The Kingless Generation
by Fergal Schmudlach
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China as #1 in Japanese Literature: Battles of Coxinga, pᵗ 2 [PREVIEW]
China as #1 in Japanese Literature: Battles of Coxinga, pᵗ 2 [PREVIEW]
About this podcast
A podcast on the deep history of class struggle, paleo-parapolitics, and the demonology of capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- China as #1 in Japanese Literature: Battles of Coxinga, pᵗ 2 [PREVIEW] · 58 min · Episode 88Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- China as #1 in Japanese Literature: Battles of Coxinga, pᵗ 1 (Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 1715) · 1 h 26 min · Episode 87In part one of this second installment of our series on China as a silk road great power in pre-modern Japanese literature, we read Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s…
- China as #1 in Japanese Literature: “Taishokan” [PREVIEW] (Kōwaka ballad, by 1553) · 42 min · Episode 86Next in our ongoing series ReOrient-ing early modern literature across Eurasia, we discuss the most widely visually represented of the sixteenth-century Japanese short-form…
- Dethrone the Dictaphone · 1 h 42 min · Episode 85A chatty hangout episode on recent events, the class politics of fashion in our post-cultural moment, and an American (...?) Broadway musical from the End of History as performed…
- An Infant ‘West’ meets a Middle-Aged ‘East’ [PREVIEW]: Galland’s retelling of Shams-al-Nahār & Ibn Bakkār (1704–1717) · 34 min · Episode 84In this final episode of our first series on the 1,001 Nights, we take up Frenchman Antoine Galland’s adaptation, where we see a Europe that has only begun to see its nearest…
- Oriental Despotism comes w/ Occidental Colonization: Ibn Bakkār & Shams-al-Nahār in the Calcutta Ⅱ Nights (1839–42) · 1 h 29 min · Episode 83In addition to filling in more background knowledge from a scholarly article that I did find on this tale by Jamel Eddine Bencheikh, as well as some musings on the formation of…
- Truth and Testimony, Drugs and Attachment in Bourgeois-Revolutionary Baghdad [PREVIEW]: Re-Orienting Ibn Bakkār and Shams-al-Nahār in the Arabic manuscript of the 1,001 Nights · 46 min · Episode 82I dust off my Arabic for some weird scenes in Silk Road–era Baghdad: a story of drugs and ego death, deadly secrets and the workers who keep them. The only tragic love story in…
- 1,001 Nights: A murdered ancestor to European Romance · 1 h 5 min · Episode 81One symptom of the neglect in Anglo-Zionist historiography of Arabic literature and culture—despite its role as the main heir to axial-age Mediterranean and Persian cultures and…
- Eranos 4 [PREVIEW]: It was us (all along)... · 48 min · Episode 80In anticipation of future outings on some of the more interesting figures we've met thus far, we bring our introductory series on the Eranos milieu to a close with a discussion…
- Eranos 3: Mircea Eliade, Mellon Fellow of Death, w/ Scott Ryan of the Dustlight Archives · 1 h 20 min · Episode 79Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Eranos pᵗ 2 w/ Scott [PREVIEW]: Furio Jesi vs the Satanic-Orientalists · 35 min · Episode 78More ideological and world-historical groundwork, as we introduce, for me, the real hero of this story, the Jewish Italian Communist mythologist Furio Jesi (1941–1980), a rival…
- Aether Whores: Eranos and the 20th-c liberal-bourgeois vanguard, w/ Scott of the Dustlight Archives · 1 h 12 min · Episode 77From 1933 to 1988, the liberal spiritualist wing of the trans-Atlantic bourgeoisie had something of a think tank for spiritual and cult technology and grand strategy in the…
- (15)90s kids: Thomas Nashe [PREVIEW], A Son of the Silk Road in Merry Old England · 44 min · Episode 76We continue our study of Elizabethan England, which is often mistakenly treated as an origin point of bourgeois revolutionary culture but which I hope to show is actually an…
- (15)90s Kids Know: Lizzie’s bois, overture · 1 h 5 min · Episode 75Building on our discussion of the Water Margin (the most important surviving versions dating to the 1590s), we go “back”—notice the scare quotes!—to what is usually at least…
- Casual chat, core content [PREVIEW] · 40 min · Episode 74I swore I wasn’t going to do a chatty one but rather a hard core cultural-historical content for the next premium episode, but I just gave myself podcaster’s block again as I…
- Weebs of the Ages: Lafcadio Hearn, the “Brownie” who taught Japan to want whiteness · 1 h 12 min · Episode 73Living in Japan, the dominant image of Lafcadio Hearn is something like: he’s that white man who came to Japan and told us he believed in us—he knew we had it in us to become the…
- Organizing Bourgeois Revolution in East Eurasia [PREVIEW]: The Water Margin (水浒传) w/ River · 34 min · Episode 72First externally attested in 1524, the Ming-dynasty Chinese novel Water Margin collects legends about a band of merry men of genius who love righteousness, and who fight to stop…
- Organizational Proprioception w/ River · 1 h 21 min · Episode 71Seasoned organizer and noided leftist River from River to Reality joins us to share their theoretical concept of organizational proprioception: just as our nervous systems need…
- A Holiday Ramble in Hibiya Park [PREVIEW] · 9 min · Episode 70A quick, chatty, catch-up episode recorded in a park in central Tokyo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Left=Noided, Noided=Left: w/ River (featuring Fire in the Minds of Men) · 2 h 16 min · Episode 69On this podcast I have often argued against the “anti-conspiracy left”, but now that everyone and your mom can’t help but be noided, the relevant question is no longer, “If…
