Apr 14, 2019
The saga continues...
Don and I continue our dive into Left-Wing Melancholia and focus on Traverso's "landscape of fragmented sufferings" which includes the relationship between anti-capitalist/anti-bureaucratic/anti-colonial struggles and the category of victims in political discourse. We also get more into the contrast between melancholia versus nostalgia. There are a ton of references in this episode, too. It's more dense than the frames in a Star Wars prequel.
Show References:
- Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind
- Carl Schmitt
- Katechon
- Louis Auguste Blanqui
- Adam Hochschild's Book on the Congo and Belgian Imperialism
- Bhagat Singh
- Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism
- Robert F. Williams
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