Emancipations Podcast
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago -Emancipations explores the intersection of Marxism, politics and philosophy. Hosted by Daniel Tutt (@DanielTutt).
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Lasch Beyond the Culture War - A Conversation with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
April 25, 2022 22:05 - 33 minutes - 63.2 MBWe are very pleased to sit down with American historian and cultural critic Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn to discuss her work on the history of race relations in America and the legacy of her father, the historian and critic Christopher Lasch. Christopher Lasch's thought has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years and one of the big questions that surrounds his work is how we understand his political vision and what the core of his critique of liberalism and American elites really amounts to. In t...
Decolonial Psychoanalysis feat. Robert Beshara
April 11, 2022 14:03 - 48 minutes - 89.6 MBWe are joined by artist, writer and educator Robert Beshara to discuss his work in critical psychology, Islamophobia, Freud and Said and how to understand racial capitalism, solidarity and comradeship. This is an oft-inspiring conversation that touches on a lot of very important debates and concepts in contemporary politics. One of the many highlights include Robert's discussion of the highly misunderstood the thinker Edward Said had with psychoanalysis. This is a great conversation and I ho...
Myths in Crisis: Prometheus, Gaia, and Marxism
April 01, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour - 177 MBWe welcome philosophers Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss to the show for a discussion on how to navigate the ecological crisis in philosophy. This episode originally appeared on the Zer0 Books YouTube channel. Support our work for $3 - $10 a month at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/torsiongroups Fluss and Frim argue the two dominant strains of thinking ecology today, Accelerationism and Gaian philosophies are ultimately inadequate frameworks because they reject the human frame as grounding p...
Class Struggle in the History of Psychoanalysis (feat. Hannah Proctor)
March 17, 2022 21:41 - 44 minutes - 81.9 MBPlease go to our Patreon to listen to the final 30 minutes of this conversation https://www.patreon.com/torsiongroups and get access to our other interviews, seminars and more. Our guest for today's episode is Hannah Proctor, writer, historian and thinker of the history of psychoanalysis. Hannah has written extensively on early Soviet era psychoanalysis and psychology and her Substack Unconsciousness Raising focuses on lesser known psychoanalytic thinkers. In this conversation, we discuss...
The petit-bourgeois habitus *TEASER*
March 10, 2022 19:24 - 10 minutes - 18.8 MBListen to the full interview with cultural theorist Marc James Léger, author of The Neoliberal Undead at https://www.patreon.com/posts/63587198
How to be a Marxist with Tijana Okić
March 07, 2022 18:44 - 2 hours - 230 MBWe are joined by philosopher Tijana Okić for a spirited conversation on what it means to be a Marxist today. What are the common problems we face when it comes to holding a Marxist position today? Is Marxism reducible to the correct philological and textual analysis of Marx's thought? What are we to make of the epistemological break between the early Marx's work on alienation to his later notions of exploitation? Does Marxism become irrelevant when we abandon a theory of alienation? We also ...
Teaser: Interview with Adrian Johnston on Today's Hegel Renaissance
February 25, 2022 19:46 - 25 minutes - 46.9 MBWe sit down with American philosopher Adrian Johnston, one of the most creative and interesting philosophers working today. To listen to the entire conversation where Adrian succinctly defines "transcendental materialism" in less than two minutes(!) and we discuss the new Hegel renaissance in contemporary philosophy and Adrian's philosophical differences with Zizek. You can listen to this interview for just $2 at our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/posts/63046361.
Can American socialists reform the Democratic Party? Interview with Doug Greene
February 20, 2022 17:50 - 1 hour - 166 MBWe sit down with historian Doug Greene to discuss the important history of American socialism and the over 70 years of attempts to "realign" the Democratic Party. Should socialists cooperate with the Democratic Party? To explore this important question, Doug Greene tells us about the ideas and vision of Michael Harrington, the founder of the largest socialist organization in America, the DSA. Harrington's ideas inform the "common sense" of America's contemporary left and they are at the core...
