Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Society & Culture
On this edition of Parallax Views, the long-time, sometimes controversial, and always fascinating geopolitical commentator Pepe Escobar joins Parallax Views to discuss some of the events the lead up to his the current decade we face, which he calls "The Raging Twenties". Although this conversation was initially intended to cover Pepe's new book Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism, Pepe and I ultimately went in a different direction. Our conversation became less focused on the details of the book and more an overview of the events, geopolitically, that lead to our current moment where tensions are rising between the U.S. and it allies against China, Russia, and Iran. As Pepe put it in the course of our conversation, our conversation serves as a preamble to many of the topics discussed in his new book (which is basically Pepe's coverage of the year 2020 from the death of General Soleimani to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Among the many topics we discuss:
- The Russia/Ukraine situation
- The Nordstream II pipeline, Germany, and Russia,
- The Iraq War and neoconservatives
- Pepe's interest in the ideas of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze; Deleuze's concept of the rhizome
- Zbigniew Brzezinski and The Grand Chessboard of Geopolitics
- The Quad, India and Modi
- Euranianism, Putin, and China
- COVID-19, Giorgio Agamben, and the surveillance society
- The decline of the American Empire; Pax Americana and the Mongolian Empire
- Why Pepe references and uses imagery from David Lynch's Twin Peaks in his work
- The Belt and Road Initiative; the New Silk Road
- The multipolar world and what it means; the failures of the War on Terror; the corrosion of the Empire
Ep. 52: Dr. Harold Schechter on True Crime, Violence in Culture, Moral Panics, the Art of Joe Coleman, & More
Ep. 51: Cyber-Dominatrix Ceara Lynch on Kinks, MeToo, Incels, & ThotAudit
Ep. 50: Vadge Moore on Punk Rockin' with The Dwarves, Noise Music, & the Occult
Ep. 49: Mike Crumplar on The Weird End of Twitter & Fringe Online Politics
Ep. 48: Daniele Bolelli & Brian Shaughnessy on Masculinity & Gender Roles/Prof. David Detmer on Howard Zinn & His Critics
Ep. 47: Eliot Rosenstock on Zizek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy
Ep. 46: Theory Talk's Taylor Adkins on Freud, Guattari, Schizoanalysis, & The Anti-Oedipus
Ep. 45: Midterm Special w/ Michael M. Hughes on Magic for the Resistance
Ep. 44: Robert Damon Schneck on Strange History, Folklore, & The Bye Bye Man
Ep. 43: Delirium Magazine's Chris Alexander on Horror Cinema
Ep.42: John David Ebert on Myth, Modernity, Postmodernity, & Hypermodernity
Ep. 41: Patrick Farnsworth on Hope in Perilous Times, Or a Meditation on Eco-Catastrophe
Ep. 40: Doug Lain on The Left, NRx, Anti-Imperialism, & The Cathedral
Ep. 39: C. Derick Varn on Peter Hitchens
BONUS MINISODE: Steve Alten on The MEG
Ep. 16: Terry Tapp on Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus
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