No Easy Answers
By Jules Taylor
No Easy Answers May 28, 2023
Republished - Episode 21 - Fight for a Better World with Kristen Chapman Gibbons
GoFundMe for Relocating Kristen's Family to Virginia
WKRN - Mom of trans teen moving out of Tennessee after new law banning gender-affirming care
Jules speaks with writer, artist, performer, and storyteller Kristen Chapman Gibbons about her journey from preacher's daughter to community cultivator.
Kristen Chapman Gibbons on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
Kristen Chapman Gibbons' Website
Art by Kristen
Performances by Kristen
Other stories by Kristen
- https://youtu.be/hrDjfiTVeEA
- https://youtu.be/3b7xOcLbJdo
- https://youtu.be/6xewdFiWmsY
- https://youtu.be/Jal7Ry6OX4E
- https://youtu.be/Habm2XPsjVs
Things we mentioned during the conversation
- Wikipedia page for Nellie Bly
- National Women's History Museum Nellie Bly
- Max Alvarez's Podcast: https://bit.ly/workingpod
Outro Music: Kestra - 'Better World'
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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: An Interview with Daniel Tutt
We’re joined by Daniel Tutt once again, and this time we’re speaking about his newest work- Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation. Daniel is a professor and philosopher of psychoanalysis and Marxist thought, and he is the convener of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and politics, a public learning platform that offers study groups, seminars, and podcasts.
Daniel Tutt – Twitter, Patreon, Website
Daniel’s podcast – Jouissance Vampires
Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics on YouTube
Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt
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The Californian Ideology - An Interview with Dr. Richard Barbrook
Dr. Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Media Freedom (Pluto, 1995) and Imaginary Futures (Pluto, 2007). His other important writings include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism, The Regulation of Liberty and The Class of the New, and today with Jules he is discussing his prophetic 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology".
In the essay, Dr. Barbrook and Andy Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 90s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism. This new amalgamated ideology combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired Magazine to promulgate their ideas. This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.
The original promise of the Californian Ideology was that computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destinies. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or change.
Additional Info/Links Below…
- The Californian Ideology pdf
- Dr. Richard Barbrook - Twitter, Website, GoodReads
- Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook
- The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
- The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook
- The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook
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Hayek Sucks (w/ Rob Larson)
Jules sits down with professor of economics and author Rob Larson to discuss Friedrich Hayek's work The Road to Serfdom.
Additional Links / Info Below…
Rob Larson is a Professor of Economics and author of Bleakonomics and Capitalism vs. Freedom from Zero Books. He writes for a variety of venues including Jacobin, In These Times, Current Affairs, and Dollars & Sense.
- Rob Larson on Twitter, Goodreads
- Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley by Rob Larson
- Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom by Rob Larson
- Bleakonomics: A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction by Rob Larson
- "Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket" by Rob Larson for Jacobin
- "Trillions and Trillions: The Selective Blindness on Endless Economic Growth" by Rob Larson for Current Affairs
Permanent Links Below
John Rawls Sucks (w/ @cnoumena & @yagamben)
In this special crossover episode, Jules sits down with the guys from the Decode cast to discuss John Rawls.
Additional links / info below…
· Decode podcast episode on Paul Virilio
· Strategy of Deception by Paul Virilio
· A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
· Political Liberalism by John Rawls
· The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere by Todd May
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Russia - Ukraine - Iran
Jules talks about the current war in Ukraine and how the Iranian uprisings could further complicate things.
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Update on the state of the show - Recorded 30 days ago - Unlocked from Patreon
Just a quick update on the state of the show and what's going on moving forward
Episode 53 - The Iranian Feminist Revolution with Wahid Azal
Independent scholar and researcher Wahid Azal returns to the show to share his insights on the current Iranian uprising and what it means for our contemporary geopolitical conflicts.
Additional links / recommendations…
- Wahid Azal Twitter, Blog, YouTube
- A Feminist Revolution in Iran by Wahid Azal for Counterpunch
- No Easy Answers - Episode 48 with Wahid Azal
- Women's rights movement in Iran on Wikipedia
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Music for this episode: Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage
Episode 52 - Digital Privacy after Roe v Wade with Dan Arel
Dan Arel joins Jules to speak about digital privacy in a world post-Roe v. Wade. If you are even in need of an illegal abortion, this conversation will help you cover your digital trail online. This conversation applies beyond those in need of illegal medical procedures. It should benefit anyone looking to guard their privacy online, including organizers, sex workers, journalists, and more.
