A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration

This week on Red Library, Neil from the From78 Podcast joins the Red Troika (Don, Alex, and Adam) to kick off our reading series on Todd McGowan's Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets.

For part 1, we talk about some basics of McGowan's project of psychoanalyzing the unconscious of capitalism, conscious and unconscious satisfaction, whethere we really want a revolution, and we drag Burning Man and Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism real hard. 

Further Readings/References

• Lost Horizons Podcasting Network
• Todd McGowan
• Why Theory? Podcast
• Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Review
• Revolutionary Left Radio's Episode with McGowan on Capitalism and Desire
• Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Episode with McGowan - THE CHAD LACAN
• Frankfurt School
• Jouissance
• Burning Man
• Peter Rollins
• Mari Ruti
• Sinthome

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Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series

Comrade Commissar Alex and I continue our dive into the ontological abyss of sex that is Alenka Zupancic's brilliant work on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, What IS Sex?

For part 2, we talk about the development of ideas of masculine and feminine in psychoanalysis, the ontology of sex, totality and infinity, signification, history, scientific paradigms, have some nice picture time, life and death, and tons more as per usual.

STAY ONTOLOGICALLY THIRSTY, COMRADES.

Further Readings/References

• Signs, Signifiers, and Signified
• Formulae of Sexuation
• Kant's Antinomies of Reason
• Jouissance
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Object-oriented Ontology
• Nominalism
• Quentin Meillassoux
• Omphalos Hypothesis
• Philip Henry Gosse
• Death Drive
• Edge of Tomorrow Trailer

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The Red Troika (Alex, Don, and Adam) engage in a critical exploration of YouTube food reviews using Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. We get a little experimental on this one in trying to apply our icy-cold muthafuckin' takes and liquid hot magma theoretical orientation to the likes of Joey's World Tour and ReviewBrah (aka The Report of the Week). Consumer culture, commodity fetishism, democratization of the means of media production, and religious ecstasy are just some of the things talk about on this one.   WOO WOO WOO WOO, comrades.

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Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series

Comrade Commissar Alex and I work through a most intriguing and challenging work of philosophical and Lacanian psychoanalysis by Alenka Zupancic called What IS Sex?

 For part 1, we talk about the psychoanalytic view on the relationship between sex and gender, partial drives, Christianity, sexuality and capitalism, democracy, class struggle, and SO MUCH MORE. We also cancel Nature and science in this one.

STRAP IN AND STRAP ON, COMRADES.

Further Readings/References

• Lost Horizons Podcasting Network Page
• Alenca Zupancic
• Short Circuits Series by MIT Press
• What IS Sex? Overview
• Performativity
• Affect Theory
• Judith Butler
• Materialism
• Object-Oriented Ontology
• Extimacy
• Joan Copjec
• Joan Copjec's Article on Sexual Difference
• Lamella
• Partial Drives
• Andre Platonov
• Ontology

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For our third and final episode on Ernest Mandel's An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, NEOCAPITALISM ARRIVES FROM THE FUTURE.   We talk about Mandel's conception of neocapitalism post-WWII, the New Deal, arms manufacturing and social security programs and anti-crisis measures for capitalism, the Cold War, and wrap the whole book up.   Further Reading/References

• Lost Horizons Podcasting Network
• Kondratiev Waves
• Ordoliberalism

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Comrade David joins us to complete his Holy Trinity of appearances on Red Library to discuss The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato. This is the first of a two-part series on the state within capitalist modes of production with part 2 coming soon on Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin's The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire.   We talk about the historical role of the state in investing in key areas of technological development, the public/private distinction in capitalism, existentialism, why we give up our freedom, the animal spirits of capitalism, and much more!   Further Reading/References

• Lost Horizons Podcasting Network
• Mariana Mazzucato
• The Entrepreneurial State
• The Political Economy of American Empire
• Mazzucato's Demos Report
• Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation
• DARPA
• Dubai Police Start Training on Flying Bikes
• John Maynard Keynes
• Joseph Schumpeter
• Etienne de la Boetie
• Erich Fromm
• Externalities
• Governmentality
• RAND Corporation
• RAND Report on Shining Path in Peru
• John Smith's Imperialism in the 21st Century

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Theory Team 6 (CC Don, CC Alex, and Comrade Adam) watched two films by Kathryn Bigelow that we describe as propaganda for the American Soul: Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker. This turns into a general commentary on Bigelow's whole filmography as it relates to U.S. capitalist/imperialist propaganda in general.   Many laughs, icy cold takes, controversial statements, and liquid hot magma analyses ensue. We also discuss the our strong feelings about stealing cephalopod valor.   ***GET ACCESS TO THE FULL EPISODE FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH AT OUR PATREON PAGE!***   ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected]   Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod   Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes   Click here to support Red Library on Patreon   Click here to find Red Library on Facebook   Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

The Legion of Doomers (CC Don and Comrade Adam) are coming at you with part 2 of our mini-squared series on Ernest Mandel's An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory.   In the second installment, we review the third proof of the labor theory of value from part 1, transitions from precapitalist to capitalist modes of production, different competing theories on value, variable capital, concrete capital, the Animatrix, and more!   ***Make sure you stay tuned to the very end for a new Red Library segment that will be coming your way every so often!***   References/Further Reading

• Lost Horizons Podcasting Network
• Russian Doomer Mix
• Theories of Value

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Part 2 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series

We continue our historical x-ray and analysis of the lost futures of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Darko Suvin's Slendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia with our podrades from The Regrettable Century.

Part 2 highlights include the emerging politocracy in the SFRY, gender equality under worker self-management, the final destructive singularity of the SFRY, and more! Keep your ears open for a special interlude in the episode, as well...

Further Readings/References

• Lost Horizons Network Homepage
• The Regretttable Century's Patreon Page
• Darko Suvin
• Milovan Djilas
• Branko Horvat
• Gini Coefficient
• Edvard Kardelj
• Oil Crises of the 1970's
• Vatican Bank
• Operation Gladio
• Susan Buck-Morss
• Prague Spring
• Solidarity Movement in Poland
• "Hej Slaveni" - National Anthem of the SFRY

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Part 2 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series

Our most excellent comrades from The Regrettable Century return to the library for epic task of studying the history of socialist political and economic society and its eventual eventual downfall in Yugoslavia from 1945 to the early 1990's. To do so, we read the 2015 work by Darko Suvin, Slendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia.

We kick off part 1 with discussing the history of Yugoslavia and the partisan resistance during World War II, the break with Stalin and the U.S.S.R., the struggleation in the command economy years, and much more!

We also share a big announcement at the start of this episode!

Further Readings/References

• The Regrettable Century's Patreon Page
• Darko Suvin
• Interview with Darko Suvin
• The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism
• Haymarket's Historical Materialism Series
• David McNally's Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
• Yugoslav Partisans
• Josip Broz Tito
• Yalta Conference
• Greek Civil War
• Milovan Djilas's Conversations with Stalin
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Prague Spring
• Ernst Bloch
• Bretton Woods Conference
• Edvard Kardelj
• Milovan Djilas

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