Podcasts about emancipation network

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode I talk with C Derick Varn - an educator, podcaster, and editor for Zero Books - about Adorno's conception of domination, and  the pitfalls and insights that accompany his critique of modern life. Listen to more of Varn's analysis of the Marxist research program on the Mortal Science podcast through Emancipation Network: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/mortal-science-WObZ5daMXxL/  Listen to Varn discuss the history of Marxism in politics over on the Zero Books channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjH4yubnVHc  Our next episode will be on Norberto Bobbio's Liberalism and Democracy, check it out if you'll be reading along: https://www.versobooks.com/books/45-liberalism-and-democracy 

This week it's daddy issues galore as the Elsa crew yet again dive into Labyrinthos. Support Us On Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/pitchdrop) to hear Chris and Ryan's FF14 podcast and the Boku No Stop Premium anime podcast! Visit Hellscaper (http://hellscaper.com/) to find out what Sibyl does with her life. Check out Chris, Matt, and Sibyl discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/) Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/releases) and their solo work as Catastrophizer (https://soundcloud.com/catastrophizer). Listen to Kyle's Marxism and Technology podcast General Intellect Unit (http://generalintellectunit.net/) and other projects of the Emancipation Network (http://emancipation.network/) Special Guest: Kyle Thompson.

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcast, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed.   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.   In this episode, we try to talk Roman tax policy but veer wildly down the record. Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.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)

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed.   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.   In this episode, all roads lead to and from Rome.  We actually get the meat of Chris Wickham's argument about the development of feudalism out of the collapse of the Roman imperial systems of production. Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This bonus episode is part of our Patreon podcast. C. Derick Varn, P.H. Higgins, and Shalon Van Tine--the crew of the last few episodes of Former People--come together to talk Sidney Lumet and "Paddy" Chayefsky's 1976 classic Network.   P.H. Higgins is a co-host of the Radical Thoughts Podcast and part of the Former People editorial crew.  He is also a regular partner in crime with Varn.    Shalon Van Tine is a Ph.D. candidate in American cultural and intellectual history at Ohio University, part of the Former People editorial crew, and a co-writer with Varn on a project about Christopher Lasch.  She is also one of Varn's closest friends.   You know who Varn is. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Conan Neutron (@conanneutron)  is a musician and podcaster. His band is Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends. He hosts the podcast Protonic Reversal and is a regular on Movie Night Extravaganza.  This is a mild echo on a few questions, we apologize for that. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We talk to Karthik Purushothaman and Marcus of Left Flank Vets, co-hosts of Revolutionary Tracks on Left Flank Vets, about the intersection of music and politics. (Note: There were some microphone issues during the stream that were hard to edit out).  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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We talk to Ed Simon, author of many books, including  Printed in Utopia: The Renaissance's Radicalism (Zero Books, 2020), America and Other Fictions (Zero Books 2018), An Alternative History of Pittsburgh (Belt Publishing, 2021), Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (Cernunnos, forthcoming 2022), and many more. Ed Simon writes on politics, religion, and culture for many outlets.  We talk about the radicalism of the Renaissance and controversies of history and historiography. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We talk the Kaiser Kuo of the Sinica podcast and Sup China about the complications of US-China relations, the actual policies of the "Red New Deal," and the general shift in political tone in China and in the US. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. We talk the Scott Horton of Anti-War Radio and the Scott Horton show, author of Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terror  and Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, on what it means to chronicle the US imperial wars for two decades and what was and wasn't learned from the end of the Afghanistan War. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jim Davis is a student of world religions (focus on Shia Imami Ismailis) with a deep interest in radical politics and praxis. He lives in Springfield, Missouri. He has written books on socialism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Ismaili Islam. 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 YoutubeSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Forrest Miller is a co-host of Movie Night Extravaganza. He has produced for Jacobin Podcast and Give Them an Argument With Ben Burgis and does a monthly joint show with This is Revolution.  We will be discussing the overlap between film, culture, and politics, focusing on filmmakers like Alex Cox, Paul Verhoeven, and Stanley Kubrick. 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 YoutubeSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jared is the author of Cyber Dandy.  He is a long-time student of anarchism and existentialism and speaks about the continued relevance and radicalness of existential thought. 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)

