Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism, and... Metamodernism?
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Austin Hayden Smidt (Political philosopher, filmmaker, actor, writer, podcast host, and all around wonderful guy) joins Breht to discuss the philosophy and political relevance of post-structuralism, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism aka "metamodernism". They explore the connections between these philosophies and Leftism, exploring both the contradictions between postmodernism and Marxism as well as the connection between postmodernism and post-left anarchism! Topics include: Liberation Theology, Sartre, Irony, Sincerity, Neoliberalism, Post-Postmodernism, Meta-Narratives, how social media shapes our psychology, and more!
Check out Owls at Dawn (one of Breht's favorite podcasts) here: http://www.owlsatdawn.com
Check out Austin's Medium here: https://medium.com/@austinhaydensmidt
Follow Austin on Twitter @austin_hayden
Austin Hayden Smidt is Co-host @wisecrack (Show Me The Meaning), @owls_at_dawn & @idigthismovie and a producer @inventfuturedoc.
NEW LOGO from BARB, a communist graphic design collective! You can find them on twitter or insta @Barbaradical. Please reach out to them if you are in need of any graphic design work for your leftist projects!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host Ann Comrade Redo-Shei and today we have on Austin Hayden from Owls at Don, |
| 0:14.1 | Wisecrack and I dig this movie to talk about post-structuralism, post-modernism and meta-modernism. |
| 0:20.8 | It's a fascinating conversation on a very difficult set of topics but I hope that we |
| 0:25.4 | did it justice and Austin is a very capable, articulate and intelligent guest to have on to |
| 0:30.8 | tackle this big topic. |
| 0:32.6 | But before we get into the episode, I wanted to give the results of our logo contest. |
| 0:37.6 | So in second place is CJ Bones. |
| 0:41.2 | He is built by Bones on Instagram and he created the logo that we are using for our Patreon. |
| 0:48.8 | And in first place we got a new collective, a communist collective from Canada called |
| 0:54.7 | Barb BARB. |
| 0:56.6 | They are a radical collective of communists who do graphic design work. |
| 1:01.0 | They just started their social media presence and they are on Instagram and Twitter at Barb |
| 1:07.2 | A Radical. |
| 1:08.8 | Barb A Radical. |
| 1:09.8 | So go check them out, support them. |
| 1:11.6 | If any leftist project has any need for graphic designers, you can go to either one of these |
| 1:16.3 | comrades, we'll link to them in the show notes to get that work done. |
| 1:20.6 | And before we move on, I wanted to read the reason for the design that Barb created. |
| 1:25.5 | Because I think it's really cool and it shows how much thought went into this new logo. |
| 1:28.9 | So they said, we are all dedicated listeners of RevLeft Radio and have so much affection |
| 1:33.1 | for you, your show and what you're doing with it. |
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