Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
120 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsA podcast focused on creating engaging and accessible political education for today's Left. We read all those theory and politics books and teach them to you, the listener, so you don't have to. Then you take what you learn and put it into practice.
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New Show Just Dropped! Subjective Conditions Ep. 1 - We Are The Break
August 30, 2022 04:21 - 1 hour - 95 MBTHE NEW SHOW HAS ARRIVED. Welcome....to Subjective Conditions: Exploring the Mind and Body Under Capitalism! Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is joined by The Comrade That Cannot Be Perceived, Courtney, and Jess for our inaugural episode. LET'S GET GALAXY-BRAINED, COMRADES. Show References Psychedelic White Internal Family Systems (IFS) Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Subjective Conditions Patreon Page
RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 3)
September 14, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBIn the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? Pt. 2 has our Comrade in Christ™ and RIP Kevin™ leading up chapters on Hegel's early ph...
RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 2)
August 04, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 97 MBIn the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? Pt. 2 has our Comrade in Christ™ and RIP Kevin™ leading up chapters on Hegel's early ph...
RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 1)
July 01, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutes - 69.2 MBIn the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? It's been a hell of a ride and we are going out by turning that philosophical lead in...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: 2 Fash 2 Tierious - Heidelberg Drift (Pt. 1)
March 31, 2021 01:39 - 7 minutes - 8.32 MBIt's an All-Star Lost Horizons Network Cast™ as we finally get into our promised right-wing/reactionary/fascist thinkers tier list! The Regrettable Century Gang, our Comrade in Christ™, Mir, CC Don, and Chairman Bane dive into part 1 of the list. Everyone will be outed as a closet reactionary by the end. We will finally become Red-Brown Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Strasserites at long last! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibr...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 8 AvengersInfinityWarEndgame)
March 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBWe Out Here™ for Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 8. It's time for the final battle. It's the Red Library Lacanian/Marxist version of AvengersInfinityWarEndgame™. More Red Troika DAGGERS OUT™ action abounds on the last two chapters of McGowan with closing thoughts. Chairman Bane aka White Morpheus aka Comrade Adam leads the final two chapters on scarcity and abundance and the sublime and the market. Final thoughts happen. Shit talking does occur. Lessons are learned. A new day dawns. Reality is...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 7 FINIS)
March 08, 2021 01:00 - 2 hours - 122 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Chairman Bane and TRC Crew are once again joined by our special guest and Comrade in Christ™, Mir, for the p...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: The Passion of the Michael Bay
March 06, 2021 04:51 - 10 minutes - 11.7 MBFor the first of not 1 but 2 RL Patron-Exclusive Episodes™ for March, Chairman Bane, CC Don, and patron royalty and OGs MetroGnome and Gravesend Commissar fill in for CC Alex to discuss the oeuvre of Michael Bay through the lens of the reactionary mind. This one is pure chaos, y'all. No prep work except for CC Don and Chairman Bane watching Armageddon while experiencing societal collapse in Texas during the recent ice storm. But as per usual, hot takes abound with some bordering on ic...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 7)
February 15, 2021 17:31 - 1 hour - 105 MBWe Out Here™ for Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 7! It's OG Red Troika action for this one as we go full DAGGERS OUT™ on not 1 but 2 chapters of Capitalism and Desire. CC Don leads the chapter on means and ends and Comrade Adam aka Chairman Bane aka White Morpheus leads the chapter on love. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Lost Horizons Podcasting Network Todd McGowan Why Theory? Podcast Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Review ---------------------------------...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 666)
February 08, 2021 03:19 - 1 hour - 134 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. The RL Gang and TRC Crew are joined by our special guest and Comrade in Christ™, Mir, as we dive into part 6...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Decolonization and Education Patron Roundtable (Pt. 1)
January 18, 2021 00:22 - 16 minutes - 16.9 MBBECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE! We are kicking off 2021 right and firing up the Red Library podcast machines with the long-awaited release of our patron roundtable on decolonization and critical pedagogy! Join the all-star patron cast of past guests and long-time patrons as they discuss some legendary books in the decolonial tradition as it relates to political education and liberation! ------------------------------------------------ ...
