The NanceCast

in this Brolo episode, I spend a good ninety minutes discussing the first thirty minutes of Michael Bay's hit 2005 movie, The Island. This movie has so much to say before it turns into a Hollywood-brained action flick, and I love it!!!

Also, I recorded a "first-half" of this episode before I went into the movie, and I reference that a few times, disregard all mentions of "earlier" and "the first half," that will probably make it into an episode centering on Baudrillard, to come at a later date.

Anyway, Enjoy!!!!

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And be warned that Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! https://www.patreon.com/nancee

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Mikey and Sean are here again, again!

This is the third installment in our series of reading through and discussing The Accursed Share!

Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so, he set out to do something about it. That something? Write a book about "political economy" that forces a Copernican shift and brings the man out from behind the curtain - that "man" being the deep structure we know as Capital, and that curtain the prevailing Ideology, or Narrative, that leads us all to believe that we are in fact the ones calling the shots.

Bataille is essential for understanding Modernity, both for grappling with this otherworldly monster that intends to use up all our resources and convert us all into computronium; and for developing a ubiquitous "recognition" that we are all, in fact, Humans (whatever that means), and that we must give up this false belief in Capitalism and start managing our General Resources in a Social fashion, lest we blow ourselves up and leave the dolphins and octopuses to inherit our ruins.

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack The Dangerous Maybe -

https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

Make sure to check out Sean's Substack No Future too, he's been droppin' some heat - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing

And be warned that Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! -https://www.patreon.com/nancee

and as always, stay tuned for more!!

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Brolo Bonus!! I don't know what to say for this description, I'm just tryna get shit off my chest, think through some of the things that came up while talking with Alenka, and trying to stave off the existential horror of being utterly impotent...

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack - https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

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Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here again!!!

We're continuing the reading of The Accursed Share!!!

Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so, he set out to do something about it. That something? Write a book about "political economy" that forces a Copernican shift and brings the man out from behind the curtain - that "man" being the deep structure we know as Capital, and that curtain the prevailing Ideology, or Narrative, that leads us all to believe that we are in fact the ones calling the shots.

Bataille is essential for understanding Modernity, both for grappling with this otherworldly monster that intends to use up all our resources and convert us all into computronium; and for developing a ubiquitous "recognition" that we are all, in fact, Humans (whatever that means), and that we must give up this false belief in Capitalism and start managing our General Resources in a Social fashion, lest we blow ourselves up and leave the dolphins and octopuses to inherit our ruins.

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack - https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2

https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

Make sure to check out Sean's Substack too, he's been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing

https://open.substack.com/pub/nanceee/p/the-accursed-share-as-destiny-desire?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Mikey and I discuss the hot new conspiracy theory—Conformity Gate!

What is Conformity Gate you ask? Well, you're in luck, dear reader, because we answer that question in this episode!

We talk about our love of the Stranger Things franchise, how Netflix managed to get people hooked on a commodity that doesn't even exist, speculations and conjecture about the Truth of season five, and some other stuff too!!!

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack -

https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2

https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

Shout out to Knigobi on for entertaining us during the strange liminal week at the beginning of the year, check out her channel for more entertaining Conformity Gate content, and also some fun TTRPG stuff too!!!!

and as always, stay tuned for more!!

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Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here!

We're kicking off a new endeavor!

Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so, he set out to do something about it. That something? Write a book about "political economy" that forces a Copernican shift and brings the man out from behind the curtain - that "man" being the deep structure we know as Capital, and that curtain the prevailing Ideology, or Narrative, that leads us all to believe that we are in fact the ones calling the shots.

Bataille is essential for understanding Modernity, both for grappling with this otherworldly monster that intends to use up all our resources and convert us all into computronium; and for developing a ubiquitous "recognition" that we are all, in fact, Humans (whatever that means), and that we must give up this false belief in Capitalism and start managing our General Resources in a Social fashion, lest we blow ourselves up and leave the dolphins and octopuses to inherit our ruins.

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack - https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

Make sure to check out Sean's Substack too, he''s been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing

and as always, stay tuned for more!!

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Mikey and Sean are here! Today we're talking about a bunch of stuff; including Fascist AI, Dasein and Care and how they relate to Desire, Drive, and Temporality, Modernity and History and whether or not "we've changed," and some other stuff too!! This is a laid back, shoot the shit episode, to while away the hours here at the end of the year (and maybe even the end of the World!!). Happy New Year folks, it's been a doozy, but we're still here, damnit!

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack The Dangerous Maybe -

https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2

https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

Make sure to check out Sean's Substack No Future, he's been droppin' some heat! -

https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing

and as always, stay tuned for more!!

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Sean of No Future joins me for a conversation about all kinds of stuff! We talk about Rousseau on Vanity and Care, we talk about Girard on Mimesis and Rivalry, we talk about Peter Thiel and Power; Ethics, Politics, the Commodity Form, South Park, Avatar and Star Wars, China and Economics, and some other stuff too! Come along on this meandering conversation about nothing in particular, but also kinda everything at the same time!

Make sure to check out Sean's Substack, he's been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack -

https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2

https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

check out my guest piece on Strange Exiles, thanks Bram!!! -

https://strangeexiles.substack.com

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Mikey and I engage in an accelerated reading of Nick Land’s blog post Capital Escapes, written in 2014 and collected in Xenosystems. This short pieces is a nice addition to the readings we’ve been doing and the conversations we’ve been having; it touches on the statement Capital=Modernity=Acceleration (tech autonomization), it addresses the question of the Political when the Future has already been Enframed, and it reinforces the (properly) Marxist view that Capital is an Object unto itself. Come along, this one’s short!!!

Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack -

https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2

https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe

and as always, stay tuned for more!!

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In this episode Addam jumps across the eighth dimension to have a conversation with me about Ethics, Narratology, Temporality, and some other stuff too!! Join us as we try and work some things out, and have fun goofing around while doing it!!!!!

check out addam on YouTube!! Or don’t, that’s cool too..

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