IT'S A PARALLAX VIEWS DOUBLE FEATURE! First up, a roundtable discussion on masculinity and gender relations with previous guest and visual artist Brian Shaughnessy and Daniele Bolelli , writer, martial artist, university professor, and host of the History on Fire and The Drunken Taoist podcasts. We discuss the masculinity identity in an age of changing gender roles, integrating masculine and feminine traits, self-improvement, Daniele Bolelli's critique of Jordan B. Peterson, and much more in thi...
Nov 21, 2018•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 56
On this edition of Parallax Views psychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock returns to the show to discuss his upcoming book Zizek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy (Zero Books, 2019). Among the topics we discuss are CBT therapy, capitalism and the perfect neoliberal subject, mental health services and economic status, the medical-judicial apparatus, the pathologization of the poor, psychoanalysis and it's importance, Guattari as the hysteric, technocapital and it...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 55
On this edition of Parallax Views Theory Talk's Taylor Adkins joins me to discuss the life, times, and works of activist and "schizoanalyst" Felix Guattari. Guattari is perhaps most known for his collaborations with the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, most notably the two volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which cleverly subverted Freudian psychoanalysis in the age of Jacques Lacan. As such we begin the conversation by discussing Sigmund Freud and the foundation of psychoanalysis before tak...
Nov 08, 2018•2 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 54
On this edition of Parallax Views, from the unreleased back-catalogue and just in time for the midterm elections, author and occultist Michael M. Hughes joins me to discuss his book Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change and the history of anarchic and egalitarian tendencies in the occult.
Nov 03, 2018•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 53
On this extra-spooky edition of Parallax Views, just in time for Halloween, "Historian of the Strange" Robert Damon Schneck joins me to share strange-but-true tales from America's past from a folklorist's perspective that attempts to discover their sociological significance. Robert specializes in researching and writing about odd and unusual stories from America's past and is the author of The President's Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States (now reprinted as The Bye Bye Man: And...
Oct 30, 2018•2 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 51
On this edition of Parallax Views, just in time for Halloween, film critic, filmmaker, and musical composer Chris Alexander of Delirium Magazine joins the show to discuss the joys of horror cinema. We begin by discussing how Chris became interested in horror before delving into other areas, particularly the socially subversive potentials of horror. In this regard we discuss Chris's article on the blaxploitation cult classic Blacula as well as his friendship with George A. Romero and how Romero's...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 50
On this edition of Parallax Views cultural critic John David Ebert ( Youtube , Patreon ) joins me to discuss myth, modernity, postmodernity, and John's concept of hypermodernity. Among the topics we delve into our Joseph Campbell and comparitive mythology, Nazism as a degeneration of myth, Carl Jung, Oswald Spengler and his two-volume series The Decline of the West , religion and the metaphysical tradition, William S. Burroughs, chaos and chance vs order and structure, modernity's relation to th...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Patrick Farnsworth of the Last Born in the Wilderness podcast joins Parallax Views for a nearly two-hour, wide-ranging, sobering conversation on man's future in light of the possibility of catastrophic climate change. Despite the grim subject matter Patrick tries to offer a glimmer of hope in what many are dubbing the "Anthropocene", arguing that if we are past overshoot in climate change there nonetheless remains a redemptive potential in how we, as species, deal with it. Among the topics we co...
Oct 12, 2018•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 48
On this edition of Parallax Views returning guest Doug Lain , author of the sci-fi novel Bash Bash Revolution and publisher at Zero Books , discusses Zero Books severed ties with author Nicolas Hausdorf after finding out that he had began writing for the "post-political" (reactionary) magazine Jacobite. You can hear Doug discuss this issues with the author in question on Zero Squared #171: Pssst... Socialist Oppose Reaction . During the course of the conversation we discuss a number of topics ra...
Oct 11, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 47
On this edition of Parallax Views returning guest, my partner-in-crime at Zero Books ' Alternatives podcast, and personal friend C. Derick Varn returns to discuss the life and punditry of Britain's arch-conservative pessimist Peter Hitchens . Although his renown, at least in the U.S., has often been eclipsed by that of his brother, the late New Atheist crusader Christopher Hitchens, Peter is a fascinating figure in his own right who has become the UK's resident doom-and-gloom reactionary that li...
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Yuval Noah Harari On this edition of Parallax Views I speak with author and artist Terry Tapp about his reflections on reading Israeli historian and New York Times bestseller Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and its worrying elitist underpinnings. We begin by discussing how Terry became interested in reading Harari's Homo Deus and his extremely negative reaction to it. We then back up a bit to discuss Harari's previous book Sapiens which leads us to a brief detour into ...
Jul 18, 2018•45 sec•Season 1Ep. 21
