Diego joins us to continue on Althusser's Marxism and Humanism from his book For Marx, and new battle lines are drawn...
We try to have our discussions make sense if you haven't ...
2024-11-23 03:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We read Althusser's Marxism and Humanism, an Essay from his 1965 collection "For Marx" in which he declares the two fundamentally incompatible. We didn't make it far into the essay because we were ...
2024-11-16 01:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The federal union of the United States has decided to elect Presinald Trump as its leader from the years 2025-2029, as God wills.
Here, three Canadians provide you with unsolicited opinions a...
2024-11-09 01:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Analyzing the American Election with sociology, WWE, and punk (didn't get all the way to punk, was going to talk about the reaction to Offspring's "Americana" back in 1998). Text source is Durkheim...
2024-11-05 21:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We watched the film "The Young Karl Marx", reviewing it as a film and comparing it with other sources so as to speculate on Marx' personality.
Watch the film first! Found it 2024-11-01 17:07:27 +0000 UTC
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Looking at Kayfabe inspired by the Netflix series on Vince McMahon (the long time CEO guy of World Wrestling Federation).
Your sources are that and Roland Barthes' Mythologies 2024-10-22 21:34:02 +0000 UTC
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The rules are that if you say something nice about liberalism, you then have give ten reasons it sucks. We read the first chapter of a scathing critique of liberalism by Domenico Losurdo: Liberalis...
2024-10-21 00:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post
(Sorry for the late edit, it was Canadian Thanksgiving) Today we take the temperature of all the new futures popping up—the various Acc/s, the radical democracies, the Christofascists, and the Ma...
2024-10-15 19:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought I had to revisit the Disneyland/Hyperreality distinction, mainly as a correction to the commonplace error that I have heard repeated in conversations, and in other YT videos and on podcas...
2024-10-11 18:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1933, Bataille linked Durkheim's sociology and psychoanalysis to the rise of fascism over the border. The parallels to the present moment are hard to miss.
The article is attached (and wo...
MAGA Communism may strike you as contradictory and stupid sounding, but it is backed by 200 tweets of theory which include Marx, Lenin, Dugin, and Heidegger. We plunge the depths of the MAGA Commun...
2024-09-28 00:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We face the fact that only a Nazi could properly explain American politics. Here's a link to Schmitt's " 2024-09-20 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to business—we talk Aztec myths and Bataille on Sacrifice from The Accursed Share. Source below!
2024-09-06 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We don't often have current events to cover, but once in a while the current events are Hegel.
The Hegelian E-Girl Council was to be the head of a new cult, which fell into a Twitter flame w...
2024-08-30 21:21:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We move from Durkheim to his nephew, Marcel Mauss and his book The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies.
2024-08-26 03:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostI got fed a video saying that Destiny and JBP have the same philosophy of language—the results may shock you!
Having not pre-watched the whole video, I was thrown for a loop whereby I seem...
After a brief recap of the Deleuzo-Guattarian Australian breakdancer we read chapters 6 and 7 of Durkheim's Elementary forms of Religious Life and try to get a hold on the primordial concept of con...
2024-08-16 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm dead serious about mana and magic, and since everyone is running high on esotericism I thought I would have a go. Please interpret schizophrenically because the objects in the mirror are closer...
2024-08-14 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I had no idea what to call this because we cover... a lot. Everything from the theology of liberalism, to Diego's meeting with RFK, his plan for Latin America, then Adin Ross and how Twitter got we...
2024-08-10 04:15:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Durkheim, one of the founders of sociology, slowly came to the discovery by the end of his career that consciousness, langauge and thought itself were of religious origin. We tried to retrace a few...
2024-08-03 00:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post
We gotta catch up on all the news, game the Vance pick, and look at the terrifying Project 2025 document. We read this essay: 2024-07-27 01:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Cultic knowledge structures are everywhere, including in super-rational-atheist Sam Harris' superficial empiricism.
2024-07-23 00:19:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Conspiracy theory or mere conspiracy? Back in art history, it was said to have a social purpose. Now, it's become anti-democratic investment vehicle for the obscenely rich so I've meticulously anim...
2024-07-19 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Conspiracy theory or actual conspiracy? Today we investigate how a small cabal of nihilist philosophers managed to take over America and caused the invasion of Iraq based on the writings of eminent...
2024-07-12 15:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Apparently this is a big deal, but I was not sure exactly why. Luckily, Victor reads Supreme Court decisions on his spare time for fun.
2024-07-06 00:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We recap the Trump-Biden debate and then discuss the politics/economy of fear. Sources include Armageddon, Strauss, Hegel, and Durkheim.
2024-06-30 01:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Some simulationist material analysis in the economy of signs.
Erik's Feature: ...
2024-06-21 17:38:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 2 of Part 2 of The World as Will and Representation (https://amzn.to/3UM2SBY).
2024-06-14 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss Zizek's Hegelian defense of a monarchy to solve the problem of democracy.
Part 2 of our reading of Simone De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity: https://www.marxists....
2024-06-04 04:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post