This Wreckage

Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France.

We go through some of the inspirations behind her characters in this and past books (including Jacques Camatte, Julian Coupat, and Ben Morea), a Soviet historian's theory of the Neanderthal origins of class war, and the RKCU (Rachel Kushner Cinematic Universe)

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Megabasin protests: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/water-mega-basins-reservoirs-france-drought/674313/

https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/stop-mega-basins---international-mobilization-from-july-16-to-21-2024

Drift Mag interview: https://www.thedriftmag.com/history-as-it-is-happening/

Nation Review: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/

Info on Eric McDavid entrapment case: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/18/40682.php

The Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension Jacques Camatte - This World We Must Leave

Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War

The Invisible Comittee - The Coming Insurrection

The Zad and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence

Song: Daft Punk - Get Lucky (V A P O R W A V E)

REUPLOAD of our collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism on September 1, 2024 that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently predicts the economic crises of the current day, Trump's plan of rounding California's homeless population into camps, and the coming lumpen revolution.

Listen to Part II: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41951161/

DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II"

Check out Swampside Chats at: patreon.com/swampsidechats

Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."

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In this episode they read chapter 5 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory"

Previous episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A

Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:

Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all.

Check out last week's episode of Party Girls podcast for more in depth discussions of the protests in Chicago, and why some found them underwhelming.

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Essay about CLR James' American Civilization: https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-democracy

Check out Zhana's books: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity and States of Incarceration (buy them from Chicago's radical bookstore Pilsen Community Books!)

song: Charli XCX - 360 + 365 (ガキ brat - slowed and reverbed)

Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk subculture of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Towards the end of the episode we talk about his Vaneigem's prediction of the "End of Christianity" in relation to heresy and queerness.

Greil Marcus’s Liptick Traces https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932

Bill Brown's Not Bored! anthology: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Not_Bored_Anthology_1983_2010/1wQlAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Bill's translation of Vaneigem's Resistance to Christianity: https://eris.press/Resistance-to-Christianity

Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-life

Vaneigem on Coronavirus: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-coronavirus

Writing on Tarnac affair: https://notbored.org/tarnac.html

Armed Love series: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680

Songs: Chrissy Hynde - Love Minus Zero (No Limits) Wanda Jackson - Riot Goin’ On Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun The Strokes - NYC Cops The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness

Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do?

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Check out Varn's work at www.patreon.com/varnlog

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, social alienation, and different interpretations of Hegel

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Matthew Donovan's review/analysis of the party: https://matthewdonovan.substack.com/p/i-hosted-the-hegelian-e-girl-party

Sanje call-out: https://x.com/sanjehorah/status/1820166696021131470

Manifesto: https://x.com/tenshi_anna/status/1819922668704944403

Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block?

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First episode with Henry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e253-populaire-w-106800367

Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his post-election essay.

International Communist Tendency: Popular Front in France: A Deception in 1936, A Deception in 2024

Lundi Matin - Poplar Front in the Streets (by Georges Bataille):

Bordiga on activism: https://libcom.org/article/activism-amadeo-bordiga

Song: Zouzou - Il est parti comme il était venu

Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.

In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution.

Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory

Phil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1c

Phil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-Komite

Guido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdf

Starosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=en

Some background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/

TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/

Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire

The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.

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