Additional Links below…
- Dan Arel on Twitter, webpage, thinkprivacy.ch
- Digital Privacy articles on Startpage.com
- Dan Arel's Privacy Checklist
- Dan Arel at Startpage.com "First Step Towards Privacy: Design Your Own Threat Model"
- Books by Dan Arel Parenting Without God: How to Raise Moral, Ethical, and Intelligent Children, Free from Religious Dogma, The Secular Activist: A How-To Manual for Protecting the Wall between Church and State
- Startmail, Proton, Euki, Startpage, BitWarden, Semiphemeral, Jumbo
- Send a message to Dan Arel
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Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
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Episode 51 - Listener Hang with Mel, Max, Frances, and Kris
In this roundtable discussion, Mel, Kris, Max, Jules, and Frances speak to the concepts of 'revolutionary trauma' and how we might build a better world without replicating the same systems of oppression we struggle against.
Additional links / About our Guests:
- Mel Buer - Twitter, Morning Riot Podcast, Website
- Max Alvarez - Twitter, Working People Podcast, The Real News Network, Website
- Francis Madeson - Twitter, Website, Cooperation Jackson Articles
- Kristofer Nivens - Twitter, Patreon
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Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
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Episode 50 - The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism with Matthew McManus
Jules sits down with Professor Matthew McManus to discuss his book "The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism". Thinkers discussed include Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, and many others. This is a conversation that traces the roots of reactionism all the way back to the French Revolution.
Additional links below…
- Matthew McManus on Twitter
- The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism by Matthew McManus
- Matthew McManus articles at Jacobin
- Matthew McManus articles at Areo
- Plastic Pills Podcast
- Matthew McManus on Academia.edu
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Outro music "Panda Punk Tongue" by Peelander-Z
Music for this episode:
Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb
Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
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Episode 49 - Rev Left Radio Aleksandr Dugin, Eurasianism, Russian Nationalism and Ukraine
In this very special episode, Jules (@realjulestaylor) sits down with Brett (@RevLeftRadio) to have a long conversation about Aleksandr Dugin.
This episode is a follow-up to Episodes 47 and 48 of No Easy Answers. If you are interested in hearing interviews with Wahid Azal, an anti-imperialist Sufi Muslim who published a 2016 article about Dugin, check out Episode 48.
Additional Links Below...
- About Brett Twitter, podcasts (Rev Left Radio, Red Menace, Guerrilla History)
- If you must have a couple of links on Dugin, here they are:
- Fascism, Borderless and Red
- Alexander Dugin speaking on the Ukraine conflict
- Dugin Eurasian Conference
Outro Music: https://bit.ly/julestaylorbio
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Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb
Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage
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Episode 48 - Dugin’s Occult Fascism and the Hijacking of Left Anti-Imperialism and Muslim Anti-Salafism with Wahid Azal
In part 2 of our ongoing series about Aleksandr Dugin, Jules Taylor sits down to speak with Wahid Azal, author of the 2016 Counterpunch article entitled "Dugin's Occult Fascism and the Hijacking of Left Anti-Imperialism and Muslim Anti-Salafism".
Wahid wrote this article when he realized that Duginists were actively recruiting leftists and anti-imperialists, as well as anti-Salafist Shiʿi and Sunni Muslims. This conversation was eye-opening on numerous levels, but I want to be cautious here and remind folks that being an anti-fascist isn't not dangerous. Fascists, in general, are dangerous people, with a ravenous ideology who are not to be trifled with.
Wahid currently lives in Australia, and he relocated there from Berlin for his safety and the safety of his daughter after his wife mysteriously passed away. This conversation is about more than Dugin. It's about being anti-fascist and calling it out when you see it and how there is a very real cost to doing that. It's also about the way shades of far-right ideology can muddy the water and how we lose comrades.
My heart goes out to Wahid and his daughter, as it takes an incredible amount of bravery to keep sounding the alarm on all of this.
