Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
On the occasion of the new year, you should watch my video about new year's resolutions from the opposing perspectives of Friedrich Nietzsche and Antonio Gramsci.
Happy new year!
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Which kind of video do you want to see more of from me?
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In case you missed it, my new video on Bergson's philosophy of comedy is out. Although many of you might not be familiar with Bergson, in the early 1900s he was one of the most famous philosophers in the world, and wrote a systematic philosophical study of comedy and laughter
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My first video about the German Revolution was temporarily copyright-blocked and now no longer shows up in search results. Here's your reminder to watch it if you haven't yet!
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In case you missed it, my latest video on middle-class support for fascism is out! I talk about Nazism, before moving onto the US and talking about the class make-up of the Capitol Riot and the anti-lockdown protests. Enjoy!
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I have already put this poll out on my Patreon and the result has been determined, but, out of interest, I'd like to see how much my patrons' choices differ from my wider YouTube audience. So, which of these video topics would you be most interested in seeing made?:
1) There’s an Italian movie about Friedrich Nietzsche called Beyond Good and Evil (1977) that I’d like to talk about simply because of how bizarre it is. This would be a more fun video, and less theory-heavy, talking about Nietzsche's biographical aspects. The movie portrays Nietzsche as being a lot more sexually active than he probably was in real life, and also as a closeted gay man, which I could use as an opportunity to talk about Nietzsche’s sexual life, and the debate around whether he was gay or not, as well as his relationship with his sister and his drug use, which the movie depicts
2) French philosopher Henri Bergson nowadays is to a large extent forgotten, except as an influence on Deleuze. In his time, however, he was highly influential and well-known, on par with Albert Einstein in his popularity. There’s a lot that could be said about his vitalist ontology, his philosophy of time, his view of memory, etc. but in this video I would focus on one of his more amusing works - Laughter - in which Bergson pursues a fundamental understanding of what makes things funny, seeing the comic as stemming from the distinction between the organic and the mechanical, the living and the inanimate, spirit and matter. It’s not often that you see philosophers analyze the basis of the comic, and Bergson’s systematic attempt is quite interesting, even if perhaps outdated today. I would try to find some good examples to illustrate his points as well.
3) In my video on post-punk I only mentioned industrial music briefly, and this would be a kind of sequel in which I discuss it more in-depth, talking about the effect the industrial landscape had on industrial artists. I would probably cover not just British industrial, but also the German and American scenes. I would especially focus on the influence of the modernist art movement known as futurism, and the way it prefigured industrial music already in the early 1900s, with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noises. I would also discuss the political divide within industrial music, which included both left-wing and fascist elements, just as futurism had both a socialist strain and a fascist strain.
4) In the 20th century, the petite bourgeoisie (i.e. small capitalists, such as small business owners, sometimes translated simply as the middle class) provided the mass base for fascism, both in Italy and Germany. Even today, reactionary political movements often have a petite-bourgeois basis and character. I would talk about the way Marxists have understood the petite bourgeoisie, why it has had such a tendency towards fascism, and how fascist ideology appeals to it. Perhaps such a discussion would be nothing new to Marxists, but it is an important part of understanding fascism.
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This is an upload from a year ago you might've missed, as it's my least viewed video essay ever! It discusses some postmodern explorations of memory and media mainly thru the movie Total Recall but also Blade Runner
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A lot of people liked the instrumental post-punk I made for my last video, so I uploaded it on Bandcamp. Track 1 is the one that plays during the title screen and patron credits. It's all recorded on cassette tape, no computer, analog synth and analog drum machine.
You can download it for free, just write "0" as the payment amount!
jonasceika.bandcamp.com/album/popular-modernism
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For those new to the genre, I made a playlist of classic British post-punk. One song per artist, but each song is from an overall great album. Let me know if my vid has led you to discover something new you like!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7...
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New video! I aimed to make this interesting to both fans of post-punk and people who haven't even heard of the genre. It touches on modernist art & Adorno, British post-punk & Mark Fisher, brutalism, social democracy and its decline, and a bit about Poland too. Hope you enjoy!
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I make videos on philosophy, politics, and cultural theory.
My book on Marx and Nietzsche – How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle – is available for pre-order:
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