Varn Vlog

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Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on the cross-cultural and inter-religious encounters among the Muslims, Christians and Jews of Latin Christendom and the Islamic world in the Mediterranean zone from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. He is also a host Guerrilla History and The Majlis podcasts. We talk about Ibn Khaldun.  Ibn Khaldun was an Arab proto-sociologist, philosopher, and historian generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages. He made major contributions in the areas of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.

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Jeremy Gross is a cybernetic tikkun olamunist living north of Boston, Massachusetts. He is interested in collaborative workspaces that incorporate peer-to-peer and empathetic practices to subsume alienated labor. We chat about his paper on Stafford Beer.   But we also talk about bad incentive structures in tech, misunderstanding machine learning, and limits of AI.  We go into Jewish and Yiddish culture as well as communists of that ilk. 

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Host: C. Derick Varn
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Anton Jäger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.  He has written for publications like Jacobin, LA Review of Books, and Non-site.  We discuss his recent article on the work of Robert Putnam.

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P.H. Higgins is a long-time friend of the show, the co-host of the Radical Thoughts Podcast, and a scholar on social theory.  We discuss the work of John Levi Martin and, in particular his book, "The Explanation of Social Action."


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Susanna Kleeman (@susannakleeman)  is a writer from London who works in digital tech. Her first book, MY REJECTIONS (2020) is a short memoir of hubris, humiliation, and triumph against the odds.  She published the novel Twice in 2021 (Zero Books, 2021).  She is the host of Fatal Dates and more information on her work can be found here.


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Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
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Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer, SNT-BRCH, Joshua Parsons

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed.   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.   

In this episode, we discuss Evgeny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." We specifically focus on the sections on the Political Marxism vs. World Systems Theory debates of the 1970s/1980s.  We also mention Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner's Seven Theses as well as a bunch of other events.

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Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer, SNT-BRCH, Joshua Parsons

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Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory.  He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum.    We talk about what may be going on with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.

NOTE: BOTH OF US THINK THIS MAY BE BIGGER THAN THE NUMBERS INDICATED ON SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023. That said, we think in the main most of this analysis stands.
 
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Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in U.S. intellectual, cultural, and political history, as well as courses in the philosophy of history, historiography, and pedagogy.  Hartman co-hosted a podcast dedicated to politics, ideas, and history, titled "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids." He is the author of "A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars" (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and "Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School" (Palgrave Macmillian, 2008) as well as the forthcoming "Marx in America."


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Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
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Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer, SNT-BRCH, Joshua Parsons

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Daniel Bessner is currently an Associate Professor in International Studies at the University of Washington.  He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign.

Daniel is an intellectual historian of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier, The Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell, 2018),  and Imperialist Realism (Zero Books, Forthcoming).  He is also co-editor, with Nicolas Guilhot, of The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn, 2019).

He is the co-host of the American Prestige podcast


Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
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Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

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blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer, SNT-BRCH, Joshua Parsons

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Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry, and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. You can follow him on Twitter @stopimperialism.  We talk about many, many things including early Soviet art, xenophobia against Russia, and more cultural politics.

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

Send us Fan Mail

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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @varnvlog
blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer, SNT-BRCH, Joshua Parsons