Ghosts of the Millennial Left: Online Seminar with C. Derrick Varn.
“There is today in the world a dominant discourse […] This dominating discourse often has the manic, jubilatory, and incantatory form that Freud assigned to the so-called triumphant phase of mourning work. The incantation repeats and ritualizes itself, it holds forth and holds to formulas, like any animistic magic. To the rhythm of a cadenced march, it proclaims: Marx is dead, communism is dead, very dead, and along with it its hopes, its discourse, its theories, and its practices. It says: long live capitalism, long live the market, here’s to the survival of economic and political liberalism!”
― Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx
“those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
C. Derick Varn is a poet, teacher, and arm-chair theorist. He used to be an expatriate but has returned to the US. He has worked as lecturer on English Literature, Composition, and Intercultural communication as well as a high school teacher in literature, writing, critical thinking and ethics. While being a frequent podcast guest across the leftcast sphere, Varn also hosts his own podcast called Varn Vlog and was the host of the now defunct Symptomatic Redness . He lives with his partner, and a bunch of books, and writes at night.
Join poet and educator C. Derick Varn as he delves into the complex world of the millennial left. In his talk, Varn explores how the US and European left often attempts to rejuvenate a misunderstood past. He highlights how the left's own history has been clouded by manipulations of its collective memory, making it harder to adjust our current reality.
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Are there socialists in nz working to bring ordinary ppl together? Where are you based in Wellington?
@newzealandfederationofsoci9174
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Kia ora, The Wellington Socialist Society meets at least once a month at Rogue & Vagabond for public educational meetings. We aim to keep the events page here up to date as much as possible. www.socialistsocieties.org.nz/aec-events/?view=grid You can also contact the WSS at wellingtonsocialistsociety@gmail.com Generally speaking, though, the Federation absolutely tries to bring like minded people together. We've always tried to emphasis face-to-face events, these online seminars are a bit different and provide opportunities to hear from international speakers.
@parati1309
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@@newzealandfederationofsoci9174 Thank you. I'll come to the R&V
@newzealandfederationofsoci9174
27 күн бұрын
@@parati1309 Just for total clarity - the space Wellington use is Bedlam & Squalor, same building but upstairs. Cheers
@parati1309
27 күн бұрын
@@newzealandfederationofsoci9174 hi again - you know there are heaps of socialists in Wellington - are the numbers high for the nzfs? I ask because many socialists I know do not collaborate or mix w other socialists anymore. I hope this changes asap.
@newzealandfederationofsoci9174
27 күн бұрын
@@parati1309 We are a pretty broad group and designed to bring like-minded people together. At this stage that means close to 200 members nationally. Canterbury is the largest contingent followed by Wellington. We certainly encourage socialists to mix with one another, and have members who are everything from elected officials in the Green Party to anarchists and revolutionary Marxists. We hope to regroup a lot of existing socialists who agree with our approach, as well as meet newer generations of like-minded people who may have never been part of socialist groupings at all.