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We're back with Machado de Assis! Celebrating Black History Month in great style! We talk about his short story "Fame", discussing art, its relation to power, and the conditions of Imperialism in Brazil! Varied and fantastic, we hope you enjoy it!

The short story! Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pm2xwAT8-Us-bZsNvPJfCXh8nAuhWZ5d/view?usp=sharing

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: Polca Beija-Flor, Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth, 1884, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ZZiU7RgHk

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We're celebrating 1 year in a week or so, and as such, oh do we have something special for y'all! We return to Sci-fi and chat on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" along with the original Blade Runner, in a special episode over these incredible works and how they illuminate capitalism for us.

Once more we talk about dystopia, the miseries brought by capitalism, the control and the violence, even in the post-apocalypse.

Thank you for 1 year of your support comrades!!!

Patreon Announcement: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33530267

First Reading Corner: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33530698

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Transitions Music: Main Titles & Love Theme, Vangelis, Blade Runner, 1994

Outro Music: Blade Runner Blues, Vangelis, Blade Runner, 1994

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Happy New Year!!! We're back in 2020 with an intriguing short story from early 20th Century Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and his "In a Bamboo Grove"

CW on rape, suicide and violence.

We talk about Truth, how it can be such a difficult and flimsy thing, along with the power and violence of the State, and the death machine that is the US. Starting out in style! Enjoy!

In a Bamboo Grove Short Story, page 69: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wW0lGeraoBeglpdOzBDyTjXup8BN233u

Also the recent public Patreon post, if you could check it out!https://www.patreon.com/posts/thinking-about-32224378

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: In the Light (2012 Remaster), Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti, 1975

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Greetings comrades! As the year draws to a close, and we were dissatisfied with our Halloween Spooky performance, we decided to tackle one last text on this line. We read and discussed Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"!

It was a fantastic discussion on violence, the conditions of modernity, how we as Leftists should think about them, and we even touched on violence towards women! Very full discussion on a powerful, if horrifying and fantastic text! Enjoy!!

The short story!

https://poestories.com/read/blackcat

Also the recent public Patreon post, if you could check it out!https://www.patreon.com/posts/thinking-about-32224378

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: The Black Cat, Senogul, The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - A SyNphonic Collection, 2010

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Hello everyone! We've been late, but we're here now! This time we return to Jorge Luis Borges on a very... peculiar, short story, The Immortal!

We reflect on death, immortality, what makes us human, and how we can face the world and eternity as individuals or collectively! Enjoy!!!

The short story!

https://matiane.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/immortal-by-jorge-luis-borges/

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: Who Wants to Live Forever (Remastered), Queen, The Platinum Collection (Remastered), 2011

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In this Spooky Halloween Special we once again team up with Jon and Ash of the Horror Vanguard, as we delve into the darkest crypts of the Vampire Castle and... Find most fun, spooky and interesting readings! It is an incredible discussion on the vampire yesterday and today, and how we can both understand it, and oppose it when necessary. Beyond that, we discuss the rse of capitalism, colonialism, and, evidently, Gothic Marxism!

We hope you enjoy this extra long episode to make up for our rushed routine and still make the spooky season valuable and worthwhile! Happy Halloween Comrades!!

Spooky recommendations:

Books and Articles>

Can the Vampire Speak? Atilla Viragh - https://sci-hub.tw/10.0000/muse.jhu.edu/article/493256

Our Vampires, Ourselves. Nina Auerbach

Varney the Vampire

Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Vampyre, John William Polidori

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Anne Rice's works

Movies and TV Shows>

The Omega Man

I am Legend

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Strain

Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter

Check out the Horror Vanguard!

On Twitter @HorrorVanguard

SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500

And support them on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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Intro Music: Blood Makes Noise, Suzanne Vega, Solitude Standing: Live at the Barbican, 2012

Outro Music: Bela Lugosi's Dead, Bauhaus, Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape, 1982

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Hello everyone! We've been very busy preparing and planning some really interesting and cool stuff! Unfortunately, it meant that editing and preparing new episodes has slowed down a bit.

As a thank you for your constant following, listening, and all that, we're - also as a way to encourage folks - unlocking one of our first few Patreon Poetry Club episodes! It's a fun, relaxed, intimate, if still serious, discussion on Charles Baudelaire's "L'Albatros - The Albatross"

We hope you enjoy and stay tuned! We have a couple of spooky surprises for October as of yet!!!

Read the poem here: https://fleursdumal.org/poem/200

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Spooky times! This is our Pre-Halloween episode! In it we delve into the famous horror writer, and many of his problems, H. P. Lovecraft!

As we reflect on the very peculiar and completely horrifying "The Color Out Of Space", we consider Climate Change, the Horror genre in writing, what ticks off Frank about it, and how can we, still, use problematic works and even authors to think about our world critically.

Spooky times are coming! Brace yourselves!!

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: The Colour Out Of Space, Nexus, The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft. A SyNphonic Collection, 2012

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This time we delve into a short story by an incredible and beautiful Brazilian writer, João Guimarães Rosa. With this brief short story "The Third Bank of the River", we consider dealing with grief, trauma and death in general. Along with how sometimes narrative mysteries can truly be eternal.

We hope you enjoy this episode and let us know what you've been thinking of the show so far! Leave us iTunes reviews, talk to us on Twitter... As we reach double digits, we hope to keep making good, fun and interesting content for everyone!

The Third Bank of the River: http://www.sphstigers.org/ourpages/users/jasher/SSBootCampWebsite/The%20Third%20Bank%20of%20the%20River.pdf

RevLeftRadio with Cindy Milstein on grief: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/grief

Coffee With Comrades along with RevLeft and Black Banner Magic on death and more: http://coffeewithcomrades.com/episode-41-should-i-kill-myself-or-have-a-cup-of-coffee-ft-rev-left-radio-black-banner-magic

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: A Terceira Margem do Rio [The Third Bank of the River], Caetano Veloso, Circuladô, 1991

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This time we look at a fascinating work by the Cuban/Italian writer and Communist Ítalo Calvino, from 1972: Invisible Cities! It's an incredible novel about our world, despite being incredibly far from it, in its stories.

So come along on this journey of ours as we reflect on cities, memory, nature, and how we would all be better off without capitalism! It's a slightly shorter one, but really fun and interesting, for sure!

The book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qPv3efCayNRbXdxedgrJv6b4zw55iFO/view?usp=sharing

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 1968

Outro Music: Roundabout, Yes, Fragile, 1971

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