Psychiatry and Trauma with Vincenzo Di Nicola
January 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBWe are joined by Dr. Vincenzo Di Nicola to discuss modern psychiatry and his work on trauma, family therapy and the philosophical underpinnings of psychiatry. We discuss the prevalence of trauma discourse, the philosophy of Alain Badiou, why social dynamics are often ignored by modern psychiatry and psychology, and we examine the history of the "anti-psychiatry movement" with special focus on R.D. Laing, Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon. Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian psychologist...
The Concept is a Weapon - Interview with French philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
December 13, 2021 13:30 - 1 hour - 174 MBWe sat down with French philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem who the late David Graeber praised as one of the most important philosophers living today. In this interview, we discuss Kacem’s reading habits, what inspires him in the world of thought, how he derived his philosophical concepts, what qualifies as truly radical in our age and why he broke up with his former mentor Alain Badiou. Kacem is, similar to Giorgio Agamben, a major critic of the way the ruling class is managing the pandemic and ...
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic with Nadia Bou Ali
December 08, 2021 23:47 - 1 hour - 181 MBWe are honored to be joined by Nadia Bou Ali, practicing psychoanalyst and Assistant Professor at the Civilization Studies Program at the American University of Beirut. We discuss Nadia's new work Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall of Mirrors - a work of Lacanian theory, comparative literature and political theory. We discuss the main themes of this work and raise questions about Lacan's contribution to the study of literature, psychoanalysis and liberalism, tolerance, the birth ...
Deciphering Nietzsche/anism Part III with Carl Sachs
December 02, 2021 22:12 - 1 hour - 145 MBWe are joined by philosopher Carl Sachs, Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University and all around great human being. Carl did his Ph.D. on Nietzsche and has spent a great deal of time with Nietzsche's thought over the years. In this discussion, we analyze the achievement of Domenico Losurdo's massive book Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance Sheet. Will the world of philosophy embrace Losurdo's new perspective on Nietzsche? What does Losurd...
Trotskyism Today with Ian Parker
November 09, 2021 18:28 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBMarxist theorist, literary critic, military leader and exiled opponent of Stalin, Leon Trotsky is one of the most important figures of 20th century Marxism. But how are Trotsky's ideas being lived out today by revolutionary socialists? To help us understand Trotskyism, its history and legacy today we are joined by Ian Parker, Lacanian psychoanalyst and revolutionary socialist. He has written over 25 books to his name and he works in the fields of critical psychology, Marxist psychology, an...
The Last Days of the Dialectic with Robert Boncardo and Bryan Cooke
October 30, 2021 14:46 - 2 hours - 116 MBWe are joined by philosophers Robert Boncardo and Bryan Cooke to discuss the philosophical and political thought of Alain Badiou. Boncardo and Cooke's research is shedding light on how Badiou's concrete political militancy from 1969 - 1981 shaped his first major work Theory of the Subject (1982). We discuss the communist group Badiou was part of from 1969 - 1981 UCFML, the SONACOTRA Rent Strike, Badiou's relation to Maoism and how these more practical activities serve as a crucial backdro...
Deciphering Nietzsche/anism Part II
October 22, 2021 20:21 - 44 minutes - 36.5 MBWe continue to probe Nietzsche and Nietzsche/anism, picking up on some problems and questions that were opened in our last interview with Geoff Waite. We begin with a reading of Nietzsche from two radically different positions: Georges Bataille and György Lukács. We then go on to discuss Nietzsche and Marx, consciousness, antihumanism, antiphilosophy, liberation, Nietzsche's politics and more. Does Nietzsche/anism address a real problem that Marxism can’t account for? Or must we work to di...
