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Theorize and be Damned: Episode 2 -- Fisher, The Limit Experience & Online Culture w/Emma Stamm
We talk to Emma Stamm about Mark Fisher, the Limit Experience, Digital Capitalism, internet culture and more.
Here are the links to the articles discussed:
https://reallifemag.com/who-can-it-be-now/
https://social-epistemology.com/2022/04/18/curiosity-and-anti-economy-a-response-to-florian-jaton-emma-stamm/
http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stamm.pdf
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Emma Stamm is an Assistant Professor of Science and technology studies at Farmingdale State College-SUNY. Her fields are Critical Theory and Science and Technology Studies. Her research comprises integrative analyses of digitally mediated communication and psychedelic drug experience as catalysts of knowledge about human life. -
Theorize and be Damned: Episode 1 -- The Darkest Timeline with Bram E. Gieben
Revol Books launch their Theorize and be Damned podcast with a chat with Bram E. Gieben about his forthcoming book The Darkest Timeline.
Preorder Bram's book here:
https://linktr.ee/thedarkesttimeline
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Breaking the Spell of Capitalist Realism w/ Locust Review: Irrealist Praxis & Art
We talk with Adam and Tish Turl from the Locust Review quarterly. We discuss the founding and purpose of Locust Review, the theory of Critical Irrealism, and their ever-growing installation in The Born Again Labor Museum. Adam and Tish are longtime friends of the acid left so this is a fun episode filled with laughs. We also speculate what a left wing response to Q might be, talk fan fiction, share fever dreams and tips for agitating at the workplace.
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Call For Submissions!!
https://www.locustreview.com/editorial/locust-7-missing-days-call-for-submissions
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Frankfurt School Today: #3 Max Ryynänen - Were Benjamin and Adorno too Bourgeois?
In the third in this series Mike Watson talks to Max Ryynänen asking if the Frankfurt School are too Bourgeois.
Max is a tenured Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and theorist of Aesthetics, where he focuses on excluded and outsider practices. He published On the Philosophy of Central European Art (2020), in which he proposes Nobrow art production as a response to the dichotomy between High and Low brow and the way in which the former co-opts the latter.
You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336
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Frankfurt School Today: #4 Matt McManus - Is Existentialism Inherently Fascist?
In the fourth in this series Mike Watson talks to Matt McManus asking if Adorno's criticism of Existentialism in the 'Jargon of Authenticity' was fair. Matt McManus is a Professor of Law and Society at The University of Calgary.
He is also the author of... The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), AND co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books AND A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights (Palgrave 2020).
You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/memeing-mark-fisher
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Rick Roderick: The Father of the Online Left, with Marshall Roderick
The Acid Left talk to Marshall Roderick, son of Rick Roderick. As well as following up our campaign to get Roderick republished, we ask what the man was like, what he would have made of Biden and Trump, Lefttube and much more !
You can read Max Roderick's text on Rick Roderick here: http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/
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