Money on the Left

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)

Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Page 6)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)

Inferno, by Dante Alighieri (Canto 1, lines 1-15)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)

The Stars Down to Earth, by Theodor W. Adorno (Pages 48-49)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)

Simulation and Simulacra, by Jean Baudrillard (Page 1)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)

This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our sixth 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)

Money on the Left speaks with Sibel Kusimba, Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of South Florida, about her work on mobile money and digital finance in Kenya. In her recently published book with Stanford University Press titled Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, Kusimba both theorizes and critiques Kenya’s thriving M-Pesa mobile phone-based payment system as a constitutive component of Kenyan social life. In doing so, Kusimba explicitly eschews the postcolonial drive to develop more effective approaches to microloans or means for so-called “financial inclusion.” Instead, she offers a sophisticated culturally embedded analysis of mobile money, informed by her twenty-plus years of ethnographic study and archaeological fieldwork in Kenya. Understanding money as “wealth-in-people,” she traces mobile money’s role in shaping complexly gendered social networks and agencies, while simultaneously underscoring the political injustices of public austerity and privatized payment systems.Theme music by Hillbilly Motobike.Link to our Patreon: www.atreon.com/MoLsuperstructureLink to our GoFundMe: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/money-on-the-left-superstructure