Why Theory brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomena.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "Iñárritu's Digger" (20 October 2026, 72 minutes), "Neo Noir" (27 September 2026, 78 minutes), and "Divine Violence" (13 September 2026, 71 minutes).
Why Theory publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 79 minutes across 230 episodes.
Booking probability for Why Theory is 45%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Why Theory requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Why Theory's contact route on record: verified email.
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REUPLOAD BECAUSE HALF THE EPISODE WAS MISSING: In this early release episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Alejandro González Iñárritu's recent film Digger . Widely panned upon its release a couple of weeks ago--though...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their film genre series to discuss the neo noir . As opposed to the classic noir period, which is named retroactively by French film critics (1941-1958), neo noir films were...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the notion of divine violence. The conversation draws principally on an encounter staged between the term's evocation in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay, "Toward a Critique of...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Frantz Fanon duology by talking about his final completed work, Wretched of the Earth. The episode focuses on Fanon's "stretching" of both Marxism and psychoanalysis to...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Frantz Fanon's decolonial classic, Black Skin, White Masks . The hosts work through the conversation surrounding his credentials as a psychoanalyst, his engagement with Freud...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd theorize the adaptation as a form of film. The episode takes its point of departure the continuing conversation over Nolan's Odyssey. Film adaptations, according to the hosts, must...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Christopher Nolan's recent film. The conversation begins with Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey that Nolan consulted and adapted to the screen. Much of the conversation is...
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On this episode, Ryan & Todd theorize the World Cup as a public event that enables the non-expert to see complex theoretical notions, such as Alain Badiou's conceptualization of the event and Jean-Paul Sartre's idea of...
On this episode, Ryan and Todd complete their Sartre inflected trifecta of episodes by engaging his 1947 essay series What Is Literature? The hosts begin by talking about how much Sartre's method has meant to them...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover writer-director Tony Gilroy's 2007 political thriller masterpiece, Michael Clayton . The hosts weave in Sartre's notion of committing oneself to a project from the previous episode...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Jean-Paul Sartre's 1945 lecture titled "Existentialism is a Humanism." In it, Sartre answers criticism that existentialism has received from lay people, concerned Christians, and...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's idea of the "impossible professions." First articulated in 1925, Freud is drawn to the idea that psychoanalysis is like government and education in that it proposes a...
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Following up some of the discussion points introduced in the previous episode on Ambition, this episode takes a stab at the deadly sin of Avarice. Beginning first with a historical and etymological look into Avarice and...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd tackle the fading specter of ambition as a tragic or negative quality. Far from being a minor rhetorical or social phenomenon, the two trace the embrace of ambition to the broader...
On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to discuss the Transcendental Analytic section of the text. Topics include: form and content, Kantian causality, whether example(s) can work for...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd take a short break from their Kant Odyssey to discuss one of the podcast's most admired filmmakers: Rob Reiner. Coincidentally being released on Oscar's Sunday, the hosts dedicate their...
On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the next major idea in Kant's first critique: the transcendental deduction. While explicating the trajectory of Kant's argument, the pair continue to track the latent and manifest...
On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to Kant and discuss the Transcendental Aesthetic from his Critique of Pure Reason. The hosts work through a sketch of Kant's idea, why he's proposing it, and why even the form of...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd return to the topic of the superego to discuss--for the first time at length--the enjoyment particular to it. Superegoic enjoyment is an idea that first appears in Freud though it is not...
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On this episode, Ryan and Todd cover the topic of structural violence in both U.S. and global contexts. Beginning with an implicit debt to Slavoj Žižek's influential book Violence, the hosts move to clarify the idea as...
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