Wahid's Article in Counterpunch
About Wahid Azal…
Blog https://wahidazal303.blogspot.com/
Academia.edu https://independent.academia.edu/NimaAzal
Twitter https://twitter.com/wahidazal66
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nwahidazal/
Telegram @WahidAzal303
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/wahidazal/
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Episode 47 - We Need to Talk about Aleksandr Dugin
With the recent invasion of Ukraine, it’s become clear that Putinism and Duginism have converged. Who is Aleksandr Dugin? And how is he relevant to Russia’s attempted invasion?
Dugin is rumored to have the ear of Vladimir Putin, to be his advisor, and since Russia has a history of autocratic rulers being advised by mystical characters with long hair and unkempt facial hair, there is a tendency of folks dismissing this all together. But you know it makes sense, since Dugin is a prominent member of the largest political party in Russia and has acted as an advisor to the state duma in the past.
In 1997, Aleksandr Dugin publishes a book called "The foundations of geopolitics: the geopolitical future of Russia". The cover of the book in at least one edition has an outline of the continents of Europe and Asia, with the symbol of 8 arrows, 4 of which point in the cardinal directions. The other arrows point in the directions of southwest, southeast, northwest, and northeast, and the symbolism of the Eurasian continent behind the outward expanding arrows leaves no question the intention of this book: this is a manifesto for Russian expansion.
Additional Notes:
Much of the information sited in this episode is taken from previous interview conducted on this show.
We invite you to listen to our full interview with Professor Ronald Beiner (Episode 34) and Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum (Episode 30) to learn more about their books and the topic for this episode.
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Episode 46 - The Freedom Convoy and The Perils of Left Populism
Cam Scott is a poet, musician, and local organizer from Winnipeg, and he's on the show to speak to us about an article he's written. We're talking about the 'freedom convoy' or 'trucker convoy' or whatever you'd like to call it. This conversation is about the difference between populist movements and peoples' movements, and why the left should be cautious when considering the use of populist politics, and why the convoy is not a workers' movement.
Article: The Perils of Left Populism by Cam Scott
About Cam Scott
- Cam Scott Twitter
Additional links:
- ROMANS/SNOWMARE by Cam Scott
- On the Shoulders of the Communists: The Reactionary Rise of the NDP by Cam Scott
- Reformist Radicalism by Cam Scott
- Below the Barricades: On Infrastructure, Self-Determination, and Defense by Cam Scott
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Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage
"Fool" by Half Cocked
Episode 45 - Kooper Caraway
Kooper Caraway dropped by to tell us about his life and history as an activist and organizer. He's the President of the South Dakota Federation of Labor, and at 29 years old he became the youngest State Labor Federation President in the Nation.
Additional Links Below…
- Kooper Caraway Website, Twitter
- Organize or Die’: Kooper Caraway Ushers in a New Labor Movement
- The Future of Labor Is Growing in South Dakota
- In South Dakota, a Young Labor Leader Wants to Rebuild a Culture of Solidarity
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Episode 44 - Nietzsche with Professor Daniel Tutt
About Daniel Tutt…
Daniel's Twitter, Website
Danie's Podcast, Jouissance Vampires
Additional Links…
Zero Books YouTube Channel
Roderic Day for RedSails.org "Really Existing Fascism"
Domenico Losurdo's "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel"
Geoff Waite's "Nietzsche's Corps/e"
Three passages from Nietzsche that should alarm us
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Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage
Episode 43 - Historiography with Labor Kyle
Jules speaks with Labor Kyle about historiography. Kyle is a Historian, writer, video essayist, and podcaster. His work explores the intersections between continental philosophy, Marxism, and video games
About Labor Kyle…
- Labor Kyle's Twitter, YouTube
- Labor Kyle's Podcast "All Gamers Are Bastards"
- Protean Magazine, "Monsters of the University"
Additional links or things mentioned
- Ridiculous quote about Immanuel Kant inventing Critical Race Theory
- More talk about Foucault on No Easy Answers
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Music for this episode:
Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb
Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage
Principles and Heresy V2 - Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Frank Meyer and Earl Browder
Hey so I was making coffee and thought I'd redo this conversation that I had to take down before.
Who is Frank Meyer?
Michael Parenti - Super Patriotism vs Real Patriotism
Know Your Enemy podcast about Frank Meyer
Who is Aleksandr Dugin?
Caleb Maupin denies that Aleksandr Dugin is a Fascist
Other questionable things from Caleb Maupin
Socialism 4 All's video on Dugin/Maupin
Episode 42 - State of Injustice with BZ Douglas
Jules (@realjulestaylor) speaks to journalist, musician, podcaster, and documentarian BZ Douglas (@BZDug) about his project State of Injustice (@stateinjustice).
