Ep 119 - Merci bad coup w/ Eric-John Russel
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Scholar and madman Eric-John Russel joins us to discuss his journal the Cured Quail, the political origins of the Situationist International, and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.
After that Sean and Andy discuss Trump's low-energy coup attempt, especially why so many anticipated it and why it doesn't seem to be working.
Support the Antifada by becoming a Patron for the full Spine Check episode on Society of the Spectacle, released Friday.
Get Cured Quail 1 and preorder Cured Quail 2 at https://curedquail.com/
Society of the Spectacle pdf: https://libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf
Eric-John Russel's forthcoming book on Debord and Hegel:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/spectacular-logic-in-hegel-and-debord-9781350157637/
Recent SI reader from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338897/the-situationist-international/
Don Hammerquist's essay on right populism and international capital: https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-stuff-from-old-guy-part-1.html
Matthew Lyons - Resisting Trump's Coup https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2020/09/resisting-trumps-coup.html
Business leaders plan response if Trump disputes election results:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/business/business-groups-election-results/index.html
music:
Refused - Rather be Dead
Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't like to do the unrest is best thing anymore if we can help it so |
| 0:16.4 | yeah we don't have to start at how I think you want. |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah, the new era the orange the orange menace is defeated. |
| 0:23.5 | Fascism has been destroyed. |
| 0:24.5 | We don't have to talk about unrest is best. |
| 0:26.5 | And unrest is bad now. |
| 0:28.0 | It's tripping up Biden's agenda. |
| 0:31.0 | Biden will be able to pass the most progressive agenda in history if only |
| 0:34.7 | there's no unrest. They're the people's police now. Popular militias on the |
| 0:41.4 | streets for Joe Biden. |
| 0:43.0 | So we will be talking about the election and this attempted coup later |
| 0:48.0 | and why Sean and I are skeptical that there will be a coup. |
| 0:52.0 | But first we're going to... skeptical that there will be a coup. |
| 0:53.0 | But first we're going to talk about society of the spectacle. |
| 0:57.0 | We're going to do one of our spine check series |
| 1:00.0 | of bending the spines of some of our favorite works of Marxist literature. |
| 1:05.0 | And with us for that we have Eric John Russell who is the author of a forthcoming book, |
| 1:13.2 | Protacular Logic in Hegel and Deboard, |
| 1:16.2 | and he is the editor of Cured Quayle. |
| 1:19.4 | So Eric John, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah, thanks, man. |
| 1:22.4 | Thanks a lot. It's an absolute pleasure to chat. Thank you're |
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