Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-01-25
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 166
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Robert Evans recommended The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and others. Mia Wong discussed The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a sweeping archaeological and anthropological study that challenges conventional narratives about social evolution, inequality, and the origins of human civilization.
Recommended“Bring the dawn of everything by David Greyber. That that'll occupy you through most natural disasters. It's a it's a thick book. It is. It is indeed.”
Where to get it
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord is a seminal 1967 theoretical work that critiques how modern capitalist production transforms authentic human life into an accumulation of mediated images and performances.
Discussed“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. So wrote the French social theorist Gourd in his seinal 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle.”
Where to get it
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx is a classic political essay analyzing the 1851 coup d'état in France through the lens of historical materialism and class struggle.
Discussed“170 years ago, Markx wrote this in the 18th premier of Louis Bonapart, his own response to a nation's nationalist attempt to restore its former glory by invoking the name of a previous leader. The social revolution of the 19th century cannot take its poetry from the past, but only from the future.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“Just bring a copy of Debt by David Greyber in your. Yeah. Yeah. Bring At the Shrugged and then as you pass the fires, just start ripping that [ __ ] off, throwing it in there, let it burn.”
“Bring At the Shrugged and then as you pass the fires, just start ripping that [ __ ] off, throwing it in there, let it burn. Uh having a paperback book if you like that it's not weight efficient”