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 done the reading, but this isn't always successful. The reading is attached
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 having terminological disputes, but we shall return in finer detail soon.
Find the paper atta...
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 about the meaning of this event or lack thereof.
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's Elementary Forms of Religious Life ht...
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 https://amzn.to/48h7Ug5 and Durkheim's Elementary...
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: Liberalism: A Counter-History, to some mixed reviews.
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 Magacomms—and psychoanalyze them as a lump having read Zizek's article that they're all too optimist...
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 podcasts—namely, Disneyland is not hyperreal! It is a defense of the reality principle. Hope you enjoy a...
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 worth the read)!
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 Communist tractatus: "MARXISM IS NOT WOKE" to explore its theoretical aspirations.
Sour...
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 "Concept of the Political".
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 war about a week after its launch. Our guest's studio was the physical origin site of the Hegelian E-...
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 seemed to have been missing the youtube guy's point, but in final analysis, the "spectrum" on which he p...
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 concepts: MANA.
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 than they appear:D
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 weird. Although our talks with Diego are never short or focused, this one goes hard.
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 of his steps from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life in an hour and a half, and c...
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: https://www.vanityfair.com/n...
2024-07-27 01:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostCultic 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 animated this corkboard to inform you what you already know.
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 political philosopher Leo Strauss.
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: https://magazine.yorku.ca/issues/summer-2024/swallowing-the-philosophy-pill/
Dark Academi...
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.
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/in-defense-of-hegels-notion-of-monarchy/
2024-06-11 21:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 2 of our reading of Simone De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/
2024-06-04 04:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post