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Pt. 2)
December 25, 2020 16:40 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBPart of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane GO MOBILE on our long-awaited mega episode on Mari Ruti's The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within! For Part 2, we talk more about CC Alex being BIG MAD, violence, the ethics of sublimation, how we relate to commodities and Das Ding, love, and justice. Further Readings/References Mari Ruti Review of The Singularity of Being Sinthome Automaton and Tu...
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Pt. 1)
December 24, 2020 02:14 - 1 hour - 144 MBPart of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane GO MOBILE on our long-awaited mega episode on Mari Ruti's The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within! For Part 1, we set up a lot of the core arguments of Ruti's and interpretations of core Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts, delve into the Introduction and Chapter 1, and foreshadow all the things CC Alex is BIG MAD about with Ruti's daggers being out for his boi...
The Red Desert Ep. 1.2: The Impossible Image (Pt. 2) - The Feeling of Existence
December 18, 2020 21:54 - 1 hour - 109 MBWe continue our exploration of the Impossible Image with Comrade Commissar Alex from the Red Library gang! Along the way, Alex and Sam respond to some recent discussions across the Lost Horizons Network on the emancipatory potential of art and the Enchantments of Mammon Pt. 5 episode. What is an image? What makes it impossible? What are the two wolves inside Samuel? These are the questions at hand! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected]...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (No. 5)
December 07, 2020 01:00 - 2 hours - 140 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is running the show for No. 5 and we start off with some Big Brain™ listener ques...
The Red Desert Ep. 1: The Impossible Image (Pt. 1) - The Supremacy of Artistic Feeling
November 30, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBWe focus on our concept of The Impossible Image as representing negativity and the Real in different ways. Sam brings an example from the art world and Adam brings one from the realm of religion. It all leads to asking "what is the revolutionary subject?" ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red ...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: What If Toys But God Is Dead?
November 27, 2020 15:56 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MBThe Red Troika delivers our most icy cold/spicy take episode on one of the most beloved film franchises in recent history: Toy Story. Icy Cold Takes™ abound on everything from alienation under capitalism, the co-optation of radical feminism by authoritarian liberal feminism, the crypto-fascism of the nuclear family in the films, the death of God, zoomers versus boomers, family court, and much more! This one gets deranged, unhinged, and chaos reigns as we destroy a sacred cow of settler c...
Organizing for Autonomy: Theory, History, and Strategy for Collective Liberation w. CounterPower
November 23, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBThe Red Troika Bois are joined by Comrades Jaime and Pádraig from CounterPower/ContraPoder to talk about their newly published book, Organizing for Autonomy: History, Theory, and Strategy for Collective Liberation! We discuss the project of the book and CounterPower's approach to organizing, the role of theory for today's left, partisan social science, interpersonal relations on the Left, and tons more! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmai...
The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918-1923
November 16, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBA new comrade/patron, Patrick, joins us in the history wing of the Red Library this week to tackle a long-overdue historical moment of everlasting importance for today's Left: the failed German Revolution of 1918. We talk about the history of the SPD, the infamous voting for war credits, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the March Action, the Spartacist League and Uprising, the Kapp Putsch, and more! This one has Big Radio War Nerd Energy and is already an RL classic! Further Reading...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 6)
November 09, 2020 07:15 - 1 hour - 99 MBFor Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 6/Chapter 6, CC Don is in the driver's seat to talk Hegel, the good infinite, and the bad infinite in capitalism. It's the skeleton crew on this one with just Podrade Neil and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane joining in the fun. This is a very breakfast food-heavy discussion. Many questions ensue. Marx is discussed. Daggers are drawn. Answers are sought and only more questions are found. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Hegel on the Dialectics of Infinity --...