BZ Douglas is an independent investigative journalist based outside Cleveland, Ohio. His work focuses on police abuse, prosecutorial misconduct, and political corruption.
Additional info / links below:
Go Fund Me for my mom's dialysis treatment: https://gofund.me/94d28509
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Executive produced by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, The State of Injustice documentary series focuses on systemic failures of Ohio law enforcement. The initial three-episode season explores police abuse in the city of Euclid Ohio, and the lack of action taken by that city’s administration.
Police violence and prosecutorial corruption, especially against Black and minority residents, is an epidemic in Ohio that needs to see the light of day. Local news has largely failed to report on these issues adequately or without a pro-police bias.
State of Injustice Videos
Part One: The Killing of Luke Stewart
Part Two: Landscape of Brutality
Part Three: Patrol and Control
Dave Grossman Bulletproof Training Manual Released! By Unicorn Riot
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Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod
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Let's talk about Foucault part 2
Let's talk about Foucault part 2
Jules is driving and having some thoughts about the philosopher Michel Foucault, as his projects relates to the project of Karl Marx.
Cited in this episode are previous interviews with Gabriel Rockhill(episode 33) and Todd May(episode 16).
The Philosophy of Foucault by Todd May
The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
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Let's talk about Foucault part 1
Let's talk about Foucault part 1
Jules is driving and having some thoughts about the philosopher Michel Foucault, as his projects relates to the project of Karl Marx.
Cited in this episode are previous interviews with Gabriel Rockhill(episode 33) and Todd May(episode 16).
The Philosophy of Foucault by Todd May
The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
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My personal ACAB Story
Thus far on No Easy Answers, I have not gotten too personal about my past and the things going on in my life. I think that all changed when I learned my mother's health was failing. I think in forming a go fund me for her dialysis treatment, that really opened the door to a new level of comfort I felt in disclosing very personal things about me and my life.
So there seems to be a space that's opened up for me to divulge these sorts of things, and so this is one of what should be a handful of shorter and impromptu monologues.
As always, thank you for the support - sending all of you love and solidarity from NY.
~Jules
Help my mom through dialysis: https://gofund.me/294cfd22
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Quick Announcement about the show format
Hey y'all,
Just a short announcement here that I'm switching up the show format. I have found that I'm really enjoying smaller episodes with spontaneous thoughts. Some listeners seem to really enjoy the cold open with no intro music, without the formality of the longer and more produced episodes.
So I plan on posting more frequently, and I'll be releasing a few episodes on the main feed with this announcement.
No need to actually listen to this announcement if you've read this - just wanted to keep y'all informed.
As always, thank you for the support. Sending all of you love and solidarity from NY.
~Jules
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Jules Taylor, interviewed by Henry Hakamäki, for the David Feldman Show
I was invited on the David Feldman Show by my friend and comrade Henry Hakamäki from the Guerilla History podcast. I was really happy to talk with Henry - and if you haven't checked out both Guerilla History and the David Feldman Show, I'd highly recommend checking those out.
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David Feldman's show is like a 7-hour show twice a week. It's totally insane that 14 hours of content a week are produced for that show. *mind blown*
Guerilla History is a podcast that is a "must listen" for me any time they release a new episode.
We talked about my most recent (at the time) episode called "There is no greater con than the American Dream."
Here's a link to the speech I delivered that I mentioned during the course of my conversation.
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There is no greater con than the American Dream
In this episode, Jules sits on his patio and talks about why there is no greater con than the American Dream.
Links mentioned during this episode…
- Building dedication at South Texas Independent School District, speech by Jules Taylor
- Taxi Drivers Hunger Strike
- Working People Podcast interview with Jesus Alvarez
- The house my grandfather lived in
- GoFundMe for Jules' mom's dialysis treatment
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Episode 41 - Adam Jones from Acid Horizon, on Max Stirner and Hegel
In this final episode of our crossover series with the boys over at the Acid Horizon Podcast, Jules speaks with Adam Jones, a doctoral researcher of the links between Hegel and Max Stirner.
