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How does someone introduce Barrett Brown? That's a really tough one because the personal, professional, and political stories play off each other in numerous ways. I would have to say that first of all, Barrett Brown is one of too few to survive a very intense era of anti-authoritarian activism and state repression. In addition, Brown is a survivor of the innumerable disappointments that I feel have had a big impact on the way things are now. He is someone who has comprehended the contemporary moment and has participated in its unfolding with the skills at his disposal and he is someone who has paid a big price for taking those risks. Naturally, his recently released book, "My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir of Barrett Brown" is an excellent insight into what I just said and though I'm only on Chapter 5, it has been an enjoyable read.
One of the things that Barrett is well-know for is his relationship with Anonymous at the peak of their Hacktivist period. That's what we're going to be focusing on, along with where Anonymous has gone from there.
READ (or LISTEN) to Barrett's new book, "My Glorious Defests: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir":
https://a.co/d/4tIPo6l
Wikipedia Page for Barrett Brown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown
The New York Time "This Hacker’s Story Is Deranged, Hyperbolic and True":
https://archive.ph/h6zfO
New York Mag "The Ballad of Barrett Brown":
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-ballad-of-barrett-brown.html
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Last month Douglas Lain (of Sublation Media) hosted a conversation between myself and Spencer Leonard. We reviewed Mikhail Bakunin's work "Statism and Anarchy" and contrasted Bakunin’s thinking with Proudhon and Marx. After some initial confusion, Doug was kind enough to give me the full episode for public release! Enjoy :)
Originally distributed by @sublationmedia
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This is a brief announcement and explanation of ongoing events threatening union democracy at the center of its progress in Vermont. David Feurzeig joins me to go over the context and the detail what is happening.
LINK TO THE PETITION:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/vt-united-petition
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Today we sit down with Nathan from Absurd Being to discuss his numerous deep-dives into dense philosophical texts within the phenomenological and existential traditions. Beginning with Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we move onto later works and their relations. I highly recommend the Absurd Being channel as a companion in learning about phenomenology and philosophy in general!
LINKS
http://absurdbeing.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@absurdbeing2219
CONTACT
[email protected]
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Today we sit down with Daniel Tutt to discuss many things, but with a focus on György Lukács and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Daniel Tutt is a writer, philosopher, and the host of the Emancipations podcast, which delves into the intersections of philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and contemporary political struggles. Daniel's work is a rich blend of psychoanalysis and Marxist thought, and his first book, "Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation", published in 2022, seeks to invigorate the contemporary left by re-examining the family through these theoretical lenses.
Daniel has an impressive academic background, having studied philosophy and psychoanalytic practice at American University and the European Graduate School. He has also imparted his knowledge at George Washington University, Marymount University, and even within the DC jail system. His research and writing cover a wide array of topics, including psychoanalysis and politics, Marxist theory, social reproduction debates, and the influence of Nietzsche and Nietzscheanism on contemporary thought.
His latest book, "How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche", explores the profound impact of Nietzsche's philosophy on the left, tracing its influence from the Black Panthers to contemporary liberal academics. Daniel's insights promise to offer a thought-provoking and engaging discussion, and we're thrilled to have him with us today.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction to Daniel Tutt
3:25 - Tutt's vision of Marxist education
11:10 - The origins of Tutt's podcast
14:08 - Lines of Influence: Žižek & the Frankfurt School
21:20 - Main idea of "How to Read Like a Parasite" - Nietzsche's political epistemology
27:53 - On the critics of "How to Read Like a Parasite"
29:40 - French Nietzscheanism and the uncritical interpretation of Nietzsche
35:24 - The foundation of "How to Read Like a Parasite"
39:55 - Nietzsche and anti-Semitism: the importance of Losurdo's intervention
44:04 - How to position Nietzsche on the left
47:43 - Introduction to Lukács's critique of bourgeois philosophy
57:10 - Overview of Lukács's concept of irrationalism
1:10:20 - Sartre vs. Lukács: Two ships passing in the night
1:12:25 - The core contributions of Lukács's History and Class Consciousness
1:21:35 - Why Tutt debated Haz
1:24:06 - How to get beyond hyper-individualism and market-based rivalries on the left