The Red Desert Ep. 0: Trending Toward the Vanishing Point of Geist
November 02, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 133 MBWe inaugurate a brand new companion project to Red Library called The Red Desert starting today! This project is focused on Comrades Adam and Sam dive into active theorizing on our shared theoretical explorations/book projects and describe the spirit and nature of The Red Desert project. Some topics include form and content, time, film, art, philosophy, communism, and almost everything else. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] Fol...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Our Beautiful Big Red Failson
October 25, 2020 20:04 - 9 minutes - 9.81 MBGravesend Commissar returns for our follow-up episode on The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller by GOING MOBILE on Superman: Red Son! We talk about the War on Terror's influence on the comic, contradictions of the liberal mind, American exceptionalism, and the return of Cold War ideology. Hypocrisy is the greatest evil to the liberal worldview. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_po...
Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I w. Eric Chester
October 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBEric Chester, author of the new book from Monthly Review Press, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I, joins Comrade Adam in the library this week for a very special episode! We work through Eric's new book and talk about the differing contexts of suppression of free speech in the UK and the U.S., Eugene Debs, the IWW, Samuel Gompers and the ALF-CIO legacy, and some of the legendary IWW strikes and labor drives during the period. Further Readings/References Eric...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 4)
October 12, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 150 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. CC Don is back in the driver's seat for Part 4 on populism. anarchist and socialist history, the craft movem...
The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture (Pt. 2)
October 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWe are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture. In Part 2, we discuss Lasch's critiques of how the word revolution functions on the Left, who the revolutionary subject was in the 1960's, the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago with the BPP, similarities between the Left and Right, culture's relationship to capitalist resistance, educational ...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: One Flew Over the Cuckoo Boidz Nest
September 27, 2020 15:00 - 12 minutes - 12.3 MBBECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE! The Red Troika delves into the 2019 film, Vivarium, to talk about bird conspiracies, antinatalism, the hell of home ownership, the tyranny of the nuclear family, evolutionary biology and beauty, and the true meaning of cuckoldry, and more off-the-rails topics in the horniest Red Library episode of all time! Buckle up and put on those winter coats for the icy cold takes - we almost didn't make it out of this one al...
The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture w. C. Derick Varn (Pt. 1)
September 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBWe are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture. In part 1, we talk the gaps in Leftist understanding of U.S. history, asylums, the history of feminist movements in the 19th century, the temperance movement, the New Left, the university as a reactionary institution, imperialism, and much more! Varn brings so many icy cold takes you s...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: The Thin Bat Line w. Gravesend Commissar
September 16, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutes - 13.4 MBBECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE! Comrade/Patron Gravesend Commissar joins the Red Troika Bois for a spiritual sequel to our Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight Trilogy patron-exclusive episodes to talk about Frank Miller's legendary comic series The Dark Knight Returns. This is essentially a deep dive into the reactionary mind and aesthetics of postmodern fascism. :50 ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcas...
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism w. Cosmopod
September 13, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBPart of Red Library's Lost Futures Series Comrade Adam (a.k.a. Chairman Bane) joins podrades Remi and Niko from Cosmonaut's brilliant Ecology Cast series to discuss Kohei Saito's Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx's Ecosocialism from Monthly Review Press in 2017. We discuss the concept of metabolism, Marx's evolution of thought on ecology being the core realm of capitalist crisis, agricultural chemistry, the role of a Marxist ecosocialist perspec...