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed.   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.    In this episode, we begin our first foray into this unlimited series with a flight of discussions of the work of Marxist historian Chris Wickham. While we don't hit on Wickham's primary concern: the hazy transition between late antiquity and the early middle ages, we lay out the concerns for the project here. Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Dan Melo is the author of Borderlines(Zer0 Books, 2021). He is an attorney and social critic who grew up in diverse cultural and political settings.  he was written for in the Hampton Institute, ArcDigital, Areo Magazine, and Merion West. We discuss immigrant activism, the current state of affairs, and the relationship between immigration, economics, and climate change. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East at MIT.   He is the author of Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings.  We talk about the long history of American politics and the making of modern Iran, the making of American policy in the modern middle east, the Islamicate world's encounters with European modernity, and much more. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Doug Enaa Greene is the author of Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution and the forthcoming A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism (Forthcoming, Zero Books, 2022).   He also blogs at The Blanquist as well as writes for publications like  Left Voice, Socialism and Democracy, LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, MRZine, Counterpunch, Socialist Viewpoint, and Jacobin.  This is our second conversation on Harrington's legacy, the DSA, etc.  Correction:  At one point, I say that consulting budget seems to be up to 40% of DSA national's budget.  Upon further research, it seems to be about 8% but the other percent breakdowns seem to be correct.   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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Kenzo Shibata is the host of Meet the Left, organizer, and teacher who shares a love of Punk rock.  We discuss the late Gen X tendency to aestheticize politics and the problems of scenes and radical chic. We also go anecdotal about generational differences.  This is a why ranging conversation. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Greg Belvedere is a writer and sometimes youtuber who is very interested in the problems of ecology and net-energy expenditure. We discuss how much more radical our reconception of life may need to be to control our response to climate change and how unlikely that is. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Erika Whelan discusses the history and functions of left communism with me. 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)

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

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)