Deciphering Nietzsche/anism with Geoff Waite
September 18, 2021 12:54 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBWe seek relief from our "Nietzsche fever" with Nietzsche scholar Geoff Waite, professor of German Studies at Cornell University. How does one go about reading Nietzsche? How does one get out of Nietzsche's system, and not fall into its abyss? The influence of Nietzsche is arguably more profound than even Freud or Marx. Nietzsche/anism has "won" in the sense that a world of rank order and capitalist exploitation is all around us. In that sense, Nietzsche/anism is the air that we breathe. It...
Episode 29: A Manifesto for the Working Class with Cynthia Cruz
August 19, 2021 20:08 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBWe are joined by writer and thinker Cynthia Cruz for a heartfelt and real conversation about the working class. Cynthia has written an incredible new book called The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class (Repeater Books, 2021). We discuss the experiences of being working class, of leaving one's class roots, alienation, working class artists and the current status of the working class in America. As Cruz writes, "to be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a gho...
Episode 28: Cuteness and Cringe - A Lacanian Theory of Online Culture
July 23, 2021 17:12 - 1 hour - 214 MBDaniel (@danieltutt) and Mike (@mcrumps) are joined by Bonni Rambatan (@bonni07) and Jacob Johanssen (@Jacob_PhD) to discuss their forthcoming book Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism. We discuss Bonni and Jacob's theory of online culture, a Lacanian analysis of social media, trolling, incels, and a theory of why the Internet is all about cuteness. Music: Alice Coltrane - "Reflection on Creation and Space" (A Five Year View) LP 1973
Episode 28: Cuteness and Cringe - A Lacanian Theory of Online Culture
July 23, 2021 17:12 - 1 hour - 214 MBDaniel (@danieltutt) and Mike (@mcrumps) are joined by Bonni Rambatan (@bonni07) and Jacob Johanssen (@Jacob_PhD) to discuss their forthcoming book Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism. We discuss Bonni and Jacob's theory of online culture, a Lacanian analysis of social media, trolling, incels, and a theory of why the Internet is all about cuteness. Music: Alice Coltrane - "Reflection on Creation and Space" (A Five Year View) LP 1973
Episode 27: Spirituality and Politics with Dr. Walaa Quisay
June 28, 2021 03:44 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBJoin us for an in depth and heartfelt conversation on contemporary Islamic spirituality and politics with Dr. Walaa Quisay, Ph.D. University of Oxford. Dr. Quisay's research looks at the Neo-Traditionalist Islamic movement, one of the most prominent Islamic intellectual and spiritual movements in the west. In this interview, co-host Daniel Tutt (@danieltutt) and Dr. Walaa Quisay examine how this movement thinks politics and justice, the origins of Islamism, how it differs from Neo-Tradit...
Episode 26: The Adventure of Poetry with Tim Lavenz
June 26, 2021 16:41 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBDaniel and Mike are joined by poet and philosopher Tim Lavenz (https://fragilekeys.com) to discuss the mysteries of poetry. What exactly is the 'old quarrel' between philosophy and poetry? What is the mystery of poetry? What are poetry's limitations: what can't it do or decide? Bio for Tim Lavenz: Tim has many creative essays on the topic of poetry (and much else) on his website, fragilekeys.com, and runs a YouTube channel called Experimentum Vocis, which houses his poetry readings and tal...
