Emancipations Podcast

Episode 23: Protagonists of Love with Mari Ruti

.@DanielTutt and @mcrumps talk brass tacks with Mari Ruti, philosopher and author of many books including ‘ Envy and Other Bad Feelings’ In this episode they discuss Ruti’s influences, her project more generally, Lacan, hurdles to teaching theory, Jordan Peterson, lack, the Sinthome, paranoid vs reparative modes of reading, the problem with self-help, ‘wild analysis’ and autodidacts, Chris Lasch, Eric Santner. Lacanian Psychoanalysis, protagonists of love, and upcoming works

Episode 22: Adam Bartlett Interview

@DanielTutt interviews Adam Bartlett, where they discuss- Ruminations on Australia and personal recollections, discussion on Adam’s book on Badiou and Plato: unpacking sophism, badiou’s reading of plato, representational thinking, the republic, ‘the event’, the allegory of the cave, Badiou’s Philosophy, and ‘neoliberalism’   Read "Badiou and Plato" by A.J Bartlett Music: Like  Like A Ship by Pastor T.L. Barrett

Episode 21 Twitch Stream: The Steps of Capital, Qanon and Anti-Recovery

@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview @FSmecker and @DrSeanWitters on the phenomena known as 'Qanon'. In this episode we discuss: alcoholics anonymous and alanon, Qanon as addicts, addicts as symptoms of capitalism, the anti-steps to success, anti anti-fascism, L Ron Hubbard, castration, Q and violence, and post trump bonapartism. As well, a ship gets built, we enter Mike’s comment zone, and take questions from the audience.

Episode 20 Ishay Landa Part 2: Nietzschean Overture

@DanielTutt interviews Ishay Landa, author of The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism, Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture and player of the harmonica! Part 2 of this 2 part episode focuses on Landa’s work on Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s politics, Nietzche’s connection to 20th century fascism, left Nietzscheanism, Badiou, and future projects. Song: "Full Moon" by Eden Ahbez

Episode 19 Ishay Landa Part 1: The Apprentice’s Sorcerer

@DanielTutt interviews Ishay Landa, author of The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism, Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture and player of the harmonica! Part 1 of this 2 part episode focuses on Fascism and liberalism, neoliberalism vs liberalism, discourse of fascism- identity and race, contemporary crisis of liberalism, the 4 myths of fascism, individualism, origins of fascism, and fascism today. Song "Simba" by Les Baxter

Episode 18: Hinterland Part 3 ”The Party of Anarchy”

@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview author Phil Neel on his book ‘Hinterland’, talking about his life, experiences and the process that led to writing ‘Hinterland’. Part 3 of this 3-part special focuses on- The Party of Anarchy, Badiou, what it’s like to be a communist in public, and life in the Pacific-Northwest Song: "Nighttime in the Switching Yard" by Warren Zevon

Episode 17: Hinterland Part 2 ”Feral Insurrectionaries”

@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview author Phil Neel on his book ‘Hinterland’, talking about his life, experiences and the process that led to writing ‘Hinterland’. Part 2 of this 3 part special focuses on the impossibility of Red-brown alliance, the composition of the hinterland, generational conflict, the 'Neel framework' and Camatte, and 'feral insurrectionaries' Song: 'Concrete and Clay' by Unit 4 Plus 2

Episode 16: Hinterland Part 1

@DanielTutt and @mcrumps interview author Phil Neel on his book ‘Hinterland’, talking about his life, experiences and the process that led to writing ‘Hinterland’. Part 1 of this 3 part special focuses on comparing the Chinese and American hinterlands, the meaning of hinterland, the new suburbs and the proletariat, the logistics economy, and the far right and third positionism in the exurbs. Song: 'Suburbs' by Arcade Fire

Episode 15: Harper’s Fetters

We discuss the anti-woke/class first(and only?) left, tearing down the statues, Floyd Protests and Solidarity, the Harper's letter, and the Biden campaign. Music is 'What a Fool Believes' as covered by the band 'Self'

Episode 14: Interview with Laurence Rickels

History repeating itself again, life on other planets, science fiction, vampires?! Is this an episode of the twilight zone? No, it’s Jouissance Vampires, back at it again, this time in an interview with Laurence Rickels, literary and media theorist and author of Psychoanalysis as well as the upcoming work Critique of Fantasy.

Episode 13: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking with Gabriel Tupinambá

Originally recorded during the Jouissance Vampires twitch stream featuring commiseration over Sanders loss, the machinations of our political class, featuring our first guest the incredible Gabriel Tupinambá (@gtupinamba) who answers your questions, and gives his perspective of psychoanalysis and Lacanian thought.

Episode 12: Spoken Word from the Rally

Daniel interviews supporters, undecideds, members of the press and… Matt Taibi (8th interview in), Ilhan Omar rallies the crowd, Bernie stumps for himself, and we run into a genuine bonafide listener of the pod.

Episode 11: Bernie Sanders Power Hour

He could win it, maybe.  Episode Covers: Obama, Nevada, McGovern vs Bernie or is it Mondale, the cold war, the ultraleft, warren, alt right and cucked discourse, Bloomberg, the revolutionary feeling, and what are we reading

Episode 10: Obama’s Creased Copy of Capital

Who's Obama again?

Episode 9: Corbyn’s Christmas Miracle

Now what?

Episode 7: The Slovenian Vampire

JV Squad talks about the Current Affairs (s)hit piece on Zizek

Episode 5: Hansel and Greta

Is Greta the Anti-Christ? No, but to some people she may be.

Episode 4: Dork Deleuze

Oohhh I'm starting to feel like black Justin Murphy.

Episode 3: Rockwell in Motion

So how is it that music is created, produced anyways? In this episode of Jouissance Vampires we don't talk about any of that, instead we focus on Lana's most recent release 'Norman Rockwell' and a host of other things.

Episode 2: Big Oedipus’s Vape Ban

In this 'seminar' (lol) we discuss big tobacco and big Oedipus's vape ban, propaganda and global warming, Bernie (as per usual) and Warren and ‘society’ and Trumpism and the coming integralist menace (🤔), the discourse and white supremacy, class and race, falsity of meritocracy and, the US Empire but woke (jk?)