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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Jason and Varn continue with their close reading of The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin.
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Preview -- From 78: Jason's Talk with Neil of Inform:Podcast
This episode of InForm:Podcast is a re-release and cross-post of an older interview done with From78 (of Lost Horizons fame). It was originally posted several lifetimes ago, in 2020, but has been re-released by InForm so we decided to promote it here.
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episode 3: The Boys Solve the Israel-Palestine "Conflict"
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Pappe, Ilan. “The Framing of the Question of Palestine by the Early Palestinian Press: Zionist Settler-Colonialism and the Newspaper Filastin, 1912-1922.” The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies : a Multidisciplinary Journal 14, no. 1 (2015): 59–81. https://doi.org/10.3366/hlps.2015.0104...
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Support the showepisode 2: Wally B as a Vibe: Discussing Walter Benjamin with the Subjective Conditions Podcast
This week we've got a podcast that we recorded with Subjective Conditions a few months ago. This podcast deals with Walter Benjamin as a vibe and, in true Regrettable Century fashion, the discussion is guided by the World Spirit.
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Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part I)
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Patreon Preview -- Revolution by Enzo Traverso: Regrettable Book Club (Part VI)
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This week we continue our series reading from Rodney Hilton's collection of essays about the Crisis of Feudalism. These are pretty short essays, but we will no doubt be talking about them forever.
Hilton, Rodney. Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism. A&C Black, 1985.
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PATREON PREVIEW- Bonapart III: The One Where We Talk About the Movie
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