For our podcast premiere we discussed the ZA/UM movement's game: Disco Elysium.
Themes discussed:
- Mourning and Walter Benjamin's angel of history
- Radical friendship
- The Cartesian experiment and the cop within your head
- An anarchist love letter to communism
- Hauntology
Links:
Derrida's "Specters of Marx": https://books.google.com/books/about/Specters_of_Marx.html?id=sEENbAP5FZsC
Dark Crystal: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905542/
Relevant essay by Mark Fisher: https://frieze.com/article/mark-fisher-and-work-mourning-visual-essay-tony-cokes
Walter Benjamin's Concept of History: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm
