Varn Vlog

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Julian Assele ( @Catholicclod) is a writer and researcher who writes on socialism and Marxism. Like me, Julian has an anti-GOP conservative background and, like me, was influenced by Christopher Lasch on both his past right and current socialist politics.   Julian wrote a piece abandoning the late Lasch&a...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Spencer Leonard was the editor of Sublation magazine at the time of this recording and is a founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society.    We discuss his upcoming edited and annotated edition of Marx and Engels on Bonapartism: Selected Journalism, 1851-59. We also talk about the problems posed by new left...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. We discuss an article by Jason Myles on the legacy of Woodstock.  Jason Myles is the primary host of This Is Revolution and a musician with Bitterlake.  We discuss rock and roll and politics. Here is the article discussed. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Produce...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nick Marcil is an education policy activist and organizer.  We discuss the problems of the PA college system, the problems of collegiate re-organization in a neo-liberal economy, and the complexity of secondary and primary education.  You can find him at @MarcilNick Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here....

\Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Sean Capener is a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth. His research interests include time, debt, slavery, philosophy, and political theology. We discuss his dissertation, The Time That Belongs to God: The Christian Prohibition on Usury in the 12th-13th Centuries and the Making of the Subject of Debt .  Yo...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Amelia Davenport ( @davenportofcall) is a writer, podcaster, and editor for Cosmonaut Magazine . She has edited and revised the work of Mary Marcy and has also dedicated significant time to studying the socialist ends of cybernetic theory, system logic, and logical positivism.  There is some wind and othe...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Joel Wainwright is a professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, where he teaches about political economy, environmental change, and social theory. Along with Climate Leviathan (Verso, 2018), he is the author of Decolonizing Development (Blackwell, 2008) and Geopiracy (Palgrave Pivo...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Cooper Cherry and Taylor Adkins from Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast come over to discuss the legacy and work of Flex Guattari with me today.   We talked about Guattari in general and his essay, "Everyone Wants to be a Fascist." Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. D...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. R.C. Roberts is the author of ferocia amini and is a semi-autodidactic scholar of existentialism and psychoanalysis, we spoke about the legacy of Wilfred Bion and the uses of his work for political thinking.  Sartre also comes up. We focus on later Bion, his views on reversible perspective, thinking, and...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Glenn McDorman is one of the founders of Claytemple Media , and a co-host of several of their podcasts (Elder Sign, Hanging Out with the Dream King, Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast, and Atoz).  We discuss "weird fiction" and speculative fiction in general. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   ...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Amogh Sahu was my co-host on the defunct Symptomatic Redness podcast.  Amogh and I ran a show on the problems and developments of Marxism from 1213-2019-first under our own aegis and then as a supplement for Doug Lain's tenure at Zero books.   This is the second of two episodes and hopefully many fut...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right . She writes media criticism on various topics at eruditorumpress.com and at Strange Matters. Her essay on Retro Shock in Strange Matters appears here. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. D...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Amogh Sahu was my co-host on the defunct Symptomatic Redness podcast.  Amogh and I ran a show on the problems and developments of Marxism from 1213-2019-first under our own aegis and then as a supplement for Doug Lain's tenure at Zero books.   This is the first of two episodes and hopefully many futu...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of the Measures Taken . We discuss class as structure and an analytic as opposed to as an identity. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitt...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Varn Vlog Patron's Only: Max from Lines Going Down. This is a bonus and an example of the kinds of discussions that I have on the Patreon feed.   I hope you enjoy i t. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro a...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Doug Greene is the author of "A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and Limits of Democratic Socialism" and "Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution." He maintains a Patreon for his research. Here is our prior interview . Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   ...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This week we talk to Ted Reese about the importance of Henryk Grossman. Reese is the author of Socialism or Extinction and The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Zero Books).  Reese goes over Grossman's history, his use of Grossman's theory, and his updating Grossman on automatio...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. David Griscom is a writer, podcaster, producer, and co-host of Left Reckoning .  We discuss the limits of the liberal understanding of the Texas electrical grid, presumed neoliberalism, miscomprehending the rural area in the United States, and have some friendly debates about the DSA.   We also refer to t...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jeff is a teacher in Jefferson Parish, a Union member, and the host of Morning Comrade .  We discuss the history of perpetual ineffectiveness of the Democrats, and their inability to deal with Roe. Vs. Wade reversal, and union complications. 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. Jeff is a teacher in Jefferson Parish, a Union member, and the host of Morning Comrade .  We discuss the history of perpetual ineffectiveness of the Democrats, and their inability to deal with Roe. Vs. Wade reversal, and union complications. 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. Jonathan Penton is the editor of Unlikely Stories and Unlikely Book s.    We spoke in late June and covered both the changes in independent literary publishing as well as politics.  Jon Penton published some of my earliest poems as well as my first collection.  He and I go way back. Abandon all hope ye wh...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. John H. and Kelsey Tanabe Walker join us to talk about the Labor Notes conference and the importance of independent organizing and social unionization.  John and Kelsey both speak to the importance of working with a union, and if you don't have a shop union, working with the I.W.W. is an option.  You...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Shalon van Tine, a cultural historian who is a Ph. D. candidate at Ohio University and teaches history and humanities classes for the University of Maryland Global Campus. Website: shalonvantine.com Articles Discussed: https://www.shalonvantine.com/secondasfarce/2022/3/4/women-directors-have-made-some-of-...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nicholas  C  Scott is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at the University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of the role of the Cordones during the Chilean revolution. We discuss the role of the Cordones Industrailes, the history of the Allende government and the Chilean revolution, and t...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Kane Reid is the host of Socialist Legacy .  We discuss his debate with Mike McManus on Marx's use of contradiction in Sublation Magazine.  You can find his article as well as Matt McManus's articles below: https://www.sublationmag.com/articles/karl-marx-on-contradictions https://www.sublationma...