lease support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Sam Shain and I discuss media literacy, critical thinking, and the curriculum in high school humanities.  Sam is a teacher and former journalist as well as the author of Education Revolution (forthcoming Zero Books).  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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This week to Joe Payne about the situation in California, the end of working-class background journalists, and the decline of local journalism.  Joe Payne is the host of Political Payne and the co-host of Bad Takes.   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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This week to Ted Reese about the importance of Henryk Grossman. Reese is the author of Socialism or Extinction and forthcoming The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Zero Books).  Reese elaborates on profitability and its limits to the kinds of innovation that is developed in response to climate change. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Colin Drumm (@drumm_colin) is PhD Candidate in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, whose interests include the history of money and its power relationships in the middle ages as well as understanding German idealism.  Drumm wants to understand that we should not trust Kant. 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Arnold Schroder is the host of Fight Like an Animal. We briefly discuss the essay "The Human Species and the Earth's Crust" by Amadeo Bordiga, but quickly move on to discuss infrastructure, human temperament, social psychology, and adjusting your political theory to your audience beyond superficial ideological appeals. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John Michael Colon is a writer and libertarian socialist in New York.  He and I speak about the shifting of the media landscape.  This is the first of a two-part series.   You can find John Michael Colon's work at the Point, Jacobin, etc. He is at @red_dilettanteAbandon 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.I talk to James and Craig of the Re-Reading Wolfe Podcast about the legacy of Gene Wolfe and what it is like to engage with his works. Check out their work.  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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.J. Andrew World is a comic and sketch artist who does work for podcasts such as Give Them An Argument and publishers like Zero Books, and is also the co-host of two podcasts, Bad Takes and Movie Night Extravaganza. This is a free-ranging conversation on pop art, 'zines, politics, and economics of art with lots of digressions from both guest and host. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is the first of a Patreon series of streams: we are making it free as a bonus. Nicolas Villareal and C. Derick Varn debate Althusser all the time on Twitter and messages.   While Varn has had Nico on before to talk about Econophysics and Structural Marxism,  Varn and Nico often talk about this antagonistically.  This is the first of what is literally to be an irregular series as both their time allows where they discuss and debate the limits of anti-humanist/humanist debates.  Because dialogue is better than stupid debates on Twitter and having them devolve into Marxology and left beefs, we will do this here.  This is brought to you by patrons of VarnVlog. While this episode is available as a public stream, the audio will be for patrons only. You may want to check out Nicolas Villareal's recent article. You may also want to listen to this. You may want to listen to and/or read these three articles.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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Mike and Bori from Red Star Over Asia podcast talk about the left in South Korea and Asia, and the historical and political context and difficulties of left organizing in the Republic of Korea. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nia Cola is a heterodox economist and proponent of MMT. She has debated with me before on Give Them An Argument on the International use of MMT. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Natalie Smith is a co-host of the Superstructure podcast.  We discuss the appeal of MMT humanities and the political situation in Chile.  We also discuss some of the tensions between Marxists and MMTers and the limits of methodological nationalism. 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Cordelia is many things but one of them is a writer and another is the co-host of Reel Abstractions.  We talk about value theory, scientific realism and anti-realism, the scholars of Michael Heinrich, and more. 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Camilo Gomez is freelance writer and podcast host based in Lima, Peru.  His podcast is History and Politics.   We discuss the ongoing election in Peru, US coverage of the election, and Peruvian cultural and political history that complicates the American left's understanding of the situation. 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Daniel Bessner discusses liberal imperialism, imperialist realism, and the international order with us.  Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and was previously the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy.  He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. Daniel is an intellectual historian of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell, 2018) and the upcoming Imperialist Realism (forthcoming from Zero Books). He is also the co-host of the brand new American Prestige podcast. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ben Burgis is a regular contributor to Jacobin and other publications, a former philosophy professor, and the author of Give Them An Argument and Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns (both from Zero Books).  He is also the host of Give Them An Argument and a colleague and friend of mine.  We discuss how canceling is by no means a left-wing only development in capitalism and other developments on the left in the US. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Zara and Sher are from the Facing Autonomy podcast.  Zara and Sher discuss the limits of our imagining of the collective worker and how autonomism and accepting decentralization in the immediate future may be key for a revitalized left. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jason Myles is a musician in Bitter Lake and podcaster out of Oakland.   Pascal Robert is a  Haitian American Lawyer regular contributor to  Black Agenda Report.   Together they host This is Revolution.  We discuss the history of black leadership in the US from Harold Cruse to Barack Obama. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is podcast regulars and former Former People squad, Shalon Van Tine, P. H. Higgins, and C. Derick Varn talking about films of memory.   Former People may no longer be with us, but we still produce shows on art for Patrons and sometimes here for the many podcast.  This is a bonus to make up for my haitus. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Alex Gendler is a writer and content producer in NYC.  He is also a leftist man-about-town.  We discuss and review Catherine Lieu's Virtue Hoarders and the discussions around the PMC.   I do make a mistake about where Lieu teaches, so please take that into advisement.  We also mention Mike MacNair's critique of Lieu.  This episode was recorded in May so it may already be dated. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicole and Hugh of the Run with Us podcast talk about starting a commune, the nature of anarchism in the US and Canada, the differences between US and Canadian leftism, and dinner food. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John and Madison host the Fresh Kill's podcast: a socialist podcast with New York/New Jersey charasticistics.  We discuss the failures of the post-Bernie left, but not particularly seriously.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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Alex Grant is the editor of Editor at Fightback, http://marxist.ca, and a member of the IMT.  We talk about the history of the IMT, the future of Trotskyism in US, UK,  and Canada, and Leftism in Canada.  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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Freddie deBoer is the author of The Cult of Smart and maintains a substack.     We discuss the limits of education research, the relatively limited movement in education,and the overuse of schooling where larger social issues should be addressed.   Note, I give a stat on Ivy League income ratios that I could not verify and was quoting from memory.   If you can confirm or disprove this stat, please inform me. I tried to find the study I thought I remembered and could not. 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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Chris and Jason are two of the four hosts of the Regrettable Century Podcast.  This is the first hour on the topic. There are bonus episodes of two hours on Patreon expanding on the topic.  We discuss "revolutionary pessimism," the toxicity of Twitter, and getting beyond the Bernie Sanders campaign.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)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.P.H. Higgins is an editor at Former People, a co-host of the podcast of the same name, and a co-host of Radical Thoughts podcast.  We discuss the legacy of Operaismo and Autonomia in the context of Italian socialism and communism.  We focus on the legacy of Mario Tronti and Antonio Negri in particular.  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 original stream on Youtube Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Andres Bernal (@andresintheory) is Associate Editor of Money on the Left, Policy Advisor to Dianne Morales, and former policy advisor for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,  professor of critical-heterodox policy studies at  The New School.  We discuss the development of Left MMT, getting MMT policy beyond national boundaries and the developed world, and the situation in Colombia and in the rest of Latin America.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 original stream on Youtube Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Kuba Wrzesneiwski is an independent foreign policy consultant and regular guest on This is Revolution. We speak on the realities of the US foreign policy elites and their primary concerns. We also talk about leftist misunderstandings on these issues.  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 original stream on Youtube Support the show

