Domestic Terrorism by Why Theory published on 2021-01-10T22:42:27Z In this special episode, Ryan and Todd comment on the recent attempted coup in the United States. They address the significance of this act of domestic terrorism for the actuality of Right and Left on the political scene. Genre Learning Comment by Mike DeMarco A good example of moving the field itself, keeping in line with the Nolan discussion in the previous episode, is the field being destroyed in the dark knight rises. 2023-07-10T17:36:40Z Comment by Sam Munford In a weird way, as with technocratic administration of the economy, it seems like there is a paranoic or perverse knowledge at work here which seems to add a kind of a-political frisson to the self-presentation/understanding of these guys. Its the point at which they 'know' the election was stolen -that they 'know' the masses are all red-pilled or duped while they, the last 'free-thinking people' have to take the country back - a gesture which uses knowledge to launder out the actual act of political decision. In this way the right wing populism seems to inhabit a kind of ambiguous middle ground between people and elite technocracy. It takes the side of the people but the people who 'know' or who have a special knowledge about technocratic so-called 'mainstream' domination of the people. If memory serves, this was already one of the main ideological gestures of the Fountainhead. Seems to be further testament to how reflexivization/super ego is effecting the petit-bourgeouis position. 2021-01-27T21:29:56Z Comment by Ryley Alger-hempstead You bring up the relationship between theory and practice a lot. I would love to hear an episode about the relationship between non-academics and theory. "Read theory" is something you see often online as a response to liberal-to-right-wing leaning people (although leftists do throw it at each other) asking questions about leftist politics or how things would work in a leftist society, etc., sometimes as a way to shut down the questioner and sometimes to genuinely tell the person that their questions have already been answered within theory. This brings to mind the question: how should we understand the relationship between non-academics and theory? (or maybe more specifically, between working-class people and theory). 2021-01-25T00:52:45Z Comment by Oscar Heath Do you think you could see this duality of Trump-McConnell as a reverse of Zizek’s two faces of (espc Nazi) fantasy? 2021-01-11T13:42:51Z Comment by Oscar Heath I think one interesting detail of this is: Gen Z didnt view *themselves* as prepolitical during the Pokemon GO summer 2021-01-11T13:12:14Z