Intellectual Life in Times of Ideological Disorder - A Conversation with Tyler Austin Harper
We are joined by writer and literary scholar Tyler Austin Harper, whose writing in The Atlantic and New York Times has raised debates on class, race and the meaning of the left in ideologically turbulent times. In this conversation, we discuss the meaning of the left, how Marxism is to be interpreted in terms of class analysis, the merits of different interpretive models of class power and ideology, the professional or "New Class" problem which arose after the Second World War, and what is now referred to as the "PMC problem." We also discuss psychoanalysis and the theme of subjective limits and why Freud and Lacan are important for politics.
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I enjoy this channel, love your interviews, and find your insights productive even when I disagree with them, so I intend this more as a suggestion than a critique: perhaps the first step toward opening up a dialogue between the PMC and working class people would be to engage in more discussions like this with actual working class people who lack accreditation but are nonetheless perfectly capable of articulating their own position for themselves. There is kind of a frustrating lack of reflexive awareness in this endless parade of left wing media discussions between members of the PMC about what the working class is like without ever once consulting any of the people experiencing this immiseration. I don't necessarily believe that our direct experience of domination in that sense renders us more capable of objectifying and giving an account of that experience, but if you guys do believe there is a movement to be built between the PMC strata and workers, then the first step seems to me to be talking to them more than about them. Lovely interview in any case. Enjoyed the discussion. This is just my suggestion
@emancipations
Ай бұрын
Who might you recommend I speak to?
@fentyslides
19 күн бұрын
i am a working class person. i’m not sure what would come of your suggestion. i think many of these conversations describe the working class well. benjamin studebaker’s in particular really nails it for me. i think his hot air balloon analogy is near perfect. so much so that i actually made time to read his book
@anightbluefruit
18 күн бұрын
@@fentyslides yeah my suggestion is not that the understanding of the working class that they articulate is incorrect, it's simply that someone in our world should actually *do* what they're talking about instead of discussing it ad nauseum. these discussions aren't any more beholden to the media structure in which they're captured, but the nature of their content renders the whole thing more glaringly ironic. this too, though, is nothing. maybe we are just doomed to interpret the world
@fentyslides
18 күн бұрын
@@anightbluefruit i get the irony you’re describing and i’ve mostly been coming to that same conclusion. it does seem to me that those who actually do try to apply this stuff just end up losing or they are in it for other reasons. i’m not suggesting more people shouldn’t pursue what you’re getting at but much of it does unfortunately feel doomed to me
25:00 reminds me why ‘The Master’ is my favorite movie of all time
You all need to learn to communicate more in colloquial english. More than half of this went right over my head.
More of this...
36:10 class reductionism & a definition or reframing & 58:49
Would have liked to have heard a bit more from the guest!
6:40 The right and the sacred at this point? Almost unimaginable. 13:55 Blacks . . . blather. . . . hum.
32:08