1:31:15 - The practico inert and Sartre's theory of groups
1:37:28 - Debord and Lukács
1:41:40 - The influence of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason on contemporary thought
1:48:55 - The meaning of praxis in Lukács and Sartre
CONTACT DANIEL TUTT
https://linktr.ee/danieltutt
EPISODE TEXTS
Georg Lukács
1949 Essay on Existentialism:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1949/existentialism.htm
Jean-Paul Sartre
1961 Rome Lecture
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii88/articles/jean-paul-sartre-marxism-and-subjectivity
FURTHER RESEARCH
Daniel’s Interview with Terry Pinkard, “Sartre’s Marxist Turn?”:
https://youtu.be/dmKoto74ZbE?si=J_M_uTIvMJigQ36S
On the Relevance of Lukács Worldview:
https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/02/the-question-of-worldview-and-class-struggle-in-philosophy-on-the-relevance-of-lukacss-worldview-marxism-and-the-destruction-of-reason/
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Reading Lawrence Jarach's "Anarchists, Don’t let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite":
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lawrence-jarach-anarchists-don-t-let-the-left-overs-ruin-your-appetite
From AJODA #48:
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Duane Rousselle is a Canadian sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Professor of Sociology. He works in several academic fields including Social Movement Studies, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Cultural Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Anarchist Studies, and Continental Philosophy. His work attempts to introduce an alternative to scholarly discourses that aim to produce consistent and coherent bodies of knowledge (e.g., "University Discourse"). It also offers a counterpoint to what Jacques Lacan has called "capitalist discourse."
He helped to contribute to the emergence of a new field of scholarly investigation known as "post-anarchism." He founded and edits the journal Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies. He is a noted Canadian public intellectual.
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Peter Fleming is an internationally recognised researcher focusing on the future of work and the serious ethical implications it raises. He investigates the forces that shape the new economy, particularly its dysfunctions, and seeks to provide innovative theories to help us better understand the socio-economic consequences of work and employment.
During Peter’s tenure as Professor of Business and Society at City University of London, he chaired the London Living Wage Symposium at the House of Commons. He was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Cass Business School (now Bayes Business School). Peter has also been a guest speaker at the European Commission.
Peter is the author of 11 books, including The Worst is Yet to Come (named book of the month by the Tate Modern, London), The Mythology of Work, Sugar Daddy Capitalism, The Death of Homo Economicus and Dark Academia. His research has been published in leading journals in organisation studies, sociology and social theory. He is senior editor at Organization Studies and an Editorial Review Board member of the Academy of Management Review.
Peter is a regular commentator for print, online and broadcast media in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Sartre’s Lost Organization Theory: Reading the Critique of Dialectical Reason Today by Peter Fleming:
https://cyberdandy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Peter-Fleming-Sartres-Lost-Organization-Theory-Reading-the-Critique-of-Dialectical-Reason-Today.pdf
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Benjamin Studebaker joins us again to talk about one of my favorite topics and the title of his new book, “Four Essays on the Revolutionary Subject”.
Studebaker is a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is a political theorist who teaches and publishes in both contemporary political theory and the history of political thought.
Links
Studebaker’s Website:
https://benjaminstudebaker.com/about/
Revolution without the Risks: Enjoying the Adventures of Yevgeny Prigozhin:
https://sublationmedia.com/revolution-without-the-risks-enjoying-the-adventures-of-yevgeny-prigozhin/
Citizen-Eject:
https://sublationmedia.com/citizen-eject/
The American University System is a Rotting Carcass:
https://sublationmedia.com/the-american-university-system-is-a-rotting-carcass/
Peter Kropotkin’s An Appeal to the Young:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-an-appeal-to-the-young
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On this episode I have brought back two guests who have been here before, along with a third guest that we are all excited to meet. Speaking to things more familiar to those of us in the United States, David Van Deusen - former president of the Vermont AFL-CIO - has joined us and will help to get things going. Next, René Berthier - CGT member and anarcho-syndicalist - will be discussing some things more specific to the context in France. And finally, our new guest Anna Rebrii from the Emergency Committee for Rojava will give us some insight into the situation in North East Syria and the unionization efforts ongoing there.
Stay tuned for the group discussion after the one-on-one interviews!