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Dave from Nightmare Masterclass talk about horror, folk horror, left-wing analysis of pop culture, working-class taste, etc.  This is an hour-selection of a nearly 4-hour interview.  The rest of the interview is available to all subscribers at Patreon and on the original youtube feed. 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 original stream on Youtube Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.A.M. Gittlitz and C. Derick Varn discuss the historical development of Posadism, BLM and the summer insurrections, and the specter for communication theory.  His writing focuses on counter-culture, radical politics, and the paranormal. Gittlitz's book I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism was published by Pluto Press in 2020. Other essays and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Baffler, Vice, The New Inquiry, HTML Giant, Truthout, Protean, and the Outline. He also produces and co-hosts the Antifada podcast. His newsletter is here.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 original stream on Youtube Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ross Wolfe and C. Derick Varn discuss the situation of the left after a year of covid-19 and the collapse of the second Bernie Sanders' campaign through two articles. Ross Wolfe is a writer, historian, and architecture critic living in New York. His work has appeared in publications such as Metropolis, Mute, e-flux, Radical Philosophy, Cambridge Literary Review, The Advocate, and Platypus Review. He used to update the blog, The Charnel House. The episode's Q and A session is available on Youtube or in audio form on our Patreon. 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 original stream on Youtube Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Matt McManus discusses the division within conservatism, why a socialist should understand these intellectual divisions.  We different conservative movements in the US, particularly the rise of post-liberal conservatism.  Matt McManus is a visiting professor of politics at Whitman College. He is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and Myth and the coauthor of Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson.  He is a regular columnist for Jacobin.  He is a co-host of Plastic Pills.This is episode still has the Q and A. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.  We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network.  C. Derick Varn is the author, poet, educator, and editor. He is also the host of Theorizing with a Hammer (for Zero Books) on youtube, the co-host of Mortal Science (w/Ezri of Emancipation Network) and co-host of Pop the Left (with Doug Lain), and a reader for Zero books and literary editor for the Former People literary journal.Crew:  Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Media: twitter: @skepoet FacebookYou can find the original stream on Youtube  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Well look who stopped by! Today Dan and Jack are joined by Marxist Podfather Tom O'Brien from the From Alpha to Omega Podcast. Tom talks some sense into the boys and gives us all sorts of scalding hot takes about Trump, Biden and the crumbling empire that is the United States of America. They lads then talk a little Revolutionary Strategy, cybernetics and Aaron Bastani's wet, wet mouth. You can find the FULL, UNEDITED LIVESTREAM of this interview over on the Auxiliary Statements YouTube channel. Wow! Check out Tom's patreon here - https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega And check out the Emancipation Network here - http://emancipation.network/

Feast on an undisciplined and unedited romp vaguely centered on the 2020 US election, recorded on November 4th. featuring Derick & Ezri Jake (of Swampside Chats) Kyle (of General Intellect Unit) Sophia (of Jumpsuit Utopia) Tom (of From Alpha to Omega) w/ special guests Jason Myles (of This Is Revolution) http://thisisrevolutionpodcast.com & J.G. Michael (of Parallax Views) http://parallaxviews.podbean.com http://patron.com/mortalscience http://emancipation.network

Part 2 of our discussion of Paul Burketts ‘Marx and Nature - a Red and Green Perspective’ with our Emancipation Network comrades Kyle and Shane from General Intellect Unit.

