This episode I will go over the concept of "disruption" from a Marxist perspective, and show how connected the blockchain technology is to the creation of online far right content like QAnon.

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QAnon and Blockchain Based Disruption (3/3)

In this episode I read out two short pieces of writing dealing with the future of the left, nihilism, and historical necessity. The first section is meant to be a nihilistic/hopeless articulation and the second is meant to provide a solution.

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Forget

Satire, noun, the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

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In Defense Of The Guillotine

This week goes into the QAnon baking process and its paranoiac features. Sorry for the delay in episodes, will be back to the regularly scheduled weekly releases.

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QAnon As A Despotic Regime Of Signs

This episode goes into the concept of class, specifically how both Karl Marx and Max Weber conceptualize it, and the differences/similarities between their conceptions. Next episode will be Marx vs Weber on the subject of swag. 

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What is Class? Marx vs Weber

This episode is an overview of the first chapter of Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1. This is mean both as something to listen to before reading it yourself, or for those who simply want a short summary of it in audio form. The premium goes more in depth in Commodity Fetishism as well as the four developments of the value form https://www.patreon.com/posts/50528956/ 

Timestamps for the video:
00:00 – Intro
2:02 – Use Value and Exchange Value
5:59 – Labour and Value
14:35 – Marx’s Law of Value and Supply and Demand
16:45 – The Division of Labour and the Commodity
20:03 – The Coat and the 20 Yards of Linen
20:50 – Commodity Fetishism
29:48 – The abolition of Labour
32:29 – Outro


Reading guides/secondary literature/sourced material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGYaxWHwSE
http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg01.html
Sweezy, The Theory of Capitalist Development
Stephen Shapiro, Marx's Capital
Arthur L Thomas, The Allocation Problem in Financial Accounting Theory

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Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapter 1, The Commodity

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available on https://www.patreon.com/posts/50860734

Timestamps for the episode:

00:00 – 02:46 Intro

02:46 – 06:06 The conditions for commodity exchange

06:06 – 11:02 The peculiarity of commodity exchange

11:02 – 14:03 Barter

14:03 – 15:51 Money

15:51 – 16:58 Outro



Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich (my favourite of them) "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html



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Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapter 2, Exchange

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/livagar

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html

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Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapter 3, Money

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/livagar

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"
Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"
Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital
Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"
http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ECaJ031Q0

All of my links at livagar.com

Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapters 4-6

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/livagar

Thank you to Corey, Please! Don't Fire Us, and Sierra for supporting me on Patreon (I forgot to say it in the episode my apologies) 

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"
Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"
Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital
Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"
All of my links at livagar.com

Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapter 7

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/52506968

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:

Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"

Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"

Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital

Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"

All of my links at livagar.com

Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapter 8

Continuing with the Das Kapital reading series! Second half of the episode available for 2$ a month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/52742942/

Reading guides/secondary literature I've used:
Harvey's "Companion to Marx's Capital"
Stephen Shapiro's "How to Read Marx's Capital"
Heinrich "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital
Fredric Jameson's "Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One"
All of my links at livagar.com

Explaining Marx's Capital Volume 1: Chapter 9

"Hyperborea" was noted by the Greeks to have been a land beyond the vicious boreal winds of the north, in a sunlit realm of justice with no disease, war, old age, or labour. Where did this mythology come from and why is it still being referenced today? 

Part 2 will be out early for 2$ a month for Patrons at patreon.com/livagar . Additional bonus content about hyperborea will also be posted there.

Music in earlier part of the episode by Jan Janko Močnik: https://janjmocnik.bandcamp.com/album/pagania-i 

Sources used in this episode:
Hyperboreans : myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts, Timothy P. Bridgman.
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Jonathan M. Hall. 
Adam, Eve, and Agriculture: The First Scientific Experiment, Harry White.
https://vimeo.com/145285143
How to change the course of human history, David Graeber and David Wengrow. 
Elevating optimal human nutrition to a central goal of plant breeding and production of plant-based foods, David C Sands et al.

In Search of Hyperborea: Part 1, Ancient Greek Mythology and Modernity

This episode investigates how a similarity between Hindi and Sanskrit, languages spoken in Northern India, and European languages such as Latin, Greek, and German helps spark an esoteric fascist ideology that would be an essential social and philosophical building block for the Third Reich.

