5 Star Tossers

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5 Star Tossers Podcast

Playful academic podcast that looks at movies and other cultural objects through the lens of 5 groovy themes: Pervs 'R Us, Beast & Sovereign, Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, Marx Grudge, and What Would Jesus Do? 

  1. Israel's Fault: The Problem with (a Messiah-less) Zion

    30 AUG

    Israel's Fault: The Problem with (a Messiah-less) Zion

    Oh boy...This episode is longer than usual, more contentious, as it addresses the current genocidal violence in Gaza in ways that neither 'the left' nor 'the right,' as they are now called (defined?), would stand behind; except perhaps with a dagger?..We are both against what Israel is doing in Gaza, and think it ought to stop immediately (which would still be much much too late).Our discussions, our rhetoric, our frameworks of understanding, however, are neither neutral nor universal. They i...

    2h 29m
  2. Muteness Envy: Did We Even Talk about It?

    6 AUG

    Muteness Envy: Did We Even Talk about It?

    In a political climate of unbearable urgency, the Tossers ask: "What if we just stopped talking?"

    1h 52m
  3. Steve Bannon: Militant of the Western Church

    1 JUN

    Steve Bannon: Militant of the Western Church

    Hello listener,How's it been? Great, right?Right?..This episode follows Naomi Klein's recent book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, and Errol Morris' 2018 documentary around Steve Bannon, called American Dharma (2018). In both, we get a rare glimpse into the mind of this highly effective manipulator, or enemy, of (social) media; who treats it like a political actor that understands only (algorithmic) violence... It's like being stared in the face by the hard pragmatism of a delusion...

    1h 39m
  4. Married... With Children: The Family Abolition Episode

    30 APR

    Married... With Children: The Family Abolition Episode

    In this episode, we look at one of the longest running sitcoms in Televisual history (1987-1998), Married... with Children.Ostensibly a misogynistic pigpen ripe for retroactive cancelation, we Tossers find the show delightful and read an unabashed radicality into the relentlessly bitter depiction of the horrors of married life .We bring up the Marxist tradition of family abolition to help think about the show's "study" of a starving lower middle-class family stuck together by mone...

    1h 35m
  5. Heteropessimism: Or, How to Ignore the Sadness of the Sexual Relation

    8 APR

    Heteropessimism: Or, How to Ignore the Sadness of the Sexual Relation

    In this episode, we discuss the thought-provoking 2019 New Inquiry essay by Asa Seresin "On Heteropessimism: Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem."Andy defends the future of heterosexuality from the sidelines so to say.Jake introduces Lacan's "there is no sexual relation," gets personal, digs his own holes, holds back his tears, and offers the formula "the penis lies too" as a way for men and women to discuss the terror of their mutual performativity.Our guest Anaís steals the show, o...

    1h 37m
  6. Tutt Grudge: I Don't Mind a Parasite, but I Object to a Cut-rate one.

    25 MAR

    Tutt Grudge: I Don't Mind a Parasite, but I Object to a Cut-rate one.

    Greetings, audient!Thanks for hanging in there. It can't be easy.This episode tackles the Tossers' own Marx Grudge Star -- come to collect its resentful dues. Karma imposes its menacing presence in the form of a book by Daniel Tutt, with the provocative title How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left got High on Nietzsche. A unique pleasure it was to host Jamie, who joins us from a more Frankfurt School angle, and helped reign-in Sagi by riposting some of his cheaper jabs at our buddy Karlo.S...

    1h 38m
  7. Parasocial Friends: We Did Not Record This For You

    4 MAR

    Parasocial Friends: We Did Not Record This For You

    Sagi has recently learned about the Internet and relations that people have on it. We discuss.Parasocial relations lead us to think about a plague of narcissistic personality disorder that capitalism breeds.

    1h 26m
  8. Fear and Loathing in the WWE

    18 FEB

    Fear and Loathing in the WWE

    Welcome back, listener!No joke with the title, some real Hunter Thompson, Bazooko Circus vibes in hereAnd it seems to be spreading beyond the wrestlers, converting everyone in sight.All are engrossed in a spectacle that permits no shadow and emits the meaning of the 'manifest' in all its glory. It is meaning that must be immediate, spectacular, the kind that bypasses judgment and obviates Law (and thought). The kind that can be used to justify shit like violence, or, in this case - as Sagi se...

    1h 27m
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About

Playful academic podcast that looks at movies and other cultural objects through the lens of 5 groovy themes: Pervs 'R Us, Beast & Sovereign, Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, Marx Grudge, and What Would Jesus Do? 

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  • Creator
    5 Star Tossers
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 5 Star Tossers
  • Show Website
    5 Star Tossers

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