I went on @woodbinenyc’s podcast to talk with Matt and Amogh about Laclau and Mouffe’s 1985 treatise Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Which would have been better titled Hegemony as a Radical Democratic tactic, or Class Theory: A Deconstruction.
https://t.co/yfngQz49gD
another day of reading TWA say things wildly at odds w/ his image: "Snobbishness toward mass media is idiotic. Only by changing the function of mass media can the intellectual monopoly of culture industry be broken; it cannot be accomplished by retreating into social impotence."
It says something that even the most based populism conceals the proletarian condition. The worst thing imaginable would be to fall into a powerless peasantry (which no longer exists) rather than the potentially powerful working masses who are very real but remain unmentionable
Unlike most thinkers of his day Marx knew the real symbolic power and meaning of architecture. each building makes legible political and material forces and relationships within class societies. When they burn something else always burns too
For those who haven't seen the film he is doing this shit in every scene, the man is constantly raging at 200% and even when he's quiet you can see him vibrating with the strain of not popping off, it's fucking great