C. Derick Varn

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Please support our Patreon. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Varn Vlog is the independent channel of C. Derick Varn. Interviews air on Tuesdays. Solo vlogs on Mondays. Radical Engagements on Fridays. Excavations and Boundless and Bottomless Seas monthly on a Wednesday. C. Derick Varn is the author, poet, and educator. He is the co-host of No Royal Road Diving Into The Wreckage and Parralax Vlog. He is the author of Apocalyptics (Unlikely Books, 2018) "Liberation and All That Bright Etc." (Mysterioso Books, 2022). Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here Please support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/varnvlog Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Cohost of Boundless and Bottomless: Sean K.B. and Jason N. Intro and Outro Video Design: Djene Bajalan (Grim Intro, Political Intro, Outro), Bitterlake (Strange Intro) Art Design: Corn (www.patreon.com/cornflow) and C. Derick Varn

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Writing and Revolution: Cultural Production vs. Neoliberal Aesthetics with Sudip Bhattacharya

Writing and Revolution: Cultural Production vs. Neoliberal Aesthetics with Sudip Bhattacharya C. Derick Varn

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What is Politics: Plato's Republic Book II - III

What is Politics: Plato's Republic Book II - III C. Derick Varn

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What is Politics: Plato's The Republic and Book I

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What is Politics: Plato's Republic, Book IV and V

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A People’s History of the Mets: Urban Planning, Labor, and Radical Politics with A.M. Gittlitz

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The Contradictions of Anti-Politics: Hegemony, State Forms, Class, and Organic Crisis

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The Proliferation of Anti-Politics: How Electoral Regimes Fear the Public

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The Myth of Representation: Why Politicians Don't Care What You Vote For

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The Quest for Narrative From World Travels to Technology with Miles Spencer

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Communist Unity in Oceania: The Future of Socialist Organizing in Australia

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