- DAVID VAN DEUSEN -
David Van Deusen - Insurgent Labor: Vermont AFL-CIO 2017-2024: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1581
Other writings at theanarchistlibrary.org:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/david-van-deusen
- ANNA REBRII -
Anna Rebrii - Turkey Is Starving the Rojava Revolution
(Jacobin peace that talks about coops in Rojava):
https://jacobin.com/2022/11/rojava-turkey-attacks-water-shortage-cooperative-economy
Anna Rebrii - Celebrating Zapatista and Kurdish Women’s Struggles, on International Women’s Day:
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/zapatista-rojava-womens-movement/
Anna Rebrii - “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Syrian Women Are Rising Up Against Patriarchy:
https://truthout.org/articles/woman-life-freedom-syrian-women-are-rising-up-against-patriarchy/
Anna Rebrii writings at openDemocracy:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/anya-briy/
- RENÉ BERTHIER -
René Berthier's writings at Monde Nouveau:
https://monde-nouveau.net/
René Berthier's writings at theanarchistlibrary.org:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/rene-berthier
- VERMONT AFL-CIO -
Vermont AFL-CIO platform:
https://vt.aflcio.org/news/vermont-afl-cio-ten-point-program
VT AFL-CIO resolution In support of Rojava: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1wkzFX-5dZTuWH3rKy3mlyPmjzDShhNab/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
Recent letter signed by Vermont labor and political leaders to oppose US arms sales to Turkey: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1n0qq0r_qmpekGCssfNb4pUE_cFmnYbki/edit?filetype=msword
Public exchange between Vermont AFL-CIO leaders and unions in Rojava: https://youtu.be/ZXEn6FWSR8g?si=Xrzhr7d9rxkufPkb
- EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR ROJAVA -
Emergency Committee for Rojava:
defendrojava.org
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Issues of intellectual property, teacher and student strikes, the Occupy movements origins in campus occupations, and ongoing focus on student debt, big data and the digital age in general… these are all indications of something much deeper and much more enduring at the intersection of knowledge production and capital. To explore this all, I sit down with Derek R. Ford for a discussion.
Derek R. Ford is one of the founders of the Indianapolis Liberation Center, he is Involved with the International Manifesto group, he is editor of Liberation School, and he is Associate Editor of the journal, “Postdigital Science and Education.”
Derek Ford Links
Indianapolis Liberation Center:
https://indyliberationcenter.org/
Liberation School:
https://www.liberationschool.org/
The International Manifesto group:
https://internationalmanifesto.org/
Free Shaka Shakur:
https://indyliberationcenter.org/free-shaka-shakur-joins-liberation-center/
Associate Editor of the journal Postdigital Science and Education:
https://link.springer.com/journal/42438/volumes-and-issues
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Uri Gordon is a long-time anarchist activist, researcher, writer, and organizer. He is well known for his book, "Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory" and his work with Anarchists Against the Wall. His writings have been translated into 13 different languages and can be read online following the links in the description.
Today, he joins us to discuss the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict and international relations, Zionism, and being an anarchist Jew ...or Jewish anarchist.
Freedom Magazine:
https://freedomnews.org.uk/
Uri Gordon's The Anarchist Library Texts:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/uri-gordon
Uri Gordon's Academia.edu Texts:
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/UriGordon
+972 Magazine:
https://www.972mag.com/
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After months of comparing Proudhon's "System of Economic Contradictions" with Marx's "The Poverty of Philosophy", Cyber Dandy and Ben Burgis join Douglas Lain to compare notes and debate the merits of the two works.
Ben Burgis' Give Them an Argument: https://www.youtube.com/ @BenBurgisGTAA
Douglas Lain's Sublation Media: https://www.youtube.com/ @sublationmedia
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This is a topic that I have been hesitant to dedicate an episode to, but finding someone I can trust on the big picture changed my mind!
Originally for the United Kingdom, Djene Rhys Bajalan is a historian of the Middle East at Missouri State University in Springfield. He is an editor at the journal Kurdish Studies, a contributor to the This is Revolution Podcast, and a member of the editorial board for Sublation Press. His work has been featured in several publications including Jacobin, OpenDemocracy, and Jadaliyya.
