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Signup to Generate a PitchDeath Drive Radio is hosted by Nicholas Tolliver and Tyler Mraz. The show has published 27 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "From Cop to Colony: The Imperial Boomerang" (16 October 2026, 21 minutes), "Interview with Dr. Derek Hook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology" (18 March 2026, 104 minutes), and "The Death Drive: An Introduction from Freud to Lacan" (12 December 2025, 17 minutes).
Death Drive Radio publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 27 episodes.
Booking probability for Death Drive Radio is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Death Drive Radio requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Death Drive Radio's contact route on record: verified email.
Nicholas Tolliver and Tyler Mraz hosts Death Drive Radio, a society podcast with 27 episodes published.
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Episode #31
For Césaire, fascism began with colonialism. He argued that the horrors of Nazism are a reflection of European colonial empires and their violence. This relationship between periphery and center continues today where...
<p>What explains the "madness" of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class? Any serious analysis of Race must take into account its...
<p>In this episode we offer an introduction to the Death Drive, starting from Freud's coining of the term, Lacan's contribution to the idea, and ending with its effects on society. </p><p>The Death Drive is a...
<p>In this episode, we’ve invited Dr. Gerald Horne to speak about how the violent domination and exploitation of our colonial past impacts our politics and culture today. Through a discussion of whiteness, colonial...
<p>In this video we have on Harsha Walia, renown Author, Activist, and Scholar to discuss pertinent issues regarding immigration, borders, and imperialism. </p><p>Harsha has dedicated her studies and activism to justice...
Episode #21
<p>Using Marx's concept, Commodity Fetishism, we aim to answer these questions:</p><p>Why are we increasingly isolated from each other, only able to relate through markets, objects? </p><p>Why is production so...
Episode #20
<p>Our second video on Michel Foucault offers an overview of Michel Foucault's Biopower and Biopolitics. </p><p>We discuss how, with the rise of capitalism and the state, Biopolitics is employed to control and manage...
<p>In this video, we provide an overview of the current conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We begin with the historical development of the Congolese State and the institutionalization of graft and...
<p>In this video, we speak to Vijay Prashad about the changing material conditions of contemporary imperialism. Vijay sheds light on a number of topics, including Palestine, Donald Trump, NATO, and Ukraine, elaborating...
Episode #17
<p>This is a brief introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s notoriously fuzzy concept, the Body Without Organs. We first discuss D&G's unique version of materialism founded on desire and reproduction. We then outline what...
<p>In this video, we will challenge Deleuze and Guattari's theories of Schizophrenia and the Body without Organs using Baudrillard theories of hyperreality and the code to cultivate a better understanding of the system...
<p>The anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022), directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and the broader Cyberpunk universe, created by Mike Pondsmith, is a prime specimen of the cyberpunk genre. Paying close attention to David, the...
<p>If you want to understand how witch-hunting and patriarchy contribute to the stratification and repression of the working class, listen to this interview where we speak with feminist historian and philosopher, Silvia...
<p>In this interview, we speak with feminist philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist, Alenka Zupančič, focusing on important ideas from her book, What is Sex? Zupančič theorizes about sexual difference and the social...
<p>With Death Drive and Dialectics as our starting point, Zizek takes us on a journey through Hegel, Lacan, Ideology, US Politics, Climate Change, the failures of liberal democracy, leftist politics, data capitalism...
Episode #11
<p>In this video we discuss one of Lacan's most significant contributions to psychoanalysis and the study of ideology: Objet a. Objet a, or the Object Cause of Desire, forces us to rethink the formal status of desire...
<p>In this video, we bring on Professor Todd McGowan, Host of Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley, and author of many excellent books, including his most recent one: Enjoyment Right and Left. During the interview, we...
<p>In this video, we discuss Hegel’s philosophy of dialectics, common misconceptions, and how Hegel’s dialectic can help leftists systemically critique ideology and power. </p><p>If you learn one thing from this fucking...
Episode #8
<p>Part of our series on psychoanalytic concepts, this video outlines the basics of the unconscious, briefly examining Freud and Lacan's contributions to its definition. Short, but sweet. </p>
<p>Theses: Pure Good and Pure Evil are, in a sense, interchangeable. The "Law" needs its violation as much as the violation needs the "Law".</p><p>The usual, dualistic interpretation (Good and Evil) sees Batman and the...
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Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University
John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, University of Houston
author and immigrant justice organizer, B.C. Civil Liberties Association
distinguished historian, author, journalist, political commentator, social theorist, The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
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