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P&G 1 | Historicism & Historical Materialism: "To Reckon With a Distanced Observer." (Walter Benjamin)
This show isn't fully available here—only on the Free Patreon Tier: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1219832?view=condensed
Ep. 1 | Setting the stage with glimpses of Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History," including his warnings about the just-so stories of historicism, the dialectic between past-present and personal-historical, and the call for historical materialism to reckon the "triumphal procession" that today marches as the status quo against a "distanced observer." A brief mention of Mark Fisher's worry about the consequences of a lost sense of the future and thus the past. More on this in Episode 3 on Patreon.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Walter Benjamin's Historicism
03:23 A Secret Heliotropism
06:45 The Historical Materialist
10:45 Dialectical History
13:57 Weak Messianic Power
15:20 Mark Fisher's Lost Futures
16:45 We Always Start with Caricatures
SOURCES
- Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (multiple various translations)
- Michael Lowry's Fire Alarm
- Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files
- Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism & Ghosts of My Life
SOLID AIR
Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.
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By Solid Air: History & Political Economy, Socialist Book ClubThis show isn't fully available here—only on the Free Patreon Tier: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1219832?view=condensed
Ep. 1 | Setting the stage with glimpses of Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History," including his warnings about the just-so stories of historicism, the dialectic between past-present and personal-historical, and the call for historical materialism to reckon the "triumphal procession" that today marches as the status quo against a "distanced observer." A brief mention of Mark Fisher's worry about the consequences of a lost sense of the future and thus the past. More on this in Episode 3 on Patreon.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Walter Benjamin's Historicism
03:23 A Secret Heliotropism
06:45 The Historical Materialist
10:45 Dialectical History
13:57 Weak Messianic Power
15:20 Mark Fisher's Lost Futures
16:45 We Always Start with Caricatures
SOURCES
- Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (multiple various translations)
- Michael Lowry's Fire Alarm
- Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files
- Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism & Ghosts of My Life
SOLID AIR
Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.