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What happens when we explore the tension between Marxism and psychoanalysis through the lens of Phillip Reiff  and Christopher Lasch's work and its relation to Henry Miller and John Updike? Join us in this thought-provoking conversation with our guest Daniel Tutt, a renowned scholar of Marxism and psychoanalysis. We'll discuss the Frankfurt School, the cultural revolution of the 60s and 70s, and Lasch's unique perspective from Anglo-American Freudianism as a corrective to forms of Freudian Marxism considered infantile and out of touch with American dynamics.Discover the influence of Lacanian thought, its relation to right-wing Nietzscheanism, and the emergence of Pat Buchanan's book alongside the impact of the Trotsky-Tinya conservative pipeline. We'll analyze the work of notable thinkers such as Max Schattman, Tony Cliff, Paul Godfried,  MacIntyre, Rod Dreyer, and Elizabeth Brunig, and reflect on the lasting influence of McIntyre's work as well as the relevance of Virtue Ethics in today's intellectual landscape.We'll also dive into the roots of the sexual revolution in the 1950s, Ronald Reagan and Obama's reforms on local parenthesis laws, and how they are used as vectors of human capital. We'll examine the culture wars and their mutually constitutive nature, as well as the implications of modern intellectual life and the importance of giving due consideration to all perspectives. Don't miss this engaging and insightful conversation with Daniel Tutt, where we'll challenge your understanding of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and their intersections in our society. Daniel Tutt is a philosopher of psychoanalysis and Marxist thought. My first book is entitled Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and is published with the Palgrave Lacan Series. He is currently writing Nietzsche: A New Marxist Critique for Repeater Books which will come out in February of 2024.He is the convener of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics, a public learning platform that offers study groups, seminars, and podcasts. He teaches philosophy at various places including George Washington University, Marymount University, and the Global Center for Advanced Studies, and has taught at the Washington DC jail.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Amani Wells-Onyioha is a political expert, civil rights advocate, and thought leader. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Amani found her passion for politics during her time at the University of North Texas. After the murder of Trayvon Martin, Amani understood stopping something like that from happening again would require systematic and institutional change, so she committed herself to make an impact on her local and national communities.She working with Sole Strategies as operations director. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Josiah Rector is an urban historian specializing in 20th-century U.S. urban environmental history, the history of the environmental justice movement, and labor history. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University, and his dissertation received the Urban History Association’s Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban History, in 2016. He was subsequently a visiting professor of U.S. and Environmental History at Northland College in 2017-2019. His first book, Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit, is a history of environmental inequality and environmental activism in Detroit from the late 19th century to the present. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.The Subset of Theoretical Practice is a collective research project and a political collective, bringing together researchers interested in investigating contemporary politics, with a special focus on developing new tools for political organization. While these two sides overlap, they are not the same, as we are engaged in theoretical work together and invested in building a formal framework and a political theory that can be verified and reproduced elsewhere. Most of the members come from previous experiences with political organizing, so we think it’s not by chance that, even though we are interested in developing a consistent theoretical engagement with the hard sciences, we still want to focus on the pragmatic implications of our theoretical work. These political experiences are in fact quite heterogeneous, including the Circle of Studies of Ideas and Ideology, the Passe Livre Movement, the Treta no Trampo collective, the Philly Socialists, the Brazilian Communist Party, the Socialist and Freedom Party, some DSA chapters, penal abolitionism political collectives, housing movement activism, Occupy, the Brazilian punk movement, amongst others. The theoretical references are equally distinct, mixing orthodox and heterodox Marxist approaches, contemporary philosophy – continental and analytic – in different areas of mathematics and physics, structural anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of history, amongst other fields. However, both politically and in the realm of theory, they focus on developing the means to compose together these heterogeneous traditions and strategies.Longer descriptions of their project can be found here:The "About" section on their website: "Section XVIII" of the Atlas of Experimental Politics A longer history, that includes their original relation to the Circle of Studies of Ideas and Ideology, is told in the text Contribution to a Critique of Political Organization A podcast on the history of the CSII: On the history of recent courier strikes in Brazil and the collective Treta no TrampoPresentation contextualizing the STP in the last decade of political struggles in BrazilCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro MusSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Colin Drumm, with a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness, discusses misconceptions about medieval society and modern money on Varn Vlog. Topics include the evolution of Modern Monetary Theory, critiques of MMT, historical context of money, medieval barons and political power, Hobbesian philosophy, Marx's theories on labor and capitalism, challenging canonical figures, nuances in economic class analysis, abstract nature of history, evaluation of Graybird's work, role of kinship in politics, uncomfortable historical connections, and academic critiques.

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 revisions to Marxist theoretical development that enables the thesis. Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer who writes on international politics, religion, culture, and humanism.  We discuss the following articles: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/stalingradhttps://unherd.com/2021/03/the-demise-of-political-blackness/https://areomagazine.com/2022/11/09/in-defence-of-internationalism/Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jason Myles is a musician, writer, and host of the This is Revolution Podcast.  We discuss a lot of things, but  the theme of branding as politics runs throughout.  We also look at Myles's recent articles for Sublation Magazine:https://www.sublationmag.com/post/is-the-contemporary-left-a-lifestyle-brandhttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/trump-is-having-his-chinese-democracy-momentCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ben Burgis is an adjunct philosophy professor at Morehouse College, a columnist for Jacobin Magazine, and the author of several books, most recently "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters." We talk about the legacy of G.A. Cohen and analytical Marxism. Cohen is actually interesting for an analytical Marxist because he was not as dependent on neoclassical economic assumptions being smuggled back into the picture like Elster and Roamer, but does seem to add a few assumptions himself. Dr. Burgis's take on Cohen can be found here.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This episode is a co-production with Strange Matters Magazine.  Maximillian Alvarez is the Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network in Baltimore and the host of Working People.  We discuss his recently released book, "The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke" (Or  2022). This is an article that introduces the book: https://strangematters.coop/max-alvarez-work-of-living-review/Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeSend us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent 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