WE ARE BACK! WE ARE ALIVE! After more than a bit of a hiatus, SC and your fearless Galaxy-Brained host, Chairman Bane, are back in the ring with some support from our dearest podcasting Dialectical Pessimist comrades, The Regrettable Century! We are back in the saddle with our resident Existential Clown™ extraordinaire, Comrade Jeff, to delve into one of the biggest influences of dialectical pessimism and Subjective Conditions/Red Library as a whole, Walter Benjamin! This episode is a long-time coming and we cover a number of Wally B's key concepts like the Angelus Novus, messianic time, social barbarism, and a number of other still relevant and radical ideas that exemplify the warm stream Marxist current. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

SC's Galaxy-Brained comrade, Adam O'Brien, returns to the show to talk about global healing and its relationship to the healing process in general! This episode picks up where we left off in part 1 and furthers the discussion on the relationship and challenges between individual and social and communal healing. What is the relationship between addiction as a social phenomena and capitalism? What is dissociation and how does it relate to addiction? How do psychedelics help bring about profound transformation? How does the body and unconscious try to communicate to us to help us heal? Tune in to find out! Works Cited Mutual Arising Mental Health Counseling Interdependent Origination Memory Reconsolidation Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

Subjective Conditions' resident Existential Clown™, Comrade Commissar Renegade Monk Jeff, joins The Chairman to discuss the topic of precarity and its relationship to current objective and subjective conditions under capitalism. Comrade Jeff draws upon his academic research and life to give us a wide and varied view of what precarity is and what it means for our lived conditions. And perhaps a new organizing principle we can use to bridge the gaps between various class positions and life experiences. Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

Do you want to be horny or do you want to be happy, comrades...? Isn't it funny how masculinity resembles a school resembles a prison resembles a clinic resembles a so on and so on and so on...The long-awaited follow-up episode to Red Library's two-parter on bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love is finally here! Comrade Ryan, God Empress Victoria Magna, and new comrade on the show, Danny, join The Chairman™ to talk about masculinity, loneliness, dragging Jungians, myth and gender, Avatar 2: The Way of Wa Wa, and lots more! We also get really personal on a free-ranging discussion and DP thought experiment about the nature of masculinity and its inherent contradictions. Which way, Western Man - horniness or happiness? For the dialectical pessimist, perhaps it's the unspoken third option...both. Episode Links I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out of the Closet Article The Three Instincts of Masculinity Article "Men. Abuse. Trauma." by Philosophy Tube How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain Article Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

Comrades and Galaxy-Brainer™ Extraordinaires Zoya and Jeff join the show for the second installment of our now ongoing series on community, politics, and utopian dreams! Utopia - what is it all about? Is it good? Or is it wack (i.e. unnecessary)? What are the differences between utopian visions and utopian experiments? We continue our explorations of the relationship between community and emancipatory politics by delving into the role of utopia on the Left and its role for creating another possible world. Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Subjective Conditions Facebook Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. *AIR HORNS AIR HORNS AIR HORNS* Chairman Bane is joined by an all-star cast of comrades to discuss The Ethics of Ambiguity by the YAS KWEEN of existentialism, Simone De Beauvoir. This is an episode years in the making from the old Red Library days that needed the format and vibes of Subjective Conditions to finally come alive. Is ethics just a game to you? Maybe it should be. Inside you are 3 wolves: a beta, an alpha, and a sigma. Which one controls your life and freedom? The one you choose to feed. Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

We are joined this week by our new friend and very Galaxy-Brained comrade, Adam O'Brien, to talk about how the body and unconscious relate to the conscious mind, memory reconsolidation, trauma healing, shame, addiction and dissociation, psychedelics and lots more! What is the relationship between our own internal, subjective worlds and how history repeats itself? What destruction do we cause when we subordinate things to perfectionist ideals? How does the body and unconscious try to communicate to us to help us heal? Tune in to find out! Works Cited Mutual Arising Mental Health Counseling Independent Origination Memory Reconsolidation Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

The Lost Horizons Sad Boi Warm Stream Gothic Marxism Band is back together. Comrade Adam and The Regrettable Century Bois rejoin forces to get GALAXY-BRAINED™ and tackle a few articles on Hegel, Foucault, and what we may call madness if we were so inclined... We discuss the relationship between madness, freedom, THE DIALECTIC™, and more deep diving into what it is that we are all struggling with under capitalism. Works Cited The Good, The Mad, and The Ugly Part 1 The Good, The Mad, and The Ugly Part 2 Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

The material conditions are RIGHT HERE IN THE ROOM, COMRADES. Comrade Adam is joined by two excellent and Galaxy-Brained™ comrades, Zoya and Jeff, who also happen to be D O C T O R S and professors, to discuss some key questions for anyone on the Left today. What are politics? Institutions - how do they work? What does the academy and the activist space have in common? What is the GREEN FROG in the room? How do we confront the terror of the unknown? This the first of a two-part series looking at the relationship between social change, utopian projects, community, the built environment, and community. Subjective Conditions Patreon Page Comrade Adam's blog, Capillaries: Theory at The Front…

Welcome....to Subjective Conditions: Exploring the Mind and Body Under Capitalism! Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is joined by The Comrade That Cannot Be Perceived, Courtney, and Jess for our inaugural episode. LET'S GET GALAXY-BRAINED, COMRADES. Show References Psychedelic White Internal Family Systems (IFS) Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Subjective Conditions Patreon Page…