From White Zombie in 1932 to Night of the Living Dead in 1967 the history of the idea of the Zombie (they were called "ghouls" in the original 'Night of the Living Dead') has its roots in pre-revolution Haiti. Many of these more modern movies use the imagery of the walking undead to represent more than just scary brain eating monsters. From being a proxy for capitalisms creation of the mindless consumer, to the reality of climate change these movies aren't just jump scares and gore. We'll talk their history, hidden meaning and more with professor of film at the University of California Irvine, Catherine Liu.


About Catherine:
Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical Theory of the old fashioned kind and is engaged in a long term critique of Professional Managerial Class driven liberal politics. She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts. She tweets at @bureaucatliu and her views do not reflect those of her employer


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THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast ep. 185: Horror Movies and the Culture Industry w/ Catherine Liu

01 Debut de la Fin

More to be heard on this one than on the rough mix.  We LOOOOVE this version, hope you do too... ENJOY!!!

An Uncanny Ability to Screw Up and Deny (Album Mix)

Here is the first installment of the "Black Christmas" Ep series.

Border Crossing

TIR speaks to philosopher and author Todd McGowan about his new book “Enjoyment Right and Left”.


While understanding the psychological structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to understanding our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of what Lacan would call jouissance, what McGowan calls Enjoyment, is critically important to understand as we try to overcome the contradictions and conflicts that arise in a world that appears split between right and left.
The discursive analysis of ideology fails to capture the mode of enjoyment an ideology mobilizes. In his new path-breaking book, Todd McGowan elaborates on the formal structure of enjoyment which distinguishes the Left from the Right. The enjoyment mobilized by the Left is not sustained by envy and resentment. It leaves behind the motifs of the theft of enjoyment that permeates racism and sexism. Enjoyment Right and Left deserves to become an instant classic - it cuts into the very heart of what is wrong in today's fundamentalism and its apparent opposite, permissive liberalism. - Slavoj Žižek, author of Less Than Nothing
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Black Christmas Vol.3: Tears in the Rain

Movimiento Uno

Black Christmas Vol.3:Tears in the Rain

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Synth 080(Instrumental)

Carcass Rough 1

After watching a few interviews with Chris Hedges, I figured I write a song about my disdain for the Oligarchy.

A Calculated Hatred

I see a lack of empathy in humanity. Especially when it comes to the homeless population here in the Bay Area, hell, and everywhere else for that matter.  

Slow Deth
Lyrics

Verse 1

The unrelenting hell is no savior
The cesspool that where dwell the danger
The unrelenting hell  
Where's our saviour

Chorus

And we are
Dying
The Heart Begins to Blacken   
Decay from within
The malice sets in

 

Verse 2

This unrelenting hell is abhorrent 
I've become a part of the tourment
This unrelenting hell where's the saviour
Where's the saviour 

(Scream part middle bridge)
Crawl into it's skin
kill the malice from within

Slow Deth

Out of the ashes of the experimental/industrial/alt metal duo, La Fin Absolute Du Monde, Bitter Lake was born.  We are a sonically dissonant, yet groovy explosion of passion and social consciousness.  Part Dead Kennedy’s, part Rage Against the Machine, Part Public Enemy.  Bitter Lake’s 3 song EP, “This is Not A War, This is Revolution” is an unrelenting introduction to the aural brutality of the raw rage that Bitter Lake unleashes on the listener.  

The music we create is just a reflection of the world we’re surrounded by.  Located in West Oakland, CA we’re bookended by the metropolitan tech mecca San Francisco, and growing homeless condition just across the street from where we create.  Inspired by the radical movements that came from the area we come from, Bitter Lake attempts to not only speak for the downtrodden, but to yell the concerns of the poor from the mountain tops.  With songs like “Betrayal” which speaks to the neoliberal sacrifice of the America, to “A Subtly (War on the Poor)” a song about the mass incarceration, which is nothing more than neo-slavery.  

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Speak. 

Truth.

Shout.

Freedom.

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