Today we sit down to talk about the history of the National Question, particularly in the Middle-East and Israel-Palestine.
This is one you all shouldn't sleep on before your holiday family argument season!
LINKS!
Missouri State University Page: https://history.missouristate.edu/profile-display.aspx?p=DRBajalan
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Djene-Rhys-Bajalan-2050778309
Jacobin Magazine: https://jacobin.com/author/djene-bajalan
Compact Magazine: https://compactmag.com/contributor/djene-rhys-bajalan
Sublation Magazine: https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/djene-rhys-bajalan
THIS IS REVOLUTION: https://www.youtube.com/@THISISREVOLUTIONpodcast
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Cyber Dandy and Carl Eugene Stroud sit down to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre great late work "Critique of Dialectical Reason", again! This time we begin the examination of “Book II From Groups to History”.
Contact Center for Especifismo Studies: [email protected]
North American Anarchist Primer - First Grade: Organizational Dualism: https://cyberdandy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NORTH-AMERICAN-ANARCHIST-PRIMER.pdf
Carl's Work on Anarkismo: https://www.anarkismo.net/newswire?author_name=Carl%20Eugene%20Stroud
Carl's Work on The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=author%3ACarl+Eugene+Stroud
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Professor Carveth teaches Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University, Glendon College, in Toronto. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (IPA) and a member Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. He serves on the faculties of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Toronto Child Psychotherapy Programme, and the Advanced Training Programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (of which he is a former Director). He is past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse and a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought, Free Associations, PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, and the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, Erik Erikson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Authoritarianism, the Superego vs the Conscience, etc.
Website: https://www.doncarveth.com/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@doncarveth
Latest Book: https://www.routledge.com/Guilt-A-Contemporary-Introduction/Carveth/p/book/9781032382661
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Benjamin Studebaker is a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is a political theorist who teaches and publishes in both contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. His work also covers topics in political economy, ethics, and international relations. His latest published work tends to focus on legitimacy.
Website: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/about/
Buy "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut": https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2
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Duane Rousselle is a Canadian sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Professor of Sociology. He works in several academic fields including Social Movement Studies, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Cultural Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Anarchist Studies, and Continental Philosophy. His work attempts to introduce an alternative to scholarly discourses that aim to produce consistent and coherent bodies of knowledge (e.g., "University Discourse"). It also offers a counterpoint to what Jacques Lacan has called "capitalist discourse."
He helped to contribute to the emergence of a new field of scholarly investigation known as "post-anarchism." He founded and edits the journal Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies. He is a noted Canadian public intellectual.
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Alex Prichard is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. His current research aims to develop a radical new understanding of the concept of anarchy.
In 2005, Dr Prichard co-founded the PSA Anarchist Studies Network, and in 2012 co-founded and now co-edits the monograph series 'Contemporary Anarchist Studies', published by Manchester University Press and distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press. The series is the only one dedicated to contemporary writing on anarchist theory and practice.
Today, Alex and I sit down together to discuss 2-3 of Alex's new books ...but MOSTLY the first-ever English translation of Proudhon's War and Peace. There's a bunch of other things we talk about too! Make sure to check this one out!!!
* Alex Prichard's University of Exeter profile:
https://politics.exeter.ac.uk/staff/prichard/
* Anarchist Studies Network:
https://anarchiststudiesnetwork.org/
* Proudhon's War and Peace:
https://www.akpress.org/war-and-peace.html
* Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing:
https://blog.pmpress.org/2022/12/31/anarchist-constitutions-ruth-kinna/
* Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
https://libcom.org/article/libertarian-socialism-politics-black-and-red
* Justice, Order, and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
https://www.proudhon.net/justice-order-and-anarchy-by-alex-prichard/
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KIRK J. SCHNEIDER, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic and existential-integrative psychology. Dr. Schneider is past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, and president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), He is also a Fellow of five divisions of the American Psychological Association (Humanistic, Psychotherapy, Clinical, Theoretical and Philosophical, and Independent Practice) as well as a frequent speaker at conferences and in the media.
Today, Kirk joins us to talk about existential psychology and his new book, Life Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World: https://universityprofessorspress.com/product/life-enhancing-anxiety/
Kirk J. Schneider's Website:
https://kirkjschneider.com/
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