I'm currently 14 pages into the script for my next video on left-wing terrorism, and I'm making good progress. I'd say I'm at least 3/4 done.
Writing it has been extremely difficult because there is simply so much to cover, and I have delayed finishing the script for such a long time becau...
The video is out, thank you for your patience everyone!!!
See my previous post to get access to the books mentioned and the video script.
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The video for my top 10 books of 2023 is currently being exported. In the meantime, I have added all the books listed to our Google Drive, namely:
“The Next Shift” by Gabriel Winant
“Minima Moralia” by Theodor Adorno
“Horror in Architecture” by J...
I recently bought these Soviet items that I have a lot of appreciation for.
My relation to Soviet memorabilia is very ambiguous. I don’t believe that the Soviet Union was ever socialist in the strict sense of the word, and I don’t think it was even a dictatorship of the proletariat for ...
2024-02-22 03:16:53 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone! I am back from another depressive episode and the script for my Top 10 Books Read in 2023 video is almost finished, so it should be coming out either this week or the next.
While I'm working on that, we can start voting on what my next video should be about. Multipl...
The video is out!!!
Looking at classical Marxist theory to find out what a proletarian is, and what distinguishes productive and unproductive labor to clear up some commonly held misconceptions. I hope you'll find it helpful!
Video script is attached to the post.
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2023-10-29 22:41:00 +0000 UTC
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Almost done editing my new video on the proletariat and productive labor, so it should be coming out today or at least tomorrow, stay tuned!
As an aside, I wanted to say that the updated Patreon interface sucks, and is way more inconvenient to use. Not sure why they felt like ruining it. H...
My next video will be on the topic of the proletariat and productive labor. Until then I thought I'd share something with you.
At the beginning of the year, I read Utopia Deferred, a coll...
Since we’ve gotten a lot of new patrons since my last video (welcome everybody!), I’ve decided to post a new poll to see what people are interested in the most, along with 2 new video ideas. Multiple choice is allowed!
1) This would be a more historical video, like my German Revolution...
This is footage I found that I had filmed many years ago that I thought my patrons might find interesting, even if I'm not the best cameraman. This is a town called Pyramiden, in what is now Norway, which used to be a Soviet coal mining settlement that became abandoned in the 90s because of lack ...
2023-09-06 08:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I've spent the past couple of days recovering my old project on Heidegger and Ghibli movies and re-editing it to attempt bypassing copyright block again, and I'm happy to announce it worked! This is a video that I'm quite proud of and I'm happy it can reach a wider audience now.
Y...
I realized that I had never uploaded my timeline of events for Part 2 of my video series on the German revolution, so to make it more convenient for you, I decided to put the events from all 3 parts into a single timeline, making it, as far as I'm aware, the most comprehensive timeline of the Ger...
2023-08-22 12:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Bought a couple of new books while away from home:
Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
One of philosophy's most beloved grumpy depressed old men. In this book, Adorno, in the form of aphorisms, writes what he calls a "dismal science" as a reversal of Nietzsche's gay scienc...
If you're looking for more reading material on The Dark Knight and Joker, or are interested in other topics discussed in my video, check out the supplementary notes PDF. I list a couple of other concepts that weren't mentioned in the video.
I attached the supplementary no...
My dispute claim got denied, so I had to re-edit, re-export and re-upload the video, and while I'm still not allowed to monetize it, it is finally viewable on YouTube. Thank you for your patience everyone!
2023-08-10 18:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostStill waiting for a response to the dispute claim on my last video. If I don't get a response within 22 days, the video will be free to publish.
I added books mentioned in the video to our Google Drive (which is also where the latest video can be accessed): 2023-08-09 09:03:31 +0000 UTC
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YouTube's awesome copyright system strikes again as usual. The new video has been blocked in all territories because of the Joker footage. I'm currently disputing the claim, and until I get a response, my wonderful patrons can at least access the video on our Google Drive:
2023-08-01 08:19:03 +0000 UTC
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Good news! I've fully finished editing my latest video on Joker (2019) and Christopher Nolan's Batman movies. It's currently exporting so it should be public within a day or two. I'm excited for you to see it!
2023-07-31 23:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostFinished writing the script on Joker and the Dark Knight. I ended up talking about class, mental health, social isolation, as well as alienation, particularly in the work of Erich Fromm, and also a little bit about the significance of riots in our "age of riots" as Alain Badiou called it.
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Since the two winning topics in the last poll were 1) an analysis of Joker/The Dark Knight, and 2) a video on 70s left-wing terrorism, I'm currently trying to develop both scripts at the same time. I'm thinking that, since my last video was a historical one, I'll try to come out with the Joker/Da...
2023-05-27 08:47:29 +0000 UTC View Post(SORRY, forgot to turn on multiple choice on the last post. Please vote again! I'll take into account the results on the previous poll too though)
Time for a new poll! This time I’m allowing multiple choices, so feel free to pick several options. I’d like to see where the general inter...
Time for a new poll! This time I’m allowing multiple choices, so feel free to pick several options. I’d like to see where the general interest lies.
1) This would be an analysis of the way class functions in two completely opposing ways in The Dark Knight (2008) vs. Joker (2019), with ...
Here's the script and the notes.
To anyone interested in the events, the notes will be useful, as they include a timeline of events covered (including a couple of events that weren't mentioned in the video), a list of central groups, notable figures, as well as reading material I used for ...
It took longer than 24 hours to export, but it's finally here – part 3 of my series on the German revolution (just in time between the anniversary of Hitler killing himself, and labor day). I would say that I hope you'll enjoy it, but it's a very depressing video, so I at least hope that you fi...
2023-05-01 03:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently exporting part 3 of the German Revolution series. Since the video is over an hour long the export will take a LONG time, but hopefully it'll be fast enough to get the video out tomorrow. Looking forward to having you see it!
2023-04-29 18:38:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently halfway through editing my 3rd video on the German revolution, and this is a movie you can occupy yourself with while waiting. It's an East German movie that I've used a lot of clips from for my German revolution videos. Since it's quite obscure and hard to find, I thought I'd do my...
2023-04-24 07:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostFinished recording and editing the audio for Part III of the German Revolution, currently editing the video. The video will be over an hour long, can't wait for you to see it!
2023-04-20 01:45:39 +0000 UTC View PostI know this is a lot of options to choose from, but which of these thinkers that I haven't talked about on the channel before would you be most interested in seeing content about?
2023-04-05 06:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Ikiru (“To Live”) is a 1952 Japanese movie directed by Akira Kurosawa. I don’t know to what extent it’s a conscious influence, but I once saw it listed as a Heideggerian movie, specifically one that tackles Heidegger’s notion of being-unto-death (or being-toward-death), which posits tha...
2023-04-04 07:54:23 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently finishing up the script for part III of the German Revolution series, and will start recording the audio soon. I decided that for now I'll keep it a trilogy, ending with the January uprising and the death of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. There's a lot more to cover - the Bavarian ...
2023-04-04 04:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post