THE NEW SHOW HAS ARRIVED. Welcome....to Subjective Conditions: Exploring the Mind and Body Under Capitalism! Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is joined by The Comrade That Cannot Be Perceived, Courtney, and Jess for our inaugural episode. LET'S GET GALAXY-BRAINED, COMRADES. Show References Psychedelic White Internal Family Systems (IFS) Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Subjective Conditions Patreon Page...
In the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? Pt. 2 has our Comrade in Christ™ and RIP Kevin™ leading up chapters on Hegel's early philosop...
In the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? Pt. 2 has our Comrade in Christ™ and RIP Kevin™ leading up chapters on Hegel's early philosop...
In the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? It's been a hell of a ride and we are going out by turning that philosophical lead into gold ...
It's an All-Star Lost Horizons Network Cast™ as we finally get into our promised right-wing/reactionary/fascist thinkers tier list! The Regrettable Century Gang, our Comrade in Christ™, Mir, CC Don, and Chairman Bane dive into part 1 of the list. Everyone will be outed as a closet reactionary by the end. We will finally become Red-Brown Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Strasserites at long last! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmai...
A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity . Chairman Bane and TRC Crew are once again joined by our special guest and Comrade in Christ™, Mir , for the podcasti...
For the first of not 1 but 2 RL Patron-Exclusive Episodes™ for March, Chairman Bane, CC Don, and patron royalty and OGs MetroGnome and Gravesend Commissar fill in for CC Alex to discuss the oeuvre of Michael Bay through the lens of the reactionary mind. This one is pure chaos, y'all. No prep work except for CC Don and Chairman Bane watching Armageddon while experiencing societal collapse in Texas during the recent ice storm. But as per usual, hot takes abound with some bordering on icy cold terr...
We Out Here™ for Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 7! It's OG Red Troika action for this one as we go full DAGGERS OUT™ on not 1 but 2 chapters of Capitalism and Desire. CC Don leads the chapter on means and ends and Comrade Adam aka Chairman Bane aka White Morpheus leads the chapter on love. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Lost Horizons Podcasting Network Todd McGowan Why Theory? Podcast Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Review ------------------------------------------------ Ema...
A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity . The RL Gang and TRC Crew are joined by our special guest and Comrade in Christ™, Mir , as we dive into part 666 of J...
BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE ! We are kicking off 2021 right and firing up the Red Library podcast machines with the long-awaited release of our patron roundtable on decolonization and critical pedagogy! Join the all-star patron cast of past guests and long-time patrons as they discuss some legendary books in the decolonial tradition as it relates to political education and liberation! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redli...
Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane GO MOBILE on our long-awaited mega episode on Mari Ruti's The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within ! For Part 2, we talk more about CC Alex being BIG MAD , violence, the ethics of sublimation, how we relate to commodities and Das Ding, love, and justice. Further Readings/References Mari Ruti Review of The Singularity of Being Sinthome Automaton and Tuche ------------...
Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane GO MOBILE on our long-awaited mega episode on Mari Ruti's The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within ! For Part 1, we set up a lot of the core arguments of Ruti's and interpretations of core Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts, delve into the Introduction and Chapter 1, and foreshadow all the things CC Alex is BIG MAD about with Ruti's daggers being out for his boi, Zizek...
We continue our exploration of the Impossible Image with Comrade Commissar Alex from the Red Library gang! Along the way, Alex and Sam respond to some recent discussions across the Lost Horizons Network on the emancipatory potential of art and the Enchantments of Mammon Pt. 5 episode. What is an image? What makes it impossible? What are the two wolves inside Samuel? These are the questions at hand! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us...
A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity . Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is running the show for No. 5 and we start off with some Big Brain™ listener questions be...
We focus on our concept of The Impossible Image as representing negativity and the Real in different ways. Sam brings an example from the art world and Adam brings one from the realm of religion. It all leads to asking "what is the revolutionary subject?" ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTu...
The Red Troika delivers our most icy cold/spicy take episode on one of the most beloved film franchises in recent history: Toy Story. Icy Cold Takes™ abound on everything from alienation under capitalism, the co-optation of radical feminism by authoritarian liberal feminism, the crypto-fascism of the nuclear family in the films, the death of God, zoomers versus boomers, family court, and much more! This one gets deranged, unhinged, and chaos reigns as we destroy a sacred cow of settler coloniali...
The Red Troika Bois are joined by Comrades Jaime and Pádraig from CounterPower/ContraPoder to talk about their newly published book, Organizing for Autonomy: History, Theory, and Strategy for Collective Liberation ! We discuss the project of the book and CounterPower's approach to organizing, the role of theory for today's left, partisan social science, interpersonal relations on the Left, and tons more! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Fol...
