Episode Six: Brutalism, Infantilism and #Doom w/ Ross Wolfe
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
If you thought last episode was arcane, get a load of this shit! We sit down with Ross Wolfe of https://thecharnelhouse.org to venture into the farthest, darkest reaches of left theory... in order to resurrect the nightmares of dead generations within the minds of our listeners.
Ross discusses how Sean nearly came to blows with famous fashy troll Kantbot at a Verso Books party. Jamie informs Sean that she thought he was a violent horror man when they first dated. We debate the monetary value of a human rib if it's broken within a police riot and subsequent lawsuit.
Crew gets down to discussing the political economy of architecture, the merits of grandiosity in construction and the mercenary optimism of high modernist internationalism. Ross explains the evolution of the #doom meme and origins of Yacht Communism.
Antifada then does another deep dive into 20th century theory and practice in a wide-ranging discussion of anarchism, council communism, Bordiga, bourgeois barbarism and communization. We all end up slightly depressed at the end, but in different and interesting ways.
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Here's the hilarious Kantbot video: https://youtu.be/iOk6HB609po
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| 0:00.0 | The Antifada is more than a podcast. It's a specter haunting the globe. |
| 0:11.0 | It is the synthesis of the two most frightening things |
| 0:14.0 | for the cheerleaders of its reactionary hell-w |
| 0:16.4 | one ravaged by the unfounded savagery's capital in its states. |
| 0:21.0 | Antiposs super soldiers and into power. Antifossed Super Soldiers and Interfow. |
| 0:24.0 | BASH the BASH and a global uprising. |
| 0:26.0 | Be prepared to enter |
| 0:28.0 | the Antifotum mindset. I'm Jamie Peck, I'm Sean Liby. |
| 0:45.0 | And we're here with our friend, writer and historian Ross Wolf. |
| 0:50.0 | And we are recording live to tape from Left His Best Headquarters, about a half an hour walk |
| 0:56.5 | away from the gentrification ravaged Gowanus Canal in the Coastal Elite bubble of America, |
| 1:02.4 | downtown Brooklyn USA. Hell yeah. in the coastal elite bubble of America |
| 1:02.6 | downtown Brooklyn USA. |
| 1:04.2 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | How's everybody doing tonight? |
| 1:06.7 | We're feeling good? |
| 1:08.2 | A little tired, but uh, not the worst I've ever felt. |
| 1:13.0 | Ross? |
| 1:14.0 | No complaints. |
| 1:15.0 | I could complain because it's, we're |
| 1:18.0 | recording at about 7 PM Eastern Standard Time on a Wednesday and I've been up for 15 hours. This is me |
| 1:25.6 | recording on a work day so we'll see how that goes. But uh... Same. I'm also |
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