“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
-- Antonio Gramsci
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 salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism.
A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
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Episodes
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
This week we continue our discussion about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act upon The world?
Join us while we discuss the messy dialectic of Marxism and Psychoanalysis.
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxism
Lacan, Psychoanalysis and the Left
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalytic Marxism https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/59?fbclid=IwAR3J552MAOY2YZPfGvV06iwa3dfvfltc0-gDloNqFUZHzyCaWFZrYrrpXyo
The Lost Horizons Network
https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/
The Lost Horizons Network Podcast
Well... Here we are still, after all.
https://well.transistor.fm/
Red Library Podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts
From78 Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/from78
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
This week we are joined by Alex and Adam from Red Library to talk about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act upon The world?
Join us while we discuss the messy dialectic of Marxism and Psychoanalysis.
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxism
Lacan, Psychoanalysis and the Left
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalytic Marxism https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/59?fbclid=IwAR3J552MAOY2YZPfGvV06iwa3dfvfltc0-gDloNqFUZHzyCaWFZrYrrpXyo
The Lost Horizons Network
https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/
The Lost Horizons Network Podcast
Well... Here we are still, after all.
https://well.transistor.fm/
Red Library Podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts
From78 Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/from78
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
This week we are joined by Adam, Don, and Alex from the Red Library.
We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.
McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism.
In our fifth installment we deal with the Heavenly City of Fordism and the Machine Age.
McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print.
MUSIC: Micah No 5- Apologetix
The Lost Horizons Network
https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/
The Lost Horizons Network Podcast
Well... Here we are still, after all.
https://well.transistor.fm/
Red Library Podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts
From78 Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/from78
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
We read Richard Seymour's Article from Salvage Quarterly about Disaster Nationalism and talked about it. Tune in to hear about the Chad Nationalism’ of ‘sexy’, ‘dangerous’, gym-hitting boys, zaddy fascism, and listen while we parse rightisms and talk about how Trump and the GOP (still) aren't fascists.
https://salvage.zone/articles/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/
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Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
We are dumb babies who don't understand Hegel. Sam, who recently joined our network as a part of the Red Library's The Red Desert series is not. He sat down with us and helped us understand some key Hegelian concepts that he posits need to be understood in order to continue the radicalization of Marxism.
Mladan Dolar on The Phenomenology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6sG1nw0m_w
Lecture on the Zizek chapter below.
https://youtu.be/gk0A12NYKS8
1. The Hegel Variations by Frederic Jameson - The chapters "Idealism", "Oppositions" and "Spirit as Collectivity"
2. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek - The chapter "Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx"
3. The Restlessness of the Negative by Jean-Luc Nancy - The chapter "Restlessness"
4. Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse - The chapters "Hegel's First system" and "Introduction: From Philosophy to Social Theory"
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/reason/reason-and-revolution.pdf
5. Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution by Rebecca Comay - The Introduction "French Revolution, German Misère"
6. Gramsci's Hegelian Marxism by Paul Piccone
7. Hegel and Freud by Alenka Zupančič
8. The Dash by Rebecca Comay & Frank Ruda - The Introduction "Hegel to the Letter"
In forwarded email.
Music: Cursed- Hegel's Bastards
The Lost Horizons Network
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The Lost Horizons Network Podcast:
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Red Library Podcast:
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From78 Podcast
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Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Hey everyone, we turned two!
You guys keep listening to us for some reason and we are happy about it. For our birthday party we sat down to talk about highlights, lowlights, and what we hope to do in the future.
Please enjoy the very last episode of year two before we kick off what we hope will be an exciting and fruitful year three!
Music: Modern Life is War- Night Shift at the Potato Factory
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
We recorded an episode, about something else, but in the process we talked about the election for 45 minutes. Here it is!
Keep in mind this episode was recorded as results were coming in on the day after the election.
Music: Bad Religion- Fuck Armageddon
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables.
For our second Patron roundtable the crew had a well rounded discussion that included making fun of dumb conspiracies, talking about the myriad of actual conspiracies, and finally what makes conspiratorial logic so appealing to the right and left alike .
Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discussion. All patrons are welcome!
Materials used in discussion:
Jameson, Fredric. The geopolitical aesthetic : cinema and space in the world system. Bloomington London: Indiana University Press BFI Pub, 1992. Print.
https://www.d.umn.edu/~cstroupe/ideas/cognitivemap.html
Good Conspiracy Documentary Series
https://www.fox.com/the-x-files/
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Steven from The Supreme Leap Forward is back to talk about why the Supreme Court is a regressive, reactionary, and profoundly undemocratic institution that needs to be abolished.
Waiting for SCOTUS
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/waiting-for-scotus?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJo
Amy Coney Barrett Worked on Bush v. Gore
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-bush-gore-election-trump?fbclid=IwAR1xku0mvqk2RbgGEm3enLD6O7hkrP_Gl4Mj8fA7rYf6lCkXthUvuWB506c
The Future of the Supreme Court in the Liberal Imagination
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/supreme-court-trump-kavanaugh-liberalism?fbclid=IwAR18XUaifhwGcQVU72w9znE581wzvzx4Gz6ExUI5-HHFDORi81sFmhOoKC0
The Scandal of Democracy: Seven Theses
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/supreme-court-senate-electoral-college-undemocratic?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJo
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from Red Library.
We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.
McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism.
In our fourth installment we deal with the populists, socialists, and anarchists during the golden age of the American left.
McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print.
MUSIC: Spacecataz
The Lost Horizons Network
https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/
The Lost Horizons Network Podcast
Well... Here we are still, after all.
https://well.transistor.fm/
Red Library Podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts
From78 Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/from78