Ben Burgis recounts his twitter encounter with the reactionary race realist youtuber and “logic” bros Stefan Molyneux. It turns out that Molyneux doesn’t know the difference between a sound and a valid argument, but he’s also unwilling to be corrected. Molyneux’s blocking Burgis on twitter and his subsequent subtweeting was “not an argument.”
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In episode 3, the Buddies dive deeper into the work of Mark Fisher with help from special guest Amy Ireland. Falling further down the CCRU K-hole, we cover the multi-layered hyperstitional piece "Who's Pulling Your Strings?", belief and unbelief, Monarch conspiracies, the numogram, and more.
Ireland is an experimental writer and theorist best known for her work with the technomaterialist transfeminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks. She has exhibited and performed work in Australia, the UK, Korea, China, Canada, and France. Amy currently works as an editor for UK publisher Urbanomic.
Who's Pulling Your Strings? - http://ccru.net/archive/monarch.htm
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The cultural critic Christopher Lasch praised Harold Cruse and his book
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Specifically, Lasch looked to Cruse as Lasch explored the need for the development of a working-class culture after WW2. In this video Derick Varn and Douglas Lain explore the limits of Cruse's conception of national identity even as they consider the reasons why Cruse felt compelled to seek out a black national culture in the United States.
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David Blacker's book "What's Left of the World" summarized:
In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole.
More than half a century later, professor David Blacker recognizes that decades of neoliberalism have pushed young people beyond unhappiness and into a collective identity crisis. Overall, Americans no longer feel needed to do jobs that had previously anchored them in society and are becoming disconnected and purposeless. The proliferation of new identities, based not on work but on consumption, is symptomatic of neoliberalism and its hyper-commodification and deregulation of everyday life.
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Dorian Cox is the creator of the indie rock band The Long Blondes. He selected his bandmates based on their personalities and style before any of the members knew how to play their instruments. But, due to his artistic vision and his eye for talent, he created a cult band for the ages.
Guy Mankowski was a singer in the signed band Alba Nova. He trained as a psychologist at The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in London. His debut novel, 'The Intimates', was chosen as a 'Must Read' title by New Writing North's Read Regional campaign. His most recent book, "Albion's Secret History" is out now from Zero Books.
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Kris Saknussemm is a novelist and a multimedia artist. He has published ten books including Zanesville, Sea Monkeys, and Private Midnight. As a short story writer he has won First Prize in the Boston Review and River Styx Short Fiction Contests, and received the Fiction Collective 2 Award for Innovative Writing, in addition to publishing in a wide range of journals such as Opium Magazine, Hotel Amerika, The New England Review, The Hudson Review, Gargoyle and so on and so on. Kris is a worldly type who recently returned to the United States and we discuss his culture shock, the decline of the US, the rise of Trump and the liberal response.
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Ben Burgis evaluates the framing of the Zizek vs. Peterson debate and concludes that the way the debate is being framed includes a category mistake and aims at the wrong political goal. The aim of socialism to create the conditions necessary for individual and collective freedom and not at happiness.
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left
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Victoria Brooks F*%king Law is an urgent call for everyone, not just academics and researchers, to find inventive ways to question the ethics of sexuality and to question ethics through sexuality. McManus and Hamilton's What is Postmodern Conservatism asks how we got from the so-called end of history to apocalyptic declarations of the end of western civilization. Both books are addressing Postmodernism only in different ways.
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Fucking Law by Victoria Brooks
What is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times by Matthew McManus
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The counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored, yet no less important aspect — both in its core identity and in terms of its ongoing significance and impact — is its relationship with health.
In this popular and illuminating cultural history of the relationship between health and the counterculture, Matthew Ingram connects the dots between the beats, yoga, meditation, psychedelics, psychoanalysis, Eastern philosophy, sex, and veganism, showing how the hippies still have a lot to teach us about our wellbeing.
RETREAT: HOW THE COUNTERCULTURE INVENTED WELLNESS - https://repeaterbooks.com/?s=retreat
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The buddies step away from the CCRU this episode (though maybe not too far) and turn their attention to Mark Fisher's take on Stanley K.'s last film, Eyes Wide Shut.
We'll be discussing ritual, eroticism, conspiracism, and the dreary spectacle of Power
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