300 Episodes

  1. No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part I (With C. Derick Varn)

    Published: 10/18/2021
  2. Punk is Dead and So Are We: Introducing A Fine Old Conflict

    Published: 9/28/2021
  3. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (With Red Library): Part III of III

    Published: 9/14/2021
  4. The New Moment In Marxism: Introducing The Measures Taken

    Published: 9/6/2021
  5. The Uses and Abuses of Christopher Lasch - With C Derick Varn (Part II of II)

    Published: 8/24/2021
  6. The Uses and Abuses of Christopher Lasch - With C Derick Varn (Part I of II)

    Published: 8/18/2021
  7. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (With Red Library): Part II of III

    Published: 8/4/2021
  8. The Internet and its Consequences...

    Published: 7/29/2021
  9. PATREON PREVIEW: Nihilist Communism (Part Three)

    Published: 7/27/2021
  10. Treating the Symptoms of Capitalism: Mental Illness, Therapy, Psychedelics, and Mysticism

    Published: 7/21/2021
  11. Let America be America Again... For Once

    Published: 7/14/2021
  12. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (With Red Library): Part I of III

    Published: 7/1/2021
  13. PATREON PREVIEW: Nihilist Communism (Part One)

    Published: 6/28/2021
  14. The Specter of Common Ruin: Theories of Capitalist Decadence

    Published: 6/17/2021
  15. Stillborn Utopia: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic

    Published: 6/9/2021
  16. We Are All Dying: The Twittering Machine (Part III of III)

    Published: 6/2/2021
  17. PATREON PREVIEW: Give Up Activism?

    Published: 5/26/2021
  18. We Are All Addicts: The Twittering Machine (Part II of III)

    Published: 5/24/2021
  19. We Are All Connected: The Twittering Machine (Part I of III)

    Published: 5/17/2021
  20. Isolated Together: Anxiety, Alienation, and Despair in the Age of Covid

    Published: 5/6/2021

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The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you. “The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” -- Antonio Gramsci