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- Acid Horizon Podcast, Twitter
- Max Stirner Wiki
- The Ego and Its Own, by Max Stirner
- Max Stirner by Saul Newman
- Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan
- The Relevance of Max Stirner for Anarcho-Communists by Matty Thomas
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Episode 40 - David Parsons and Max Alvarez (9-11, Afghanistan, and Historical Memory)
The war in Afghanistan is over. On August 30th, military transport planes flew the last remaining soldiers out of Hamid Karzai International Airport. This marked the end of the longest war in United States history, coming to a close near the 20th anniversary of 9/11. In this episode, Jules speaks to David Parsons and Maximillian Alvarez, and they reflect on the historical moments we are living through. David Parsons is a historian of the Vietnam War and Maximillian Alvarez is the Editor in Chief at The Real News Network.
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- Working People on Twitter, hosted by Max Alvarez
- David Parsons Twitter, Patreon, Podcast, Website
- Nostalgia Trap on Twitter, hosted by David Parsons
- Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era by David Parsons
- The Falling Man on Wikipedia
- Footage of The Falling Man of Kabul (link)
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Episode 39 - Afghanistan Meant Nothing with Laura Jedeed
In this episode, Jules speaks with Laura Jedeed about her latest article, "Afghanistan Meant Nothing".
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- Afghanistan Meant Nothing by Laura Jedeed
- Laura Jedeed WAPO Article
- Laura Jedeed Thesis
- Vanessa Guillen, soldier at Fort Hood
- The Nayirah Testimony
- Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder
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Episode 38 - "Thought, Disability, and Refusal" with Will Conway from Acid Horizon
We're continuing our crossover series with the guys over at the Acid Horizon Podcast. Will Conway (@emofoucault) joins us to discuss his latest article, "Thought, Disability, and Refusal".
Additional links below…
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- Will Conway, for Revolting Bodies "Thought, Disability, and Refusal"
- Acid Horizon Podcast
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Episode 37 - Craig from Acid Horizon and Daniel Barker
In this episode, Jules speaks with Craig from Acid Horizon and Daniel Barker, who listeners may remember from episode 19. This conversation about Nietzsche starts by making fun of Schopenhauer, then discussing Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, and finally Craig offers everyone a t-shirt.
Additional links below…
Daniel Twitter
Acid Horizon Podcast
Books…
Robert Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism"
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Geneology of Morals"
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Episode 36 - Craig from Acid Horizon
Jules speaks with Craig from Acid Horizon and the Deleuze & Guattari Quarantine Collective about music and theory.
Acid Horizon Twitter, Podcast, Patreon
Additional links below…
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- Anti-Oedipus
- Gilles Deleuze Wiki
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Episode 35 - Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era with Nate Holdren
In this special episode, Jules speaks with Professor Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. Professor Holdren's book recently received an honorable mention for the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, and Nate Holdren is a Marxist Historian and US Legal Historian at Drake University.
*This conversation was recorded during a thunderstorm, so we've edited a few storm clouds into our conversation to depict when our conversation was cut off due to losing power. Thank you again to Professor Holdren for rolling with tech issues during the course of this episode.
Additional Links Below…
- Nate Holdren's Twitter, Faculty Page
- Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
- Maximillian Alvarez for In These Times Magazine, "The Painful History of Injury in the Workplace"
- Maximillian Alvarez for The Real News Network, "What Do Workers Really Lose When They're Injured on the Job?"
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Episode 34 - Pt. 6 Dangerous Minds, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right with Ronald Beiner
Jules speaks with Professor Ronald Beiner about his book Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right. Ronald Beiner is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Contemporary far-right and neofascist movements continue to be inspired by these philosophers, and intellectually conscious fascists still hold them in high regard. Do these philosophers have anything useful for the political left, and if so, what can we find in philosophers who outright reject egalitarianism?
Additional links and articles below…
- Ronald Beiner Website, Twitter
- Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
- Ronald Beiner's article discussing Benjamin Teitelbaum's book War for Eternity
- Domenico Losurdo - Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
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Episode 33 - Pt. 5 Fascism, Anti-Communism, the CIA and French Theory with Gabriel Rockhill
In the final episode in our series about Fascism, Jules speaks with Professor Gabriel Rockhill about a series of articles he wrote called "Fascism - A Counter-History". Professor Rockhill speaks to the conjunctural, structural, and systemic aspects of Fascism from a materialist perspective, and how this method breaks with liberal notions of fascism simply being an idiosyncratic occurrence that happened once in history. Along the way, questions of syncretism, operation paperclip, and Michel Foucault come up, including how the CIA targeted certain theorists in order to drive an ideological wedge between communists and left anti-communists.
