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Oct 22, 2021•12 min
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Superstructure 28: We Have Never Been Neoliberal, What Now?
In this episode, co-hosts Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo argue that the pandemic not only killed neoliberalism as a tacit ideological formation; it also revealed how neoliberal truisms have never captured the actual causal mechanisms and potentials that defined the past 50 years. Fleshing out these claims, Naty and Maxx journey through the work of rockstar economic historian Adam Tooze, focusing in particular on his widely-hailed recent book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy (2...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 52 min
The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Toy Story Part 2 (Full Episode)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure episode is the eleventh premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. Typically reserved for Patreon subscribers, this special two-part episode about Toy Story is available to the general public in full. For access to the rest of the course, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please ...
Sep 19, 2021•2 hr 3 min
The Last House on the Left
CW: trauma, abuse Will Beaman draws on personal experiences to reflect on how the problematic reduction of “deradicalization” to dialogues between fascists and anti-fascists resembles other forms of emotional and relational abuse. When the imperatives of “coalition-building” require victims of right wing violence to double down on dialogues with hostile interlocutors, the supposedly public realm of ideas resembles an abusive household, in which leaving is not an option. After a cold open from Br...
Sep 16, 2021•56 min
Comforted & Chastened : A Liz Bruenig Special
In this special episode, hosts Natalie Smith and @moltopopulare take on the austere sexual politics promulgated by cultural critic and commentator Elizabeth or “Liz” Bruenig. Mirroring the tacit zero-sum logics built into her spouse Matt Bruenig’s analyses of political economy, Liz regularly weaponizes social conservatism and conformity in cruel efforts to shore up a problematic vision of a proper social democratic populace. Natalie and Charlotte lay bare the sadistic violation of sexual freedom...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 40 min
27 - Sunrise or DSA?
Co-hosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Maxximilian Seijo discuss recent critiques of the Sunrise Movement by influential members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on social media and in the pages of Jacobin Magazine. Problematizing the DSAers destructive zero-sum rhetoric regarding the allegedly correct “theory of change,” the gang suggests an alternative mode for organizational provisioning, rooted in neither the sovereignty of a dues-paying membership structure nor the sovereignt...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 34 min
26 - Mutual Aid By Any Other Name
Cohosts Natalie Smith and Will Beaman discuss mutual aid, highlighting the potentials of its often neglected monetary and linguistic dimensions. Reading against Dean Spade’s interpretation of mutual aid as fully internal or external to money and the state, Natalie and Will recast mutual aid practices as active and vital forms of contestation over the “monetary naming” of other fiscal authorities that naturalize austerity and unemployment. Viewing mutual aid this way, they argue, opens up possibi...
Aug 28, 2021•1 hr 29 min
The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Toy Story Part 1 (Full Episode)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure episode is the tenth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the rest of the course, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. Course Descr...
Aug 23, 2021•2 hr 14 min
Liz Files (Case #1): Birdicide
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Aug 11, 2021•21 min
The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Robocop (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews both our eight and ninth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access...
Aug 09, 2021•12 min
Left Conversion Therapy w/ Ian from Twitter
Ian (@ian_as_portrait) joins Natalie Smith to discuss the hyper-normative left rhetoric of philosophy instructor and frequent Jacobin contributor Ben Burgis. Emblematic of a certain deadpan logical sobriety seen in certain left circles, Burgis’s debate style downplays heterogeneity, pleasure, and generativity in an effort to convert libertarians and rightwingers to an incrementalist tax-to-spend vision of democratic socialism. Calling out the austerian and deeply fatalist assumptions of Burgis’s...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Modern Movie Theory (MMT): Loki
Maxximilian Seijo, Andrés Bernal and Scott Ferguson plunge into the latest Disney Plus streaming series, Loki (2021) as part of their ongoing examination of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). For all its deliciously queer aesthetic & political potentials, they argue, Loki represents another MCU tragedy about the promise & perpetual failure of social contract theory, and fascism’s seductive exploitation of that failure. In doing so, they critique how the show’s neoliberal ...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 40 min
Processions: 15 - The Desire Called Utopia
Frederic Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (page 16-17) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. The episode concludes Season 1 of Processions. Stay tuned for announcements about Season 2...
Jul 09, 2021•13 min
Processions: 14 - Where do babies come from?
Silvina Ocampo, "Forgotten Journey", in Thus Were Their Faces (page 1-3) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. Processions will be released Monday, Wednesday, & Friday to the public, and Tuesday & Thursday as Patre...
Jul 08, 2021•12 min
Processions: 13 - Finite Media
Sean Cubitt, Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technology (page 7) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episode...
Jul 07, 2021•11 min
Processions: 12 - Monetary Modernism
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (page 9-10) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listen...
Jul 06, 2021•11 min
Processions: 11 - Framing Historiography
Siegfried Kracauer, History, the Last Things Before the Last (page 42-43) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be a...
Jul 05, 2021•11 min
The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Star Wars: A New Hope Part 2 (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our seventh premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. Course Desc...
Jul 04, 2021•14 min
25 - The Official MMT Personality Test
Hosts Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo dive into the world of personality types as exemplified by the likes of astrology, MBTI and Enneagram. Complicating John Ganz’s recent dismissal of personal types as univocal, alienating and repressive, Naty and Maxx queer such typologies, drawing attention to their playful, generative and relational meanings. Sprinkled with references to Adorno, Deleuze, Leibniz, and Hegel, the episode treats astrology, MBTI and Enneagram as analogical practices and ask...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Processions: 10 - The Agamben Relation
Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies, (Page 272-273) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public lis...
Jul 02, 2021•14 min
Processions: 9 - Colonialism-for-itself
Ndongo Samba Sylla, Colonialism’s Neoliberal Origins (https://moneyontheleft.org/2021/06/14/neoliberalisms-colonial-origins/) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be release...
Jul 01, 2021•6 min
Processions: 8 - Hegel Falls From Heaven
G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Page 90) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listen...
Jun 30, 2021•11 min
Processions: 7 - Infinity Sign
Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Page 8-9) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delay...
Jun 29, 2021•9 min
Processions: 6 - Marx's Essence
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Page 127-128) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available ...
Jun 28, 2021•10 min
Dasha Files (Case #7: Hegel Edition)
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Jun 23, 2021•11 min
Processions: 5 - Hall of Mirrors
Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Vol. 2): Identity and Diaspora, "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (Page 67) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released a...
Jun 18, 2021•12 min
Processions: 4 - Performing Money
Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Page 6) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes wil...
Jun 17, 2021•13 min
Dasha Files (Case #6: Hegel Edition)
Dasha-in-herself encounters idealism. https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
Jun 17, 2021•8 min
Processions: 3 - Our Journey
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri (Canto 1, lines 1-15) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public list...
Jun 16, 2021•8 min
Processions: 2 - Twinkle, Twinkle
The Stars Down to Earth, by Theodor W. Adorno (Page 48-49) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for pu...
Jun 15, 2021•11 min
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