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Abolition Part 2: Proletarian Self-Abolition, Nagarjuna, Baudrillard

October 17, 2019 21:25 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

On this episode, I deliver the second part of my theory on abolition as it brings together "identity politics" in its highest forms, the movements to abolish race and gender. I show how these movements lead naturally, if uneasily, to the Marxist project of proletarian self-abolition, whereby the proletariat destroys itself, and all other classes, it its coming to exist for itself as a class. This paradoxical notion leads us to Nagarjuna, who 1500 years before Marx was already working throug...

Abolitionism: Part One

October 10, 2019 20:17 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB

I'm going solo this week to share with you the fruits of a book I got at the Radical Book Fair: "What Is Gender Nihilism?" I draw on essays by "Nihilist Women," Monique Witting, Noel Ignatiev, Laboria Cuboniks, and more as I delve into gender nihilism, which means the denial that gender is a properly existent entity. The effects of its perception are not denied. This opens the conversation onto gender abolition, which immediately brings along race abolition and tends toward class abolition....

Just Chris

October 03, 2019 22:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB

This is the second interview with Chris Gabriel, with all my audio removed because I sound like I am underwater.

Meme Analysis 2.0

October 03, 2019 21:03 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MB

On today's episode, we dive right back in with Chris Gabriel of the Meme Analysis Youtube channel. We discuss Area 51 memes, and their theme of surveillance, secret power, and so on; then we turn our attention to the poor Left, which is searching in the desert for its meming potential. In the course of the conversation we learn a lot more about how Chris sees memes taking over, and his insights into what it takes to make a given idea "memable." Note: My audio during the interview is just awf...

Meme Analysis

September 26, 2019 20:26 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

On this week's episode, I'm joined by Chris Gabriel of the Meme Analysis YouTube channel. In his work, he applies the theory of Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, and William S Burroughs, among others, to the study of memes and their import for today's "society." We dive into Ultra-Instinct Shaggy, the role of 4chan in meme culture, and tips and tricks for those looking to become meme lords, or at least gain a foothold into this uproarious and fascinating aspect of modern society,

Zummi 2.0

September 19, 2019 20:13 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MB

On this week's show, we are lucky enough to have Zummi come back and try to explain the relevance of the arcane knowledge which is part of the r/SorceryOfTheSpectacle research paradigm, and how even everyday people can find an inroad into this deep dive on symbolism, language, technology, and politics. A caller calls in to say that Zummi was "excellent," and talked about her own practice of "self-parenting." The upshot of Zummi's analysis is that whatever task we have in front of us, we wil...

Zummi

September 12, 2019 17:46 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB

On this episode, I pull in Zummi from r/SorceryOfTheSpectacle (on Reddit) to talk about the SotS research project. Get your dictionary ready, because Zummi will get into a very interesting, if dense and hard to parse analysis of the evolution of human communication, and the relevance for a magical/anthropological/Buddhist orientation toward the world.

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The Phantom Menace

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