Jan 19, 2024
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I’ve been watching this new political faction take shape online over the last year or so. In 2022, they held several IRL conferences around the US to launch a new organization called “The Center for Political Innovation”. A friend of the pod called in for a Field Report episode on this very topic. MagaCom is something like a far right flavor of Marxism-Leninism: advocating for a single party socialist state in the age of multi-polarity. (Yes, these guys are literally Russian funded Duginists and the whole thing reeks of clumsy psyop.) I’m most interested in this project because their promotional strategy is “discursive terrorism” which basically means using cumbersome political labels that drive normal people insane like: Libertarian-Stalinism, Red-Yellow Ron Paul Maoists, Mecha-tankies and Exo-proletariat. After making big waves on social media, the CPI rapidly dissolved once allegations arose about the party leader’s misuse of funds and insatiable spanking fetish.
Feb 20, 2023
I know slavoj zizek is a fucking loser now, but his movie A Pervert's Guide to Ideology was the first piece of media that began to rub away the sheen/shellac of pretense that the world operates smoothly. It was my first time really engaging with a Marxian analysis and sitting with it. I was in high school, and it set me up to care about critical theory. From this movie, I'd read Mark Fisher's really quick book "Capitalist Realism: is there no alternative?" Fisher grounds a lot of his theory in culture/media in a very similar way to Zizek.
After that, I'd follow recommendations made by others in the thread!
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Dec 27, 2023
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How’s everyone’s favorite sports teams doing this year?
Nov 30, 2023
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I wasn’t alive for any of the 90’s but I feel like this album is reflective of the times for the death of middle America in the 90’s. Talks of themes that aren’t glamorous and ignores Hollywood.
Dec 11, 2023