Dimitri and Khalid ruthlessly discuss the Dr. Jekkyl/MIB Hyde aspects of Noam Chomsky’s Radical Intellectual career, including: the legendary 1971 TV debate between Chomsky and Foucault, Lorenzoae’s “Chomsky and the Compatible Left” essay, Chomsky’s saintly status in the left-liberal alt-media ecosystem, his influential linguistics theories and simultaneous involvement with USAF command and control projects, Chomsky-as-Pentagon’s very own Lysenko, comparing Chomsky’s dismissal of left-wing “conspiracy theories” to Carl Oglesby’s “The Yankee and Cowboy War”, his bizarre insistence that the JFK assassination was a meaningless event, and why Chomsky reaches for his revolver whenever he hears the word “dialectics”.

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[UNLOCKED] #53 - COLORLESS GREEN IDOLS PSYOP FURIOUSLY: Defrocking Chomsky

i’m always scared 
of how many times we’ll be trapped
cuz we’re too unconcerned

you said you’ll make things pure
like, sunrise
then you may fall down
nothing can float without power
like, all kind of emotions 

i hate emotions as f——
you dump them everyday
you spoil everybody by your action.

you can connect something bigger 
cuz you’re not individual
but more like… formless
you never know how your face look
you’re everywhere in the map

i always taught my self
how to cross the ocean
ocean is really attractive to me these days
there are no man, no social relations 
but also, you know it’s constant experience of crossing any thing.
you are isolated but also trying to connect something
something bigger
expanding your self infinitely

things happen in one place, is also happening at anywhere in the earth
with
different meanings

i needed that

TaKEN FRom Muqata'a invited Cinturon Negro,emitted at Root Radio in 2020
these were the last 15 minutes of the mix,it was all improvised with samplers,turntable,and tape

full mix here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCAIxsbB7w

Extracto sacado del mix "Muqata'a Invites Cinturon Negro" emitido via Root Radio en Octubre de 2020
esta parte fueron los ultimos 15 minutos del mix,que fue totalmente improvisado y ejecutado con tornamesa,samplers varios y cassettes

Mix Completo aquí
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCAIxsbB7w

Improv

Gail Newman and Mari Ruti joined Coop and Taylor to discuss their upcoming co-authored text, Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott.

Gail is the Chair for the Center of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and is the Harold J. Henry Professor of German at Williams College; her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, German literature and culture and she has published on Goethe, Kleist, Hoffman, and Novalis (among others), including a book titled Locating the Romantic Subject: Novalis with Winnicott.

https://german.williams.edu/profile/gnewman/

Mari is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. Her books include The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within; The Ethics of Opting Out: Defiance and Affect in Queer Theory; and Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Ruti

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Gail Newman & Mari Ruti - Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott

bad dog

In the first part of this episode, Lisa & Rebekah are joined by members, Laurie R. & Jasper to talk about how Platypus has captured the relationship between the Left & the elections. They have gone into the archives of the Platypus Affiliated Society, and have asked how our work can help us to think about these inflection points on the Left across the elections, namely, 2008 (Obama); 2016 (Brexit; Trump; AfD); 2020 (Trump & Biden, Corbyn & Boris); and the coming 2024 election. In the second segment, Pamela sits down with the Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief, Lou S., to discuss what is in the Dec 2022—Jan 2023 issue, including the interview with Vivek Chibber, his perspectives on ideology, the task of the Left today, and the DSA & the elections, as well as a book review of Chibber's book by Russell Jacoby, and the interview with Enzo Traverso.

Election & the Left Links:
2008: "Obama: Progress in regress: The end of 'black politics'" https://platypus1917.org/2008/09/01/obama-progress-in-regress-the-end-of-black-politics/ 
2016:  "Why not Trump?"
https://platypus1917.org/2016/09/06/why-not-trump/
2016: Teach-in: "Anti-trumpism: what does it mean for the Left?"
https://archive.org/details/TeachinAntitrumpism
2017: "The Millennial Left is dead"
https://platypus1917.org/2017/10/01/millennial-left-dead/
2019: Panel "Democracy and the Left" with Benjamin Studebaker (Cambridge University, What's Left podcast), Marjorie Mayo (Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths University), James Heartfield (Independent author, Spiked!) and Adam Buick (Socialist Party of Great Britain) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzd_0dy2Tz4

Platypus Review 152 (December 2022-January 2023)
https://platypus1917.org/category/pr/

