Great video as usual. You always seem to find the perfect sweetspot of a topic that I (and I am using myself as a stand-in for your target audience) have thought about to some degree without having found an "answer" for it or reaching a higher level of understanding, give that answer which would have already satisfied me, but then go 5 layers deeper anyway. The balance between complex, but at the same time everyday topics and doing thorough explorations of them, but managing to make those explorations approachable to a layperson is seriously impressive.
If you're taking deeper look into degrowth, I recommend the book "Das Ende des Kapitalismus: Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind - und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden" by Ulrike Herrmann (publ. 2022). It approached on the subject from the economical side, an angle I hadn't encountered before and outlines possible ways forward by analysing European war economies of the 1940's. It has been translated into a few languages, but not English (I read it in Swedish). Also, the back quarter of the book is references, comments, calculations and various notes.
I find the conception of forming alliances with other political groups in terms of finding your overlapping fields of meaning quite an illuminating way of thinking about it. Usually in organizing, I tend to think of these things then terms of what we have in common, specific goals we can agree to work toward together or in solidarity with each other. In informal settings when I'm discussing this type of thing, trying to form alliances with other groups, I think I kind of naturally try to find our overlapping fields of meaning. But I think it's interesting to frame not just in terms of say a shared value (say, freedom) but in terms of overlapping conceptions of that value.
You do a great job of eloquently and effectively uncovering the tiny little thoughts at the corners of my mind that accumulate as a disempowered participant of our modern moment. In summary: Thank you for asking me how the water was today
I love the fact that thinks like the "overton window" are coming more prominent in public discussion. Plus I would like to add that from personal expirence there is a very big discrepancy between the online left and the street left. The majority of leftwing infighting occurs online, on the streets we are all anti-capitalist left wing, we stand together in protest, and we know who are enemy is.
my radical left trans daughter walks the gauntlet every day all day. Always someone ready to say something stupid. But she does not give up.m The snowflakes are not trans people and their families, we don't have a choice about fighting, it is existential. It is the casual affluent white left that is so ready to decide who qualifies... as a woman, as a leftist, as a worker, as a voice to be heard.
@@kennethhymes9734 ngl that last part hit hard, but i dont get the "white" not all of them are white, as a black person i think people tend to overlook things like interracial conflict or overlook harmful aspects of foriegn cultures in the name of some vague notion of tolerance amd acceptance.Like i know very well that your transgender daughter would have to hide herslef in my home country such things are looked down upon heavily.
@@toppedtop5787 I think you might have replied to the wrong comment 😅 The user you tagged who talked about their trans daughter was from a different thread.
This is completely outside your sphere of research, which is possibly why you haven't heard of it, but there are many, many works by modern islamic thinkers on hegemony, cultural heritage and the identity of societies.
I wish we all had a political education class in highschool or uni served this way. Maybe, our democracies could be better then. Thank you for a deep dive
It's been a while that i've been in contact with the degrowth discussion so it will be cool to see a t3 deep dive into it. Back when i was into Degrowth, it's main arguments were as to why growth is not needed for a good life and how a good life could look in a world without mandatory and enforced growth, while it's oponents focused on "degrowth is not possible (because our retirement system is a ponzi sheme)". So i'd be curious to see some discussion about arguments as to why degrowth is impossible and how to overcome/solve those.
Amazing video! Although, you forgot to mention the part where Solidarność allowed the neoliberal shock therapy to happen and then turn their members into reactionaries
I've had more intelligent and eye opening conversations with people that basically just exsist at rock bottom living rent free than i ever had with fellow co workers who society would see as "normal" Typically co workers or people working full time with lives and responsibilities they actively managed would very very very rarely allow much depth to sneak its way into conversations even one on one. There was always resistance to get into actual personal reflection that required the willingness of one to see themselves outside of their ongoing narrative. And i get it work takes up too much from ones brain capacity and deep reflection of oneself can be entirely exhausting. That's why I won't just immediately disregard individuals who society see as rejects because they might be our current times unpaid and unacknowledged philosopher's.