Episode 25: The Lukács Hour with Daniel Lopez
May 18, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBDaniel interviews Daniel Lopez, Jacobin Editor and author of Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute https://brill.com/view/title/56328 Topics of Discussion Include: Who is Lukács, and his revival, introductions. Lukács the Worldview Marxist (also what is Worldview Marxism?), The proletariat today, A bio of Lukács, Faith and Praxis, Reification, Moralism, Tragedy, Lukács and Marx, Antimonies, Trotsky, Nietzsche, future projects and much more Music: Big in Japan by Tom Waits
Episode 24: Coda on Trump
March 23, 2021 20:44 - 50 minutes - 45.4 MB.@mcrumps and @DanielTutt meet in the Vampire Bunker for an episode of catching up and chatting. Chatting about what? Well, the ruins of the Trump era, covering everything from the public sphere, the potential end of austerity, Bernie's Mittens, and the absolute state of the right, to how posting has changed and how it has changed us (or not), class in contemporary capitalism, and what a break between american socialism and liberalism would look like. Music: 'Canticle' by Les Hommes
Episode 23: Protagonists of Love with Mari Ruti
March 15, 2021 21:10 - 1 hour - 101 MB.@DanielTutt and @mcrumps talk brass tacks with Mari Ruti, philosopher and author of many books including ‘Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings’ In this episode they discuss Ruti’s influences, her project more generally, Lacan, hurdles to teaching theory, Jordan Peterson, lack, the Sinthome, paranoid vs reparative modes of reading, the problem with self-help, ‘wild analysis’ and autodidacts, Chris Lasch, Eric Santner. Lacanian Psychoanalysis, protagonists of love, and upcoming works
Episode 22: Adam Bartlett Interview
February 24, 2021 22:00 - 2 hours - 129 MB@DanielTutt interviews Adam Bartlett, where they discuss- Ruminations on Australia and personal recollections, discussion on Adam’s book on Badiou and Plato: unpacking sophism, badiou’s reading of plato, representational thinking, the republic, ‘the event’, the allegory of the cave, Badiou’s Philosophy, and ‘neoliberalism’ Read "Badiou and Plato" by A.J Bartlett Music: Like Like A Ship by Pastor T.L. Barrett
Episode 21 Twitch Stream: The Steps of Capital, Qanon and Anti-Recovery
February 18, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview @FSmecker and @DrSeanWitters on the phenomena known as 'Qanon'. In this episode we discuss: alcoholics anonymous and alanon, Qanon as addicts, addicts as symptoms of capitalism, the anti-steps to success, anti anti-fascism, L Ron Hubbard, castration, Q and violence, and post trump bonapartism. As well, a ship gets built, we enter Mike’s comment zone, and take questions from the audience.
Episode 20 Ishay Landa Part 2: Nietzschean Overture
January 19, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes - 35 MB@DanielTutt interviews Ishay Landa, author of The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism, Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture and player of the harmonica! Part 2 of this 2 part episode focuses on Landa’s work on Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s politics, Nietzche’s connection to 20th century fascism, left Nietzscheanism, Badiou, and future projects. Song: "Full Moon" by Eden Ahbez
Episode 19 Ishay Landa Part 1: The Apprentice's Sorcerer
January 18, 2021 19:05 - 1 hour - 53 MB@DanielTutt interviews Ishay Landa, author of The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism, Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture and player of the harmonica! Part 1 of this 2 part episode focuses on Fascism and liberalism, neoliberalism vs liberalism, discourse of fascism- identity and race, contemporary crisis of liberalism, the 4 myths of fascism, individualism, origins of fascism, a...