About Gabriel Rockhill
Gabriel Rockhill Wiki, Twitter, Website
Additional links and articles…
- NEW ARTICLE released today, July 6th, 2021: "Fascist Plots in the US: Contemporary lessons from the 1934 "Business Plot" Liberation School (July 6, 2021).
- “Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (February 1, 2021). This article was translated into Turkish.
- Other articles can be found here: https://gabrielrockhill.com/op-eds/
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Gabriel Rockhill interview with Chris Hedges on RT
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Episode 32 - Pt. 4 Carl Schmitt, States of Exception, and Political Theology with Matthew Lowery
Jules speaks with Matthew Lowery, one of the cohosts of the Acid Horizon Podcast, about the political works of Carl Schmitt. This conversation is part 4 in the arch of this show, and would naturally follow after our previous episodes discussing Heidegger, Fascism, and Traditionalism. Matthew explains to us who Carl Schmitt was, why one would wish to engage with his work, and makes clear that Carl Schmitt was a Nazi bastard but his ideas are still relevant to contemporary politics.
Links and additional articles…
Interview with Ric Ortiz on Working People
- Matthew Lowery on Twitter
- Acid Horizon on Twitter
- Carl Schmitt on Wiki
- Slavoj Zizek, "Against the Populist Temptation"
- Carl Schmitt on Goodreads
- "Agamben and Radical Politics" (edited) by Daniel McLoughlin - "Capitalism as Religion" is the specific essay in the collection Jules references when speaking about money not being backed up by gold
- Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe on Wiki
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Episode 31 - Pt. 3 Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties with Richard Polt
Jules speaks with Professor Richard Polt about the philosopher Martin Heidegger. Richard Polt is a Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, and he is the author of several books on philosophy, including his most recent book, called Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties. Heidegger is a controversial figure in that he joined the Nazi party in 1933, and so this left a shadow over his philosophical contributions. Evidence revealed in the last 20 years would suggest it is not so easy to let Heidegger off the hook.
Books!
· Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt
· The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy by Richard Polt
· Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt
· Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger, translated by Richard Polt
· Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
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Episode 30 - Pt. 2 War for Eternity with Benjamin Teitelbaum
In this episode, Jules speaks with Benjamin Teitelbaum about his book War for Eternity. Professor Teitelbaum has conducted hours of in-person interviews with members of the far-right and Traditionalists who have positioned themselves in positions of geopolitical influence. Topics discussed include Aleksandr Dugin, Steve Bannon, Olavo de Carvalho, three agents of the far-right who have taken influence from more obscure thinkers of the far-right, specifically Julius Evola, and René Guénon.
Additional links below…
· War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers by Benjamin Teitelbaum
· Benjamin Teitelbaum on Twitter
· The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New Right by Robert Tobin
· Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists by Jason Horowitz in the New York Times
· The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism by Joe Becker in the New York Times
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Episode 29 - Pt. 1 Apostasy, Spiritual but not Religious, Traditionalism, and Fascism
In this monologue episode, Jules talks about the ways a secular society relocates the sacred to objects of liberal worship. Along the way, he speaks to the volatility of spirituality, in that vague senses of spirituality can lead one into other thoughts that are useful for inchoate fascism. Ultimately, he argues we must take seriously the ways in which spirituality can lend itself to fascism, as there are actual fascists in the world who would leverage spirituality to spread their ideology.
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Books!
· Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola by Paul Furlong
· The Case Against The Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought by Daniel Schwindt
· War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers by Benjamin Teitelbaum
· Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicolas Goodrick-Clark
· Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
· The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New Right by Robert Tobin
· Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt
· Contemporary Esotericism by Egil Asprem and Kenneth Granholm
Articles…
· Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists by Jason Horowitz in the New York Times
· The Religion of the Heart: “Spirituality” In Late Modernity by Galen Watts
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Episode 28 - Decoding the Alt-Right with Laura Jedeed
The fabulous Laura Jedeed joins Jules for a conversation about the alt-right. In an effort to decode the alt-right, and examine their psychological workings, Jules and Laura flex their empathy muscles (but not too much) - because these fuckers aren't deserving of too much sympathy beyond that required of gaining an understanding of their motives and how they operate.
