Episode 170 Second Opinions: Leftists on "Society of the Spectacle"
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Mark and Seth ask Doug Lain (Zero Squared), Brett O'Shea (Revolutionary Left Radio), and C. Derick Varn (Symptomatic Redness) what they think of Debord and PEL's treatment of the book on Ep #170.
End song: "Open Your Eyes (Wake Up)" from Tyler Hislop, interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #24.
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| 0:00.0 | The partial examine life depends on your support. |
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| 0:07.5 | slash support. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, you're listening to the partially examined life episode 170 after show or part three, |
| 0:21.8 | something we talked about, Geedabores, society of the spectacle, and I'm here with Seth |
| 0:27.1 | Paskin and some special guests to weigh in on how inadequately we treated the book. |
| 0:32.6 | I mentioned at the end of that recording that I wanted to run this pass. |
| 0:35.7 | I felt a little bad that maybe we don't take these radical left things as seriously |
| 0:40.1 | as some of our listeners might like. |
| 0:42.2 | So we wanted to get some representation from other podcasts that you might want to check |
| 0:46.4 | out. |
| 0:47.4 | Doug, you probably run your podcast the longest introduce yourself. |
| 0:50.3 | My name is Douglas Lane. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm the publisher of zero books and I do a podcast for zero books called Zero Squared. |
| 0:56.9 | I've been doing a podcast longer than I've been doing it for zero books. |
| 1:00.3 | I used to do a podcast called Diet Soap and I'm some sort of dirty comedy probably. |
| 1:05.2 | And you've had G-JEC on your show recently. |
| 1:07.5 | I did have G-JEC on my show and not so long ago. |
| 1:09.8 | It was a big score. |
| 1:11.0 | It was a big moment. |
| 1:12.0 | I felt like I could stop doing podcasts after that. |
| 1:15.0 | It's all been downhill from there. |
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