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This Wreckage

Ep 201 - New Years' Eve Dérive w/ Eric-John Russell (first half)

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Old friend Eric-John Russell wanders with us through a variety of topics including critical theory of art and culture, the maturation and end of the Situationist International, and our traditional holiday discussion of antisemitism.

After the paywall we talk about Triangle of Sadness and Walter Benjamin's Emergency Brake, and if George Costanza is Jewish.

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Check out Cured Quail and the interview in Book Forum

Read: Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

Song: Louie Zong - Quail

Transcript

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0:00.0

And they have a similar,

0:09.0

have a similar,

0:10.0

yeah, they've got a similar back story where someone in like the 50s stole Trotsky's death mask and sold it and

0:20.4

And these two rival factions who will both accuse one another of killing Trotsky are

0:27.6

arguing about where it is and so he's trying to track down the death mask and it's like

0:31.8

well I can one up you on that.

0:35.0

That's good.

0:36.0

Okay, it's like, what, third place.

0:38.6

Yeah, that's okay.

0:40.1

But it was still on.

0:41.7

It's simply a fact similarly. It's not as good. It's not facsimile. It's simply a facsimile. It's not the real shit.

0:45.0

They should manufacture the masks and just wear them.

0:48.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would do that man.

0:51.0

Don the character mask of the revolutionary

0:54.4

for vendetta t for vendetta

0:57.5

they gotta get better security man not just when he was alive but also when he was

1:01.1

dead Trotsky's entire and yet I couldn't get into the library

1:05.1

there. They would not let me in. What do you mean they wouldn't let you in?

1:08.7

You have to wait for Esteban or whatever to amble on in. And if he's not there you can't go in yeah

1:15.1

who is like his grandson or something? Yeah yes yeah I think it's okay

1:19.4

well it's nice that it there's still make work jobs for Trotsky's ancestors, you know.

1:25.0

Estabond.

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