Siegfried Kracauer, History, the Last Things Before the Last (page 42-43)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our seventh premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers.For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure.  If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access.  Course DescriptionThis course examines the neoliberal Blockbuster from the 1970s to the present. It focuses, in particular, on the social significance of the blockbuster's constitutive technologies: both those made visible in narratives and the off-screen tools that drive production and reception. Linking aesthetic shifts in American moving images to broader transformations in political economy, the course traces the historical transformation of screen action from the ethereal “dream factory” of pre-1960s cinema to the impact-driven “thrill ride” of the post-1970s blockbuster. In doing so, we attend to the blockbuster’s technological forms and study how they have variously contributed to social, economic, and political transformations over the past 40 years. We critically engage blockbusters as "reflexive allegories" of their own technosocial processes and pleasures. Above all, we think through the blockbuster's shifting relationship to monetary abstraction and the myriad additional abstractions monetary mediation entails.Blockbusters:2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)The Matrix (Wachowskis, 1999)Avengers: Infinity War (Joe & Anthony Russo, 2018)

Hosts Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo dive into the world of personality types as exemplified by the likes of astrology, MBTI and Enneagram. Complicating John Ganz’s recent dismissal of personal types as univocal, alienating and repressive, Naty and Maxx queer such typologies, drawing attention to their playful, generative and relational meanings. Sprinkled with references to Adorno, Deleuze, Leibniz, and Hegel, the episode treats astrology, MBTI and Enneagram as analogical practices and asks how such practices can inform a non-zero-sum left politics of money. Link to Ganz's essay: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/thats-not-a-personality-sweetie

Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies, (Page 272-273)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

The Money on the Left Editorial Collective presents a classic episode from our archives along with a previously unavailable transcript & graphic art. In this episode, we’re joined by Rohan Grey (@rohangrey), President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school.Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan’s current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money’s digital future.Rohan’s report on digital fiat money: “The Case for Digital Legal Tender: The Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Digital Fiat Currency.”Theme music by Hillbilly Motobike.Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureLink to our GoFundMe: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/money-on-the-left-superstructure 

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Colonialism’s Neoliberal Origins (https://moneyontheleft.org/2021/06/14/neoliberalisms-colonial-origins/)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit  (Page 90)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America  (Page 8-9)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Page 127-128)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Vol. 2): Identity and Diaspora, "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (Page 67)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon for more: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)