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Locust Radio
Episode 4.5 - The Cookie Monster Who Flew Into Space from Peoria, Illinois

Locust Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022 65:30


For the second half of our show -- which first aired for Locust patrons on December 29, 2020 -- Tish Turl and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. Adam Turl, Tish Turl, and Alex Billet also talk with Omnia Sol and Adam Ray Adkins about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art, and why the Peoria Cookie Monster mural is so much more interesting than those stupid fucking monoliths that have been appearing lately. Some additional material we reference in the second half of the show: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment; Adam Turl, “Interrupting Disbelief: Narrative Conceptualism and Anti-Capitalist Studio Art,” Red Wedge (February 18, 2015); the Peoria Cookie Monster mural controversy. Check out more of Omnia Sol's work on YouTube and Instagram and support their work on Patreon. Check out Adam Ray Adkins' work at his YouTube, his Instagram, and listen to the Acid Left.

New Books in Art
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

New Books in Art

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 80:14


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, 2021) revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

New Books in Politics
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

New Books in Politics

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 80:14


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, 2021) revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

New Books Network
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 80:14


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, 2021) revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Popular Culture
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

New Books in Popular Culture

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 80:14


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, 2021) revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

New Books in Communications
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

New Books in Communications

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 80:14


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, 2021) revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

New Books in Critical Theory
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 80:14


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, 2021) revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

verdurin
Mike Watson: The Memeing of Mark Fisher

verdurin

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2022 75:12


Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and psychological, and no doubt exacerbated by the transfer of culture and life online. In the aftermath, The Memeing of Mark Fisher revisits the Frankfurt School theorists who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Watson aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes, Watson argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. As more people have access to the means for theoretical and critical engagement online, he urges the online left to build a real-life cultural and political movement. Mike Watson speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Mark Fisher's legacy in critical online spaces, the democracy of memes and their aesthetic warfare, the Acid Left, and how the Frankfurt School thinkers foreshadowed our current moment. Mike Watson is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relationship between culture, new media and politics. He hosts the podcast Theorywave Nights. Can the Left Learn to Meme? Mark Fisher's K-Punk blog archive K-Punk anthology Know Your Meme database Capitalist Realism bed meme 4chan Wojak meme Doomer meme The Acid Left podcast Mike's book memed by Academic Fraud The Memeing of Mark Fisher How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do About It Mike Watson Published by Zer0Books, 2021 ISBN 9781789049336

New Symbolization Publishing
#FreeMikey, New Symbolization Publishing, Difficult Concepts, Zizek and Wage Labor, Capitalist Realism, Lost Futures on The Acid Left

New Symbolization Publishing

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2022 146:57


Theory Pleeb, Ann, and Michael Downs of The Dangrous Maybe blog and #FreeMikey in interview with Adam Ray Adkins AKA Dirt: Son of Earth. We talk about New Symbolization Publishing, book cover art, and difficult concepts made easy by non-academics (workers). "A fun chat with a lot of Zizekian twists." - Adam

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy
#FreeMikey, New Symbolization Publishing, Difficult Concepts, Zizek and Wage Labor, Capitalist Realism, Lost Futures on The Acid Left

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2022 146:57


Theory Pleeb, Ann, and Michael Downs of The Dangrous Maybe blog and #FreeMikey in interview with Adam Ray Adkins AKA Dirt: Son of Earth. We talk about New Symbolization Publishing, book cover art, and difficult concepts made easy by non-academics (workers). "A fun chat with a lot of Zizekian twists." - Adam

Strange Exiles
Episode 11: Mike Watson - Beyond Capitalist Realism

Strange Exiles

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2021 61:52


Critic and Zer0 Books author Mike Watson discusses his new work The Memeing of Mark Fisher and the legacy of the Frankfurt School. We attempt to map the territory beyond Capitalist Realism, as the co-creator of the Acid Left project shares his thoughts on Keir Starmer, Acid Communism, memes and mental health.

ReImagine Value
Acid left, cosmic right and the games inbetween - with Keir Milburn (CGCG015)

ReImagine Value

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 48:21


We're joined by Keir Milburn joins us to talk about the rise of the cosmic right and their conspiritual weirdness, as well as the fate of the acid left and the role of games in revolutionary movements. Keir Milburn is a longtime political activist from the UK. He spent over a decade teaching political economy and organization but now works on municipalism, economic democracy and political economy for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. His most recent book is Generation Left. He is a member of the Red Plenty Games Collective and co-hosts the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media.

The Acid Left
Frankfurt School Today: #3 Max Ryynänen - Were Benjamin and Adorno too Bourgeois?

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2021 74:29


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 Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft

The Acid Left
Frankfurt School Today: #4 Matt McManus - Is Existentialism Inherently Fascist?

