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#211: What Is Synthesis? What Is Control? (pt. 5) (Patreon)

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2024-03-29 08:46:01
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A specter is haunting the 1800s – the specter of synthesis; its ghost precipitate will be the blood-dream of the 20th century.

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Joey Fazzoli

Chapo ep was so good they should have you on more often

N

MSJ, bringing that aural goodness to the masses!

Justin Reid

I knew this week was your week. Call up to the majors. They’re calling you the Kenny Powers of podcasting (positively). Congrats brother.

Joey Fazzoli

Also opening audio clip needs to be on the next westside gunn album

Shiv

Gonna repeat my request for a Freaky Friday Movie Mindset Judge Movies crossover series

kaolin holly

When people say “the nuclear codes” what they actually mean is a very specific note played through a very specific patch with very specific settings on a moog model 55. And Trump sold that info to the Saudis? Sad!!!!

Byron’s Glowing Filament

Sorry if you mentioned this later in the episode but I’m only part way through, up to your initial mentioning of Imipolex and its erectile function. But one other thing I’ve noted on my current readings and writing of GR is that Imipolex also is a polymerization of Indoles (among other things most likely) which is a chemical used in the synthesis of various pharmaceutical drugs including psychoactive drugs and LSD. I just think the layers to this one substance are incredible. The literal solidification of “mind control,” the human skin and erectile nature of the substance, the fact that it was used to house a literal child sex slave to fulfill the horrid sexual and destructive desires of the embodiment of evil… There’s just so much shit tied into this one substance. And the irony being that all those people searching for the Schwartzgerät, if they even found it, it would be far too late.

Roarschach_Muckracken

Can we say that ground wasn’t ever beneath our feet to begin with?

Ian P

No joke, I think about this series almost every day

Heath Iverson

Hey man, have you ever read Hannah Arendt’s (I know, I know) Human Condition? I think there’s a lot there that really echoes what you’re saying about synthesis/control in GR and Pynchon generally. It’s worth reading at least the introduction—it’s really on your wavelength.

Jaime Christley

not for nothing but Warren Beatty's best movie - well, at least on par with MCCABE & MRS MILLER* - is Hal Ashby's SHAMPOO, which has a smaller-scale GR-esque time dilation, in that it's clearly "a movie from and about 1975" that's chronicling the crest and crash that was southern California on the eve of the 1968 election. Beatty is terrific in it; his career often belies his range, but the movie also gifted the universe with Jack Warden's immortal line "Now that's what I call fuckin'!" * yes, PARALLAX VIEW likers, I see you; also yes I basically love ISHTAR, you make a fair point Elaine May fans.

Jaime Christley

As a mediocre intellect (and that's not self-deprecating), I do struggle to grasp what you're getting at with synthesis & control, but I think I came close today when talking about entities like East India/United Fruit/Sullivan & Cromwell/all the way up to and including Boeing: specific corporate entities that enjoy unlimited sufferance of a given state, if they aren't quasi-state themselves in an official, poorly articulated capacity. And I would throw in those Silicon Valley "disruptor" companies as well. The synthesis & control angle, as far as I think I can understand it, has to do with entities that have zero public trust that isn't the result of branding and marketing, zero interest in serving the public except incidentally, looking at bona fide civic/state/federal structures and saying - in the parlance of Marlo Stanfield on THE WIRE, "This corner all built up and shit. We need it yo." Thinking of those fucking assholes who want the USPS to disappear because they're often sitting on astronomically valuable real estate AND theoretically infinite (if you don't think about it too hard) market share. Fully sanctioned by a poisoned and shrinking empire, enjoying a money spigot that simply never turns off, but not bound by the niceties of the social contract. A Baltimore drug kingpin, a defense contractor, a NYC white-shoe law firm in the early 1930s, shape-shifting alien at an Antarctic research station..... ultimately all patterned after the ultimate skin-walker, the church? Not sure if I'm positing an argument or position here so much as trying to lay hands on the contours of these ideas. One shining example of when these phenomena wreak havoc in incredibly direct, preventable ways, on a short timeline, is the demise of the LA Weekly, which went from being one of the banner alternative news outlets in America to - via much, much corporate violence - what it is today: still a publication, but a zombie version of what it once was.

