Varn Vlog

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jason Myles is a musician, writer, and host of the This is Revolution Podcast .  We discuss a lot of things, but  the theme of branding as politics runs throughout.  We also look at Myles's recent articles for Sublation Magazine: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/is-the-contemporary-left-a-lifestyle-...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is part 2 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on t...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is part 1 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on t...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jeremy Gross is a cybernetic tikkun olamunist living north of Boston, Massachusetts. He is interested in collaborative workspaces that incorporate peer-to-peer and empathetic practices to subsume alienated labor. We chat about h is paper on Stafford Beer .   But we also talk about bad incentive structures...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Anton Jäger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.  He has written for publications like Jacobin, LA Review of Books, and Non-site.  We discuss his recent article on the work of Robert Putnam. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audi...

P.H. Higgins is a long-time friend of the show, the co-host of the Radical Thoughts Podcast , and a scholar on social theory.  We discuss the work of John Levi Martin and, in particular his book, "The Explanation of Social Action." Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Susanna Kleeman (@susannakleeman)  is a writer from London who works in digital tech. Her first book, MY REJECTIONS (2020) is a short memoir of hubris, humiliation, and triumph against the odds.  She published the novel Twice in 2021 (Zero Books, 2021).  She is the host of Fatal Dates and more information...

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed .   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.    In this episode,...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory.  He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum .    We talk about what may be going on with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. NOTE: BOTH OF US THINK THIS MAY BE BIGGER T...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in U.S. intellectual, cultural, and political history, as well as courses in the philosophy of history, historiography, and pedagogy.  Hartman co-hosted a podcast dedicated to politics, ideas, and history, titled...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Bessner is currently an Associate Professor in International Studies at the University of Washington.  He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’s pr...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio . You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry, and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. You can follow him on Twitter @stopimperialism.  We talk about many, many things including e...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Sudip Bhattacharya is a Ph. D. candidate at Rutgers University, an activist, and a writer.  He researches the history of organizing and labor movement.  We discuss his article, The Usefulness of POC identity and its limits (https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/25/the-usefulness-of-the-poc-identity-and-its...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Todd McGowan is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of 15 books, including Universality and Identity Politics (2020), Emancipation After Hegel (2019), and Capitalism and Desire (2016). We discuss his recent book for Sublation Media, "Enjoyment: Left and Right.&q...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Sam Kangarloo is a Modern Monetary Theory, aka MMT, Subject Matter Expert and an Anarchist who spent several years studying MMT and stress testing the validity of it thru challenges to the 1st and 2nd wave communities of MMT economics professionals.  Today we're focusing on why MMT's framework i...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Rob is the host of the Right Podcast . We talk about the misuse of 19th-century politics and the misunderstanding of American populism.  The misappropriation of this history is pernicious. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nadim is a co-host of 99 Zu Eins (Note: episodes are in English and German, but more often in German.) We discuss the situation of congressional and parliamentary socialism and how things don't seem to be changing much despite the "return" of socialism in much of the anglophone world. Crew:...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jonny Meade is a former congressional candidate, SPA member, and socialist. He has become concerned about the influence of Lydon LaRouche on a fringe of the "socialist" left and traces its influence on ideas like "MAGA Communism." Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Vivak Soni is a post-doctoral fellow in population genetics at ASU and a Marxist. Here is the paper I mention to be linked: Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene B...

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed .   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.    In this episode,...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio . You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry, and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. You can follow him on Twitter @stopimperialism.  We talk about the various contradictions th...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Adam Turl and Tish Turl are both activists and artists who co-founded the Born-Again Labor Museum ( https://www.bornagainlabor.com/ ) . Tish is a poet and writer and Adam is an artist and writer. Both are also members of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective. You can read more about BALM here: https://th...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Matt Lech is a producer for @Majority Report and a co-host of @Left Reckoning.  He currently lives in New York but is originally from North Dakota.  We talk about socialist strategy, progressivism in the far west, and rural politics. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufheb...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Alexander Prähauser is an artist and mathematician living in Austria.  We discuss the usefulness of mathematics and category theory in developing scientific thought from and contributing to Hegelian Dialectics. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Des...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Chris Wright is a historian and socialist,  the author of “Worker Cooperatives and Revolution” and "Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression." We discuss the myth of American moderation and also how identitarian movements are often framed in an exclusivist way...