State Of The Theory

This is Episode 33 of the State of the Theory Podcast, or the first episode of our second series. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. In this episode, we look at how space and the way spaces are designed affect our identities. You can read the op-ed piece about gender neutral bathrooms here: http://time.com/4702962/gender-neutral-bathrooms/ You can read Lacan’s essay “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious” here: