meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Antifada

BONUS: Mad Max Anarchism

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Furiosa obviously doesn't have the same sort of coherence I would say, but I think there are parts of it that were extremely powerful and strong, particularly the first act, which for folks who haven't seen it sorry spoiler here

0:15.7

takes place in and around essentially a like feminist utopian

0:21.1

Anarchist commune that Feariososa is kidnapped from as a child by Raiders.

0:27.0

But well, so when I saw that this is the Greenland of many mothers.

0:32.0

Yeah, that begins the film. when I saw that that was my

0:35.1

impression to it's oh this is going to be the commune defending itself against the

0:39.0

Raiders and I thought that's cool and but you know the more I think about it we

0:41.9

don't really know too much about the

0:43.8

Greenland of many mothers other than it's matriarchal and seems nice and like

0:47.6

everybody is extremely brave and heroic you know we I don't know if it's the commune

0:52.2

so much it's just a good place with apparently good people in it.

0:56.0

Well what we do know that this is I guess now we can actually already get into some kind of anarchist stuff here.

1:04.6

The French anthropologist Pierre Clostra, I don't know if that's how you actually say his name,

1:09.6

but he died in a motorcycle accident unfortunately think, in the early 1980s.

1:15.0

For people who care about theories stuff,

1:17.0

he's one of the main influences

1:19.0

on Delus and Guatari in the war machine chapter

1:22.1

of 1, thousand plateaus.

1:24.0

He makes the argument while engaging with this group of people,

1:28.6

this set of tribes called the Yamamami in,

1:32.0

and I also don't know if that's how that's pronounced so forgive me in South America

1:36.6

mostly in Brazil that essentially this is a society that is against the state

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean KB and AP Andy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sean KB and AP Andy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.