Mar 30, 2020
The Red
Troika (Alex, Don, and Adam) engage in a critical exploration of
YouTube food reviews using Guy Debord's The Society of the
Spectacle. We get a little experimental on this one in trying to
apply our icy-cold muthafuckin' takes and liquid hot magma
theoretical orientation to the likes of Joey's World
Tour...
Mar 22, 2020
Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series
Comrade Commissar Alex and I work through a most intriguing and challenging work of philosophical and Lacanian psychoanalysis by Alenka Zupancic called What IS Sex?
For part 1, we talk about the psychoanalytic view on the relationship between sex and gender,...
Mar 17, 2020
For our third and final episode on
Ernest Mandel's An Introduction to Marxist Economic
Theory, NEOCAPITALISM ARRIVES FROM THE FUTURE.
We talk about Mandel's conception of
neocapitalism post-WWII, the New Deal, arms manufacturing and
social security programs and anti-crisis measures for capitalism,
the Cold War, and...
Mar 8, 2020
Comrade David joins us to complete his
Holy Trinity of appearances on Red Library to discuss The
Entrepreneurial State by Mariana
Mazzucato. This is the first of a two-part series on the state
within capitalist modes of production with part 2 coming soon on
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin's The Making of Global
Capitalism:...
Mar 1, 2020
Theory Team 6 (CC Don, CC Alex, and Comrade Adam)
watched two films by Kathryn Bigelow that we describe as propaganda
for the American Soul: Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt
Locker. This turns into a
general commentary on Bigelow's whole filmography as it relates to
U.S. capitalist/imperialist propaganda in general.