Episode 27: Who's Afraid of Gothic Marxism? w/ The Lit Crit Guy
The Antifada
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this most terrifying Halloween episode, we are joined by the Lit Crit Guy (@TheLitCritGuy) for a discussion of Gothic Marxism, zombie neoliberalism, horror movies, and more!
What is Gothic Marxism and how is it useful for understanding the horrors of capitalism? How do the stories a society scares itself with reflect its material concerns? Consumerist zombies and aristocratic vampires; Elizabeth Bathory has nothing on Peter Thiel. The dialectical tension between Goth and punk. Can this backward-looking aesthetic ever be harnessed in service of proletarian liberation, or is Jamie being a reactionary hypocrite when she dresses like a witch and listens to Joy Division?
The crew finishes things out with takes on the movies Mandy, Hereditary, and First Reformed (warning: contains spoilers).
Happy Hallowe'en, you dirty commies!!!
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Outro music: Roky Erickson - I Walked With a Zombie
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Transcript
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| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to the Antipada over on Restis Best. I'm Jamie Peck. I'm A.P. Andy. And we are joined by phone today by John, aka the Litt Crit guy, who is an academic and writer for Northern England, |
| 0:23.6 | and you can find his work at |
| 0:25.0 | pictrian.com slash the wit Crit Guy, had John. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, thank you so much for having me on the phone. |
| 0:30.5 | Thanks so much for coming. |
| 0:32.2 | You were really excited by the Rev Left radio episode you did on Gothic Marxism and I think that the way that we all met was through Brett in general. |
| 0:41.0 | He kind of changed on drugs to we're super thankful to Brett as always. |
| 0:46.1 | And we are a goth socialist podcast as we said during the Jake Flores episode |
| 0:51.8 | so it's especially up our alley. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah I for people who maybe don't know who I am or what I do I am an academic I |
| 1:00.8 | research the Gothic in all of its forms from the 19th century up to the |
| 1:05.2 | present and at the moment I'm especially interested in how the Gothic and horror intersects |
| 1:10.8 | with leftist politics which is what Brett had me on to talk about and |
| 1:14.3 | which is what hopefully we can talk about today. We are gonna talk so much about |
| 1:18.4 | it because that is extremely in our wheelhouse. Hell yeah. We're gonna flesh out |
| 1:21.6 | some of the things in Brett's episode that |
| 1:23.7 | could use fleshing out and denounce him as a MLM. No just kidding we're not |
| 1:29.4 | going to do that. We love Brett. We should also mention people are going to be listening to this episode on |
| 1:34.3 | Halloween so it's especially seasonal and topical infestive and we know the Lickrit |
| 1:42.0 | guy is working in the literary lab late tonight in England. |
| 1:47.0 | I am up, I have got my glass of whiskey and all of my unholy texts around me. Very nice. Just save that copy of the |
| 1:58.6 | Necronomicon that you were saying you were going to send our way. Yeah, yeah, totally. |
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