Episodes
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Becoming Cube (Guided Meditation)
A guided meditation you can do with your Tungsten Cube.
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Superstructure 28: We Have Never Been Neoliberal, What Now?
In this episode, co-hosts Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo argue that the pandemic not only killed neoliberalism as a tacit ideological formation; it also revealed how neoliberal truisms have never captured the actual causal mechanisms and potentials that defined the past 50 years. Fleshing…
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Toy Story Part 2 (Full Episode)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure episode is the eleventh premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. Typically reserved for Patreon subscribers, this special two-part episode about Toy Story is available to the general public in full. For...
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The Last House on the Left
CW: trauma, abuse Will Beaman draws on personal experiences to reflect on how the problematic reduction of “deradicalization” to dialogues between fascists and anti-fascists resembles other forms of emotional and relational abuse. When the imperatives of “coalition-building” require victims of...
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Comforted & Chastened : A Liz Bruenig Special
In this special episode, hosts Natalie Smith and @moltopopulare take on the austere sexual politics promulgated by cultural critic and commentator Elizabeth or “Liz” Bruenig. Mirroring the tacit zero-sum logics built into her spouse Matt Bruenig’s analyses of political economy, Liz regularly...
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27 - Sunrise or DSA?
Co-hosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Maxximilian Seijo discuss recent critiques of the Sunrise Movement by influential members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on social media and in the pages of Jacobin Magazine. Problematizing the DSAers destructive zero-sum rhetoric regarding...
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26 - Mutual Aid By Any Other Name
Cohosts Natalie Smith and Will Beaman discuss mutual aid, highlighting the potentials of its often neglected monetary and linguistic dimensions. Reading against Dean Spade’s interpretation of mutual aid as fully internal or external to money and the state, Natalie and Will recast mutual aid...
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Toy Story Part 1 (Full Episode)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure episode is the tenth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the rest of the course, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in…
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Liz Files (Case #1): Birdicide
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Robocop (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews both our eight and ninth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are...
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Left Conversion Therapy w/ Ian from Twitter
Ian (@ian_as_portrait) joins Natalie Smith to discuss the hyper-normative left rhetoric of philosophy instructor and frequent Jacobin contributor Ben Burgis. Emblematic of a certain deadpan logical sobriety seen in certain left circles, Burgis’s debate style downplays heterogeneity, pleasure, and...
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Modern Movie Theory (MMT): Loki
Maxximilian Seijo, Andrés Bernal and Scott Ferguson plunge into the latest Disney Plus streaming series, Loki (2021) as part of their ongoing examination of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). For all its deliciously queer aesthetic & political potentials, they argue, Loki…
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Processions: 15 - The Desire Called Utopia
Frederic Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (page 16-17) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx...
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Processions: 14 - Where do babies come from?
Silvina Ocampo, "Forgotten Journey", in Thus Were Their Faces (page 1-3) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the...
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Processions: 13 - Finite Media
Sean Cubitt, Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technology (page 7) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores...
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Processions: 12 - Monetary Modernism
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (page 9-10) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money...
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Processions: 11 - Framing Historiography
Siegfried Kracauer, History, the Last Things Before the Last (page 42-43) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the...
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Star Wars: A New Hope Part 2 (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our seventh premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in…
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25 - The Official MMT Personality Test
Hosts Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo dive into the world of personality types as exemplified by the likes of astrology, MBTI and Enneagram. Complicating John Ganz’s recent dismissal of personal types as univocal, alienating and repressive, Naty and Maxx queer such typologies, drawing…
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Processions: 10 - The Agamben Relation
Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies, (Page 272-273) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the...
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Processions: 9 - Colonialism-for-itself
Ndongo Samba Sylla, Colonialism’s Neoliberal Origins (https://moneyontheleft.org/2021/06/14/neoliberalisms-colonial-origins/) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and...
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Processions: 8 - Hegel Falls From Heaven
G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Page 90) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money...
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Processions: 7 - Infinity Sign
Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Page 8-9) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at…
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Processions: 6 - Marx's Essence
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Page 127-128) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive...