Your videos are always insightful, thank you for your hard work. I'm no stranger to long form video essay with a pinch of humor but I do find your videos hard to follow or at least lacking visual variety for me to actively watch rather than listen so when you break off for a visual gag and a punchline I'm somewhat lost and sometime have to go back which can be frustrating.
I have to watch at least twice to parse what's going on. Genius algorithm optimization. Jokes aside alliance making is a topic i care a lot and this seems useful, though practice will have to wait cause i have yet to find one of those fabled communities political theorist keep talking about.
Regarding the language jokes. I thought this was all just jokes and memes about polish, but last week I watched Forst on Netflix and I can confirm it was like 90% of “KURWA JA PIJERDOLE!!”
Probably some left wing clone of trump but younger and on social media like a Marxist version of Andrew Tate without the women hatred or a Republican version of Kirstin cinema that pretends to be right wing but is a secret Marxist that uses methods of project 2025 but for left wing purposes rather than for Christian nationalism
Another TTT video another book on the reading list... I swear one day I'll actually read these books. I absolutely loved the video. Definetely showed some super interesting philosophers, ideas and much food for thought. Also did the one editing the video have some kind of encounter with furries during the hiatus? haha
I pretty much at this point judge any theory of movements on this: will it include and protect my trans daughter? I am not shading anyone here, or the video, i am just stating a fact, I am exhausted by having to be so vigilant, on all fronts. I want no part of any theory or movement that questions or excludes or ignores or minimizes her. Start asking stupid questions, with any intent, and i am out. It is not narrowness it is survival. The gauntlet is every day, all day. If people don't like it then they need to stop being stupid and saying things they would never say about any other kind of person, and stop discriminating against my family.
I don't think that they're pointing at a certain ideology here. Panek is mostly just presenting how to theoretically build effective counter hegemonic alliances in contrast to "it's totally organic" with lots of trust me bro energy from gramsci. They donk on those damn trust the party clowns but that's just about it. It's up to you to find a community that is aligned with your goals the most or hell just built one.
Can you provide some experience from yours and your daughter's lives? I'm from an entirely different society and country and we've got no openly trans people. I'm looking for first-hand parent experience
changing the status quo away from its current state is probably the best chance for your family if i’m being honest… more independence, autonomy, and less government comfortability and governed morality can only be a good thing getting to a societally checked rather than authoritarian checked system that does not allow for and protects against centralization and discrimination…. but need more awareness and public agency for an emotionally driven response to change our hegemonic norms atm i wish all the best for you and your fam 🫶🏼🤝
OH FUCK I GET FD SIGNIFIER NOW!! At first I was like "its sounds like Empty Signifier haha" but then I thought about it. What does FD stand for? And that's just it. Nothing. FD is an Empty Signifier within the name FD Signifiier. Fuck me that's good.
Woke is a useful anti-signifier; since it is used in place of "Black", "Gay", and "Communist". Three words that hold a lot of baggage as an anti-progress rallying cry.
Obviously I don't speak for all autistic people, but given how social rules and hegemony have stuck out as arbitrary things me and my autistic friends notice but our neurotypical peers don't I feel like this lesson will be more shocking for neurotypical people. Given the violence, social isolation and just general hostility autistic people face when they don't fit hegemony or if they outwardly acknowledge the hegemony that neurotypicals think is natural the dominant and violent nature of hegemony has been made clear to me and my autistic friends pretty much since the earliest days we can remember going out in public. Masking is in many ways like acknowledging hegemony and applying its rules as a camoflague to avoid becoming its target (to expel all whom defy it). Similarly, it doesn't surprise me that the proportion of autistic people who are also gender non-conforming is also relatively large. Conforming to norms as if they don't even exist as normative rules and instead as a natural phenomenon is more done for our own safety, and only performed for the minimum amount of time and effort necessary to stay safe (so if we're fortunate enough to find a community we know will protect us while we do not conform to hegemony, then we can shed the mask with much less fear of violent repercussions). Just rambling at this point, haha, but yeah it's extremely frustrating how so many people don't realise the violence inherent in upholding hegemony because they take it as a given and thus do not face its violence as directly.
