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The Kingless Generation — 97 episodes

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China as #1 in Japanese Literature: Battles of Coxinga, pᵗ 2 [PREVIEW]

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China as #1 in Japanese Literature: Battles of Coxinga, pᵗ 1 (Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 1715)

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China as #1 in Japanese Literature: “Taishokan” [PREVIEW] (Kōwaka ballad, by 1553)

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Dethrone the Dictaphone

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An Infant ‘West’ meets a Middle-Aged ‘East’ [PREVIEW]: Galland’s retelling of Shams-al-Nahār & Ibn Bakkār (1704–1717)

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Oriental Despotism comes w/ Occidental Colonization: Ibn Bakkār & Shams-al-Nahār in the Calcutta Ⅱ Nights (1839–42)

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Truth and Testimony, Drugs and Attachment in Bourgeois-Revolutionary Baghdad [PREVIEW]: Re-Orienting Ibn Bakkār and Shams-al-Nahār in the Arabic manuscript of the 1,001 Nights

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1,001 Nights: A murdered ancestor to European Romance
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Eranos 4 [PREVIEW]: It was us (all along)...

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Eranos 3: Mircea Eliade, Mellon Fellow of Death, w/ Scott Ryan of the Dustlight Archives

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Eranos pᵗ 2 w/ Scott [PREVIEW]: Furio Jesi vs the Satanic-Orientalists

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Aether Whores: Eranos and the 20th-c liberal-bourgeois vanguard, w/ Scott of the Dustlight Archives

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(15)90s kids: Thomas Nashe [PREVIEW], A Son of the Silk Road in Merry Old England

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(15)90s Kids Know: Lizzie’s bois, overture

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Casual chat, core content [PREVIEW]

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Weebs of the Ages: Lafcadio Hearn, the “Brownie” who taught Japan to want whiteness

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Organizing Bourgeois Revolution in East Eurasia [PREVIEW]: The Water Margin (水浒传) w/ River

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Organizational Proprioception w/ River

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A Holiday Ramble in Hibiya Park [PREVIEW]

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Left=Noided, Noided=Left: w/ River (featuring Fire in the Minds of Men)

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Britain is a Figment of the Crusader Imagination [PREVIEW]: King Arthur as Farang Mahdī

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Sisterfucker: Profound Desires of the Gods w/ Nathan, pt 3

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The Birth of the Comprador Chief and the Defeat of the Secret Society [PREVIEW]: Profound Desires of the Gods w/ Nathan, part 2

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A Yakuza Filmmaker Takes it Back to the Dawn of Time: Imamura Shōhei’s Profound Desire of the Gods, part 1

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Japanese First! (into the digital prison and the war machine) [PREVIEW]

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Riffing in the Dark w/ Sina Rahmani

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English for Compradors on the Eve of the Final Enclosure [PREVIEW]: A Journey into TED Talk Hell

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When Karate was a Weapon of the Colonized Working Class: The “China Hand Technique” in Japanese Proletarian Fiction

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Eat the Yellow Powder, Get in the Wara [PREVIEW]: The first king, the first collapse, and the first underground bunker society in the Avesta and the Ṛigveda

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総論①階級格差社会には始まりがあった
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The Conversion of Kevin Gaijinson ケビン・ガイジンソンの転向 [PREVIEW]

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Ritual Serial Murder and the Birth of a Ruling Class: Popol Vuh, Title of Totonicapán (Maya, 16th c.) [PREVIEW]

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Roasting out the old year

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Fireside Chats on Turtle Island, take 1

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The Classic Postclassic Maya: Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Popol Vuh (K’iche’, 1550s)

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Asiatic Athena: karmic roots of Greek culture in Hittite class struggle (Song of Release, 15th c. BCE) [PREVIEW]

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Consuming the Samurai Self (“The Playboy Dialect,” 1770, Japan)

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The origins of class society and revolutionary consciousness according to Second-Temple Judaism: 1 Enoch, Jubilees (Palestine, 3rd-2nd c. BCE) [PREVIEW]

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Return to Camões’ “Isle of Love” w/ Min

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ParaPower Mapping the Six-Pointed Crusader State [PREVIEW]

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 8: a mushroom dinner, a falsified archive

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 7: The Shield Society of Notting Hill [PREVIEW]

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 6: Clockwork Albion

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 5: Ogawa Ayako, ballet master of Cold War Japan [PREVIEW]

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 4: beasts in human guise

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 3: in the shadow of HUAC [PREVIEW]

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 2: communists in cashmere

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The Last Crusade (inshAllah) [PREVIEW]

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Doraemon’s Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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Landback in Eurasia, 622 CE [PREVIEW]

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Traces of Japanese matriliny in the Rainy Night Critique of Ranks (by 1021)

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Kingless Reads: How To Master Secret Work, pt 2 (South Africa, 1980s)
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Kingless Reads: How to Master Secret Work, pt 1 (South Africa, 1980s)
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Ruling classes have always wanted us dead [PREVIEW]: Atraḫasīs (Babylon, 18th c. BCE); The Extinction Narrative (2young Badazz, 2021 CE)

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Collectivize the Buddha: Dharma talks w/ Marcus, pt 2

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Land of the Rising Tensions [PREVIEW]

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A Host Questions a Host: Dharma talks w/ Marcus, pt 1

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LoFi Botanical Ramble: Gerald Horne, Race War! (2004); etc [PREVIEW]

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Hammurabi’s COIN: Agushaya; The Cleaner; The Poor Man of Nippur; The Doctor; Sargon, Lord of the Lies (Akkad, 18th c. BCE seq)

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Weebs of the Ages: Ivan Morris, Mishima, and aesthetic GLADIO in Japan’s fourth reich, part 1 w/ Prez [PREVIEW]

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The ‘Real Little Mermaid’ was Indigenous, w/ Šuŋgmánitu: The Lusíads (Portugal, 1572), Disney’s Little Mermaid (1989), Ponyo (2008)

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Transcendental Settlerism vs Landback Enlightenment: Thoreau, Kunikida Doppo, Walt Whitman, Jairus Banaji, Arthur Rosenberg [PREVIEW]
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w/ Prez: Fascism from Hispania to Manchuria

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The Islamic Picaresque and the Birth of the Bourgeoisie: al-Jawbarī, Book of Charlatans (Damascus, 1210s) [PREVIEW]

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Mythodology with Marcus

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Imperial Liberalism Lost: Endō Shūsaku, “Mothers,” (Japan, 1969) [PREVIEW]
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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch5, The ‘Plan’ for an All-Russian Political Newspaper; Conclusion

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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 4 pt 2, The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 4 pt 1, The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 3 pt 2, Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 3 pt 1, Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 2, The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy
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Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 1, Dogmatism and ‘Freedom of Criticism’
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The Hellenistic Synthesis and the Christian Image of Man (When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible)

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Hearts and Minds: Imamura Eiji, “Travelling Companion” (Changchun, 1938); Chae Manshik, “Mr. Pang” (Seoul, 1946) [PREVIEW]

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Shotgun Blues: The Abe Shinzō Assassination

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w/ Laihall: Combat Techno-Transegalitarianism [PREVIEW]

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w/ Laihall: The Secret of Societies (Brian Hayden, The Power of Ritual in Prehistory, NW Turtle Island, 2018)

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Thulêan Kewpie Doll ET: Doraemon’s Little Star Wars (1985/2022) [PREVIEW]

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Turning the Wheel of the Dialectic: Bhagavad Gītā (India, after 5 c. BCE); Ajith, “A Critique of Brahmanist Ethics”

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The Liberality of Evil: there’s a right way and a wrong way to wither away (Ariyoshi Sawako, “Village of Eguchi,” 1958) [PREVIEW]

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Azov vs. the Orcs: a dialectical demonology of whiteness (Amadís de Gaula, James Connolly, Einsatzgruppen)

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Zen was made up by a guy in Illinois: D.T. Suzuki & Paul Carus [PREVIEW]
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Light and Air for the Proletariat

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w/ Khālid ibn Yaʿqūb: Idolatry, Semiotics & the Self [PREVIEW]

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The First Private Property: Mother (Sumer, 3 m. BCE); Chūshingura (Japan, 1748 CE)
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Combat Parasocialism: Book of Thoth (Egypt, 300 BCE – 300 CE?), Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations (Kenya, 1971), The Gateless Gate (China, 1228) [PREVIEW]

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Marx failed to consider: Ishikawa Jun, “Jesus of the Ruins”; Joe Moore, “Production Control” (Japan, 1945)

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Rule by Causing to Speak: Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant (Egypt, 20th c. BCE) [PREVIEW]

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Thought Living and Dead and the Mass Line

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Revisionist Buddhism: Nihon ryōi ki (Japan, 9th c.)

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Capitalist Modernity: Kobayashi Takiji (Japan, 1930) [PREVIEW]

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White Devils: Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (Morocco, al-ʾAndalus, Mali, 14th c.), Esplandián (Spain, ca. 1500)
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Silk Road: Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Iran, China, India), Ibn Faḍlān (Iraq, Russia), 10th c. CE [PREVIEW]

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Ancient Empires: Cain & Abel (Hebrew/Greek, 3rd c. BCE), Umisachi & Yamasachi (Japan, 712 CE)

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The Grain State: Sheep and Grain (Sumer, 22nd c. BCE), Aizawa Seishisai (Japan, 1825 CE) [PREVIEW]

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The Hypostasis of the Archons: Human history as the history of relations of production