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2021 63:12


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 Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft

The Acid Left
Rick Roderick: The Father of the Online Left, with Marshall Roderick

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2021 67:48


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/ Subscribe to the Acid Left's Patreon: patreon.com/acidfleft You can find more from the Acid Left here: twitter: @theacidleft insta: @theacidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft

Varn Vlog
Adam Ray Adkins on The Acid Aesthetic and Left Horizons

Varn Vlog

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2021 96:35


Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Adam Ray Adkins is the co-host of the Acid Left. We discuss art, culture, and what is the acid left, and why it may be important.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network.Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on Youtube Support the show

Varn Vlog
Mike Watson on Memeing Through Hotel Grand Abyss

Varn Vlog

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2021 71:16


Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Mike Watson is the author of Can the Left Learn to Meme? (Zero Books, 2019) and  The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, forthcoming 2021) and the co-host of the Acid Left. We discuss memes, the Frankfurt school, and the left's ability to communicate a singular and coherent narrative. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network.Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on Youtube Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

The Acid Left
Frankfurt School Today: #2 Douglas Kellner - Marcuse's Great Refusal

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2021 61:13


In the second in this series Mike Watson talks to Douglas Kellner, author of several books on Critical Theory including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, and American Nightmare Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism. Martin Jay is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. In September Springer publish Kellner's Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism. 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 Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft

The Acid Left
Seizing The Memes w/ Teenage Stepdad: Dropping Out of Art School, Pesky Algorithms, & Media Critique

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2021 69:36


The Acid Left talk to artist and meme maker Teenage Stepdad about his new show on Means TV called Seizing the Memes, his working process, politics, art school and the media... and boaner jokes! Teenage Stepdad is the person behind the hugely popular insta meme account @teenagestepdad featuring among the best produced memes on the internet most of which perform satirical critiques of popular brands and advertising tropes as well as the culture industry in general. Check out Seizing the Memes on means.tv and Teenage Stepdad's website at teenagestepdad.com Subscribe to the Acid Left's Patreon: patreon.com/acidfleft You can find more from the Acid Left here: twitter: @theacidleft insta: @theacidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft

The Acid Left
Clandestine Unit For Imaginary Research: Crisis in Colombia and The Molecular Revolution.

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2021 52:25


The Acid Left talk to Admin1 of the theory collective Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research and curated meme page @cu_media_funhouse.exe. We discuss the ongoing protest in Colombia against tax hikes, state violence, and the government's handling of the worsening health crisis. We also discuss the disturbing conspiracy theory put forward by the right wing government of "Molecular Revolution" that denies the citizens of Colombia's collective rage by arguing that a foreign communist cabal is trying to undermine the government along with the ideas of Toni Negri, Deleuze, and Guattari. Admin1 recommends the following Instagram accounts if you are looking for more information on the protest in Colombia: https://instagram.com/redcondorcollective?utm_medium=copy_link https://instagram.com/redcritica?utm_medium=copy_link https://instagram.com/desinformemonos.colombia?utm_medium=copy_link The video contains memes from The Acid Left Instagram account, cu_media_funhouse.exe, pages from Preliminary Assemblages by CUIR, and the hashtag #colombiaprotesta Contains remixes of the following songs: Audiobinger- The Upside Down Sudartha Corsus- Let Go of Time El Remolon- Cumbia Bichera Ketsa- Deep Math Sea Dragon- Cuadrados Y Puntos Acid Left IG https://instagram.com/theacidleft?utm_medium=copy_link Admin1 IG https://instagram.com/cu_media_funhouse.exe?utm_medium=copy_link Preliminary Assemblages by Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0zIJFvZVvYCXQegAAhVGleK6LKDAwWJ Help Support The Acid Left https://www.patreon.com/acidleft

The Acid Left
Artin Salimi on Mark Fisher, Hip Hop, and Islamic Philosophy

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021 70:12


Adam Ray Adkins talks to musician and YouTuber Artin Salimi on Mark Fisher, Marxism, Hip Hop, and Islamic Philosophy Sub to Artin Salimi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpxTegQA3NUq9scE-XQJzww Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft twitter: @acid_left

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
Pill Pod 40 - Non-Fungible Future: The Memeing of Mark Fisher (ft. Mike Watson)

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 77:18


Mike Watson of the Acid Left (@_leftaesthetics) joins Matt (@mattpolprof) and Pills (@plasticpills) to talk about Acid Communism, Adorno, and The Memeing of Mark Fisher, Mike's new book (due out September 2021).   As always, all the extra content is still at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

The Blockchain Socialist
Haha meme printer go brrrrr feat. Mike Watson of The Acid Left

The Blockchain Socialist

Play Episode Play 58 sec Highlight Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 63:11


For this week's interview I spoke with Mike Watson (@_leftaesthetics),  co-host of The Acid Left and author of “Towards a Conceptual Militancy” and “Can the Left Learn to Meme: Lessons for the cultural left, from cat memes to gaming, to Stranger Things, and more.” with an upcoming book “The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to do About It” coming out this September.During the episode we discuss Mike's research on the history of memes in art, his thoughts on how the Left can improve their memeing over the internet,  and the memetic strategies used in crypto that essentially function to hide what is actually happening with crypto investments. At the end we discuss a couple of specific memes which you can find on the page for this episode on the TBS site.SourcesMike Watson's siteArticle on commodity fetishism: "Commodity Fetishism, Feet Pics, and Ideology" Towards a Conceptual Militancy Can the Left Learn to Meme: Lessons for the cultural left, from cat memes to gaming, to Stranger Things, and more.If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you want to see more content like this, please consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. At the moment I've spent more on this project than I've ever made so any amount helps. Also, sign up for the Newsletter, follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist), and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit to continue the discussion and give your thoughts.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist)