About our guest…
Laura Jedeed's website, Twitter
*Laura should be coming back to Twitter around 4/20/21
Laura Jedeed's YouTube channel
"How I Got Here" by Laura Jedeed
"Making Monsters: Right-Wing Creation of the Liberal Enemy" a thesis by Laura Dedeed
Additional Links below…
"Why Milkshaking Works" by Matt Ford in The New Republic
"This Milkshake Spring isn't Political Violence - it's Political Theatre" by Aditya Chakrabortty
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Episode 27 - The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz with Roderic Day
Jules speaks with Roderic Day about his article "The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz". This interview is preceded by a monologue about the Afghan Trap Doctrine.
Follow Roderic Day on Twitter, and visit his website
"The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz" by Roderic Day
Alberta Advantage - Corporate welfare bums
"Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies" by Magnus Rasmussen and Carl Knutsen
Canada Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation
Wilfred Chan's ties to the White House
A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military
"Flight from History? The Communist Movement Between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt" by Domenico Losurdo
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Episode 26 - Uyghurs in Xinjiang and Anti-Asian Hate in the US with Dr. Asatar Bair
Jules speaks with Dr. Asatar Bair about the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China. Dr. Bair is a professor of economics and statistics at Riverside City College.
Additional Links Below…
Follow Dr. Asatar Bair on Twitter and YouTube
Prison Labor in the United States: An Economic Analysis by Dr. Asatar Bair
Six Basic Problems with the Uyghur Genocide Narrative by Dr. Asatar Bair
Image of US Military Bases in the Pacific
China's Belt and Road Initiative
There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in past year
U.S., allies announce sanctions on China over Uyghur ‘genocide’
Daughter of a late senator goes off on anti-Asian screed
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Episode 25 - Tools for New Revolutionaries with Comrade Gomer
Jules speaks with Comrade Gomer about 'baby leftists' and how to best guide and direct new revolutionaries in their radical development. This episode is preceded by a monologue about capitalist spiritualism and the internalization of the contradictions of capitalism.
Links for Comrade Gomer…
Comrade Gomer's YouTube Channel, Twitch Channel, Twitter
Recommended reading from Comrade Gomer…
Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels
State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Blood In My Eye by George L. Jackson
Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Things mentioned by Jules…
Napoleon Hill, the All American Huckster by Matt Novak
This Non-Violent Stuff'll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Defying the Tomb by Kevin Rashid Johnson
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Episode 24 - Coffee with Comrades with Pearson Bolt
Jules joins Pearson on Coffee with Comrades to reflect on one year’s time living in the age of COVID-19. Along the way, they discuss how the coronavirus has impacted society, emerging conspiracy theories, and the way capitalism has exacerbated the crisis. This is a heavy discussion that leaves space to mourn and grieve, not just for those we have lost, but for our ways of making our way in the world that have been stripped from us.
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Things mentioned by Jules during this conversation...
- The Slow Cancelling of the Future – Mark Fisher
- Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
- Cover of the New Yorker Magazine 12.7.20
- Women With Cancer Awarded Billions in Baby Powder Suit
- The fiasco of the 1976 ‘swine flu affair’
- The Spanish Flu actually came from Kansas
- Left anti-communism: The Unkindest Cut by Michael Parenti
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Episode 23 - Destructive Cults and Capitalist Spiritualism with Rick Alan Ross
Jules speaks with cult deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross about destructive cults, and their methods of indoctrinating their members. This interview is preceded by a monologue about destructive cults, and their links to capitalist spiritualism.
Additional Links below…
60 Minutes | Landmark Forum | Originally aired on March 3rd, 1991
Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out by Rick Alan Ross
Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from EST to Exile by Steven Pressman
Seduced: Inside the NXVIM Cult | True-Crime Documentary
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Cult Education Institute, founded by Rick Alan Ross
Outro Music, "Need that Rush" by Cult Fantastic
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Episode 22 - This American Psychosis with an Anonymous Therapist
Jules speaks with an anonymous therapist about QAnon, and how to reach out to people in our lives who are (to varying degrees) believers in conspiracy theories.