We are joined by our Emancipation Network comrades Kyle and Shane from General Intellect Unit, to discuss Paul Burketts ‘Marx and Nature - a Red and Green Perspective’. This is the first of a three parter. You can find the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/595-marx-and-nature

In which we are joined by Emancipation Network superstar Tom O'Brien to discuss "Soviet planning and the labor-time calculation model: implications for 21st-century socialism" by Seongjin Jeong. Part two will air next week. If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon. Links: Soviet planning and the labor-time calculation model: implications for 21st-century socialism (PDF) General Intellect Unit on iTunes http://generalintellectunit.net Support the show on Patreon https://twitter.com/giunitpod General Intellect Unit on Facebook General Intellect Unit on archive.org Emancipation Network

This week we have a crossover episode with our Emancipation Network friends and comrades Shane and Kyle from General Intellect unit. This is part one of a two parter where we delve deep in the history, the theory, and future possibilities for Marx’s Labour Time Calculation. We use a recent paper by Seongjin Jeong, a Professor of Economics at Gyeongsang National University, called: ‘Soviet planning and the labor-time calculation model: implications for 21st-century socialism‘. We going on a proper deep dive in these two episodes… brace yourself Bridget.

We talk C Derick Varn co-host of Pop the Left podcast of Zero Books and the Mortal Science podcast of Emancipation Network. We discuss Latin American politics dealing from topic like the Pink Wave, Trotskyism, US-Latin American relations as well as the place for ethnic and cultural conflictcs play into the political conflicts in the region. We pay attention particularly to political economy of the Andean region and that the Inquisition and Crypto-Judaism played an important role in Colonial Latin America and also how some of it's legacies still influence the region today.

A very special Emancipation Network all-star panel with Ben Burgis of Zero Books discuss the recent poor showing by Bernie Sanders in the US primaries. What does it mean for politics? What does is mean for socialist/communist politics? Is Jake actually a meme? Listen to find out...

We are mirroring this podcast from the Emancipation Network/Alpha to Omega podcast. "A very special Emancipation Network all-star panel with Ben Burgis of Zero Books discuss the recent poor showing by Bernie Sanders in the US primaries. What does it mean for politics? What does is mean for socialist/communist politics? Is Jake actually a meme?"

Emancipation Network and Zero Books present a roundtable discussion between Ben Burgis, C Derick Varn, From Alpha to Omega's Tom O'Brien and the cast of Swampside Chats on Bernout 2020

This week we have the third and final part of our discussion with fellow Emancipation Network comrade Grant from swampside, and his friend David Rylance on Gary Teeples excellent book: “Marx’s Critique of Politics’.

This week we have part two of the discussion with fellow Emancipation Network comrade Grant from Swampside Chats, and his friend David Rylance on Gary Teeples excellent book: “Marx’s Critique of Politics’. We leave the grey, post-industrial wasteland of Brexit behind, and dive deep into Marx's critique.

This week we commence Chapter Four: ‘War and Revolutionary Strategy’. We are joined by Lexi of Swampside Chats and Sophie of Trans Trans Revolution. This podcast is a member of the Emancipation Network, a marxist podcast network and research collective Find out about our sister podcasts and research here: http://emancipation.network/

We are joining forces with our friends at Swampside Chats, and From Alpha To Omega, to form the Emancipation Network, a Marxist podcast network and research collective. If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon. Links: emancipation.network General Intellect Unit on iTunes http://generalintellectunit.net Support the show on Patreon https://twitter.com/giunitpod General Intellect Unit on Facebook General Intellect Unit on archive.org

Special announcement: The Gang, From Alpha to Omega & General Intellect Unit have come together to create the Emancipation Network, a marxist podcast and research collective. Find us at http://emancipation.network!