalysislacan-volume-1/lacans-psychoanalytic-way-of-love/
Find Dr Grace at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-tarpey-95067a65/
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Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
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Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Website} https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Images & Videos used}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Marion https://youtu.be/mKl5_OxKBn8
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May 4, 2023 • 1h 36min
Bros Discuss... Why Get Married? (w/ Euwyn Goh)
Euwyn and I discuss marriage, love and modernity.
Connect with Euwyn at:
https://twitter.com/euwyngoh
https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com
https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Website}
https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://twitter.com/trsam97
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Images & Videos used}
The Lovers by René Magritte (1928)
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Apr 7, 2023 • 2h 5min
Hunter Coates On Kant, Hegel & Lacan | RSam Pod #20
Hunter Coates is an undergraduate student and aspiring academic. Currently, he is pursuing a philosophy and history double B.A. at Georgia College and State University. After graduation, he plans to work towards a PhD in philosophy.
In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled “Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise.”: https://www.amazon.com.au/Conspiracy-Subject-Enterprise-Hunter-Coates/dp/B0BW267JC5
Hunter's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dissatisfiedphilosophy9723
In this episode, we discuss Kant, Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and Christian Atheism.
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{Reference Links}
Books mentioned:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/170169
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13095855
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90568.For_They_Know_Not_What_They_Do
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30292
{Images & Videos used}
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Screenplay: Slavoj Žižek
Producers: Sophie Fiennes, Martin Rosenbaum, James Wilson, Katie Holly
Film series: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Cast: Slavoj Žižek
Distributed by: Zeitgeist Films
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Mar 12, 2023 • 1h 7min
Mettalia Tanjaya on Why Theology Matters | RSam Pod #19
Mettalia Tanjaya is an artist and philosopher. She studied for a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media in the past year, followed by a Diploma in Theological Studies for a year. She is now doing her Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary). The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it is relevant to modern philosophy and science. I discuss Christianity, morality and Kant with her.
Mettalia's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@misguided_pilgrim
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{Social Media}
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://trahulsam.medium.com/
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA
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Mar 5, 2023 • 1h 26min
Who is Christ to you? (Twitter Space with Euwyn Goh)
Euwyn and I discuss Christ, faith, existentialism and Christian phenomenology. Please consider checking out his Substack: https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com/
Euwyn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
{Social Media}
https://twitter.com/trsam97
https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://trahulsam.medium.com/
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA
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Feb 20, 2023 • 2h 2min
Is Jordan Peterson a Fascist? (Vaush and PF Jung's Debate Follow-Up) | RSam Pod #18
My conversation with Paul (PF Jung) on his follow-up thoughts after his Vaush debate. And we discuss if Jordan Peterson is a fascist―viewing Peterson through Umberto Eco's and Hannah Arendt's social theories.
Paul's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung
Paul's debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk
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Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA
{Reference Links}
https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-origins-of-totalitarianism-9780241316757
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Feb 19, 2023 • 21min
Masculinity and Nothingness
Recently the topic of masculinity has been discussed contentiously in our culture with the rise of controversial figures like Andrew Tate.
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/masculinity-and-nothingness
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https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA
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Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 26min
Slavoj Žižek - Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
My reading of both sections 1: Hegel and 2: Kierkegaard of Slavoj Žižek's Only a Suffering God Can Save Us: https://www.lacan.com/zizshadowplay.html
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{Music Used}
The Man Comes Around · Johnny Cash: https://youtu.be/tu5EBMgf4D8
℗ 2003 Paramount Pictures, under exclusive license to Varese Sarabande Records.
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Dec 29, 2022 • 2h 9min
Jacob Bell on Heidegger, Phenomenology and Structures of Meaning | IR #17
Jacob Bell is a philosopher and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from American Public University and is doing his Master of Research in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
The working title for his dissertation is “A Phenomenological Analysis of the Structures of Meaningfulness.” Jacob’s primary academic interests include phenomenology & existentialism, which we discuss in this episode.
Connect with Jacob at https://twitter.com/jacoba_bell or https://www.jacobabell.com/
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{Reference Links}
https://epochemagazine.org/44/the-structure-of-meaning-in-experience-rediscovering-that-which-has-been-lost/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_of_Perception
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/
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Dec 12, 2022 • 13min
Create Through Love (Guiding Axiom 7/7) | IR #16
“I was always disgusted with this notion of “I love the world” universal love. I don’t like the world. I don’t know how… Basically, I’m somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I’m indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it’s just it. It’s stupid. It is out there. I don’t care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out something, and it’s, again, this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail… a fragile individual person… I say “I love you more than anything else.” In this quite formal sense, love is evil.” ― Slavoj Žižek
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/write-through-love
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https://rahulsam.me/
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