Nightmare Tonight: Recent Episodes
David Stockdale
Hey, folks! Here's the second installment of You Just Got Cronenberged, a special Nightmare Tonight miniseries in which my cohost Kayla and I dissect the varied works of director David Cronenberg. In this lengthy tirade, we talked about The Dead Zone. Enjoy!
This is a very special installment of Nightmare Tonight; it's the first part of a mini-series called You Just Got Cronenberged, which as the name implies is going to cover the many works of the great David Cronenberg.
In this installment, I'm joined by fellow youtuber Ian, who has a channel called Epoch Philosophy. Our discussion was prompted by a recent video essay he made on the topic of happiness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVgkw5_TSE
If you're a fan of my more theory laden, philosophical type work, I bet you'll like Epoch Philosophy. He's trying to go full time on youtube soon, so check out the channel and be sure to subscribe if it sounds up your alley:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC738SsV6BSLUVvMgKnEFFzQ
The LitCritGuy
https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy
https://www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGuy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiFb_CmCcNW1AD0ZaqFu1A
Horror Vanguard
https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500
References:
David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIctCDYv7Yg
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
https://www.versobooks.com/books/348-the-sublime-object-of-ideology
Mark Fisher | Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)
https://my-blackout.com/2019/04/25/mark-fisher-acid-communism-unfinished-introduction/
The Principle of Hope - Ernst Bloch
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bloch/hope/introduction.htm
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
https://tsd.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine.html
Cameron Winklevoss attempts to explain NFTs
https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1373680484945850368
Crowds, Masses, Riots (w/ @laborkyle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWswtWw5qd0
K-punk: THE COLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF MARK FISHER
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592331/k-punk-by-mark-fisher/
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3090-liberalism-at-large
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
http://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=66
The Class Struggle and Christian Love by Herbert McCabe, OP
https://christiansocialism.com/herbert-mccabe-class-struggle-capitalism-marxism-christianity/
In this episode, I'm interviewing Liz Ryerson about her fascination with Doom mods. Liz was recently featured in a doc series called Preserving Worlds, so be sure to check out her episode.
Liz Ryerson:
http://ellaguro.com/
https://twitter.com/ellaguro
https://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
References:
Preserving Worlds: Ep. 4 - Doom
https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds?cid=1699450
Beyond The Filter 17 - Doom is An Art Scene with Andrew Stine (aka Linguiça)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO0X4s1x-uk
HyperNormalisation (2016 + subs) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU
The Blood Zone: #09 - We'll Be Middle-Aged Children (But So What)
https://thebloodzone.libsyn.com/09-well-be-middle-aged-children-but-so-what
Beyond The Filter 24 - The Old Vs. New Internet with Felix Biederman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE_hjPByqmo
In this episode of Nightmare Tonight, I'm speaking with filmmakers Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil about their documentary series, Preserving Worlds. You can watch it for free on Means TV right now!
References:
Preserving Worlds
https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds
Sarasota Half in Dream
https://means.tv/programs/sarasota?categoryId=20464
Subscribe to Means TV!
https://means.tv/
Museum of ZZT
https://museumofzzt.com/
References:
Republish Rick Roderick's Book!
https://www.change.org/p/springerlink-republish-rick-roderick-s-book?recruiter=26363129
Rick Roderick: Philosophy and Human Values
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6676C3E8A487FEE6
Rick Roderick: Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA20B690583E9931C
Rick Roderick: The Masters of Suspicion (full playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
Rick Roderick Interview [1987] (complete)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKfWWmK5hvA
Rick Roderick: In Memorium
http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/
Poking the Peevish Gutter
https://maxroderick.com/
Can the Left Learn to Meme? by Mike Watson
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/can-left-learn-meme
The Acid Left
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbLjoC_tct5byCV6JBoQPtA
Slavoj Zizek Explains Himself (A Video for Noam Chomsky and Michael Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkBuJv2WpSE
World Economic Forum: Now is the time for a 'great reset'
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/
In this short installment of Nightmare Tonight, I'll be talking about a book I recently read called The Culture of Narcissism by social critic Christopher Lasch. You might recall I briefly referenced this book in my analysis of Hiding in My Home. If there are any other books you might be interested in seeing me discuss, let me know in the comments.
References:
The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Culture-of-Narcissism
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism
Days of Rage by Brian Burrough https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/307365/days-of-rage-by-bryan-burrough/9780143107972
The Idea of Culture by Terry Eagleton https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Idea+of+Culture-p-9780631219668
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Hey, it's a very special night because a new ep of my podcast, Nightmare Tonight, is now available. And that is the sole reason this night is special. Enjoy!