Decolonizing Dialectics
September 07, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 145 MBPart of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America and Real Philosophy Hourz Series We are joined by Comrade/Patron Brant of Houston Review of Books to tackle George Ciccarielo-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics and get into some real theoretical ICY COLD TAKES in the library this week. We discuss the relationship between dialectics and decolonization, postcolonialism and decolonial theory, Frantz Fanon, Enrique Dussel, try to recuperate Georges Sorel for today's Lef...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 5)
August 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBDON'T YOU DARE CALL IT A COMEBACK. Part 5 of our Todd McGowan Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets reading series is in full effect this week. In Chapter 5, CC Alex leads us through a discussion on psychoanalytic approaches to freedom under capitalism, universals, and McGowan's use of the symbolic to explain capital's functioning along with all the usual Red Troika hijinks. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Their Myths? Interp...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 3)
August 17, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 151 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. For part 3, Comrade Adam leads the discussion on advertising, the rise of the corporation, scientific manage...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Pt. 2)
August 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBIn a very special 2-part episode, Comrade Adam is joined by former guests and Red Library patrons, Comrades Tiberius and Ryan, to discuss bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. In part 2, we talk about masculinity and work, what love is for hooks, limitations in hooks's Second Wave Feminist framework, gender abolition, biological essentialism, shame, spirituality, and tons more! Further Reading/References bell hooks The Will to Change Review and Summary Relati...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Pt. 1)
August 03, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 143 MBIn a very special 2-part episode, Comrade Adam is joined by former guests and Red Library patrons, Comrades Tiberius and Ryan, to discuss bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. We start part 1 with discussion of hooks's main arguments for the book overall, the nature of patriarchal hierarchy, how patriarchy impacts the ways men's ability to love and be vulnerable, and tons more. This one gets pretty personal for all of us in the best possible way. Further Reading/Re...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 2)
July 27, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 151 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. For part 2, CC Don is in the driver's seat and we are going to focus on Mammonism in the mid-19th century in...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Icy Cold Takes on a Dark Knight (Pt. 1)
July 26, 2020 17:00 - 13 minutes - 15.5 MB***BECOME A PATRON FOR ONLY $1/MONTH! LINK TO OUR PATREON PAGE IN THE LINKS BELOW*** The Red Troika offers the most systematic, complex Icy Cold Take in the show's history focused on the conservative reactionary mindset in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. Batman (the symbol of neoliberal right-wing authoritarian power) must battle his 3 greatest ideological foes: liberal technocratic biopower, a completely misunderstood version of anarchism, and the greatest threat, revolutionary...
Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution 1944-1954 (Pt. 2)
July 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBPart of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series At long last, we finally tackle the Guatemalan Revolution and the tragic rise and fall of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 in a monstrous, dense two-part episode on Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses. In part 2, we pick up on Jacobo Arbenz's presidency, Decree 900 and agrarian reform in Guatemala, the beginnings of the CIA plot to out Arbenz, and take it all the...
Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution 1944-1954 (Pt. 1)
July 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBPart of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series At long last, we finally tackle the Guatemalan Revolution and the tragic rise and fall of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 in a monstrous, dense two-part episode on Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses. In part 1, we discuss the context of the book and some details about Gleijeses, the history of authoritarian dictators in Guatemala through the 1930's and 1940's, ...
The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 1)
July 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Chris leads us through the Introduction and Part 1 to get things off just right. We talk about the general t...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE TEASER: Red Library's Patron Round-table Discussion on 2020 Global Protests and Revolts
June 28, 2020 17:00 - 13 minutes - 10.8 MBGET ACCESS TO THE FULL EPISODE FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH AT RED LIBRARY'S PATREON PAGE IN THE SHOW NOTES BELOW! For this very special Patron-exclusive episode of Red Library, we had a round-table discussion with patrons of the show and a few special guests to talk about the ongoing BLM protests against racial violence and brutality by the State and police in the U.S. and around the globe! This is going to be the first of many future roundtable discussions with patrons so get in...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 4)
June 22, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 151 MBAll aboard the McGowan train for part 4 of our Capitalism and Desire reading series! CHOO CHOO, COMRADES. This one is all about sacrifice and the unconscious ways we sacrifice continuously in capitalism despite claims that the necessity of sacrifice is no longer needed in our modern, rationalist society. Further Reading/References Georges Bataille The Social Consequence of Everything College Humor Video ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast...
Symbolic Exchange and Death (Pt. 2)
June 15, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBComrade Cooper Cherry (Triple C) from the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast is back in the library for part 2 of more Big Brain Energy and unraveling the Code of the post-modern Chad, Jean Baudrillard, in Symbolic Exchange and Death. For round 2, we talk about reproduction, the hyperreal (obvs), The Matrix, fashion, racism, death, the Death Drive, shitposting, actual shit and excrement, post-scarcity, poetry, and wrap things up. Further Readings/References Machinic Unconscious Hap...