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Dasha Files (Case #7: Hegel Edition)
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Processions: 5 - Hall of Mirrors
Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Vol. 2): Identity and Diaspora, "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (Page 67) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods,...
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Processions: 4 - Performing Money
Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Page 6) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the...
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Dasha Files (Case #6: Hegel Edition)
Dasha-in-herself encounters idealism. https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
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Processions: 3 - Our Journey
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri (Canto 1, lines 1-15) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the…
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Processions: 2 - Twinkle, Twinkle
The Stars Down to Earth, by Theodor W. Adorno (Page 48-49) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity…
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Processions: 1 - Postmodern Angst
Simulation and Simulacra, by Jean Baudrillard (Page 1) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of…
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Star Wars: A New Hope Part 1 (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our sixth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium...
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24 - On the PMC Question
@moltopopulare joins co-hosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo to problematize unquestioned leftist critiques of the “Professional Managerial Class,” or “PMC,” past and present. As exemplified by a recent episode of The Dig podcast, leftists frequently invoke the epithet “PMC”--as...
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Superestructura: Versión Sureña
¡Llegó el primer episodio de Superstructure en Español! Andrés Bernal (@andresintheory) y Natalie Smith (@orangeasm) conversan sobre la relevancia de la Teoría Monetaria Moderna para Latinoamérica con dos expertos económicos de la región, Jesus Resendiz (@Tlacuachito) y Daniel Rojas…
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Modern Movie Theory (MMT): The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Andrés Bernal joins Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo to discuss the historical and political implications of the latest Marvel streaming series, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Together, they tease out unstable contradictions between the show’s desires for racial and geopolitical…
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: Jaws (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our fifth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium...
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Modern Movie Theory (MMT): WandaVision
In this episode; Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo discuss the politics and aesthetics of Marvel’s WandaVision (2021), which was released via the Disney Plus streaming service earlier this year. Picking up questions about blockbuster form and apophatic analysis they’ve pondered in previous...
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Dasha Files (Case #5)
Dasha takes on Ranciere. https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
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Superstructure Vertical: Natan Last
Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo) speaks with Natan Last (@natanlast) about his recent essay for the Superstructure vertical, "A Graceful Kind of Non-Absence." Read it here: https://moneyontheleft.org/2021/04/07/a-graceful-kind-of-non-absence/ Link to our Patreon:...
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Announcement: Superstructure Vertical
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The Neoliberal Blockbuster: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our fourth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in...
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23 - Superstructure Cancels the Pope
Contra leftist praise for today’s seemingly anti-capitalist papacy, co-hosts Naty Smith, Maxx Seijo, & Will Beaman offer a critical close reading of “Fratelli Tutti,” Pope Francis' third and most recent encyclical. Unearthing the austere logics that inhere in Bergoglio's ideas of encounter,...
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Money, Literature & Trust with Rob Hawkes (Guest Lecture)
The Money on the Left Editorial Collective is proud to present a recent talk by English literature scholar Rob Hawkes titled, “‘The Power of Money is so Hard to Realize’: Literature, Money and Trust in George Gissing's 1891 Novel New Grub Street.” In it, Hawkes draws out urgent, though regularly...
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Dasha Files (Case #4)
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Dasha Files (Case #3)
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Dasha Files (Case #2)
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Dasha Files (Case #1)
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Money, Media & Modernity (Preview)
This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our third premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in...
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22 - Franciscan Fun Pack
Cohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, & Maxximilian Seijo are joined by Ian from Twitter (@tweet_boxian) to visit America’s favorite socialist family, the Bruenigs. They begin with reflections on a New York Times piece by Elizabeth Bruenig on the need to forgive the recently canonized Franciscan...
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Bonus: JG Resolution (with Andrés Bernal)
In the wake of the release of Rep. Ayanna Pressley's (D-MA) job guarantee resolution, Maxximilian Seijo invites Andrés Bernal to reflect on this historical moment in intersectional left-wing activism. Link to the resolution:...
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