Nightmare Tonight

Hey, folks! Here's the second installment of You Just Got Cronenberged, a special Nightmare Tonight miniseries in which my cohost Kayla and I dissect the varied works of director David Cronenberg. In this lengthy tirade, we talked about The Dead Zone. Enjoy!

This is a very special installment of Nightmare Tonight; it's the first part of a mini-series called You Just Got Cronenberged, which as the name implies is going to cover the many works of the great David Cronenberg.

In this installment, I'm joined by fellow youtuber Ian, who has a channel called Epoch Philosophy. Our discussion was prompted by a recent video essay he made on the topic of happiness: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVgkw5_TSE

If you're a fan of my more theory laden, philosophical type work, I bet you'll like Epoch Philosophy. He's trying to go full time on youtube soon, so check out the channel and be sure to subscribe if it sounds up your alley:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC738SsV6BSLUVvMgKnEFFzQ

The LitCritGuy
https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy
https://www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGuy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiFb_CmCcNW1AD0ZaqFu1A

Horror Vanguard
https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500

References:
David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIctCDYv7Yg

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism

The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
https://www.versobooks.com/books/348-the-sublime-object-of-ideology

Mark Fisher | Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)
https://my-blackout.com/2019/04/25/mark-fisher-acid-communism-unfinished-introduction/

The Principle of Hope - Ernst Bloch
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bloch/hope/introduction.htm

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
https://tsd.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine.html

Cameron Winklevoss attempts to explain NFTs
https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1373680484945850368

Crowds, Masses, Riots (w/ @laborkyle​)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWswtWw5qd0

K-punk: THE COLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF MARK FISHER
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592331/k-punk-by-mark-fisher/

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3090-liberalism-at-large

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
http://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=66

The Class Struggle and Christian Love by Herbert McCabe, OP
https://christiansocialism.com/herbert-mccabe-class-struggle-capitalism-marxism-christianity/

In this episode, I'm interviewing Liz Ryerson about her fascination with Doom mods. Liz was recently featured in a doc series called Preserving Worlds, so be sure to check out her episode. 

Liz Ryerson: 

http://ellaguro.com/

https://twitter.com/ellaguro

https://www.patreon.com/ellaguro

References:

Preserving Worlds: Ep. 4 - Doom

https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds?cid=1699450

Beyond The Filter 17 - Doom is An Art Scene with Andrew Stine (aka Linguiça)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO0X4s1x-uk

HyperNormalisation (2016 + subs) by Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU

The Blood Zone: #09 - We'll Be Middle-Aged Children (But So What)

https://thebloodzone.libsyn.com/09-well-be-middle-aged-children-but-so-what

Beyond The Filter 24 - The Old Vs. New Internet with Felix Biederman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE_hjPByqmo

In this episode of Nightmare Tonight, I'm speaking with filmmakers Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil about their documentary series, Preserving Worlds. You can watch it for free on Means TV right now! 

References:

Preserving Worlds

https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds

Sarasota Half in Dream

https://means.tv/programs/sarasota?categoryId=20464

Subscribe to Means TV!

https://means.tv/

Museum of ZZT

https://museumofzzt.com/

References:

Republish Rick Roderick's Book!
https://www.change.org/p/springerlink-republish-rick-roderick-s-book?recruiter=26363129

Rick Roderick: Philosophy and Human Values
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6676C3E8A487FEE6

Rick Roderick: Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA20B690583E9931C

Rick Roderick: The Masters of Suspicion (full playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA

Rick Roderick Interview [1987] (complete)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKfWWmK5hvA

Rick Roderick: In Memorium
http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/

Poking the Peevish Gutter
https://maxroderick.com/

Can the Left Learn to Meme? by Mike Watson
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/can-left-learn-meme

The Acid Left
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbLjoC_tct5byCV6JBoQPtA

Slavoj Zizek Explains Himself (A Video for Noam Chomsky and Michael Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkBuJv2WpSE

World Economic Forum: Now is the time for a 'great reset'
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/

In this short installment of Nightmare Tonight, I'll be talking about a book I recently read called The Culture of Narcissism by social critic Christopher Lasch. You might recall I briefly referenced this book in my analysis of Hiding in My Home. If there are any other books you might be interested in seeing me discuss, let me know in the comments.

References:

The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Culture-of-Narcissism

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism 

Days of Rage by Brian Burrough https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/307365/days-of-rage-by-bryan-burrough/9780143107972 

The Idea of Culture by Terry Eagleton https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Idea+of+Culture-p-9780631219668 

Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NightmareMasterclass 

Hey, it's a very special night because a new ep of my podcast, Nightmare Tonight, is now available. And that is the sole reason this night is special.  Enjoy!

Also, I wrote an essay about fascism. It's the congealed form of various Twitter threads I wrote this week. Please clap.  
https://medium.com/@dstock3/fascism-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-8b8631d731ae

References:

"The Structural Study of Myth" by Claude Levi-Strauss

https://people.ucsc.edu/~ktellez/levi-strauss.pdf

DHMIS Critical Approaches: Formalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0LHtXVQo5o 

DHMIS Critical Approaches: Carnival and the Grotesque Body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJvKtydoPPY  

 On the Genealogy of Morals (this translation uses the term “resent,” “resentful” or “resentment”)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm

Political Power and Social Classes by Nicos Poulantzas

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2355-political-power-and-social-classes

In this ep of Nightmare Tonight, I'll be unpacking Fredric Jameson's Political Unconscious. In the course of analyzing Disco Elysium, I found Jameson's approach to be quite useful and enriching. So, I thought it might be a good idea to do a more thorough primer on his method.

References:

The Political Unconscious (Lecture by Paul Fry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvp5z0Zbvo 

Darstellung 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Darstellung

Telos 

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

The Base and Superstructure

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

Althusser Glossary 1969 

https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/althusser/index.htm

Transcoding:

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803105319847

Greimas Semiotic Square

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algirdas_Julien_Greimas#/media/File:Es515_semiotic_square.jpg

Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm

Objectification:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alienation/#Obje

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire