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In this patron-exclusive special episode, we answer a bunch of questions submitted by our supporters on the show's Discord server. We had a really great time doing this! If you like it too, maybe we'll do it again sometime.

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Text Mentions:

James Boggs, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook, with a New Introduction by Grace Lee Bogs and Additional Commentary (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009)

Elizabeth Bopp Berman, Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022)

David Broder, First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy (New York: Verso, 2020)

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Helen Lane, and Mark Seem (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983)

Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2006)

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2004)

Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline (New York: Verso, 2021)

Sadie Plant, Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (London: Fourth Estate, 1997)

Hortense J. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work (New York: Verso 2015)

A. Philip Randolph, For Jobs and Freedom: Selected Writings, ed. Andrew E. Kersten and David Lucander (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)

Terrence Renaud, New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)

Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (New York: Picador, 2008)

Honorable Mentions: Aristotle, Alain Badiou, Stafford Beer, Vivek Chibber, René Descartes, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Donna Haraway, Friedrich Hayek, Claudia Jones, François Lyotard, Catherine MacKinnon, Karl Marx, Jaçques Rancière, John Rawls, Benedict de Spinoza, Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Comments

Grant Nebbergall

Awesome to hear everyone’s intellectual history! I’d be super interested in an episode on Fanon or some general big picture linking of existentialism and marxism from the basis of the Sartre and Beauvoir episodes.

William Fedullo

Zizek’s “On Violence” is also an embarrassingly foundational text for me, read it in high school.

Alex Heffron

That was awesome, thank you! Also second Grant above.

Paul Bowman

Like the format. Surprised no one knew of Stafford Beer. I first came across him via D&G's Thousand Plateaus (like many other fascinating heretical thinkers, from Bateson to Artaud - it's worth reading ATP just for the links). Beer was engaged by the Allende government to build a cybernetics control system for managing the economy - Project Cybersyn, based on a network of Telex machines. When the initial attempt of the CIA to overthrow the government by political strike and sabotage was successfully overcome with Cybersyn's help, Washington got very alarmed by the idea of a socialist economy planning system that appeared to work. One of the first tasks of the Pinochet coup was to destroy every piece of it. It's a bit tragic that so few socialists today appear to know of it, or be familiar with Stafford Beer's organisational principles behind it (Viable System Model, etc). Read about Project Cybersyn if you're interested in experiments with socialist economic planning that showed potential (before the US destroyed it), I guarantee you won't regret the time invested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn