In this interview/discussion with Dr. Russell Sbriglia we focus on a recently published edited volume titled Subject Lessons. In the discussion we focus on different forms of materialist paradigms in recent academic history, and specifically situate their relation to a deconstructive notion of the subject. We then seek to differentiate from both of these academic paradigms with Sbriglia’s proposed notion of a Hegelo-Lacanian materialism which emphasises the necessary inclusion of subjectivity and its strange object, the objet petit a.