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Revol Books launch their Theorize and be Damned podcast with a chat with Bram E. Gieben about his forthcoming book The Darkest Timeline. Preorder Bram's book here: https://linktr.ee/thedarkesttimeline Subscribe to the Revol Press Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/revolpress Revol's Instagram: revol_press Portrait of Bram E. Gieben in thumbnail by Lucy Cheyne

We talk with Adam and Tish Turl from the Locust Review quarterly. We  discuss the founding and purpose of Locust Review, the theory of  Critical Irrealism, and their ever-growing installation in The Born  Again Labor Museum. Adam and Tish are longtime friends of the acid left  so this is a fun episode filled with laughs. We also speculate what a  left wing response to Q might be,  talk fan fiction, share fever dreams  and tips for agitating at the workplace.

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Outro Music by Made in 1985 

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In the third in this series Mike Watson talks to Max Ryynänen asking if  the Frankfurt School are too Bourgeois.  

Max is a tenured Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and theorist  of Aesthetics, where he focuses on excluded and outsider practices. He published On the Philosophy of Central European Art (2020), in which he  proposes Nobrow art production as a response to the dichotomy between High and Low brow and the way in which the former co-opts the latter.   

You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the  Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism --  https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336

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In the fourth in this series Mike Watson talks to Matt McManus asking if  Adorno's criticism of Existentialism in the 'Jargon of Authenticity'  was fair.  Matt McManus is a Professor of Law and Society at The University of Calgary.  

He is also the author of...  The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), AND co author of What  Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of  Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books AND A Critical Legal Examination  of Liberalism and Liberal Rights (Palgrave 2020).

You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the  Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/memeing-mark-fisher

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The Acid Left talk to Marshall Roderick, son of Rick Roderick. As well  as following up our campaign to get Roderick republished, we ask what  the man was like, what he would have made of Biden and Trump, Lefttube  and much more !

You can read Max Roderick's text on Rick Roderick here: http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/

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In the second in this series Mike Watson talks to Douglas Kellner,   author of several books on Critical Theory including Herbert Marcuse and  the Crisis of Marxism, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism  and Beyond, and American Nightmare Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and  Authoritarian Populism.

Martin Jay is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

In September Springer publish Kellner's Technology and Democracy: Toward  A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and  Technocapitalism.

You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336

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In this new series Mike Watson talks to Martin Jay, Historian of  philosophy and author of several books on the Frankfurt School including  the Dialectical Imagination and the recent essay collection Splinters in your Eye.   

Martin Jay is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  

Books and Essays Discussed:   Martin Jay, Splinters in You Eye -- https://www.versobooks.com/books/3183-splinters-in-your-eye   

Martin Jay, Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School's theory of the Racket Society --  https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-scorsese-and-the-frankfurt-schools-theory-of-racket-society/   

Mike Watson, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336   

We talk to Graham Jones about his podcast Red Enlightenment hosted on  Repeater Radio. Red Enlightenment is an 8 part series about science,  socialism, and spirituality that draws influence from Spinoza and Marx to Michael Brooks and Mark Fisher while asking questions of metaphysics,  ethics, and embodiment in order to move into a Materialist Spirituality.

Contains remixes and samples from the following songs.  

Broke for Free- Lonely Organ 

Jose Konda- Golgotha 

Lobo Loco - Bioscope 

Dee Yan-Key - Go Down Moses, Moses Reprise 

Farad Farhangi - Animir Roman Havasi 

Marten Schellekens - The Little Match Girl 

Veena Kinhal - Haratanaya Sree   

Made in 1985- Imposter Syndrome   

Red Enlightenment  https://www.repeater-radio.com/redenlightenment 

Shock Doctrine of the left https://politybooks.com/serieslanding/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509528547&subject_id=88 

Graham's YouTube https://youtube.com/c/ASMRTheory  

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The Acid Left talk to artist and meme maker Teenage Stepdad about his  new show on Means TV called Seizing the Memes, his working process,  politics, art school and the media... and boaner jokes!  

Teenage Stepdad is the person behind the hugely popular insta meme  account @teenagestepdad featuring among the best produced memes on the  internet most of which perform satirical critiques of popular brands and advertising tropes as well as the culture industry in general.  

Check out Seizing the Memes on means.tv and Teenage Stepdad's website at  teenagestepdad.com  

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The Acid Left talk to Admin1 of the theory collective Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research and curated meme page @cu_media_funhouse.exe. We discuss the ongoing protest in Colombia against tax hikes, state violence, and the government's handling of the worsening health crisis.  

We also discuss the disturbing conspiracy theory put forward by the right wing government of "Molecular Revolution" that denies the citizens of Colombia's collective rage by arguing that a foreign communist cabal is trying to undermine the government along with the ideas of Toni Negri, Deleuze, and Guattari.   

Admin1 recommends the following Instagram accounts if you are looking for more information on the protest in Colombia:  

https://instagram.com/redcondorcollective?utm_medium=copy_link 

https://instagram.com/redcritica?utm_medium=copy_link

https://instagram.com/desinformemonos.colombia?utm_medium=copy_link   

The video contains memes from The Acid Left Instagram account,  cu_media_funhouse.exe, pages from Preliminary Assemblages by CUIR, and  the hashtag #colombiaprotesta  

Contains remixes of the following songs: Audiobinger- The Upside Down Sudartha Corsus- Let Go of Time El Remolon- Cumbia Bichera Ketsa- Deep Math Sea Dragon- Cuadrados Y Puntos  

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Preliminary Assemblages by Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0zIJFvZVvYCXQegAAhVGleK6LKDAwWJ 

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Adam Ray Adkins talks to musician and YouTuber Artin Salimi on Mark Fisher, Marxism, Hip Hop, and Islamic Philosophy   

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The Acid Left's Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins speak to Art House Politics, artist and 'content' creator about memes, art, content, breatdube, politics online and much more.

The Acid Left's Mike Watson speaks to Valentina Tanni, author of Memestetica, a book on meme culture and contemporary art and society, published in Italian by Nero Editions.   

https://www.neroeditions.com/product/memestetica/  

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