The old forms of the left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a dialectical pessimism and develop a Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
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episode 7: A Situationist New Year's Spectacular: Discussion about Guy Debord, the Situationists, and the Society of the Spectacle
In the years since Guy Debord wrote "The Society of the Spectacle" we have witnessed the utter triumph of said spectacle and have been thoroughly crushed under the jackboot of its mediocrity. We think that some of the ideas of the Situationists are even more relevant now than they were in 68 and are worth having a conservation about, so we did.
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A Short List of Some of the Readings For this Episode:
Society of the Spectacle (full text)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
Revenge of the Spectacle
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/revenge-of-the-spectacle-this-time-its-personal
Bringing Fuel to The Flames: Anselme Jappe's Guy Debord
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/bringing-fuel
Notes on the Spectacle of Opposition
https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/6/29/some-notes-on-the-spectacle-of-opposition
Why Psychogeography?
https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/8/14/derive-0-why-psychogeography
Background on 1968
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/