This is Not Politics

Not Politics the thesis (part 2) - Middle Paragraph: Medieval Times

The exciting sequel to last week's episode. Introducing crank intellectual Brooks Adams and his epic work The Law of Civilization and Decay, we take our time machine to #ancientrome, #thecrusades, and anywhere else we feel like in European history. Building from part one's attempt to define what politics is, this one is about why (and how) it went away. Follow @birdfanzines on twitter, maybe send him some new memes for his collection.

Not Politics the thesis (part 1) - Intro: Arendt and Habermas

We haven't abandoned you, and this time we have a whole new grift, our first multi-part series. The idea here is I present an idea to Mike as though its a thesis defence - the thesis being "not politics', and what that is. This episode is like the introductory chapter. We cover #arendt #hannaharendt, we cover #habermas, we cover the #publicsphere and the stupid old #enlightenment and #ancientgreece. Please say thank you to us for coming back on twitter at @birdfanzines and of course our super wordpress https://tinpolitics.wordpress.com/

Keep Those Hearts Going For Radical Political Philosophy

It's syllabus season! We're making a radical political philosophy syllabus... and you can too. Have you ever heard of #marxism ???

See if you can piece together what we got going on from the following hashtags #utilitarianism #socialismorbarbarism #racialcontracttheory #panislamism #prisonreform #peasantrevolts #thefourthworldwarhasbegun 

And the fun part is, you can participate. Let us know YOUR picks. The professor is taking your comments on twitter, follow @birdfanzines. For the full reading list, check out our very neglected blog https://tinpolitics.wordpress.com/ 

MERCENARIES! Soldiers of Precarious Fortune

It’s about having a rum and coke on the dock with your #PMC friends. That’s right, #mercenaries. #Rumsfeld again. #transformingthemilitary. #Dyncorp and #Blackwater. Put #jeremyscahill on your reading list. #IraqWar2. #NixonDoctrine. #militaryindustrialcomplex. Follow @birdfanzines on Twitter.

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Psychopolitics, qu'est-ce que c'est?

Two guys shout at each other about #byungchulhan and his book #psychopolitics. Also of note #bigdata #foucault #panopticon #surveillance #modernity #monet #novels #edwardsnowden and that thing when your phone listens to you and then tries to sell you things that you recently talked about

Conspiracy Detectives

Okay this was supposed to be a quick chat about how most times you hear a #conspiracytheory about the #deepstate, it is just plain old #geopolitics in action. It wound up going pretty long and very often off topic. Expect to hear about: #kissinger #alexjones #sirhalfordmackinder #heartlandtheory #worldisland #gamalabdelnasser #marxism #operationgladio #operationcondor #defenceindustry #gulfmonarchies #atlanticism #dugin #brzezinsky #marshallplan #brettonwoods #potlach

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Gamestop: Is there no alternative?

By popular demand, the extremely on-time #gamestop episode. But more accurately, we're here to talk about #CapitalistRealism, Mark Fisher's book about the impossibility of imagining any alternative to gambling your stimulus check on reddit with your friends. 

MAGA Debunked

Only one day late, we celebrate #inaugurationday2021 and, like everyone else in the world, rant about the #insurrection that kind of almost happened on #CapitolHill on #January6th. Topics include Cambridge Analytica, Palantir, and Blackwater. Also, we agree that #AdamCurtis and his movie #Hypernormalization is true and good. We're back folks

The Pandemic will give us Communism!... and so on

That's right, its a book report of PANdemIC! by Slavoj Zizek. Rethinking #communism from #socialisolation, pondering #classconsciousness, questioning the optimism of our favorite Slovenian dad. Follow @birdfanzines on #twitter 

Otaku! The not politics of Japan

In this episode you will learn about #anime. Nerds, Japanese history, cartoons, post-modern literary criticism, and the definitive answer to the question of Star Wars (good or not). This is our response to a great work of nerd philosophy, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma. #otaku