To keep with the water analogy of the video being neurodivergent feels like being a dolphin. You're still in water, you can't really not be in water, but the water is also actively hostile to you and if you don't realize you are in water you'll drown and die. And from the fish perspective they might even see you reaching for air and get genuinely concerned for you, thinking you're harming yourself, and might even drown you in an attempt to help (for exemple stuff like ABA).
I'm autistic and can't stand arbitrary rules, that I can strongly agree upon, but there is nothing that stops me from being myself except societal/familial pressure, and that liberal democracies have been the best at fighting cultural hegemony, and there is a reason why you see that western countries are some of the few that have legalized gay marriage and have come to accept LGBT rights, sometimes even when its against the majority of its own electorate. That is why I am so glad to be living in one and don't take it for granted. I will always fight against Conservatives willing to take that away and maintaining and spreading this freedom (particularly east if you are European) should be focused on to create the happiest societies.
Thanks for the video. A closer look at Polish politics on this channel would be interesting as we ''Europeans'' face a new world post events in the Ukraine. In Ireland many people see an unfettered and indifferent EU elite arising, and local parties somewhat echoing the events pan-Europe. Go raith maith agaibh arís.
The logical continuation from Gramsci is Mao. Grassroots intellectuals and war of positions lead logically into the mass line and two-line struggle. Similarly, cultural revolution answers the need to overcome bourgeois hegemony in the superstructure regardless of the status of the revolution in the material base. I am a bit surprised that nobody in popular philosophy/political theory ever makes that connection, though.
At 23.57 you asked for a name of an area of study that could offer a critical perspective on theory. Google says epistemology or metatheory. Do I get a cookie?
Please answer one question for me: Imagine we have a cake that crudely represents global wealth, and it is divided among the people by some magical force. 99% of it goes to 1% of the people. The remaining 1% goes to 99% of the people. The latter 99% commence endlessly debating how the 1% should be allocated. Q: Why are we all fighting over crumbs?
If I were to guess, it's because liberalism is the dominant ideology of today and both the left and right are critical of it, though for completely different reasons. So many right-wingers pride themselves on being contrarian to the status quo (liberalism) and so may find Gramsci's framework compelling because it seeks to analyse this liberal cultural hegemony.
31:36 the words are tied to what I call "trans-platonic forms"! You make of copy in your head of the things that exist in the external world! A word is a label for that copy!
I gave this video my focused attention and frankly I got very little out of it. I feel like it was intended for a specific audience that isn't me and I wish that had been more clear at the beginning before I spent so much time on it. Also you need to find some balance with your sarcasm. To someone that isn't already engrossed in the material it can be hard to tell when you're making an earnest point but having fun with it and when you're being ironic and actually mean the opposite.
To be honest a lot of this "alliance building" rhetoric makes opposite effect on me because .... well, sense of betrayal, also sense of being used and discarded. Big political movements ... can they ever be truly emphatic? Very few want to be soldiers in endless war .... esp. after decade or so of failed promises, etc. Yes, there are die hards who literally can do all this their whole life.
Your issue relies on the assumption that you have to identify with a sole political party. You have to be versatile yourself and enter or leave alliances based on what's closer to your political demand
The postmodernists (i.e. post structuralists , post-marxist) appropriated Gramsci. Gramsci still adheres to the revolutionary thought of Marxism-Leninism. His national popular will emphasizes the importance of the alliance of workers and peasants. Unlike the interpretation of Laclau and Mouffee which capitulates to bourgeois elections.
Is this a translation of the Polish videos? Just cuz I watched one's begining once, and got until the fish joke until I realised I dont understand Polish to watch the entire thing
when i was reading shadow of the hegemon my son pointed out to me, repeatedly, a hegemon is a garden type digimon
cultured
sigma
Wonderful, I found your channel during your hiatus and this has been a great video to start my morning, a big hug from a random woman from Mexico
Greetings from Mexico too!
We're so back!!!
Long time no see, good to see you comeback !
Great video as usual. You always seem to find the perfect sweetspot of a topic that I (and I am using myself as a stand-in for your target audience) have thought about to some degree without having found an "answer" for it or reaching a higher level of understanding, give that answer which would have already satisfied me, but then go 5 layers deeper anyway.
The balance between complex, but at the same time everyday topics and doing thorough explorations of them, but managing to make those explorations approachable to a layperson is seriously impressive.