Interview with Vivek Chibber
https://platypus1917.org/2022/12/01/confronting-capitalism-an-interview-with-vivek-chibber/
Book Review of Chibber by Russell Jacoby
https://platypus1917.org/2022/12/01/shadowboxing-a-review-of-vivek-chibbers-the-class-matrix/
Interview with Enzo Traverso
https://platypus1917.org/2022/12/01/we-were-orphans-an-interview-with-enzo-traverso/

Ep. 53: The Elections & the Left, and Platypus Review #152

This episode includes an interview with Platypus founding member Chris Cutrone, who was interviewed by Johannes K. and Lisa on his article “The end of the Gilded Age: Discontents of the Second Industrial Revolution today”. They talked about the history of progressivism, the deferred problems of the Gilded Age that still impact us today, the unfulfilled task of the Left, as well as the things that led Chris to write this article back in 2017.

Links:
> 2017: Chris Cutrone, The end of the Gilded Age: Discontents of the Second Industrial Revolution today https://platypus1917.org/2017/12/02/end-gilded-age-discontents-second-industrial-revolution-today/ 

> 2017: Chris Cutrone, The Millennial Left is dead https://platypus1917.org/2017/10/01/millennial-left-dead/

> 2020: "The Legacy of the American Revolution", a Platypus Lecture Series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNc4xGUuaRwkwEdVEwLV6X8NxT49XEtx8

SPS episodes contain original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy, and editing assistance by Michael Woodson and Tamas Vilaghy. To learn more about Platypus, go to platypus1917.org

Ep. 54: Interview w/ Chris Cutrone on his "The end of the Gilded Age" article

Oversteps

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On this episode of SPS, we first focus on our Annual International Convention (March 29–April 1), which will take place in Chicago, at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, & the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Planning committee members, Ryan & Ethan introduce the convention theme, panels, and historical concerns across the upcoming events. Our second segment is a deep dive into the Platypus archives on the question of imperialism & anti-imperialism, prompted by the one-year anniversary of the Ukrainian War, and the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War. Members, Sunit & Farsad, join Lisa and Rebekah to reflect on the Platypus panels on the Ukraine crisis a year ago, and on the recent developments of the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist Left. They go back to the founding moment of Platypus and the very first panel "Imperialism: what is it, why should we be against it?" (2007).

Platypus International Convention 2023 program:
https://platypus1917.org/platypus-international-convention/15th-annual-platypus-international-convention-history-and-class-consciousness/

Convention Segment Links:
> Mike Macnair "The Philosophy Trap" (2013):
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/987/lukacs-the-philosophy-trap/
> CPGB/Platypus dialog in full (2013):
https://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cpgbcontralukacs031513.pdf
> Chris Cutrone "CPGB Contra Lukacs" (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyAx32lzC0U
(in the PR: https://platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/why-still-read-lukacs-the-place-of-philosophical-questions-in-marxism/)

Imperialism & Anti-imperialism Segment Links:
> 2007: Panel: Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?https://platypus1917.org/2010/07/09/imperialism-what-is-it-why-should-we-be-against-it/
> 2022: Chris Cutrone "Ukraine: More of the same" https://platypus1917.org/2022/04/01/ukraine-more-of-the-same/
> 2022: Crisis in Ukraine and the Left Panel iterations:
>>> Frankfurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIPr7AyMWak&list=PLNc4xGUuaRwmAmGIlzqMgDuAkQNP-T0sW&index=4  
>>> online in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFxUcBxYqQ&list=PLNc4xGUuaRwmAmGIlzqMgDuAkQNP-T0sW&index=7  
>>> online in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3js9LcbDTY0&list=PLNc4xGUuaRwmAmGIlzqMgDuAkQNP-T0sW&index=6
> 2007: Interview with Tariq Ali by Chris Cutrone https://archive.org/details/TariqAliInterviewedByChrisCutronePlatypusChicago
> 2020: Panel “Imperialism and the Left” https://platypus1917.org/2020/07/01/imperialism-and-the-left/ and ​​https://platypus1917.org/2020/09/01/imperialism-and-the-left-2/
> debate between Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5atWb_LD-2I 
> 2016: Panel "Was ist Imperialismus? Warum sollten wir dagegen sein?" https://platypus1917.org/2016/06/24/podiumsdiskussion-vom-16-06-2016-ist-imperialismus-warum-sollten-wir-dagegen-sein/

SPS #55: The Platypus International Convention, and Anti-imperialism & the Left

Meshing Gown Rot

22 Ft+delay-time Sequence Loop

The commentary on the commentary on the Left, including articles in the latest issue of the Platypus Review.

Ep. 54: Interview w/ Chris Cutrone on his "The end of the Gilded Age" article

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