Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 5)
Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
Release Date: 08/24/2020
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Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
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Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
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Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 7)
Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
We Out Here™ for Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 7! It's OG Red Troika action for this one as we go full DAGGERS OUT™ on not 1 but 2 chapters of Capitalism and Desire. CC Don leads the chapter on means and ends and Comrade Adam aka Chairman Bane aka White Morpheus leads the chapter on love. ENJOY. Further Reading/References ------------------------------------------------ Email us at Follow us on Twitter at Click to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes Click to support Red Library on Patreon...
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The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 666)
Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
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info_outlineDON'T YOU DARE CALL IT A COMEBACK.
Part 5 of our Todd McGowan Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets reading series is in full effect this week.
In Chapter 5, CC Alex leads us through a discussion on psychoanalytic approaches to freedom under capitalism, universals, and McGowan's use of the symbolic to explain capital's functioning along with all the usual Red Troika hijinks.
ENJOY.
Further Reading/References
- Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Their Myths?
- Interpassivity
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Immanuel Kant
- J.P. Sartre
- Robert Solomon
- Erich Fromm
- Lacan's Register Theory
- Lacan's Obsessive and Hysterical Neurosis
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