Mortal Science

Mortal Science

By Ezri xB & C Derick VarnEducation
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Mortal Science episodes

  • WTF Is Marxism?: Dialectics Shake the World
    Derick & Ezri continue their attempt to define marxism during a dialectical earthquake.
    "What is Marxism?: A Bird’s-Eye View" by Bertell Ollman
    https://medium.com/thedialogues/what-is-marxism-a-birds-eye-view-90c45fd2ab81
    http://patreon.com/mortalscience
    http://emancipation.network
    49 min
  • Betrayal III: Moral Kitsch
    Ezri & Derick explore the many ways to dismiss and abuse the notion of class interest, along with the invocations of its loyalty and betrayal, only to be left with an uncomfortable paradox.
    Avishai Margalit, On Betrayal, 2017
    Adam Przeworski, ”Social Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon”, Capitalism and Social Democracy, 1985
    Karl Kautsky, “The Intellectuals and the Workers”, 1903
    http://patreon.com/mortalscience
    http://emancipation.network
    1 hr 22 min
  • Betrayal II: Treason & Collaboration
    Derick & Ezri trace the General Will through Vichy France, Zionist Israel, and the occupation of Bajor, wondering all the while what this means for a theory of class interest.
    Avishai Margalit, On Betrayal, 2017
    http://patreon.com/mortalscience
    http://emancipation.network
    50 min
  • US Election 2020 Roundup (Emancipation Network with Jason Myles & J.G. Michael)
    Feast on an undisciplined and unedited romp vaguely centered on the 2020 US election, recorded on November 4th.
    featuring
    Derick & Ezri
    Jake (of Swampside Chats)
    Kyle (of General Intellect Unit)
    Sophia (of Jumpsuit Utopia)
    Tom (of From Alpha to Omega)
    w/ special guests
    Jason Myles (of This Is Revolution)
    http://thisisrevolutionpodcast.com
    & J.G. Michael (of Parallax Views)
    http://parallaxviews.podbean.com
    http://patreon.com/mortalscience
    http://emancipation.network
    3 hr 18 min
  • Betrayal I: Thick Relations
    Ezri & Derick explore the philosophical and anthropological aspects of betrayal through a thick symbolic slurry of bodily juices.
    Avishai Margalit, On Betrayal, 2017
    Marshall Sahlins, “What Kinship Is (Part One)”, 2011
    1 hr 14 min
  • WTF Is Marxism?: Social Democratic Deepities
    Derick & Ezri begin their attempt to define marxism by fortifying the motte-and-bailey fortress of contemporary social democracy.
    "Marxism vs Communism" by Richard Wolff
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meAAIL6dswk
    "What It Means to Be a Marxist" by Ramsin Canon
    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/marxism-socialism-class-struggle-materialism
    http://patreon.com/mortalscience
    http://emancipation.network
    57 min
  • PMC Patreon Lauch
    Succumb to our petty rentier class interests by helping us keep the lights on in our gloomy laboratory of history.
    http://patreon.com/mortalscience
    2 min
  • Null Hypøtheses
    Ezri & Derick introduce themselves, explain how they became marxists, and negate Marxism in the name of marxism.
    http://emancipation.network
    58 min

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C Derick Varn and Ezri xB present a new Emancipation Network podcast