Walls - Sunporch (Holy Other Remix)

5 Ray Brassier - Concrete Rules And Abstract Machines

Today's episode was prompted by Emmet Rensin's article "The Blathering Super-ego at the End of History", a critique of managerial liberalism recently published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-at-the-end-of-history/

The discussion is somewhat more narrowly focused on the United States at first (Joe and Taylor are still processing a recent loss by the Democrats in a nearby special election.) However the discussion ends up being very broad and begins to circulate around Adorno. They eventually track down a helpful passage and analyze it together a bit ("Baby with the Bathwater" from Minimia Moralia, which thinks through the strange similarities of Marx and Nietzsche on the question of culture and ideology).

Ep. 34: Impossible Dreams

who are you going to kill first when you're free 
who you going to kill, once you kill with impunity 
I’d love it if you’d start with me
sweet teeny trendsetter in the gutter 

breath in 
through the hole in my skull

breath out
through the hole in my skull

I'd only breath prior stylings through a hole in my skull, 
whistling, 'acquired taste is the only taste’, 
bristling, connotes dysgenic but deep hue chafed to
I'd only breath prior stylings through a hole in my skull,
while you breath out prior stylings through the hole in my soul

tor selects, illegal PDF, sets me free
to be, 
what i’ve always been, 
.flac of yellow shit stain rimming intestine mash,
power washed off the wreckage of a government building

Prior Stylings

taking down soon, but i don't ever think i've posted straight gospel, so. yeah :D

fun.

Respite

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Ep. 34: Impossible Dreams

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