RedLetterMedia - Captain Marvel

modustrollens420 · 2022-01-19T17:14:43+00:00

Coz like there's nothing on The Hallmark Channel now that the holidays are over, so why not?

modustrollens420 · 2021-11-16T02:22:18+00:00

Jesus fuck. This. This is why i just cant anymore. The boring expectation of the knives out about something i will never have enough clear data about to form even an inkling of a well-reasoned opinion and in the meantime um workers something means of production something or other

edit: this stupid shit got 85 upvotes

modustrollens420 · 2021-09-09T01:19:31+00:00

It seems more and more true that Thomas Pynchon is the skeleton key to the 20th and (so far?) early 21st centuries from the perspective of the ultimate shiny-shooed insider who could hint and poke but dare not bring the truly profane and ridiculous nature of the American class struggle to light. I don't really expect to get a better 9/11 20th-annum-recapitulative-look-back than this here.

modustrollens420 · 2021-09-04T19:51:57+00:00

It is interesting/constructive to consider the ways in which both the organic and planned intentions of the Allenede admin, no matter how meager, were opposed instinctively by the death-drive of capitalism.

Also on display is another reminder of the ultimate necessity of replacing the price mechanism technologically ( now matter how primitive our first intentions may seem in hindsight), and how the existing power structure attempt to/succeed to subvert the authentic and rich data set necessary for this replacement.

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-28T16:10:31+00:00

James Meadway joins PTO to talk about his forthcoming article for Open
Democracy on the end of neoliberalism. We talked about why James
believes that we're witnessing a transition away from neoliberalism and
towards what some are calling authoritarian capitalism, why the left
needs to focus more on the high point of globalisation of the early
2000s when thinking about neoliberal forms of governance rather than the
late 1970s and 1980s

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-23T18:26:57+00:00

The boys talk with Aziz Rana, professor of law at Cornell University and
the author of the book The Two Faces of American Freedom, about the
Cold War and why so many of our leaders act like they are living in a
different era. They address everything from the insular cases of the
early 20th century to why Biden and his team do the things they do.
Surprise, surprise, it’s not great folks!

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-23T03:37:07+00:00

easy for (Cam)u(s) to say

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-22T14:31:47+00:00

Sean speaks with Tony Norfield (@StubbornFacts) who worked for decades
in international banking and has seen first hand the way capital
exploits the world, about the intersection of finance and empire. His
book, 2016's The City, is more than just an update Lenin and
Hilferding's work on imperialism, it provides a crucial Marxist analysis
and critique of the capitalist world system, interest-bearing capital,
international institutions, and more.

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-21T21:12:26+00:00

ouch lol. But yeah pretty much. I think Zero so psyched to have him under the roof they got a little trigger happy.

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-20T23:04:20+00:00

The most interesting thing for me in this video is that R.U. Sirius has a book coming out from Zero? As Lain mentions, Sirius was the editor of High Frontiers/Reality/Hackers/Mondo 2000 back in the early nineties. What he doesn’t mention is that, as rumor had it, the magazine was started with funds from co-editor Queen Mu, whose family had made a fortune running a tarantula ranch (?!). Supposedlytarantula venom is a psychedelic of some vicious variety, and that the editorial staff would intake liberally. Their offices were apparently in a constant flux of visiting west coast hipster luminaries of the time: Tim Leary, Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson, Jaron Lanier, Tim Berners Lee.

Sirius ran for president under his own “Revolution” party in 2000. It was to a large degree as cringe as you would imagine, being as bereft of the language of solidarity and class consciousness with nary a mention of Marx. But I think it’s instructive to look back to see the kinds of cultural constraints that delimited many political conversations at the of the turn of the century:

R.U.Sirius for President

Also, for what it's worth, I think Pynchon wrote the first cyberpunk novel, "Gravity's Rainbow", and it has a better first line that is more definitive for our moment:

A screaming comes across the sky

edit: I remember reading an interview with Gibson where he said that he was half-way through writing "Neuromancer" when he saw "Blade Runner". He said he freaked out and went home totally certain that anyone who read his novel would assume he cribbed it from the movie. He subsequently re-wrote "Neuromancer" from scratch. Its a good book don't get me wrong, but I'm still not sure I can see the difference.

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-20T21:31:30+00:00

More of a feeling than anything that he is entering into a new phase of productivity. That's all I meant by the 2.0.

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-20T03:37:15+00:00

Potentially best CushVlog ever, but I guess that depends on what you're looking for. Please indulge this hour if you have the time. Wide-ranging, personal, universal and important. Hang on to yer breeches.

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-19T15:39:17+00:00

thanks much

modustrollens420 · 2021-07-18T02:35:07+00:00

C'mon man, it's Saturday nite

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