The Acid Left
Memestetica: a Conversation on Memes and Contemporary Art with Valentina Tanni

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 82:20


The Acid Left's Mike Watson speaks to Valentina Tanni, author of Memestetica, a book on meme culture and contemporary art and society, published in Italian by Nero Editions. https://www.neroeditions.com/product/memestetica/ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft

The Acid Left
Is There no Nordic Alternative?: Welfare and Capitalism with Matt McManus and Tuomas Kuusniemi

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 73:47


We speak to author Matt McManus and Tuomas Kuusniemi on Nordic and Western welfare models, 'dignity', agency, gaming and art! Matt McManus a Professor of Politics, from Canada, is a Professor of Politics at Whitman College in the USA and has written several books including The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), What Is Postmodern Conservatism? from Zero Books and A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights also from Palgrave. See recent text here on Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/ni...​ Tuomas Kuusniemi is a candidate for Vasemmisto, a left of center party in Finland in the upcoming municipal elections in Oulu, in northern Finland. He is involved in YouTubing and twitch streaming on board gaming channels, and in a podcast called Punatulkut which offers ‘left perspectives on the world'. Tuomas's channels: Punatulkut: https://www.youtube.com/punatulkut​ My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/muadmouse​ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft​ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/​ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft

The Acid Left
Give them a Narrative - Ben Burgis on the Capitol Riots and the State of the Left Post Trump

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 79:51


We speak to author Ben Burgis on the importance of narratives from medicare for all, to Q Anon, to Vaush's so called 'Super Capitalism', and the Capitol protest. Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College and the author of the best-selling "Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left." MAY 2019 He's a weekly contributor to Jacobin Magazine and hosts the YouTube channel Ben Burgis: Give them an argument He was co author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist critique of Jordan Peterson that came out in April 2020 and 'Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left' out on April 30th this year. Bens says buy his books here if you are in the US: https://redemmas.org/books This podcast is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VmKiqdBh9ak Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft Twitch: twitch.tv/theacidleft

The Acid Left
Chilling at the Four Seasons Parking Lot: A Post Election Chat w/David Blacker and BigBreadBrainz

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2020 77:50


Post election special with David Blacker, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware and author of 'What's Left of the World' AND 'The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame' and YouTuber Big Bread Brain, who is a Cultural theorist, multimedia artist, and writer. David Blacker: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/david-blacker BigBreadBrainz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhf3KPOvS4KPLcytvOAGiQ This podcast is now available on Soundcloud, where all future Acid Left podcasts will be found. Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

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'Marx contra subjectivity': In Conversation with Conrad Hamilton

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 80:57


Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to Conrad Hamilton about Tankies, the online left, Marx, Speculative Realism, and consent. Hamilton is co author of the books Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Petserson and What is PostModern Conservatism. He recently finished writing his PhD thesis entitled Marx Contra Subjectivity under the supervision of Catherine Malabou at Paris VIII. You can find the Kapital Komrades facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/613646239225280 Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

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In conversation with Brian Francis Culkin: Healing the Wounds of Capital

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 59:28


Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins host Brian Francis Culkin. Brian is a writer and film director. He has written over 10 books and directed three films. His books include “On Heroin,” “Postscript on Boxing,” and “The Ayahuasca Dialogues”. He lives and works in the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon where he is involved in plant based diet healing throughhis center, The Way of the Twelve Plants: https://www.12plants.org/ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

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With Joshua Citarella: 'Doomer' Joe Biden, Cardi B And The Decline Of The USA

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 58:26


In this episode of The Acid Left podcast hosts Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to artist, meme producer and twitch streamer Joshua Citarella about memes, Cardi B's WAP, Ben Shapiro, Doomer Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. You can read more about Joshua Citarella here: http://joshuacitarella.com/ He streams here: https://www.twitch.tv/joshuacitarella His insta is: @Joshua Citarella Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

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From Zizek To LSD, Examining Mental Health With Eliot Rosenstock

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 55:39


Adam Ray Adkins and Mike Watson host Eliot Rosenstock, author of ''Zizek in the Clinic' for the first 'The Acid Left' Podcast. They speak about Zizek, LSD, Lacanian and Freudian analysis, Mark Fisher, mental health, and sobriety. Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

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Dr.James Cooke: Microdosing, Anarchism And Consciousness With A Neuroscientist

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 71:50


Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins host Dr. James Cooke, Neuroscientist, writer & speaker, who focuses on consciousness, meditation, psychedelic states, science and spirituality. You can see more about Dr. James Cooke's work here: https://www.drjamescooke.com/ Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

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Acid Left Vs Postmodern Conservatism With Matt McManus

The Acid Left

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 59:39


Mike Watson, Adam Ray Adkins and Terry Tapp Host Matt McManus, author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave). Matt is also co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, and Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books. Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft