This is a great book to download and read if you would like to appear on an FBI watchlist. Earlier this year I was thinking of writing a fictional story about an insurrectionary communist group, and I read this in part as research for it (I swear).
It is in part a textbook and in part a manual, written under directives from the Soviet Uni...
Just bought this huge German book consisting of an illustrated history of the German revolution. I want to make sure to have good photo material for my video so I got this in case it has some interesting photos that are otherwise hard to find online. Going to scan a lot of these for use in the video
2022-07-19 03:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I had the idea of occasionally posting about books that I've read relatively recently, as a way of staying active on Patreon, making recommendations and thereby hopefully also connecting to patrons. Please let me know if that's a worthwhile idea and if you'd be interested in posts like this.
This is The Roots of Romanticism by Is...
As you know, I'm working on a script about the German revolution (1918-19), and it's a big project that I feel very passionate about, and one that I think will make for a really interesting video, but there's something I'm wondering: should I make it into one long video or split it into a video series?
If I split it into several videos, I...
Started having trouble with my ProFX 6 Vr 3 sound mixer after traveling. Possibly got banged up on the plane? It seems to turn on fine and lights up, but isn't detected as a sound device by my computers, and the device manager gives an error message saying "This device cannot start (code 10)". Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?...
2022-07-14 04:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently working on research for a video on the German revolution of 1918-19. This is such a fascinating and important topic that I really wanna do it right, so it's gonna be a big project. I hope you'll be as excited about it as I am.
I've been mainly drawing on 3 different books on the revolution so far, each from a different political...
New video's out! I've attached the script on the post, and I'll keep you updated on what I'm working on next.
2022-05-30 23:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Video editing is more than halfway done, so it should be released within 1-2 days. See you soon!
2022-05-30 16:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostJust finished recording the audio for the Schopenhauer-Hegel video.
For the occasion, I uploaded two new books to the Google drive: a Schopenhauer biography by David E. Cartwright and a Hegel biography by Terry Pinkard:
2022-05-21 11:47:22 +0000 UTC
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Another question I have regarding a future video: how would you feel about a video listing some of the best socialist/communist/leftist movies? I'm not sure if this is a good idea because it's so different from my usual format and maybe people would be too scared that I'm becoming Top Mojo. But on the other hand, politically conscious movies can...
2022-05-20 04:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostJust letting you know that I'm almost done with another script – on Schopenhauer's hatred of Hegel. It'll probably be a similar length to the last Nietzsche video. I hope you'll find it interesting.
P.S. If there are some essential philosophers/concepts/topics I haven't covered on my channel before that you think I should, tell me in th...
Here's the script for the last video.
You can also find it on our Google drive. PDFs for all the Nietzsche books quoted can also be found there, as well as a Nietzsche biography by Julian Young.
https://drive.google....
New video's out!
2022-05-06 05:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostJust finished writing and recording a shorter script on Nietzsche's body, with a focus on sickness. Gonna start editing now!
2022-05-02 07:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a question for the future: how interested would you be in a video that is really not about philosophy at all, but covers the German revolution of 1918-19? It's an extremely interesting, important, overlooked and tragic historical event that I think way too few people really know about, and I'd feel quite strongly about sharing it.
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2022-04-30 10:57:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a Facebook link where you can see a recording of my short talk + audience questions at Bristol Transformed
2022-04-27 20:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostToday at 2 PM EST (in about 2 hours) I'll be talking on Zoom for a series called Theory for Dummies. There's still time to join in case you're interested!
https://t.co/tg2vq30PmJ
Hey everyone, I hope you're doing well. I'm sorry that it's been taking me so long to get a new video done. The past months I've been trying to work on a script for the philosophy of freedom, but it hasn't been very successful. I'm struggling with executive dysfunction, and the topic is so general and abstract that organizing my ideas and workin...
2022-04-24 09:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post
New video is out! As mentioned in my previous post, you can find most of these books on our Google drive, where I also uploaded the script for this video.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rasWDAFyI4t1EOSePbeLc0LbMKf1...
As I'm working on my top-10-books-I-read-in-2021 list, I uploaded most of the books off my list on our Google drive, including:
Edinburgh Guide to Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Douglas Burnham and Martin Jesinghausen
Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
Lenin’s Last Struggle by Moshe Lewis
Narodnikai ir pir...
Just uploaded the supplementary notes for my video on Doom and neoliberalism. It's really short as the video isn't very philosophically dense so there isn't as much to cover.
I also uploaded the book "Late Capitalism" by Ernest Mandel, and the essay "Atomism" by Charles Taylor on our google drive:
2022-01-23 06:14:25 +0000 UTC
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Here's the supplementary notes for the new video on Deleuze! It provides some additional resources and more details about some of the relevant concepts. Let me know if you found it useful.
The notes are attached to the post, but you can also find them on my Google Drive, where I also uploaded the following books:
A Thousand Plateau...
Video is finally out!
I talk about Deleuze & Guattari's critique of representational thinking, and touch on the rhizomatic/arborescent and map/tracing distinctions.
Hope you enjoy! I should have the supplementary notes for this video out tomorrow.
Thank you!
After a whole month of trying to record audio with bad results, getting frustrated trying to get it sound right, trying different recording spots and settings, buying a new pop filter and a mic shield, I finally got my audio to sound decent again. So, just so you know, that's the reason the video is late. I'm going to record the new audio now, a...
2022-01-14 01:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I got some help with my audio issues and decided to re-record the audio for my Deleuze video to have better sound quality. I bought a new pop filter and an iso...
2022-01-07 02:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostSo, in my last post I somehow failed to attach the video script I was referring to. Here it is again in case anyone missed it.
2022-01-01 08:06:16 +0000 UTC View PostSo I was planning to release a new (short) video on Deleuze and drum machines before Christmas, but then discovered that the audio I had recorded for it sounded really bad, and as I was away from home throughout the holidays I wasn't able to re-record it, and then started doubting whether the script itself is any good at all.
I attached t...
I appeared on the PillPod podcast to talk about my book and my channel. Check it out!
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The video topic that won the last poll (philosophy of freedom) is the one I'd need the most time on, so given the results, which of these options would you prefer for me to work towards:
2021-12-04 07:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostTime for a new poll! I can't promise anything, but I'll try to release a new video before Christmas, as it would be a lot more difficult for me to record a new video during the holidays. Here are the options:
1) Old patrons will be familiar with this video idea as I've had it for a long time. Here I would use the movie Total Recall to dis...