Jace

Excellent episode, I've really been enjoying this series (and loved the John Cale shoutout). I am an ecologist, and like to think of myself as a Marxist, so I got a lot of how you engaged with Darwin in this episode. I think pop-sci has given basically everyone in the general public a gross misunderstanding of Darwin's thinking (hence why you get "Social Darwinist" idiots). People, being "man", continue to think of evolution as having been a fundamentally teleological process that arrives at "man". This conception is an inversion of reality imo, much like the Hegel/pyramid analogy you discuss concerning history. Marx, famously, inverts Hegel's pyramid explicitly to make it closer to Darwinian theory. A process of refinement towards a single end point becomes a radiation outward/upward from a single beginning point, in both Darwin's biology and Marx's history. In my head, I like to refer to this branching as "dendros", contra telos. A lot of modern Marxists, and Marx himself at points, as you discuss, make the mistake of viewing the dendros of our actual history as having actually been a telos the whole time, which Marx then projects out to his conception of communism. This kind of reverse teleology is a trap a lot of Marxists and Darwinians both fall into. Fascism and communism were actually competing "successor species" of society following the crises of WWI and the Great Depression, if that makes sense. Different branches on the dialectical (reversed pyramidal) tree. I think there's also an argument to be made for Pavlov as another of, if not the main, synthesists in GR. I think "stimulus, response" is a better distillation of the dialecto-evolutionary process as it actually functions than "thesis, antithesis, synthesis" and it certainly helps to cure Marxist thought of its teleological Hegel-hangover. Obviously, Pynchon is critical of this as well, but I think that integration is definitely a step in the right direction. Like I said, excellent work as always, excited to see where this series takes you.

Noah Barlow

When you did the chemistry teacher saying "You have not grasped the Essence" I imagined it was Butthead saying that

Joel Blackstock

What is the song at the end and is it available to be purchase or streamed anywhere?

Jaime Christley

I'll tell you about Control. He told me there's a mole, right at the top of the Circus. He's been there for years.

Dino Zaccagna

I might be way off but I watched Blue Brothers today and I think this whole synthesis and control thing has finally sunk in.

Hemlock

I'm a Chapo import - where do I start? Hit me with the reccs

Margarita Calderon

I will say about Freud, at least in my view, that psychoanalytic theory is interesting but the real value in what he developed is in psychoanalytic practice. The free association on the divan can open up parts of the psyche with all kinds of surprises. Kind of magical.

Creeping Jeff

Re: “You have not grasped the essence”. When my girlfriend heard you say this, she was reminded of her favorite professors similar critique, “You are killing the spirit.”

snafujesus

Ned not Warren bud. But you knew that

John Waaben

1. The final portion about Marxism cut me deep and personal …. Grateful I found this podcast in 2020. 2. Will “Moby Dick” play a part in this specific series or will us Dickheads have to hold out still for the Melville ep(s?)… the 19th century conversion of mammalian bodies into “oil” feels prophetic in relation to this topic , at least to my goofy ass. Thanks again Mr. Judge.

Oriol Il

I'm sure you already know, but the thesis antithesis synthesis is Fichte's system not Hegel (he's still a piece of shit but whatever). I've not read that piece by derrida but at the same time that pointing out that the mechanicist and simple view of history is not from Marx but from the revisionism of Bernstein, Soviet diamat, and current neoricardians (looking at you cockshott) is needed, i think the Hegel/Fichte mention deserves a shoutout too. Greetings from Asturies.

Capital Knockers

Just subscribed a few weeks ago and been listening every day. I was listening to another podcast on Christian anarchism and it struck me that with Constantine assimilation of that movement it was a great example of synthesis and co-opting into the system of the state. Not a believer and apologies if this is entry level stuff. Really glad I've subscribed and looking forward to the next part in this.

idiot.wisdom

Listening to this again after Columnated Ruins Domino and let me tell you, the constellation of the rockets invisible parabola, the proscenium, the arch in St. Louis being the gateway to the frontier, the Roman arches that tempted the barbarians out of the forests and into civilization, and the term "theater of war" is starting to harden the edges of some ghosts that haunt my blood