In today’s episode I discuss the spook of escaping society - primitivism - and how ownness relates to a more decolonial approach of liberation.
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STRUCTURE
0:01 1- Spook of the Week: Escaping Society and its Aesthetics - Cottagecore, Dopamine Detox, Collapsecore & Eco-Fascism
16:45 2- Dissecting the Spook: Escaping the Dividedness (Lacan), Escaping Language (Derrida), Escaping Power (Foucault) & New Forms of Escape (Deleuze and Guattari)
30:14 3- Living Ownness: Liberation as Escape in Western Thought (Greek Philosophy & the Enlightenment) & Decolonizing Liberation through Appropriation (Frantz Fanon & Examples of Decolonial Literature)
46:53 4- Spotlight: Primitivist Literarure (Zerzan, Kaczynski & Haraway)
59:12 5- Announcements
BOOKS AND ARTICLES / ESSAYS:
(some of these links are affiliate links which, if used to make a purchase on Amazon, will lead to me getting a commission payment via the Amazon affiliate program):
Cottagecore & Digital Pastoralism
https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/what-is-cottagecore/
Dopamine Detoxers & Digital Minimalists:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/dopamine-detox
Off-grid survivalists & Collapsecore
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapsecore/
Eco-Fascism
https://today.uconn.edu/2022/09/a-darker-shade-of-green/
Lacan & the desire for wholeness (Ecrits)
Derrida & why there Is no escape from language (Writing & Difference)
Foucault & disciplining nature through biopower (Discipline & Punish)
Deleuze & Guattari & reimagining escape (A Thousand Plateaus)
Escape as Autonomy in Western Thought:
The Athenians: https://amzn.to/42Mtoz3
Immanuel Kant: https://amzn.to/4m65qbd
John Locke: https://amzn.to/3GDJ0gS
Jean Jacques Rousseau: https://amzn.to/43byENd
Frantz Fanon and Liberation as Appropriation (Proto-Stirnerianism)
Decolonial Literature:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Reclaiming language https://amzn.to/44aoKxp
Gloria Anzaldúa: Embracing contamination https://amzn.to/44G67kW
Primitivist Literature:
Zerzan’s ‘Running on Emptiness’: https://amzn.to/42xKSAB
Kaczinsky’s ‘Industrial Society and Its Future’: https://amzn.to/430e9nw
Haraway’s ‘The Cyborg Manifesto’: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduates/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf
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