In this podcast, we refer to the last scene of The Matrix in which Neo speaks directly to the hegemonic machines and explicitly draws attention to the political dimensions of the film. This scene invites us to understand the real-apparent binary as the opposition between the concrete political situation of slavery and exploitation and the ideological mystification which prevents the victims from throwing off their chains or even realising that they are in them. This leads us to a discussion of the attempts to make good the lacuna in Marxism around the details of ideological mystification by theorising a Freudian-Marxism. Dramatis Personae: Freud, Marx, Hegel, Lacan, Zizek, Fromm, Reich, Marcusse, Engels. The final scene [3 minutes 31 seconds] is here:- https://youtu.be/aTL4qIIxg8A. See the blue pill - red pill choice in this four minute clip: https://youtu.be/zQ1_IbFFbzA. [Free. 39 minutes.]
RICHARD WOLFF ON THE ECONOMY - INTERESTING TIMES 7
BRITAIN-TRUMP, PORTLAND, YELLOW-HAMMER - INTERESTING TIMES 6
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EMPOWERMENT - INTERESTING TIMES 5
WEAPONISED HISTORY - INTERESTING TIMES 4
RACISTS EXPOSE THEMSELVES - INTERESTING TIMES 3
HOLLOW SYMBOLS - INTERESTING TIMES 2
A STATUE DIES - INTERESTING TIMES 1
STATE OF THE WORLD JUNE 2 2020
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ON DEMONIC SHORTCOMINGS: WHEN A SPAD BREAKS THE LAW WITH IMPUNITY
LOCK-DOWN PROTESTS AND LIBERTARIAN ABSOLUTISM
THE CONVERSATION OF HUMANKIND
CONSPIRACY THEORIES: EPISTEMOLOGY, POLITICS & SELF-CARE
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