Foucault said WHAT!? "...I am racist..."
EP15: Wokeness Must Be Defended
JE, Cam and Re interrogate Foucault's mid 1970s lectures at the Collège de France, Society Must be Defended. They discuss Foucault's method, his genealogy from Race Wars to Racism, modern conspiratorial thinking, & more!
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I think this is a painting of two people playing backgammon
POD EP 15: THEORETICAL PLAYERS’ BALL.
J.E. & Anatarah talk play, games, and more via Johan Huizinga’s “Homo Ludens,” a touchstone for game studies, & take the work to task by posing the problem of games as ideology! Listen here to gain elite ball knowledge!
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New from @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social, J.E. Morain and I discuss play, games, and the like via Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga. The work is one of the more important historical touch-points in game studies, and we tried to take his work to task by thinking games as ideology! Plz have a listen
Here it is! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Wassup
In his last political act, Habermas tied the survival of the public sphere & the democratic ethos of the Federal Republic of Germany to genocide denial & the state repression of its critics. He died in principled solidarity with the barbarism of 21st century liberalism
...and therefore leave it unable to properly recognise both the existence of the Palestinian people and the crimes committed against them by "Israel". This condition, Eghbariah argues, is best captured through the concept of Nakba (Catastrophe) and its ideological counterpart—Zionism.
The simple, forceful, and comprehensively put argument that warranted such suppression is this: the law and legal theory lack the language to speak the reality of the Palestinian condition...
Displaced, the article was taken in by the Columbia Law Review. But here too it found itself ultimately unwelcome, as upon publication the entire Columbia Law Review website was shut down by the Review’s board in a vain attempt at suppression.
Rabea Eghbariah’s “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” is an essay that has, in a way, performed itself. Originally solicited, edited, and approved by the Harvard Law Review, its publication was subsequently vetoed by the leadership of the journal.
NEW: Rabea Eghbariah's Towards Nakba as a Legal Concept (9/06), presented by Esther Planas Balduz and Imogen
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tap in you can hear me rant about how much I love Erica Benner’s Machiavelli books lol
Helen, Esther, and Crane tackle the first book of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, reading Machiavelli as a precursor to historical materialism and a radical republican. In the process, they pose the question: what can the critical theory of society learn from Machiavelli today?
Saint Nick
NEW:
Critique of the Podcast Form, Episode 14: Discussing the Discorsi
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Really these are 3 more sketches towards Adorno-Horkheimer’s planned histomat response to Freud’s Moses & Monotheism, which is one of the secret keys to A&H’s 1940s theory & social research
Got a little clocky on this one
Adorno in Halloween outfit
Please enjoy this photo of Adorno in full Halloween costume with his family.
In some notes that record his own personal dreams, Adorno describes one vision in particular which gave shape to his life and his desire to live despite the horrors he observed in the world. He discovers a deep longing for the reality of an after-life, after dreaming that he and his wife Gretel are in a terrible bus accident while on vacation. Following the impact, Adorno wakes up crying, and says as he looks over to his wife, ‘I would so like to have kept on being alive with you’.121 For Adorno, the utopian hope of eternal life presses him to recognize the significance of the other he meets on a daily basis. His connection to this human being presents to him the question of what kind of partner he intends to be.
poor Adorno :(
This was such a rich and helpful discussion!
Even if you haven't been obsessing over Horkheimer's Montaigne essay for the last year or so like me, you should definitely give it a listen.
Crane and Helen talk about Horkheimer's 1938 essay "Montaigne and the Function of Skepticism," which sees Horkheimer both show the skeptical core of both religious dogmatism and philosophical skepticism, as well as its changing valence throughout the development of the capitalist mode of production.
NEW FROM CRITIQUE OF THE PODCAST FORM:
A User's Guide to Montaigne and the Function of Skepticism
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translation of Horkheimer’s “last letter” to Henryk Grossman in Jan 1943, which I read not as a breakup letter (it is one, & most do) but as a missed encounter over a shared problem: conceptualizing the unity of “evolutionary” & “revolutionary” moments in Marx’s critique of political economy 🔗 ⬇️
The “Adorno & Communism?” seminar series starts next week! Excited to talk about these texts with you all!
don’t think I ever posted this one here so: check out this birthday card / memo Adorno sends to Horkheimer in 1944
“Hey VALENTINE!
Been doin’ LOTS of worryin’…
and here’s the reason why
I don’t know how I stand with you,
YOU GREAT BIG WONDERFUL GUY!”
Happy birthday to Max Horkheimer, born on this day in 1895.
Horkheimer, 1942/44
NEW:
Imogen, Sebastian, and Sam discuss Situationism as a vindication of Hegelian Marxism and a critique of reified life through its various forms of appearance: artistic production, urban planning, and student life.
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ça ira-Verlag publishes apologies empire has never needed for murderers who will never read them and defends genocide in Gaza with the whitewashed words of Marxists who escaped it in Auschwitz. Palestine will be free, long live the resistance. Fuck off forever.
Ça n'ira pas (on zionism in the ‘critical theory’ scene)
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