A Theory of Time and Energy (Ft.
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In this episode, David McKerracher (Dave), founder of Theory Underground, joins me to discuss the core ideas of his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy."
In this enriching discussion, Dave and I discuss his theory of “Timenergy,” and its relation to various topics such as free time, otium, leisure, labour, automation, slavery, the school system, the PMC, and how the ideas of Marx, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and others influenced his thinking.
In the backroom (the second half of the podcast on Patreon), Dave and I discuss some of the more radically contentious claims of his book, and we discuss what a post-capitalist/socialist/communist society that prioritizes leisure and human potential could look like. This includes criticisms of the contemporary “left,” the “anti-work” movement, and previously existing socialism.
David McKerracher (Dave) is the founder of Theory Underground, an educational platform for learning theory and a publishing house for organic intellectuals or aspiring theorists who pursue theory and philosophy outside of academia or people with academic backgrounds who don't want to be restricted by academic fetters, i.e. renegade academics.
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Thanks Tony. It was an honor and a total blast to come on your show!!
Check out Henri Bergson’s notion of time as intensive/subjective duration. This is huge intellectual source of the sort of “existential time” you’re describing in relation to Heidegger (~34:44). Heidegger was def influenced by Bergson, though the latter’s work was generally dismissed by the titans of postwar critical theory so it’s not surprising this influence has become obscured.
The books Time and Free-will and Matter and Memory are great. Deleuze also gives a lucid summary account of Bergson’s work in his book Bergonism
Hell yeah! I'm so glad you and Dave got to have this conversation about timenergy!
Excellent discussion, and it was wonderful to hear Dave speak about his book. Excellent job hosting and interviewing as well!
3:00 Why is Timenergy different from free time
5:10 The ‘horizon of possibilities’ has collapsed
6:20 Time that is exhausted is GARBAGE TIME
9:40 After the work/school week all that we’re left with is either garbage time (time w/o energy), or RESTLESS/unfocused time (energy w/o reliable time blocks to pursue higher human aspirations).
13:15 Good luck learning the violin, or three to five languages
15:40 Timenergy as an existential concept, vs Nietzsche’s Otium
17:00 Domenico Losurdo - Nietzsche, the aristocratic rebel
18:00 “Imagination stomach”
19:50 Moishe Postone - Time, Labor and Social Domination
20:20 Existential definition of human ‘Labor Power’ (as a force of nature) and precondition for capitalist “labor power”.
25:20 Timenergy is a precondition for both Otium and capitalist notion of “labor power”.
25:40 “Otium et Bellum” - for aristocracy, both ancient and contemporary, leisure time implies both energy and reliable blocks of time to pursue their interests.
28:00 Existential vs “objective” time
36:30 Structural stultification
When your manager brings you into his office to ask why you’re 4 hours late and you spit that thesis at him ❤️🔥
Thank you both
I feel like I have a million things flying in front of me at any one time, and I'm grasping towards the radical things. For example, I can find clarity in organizing a Palestine Support Rally (which went swimmingly on Saturday in Huntsville, AL, we made the news, I helped make some impact, awesome stuff), but then work itself... My goodness, I have nothing for it. It just seems unimportant beyond providing me money to survive, and the people there are clueless about the real world... So hard to engage.
So clearly my drive towards organizing is my own jouissance... Another great one fellas. Really learned something here. Going to have to read the book itself.
Part 2 seem not to be available on Patreon.
It is on patreon! For active partisans and all the tiers above as usual
@@X_TheHuntsman_XSurely this Lacanian "Jouissance" is not the *only* factor in the drive towards organisation?
I would find such a position too cynical. It seems anti-materialist, almost anti-Left.
Perhaps I'm wrong. I'm not a Lacanian:)
@@mattgilbert7347 Oh no, definitely not. Like I said, it is Alabama. The material conditions here are total crap. lol It just helps to also have an almost "spiritual" calling for doing the organizing.
I need to watch this again,man that's f** eye-opening or something,❤❤❤❤
Commenting for the algo rhythm. Subbed.
I think a good example of freeing up TimEnergy for beuracracy and becoming great.
If my personal favorite channel, Juilian de Medeiros.
He was a professor at Oxford Brooks before Covid19 hit, but not he does stellar philosophy content every Monday 9am for the past 3 years!
I've learned so much for him, highly recommend, checking him out!
DIG IT
I'd like to carry this book at Red Emma's - can I contact someone regarding wholesale? Let me know, loved the discussion, some very relevant concepts for self-management/cooperatives.
35:58 & 45:44 totally agree. The destruction of interpersonal relationships is a major aspect of modern linear (fixed) time which has crushed the soul of society, you can feel it in the sickness of the rat race. Our organs have been fed into the gears of a mechanical corporate “efficiencies” market-destroying our ability to reproduce our culture in a healthy manner by flattening our social lives and traditions into a thin machinic and fractured form.
In a way we are living through a modern Exodus, in a burnout culture similar to the story of the ancient Hebrews who Pharaoh attempted to cut down through the sheer exhaustion of endless hard labor.
Is Timenergy coming on Audible any time soon?
It's in production now!
Timothy Energy
aww yeah goa trance intro
1Dime is a handsome boi
When Karl Marx said: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." How does this work when you're disabled with not much stamina/labor power to give? Does this mean that those with disabilities will struggle and be unable to live a fulfilling life?
No, hence the emphasis on “needs” also. Being born with disabilities or crippled means that individuals has more needs that need to be accommodated, just like an individual with a larger family. Needs are not wants. Needs must be accommodated accordingly in a fair way. But no one is entitled to all their wants/desires of course
@@1DimeRadio thanks. It was just a question that came to mind.
_“Saving Time”_ is modernity’s largest hoax that transmuted _Using Time_ into a rentier commodity…
You can't buy your way into graffiti in any kind of meaningful way, no more than you can buy your way into learning the violin and becoming a player that will deserve recognition within a conservative cultural structure. Graffiti artist/writer is more akin to music composer anyway. If the person is working to excel at the craft and innovate within the art form.
If you have money to buy paint that makes it easier to work. If you can afford to pay someone to learn from, you might progress your craft skills quicker. There is of course more value to teaching yourself or learning from others with no money exchanged.
The same can be said for learning the violin when money is no obstacle.
The distinction made in the podcast is based on conservative class based hierarchical cultural worth. Which to me in this comparison is false, a metter of taste and too conservative for me, in its valuation of the two.
Agghh, what’s with the choppy sound?
Whatchu mean?
@@1DimeRadio Exactly what it says, the sound was uneven, fading and coming back in abruptly, as in insufficient bandwidth and/or cheap mic, more on Dave’s side than on yours.
Sounds fine, you must have sensitive hearing
Yesterday I only listened on my earbuds, didn’t watch. Today I see that Dave’s video link is choppy as well, in the same places as the audio.
Suggestion for next time, cut the video feed and sound will be much better. I have normal hearing but English is not my first language so when speech is choppy I have to strain to understand.