Liv Agar

Pronatalism? Reddit Proposals? Genopolitics? Transmaxxing? all topics of todays episode which is a deep dive into the Collins', the silicon valley tech couple who want YOU to have sex for the sake of all mankind.

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Here is a link to the article I was reacting to https://jacobin.com/2022/06/karl-marx-labor-theory-of-value-ga-cohen-economics

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In a recent video by Contrapoints, she goes over her account of envy and its connection with online politics. In doing so she utilizes Nietzsche (alongside a critique of Nietzsche). How accurate is this account to Nietzsche's work and where does it go wrong?  

Thank you to We're in Hell, BadEmpanada, and Chelsea Manning for the voice lines! 

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"Hyperborea" was noted by the Greeks to have been a land beyond the vicious boreal winds of the north, in a sunlit realm of justice with no disease, war, old age, or labour. Where did this mythology come from and why is it still being referenced today? 

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Music in earlier part of the episode by Jan Janko Močnik: https://janjmocnik.bandcamp.com/album/pagania-i 

Sources used in this episode:

Hyperboreans : myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts, Timothy P. Bridgman.

Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Jonathan M. Hall. 

Adam, Eve, and Agriculture: The First Scientific Experiment, Harry White.

https://vimeo.com/145285143

How to change the course of human history, David Graeber and David Wengrow. 

Elevating optimal human nutrition to a central goal of plant breeding and production of plant-based foods, David C Sands et al. 

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/52742942/

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

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Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/52506968

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

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Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/52353952

Thank you to Corey, Please! Don't Fire Us, and Sierra for supporting me on Patreon (I forgot to say it in the episode my apologies) 

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

All of my links at livagar.com

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/explaining-marxs-51932878

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ECaJ031Q0

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This episode is an overview of the first chapter of Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1. This is mean both as something to listen to before reading it yourself, or for those who simply want a short summary of it in audio form. The premium goes more in depth in Commodity Fetishism as well as the four developments of the value form https://www.patreon.com/posts/50528956/ 

Timestamps for the video:

00:00 – Intro

2:30 – Use Value and Exchange Value

5:59 – Labour and Value

14:35 – Marx’s Law of Value and Supply and Demand

16:45 – The Division of Labour and the Commodity

20:03 – The Coat and the 20 Yards of Linen

20:50 – Commodity Fetishism

29:48 – The abolition of Labour

32:29 – Outro

Reading guides/secondary literature/sourced material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGYaxWHwSE

http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg01.html

Sweezy, The Theory of Capitalist Development

Stephen Shapiro, Marx's Capital

Arthur L Thomas, The Allocation Problem in Financial Accounting Theory

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Satire, noun, the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

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In this episode I read out two short pieces of writing dealing with the future of the left, nihilism, and historical necessity. The first section is meant to be a nihilistic/hopeless articulation and the second is meant to provide a solution.

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This week I'm finishing up the second part of my series on the connection between cryptocurrencies and QAnon, considering their analogical structure and its root causes.

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This episode goes over the general details of crypto and how it may appear as if it is a radically decentralized and non-authoritarian form of currency (not contingent on states or central banks) it nevertheless is not.

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Foucault believes that in any public health program there is a biopolitical distinction between those who are saved and those who are excluded from good health and left to die. How is this applicable in our current context where our intimate lives are dictated by public health management?
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This one took a lot of research, part two about Zizek, Lacan, Hegel, and Humour related to trump available on patreon.com/livposting

Works cited/used for this episode

“Refiguring Socrates: Comedy and Corporeality in the Socratic Tradition” by Daniel McLean

“Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida” by Catherine Zuckert

“Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy” by Michael C. Rudar

“The Odd One In: On Comedy” by Alana Zupancic 

“Recent Continental Philosophy and Comedy: Comic Overflow” by Bernard Freydberg

“The Idea of Comedy: History, Theory, Critique” by Jan Hokenson