Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-26
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 97
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Mia Wong discussed the second sex by Simone de Beauvoir. Garrison Davis discussed The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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the second sex
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is a foundational feminist philosophical treatise that examines the historical and social construction of womanhood.
Discussed“And like like this is and this is something like you know if you go back to like Simone Bvoir God I I hate French. It's really a truly it's a truly terrible language. I that is the official stance of this podcast. Anti-French action. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but like you know I mean always has been you you you”
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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“The other the big feeling I had on sat on the Saturday kickoff rally was like this just feels like society of of the spectacle. Like there's such an performance. It's it was very performative but it was like almost like with all of the cameras looking at everything all the time.”
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Capitalist Realism
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher is a cultural and political critique arguing that capitalism has successfully occupied the horizon of thinkable thought, creating a pervasive cultural atmosphere where no alternative economic system is believed possible.
Discussed“Capitalist realism posits that history is over, that it's a literal thing of the past. But it turns out you're living through it right now. So, what will you do to create it?”
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“My first feeling walking in is like it felt very Society of the Spectacle in terms of like the ratio of cameras to participants was the most extreme that I've really ever ever seen for like, you know, a week of action.”