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The Regrettable Century

The Regrettable Century

By: Chris Kevin Jason & Ben
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The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
-- Antonio Gramsci

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  • The Ever Present Present: The Long Now and Our Inability to Conceive of a Future

    The Ever Present Present: The Long Now and Our Inability to Conceive of a Future
    May 12 2025

    This week we return to an always prescient question: What happened to the future?


    What Lies Ahead?

    https://jacobin.com/2023/01/slavoj-zizek-time-future-history-catastrophe-emancipation


    Mark Fisher’s Specters of Scarcity

    https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism


    ‘Culture has lost the ability to grasp the present’

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mark-fisher-ghosts-retromania/


    How the pandemic messed with our perception of time

    https://www.vox.com/science/23823507/pandemic-memory-time-perception-lockdown



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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/09/2025

    PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/09/2025
    May 11 2025

    Habemus Papam, Al Qaeda 🤝France, Trump Owned by Xi, Trump Owned by Houthis, Trump Owned by Bibi, Pakistan vs India, China 🤝 Russia, Ukraine's Very Bleak Strategic Assessment...

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    10 mins
  • PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/02/2025

    PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/02/2025
    May 5 2025

    Trump/Zelensky Meeting, Minerals Deal, US Arms Sales to Ukraine, Superhornet Down!, North Korean Troops in Kursk, Russian Gains in April

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    12 mins

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