Euro Bureau of Literaturo: Recent Episodes
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Euro Bureau of Literaturo features Tyler Hamilton, Jefferson Lee, Josh N., Nils Wegner and a rotating panel of special guests. The show presents a different reading every other week as a springboard for discussion and debate on crucial metapolitical and philosophical topics.
Tyler reunites with his former co-host for a discussion on the philosophy of temporality in Husserl, Bergson and Deleuze. They discuss time consciousness, space and time, and generativity in Deleuze.
The EBL crew assembles to continue their series from Ancient to Middle Ages Philosophy, picking up where we left off on Saint Augustine's "City of God". Topics we discuss from Saint Augustine's vast body of work here include torture, the critique of stoicism, happiness in the eternal, the human good, self-defense, different types of Imperium, and reconciliation without subsummation.
Tyler, Jefferson and Josh assemble to continue their series on ancient to medieval philosophy, now turning their attention to one of the most influential thinkers on both Christianity and Western thought, Saint Augustine.
Part II of Political Platonism with Professor Aleksandr Dugin. We finished off the submitted questions from the previous show!
The EBL crew is joined by the important and influential Russian Philosopher/Political Analyst Aleksandr Dugin for a dialogue on Political Platonism.
The EBL crew convenes once again to continue their discussion of Aristotle's "Politics". Taking up themes from books 5-8, they discuss revolution and instability, the means towards human flourishing, education of the young and the virtuous citizen and Aristotle's suggestions for the mixed regime.
The EBL crew continues their look at Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, turning to Aristotle's "Politics" and discovers ancient answers to contemporary crisis.
The EBL crew convenes once again for the second part of their discussion on Plato's "Republic", with the themes of speech and censorship forming the wrap-around topic.
The EBL crew inaugurates a new series on political philosophy from Ancient to Medieval. We begin with Plato's "The Republic". Richard will show up in part 2.
The EBL crew is joined by special guest Alex McNabb for a discussion of Michel Foucault's 1978-79 series of lectures titled "The Birth of Biopolitics". The crew examines facets of neoliberalism in the light of Foucault's classic treatise.
The crew assembles and introduces a new co-host to join Tyler, Jefferson and Josh on occasional episodes going forward. For this episode, we take questions from the audience! You can ask about our previous episodes (Habermas, Žižek, Myths of Revolution, George Grant and Canada) or you can ask about whatever you want to hear from us.
The EBL crew discusses George Grant's seminal text "Lament for a Nation", a key text for understanding Canada and Canadian Nationalism written during a turbulent time in Canadian history. Grant's warning about the universal homogeneous state brought forth by American Empire contains historical lessons shedding light on the current state of Canada and philosophical directions for the future of any nationalism.
Tyler, Jefferson and Josh are joined by Cultured Thug to discuss the theory and praxis of revolution.
Re-upload of the Myths of Revolution episode on common myths about the theory and praxis of revolutions.
The EBL crew assembles at the end of the Cultural Marxism series to take up the work of Slovenian Philosopher and Elvis of cultural theory Slavoj Žižek. We discuss his groundbreaking work '"The Sublime Object of Ideology". In many ways a critical reaction to the theorists discussed previously, Žižek re-configures our understanding of ideology past the Marxist and post-Marxist conception. We discuss this in context of the current BLM riots and antagonisms taking place in America.
The EBL crew assembles once more for the penultimate episode of the series on the Frankfurt School. In this episode, they discuss the highly influential German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. They discuss his theory of communicative action, discourse theory of law, the European integration project and Habermas' dreamt Empire of Reason.
The EBL crew is joined by special guest Tony Hovater to introduce, discuss and critique Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", one of the most influential texts for the New Left.
The EBL crew is once again joined by Richard Spencer and takes a break from the Cultural Marxism series to turn towards the influential, incisive and profound essay from the post-war life of Martin Heidegger on the essence of Technology.
The EBL crew assembles to continue their series on Cultural Marxism as they turn to discuss Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" with special guests from the White Art Collective Nullus and Donald Kent.