Episode 18: Hinterland Part 3 "The Party of Anarchy"
December 29, 2020 03:22 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MB@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview author Phil Neel on his book ‘Hinterland’, talking about his life, experiences and the process that led to writing ‘Hinterland’. Part 3 of this 3-part special focuses on- The Party of Anarchy, Badiou, what it’s like to be a communist in public, and life in the Pacific-Northwest Song: "Nighttime in the Switching Yard" by Warren Zevon
Episode 17: Hinterland Part 2 "Feral Insurrectionaries"
December 29, 2020 02:20 - 42 minutes - 33.1 MB@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview author Phil Neel on his book ‘Hinterland’, talking about his life, experiences and the process that led to writing ‘Hinterland’. Part 2 of this 3 part special focuses on the impossibility of Red-brown alliance, the composition of the hinterland, generational conflict, the 'Neel framework' and Camatte, and 'feral insurrectionaries' Song: 'Concrete and Clay' by Unit 4 Plus 2
Episode 16: Hinterland Part 1
December 29, 2020 01:38 - 41 minutes - 32.9 MB@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview author Phil Neel on his book ‘Hinterland’, talking about his life, experiences and the process that led to writing ‘Hinterland’. Part 1 of this 3 part special focuses on comparing the Chinese and American hinterlands, the meaning of hinterland, the new suburbs and the proletariat, the logistics economy, and the far right and third positionism in the exurbs. Song: 'Suburbs' by Arcade Fire
Episode 15: Harper's Fetters
July 18, 2020 20:36 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWe discuss the anti-woke/class first(and only?) left, tearing down the statues, Floyd Protests and Solidarity, the Harper's letter, and the Biden campaign. Music is 'What a Fool Believes' as covered by the band 'Self'
Episode 14: Interview with Laurence Rickels
June 28, 2020 20:15 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBHistory repeating itself again, life on other planets, science fiction, vampires?! Is this an episode of the twilight zone? No, it’s Jouissance Vampires, back at it again, this time in an interview with Laurence Rickels, literary and media theorist and author of Nazi Psychoanalysis as well as the upcoming work Critique of Fantasy.
Episode 14: Interview with Larry Rickles
June 28, 2020 20:15 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBHistory repeating itself again, life on other planets, science fiction, vampires?! Is this an episode of the twilight zone? No, it’s Jouissance Vampires, back at it again, this time in an interview with Larry Rickles, literary and media theorist and author of Nazi Psychoanalysis as well as the upcoming work Critique of Fantasy.
Episode 13: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking with Gabriel Tupinambá
April 05, 2020 20:54 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBOriginally recorded during the Jouissance Vampires twitch stream featuring commiseration over Sanders loss, the machinations of our political class, featuring our first guest the incredible Gabriel Tupinambá (@gtupinamba) who answers your questions, and gives his perspective of psychoanalysis and Lacanian thought.
Episode 12: Spoken Word from the Rally
March 02, 2020 00:45 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBDaniel interviews supporters, undecideds, members of the press and… Matt Taibi (8th interview in), Ilhan Omar rallies the crowd, Bernie stumps for himself, and we run into a genuine bonafide listener of the pod.
Episode 11: Bernie Sanders Power Hour
February 27, 2020 23:18 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBHe could win it, maybe. Episode Covers: Obama, Nevada, McGovern vs Bernie or is it Mondale, the cold war, the ultraleft, warren, alt right and cucked discourse, Bloomberg, the revolutionary feeling, and what are we reading
Episode 10: Obama's Creased Copy of Capital
January 23, 2020 23:10 - 49 minutes - 49.5 MBWho's Obama again?
Episode 7: The Slovenian Vampire
November 15, 2019 22:11 - 36 minutes - 45.1 MBJV Squad talks about the Current Affairs (s)hit piece on Zizek
Episode 5: Hansel and Greta
October 11, 2019 22:47 - 32 minutes - 26.8 MBIs Greta the Anti-Christ? No, but to some people she may be.
Episode 4: Dork Deleuze
October 11, 2019 22:44 - 50 minutes - 51.9 MBOohhh I'm starting to feel like black Justin Murphy.
Episode 3: Rockwell in Motion
October 11, 2019 22:42 - 57 minutes - 75.3 MBSo how is it that music is created, produced anyways? In this episode of Jouissance Vampires we don't talk about any of that, instead we focus on Lana's most recent release 'Norman Fucking Rockwell' and a host of other things.
Episode 2: Big Oedipus's Vape Ban
October 11, 2019 22:40 - 48 minutes - 64.1 MBIn this 'seminar' (lol) we discuss big tobacco and big Oedipus's vape ban, propaganda and global warming, Bernie (as per usual) and Warren and ‘society’ and Trumpism and the coming integralist menace (🤔), the discourse and white supremacy, class and race, falsity of meritocracy and, the US Empire but woke (jk?)