Additional links
- QAnon believer has a meltdown afterJoe Biden is Elected
- It's over and nothing makes sense
- Interview with Enrique Tarrio
- A podcast episode about right-wing conspiratorial thinking: Guerilla History
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Outro Music: Jimmy Cousins - Live to Forgive
Episode 21 - Fight for a Better World with Kristen Chapman Gibbons
Jules speaks with writer, artist, performer, and storyteller Kristen Chapman Gibbons about her journey from preacher's daughter to community cultivator.
Kristen Chapman Gibbons on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
Kristen Chapman Gibbons' Website
Art by Kristen
Performances by Kristen
Other stories by Kristen
- https://youtu.be/hrDjfiTVeEA
- https://youtu.be/3b7xOcLbJdo
- https://youtu.be/6xewdFiWmsY
- https://youtu.be/Jal7Ry6OX4E
- https://youtu.be/Habm2XPsjVs
Things we mentioned during the conversation
- Wikipedia page for Nellie Bly
- National Women's History Museum Nellie Bly
- Max Alvarez's Podcast: https://bit.ly/workingpod
Outro Music: Kestra - 'Better World'
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Episode 20 - Waiting for the Truth with Dr. Grover Furr
Dr. Furr is the author of several books and articles on Soviet History, specifically the Stalin era of 1930 to 1953. I wanted to talk with him because every single one of his publications stands in contradiction to the generally accepted narratives of Soviet History.
If you ask a random person who Joseph Stalin is, they'll probably tell you something like Stalin was a brutal dictator and he killed millions of people. Books by historians Steven Kotkin and Robert Conquest affirm these accusations of crimes and atrocities, and so people generally believe that standard line about Stalin. Of course, all of this works in service of framing the USSR as totalitarian, and more broadly permits the positing of the false notion of horseshoe theory.
As you'll hear in our conversation, Dr. Furr has spent years combing through the footnotes of the authors like Kotkin and Conquest. He's not only refuting their accusations, but he's publishing books showing why their accusations are false with primary source evidence. His work is remarkable when you begin to think of the ways 20th-century world history would change if we had to fundamentally rethink the history of Soviet Russia.
It really was an honor and a privilege to speak with Dr. Furr about his research, and his latest publication, Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy. So here's my conversation, with Dr. Grover Furr.
Links
- Grover Furr's Website
- Grover Furr's books from his publisher
- Grover Furr bio
- Trotsky's archive he sold to Harvard University
Some of Grover Furr's books mentioned or discussed during this episode
- Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy by Grover Furr
- Trotsky's Lies by Grover Furr
- Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr
- Stalin: Waiting for the Truth by Grover Furr
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Episode 19 - Is Psychology a Pseudoscience? With Daniel Barker
Jules speaks with a practicing psychotherapist named Daniel Barker. For reasons pertaining to confidentiality, that's about all the info we can disclose about him. Daniel and Jules agreed to not disclose his location, his practice, and honestly, Daniel isn't even his real name. All of this probably sounds strange, but the question they're talking about is 'Is Psychology a Pseudoscience"? Who better to talk to about this sort of thing, than a practicing psychologist?
Links / Books / Thinkers mentioned
Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
The Capitalist Unconscious by Somo Tomsic
Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud
Articles
Why Psychology isn't Science by Alex B. Berezow
The Psychology of "Psychology Isn't a Science" Argument by Michael W. Kraus Ph.D.
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Episode 18 - On Death Part IV - Your Own Good Death with Michelle Acciavatti
In today's episode, Jules speaks with Michelle Acciavatti. Michelle is a funeral director and an End of Life Specialist working in Vermont. She is a board member of the National Funeral Home Alliance, president, and co-founder of Vermont Natural Burial, she is president of Green Burial Vermont, and she is a founding member of the Collective for Radial Death Studies.
She and I spoke about her role as a death doula, her role as a funeral director, and the general labor of death. As you'll hear in our conversation, we talk about death from many angles, from the arranging of a funeral to guiding people through their end of life transition, and there's even some radical politics thrown in there.
For Further Reading
- Thinking About Having a 'Green' Funeral? Here's What to Know
- Helping Vermonters Prepare For 'Their Own Good Death'
- The National Home Funeral Alliance
Michelle's Links
- Michelle's website | Ending-Well
- Green Burial Vermont
- Collective for Radical Death Studies
- Vermont Natural Burial Incorporated
- Follow Ending-Well on Twitter, and Follow Green Burial Vermont on Twitter
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