Tyler and Josh continue the series on Cultural Marxism, turning to the work of literary/art critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. They analyze messianiac politics, the critique of progressive views of history and meditate on weak Messianism as a counter to Neoliberalism.
The EBL debut show on Radix. In this episode, the EBL crew is joined by Richard Spencer to continue their series on cultural Marxism, now turning to Adorno and Horkheimer's diagnosis of European cultural decline under the influence of mass media.
The EBL crew is joined by special guest Richard Heathen for the first episode in a series on Cultural Marxism. To kick off the series, we take a look at Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "Dialectic of Enlightenment": this seminal text written in 1944 is one of the cornerstone texts of the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory.
The EBL crew (Tyler and FZ) are joined by special guest Dr. Ricardo Duchesne and Zero Schizo to discuss Aleksandr Dugin's Fourth Political Theory. We will explicit on just what Dugin's Fourth Political Theory is and pose some questions and challenges to the crucial deadlocks of postmodernity. With, against or beyond Dugin.
For the final episode in the Carl Schmitt series, the EBL crew looks at parts two and three of Agamben's "Homo Sacer" to reveal the biopolitical paradigm of the modern.
The EBL crew discusses the first section of Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life".
The EBL crew discusses Jacques Derrida's deconstructive reading of Carl Schmitt in this second part of the Schmitt series.
The full episode was unfortunately not able to happen so we took the opportunity to introduce Derrida and his reading of Schmitt so the audience has the background for the proper episode next week. Thank you all for your support and see you there!
The EBL crew is re-joined by special guest Richard Spencer and joined by new special guest Nils Wegner to discuss Carl Schmitt's "Political Theology". This is the first in a 4-part series on Carl Schmitt and his readers.
The EBL crew is joined by A. J. Illingworth, a Traditionalist Conservative philosopher, founder of The Burkean Publication and the author of "Political Justice" published by Arktos. The crew honors the life and memory of Sir Roger Scruton with a discussion on his legacy, on beauty/desecration, and authority/allegiance.
The EBL crew is joined by very special guest Richard Spencer to return to the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. We consider the insights and urgency of Nietzsche's thought, to think with Nietzsche to go beyond him and the crisis of the Death of God.
The EBL crew discusses the geopolitical strategy of the American Empire, contrasting two opposing strategies of maintenance for Liberal Hegemony.
The EBL crew discusses Slavoj Žižek's Appendix "The Sexual Act in Cinema" from his 2009 work "The Plague of Fantasies". We discuss the ideology of enjoyment, pornography and the distancing of the traumatic through sexual fantasy.
The EBL crew examines the article "Humanflood" by deep ecologist Pentti Linkola, discussing overpopulation, urbanization, the wolf culling debate and ecology from the Right. The very special guest this week is Rich Houck, author of "Liberalism Unmasked" and writer at Counter-Currents.
Joined by Keith Woods and Evening Star, the EBL crew takes a look at Gilles Deleuze's text "Postscript on Societies of Control" and ponders forms of resistance and political praxis.
For episode 5 of EBL, the crew assembles to discuss the controversial 1982 article "Against Theory" by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels. The article is a critical attack on the enterprise, possibility and desirability of Literary Theory.
Joined by Joel Davis, a new addition to the crew, the Beauro discusses the pathways concealed and unconcealed by the thought of Martin Heidegger.
The EBL crew takes a look at the influential Marxist analysis by Mark Fisher of what he terms "Capitalist Realism". The panel ponders, "Is there an alternative?" Through an examination of the text, the panel discusses the plasticity of Capital, modes of resistance, the fracture of the Real, and the Groyper Wars.
The second episode of Euro Beauro of Literaturo. This week's panel (FZ, Boi, Elf, Oneirologist, Anonny) examine Nietzsche's "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life".
The lost pilot episode of EBL--EBL assembles to discuss Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier's "Manifesto for a European Renaissance".