Poolhouse joins forces with Basil (aka BasilianThought), the “anti-leftist Marxist” and provocative host of BareBactrian. Together, they dive into the tangled intersections of post-post-left-post-dissident-right media markets—aka “2.0”—unpacking the findom-esque, exploitative dynamics inherent in social media’s “dissident” discourse, culture, and currency, as well as the uncanny futures of mediated reality. With sharp wit and incisive insight, Poolhouse and Basil peel back the layers of media culture’s subtextual forces, delivering a cosmic punch of critique that’s as hilarious as it is mind-bending.

“2.0” is a high-octane, rapid-fire auto-dialogical mixtape, in which our intrepid hosts dissect the commodification of identity, the seductive power of the online social economy, and the recursive relationships between technology, desire, media, and control. This episode is GIVING the Gaze™ everything it needed. “2.0” hits like a mainline dose of barebackklash electrifying critique of postmodern culture that’s equal parts unsettling, hilarious, and utterly unmissable.

Never sharper nor more relevant, “2.0,” Poolhouse and Basil deliver an electrifying entry into the ongoing backklash alchemical audio samizdat, a pop art talk show product arriving readymade for anyone ready to break the cycle of passive consumption and reclaim agency in an increasingly mediated and disposable world world–aka, people who Get It.

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BasilianThought - Longform

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154649715

BareBactrian - Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/BareBactrian

Basilian thought on X

https://x.com/BasilianThought

Program Notes

(0:00) - cold open

(2:02) - here comes the barebackklash

(8:08) - Basil 2.0

(22:11) - A Skeleton Key to BasilianThought

(42:18) - 2.0: GET IN THE RING

(53:22) - the 2.0 barriers to populism

(56:14) - On Media Market Fandoms and Findoms

(1:07:57) - race realism 2.0

(1:19:55) - Diamond & Silkk 2.0

(1:27:55) - future starts where u are

(1:33:33) - two point outr-o

Episode Mixtape

MM - Dope Show (Poolhouse dub)

Uptown Rebel - All That She Wants (Dub Remix)

Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of HUGE

Aryan Arianator - The Dub is Coming

Nicki Minaj - Stupid Ho (Poolhouse dub)

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