A new comrade/patron, Patrick, joins us in the history wing of the Red Library this week to tackle a long-overdue historical moment of everlasting importance for today's Left: the failed German Revolution of 1918. We talk about the history of the SPD, the infamous voting for war credits, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the March Action, the Spartacist League and Uprising, the Kapp Putsch, and more! This one has Big Radio War Nerd Energy and is already an RL classic! Further Reading/Sources T...
For Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 6/Chapter 6, CC Don is in the driver's seat to talk Hegel, the good infinite, and the bad infinite in capitalism. It's the skeleton crew on this one with just Podrade Neil and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane joining in the fun. This is a very breakfast food-heavy discussion. Many questions ensue. Marx is discussed. Daggers are drawn. Answers are sought and only more questions are found. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Hegel on the Dialectics of Infinity ----------------...
We inaugurate a brand new companion project to Red Library called The Red Desert starting today! This project is focused on Comrades Adam and Sam dive into active theorizing on our shared theoretical explorations/book projects and describe the spirit and nature of The Red Desert project. Some topics include form and content, time, film, art, philosophy, communism, and almost everything else. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twi...
Gravesend Commissar returns for our follow-up episode on The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller by GOING MOBILE on Superman: Red Son ! We talk about the War on Terror's influence on the comic, contradictions of the liberal mind, American exceptionalism, and the return of Cold War ideology. Hypocrisy is the greatest evil to the liberal worldview. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here...
Eric Chester, author of the new book from Monthly Review Press, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I , joins Comrade Adam in the library this week for a very special episode! We work through Eric's new book and talk about the differing contexts of suppression of free speech in the UK and the U.S., Eugene Debs, the IWW, Samuel Gompers and the ALF-CIO legacy, and some of the legendary IWW strikes and labor drives during the period. Further Readings/References Eric T. Chest...
A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity . CC Don is back in the driver's seat for Part 4 on populism. anarchist and socialist history, the craft movement, and...
We are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture . In Part 2, we discuss Lasch's critiques of how the word revolution functions on the Left, who the revolutionary subject was in the 1960's, the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago with the BPP, similarities between the Left and Right, culture's relationship to capitalist resistance, educational insti...
BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE ! The Red Troika delves into the 2019 film, Vivarium , to talk about bird conspiracies, antinatalism, the hell of home ownership, the tyranny of the nuclear family, evolutionary biology and beauty, and the true meaning of cuckoldry, and more off-the-rails topics in the horniest Red Library episode of all time! Buckle up and put on those winter coats for the icy cold takes - we almost didn't make it out of this one alive! -...
We are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture . In part 1, we talk the gaps in Leftist understanding of U.S. history, asylums, the history of feminist movements in the 19th century, the temperance movement, the New Left, the university as a reactionary institution, imperialism, and much more! Varn brings so many icy cold takes you should p...
BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE ! Comrade/Patron Gravesend Commissar joins the Red Troika Bois for a spiritual sequel to our Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight Trilogy patron-exclusive episodes to talk about Frank Miller's legendary comic series The Dark Knight Returns . This is essentially a deep dive into the reactionary mind and aesthetics of postmodern fascism. :50 ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.co...
Part of Red Library's Lost Futures Series Comrade Adam (a.k.a. Chairman Bane) joins podrades Remi and Niko from Cosmonaut's brilliant Ecology Cast series to discuss Kohei Saito's Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx's Ecosocialism from Monthly Review Press in 2017. We discuss the concept of metabolism, Marx's evolution of thought on ecology being the core realm of capitalist crisis, agricultural chemistry, the role of a Marxist ecosocialist perspective to ...
Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America and Real Philosophy Hourz Series We are joined by Comrade/Patron Brant of Houston Review of Books to tackle George Ciccarielo-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics and get into some real theoretical ICY COLD TAKES in the library this week. We discuss the relationship between dialectics and decolonization, postcolonialism and decolonial theory, Frantz Fanon, Enrique Dussel, try to recuperate Georges Sorel for today's Left a bit, ...
DON'T YOU DARE CALL IT A COMEBACK. Part 5 of our Todd McGowan Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets reading series is in full effect this week. In Chapter 5, CC Alex leads us through a discussion on psychoanalytic approaches to freedom under capitalism, universals, and McGowan's use of the symbolic to explain capital's functioning along with all the usual Red Troika hijinks. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Their Myths? Interpassivity The Stru...