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Music in earlier part of the episode by Jan Janko Močnik: https://janjmocnik.bandcamp.com/album/pagania-i

In Search of Hyperborea: Part 2, The Indo-European Homeland and Esoteric Fascism

Also available in video form at https://youtu.be/NUPWY_evu30

In a recent view by Contrapoints, she goes over her account of envy and its connection with online politics. In doing so she utilizes Nietzsche (alongside a critique of Nietzsche). How accurate is this account to Nietzsche's work and where does it go wrong?  

Thank you to We're in Hell, BadEmpanada, and Chelsea Manning for the voice lines! 

Edited by Lexi Fontaine: https://twitter.com/softgothoutlaw 

Music by Alex Ballantyne: https://transistorriot.bandcamp.com 

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Contrapoints and Nietzsche: Why Twitter Is Bad For You

Here is a link to the article I was reacting to https://jacobin.com/2022/06/karl-marx-labor-theory-of-value-ga-cohen-economics

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A Critique of Ben Burgis' "Karl Marx Was Right"

Pronatalism? Reddit Proposals? Genopolitics? Transmaxxing? all topics of todays episode which is a deep dive into the Collins', the silicon valley tech couple who want YOU to have sex for the save of all mankind.

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(PREVIEW) 'Transmaxxing' and the Elite Couple Breeding to Save Mankind

Finally back for another episode of the podcast, this time talking about Adorno and Horkheimer's analysis of the how irrationality within the enlightenment leads to fascism, its connection to new age astrology, and how this perfectly combines into an analysis of QAnon in the contemporary period.

A big thank you to @ArifHasanNFL for helping me with some of the Adorno and Horkheimer "Dialectics of Enlightenment" stuff, as well as @QanonAnonymous for providing me with the new age example of "Krystal Tini" in their 94th episode: https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-94-the-new-age-to-qanon-pipeline

"The Storm Down to Earth," Fascism, QAnon, and Astrology

This one took a lot of research, part two about Zizek, Lacan, Hegel, and Humour related to trump available on patreon.com/livposting
Works cited/used for this episode
“Refiguring Socrates: Comedy and Corporeality in the Socratic Tradition” by Daniel McLean
“Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida” by Catherine Zuckert
“Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy” by Michael C. Rudar
“The Odd One In: On Comedy” by Alana Zupancic 
“Recent Continental Philosophy and Comedy: Comic Overﬂow” by Bernard Freydberg
“The Idea of Comedy: History, Theory, Critique” by Jan Hokenson

Comedy's Relationship to Philosophy

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(PREVIEW): Why is Trump Funny?

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The 2020 Election Did Not Take Place

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(PREVIEW) Post-Fascism

This ep is a little different, some fiction instead of non-fiction to talk about a political/philosophical subject.

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Here is the full story (both parts) written out for free on medium/substack: https://livposting.medium.com/the-singularity-estimator-b162f2ff86a9 https://livposting.substack.com/p/the-singularity-estimator

The Singularity Estimator

Trying something different with the music. Let me know if you prefer it or not. Premium episode on Patreon.com/livagar

Ideology is good, actually: Zizek and the Capitol Hill incident

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WallStreetBets, Gamestop, and Nietzsche's Account Of Nihilism

Foucault believes that in any public health program there is a biopolitical distinction between those who are saved and those who are excluded from good health and left to die. How is this applicable in our current context where our intimate lives are dictated by public health management? 
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Explaining Foucault's Concept of Biopower in a Pandemic

This episode goes over the general details of crypto and how it may appear as if it is a radically decentralized and non-authoritarian form of currency (not contingent on states or central banks) it nevertheless is not.

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CryptoCurrency and the End of Capitalism (1/2)

This week I'm finishing up the second part of my series on the connection between cryptocurrencies and QAnon, considering their analogical structure and its root causes.

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QAnon and the Crypto-Rhizome (2/2)

Solo philosophy podcast for Liv Agar which generally covers current political events through a continental philosophical lens. 
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