spectresabovespectres Simon Obirek

My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonobirek When we talk about depression, we usually talk about a condition affecting someone's mental health. Mikkel Krause Frantzen, however, wrote the book "Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression" in which he argues that we also need to conceptualise depression as something conditioned by economic, social, and political factors outside of our psyches. In this episode, we discuss his book. Here's a link to Mikkel's twitter: https://twitter.com/frantzen_mikkel Here's the link to my twitter: https://twitter.com/simonobirek You can buy the book by following this link: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/going-nowhere-slow

My Patreon: www.patreon.com/simonobirek What happens when the boundary between immateriality and materiality breaks down? What happens when technology tries to capture ghosts? In this episode, I look at three examples of ghosts trapped in machines; a South Korean mother meeting her deceased daughter through virtual reality, a boy racing the ghost of his father in an old Xbox game, and people seeing their dead relatives in Google Maps. I'll be tying these examples up with theory from Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida, and Mark Fisher. My Twitter: www.twitter.com/SimonObirek My Instagram: www.instagram.com/obirek_

My Patreon: www.patreon.com/simonobirek Prior to his death in January 2017, theorist and philosopher Mark Fisher coined the term Acid Communism. The concept stands for a way out of the eternal inside of Capitalist Realism through experimental leftist politics. In this episode, I talk about Fisher's emphasis on the necessity of socialisation within movements, his expanded usage of the term psychedelia (which covers technology), and Foucauldian limit-experiences. My Twitter: www.twitter.com/simonobirek My Instagram: www.instagram.com/obirek_