Diet Soap Podcast #129: How to Understand Portal 2
There is no guest this week, but rather this week’s episode is a sound collage that aims at understanding the video game Portal 2. After talking with my son Ben, after I tried to convince him that Portal 2 is best understood as a Symptom of the Late Capitalist crisis we’re in, I edited this together. Here I make the case that the video game was best understood if seen through the lens of the Lacanian philosophy of Slavoj Zizek.
It’s Wednesday, December 28th, 2011, and this will be the last Diet Soap podcast before the new year. I want to thank everyone who has been contacting me about the podcast through Facebook, and I want to mention that somebody asked me a very good question about the difference between social democracy and state socialism, but I lost track of the Facebook message. Could you resend that? Also I want to encourage everyone to get ahold of my novella “Wave of Mutilation” through Amazon, and also point that you’ll hear an audio clip from that book at the end of this episode.
I also want to mention that a new collection of essays is up on Thought Catalog on the subject of Enjoyment. In fact Thought Catalog published letters I wrote to the Rhetor and playful philosopher Daniel Coffeen, and Mister Coffeen will be the first guest in the New Year. And Diet Soap will be back to a regular weekly schedule in 2012.
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