Mortal Science: Recent Episodes
Ezri xB & C Derick Varn
C Derick Varn and Ezri xB present a new Emancipation Network podcast exploring the borderlands of lowercase-m ‘marxism’. Produced & edited by Paul Channelstrip.
Two class-bound universal social logics at war.“The Infrastructure of the Modern World”from “A History of Separation”, Endnotes 4 (2015)
The structure of the problem is unfolding.Note: this was recorded before the post-COVID labor market, the new wave of labor organizing, and the resurgence of strikes. We like strikes.“The Infrastructure of the Modern World”from “A History of Separation”, Endnotes 4 (2015)
Derick & Ezri become unsettled with the implications of Turchin’s social stability positivism.
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Ezri & Derick compare Peter Turchin’s attempt to formalize modes of production in Ages of Discord to marxist attempts to periodize history.
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Derick & Ezri reflect on how developments in the memory-holed Skeptic and New Atheist movements shaped us and the political landscape through pieces by Massimo Pigliucci ("Vindicating science by bringing it down": https://platofootnote.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/vindicating-science-by-bringing-it-down-part-i/).
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Ezri & Derick finally make it past the Preface of “A History of Separation” and zero in on an incongruous premise
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Derick & Ezri continue critiquing the methodology of “A History of Separation” and start realizing how long this is going to take
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Paul Channelstrip (The Antifada, Reel Abstractions) is taking over as editor and producer of Mortal Science, which means new episodes will start coming out again. Patrons get to hear them early with the new Null Set feed.
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Ezri & Derick bite off more critical theory than they can chew as a brief overview of “A History of Separation” from Endnotes 4 turns into something much more unwieldy
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Derick & Ezri continue their attempt to define marxism during a dialectical earthquake.
"What is Marxism?: A Bird’s-Eye View" by Bertell Ollman https://medium.com/thedialogues/what-is-marxism-a-birds-eye-view-90c45fd2ab81
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Ezri & Derick explore the many ways to dismiss and abuse the notion of class interest, along with the invocations of its loyalty and betrayal, only to be left with an uncomfortable paradox.
Avishai Margalit, On Betrayal, 2017 Adam Przeworski, ”Social Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon”, Capitalism and Social Democracy, 1985 Karl Kautsky, “The Intellectuals and the Workers”, 1903
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Derick & Ezri trace the General Will through Vichy France, Zionist Israel, and the occupation of Bajor, wondering all the while what this means for a theory of class interest.
Avishai Margalit, On Betrayal, 2017
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Feast on an undisciplined and unedited romp vaguely centered on the 2020 US election, recorded on November 4th.
featuring Derick & Ezri Jake (of Swampside Chats) Kyle (of General Intellect Unit) Sophia (of Jumpsuit Utopia) Tom (of From Alpha to Omega)
w/ special guests Jason Myles (of This Is Revolution) http://thisisrevolutionpodcast.com & J.G. Michael (of Parallax Views) http://parallaxviews.podbean.com
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Ezri & Derick explore the philosophical and anthropological aspects of betrayal through a thick symbolic slurry of bodily juices.
Avishai Margalit, On Betrayal, 2017 Marshall Sahlins, “What Kinship Is (Part One)”, 2011
Derick & Ezri begin their attempt to define marxism by fortifying the motte-and-bailey fortress of contemporary social democracy.
"Marxism vs Communism" by Richard Wolff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meAAIL6dswk
"What It Means to Be a Marxist" by Ramsin Canon https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/marxism-socialism-class-struggle-materialism
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Succumb to our petty rentier class interests by helping us keep the lights on in our gloomy laboratory of history.
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Ezri & Derick live with the analytical consequences of their experiences walking the left hand path.
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Derick & Ezri wax satanic about the makings of a proletarian marxist and a petty bourgeois class traitor.
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Ezri & Derick introduce themselves, explain how they became marxists, and negate Marxism in the name of marxism.
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Derick & Ezri discuss Chuang's early COVID-19 piece "Social Contagion", share stories of further disorienting happenings, and muse on the near future of the United States
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Mortal Science: Before and After Marxism is a new podcast of socialist analysis from emancipation network