Varn Vlog

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Varn Vlog episodes

February 23, 2022 No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part 4 (With Chris and Jason of the Regrettable Century)
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 end ours into this unlimited series with a flight of discussions of the work of Marxist historian Chris Wickham, Roman Tax Policy, and the Difficulty of Periodization.

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

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Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

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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
59 min
February 22, 2022 1Dime on the interaction of Marxism and Modern Monetary Theory
1Dime is the host of 1Dime and 1Dime Radio where he discusses and attempts to popularize leftist political and economic theories. You can support 1Dime's work here. We discuss the intersection and tensions between MMT, the changes in Canadian politics, and classed theories of the state.

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

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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

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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
1 hr 19 min
February 21, 2022 Stephan Hammel on Socialist Aesthetics, Proletkult, and the problems of the Frankfurt School
Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of the Measures Taken. We discuss Alexander Bogdanov, various incarnations of Proletkult, the political-economic assumptions of the Frankfurt school, the origins of workers' aesthetics, the cultural turn, and the need for aesthetic theory after the Second international.

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

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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
1 hr 59 min
February 14, 2022 Max Seijo on Critical Humanities and Modern Monetary Theory
Max Seijo is currently working on his doctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is a co-host of Money on the Left and Superstructure podcast. While have debated each other in the past and on Twitter, despite the fact I don't "do" debates.

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

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You can find the additional streams on Youtube
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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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
2 hr
February 10, 2022 R.C. Roberts on the Legacy of Wilfred Bion
R.C. Roberts is the author of ferocia amini and is a semi-autodidactic scholar of existentialism and psychoanalysis, we spoke about the legacy of Wilfred Bion and the uses of his work for political thinking. Sartre also comes up.

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

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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
2 hr 1 min
February 07, 2022 Anton Jäger on the Situation in the EU
Anton Jäger is a scholar of populism and intellectual history living in Brussels, Belgium. He is also a freelance writer on the left and European politics for outlets like Jacobin. We discuss the Americanization of European politics, and yet how this made it harder, not easier, for both sides of the Atlantic to understand each other.

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

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @skepoet
Facebook
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Send us Fan Mail

Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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
1 hr 40 min
February 03, 2022 Alex Hochuli On the End of the End of History in South America
Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast and co-author of the "End of the End of History." We discuss the left's covid response, the situation of world politics from Sao Paolo, the issues around the Lula election, the effects of Federal Reserve policy on South America, and much more.

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

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @skepoet
Facebook
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Send us Fan Mail

Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
Support the show
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
1 hr 33 min
January 31, 2022 Timothy Schatz on the Heidegger and the Left
Timothy Schatz, a graduate student at Boston College and former intern at Zero Books, comes on to talk about the complicated legacy of Martin Heidegger and the academic left.

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

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Facebook
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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
1 hr 55 min
January 27, 2022 J.G. Michaels of Parallax Views on The Current Confusion
Friend of the show and prior stream guest, J.G. Michaels, comes on to talk about the current state of politics. J.G. is the host of Parallax Views. J.G. is a long time collaborator with your host and a student of media in geo-politics. J.G. comes on to analyze the disconnect of the social media discourse, the press, and the realities of geo-politics.

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

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You can find the additional streams on Youtube

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
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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
2 hr 47 min
January 25, 2022 Bradley Tuck from Exploding Appendix on ambiguities of Politics and Art
Bradly Tuck is the editor and founder of Exploding Appendix, we talk about art, culture, politics, and the tensions between the various subjects. The difficulty of political art and of avant-garde art also is a major subject of discussion.

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

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @skepoet
Facebook
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Send us Fan Mail

Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake
Support the show
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
1 hr 6 min

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Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Varn Vlog is the pod of C. Derick Varn. We combine the conversation on philosophy, political economy, art, history, culture, anthropology, and geopolitics…