If you're taking deeper look into degrowth, I recommend the book "Das Ende des Kapitalismus: Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind - und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden" by Ulrike Herrmann (publ. 2022). It approached on the subject from the economical side, an angle I hadn't encountered before and outlines possible ways forward by analysing European war economies of the 1940's. It has been translated into a few languages, but not English (I read it in Swedish). Also, the back quarter of the book is references, comments, calculations and various notes.
What's the title of the book in Swedish?
@@v1298Degrowth kommunismen kommer att svälta oss alla
@@v1298Kapitalismens slut: Myten om grön tillväxt
My answer yesterday go deleted as I included the ISBN. The publisher is Fri Tanke förlag.
Wohlstand für alle hat/haben über dieses Buch in einer Folge gesprochen, kann ich empfehlen.
@@v1298 Kapitalismens slut: Myten om grön tillväxt (förlaget Fri Tanke, 2023)
Empty-signifier visual gag destroyed me.
5:07 Haha the experiment totally failed on me, I saw it as everyday life that we live today in the society.
I feel like this channel is worth more than gold
I find the conception of forming alliances with other political groups in terms of finding your overlapping fields of meaning quite an illuminating way of thinking about it.
Usually in organizing, I tend to think of these things then terms of what we have in common, specific goals we can agree to work toward together or in solidarity with each other. In informal settings when I'm discussing this type of thing, trying to form alliances with other groups, I think I kind of naturally try to find our overlapping fields of meaning. But I think it's interesting to frame not just in terms of say a shared value (say, freedom) but in terms of overlapping conceptions of that value.
You do a great job of eloquently and effectively uncovering the tiny little thoughts at the corners of my mind that accumulate as a disempowered participant of our modern moment. In summary: Thank you for asking me how the water was today
I'm still in the begining of the video and already this seems like one of the better explanations of hegemony I've seen! Bravo!
This is a best video in 2024 year.
Greetings from Berlin 🇨🇿(I am Czech and German)😂
Bethesda quality politics is something I’m stealing.
I saw the rest of your videos a few weeks ago and was like, oh damn they haven't posted for months, what happened, and here you are, BACK AGAIN!
listened to it 4 times.
Absolute banger.
New video! I think about your channel several times a week. Love it.
Love your content, i came across yesterday, love and support from the midwest USA
I love the fact that thinks like the "overton window" are coming more prominent in public discussion. Plus I would like to add that from personal expirence there is a very big discrepancy between the online left and the street left. The majority of leftwing infighting occurs online, on the streets we are all anti-capitalist left wing, we stand together in protest, and we know who are enemy is.
until somebody brings up transgender people
my radical left trans daughter walks the gauntlet every day all day. Always someone ready to say something stupid. But she does not give up.m The snowflakes are not trans people and their families, we don't have a choice about fighting, it is existential. It is the casual affluent white left that is so ready to decide who qualifies... as a woman, as a leftist, as a worker, as a voice to be heard.
@@kennethhymes9734 ngl that last part hit hard, but i dont get the "white" not all of them are white, as a black person i think people tend to overlook things like interracial conflict or overlook harmful aspects of foriegn cultures in the name of some vague notion of tolerance amd acceptance.Like i know very well that your transgender daughter would have to hide herslef in my home country such things are looked down upon heavily.
@@toppedtop5787 I think you might have replied to the wrong comment 😅
The user you tagged who talked about their trans daughter was from a different thread.
This is completely outside your sphere of research, which is possibly why you haven't heard of it, but there are many, many works by modern islamic thinkers on hegemony, cultural heritage and the identity of societies.
yeeeee an upload, i've missed this channel :D
BRAVO! Welcome back! i'm rooting for you guys!!
Dude, every time you drop stuff, its gold 🪙
Insert "when the world needed them most" joke here. Good to see y'all back!
Glad I passed the thought experiments at the beginning with flying colors.
Excellent video. I’m trying to learn more about this stuff, and this video was almost too informative. I’ll have to rewatch it. Thanks. ✌️
First time been a Patreon, very happy to see my name. :3
I wish we all had a political education class in highschool or uni served this way. Maybe, our democracies could be better then. Thank you for a deep dive
Bruh I was in the middle of binging all y’all’s videos when this one popped up in my notifs.