Symbolic Exchange and Death (Pt. 1)
June 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBComrade Cooper Cherry (Triple C) from the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast joins us for a very in-depth exploration with lots of Big Brain Energy of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death from 1976. Part 1 covers some basics about Baudrillard and situating him theoretically on the Left, the context of the book's publication and writing, the Real and radical indeterminacy, the shift from production to consumption, shopping in a pandemic, how to confront capital that doesn't e...
UNLOCKED PATREON EPISODE: Red Library's Top 30 Leftist Theorists Tiered Hierarchy Battle Royale (Pt. 1)
May 27, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBTHE GLOVES ARE OFF. IT'S LEFTIST THEORIST (Post-1969) BATTLE ROYALE TIME. Red Library just hit our goal of 50 patrons which we have been working on over the last year (AIR HORNS AIR HORNS). As a small thank you to all you comrade listeners out there that have been our ride-or-dies, Comrade Adam/Bane, CC Don/Joker, and CC Alex/Thanos/Lobo are ranking into a tiered hierarchy and in a completely arbitrary way the top 30ish Leftist theorists from 1969 onward. This list is now offic...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 3)
May 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBBACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE. The Red Troika plus CC Neil return for more McGowan psychoanalytical goodness. In part 3, we focus on chapter 3 of Capitalism and Desire and discuss the Lacanian concept of The Gaze, presentations of women in film, Ayn Rand, self-interest and capitalism as a neutral background, Antigone, Adam becomes a Badiou Stan, lots of movie talk, and more! Further Reading/References The Gaze Zizek Lecture - The Spectator's Malevolent ...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Pandemic! at the Disco w. Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
May 10, 2020 23:30 - 2 hours - 128 MBOn this week's Red Library, we bring you a special collaborative episode with our podrade, Cooper Cherry, at the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast. Comrade Adam went on Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour to discuss Slavoj Zizek's recent book-length hot take, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World. Further Readings/References Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Patreon Page ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter a...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 2)
May 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBA Lost Horizons Network Collaboration This week on Red Library, Neil from the From78 Podcast and the Red Troika (Don, Alex, and Adam) continue our reading series on Todd McGowan's Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. We kick off part 2 with some discussion of wrestling and basketball then dive into the theoretical depths on the colonization of public space by the private in capitalism, Kant, the surveillance state, Karens, Big Sad Boi Energy, Badiou's Event, and much ...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Lost Horizons Network First Podcast Release!
April 27, 2020 00:30 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBOn this week's Red Library, we interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring your our first Lost Horizons Network collective podcast release, Here We Are Together, Still...After All. Join Comrade Adam, Jason and Chris from The Regrettable Century, and Neil from the From78 Podcast, as we talk about dialectical pessimism, what the revolution is for each of us, and lots of good laughs along the way! Find the Lost Horizons Network podcast feed here! ----------------------------------...
PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Nic Cage and the Aesthetics of Horror
April 27, 2020 00:30 - 7 minutes - 7.81 MBThe Red Troika (CC Don, CC Alex, and Comrade Adam) dive into the hyper-aesthetics of horror in the modern Nicholas Cage classics, Mandy and Out of Space. Hot takes and icy-cold takes abound in this episode on Nic Cage's Trump impression, reading Mandy as a depiction of Hillary's fall and Joe Biden's rise, and all sorts of absolute space and drug madness. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@r...
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
April 20, 2020 00:30 - 1 hour - 113 MBOur excellent fellow podcaster and Red Library patron, Comrade Jared, joins us in the library to tackle a towering figure in the current Marxist theory landscape, David Harvey. We read through his recent work, Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. We discuss different models of how to understand capitalism as a total system, the social creation of value, economics as an objective science, ideology and deception within capitalism, whether there is ethical consumption under capi...