<p><a href="https://misconstruity.com/#store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>⁠BUY THE ALBUM HERE! ⁠</strong></a></p><p>Alright, this week we’re drinking the blood from Oedipus’s eyes with returning guest and friend of the show, the great Russell Sbriglia to talk about his new album ⁠<a href="https://misconstruity.com/#store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Critique of Pure Desire</strong></a>⁠ which, according to Ryan Engley, sounds like if King Crimson were throwing an Eyes Wide Shut party. </p><p>The album is a psychedelic mix of philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, and film through Slavoj Žižek, Lacan, Hegel, Hitchcock, Melville, Antigone, Hamlet, Poe, Blade Runner, Chopin, La Jetée…and even features guest vocals from Žižek himself.</p><p>We’re talking the critique of pure desire, the strange logic of retroactivity, failed interpellations, hysterics, the split within the law, and future histories…</p><p>Russ is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall, co-editor with Slavoj of <em>Subject Lessons</em>, editor of <em>Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek</em>, and the band <a href="https://misconstruity.com/#store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Misconstruity</a>.</p><p>Big thanks to Russ — and if you’re quick, the first two listeners to email [email protected] will get a copy of the album.</p><p>And yes, Tim is still away…last I heard he reckoned that he’s being followed by a chorus of old men who keep lamenting his decisions and spoiling the plot of his life…however I want to take this chance to say that Tim’s first book has just been published with Palgrave: <em>A Lacanian-Hegelian Perspective on Peace and Conflict Studies</em>. It’s now out in the world and you should all check it out. </p><p>Congrats, Tim. </p><p>Extra fish-head soup for you!</p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-95750-5#about-authors" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>⁠GET TIM'S BOOK HERE!⁠</strong></a></p><p>See you in Paris, </p><p>Ž&amp;…</p><p><br /></p>