This was originally supposed to be just jacques and sarah squirm but I ended up staying on to make sure this episode was listenable. Actually I just forgot to leave because I was busy working on the t shirts.

intro/// Hiroshi Sato - Akanegumo-No Machi (1978)
outro/// Don Brown - Tango (1977)

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SD 57 - we are weaning jacques off weed for his own good feat. sarah squirm

Eric Blanc joins us to talk about a recent essay he wrote assessing the break that founded the UK Labour Party, of which there are tremendous resonances with the socialist movement in the U.S., today. 

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Tune in for this wide-ranging and informative discussion.

You can find the essay here: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/labour-party-uk-lessons-socialists

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Taking Lessons from the Break That Founded the Labour Party w/ Eric Blanc

The great Aaron Thorpe — co-host of Trillbillies, host of A Time of Monsters, the poster formerly known as posadist_trapgd — joins us for an extremely fun episode as we riff about why aliens would be communists, the paranoid imagination of imperialism, the wonders of luxury surveillance, the spectacle of convenience, and the ways tech companies really do be manufacturing consent.

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

54. Shooting for the Stars (ft. Aaron Thorpe)

Jeremy Gilbert hits the road for a musical microdose accompanying the #ACFM Trip on Folk. Connecting different strands of folk music with their various political tendencies, Jeremy looks at the communism of Woody Guthrie and the singers of the Dust Bowl era, the Vietnam protest music of Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village scene, and the folk psychedelia of the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.

The episode includes over 40 musical examples spanning a period of around 100 years.

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

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#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music

Lee Bains III and Jacob Morrison + David Story of The Valley Labor Report join us to talk about why conservatives love miners until they strike, Alabama labor history, and to preview this weekend's "Alabama Strike Fest" that they've co-organized in support of striking miners at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama.

Links:

Strike Fund: 
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/UMWAStrikePantry

Jacob's story in Jacobin:
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/conservatives-coal-miners-strike-alabama-unfair-labor-practices-workers

Episode 199: Miner Threat (w/ Special Guests: Lee Bains III & The Valley Labor Report)

Journalist Sergio Olmos (https://twitter.com/mrolmos), Journalist and podcast host Tuck Woodstock (https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock) (https://twitter.com/Gendereveal), and "Portland Mercury"(https://twitter.com/portlandmercury) news editor Alex Zielinski (https://twitter.com/alex_zee)  share their impressions from covering Portland's protests. Journalist Arun Gupta talks about the racist origins or Portland and why it's being used as a testing ground. 
Thumbnail from video courtesy of Zane Sparling (https://twitter.com/PDXzane) of the "Portland Tribune" (https://twitter.com/theportlandtrib).

Portland's Racist Roots & Current Protests w/ Sergio Olmos, Alex Zielinski, Tuck Woodstock

No less than Jean-Luc Godard called Jonathan Rosenbaum the best living American film critic, and for decades his  hugely influential writing has been political, internationally conscious, skeptical of received wisdom, and enormously curious about forms of cinema beyond mainstream. Our own Will Sloan talks to Rosenbaum to discuss his career, his politics, and how the cinematic landscape has changed since the ‘90s.

A Rosenbaum Reading List:

List-o-Mania - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/list-o-mania/Content?oid=896619

Stupidity as Redemption (Forest Gump) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2019/03/stupidity-as-redemption/

Cutting Heroes Down to Size (Small Soldiers and Saving Private Ryan) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2018/12/cutting-heroes-down-to-size/

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Eyes Wide Shut) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/02/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities/

The World According to Harvey and Bob - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-world-according-to-harvey-and-bob/Content?oid=887735

Declaration of Independents: Hardly Working - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/05/hardly-working-2/

Good Morning: Structures and Strictures in Suburbia - https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4543-good-morning-structures-and-strictures-in-suburbia

His 20th Century (Godard's Histoire[s] du Cinema) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2018/07/his-20th-century/

Michael and Us

UNLOCKED - Movies as Politics w/ Jonathan Rosenbaum

the pod list boys are back to get "a little queer" with us if you know what I mean...

We also just recorded a 2-hour special loveline/mailbag episode for our beautiful patrons at https://www.patreon.com/seekingderangements

intro/// Soul Throbs - Little Girl (1975)
outro/// Grupo Arco Iris - Coisas Da Vida (1972)

UNLOCKED SD 33 - Jacques Visibility Day feat. Pod About List

Ben's busy with a couple new projects with friend of the pod Glenn Greenwald so Jacques and I took the opportunity to record a very long episode with our friend Clarke Sondermann. Clarke has a new podcast called Group Project which you can find HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/group-project-with-john-and-clarke/id1542818367

Ben, Jacques and I will also be reviewing a few of the movies featured in this ep on Patreon in the next couple of months, so stay tuned on there for that: https://patreon.com/seekingderangements


intro/// Transs - Senja Dan Kahlua (1983?)
pee break/// Masataka Matsutoya - Hong Kong Night Sight (1977)
outro/// The Cabildos - Barrio Bueno (1974)

SD 44 - Ben-less Wonder Feat. Clarke Sondermann

In this special episode of SPS, we discuss Joe Biden's inauguration and the relationship between Art and the capitalist state. Professional creative artists are facing unemployment at rates well above the national average. We take up the proposals for WPA-style intervention, a Ministry of Culture, and a White House Office for Culture. In the second half, we consider the artist Brad Troemel and his attempt to reinterpret “Liberal Cringe” into meme art.

Images and videos for this episode can be found at: https://caesuramag.org/montezsps01292021

SPS is a production of the Platypus Affiliated Society, more at: https://platypus1917.org/

 
Links for this episode:
 
Alison Hewitt Ward, 2010, RIP Art Trump
https://caesuramag.org/posts/rip-trump-art
 
Letter of resignation from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities (2017)
https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/898547257062174724/photo/1
 
Chris Cutrone, 2010, What was postmodernism? -- Habermas’s critique 
An incomplete project? Art and politics after postmodernism 
http://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/?p=955
 
Platypus Art & Politics syllabus
https://platypus1917.org/2020/06/17/art-and-politics/
 
Brad Troemel, Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/bst
 
Barbra Kruger’s Selfridges campaign in London with Behance,
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58329969/Selfridges-Co-Sale-campaign
 
Ryan Long, 2020, When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
 
Jason Farago, "The Arts Are in Crisis. Here’s How Biden Can Help," New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/arts/design/arts-stimulus-biden.html
 
Susan Buck-Morss, response to Visual culture questionnaire (1996)
https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/buckmorss_visualcultquest.pdf

Efraim Carlebach, “Forgetting Mark Fisher” Platypus Review 115 (April 2019)
https://platypus1917.org/2019/04/01/forgetting-mark-fisher/
 
Original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy
Hosted by Sophia and Pamela

Platypus Affiliated Society

Ep. 32:  On Brad Troemel, and Art & the Capitalist State

We conclude our conversation with listener Nick about Erica Benner's "Really Existing Nationalisms."

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2672-really-existing-nationalisms

#132 - "Really Existing Nationalisms" (Part 2)

The commentary on the commentary on the Left.

Ep. 32: On Brad Troemel, and Art & the Capitalist State

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