Riley's Commie Book Club AKA "Better Read Than Dead": Psychopolitics

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It's TRASHSOLO II time, baby. Riley's (@raaleh) been back at the books, and talks about what Byung Chul Han's new Psychopolitics, out now on Verso. It's a fantastic book that speaks to a lot of where we are today with data, control, and predictability. I think it encapsulates a lot of the intellectual underpinnings of the show. Why we don't like Jay Shetty, why we hate the daycare world, and why we all think being an idiot is so important. It seems weird in the context of this review to ask, but do follow us on twitter @trashfuturepod Let me know if you liked this format/if you want to do more of Riley's Commie Book Club, because I really enjoyed doing it. Please direct all criticism of my grasp of theory to @coplandresident. The book is here, I encourage everyone to read it: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2505-psychopolitics xoxo love riley

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0:00.0	Start
0:02.0	Start taking up
0:03.0	I'm
0:04.0	Start taking up
0:06.0	you know Start taking up. Oh, Oh. Oh.
0:21.6	Oh.
0:22.6	Oh.
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0:24.6	Oh. Right. Hello. This is Riley doing a solo episode. My solo episode is, it has a lot of names. I think I've settled on Red Riley's Comey Book Club,
1:12.6	better red than dead, a comedy book club. Um, and today I'm talking about book that I recently
1:19.9	got on the Verso book sale, uh, which I think is just wonderful. It is called psychopolitics.
1:29.3	It's by Bianchulhan, who's a sort of,
1:33.5	you'd say sort of a German sort of neo,
1:36.9	neo, neo, neo,
1:37.8	Marxist philosopher.
1:40.6	He sort of, he builds on a lot of sort of what Marx is saying
1:44.4	but he is I guess he writes in a
1:48.5	sort of quite postmodern style
1:50.5	you can detect a lot of
1:53.3	a lot of um
1:55.3	like you can detect a bit of Bodriard
1:58.0	and what he's writing I found a bit of DeBoard
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