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Recent reads: Armed Insurrection by A. Neuberg

This is a great book to download and read if you would like to appear on an FBI watchlist. Earlier this year I was thinking of writing a fictional story about an insurrectionary communist group, and I read this in part as research for it (I swear).

It is in part a textbook and in part a manual, written under directives from the Soviet Union in the 20s, on how to organize workers' insurrections, how to form communist militias, revolutionary military strategy, and some of the theoretical...

Some new photo material

Just bought this huge German book consisting of an illustrated history of the German revolution. I want to make sure to have good photo material for my video so I got this in case it has some interesting photos that are otherwise hard to find online. Going to scan a lot of these for use in the video

Recent reads

I had the idea of occasionally posting about books that I've read relatively recently, as a way of staying active on Patreon, making recommendations and thereby hopefully also connecting to patrons. Please let me know if that's a worthwhile idea and if you'd be interested in posts like this.

This is The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin. It was originally delivered as a lecture series (which you can actually listen to on YouTube) and later transcribed into a short book. I ...

Question about upcoming video

As you know, I'm working on a script about the German revolution (1918-19), and it's a big project that I feel very passionate about, and one that I think will make for a really interesting video, but there's something I'm wondering: should I make it into one long video or split it into a video series?

If I split it into several videos, I'll be able to include more details in each part, and you'd have to wait less for new content to come out, but my main concern is: would people be les...

Problems with my sound mixer

Started having trouble with my ProFX 6 Vr 3 sound mixer after traveling. Possibly got banged up on the plane? It seems to turn on fine and lights up, but isn't detected as a sound device by my computers, and the device manager gives an error message saying "This device cannot start (code 10)". Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?

I emailed the company and hopefully they can help out. Otherwise I might end up having to buy a whole new mixer.

Researching the German revolution

Currently working on research for a video on the German revolution of 1918-19. This is such a fascinating and important topic that I really wanna do it right, so it's gonna be a big project. I hope you'll be as excited about it as I am.

I've been mainly drawing on 3 different books on the revolution so far, each from a different political vantage point:
Sebastian Haffner's Failure of a Revolution, perhaps the most moderate of the three, which emphasizes the lost possibility...

Why did Schopenhauer HATE Hegel?

New video's out! I've attached the script on the post, and I'll keep you updated on what I'm working on next.

Update

Video editing is more than halfway done, so it should be released within 1-2 days. See you soon!

Audio has been recorded

Just finished recording the audio for the Schopenhauer-Hegel video.

For the occasion, I uploaded two new books to the Google drive: a Schopenhauer biography by David E. Cartwright and a Hegel biography by Terry Pinkard:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rasWDAFyI4t1EOSePbeLc0LbMKf10rHN?usp=sharing

A movie list?

Another question I have regarding a future video: how would you feel about a video listing some of the best socialist/communist/leftist movies? I'm not sure if this is a good idea because it's so different from my usual format and maybe people would be too scared that I'm becoming Top Mojo. But on the other hand, politically conscious movies can be a great source of education, so it might be worthwhile?

Update

Just letting you know that I'm almost done with another script – on Schopenhauer's hatred of Hegel. It'll probably be a similar length to the last Nietzsche video. I hope you'll find it interesting.

P.S. If there are some essential philosophers/concepts/topics I haven't covered on my channel before that you think I should, tell me in the comments. (And of course, you're always free to message me in general any time you have a suggestion)

Thanks! Hope you're having a good weeke...

Script for 'Nietzsche's Body'

Here's the script for the last video.

You can also find it on our Google drive. PDFs for all the Nietzsche books quoted can also be found there, as well as a Nietzsche biography by Julian Young.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rasWDAFyI4t1EOSePbeLc0LbMKf10rHN?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

Nietzsche's Body: Health, Sickness, and Suffering

New video's out!

Update

Just finished writing and recording a shorter script on Nietzsche's body, with a focus on sickness. Gonna start editing now!

Video about the German revolution of 1918-19?

This is a question for the future: how interested would you be in a video that is really not about philosophy at all, but covers the German revolution of 1918-19? It's an extremely interesting, important, overlooked and tragic historical event that I think way too few people really know about, and I'd feel quite strongly about sharing it.

I'm already working on a script on Nietzsche, but asking about this for the future, because a historical video like this would take a lot of research ...

Talk at Bristol Transformed

Here's a Facebook link where you can see a recording of my short talk + audience questions at Bristol Transformed

Talk at Bristol Transformed

Today at 2 PM EST (in about 2 hours) I'll be talking on Zoom for a series called Theory for Dummies. There's still time to join in case you're interested!
https://t.co/tg2vq30PmJ

An update

Hey everyone, I hope you're doing well. I'm sorry that it's been taking me so long to get a new video done. The past months I've been trying to work on a script for the philosophy of freedom, but it hasn't been very successful. I'm struggling with executive dysfunction, and the topic is so general and abstract that organizing my ideas and working on it productively has been extremely difficult. Because, at least for now, this topic has been a dead end, I'm going to do a video on a different t...

My 10 Favorite Books I've Read in 2021

New video is out! As mentioned in my previous post, you can find most of these books on our Google drive, where I also uploaded the script for this video.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rasWDAFyI4t1EOSePbeLc0LbMKf10rHN?usp=sharing

Have a nice weekend!

Uploaded some new books

As I'm working on my top-10-books-I-read-in-2021 list, I uploaded most of the books off my list on our Google drive, including:
Edinburgh Guide to Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Douglas Burnham and Martin Jesinghausen
Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
Lenin’s Last Struggle by Moshe Lewis
Narodnikai ir pirmieji marksistai Lietuvoje by Vytautas Merkys (This is a Lithuanian book that, unfortunately, exists only in Lithuanian. Sorry to people who don'...

Some notes for my "Killing Thatcher in Doom" video

Just uploaded the supplementary notes for my video on Doom and neoliberalism. It's really short as the video isn't very philosophically dense so there isn't as much to cover.

I also uploaded the book "Late Capitalism" by Ernest Mandel, and the essay "Atomism" by Charles Taylor on our google drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rasWDAFyI4t1EOSePbeLc0LbMKf...

Supplementary notes for the new video

Here's the supplementary notes for the new video on Deleuze! It provides some additional resources and more details about some of the relevant concepts. Let me know if you found it useful.

The notes are attached to the post, but you can also find them on my Google Drive, where I also uploaded the following books:
A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze & Guattari)
Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze & Guattari)
Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Critical Introd...