Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Forrest Miller is a co-host of Movie Night Extravaganza . He has produced for Jacobin Podcast and Give Them an Argument With Ben Burgis and does a monthly joint show with This is Revolution. We will be discussing the overlap between film, culture, and politics, focusing on filmmakers like Alex Cox, Paul Verhoeven, and Stanley Kubrick. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Eman...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 42
While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed . This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here: i.e. what is the social and class history of the past. In this episode, we begin our first foray into this unlimited series with a flight of discussions of the work of Marxist hi...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 48 min
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jared is the author of Cyber Dandy. He is a long-time student of anarchism and existentialism and speaks about the continued relevance and radicalness of existential thought. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jaso...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Dan Melo is the author of Borderlines (Zer0 Books, 2021). He is an attorney and social critic who grew up in diverse cultural and political settings. he was written for in the Hampton Institute, ArcDigital, Areo Magazine, and Merion West. We discuss immigrant activism, the current state of affairs, and the relationship between immigration, economics, and climate change. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe h...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East at MIT. He is the author of Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings . We talk about the long history of American politics and the making of modern Iran, the making of American policy in the modern middle east, the Islamicate world's encounters with European modernity, and much more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are a...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Doug Enaa Greene is the author of Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution and the forthcoming A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism (Forthcoming, Zero Books, 2022). He also blogs at The Blanquist as well as writes for publications like Left Voice, Socialism and Democracy, LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, MRZine, Counterpunch, Socialis...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Kenzo Shibata is the host of Meet the Left , organizer, and teacher who shares a love of Punk rock. We discuss the late Gen X tendency to aestheticize politics and the problems of scenes and radical chic. We also go anecdotal about generational differences. This is a why ranging conversation. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Var...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Greg Belvedere is a writer and sometimes youtuber who is very interested in the problems of ecology and net-energy expenditure. We discuss how much more radical our reconception of life may need to be to control our response to climate change and how unlikely that is. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Ch...
Sep 27, 2021•2 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Erika Whelan discusses the history and functions of left communism with me. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Media: twitter: @skepoet Facebook You can find the additional streams on Y...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Adam Ray Adkins is the co-host of the Acid Left. We discuss art, culture, and what is the acid left, and why it may be important. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Media: twitter: @ske...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Mike Watson is the author of Can the Left Learn to Meme? (Zero Books, 2019) and The Memeing of Mark Fisher (Zero Books, forthcoming 2021) and the co-host of the Acid Left. We discuss memes, the Frankfurt school, and the left's ability to communicate a singular and coherent narrative. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio P...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 33
lease support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Sam Shain and I discuss media literacy, critical thinking, and the curriculum in high school humanities. Sam is a teacher and former journalist as well as the author of Education Revolution (forthcoming Zero Books). Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music ...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This week to Joe Payne about the situation in California, the end of working-class background journalists, and the decline of local journalism. Joe Payne is the host of Political Payne and the co-host of Bad Takes. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music ...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This week to Ted Reese about the importance of Henryk Grossman. Reese is the author of Socialism or Extinction and forthcoming The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Zero Books). Reese elaborates on profitability and its limits to the kinds of innovation that is developed in response to climate change. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network....
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Colin Drumm (@drumm_colin) is PhD Candidate in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, whose interests include the history of money and its power relationships in the middle ages as well as understanding German idealism. Drumm wants to understand that we should not trust Kant. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Produ...
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Arnold Schroder is the host of Fight Like an Animal. We briefly discuss the essay " The Human Species and the Earth's Crust " by Amadeo Bordiga, but quickly move on to discuss infrastructure, human temperament, social psychology, and adjusting your political theory to your audience beyond superficial ideological appeals. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Netwo...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. John Michael Colon is a writer and libertarian socialist in New York. He and I speak about the shifting of the media landscape. This is the first of a two-part series. You can find John Michael Colon's work at the Point , Jacobin, etc. He is at @red_dilettante Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel St...
Aug 12, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. I talk to James and Craig of the Re-Reading Wolfe Podcast about the legacy of Gene Wolfe and what it is like to engage with his works. Check out their work. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and ...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. J. Andrew World is a comic and sketch artist who does work for podcasts such as Give Them An Argument and publishers like Zero Books, and is also the co-host of two podcasts, Bad Takes and Movie Night Extravaganza . This is a free-ranging conversation on pop art, 'zines, politics, and economics of art with lots of digressions from both guest and host. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affilia...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is the first of a Patreon series of streams: we are making it free as a bonus. Nicolas Villareal and C. Derick Varn debate Althusser all the time on Twitter and messages. While Varn has had Nico on before to talk about Econophysics and Structural Marxism, Varn and Nico often talk about this antagonistically. This is the first of what is literally to be an irregular series as both their time allows wh...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Mike and Bori from Red Star Over Asia podcast talk about the left in South Korea and Asia, and the historical and political context and difficulties of left organizing in the Republic of Korea. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nia Cola is a heterodox economist and proponent of MMT. She has debated with me before on Give Them An Argument on the International use of MMT. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Media...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Natalie Smith is a co-host of the Superstructure podcast . We discuss the appeal of MMT humanities and the political situation in Chile. We also discuss some of the tensions between Marxists and MMTers and the limits of methodological nationalism. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufheb...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Cordelia is many things but one of them is a writer and another is the co-host of Reel Abstractions . We talk about value theory, scientific realism and anti-realism, the scholars of Michael Heinrich, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by B...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Camilo Gomez is freelance writer and podcast host based in Lima, Peru. His podcast is History and Politics. We discuss the ongoing election in Peru, US coverage of the election, and Peruvian cultural and political history that complicates the American left's understanding of the situation. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn A...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Bessner discusses liberal imperialism, imperialist realism, and the international order with us. Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and was previously the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy. He is ...
Jul 13, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ben Burgis is a regular contributor to Jacobin and other publications, a former philosophy professor, and the author of Give Them An Argument and Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns (both from Zero Books). He is also the host of Give Them An Argument and a colleague and friend of mine. We discuss how canceling is by no means a left-wing only development in capitalism and other developments on the l...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Zara and Sher are from the Facing Autonomy podcast . Zara and Sher discuss the limits of our imagining of the collective worker and how autonomism and accepting decentralization in the immediate future may be key for a revitalized left. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) ...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jason Myles is a musician in Bitter Lake and podcaster out of Oakland. Pascal Robert is a Haitian American Lawyer regular contributor to Black Agenda Report. Together they host This is Revolution. We discuss the history of black leadership in the US from Harold Cruse to Barack Obama. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio P...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Alex Gendler is a writer and content producer in NYC. He is also a leftist man-about-town. We discuss and review Catherine Lieu's Virtue Hoarders and the discussions around the PMC. I do make a mistake about where Lieu teaches, so please take that into advisement. We also mention Mike MacNair's critique of Lieu. This episode was recorded in May so it may already be dated. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
