EMSTU tomorrow: Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power!
Plus, what even is an "EMSTU"?
EMSTUs, Epic Marathon Streams at Theory Underground, are fun. The longest one so far involved me (David McKerracher) and
hosting back to back interviews for 17 hours on the Theory Underground YouTube channel. These are live, but get republished later as standalone videos and on the TU podcast.ALL DAY EMSTU HAPPENING 8.14.24
Watch here.
EMSTUs happen "monthly" (whenever really), usually randomly and with little warning, based entirely on my uptoitiveness.
What’s the point of an EMSTU? To mix it up with others in the theory scene, interview, and have conversation.
Here's the playlist of all of the EMSTUs so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TKEqbXCNsSO9kj9G4vtsW-P
The one tomorrow, on August 14th 2024, is going to run from early morning in the U.S. until night.
The lineup is as follows:
8 AM (NYC) / 6 (Boise) - Dave McKerracher and - 1:37:32
Anatomy of a witch hunt by Worker at Large - James Robb
10 AM (NYC) / 8 (Boise) - Christine Louis Dit Sully
Immigration and anti-immigration, a conversation inspired by
’s recent panel you can see in the endnotes here1“Race” and “racism”
The future of civilization and culture
11 AM (NYC) / 9 (Boise) - Helen Rollins! + TU member Will Proudler
Teaching concepts through stories
The power of film
Film as an art and film as a teacher
12 PM (NYC) / 10 (Boise) - David Shields
On the moment, situation, conjuncture, etc…
How did we get here?
Where even is “here”?
Shields’ new book and movie
1 PM (NYC) / 11 (Boise) - Swoletariat AKA Eamon
How to organize events that attract cool regular sorts of people and not cringe lunatics?
Why everything Swoletariat believes is pure ideology
Why everything David McKerracher believes is based and true
2 PM (NYC) / 12 (Boise) - Chris Cutrone
Neither right or left…
Religion
Socialist party plan
Millennials
Marxism sucks why are you
3 PM (NYC) / 1 (Boise) -
The business of intellectual projects underground
Corruption by the dollar
Finding your audience and keeping your soul
Selling out vs. Audience capture
4 PM (NYC) / 2 (Boise) -
Courage
Intellectual integrity
Talking to people who disagree
Grace and forgiveness
Choices and accountability
Responsibility and ambiguity
Exciting stuff in the works
5 PM (NYC) / 3 (Boise) - Benjamin Studebaker
TUCON 2024 proposals
Timenergy Before Descartes in Greek and Chinese Thought
The Idea of the Monastery
The Left as Hope Industry and Quixoteism
6 PM (NYC) / 4 (Boise) - Todd McGowan + Michael Downs
Death drive in Schelling
Death in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! Drop by at points throughout the day. Check in and out of the stream. Leave it playing in the background off of multiple devices. Share it around! Do all the things.
https://www.youtube.com/live/VpeWJZRgzZU