Nationalism and Culture by Rudolf Rocker is a must read for this subject
This video is so much better, because you are not trying to take someone down who isn't your enemy. Might have to look at the rest of them.
SUOMI MAINITTU, TORILLE!!
fr tho, great video, I've been watching you guys non-stop and I'm really enjoying what you put out.
It's been a while that i've been in contact with the degrowth discussion so it will be cool to see a t3 deep dive into it.
Back when i was into Degrowth, it's main arguments were as to why growth is not needed for a good life and how a good life could look in a world without mandatory and enforced growth, while it's oponents focused on "degrowth is not possible (because our retirement system is a ponzi sheme)". So i'd be curious to see some discussion about arguments as to why degrowth is impossible and how to overcome/solve those.
I missed you guys so much
Jesus christ the callout "you're probably thinking of a modern 1984" in 6:00
Been loving the contect, hping for more
Amazing video!
Although, you forgot to mention the part where Solidarność allowed the neoliberal shock therapy to happen and then turn their members into reactionaries
Thanks for video ❤very good work
The Finngolian tribes will not forget this offense.
That was the world's most obscure Electric Six reference.
I've had more intelligent and eye opening conversations with people that basically just exsist at rock bottom living rent free than i ever had with fellow co workers who society would see as "normal"
Typically co workers or people working full time with lives and responsibilities they actively managed would very very very rarely allow much depth to sneak its way into conversations even one on one.
There was always resistance to get into actual personal reflection that required the willingness of one to see themselves outside of their ongoing narrative. And i get it work takes up too much from ones brain capacity and deep reflection of oneself can be entirely exhausting. That's why I won't just immediately disregard individuals who society see as rejects because they might be our current times unpaid and unacknowledged philosopher's.
"This is water" has become my favourite saying
I also suggest Laruelle, Althusser and Machiavelli as a good thinkers helpful to the Left nowadays.
Great video
Despite the numerous Frenchies, this was a very good and informative essay.
Once again, shoutout for wrestling highlights. I feel like its storytelling potential should've been used more in academic circles.
this approach to alliances reminds me of the book The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
Your videos are always insightful, thank you for your hard work. I'm no stranger to long form video essay with a pinch of humor but I do find your videos hard to follow or at least lacking visual variety for me to actively watch rather than listen so when you break off for a visual gag and a punchline I'm somewhat lost and sometime have to go back which can be frustrating.
Thank you
I have to watch at least twice to parse what's going on. Genius algorithm optimization. Jokes aside alliance making is a topic i care a lot and this seems useful, though practice will have to wait cause i have yet to find one of those fabled communities political theorist keep talking about.
I find it hillarious how he gets overwhelmed by his own questions
The dominatrix is wild lol
Regarding the language jokes.
I thought this was all just jokes and memes about polish, but last week I watched Forst on Netflix and I can confirm it was like 90% of “KURWA JA PIJERDOLE!!”
Glad you're back :)
6:08 At first, I did. But there is no war, there is only order. It looks more like Brave New World to me.
> There is no war in Ba Sing Se
18:07 got me for a second until I remembered what channel this was.
polska przejmuje ten film! 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
awesome stuff
Wait... I'm in air!
What do you think a "more militant wing" of the left-wing would look like? Both in general and a more specific example for, say, the US?
Probably some left wing clone of trump but younger and on social media like a Marxist version of Andrew Tate without the women hatred or a Republican version of Kirstin cinema that pretends to be right wing but is a secret Marxist that uses methods of project 2025 but for left wing purposes rather than for Christian nationalism
It would come from a prospective and radicalized labor movement. Which we don't have
Such a good video
Another TTT video another book on the reading list... I swear one day I'll actually read these books. I absolutely loved the video. Definetely showed some super interesting philosophers, ideas and much food for thought.
Also did the one editing the video have some kind of encounter with furries during the hiatus? haha
They're back!!!!!
42:19 this is a fourth wall breaking experience
I pretty much at this point judge any theory of movements on this: will it include and protect my trans daughter? I am not shading anyone here, or the video, i am just stating a fact, I am exhausted by having to be so vigilant, on all fronts. I want no part of any theory or movement that questions or excludes or ignores or minimizes her. Start asking stupid questions, with any intent, and i am out. It is not narrowness it is survival. The gauntlet is every day, all day. If people don't like it then they need to stop being stupid and saying things they would never say about any other kind of person, and stop discriminating against my family.
I don't think that they're pointing at a certain ideology here. Panek is mostly just presenting how to theoretically build effective counter hegemonic alliances in contrast to "it's totally organic" with lots of trust me bro energy from gramsci. They donk on those damn trust the party clowns but that's just about it. It's up to you to find a community that is aligned with your goals the most or hell just built one.
Can you provide some experience from yours and your daughter's lives? I'm from an entirely different society and country and we've got no openly trans people. I'm looking for first-hand parent experience
changing the status quo away from its current state is probably the best chance for your family if i’m being honest… more independence, autonomy, and less government comfortability and governed morality can only be a good thing getting to a societally checked rather than authoritarian checked system that does not allow for and protects against centralization and discrimination…. but need more awareness and public agency for an emotionally driven response to change our hegemonic norms atm
i wish all the best for you and your fam 🫶🏼🤝
ty !!
'legebetequoi' is how I'm saying this from now on 😂
OH FUCK I GET FD SIGNIFIER NOW!!
At first I was like "its sounds like Empty Signifier haha" but then I thought about it. What does FD stand for?
And that's just it. Nothing. FD is an Empty Signifier within the name FD Signifiier.
Fuck me that's good.
Woke is a useful anti-signifier; since it is used in place of "Black", "Gay", and "Communist". Three words that hold a lot of baggage as an anti-progress rallying cry.
The "Wololo" at 18:08 took me out lmfaooo 😂
babe wake up new think that through video
A smart person indeed
0:35 Woah, rare that I see Street Fighter the movie references
Obviously I don't speak for all autistic people, but given how social rules and hegemony have stuck out as arbitrary things me and my autistic friends notice but our neurotypical peers don't I feel like this lesson will be more shocking for neurotypical people. Given the violence, social isolation and just general hostility autistic people face when they don't fit hegemony or if they outwardly acknowledge the hegemony that neurotypicals think is natural the dominant and violent nature of hegemony has been made clear to me and my autistic friends pretty much since the earliest days we can remember going out in public. Masking is in many ways like acknowledging hegemony and applying its rules as a camoflague to avoid becoming its target (to expel all whom defy it). Similarly, it doesn't surprise me that the proportion of autistic people who are also gender non-conforming is also relatively large. Conforming to norms as if they don't even exist as normative rules and instead as a natural phenomenon is more done for our own safety, and only performed for the minimum amount of time and effort necessary to stay safe (so if we're fortunate enough to find a community we know will protect us while we do not conform to hegemony, then we can shed the mask with much less fear of violent repercussions).
Just rambling at this point, haha, but yeah it's extremely frustrating how so many people don't realise the violence inherent in upholding hegemony because they take it as a given and thus do not face its violence as directly.
To keep with the water analogy of the video being neurodivergent feels like being a dolphin. You're still in water, you can't really not be in water, but the water is also actively hostile to you and if you don't realize you are in water you'll drown and die.
And from the fish perspective they might even see you reaching for air and get genuinely concerned for you, thinking you're harming yourself, and might even drown you in an attempt to help (for exemple stuff like ABA).
I'm autistic and can't stand arbitrary rules, that I can strongly agree upon, but there is nothing that stops me from being myself except societal/familial pressure, and that liberal democracies have been the best at fighting cultural hegemony, and there is a reason why you see that western countries are some of the few that have legalized gay marriage and have come to accept LGBT rights, sometimes even when its against the majority of its own electorate. That is why I am so glad to be living in one and don't take it for granted. I will always fight against Conservatives willing to take that away and maintaining and spreading this freedom (particularly east if you are European) should be focused on to create the happiest societies.
