You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...
lol I never say this about books but in this case: yes. If anything we probably cover much more of it than we needed to and a lot more of it than anyone probably needs, but hopefully it made for two kinda bummer kinda fun eps!
Part 2, which doubles as a crit of a lot of the now-standard intellectual histories of the Frankfurt School GR largely just recaps, here: www.patreon.com/posts/156140...
You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...
the beast desires tinned fish with a desire immoderate
qué pasó otto
fake spontaneity fans when a real spontaneity head gets a new skin thing from being outside in the woods at night: “No not like that”
everybody thinks “being spontaneous” is a good thing until it includes spontaneous sustained nosebleeds 🙄
I could be the worlds greatest governess
Bankai: Divine Birdfeeder
Domain Expansion: Goblin Town
always check under the bushes you never know if your new beautiful mysterious friend is there waiting to say hello
screaming season
maybe it’s finally time to get my rabies and distemper shots and explore a whole new world of friendship. watch this space
GLAPHTH CHLATHGH HAAAUGHTHCHTH
to be fair I think they were concerned I was going to try to pick it up or get it to climb on me which yeah ok probably inadvisable
the other day someone asked me “what’s the endgame here” gee player i don’t know maybe unforced, creative, spontaneous displays of mutual respect, interest, or appreciation just like with all social interaction lol
I thought I had a few more years but no, 34 is apparently the age when the thing where you get a cold and the cough just sticks around indefinitely after begins. this is me now BLACH CHLAGH GLAUGHCH
the juvenile possum i’ve been talking to every other night came out into the field when i called just now 😭
People who loved the essay: Walter Benjamin (no. 1 fan), Olga Lang
People who helped co-author it: Theodor W. Adorno, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Löwenthal, Katharina von Hirsch
People who hated/feared it: Gershom Scholem (no. 1 hater), late 50s *&* late 60s Horkheimer (no. 1 fearer)
Update lol: So in the last month this turned into a project of producing something like a hist-crit ed of the ‘39 “The Jews and Europe” essay, incl its concept/reception as not just an anti-fascist work but also as an anti-Zionist & communist one. Some Hork lines from the latest batch:
gotta be third at least by now
yes that is a novalis postcard in my bathroom, recently had the neighbors over and the kid asked “who is that beautiful lady” so you could say it’s a hit
*addressing the spiders that live in my bathroom* alright guys ha ha very funny which one of you did this last night while I was asleep last night you got me
I do have a rich inner life my gut micro biome is cooking up a new kind of archaebacterial symbiont in a hot poison stew of the most noxious food commodities of late industrial society as we speak
what about safeguarding the conditions of radical Getting A Single Thing Right-ness player why don’t we start there
Of course I distrust all non-circular reasoning. Why the fuck would I take anyone seriously who just keeps lining up their little cause and effects premises to conclusions forever lol. Embarrassing
Gillian Rose voice whenever I hear someone ask how a theoretical position maintains radical openness I reach for my gun
That’s the kind of thing that happens where I’m like yeah ok maybe numbers are low key divine
