Barron Field Experience: Recent Episodes
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‘What we have here is a kind of secular religion in which the cult is more important than the belief…’ did somebody say. The Barrons can’t yet let go of the humanisms which in truth they seek, as if a traitorous Pimpernel, to have done with. And in a mood of everything but a sublime futility they turn their reason to the absurd: that mathematically rational end of the parliamentary form of the human estate agency that passes as the desire of the west. Join the apagoge; relish the Beckettian dim; throw the cops in your head out a Milanese window and let them land under the cobblestones on the beach on every recalcitrant, backstroking, Camusian mummiesboy; fuck your motherland; kill your fatherland. The unashamedly oedipal Barrons of the world, eyes in the back of their head, have no cuntery for humanism. Everything remains to be invented from the river to the sea.
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Everyone has had a crack at it: denying, obfuscating, elevating, accelerating, fulgurating, prognosticating, masturbating. Now listen in as the Barron Field Experience desecrates every single one of them. In every epoch humanism reappears in guise and zeit; as essence, rights, interventions, resource or pure unadulterated horror vacui; at every moment the scourge and scourer of the Idea. The men without qualities, in-human to the core, earnest, dispense and savour what as such must not be: the rear end of humanism mon amour.
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The Barrons are back to mourn and melanchole the taboo against taboo that is the contemporary state of this situation. As the IOF fly over the festival of the boot lickers and running dogs, the Barrons explore, but do not explain, the gloop, gloop, gloop, gloop suck and cut of the American manufacturing decline and fall, the still secret all too secret genius of Foucault, the vacuous immateriality of sex and the empiricism of identity: aka anxiety and depression. The Barrons salute Roy & HG as organic intellectuals, Freudian analysts of the da sein geist, calculate how long is a lunar month at the end of - lusty, left wing melancholia - times and masticate, ruminate but don’t swallow the chemical wing of capital, that great dis-organiser of the body without fluids to be finally, as in the beginning, for the sake of us all, saved by the Idea - the impossible possession to which you cannot not consent. The Barrons know only this: walking slowly in the privilege of free men. Shout out to Bondi Millie and the Lebanese bakers. Free Palestine.
The BFE goes en-camp-us to see what the student section of the yoof are telling us about the state of the educational situation: money, bombs and waterfront property; the whole gamut of what we know as knowledge as it destroys a people, a culture, life itself. What can be done, from the camp to the street, the dock to the Red Sea, the Swiss banks to the west bank to bring the historical truth of the youth to bear and hold the uprising rock steady. The Barrons look to see how the ivory towers are shaken off and will have come tumbling down.
On its best behaviour yet, the BFE asks the great Serene Richards, ‘what is pissing you off right now?’ and it turns out to be Smart Being, the greatest anti-philosophical character since the Good European. Serene, riffing and expanding on her excellent new book, Biopolitics as System of Thought, speaks on all the things that smart in the contemporary way of life & how in dispensing with its slavish mantra of the ‘safe & secure’ we might instead ‘think’ a new re-public (Barron’s term) of joy. Sit tight and listen keenly: our form of life depends on it.
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Listen keenly as the three Barrons raise two cheers for the middle-age of reason (spoiler: it’s not Descartes’ fault; it’s yours!). Meillassoux, Brassier, Thoreau’s laundry, À la recherche du temps perdu…, everyone gets a look under the covers at the mother’s tongue exciting the cunning of reason. It’s a brand-new musical biscuit, a Baronial odyssey, from the river to the sea.
Note: (A field of hedgehogs were slaughtered in the making of this film.)
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Join the men without qualities as they darken the light in this rollicking pursuit of the Nutflex serial you deserve. Jason Epstein-Bar, Barry Cropper and Alan Woody explore the phantasmagoria of everyday gaslighting without concept and consider the fate of this public transport as it steals the lived experience you do not have: byte by byte, digit by digit. Turn on, tune out and drop everything as the men qua sans qua lose it all following each other up the Khyber pass in search of L'anus solaire. Only the BFE can be trusted to decanter the gas, unlive every experience and hold the concept in the napalm of its tiny hands. (No animals were seduced by Peter Singer.)
- Mea Culpa. This episode repeats an oft repeated falsity: Hitchcock did not make the 1940 British version of Gaslight. Rather, this version, which adheres closely to the original play Gas Light (two words) by Patrick Hamilton, written in 1938, was directed by Thorold Barron Dickinson. The Barrons humbly apologise to their fellow Barron and beg the pardon of our esteemed audience.
Listen as the Barron Field Experience splits your bad faith good conscience in two. In this episode the Barrons uneducate the educated, corrupt the corruption, deskill the scholastics and Socratise the craven all the while running a cold eye over, under and between the lines of what you profess to know. The Prussians, free market, big pharma pedagogical pipeline is blown to Sadean proportions, scattered to the Platonic winds and returned on the new school tide. The Barrons set fire to the cap and gown clowns and sterilise the desktops demanding, finally, that one more effort atopians if you would be an education by truths.
Manifestation, demonstration, protest and revolt. Let the Barron Field Experience bring you the good news, from the river to the sea: it is right to rebel against the reactionaries. Comrades, please pay attention to this truth: Under the Luther nails, the Müntzer; under the litho-state, the people; under the Barron Field Experience, the world to win.
From the cultic structure of hot-desking to the universal desire of Socratic ugliness, the Barron Field Experience takes you to the bloated beer gut of fascism, slicing it up and serving it cold to the masters desire. Come along for the ride: personal, universal, pallid and Pauline at any given time and not a zionist or forrested pedagogue left standing. The BFE, terminably unfuckable.
Barrons are again on hiatus due to being a good man down. We’ll be back at the end of August, Gogolian horrors permitting, with a double-fisted-whammy. All subs suspended. All best BFEThanks for reading Barron Field Experience! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Dear subscribers,
we have interrupted our interruption of Series 2, ‘What is pissing you off right now?’, with Barronial ‘letter from Paris’. This will be released very soon.
Series 2 will resume soon after.
Thanks for listening.
BFE
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Due to the absence of a Barron, The Barron Field Experience will be on hiatus until June. All payments will be suspended.
Welcome to Series 2 of the Barron Field Experience.
Series 2 is not exactly what was advertised. The theme has changed but the Barrons remain the same.
Series 2 is a series of interviews organised around the theme of ‘what is pissing you off right now’. A relatable, interminable, inspirational and motivational question.
In Episode 1 the Barrons put this question to the philosopher (and jazz guitarist) Caitlyn Lesiuk. Enjoy!
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