Slavoj Žižek’s For They Know Not What They Do with Michael Downs and David McKerracher

Join Michael Downs and David McKerracher at the Theory Underground for a deep drive into Žižek’s most theoretically dense early work: For They Know Not What They Do. If you’re looking to go a step above survey content and seek to get into the deep end, then join the cohort! Late to join? No worries, the course is available on demand.

This course includes 9 lectures (every other week) coupled with reflections and discussions on the course forum, as well as discussions mediated by David McKerracher of Theory Underground.

Tier 1: Access to the course site, syllabus, discussion forum, and Zoom access to the lectures.

Tier 2: Everything from Tier 1 + Access to the recorded lectures after the fact (long-term buy in to the course forum and lectures).

Tier 3: Everything from Tiers 1 & 2 + Direct constructive critical feedback from Dave (via voice messages and/or marked up reviews of your assignments).

Tier 4: Everything from Tiers 1-3 + (1) Access to any of the live and recorded exegetical reading sessions of this text that Dave will do + (2) Two 1-on-1 Zoom calls with Dave. The first is to be scheduled while the course is ongoing, and the second is to be conducted after the course is over, for a constructive criticism session dealing with your final project.

Tier 5: Once per year the purchase of Tier 5 on any course buys you Tier 1 + One Year of Special Patron status. This grants access to the special patron forum, + the past full un-cut (no ad) streams with Mikey, + 1 Zoom call per month with the patrons + a special CODE to always get tiers 2, 3, and 4 of any course 35% off, and Tier 1 in all courses for $50 by applying a special code to Tier 5.