@@tortoisewarrior4855 I can smell the sheltered affluence from here 😂
@@jacoboc2244 Absolute top to bottom nonsense, have a terrible day
@@jacoboc2244 No, and neither does anyone on the left despite your deliberate misunderstanding of basic concepts.
Thanks for the video. A closer look at Polish politics on this channel would be interesting as we ''Europeans'' face a new world post events in the Ukraine. In Ireland many people see an unfettered and indifferent EU elite arising, and local parties somewhat echoing the events pan-Europe. Go raith maith agaibh arís.
Glad to see another video. Not as sensational as the Kurzgesagt ones but whatever.
Damn, now I want to learn Polish to watch your other channel
8:11 you sneaky bastard….
I just saw modern day america when asked to visualise a dystopia, so I quess I passed the test
At first I thought 1984, but then thought it would be too cliché so I went for a capitalist dystopia - and imagined Night City from Cyberpunk 2077.
The logical continuation from Gramsci is Mao. Grassroots intellectuals and war of positions lead logically into the mass line and two-line struggle. Similarly, cultural revolution answers the need to overcome bourgeois hegemony in the superstructure regardless of the status of the revolution in the material base. I am a bit surprised that nobody in popular philosophy/political theory ever makes that connection, though.
James Lindsay does. Eric Voegelin started to as well.
At 23.57 you asked for a name of an area of study that could offer a critical perspective on theory. Google says epistemology or metatheory. Do I get a cookie?
6:00 I saw the reign of terror in a post French Revolution.
21:44 Tool!!!!
Please answer one question for me:
Imagine we have a cake that crudely represents global wealth, and it is divided among the people by some magical force.
99% of it goes to 1% of the people. The remaining 1% goes to 99% of the people.
The latter 99% commence endlessly debating how the 1% should be allocated.
Q: Why are we all fighting over crumbs?
Hello, I'm here to hear about Laclau. Guess what country I'm from... Yes, we are all annoying, we love hearing people talk about ourselves. Sorry.
Great video! I’m rewatching it and was wondering, why is Gramschi a favorite of the far right? I never saw an answer but I could’ve missed it.
If I were to guess, it's because liberalism is the dominant ideology of today and both the left and right are critical of it, though for completely different reasons. So many right-wingers pride themselves on being contrarian to the status quo (liberalism) and so may find Gramsci's framework compelling because it seeks to analyse this liberal cultural hegemony.
1:26:19
Yup, thats a kink
If you are not interested in politics... politics is interested in you!
This video hurt my smooth brain :(
Anyways, is there a list of recommended reading on these topics?
Gramsci a favorite of the alt-right?
Please!
What else do you have to say?
31:36 the words are tied to what I call "trans-platonic forms"! You make of copy in your head of the things that exist in the external world! A word is a label for that copy!
Finally
I gave this video my focused attention and frankly I got very little out of it. I feel like it was intended for a specific audience that isn't me and I wish that had been more clear at the beginning before I spent so much time on it.
Also you need to find some balance with your sarcasm. To someone that isn't already engrossed in the material it can be hard to tell when you're making an earnest point but having fun with it and when you're being ironic and actually mean the opposite.
The elon musk inclusion did not age well 😆
To be honest a lot of this "alliance building" rhetoric makes opposite effect on me because .... well, sense of betrayal, also sense of being used and discarded. Big political movements ... can they ever be truly emphatic? Very few want to be soldiers in endless war .... esp. after decade or so of failed promises, etc. Yes, there are die hards who literally can do all this their whole life.
Your issue relies on the assumption that you have to identify with a sole political party. You have to be versatile yourself and enter or leave alliances based on what's closer to your political demand
Exercise didnt work. I imagined pretty much my country lol
you get peronismo
I dont understand what "this is water" means
The postmodernists (i.e. post structuralists , post-marxist) appropriated Gramsci. Gramsci still adheres to the revolutionary thought of Marxism-Leninism. His national popular will emphasizes the importance of the alliance of workers and peasants. Unlike the interpretation of Laclau and Mouffee which capitulates to bourgeois elections.
Is this a translation of the Polish videos? Just cuz I watched one's begining once, and got until the fish joke until I realised I dont understand Polish to watch the entire thing
I think in their previous community posts they said this was originally in English and later translated to Polish