Also, I wrote an essay about fascism. It's the congealed form of various Twitter threads I wrote this week. Please clap.
https://medium.com/@dstock3/fascism-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-8b8631d731ae
References:
"The Structural Study of Myth" by Claude Levi-Strauss
https://people.ucsc.edu/~ktellez/levi-strauss.pdf
DHMIS Critical Approaches: Formalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0LHtXVQo5o
DHMIS Critical Approaches: Carnival and the Grotesque Body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJvKtydoPPY
On the Genealogy of Morals (this translation uses the term “resent,” “resentful” or “resentment”)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm
Political Power and Social Classes by Nicos Poulantzas
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2355-political-power-and-social-classes
In this ep of Nightmare Tonight, I'll be unpacking Fredric Jameson's Political Unconscious. In the course of analyzing Disco Elysium, I found Jameson's approach to be quite useful and enriching. So, I thought it might be a good idea to do a more thorough primer on his method.
References:
The Political Unconscious (Lecture by Paul Fry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvp5z0Zbvo
Darstellung
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Darstellung
Telos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos
The Base and Superstructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure
Althusser Glossary 1969
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/althusser/index.htm
Transcoding:
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803105319847
Greimas Semiotic Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algirdas_Julien_Greimas#/media/File:Es515_semiotic_square.jpg
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm
Objectification:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alienation/#Obje
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire
Tonight, I'm joined by YouTuber LaborKyle. Join us as we discuss the death cult of capitalism.
laborkyle's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwzzq8hVdFjcNw_I9wZrVQ
References
Alain Badiou on the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4608-on-the-epidemic-situation
Antonio Negri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Negri
Ernesto Laclau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Laclau
Jean Baudrillard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
Viktor Orban's Anti-Roma Campaign in Hungary is Being Legitimized by Trump and Western Leaders, Activist Warns
https://www.newsweek.com/viktor-orban-anti-roma-campaign-hungary-legitimized-donald-trump-western-leaders-activist-1490920
Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!
https://www.iww.org/
Hey folks! How is everyone holding up? If you're looking for something to distract you from the horror of everyday life, I made a film commentary track for John Carpenter's The Thing. The movie starts at 2:32 on this audio track. Joining me in this endeavor is Kayla, my cohost on the Rudd Files. If you enjoy this commentary, you'll probably like our podcast, so check it out!
https://ruddfiles.libsyn.com/
Tonight, I have with me A.M. Gittlitz, author of I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism, which is now available to preorder:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786806208/i-want-to-believe/
Sources and Additional References:
THE SECRET HISTORY OF MARXIST ALIEN HUNTERS
https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters?utm_source=&zd=1&zi=fdpneaqs
The Bad Light: Hunting for UFOs and J. Posadas in Argentina
https://proteanmag.com/2019/10/17/the-bad-light-hunting-for-ufos-and-j-posadas-in-argentina/
A critical assessment of the former Latin American Bureau tendency within the Fourth International
https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/critical.htm
‘Make It So’: ‘Star Trek’ and Its Debt to Revolutionary Socialism
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/make-it-so-star-trek-and-its-debt-to-revolutionary-socialism.html
Jacques Vallée
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e
Interdimensional hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
https://archive.org/details/bookofdamnedbych00fortrich/page/n8/mode/2up
Tonight, I'm joined by Alex, the creator of a creepy web series called AI Builds. If you're not familiar with AI Builds, I strongly recommend that you check it out prior to listening to this interview:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcj2dTp9G9K4_QvBjJHsAxA
Enjoy the show!
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Folks, it's time for some antifascist synthpop. Tonight, I'm joined by Matt from Intellectual Dark Wave. In this ep, Matt discusses the origin of this musical endeavor, as well as his various qualms with the figures of the so-called "Intellectual Dark Web." Enjoy!
Check out Intellectual Dark Wave: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0fS66u3uDh3qvtS3FfYdpd?si=eGxzD9rNQ_6KaJWOIZu0Vw
And be sure to check out Matt's other musical venture, Cashing In: https://cashinginbal.bandcamp.com/
In this mystical episode of Nightmare Tonight, I'm joined by Angie of the fantastic YouTube channel, Angie Speaks. Be sure to check out AngieSpeaks! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUtloyZ_Iu4BJekIqPLc_fQ Tonight's topics include Mark Fisher's "Exiting the Vampire Castle," the nuances of so-called "Cancel Cuture," spiritualism, and Jung's notion of the shadow. Enjoy!
In this spicy episode of Nightmare Tonight, I am joined by Kay from the YouTube channel Kay and Skittles. Enjoy!
Subscribe to Kay and Skittles: https://www.youtube.com/user/AdmiralFloyd
In this episode, my guest Kayla and I discuss the political subtext of Joker, as well as some of the more frivolous responses to the film.
Kayla's the host of an upcoming podcast called The Rudd Files, a podcast dedicated to the work of Paul Rudd. Full disclosure: I'm her cohost! In the first episode, we're talking about Clueless. It's coming out soon, so stay tuned!
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ruddfiles
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRuddFiles
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruddfiles