Theory Talk

Today's episode was prompted by Emmet Rensin's article "The Blathering Super-ego at the End of History", a critique of managerial liberalism recently published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-at-the-end-of-history/ The discussion is somewhat more narrowly focused on the United States at first (Joe and Taylor are still processing a recent loss by the Democrats in a nearby special election.) However the discussion ends up being very broad and begins to circulate around Adorno. They eventually track down a helpful passage and analyze it together a bit ("Baby with the Bathwater" from Minimia Moralia, which thinks through the strange similarities of Marx and Nietzsche on the question of culture and ideology).