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 16: The Internet Was a Mistake: Surveillance Capitalism and the Public-Private Tech Panopticon
We are now living in the most watched society in history. Our every move is tracked, our conversations monitored, our purchases logged, every link we click is logged, but its okay because its not the government doing it right?
You Are Now Remotely Controlled -- Shoshana Zuboff
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episode 15: Capitalism Without a Human Face: Neoliberalism as a Stage of Capitalism?
Like most other political terms, the word "neoliberal" has been used so much to describe so many disparate things that it has ceased to have meaning. Well, unfortunately neoliberalism is real and it is an economic idea and political project that completely dominates every aspect of modern capitalist society and even our resistance to it.
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episode 14: Imagining the End: Climate Catastrophe, Mass Extinction, and Utopia
Its been said elsewhere that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. Well, that may be true, but it doesn't take much imagining to conceive of the end of the world. We are currently living though the end of the world. Who would have thought it would be so boring?
Join us as we lament our collective willingness to go gentle into that good night...
episode 13: The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part VII- The Final Episode (with Red Library)
This week we are joined once again by Adam from Red Library for the final episode in our series.
We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity...
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Support the showepisode 12: The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment
This week we team up with our pal Jess to talk about the mixed legacy of the enlightenment and we ultimately determine that the enlightenment was good and also it was bad.
Smith, C. (1996) Hegel Marx and the Enlightenment: An Interim Report
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/interim.htm
Sherratt, Y. (2000) ADORNO AND HORKHEIMER’S CONCEPT OF “ENLIGHTENMENT.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8(3), 521–544...
episode 11: The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part VI (with Red Library)
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episode 10: Posting Made Flesh: Scattered Thoughts on the Current and Future State of the Left (With C. Derick Varn and PH )
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episode 9: Expanding the Austerity Panopticon: The Capitol Riot as Political Theater (with C. Derick Varn, PH Higgins, and Steven)
This week we are joined by C. Derick Varn, PH from Radical Thoughts Podcast, and Steven from Supreme Leap Forward to discuss how the Capitol Riot wasn't a coup, or a terrorist attack, and admonish the "left" for supporting the expansion of the security state.
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