The Regrettable Century

This week we discuss the final chapters of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the conclusion of our three part series. Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool.Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019. Print.Music: Earth Crisis- Destroy the MachinesSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

It is clear that our activism has been largely fruitless for the past few decades but what should we be doing instead?Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions.Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we discuss chapters two and three of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the second of a three part series.Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool.Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019. Print.Music: Indecision- Higher Side of Low Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we discuss the introduction and first chapter of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the first of a three part series. Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool. Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019. Print.Music: Snapcase- Break the StaticSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week Chris is temporarily replaced by a special guest that long time listeners will remember from the early days of the pod, Jenny. The gang talks about the loneliness of social distancing, the long term effects of pandemic based hyper-alienation, and  what the political prospects moving forward look like. Society of the Spectacle (sections 28, 172, 221)https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htmThe pandemic has unleashed the age of individualismhttps://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-pandemic-has-unleashed-the-age-of-individualism-11608132621601.html22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/1/20750047/millennials-poll-loneliness?fbclid=IwAR1Z7EBeAAXgcUTw5mUA_eOGIQDk_0dM5GUweA6OOv4Fe1B5gbN8qtpCCnc Pandemic shaming: is it helping us keep our distance?https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/04/pandemic-shaming-is-it-helping-us-keep-our-distance?fbclid=IwAR3FsljvgtF4TqI2DbwJvZFBISsKk-7anRcP0YO-f0F8xLsgh2bqEOnRGOU Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental Healthhttps://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/11/23/isolation-stress-and-poverty-capitalism-and-our-declining-mental-health/ Music: Joy Divison- IsolationSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Half the podcast crew and a couple of the extended family get together to steal a bit joy from the future by thinking aloud as to how a small handful of our myriad problems might begin to be addressed.Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in more discussions like this one.Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Last year during the unrest after George Floyd's murder, we read an article about recuperation and talked about the concept within the context of then unfolding paroxysms of rage against police brutality.Does every movement for social change eventually get recuperated? Yes. Is it still worth engaging in social movements? Also yes. The Recuperation of Authentic Outrage https://libcom.org/library/recuperation-authentic-outrage Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We are now living in the most watched society in history. Our every move is tracked, our conversations monitored, our purchases logged, every link we click is logged, but its okay because its not the government doing it right? You Are Now Remotely Controlled -- Shoshana Zuboffhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html?fbclid=IwAR0N6cbEaABSR2Yb7lEfLRjtWopZQu-bizbl2k7XaJFQOFfwcnV3riBJ7MIWilling servants -- Richard Seymourhttps://newhumanist.org.uk/5516/willing-servants?fbclid=IwAR3G7zXvBob940xv1ayY1ryPrAfU5Xf5ZU53J2I_bWCwLQ6V8IeUfW_YpEc Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle -- Jodi Dean https://spheres-journal.org/contribution/communicative-capitalism-and-class-struggle/ When the social industry bans the people we hate -- Richard Seymour https://www.patreon.com/posts/27523240?fbclid=IwAR3M5UICw48xJPlsTWW2at96G0LCjSd8lZ1BQUQ_XGqFfFZ-dIb893Twvas  Your Phone is Listening and it's Not Paranoiahttps://www.vice.com/en/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia?fbclid=IwAR1UWg7TOU8ocwC1PXYqpBOuVXC9teau250pEynsUPlhyfKGFXwPtXrXb9o Music- Bauhaus- The Spy in the CabSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Like most other political terms, the word "neoliberal" has been used so much to describe so many disparate things that it has ceased to have meaning. Well, unfortunately neoliberalism is real and it is an economic idea and political project that completely dominates every aspect of modern capitalist society and even our resistance to it. So, listen up and learn what we just learned about how much everything sucks. Varn talks with Mirowski on Symptomatic Redness https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness/ep-1-phillip-mirowski-on-neoliberalism/Harvey on Neoliberalism As a Political Projecthttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/Interview with Mirowski https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/fixing-old-markets-with-new-markets-the-origins-and-practice-of-neoliberalism.htmlMirowski on Neoliberalismhttps://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/02/neoliberalism-movement-dare-not-speak-name/The Uses and Abuses of “Neoliberalism”https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/uses-and-abuses-neoliberalism-debate Michael Roberts on Neoliberalismhttps://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/neoliberalism-not-so-bad/ https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/neoliberalism-works-for-the-world/ Music: MelonadeM- Garfield Gameboy'd CreditsSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the question of the party form. Join us as we solve the party problem. Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discussion. All patrons are welcome!Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop