JohntheDuncan

It PhD researcher in Human Rights, austerity and neoliberalism |Disco Socialist trying to YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZNuiHWaxFhtaI1EAlSXlg?view_as=subscriber | Twitter :  https://twitter.com/Johntheduncan | Patreon:  https://patreon.com/johntheduncan

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How is knowledge created online? How do the structures and pressures of the profit driven youtube algorithm affect knoweldge on these platforms? In this video I argue firstly that these platforms push creators to produce more and more work with less and less attention to sound knowledge creation. This has led to the proliferation of debate culture. I then in turn argue that this debate culture privileges certain forms of knowledge over other - that it has certain "epistemic ideals". Finally, I argue that these epistemic ideals are actually just developments of deeply embedded western ideals of knowledge creation which should be challenged by the left...I also try to make some jokes throughout to keep you entertained like the platform logic demands...damn I'm part of the system!

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How is knowledge created online? How do the structures and pressures of the profit driven youtube algorithm affect knoweldge on these platforms? In this video I argue firstly that these platforms push creators to produce more and more work with less and less attention to sound knowledge creation. This has led to the proliferation of debate culture. I then in turn argue that this debate culture privileges certain forms of knowledge over other - that it has certain "epistemic ideals". Finally, I argue that these epistemic ideals are actually just developments of deeply embedded western ideals of knowledge creation which should be challenged by the left...I also try to make some jokes throughout to keep you entertained like the platform logic demands...damn I'm part of the system!

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How is knowledge created online? How do the structures and pressures of the profit driven youtube algorithm affect knoweldge on these platforms? In this video I argue firstly that these platforms push creators to produce more and more work with less and less attention to sound knowledge creation. This has led to the proliferation of debate culture. I then in turn argue that this debate culture privileges certain forms of knowledge over other - that it has certain "epistemic ideals". Finally, I argue that these epistemic ideals are actually just developments of deeply embedded western ideals of knowledge creation which should be challenged by the left...I also try to make some jokes throughout to keep you entertained like the platform logic demands...damn I'm part of the system!

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I feel like Israeli propaganda is getting worse

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Necropolitics

How is death managed in our current age of neoliberal capitalism? This video explores the concept of "necropolitics" as described primarily by the Cameroonia...

How is death managed in our current age of neoliberal capitalism? This video explores the concept of “necropolitics” as described primarily by the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe. Firstly, the concept of necropolitics is described in relation to the work of Michel Foucault and his understanding of biopolitics and in relation to Frantz Fanon and his description of the division of space under colonialism. Next, the ways in which necropolitics operate under neoliberal capitalism are described with particular attention to disable liberation and the figure of the “single mother on welfare”. This is followed by the racist and neoimperialist ways in which necropolitics are expressed during the global pandemic and finally similar themes are explored in relation to global warming. 

 Where some have argued society depends on who it excludes, this could be altered to say society depends on who it kills.

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What was the least bad thing David Cameron ever did? Clip from my video on Necropolitics @ johntheduncan on YouTube

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Necropolitics

How is death managed in our current age of neoliberal capitalism? This video explores the concept of "necropolitics" as described primarily by the Cameroonia...

How is death managed in our current age of neoliberal capitalism? This video explores the concept of "necropolitics" as described primarily by the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe. Firstly, the concept of necropolitics is described in relation to the work of Michel Foucault and his understanding of biopolitics and in relation to Frantz Fanon and his description of the division of space under colonialism. Next, the ways in which necropolitics operate under neoliberal capitalism are described with particular attention to disable liberation and the figure of the "single mother on welfare". This is followed by the racist and neoimperialist ways in which necropolitics are expressed during the global pandemic and finally similar themes are explored in relation to global warming. 

 Where some have argued society depends on who it excludes, this could be altered to say society depends on who it kills.

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https://youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M

NEW VIDEO! Against Patriotism - This one looks at the concept of patriotism, settler colonialism and the very concept of the liberal nation state as a building block of racial capitalism before examining the performance of patriotism within such contexts.

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I'm bored of the way that people talk about free speech! It's always positioned as a debate between competing rights or intellectualised debates on when its ok to censor things but it rarely ever seems to talk about how free speech is a material condition, with material impacts and material constraints which can only be overcome by overcoming the current systems of oppression that exist currently within our society.

This video looks to re-balance some of those conversations by talking about how speech, especially speech which is a threat to current systems, is materially suppressed by capitalism and how the free speech debate itself is a way in which the dominant forms of power sustain themselves.

Part 1 talks about how the media isn't a vehicle for free speech but rather a vehicle for uplifting speech which supports capitalism and the state

Part 2 is about how social media companies, as companies, are subject to many of the same constraints as traditional media and

Part 3 (in my view the most interesting part so stick around for that!) concerns how the free speech debate is really for projecting classical liberal values, constructing a racialised other and reconstructing whiteness

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There’s been a disturbing rise in what I call “soft climate change denial” https://youtu.be/i2eyXA0b-lI

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https://youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M

NEW VIDEO! Against Patriotism - This one looks at the concept of patriotism, settler colonialism and the very concept of the liberal nation state as a building block of racial capitalism before examining the performance of patriotism within such contexts.

[johntheduncan]

https://youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M

NEW VIDEO! Against Patriotism - This one looks at the concept of patriotism, settler colonialism and the very concept of the liberal nation state as a building block of racial capitalism before examining the performance of patriotism within such contexts.

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https://youtu.be/BP1dGdwGHgY

Video Blurb:

Human rights and Marxism have had a pretty contentious relationship over the years with Marxists claiming that human rights are necessarily bourgeoise ideology and therefore anti-Marxist. This video looks at the question of how much Marxists should engage with human rights by looking at three central Marxist criticisms:

1) Marx was explicitly against human rights

2) That human rights necessarily mask the economic class divisions and are therefore bourgeois ideology

3) That human rights are necessarily tools of western imperialism

By engaging with these criticisms, I show how human rights can benefit from critical Marxist perspectives but also how Marxists can benefit from engaging with human rights

Bibliography in the pinned comment

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Laptop Music 1, by JohntheDuncan

9 track album

For #bandcampfriday thought I’d share my bandcamp some of which I use in videos 

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https://youtu.be/BP1dGdwGHgY

Video Blurb:

Human rights and Marxism have had a pretty contentious relationship over the years with Marxists claiming that human rights are necessarily bourgeoise ideology and therefore anti-Marxist. This video looks at the question of how much Marxists should engage with human rights by looking at three central Marxist criticisms:

1) Marx was explicitly against human rights

2) That human rights necessarily mask the economic class divisions and are therefore bourgeois ideology

3) That human rights are necessarily tools of western imperialism

By engaging with these criticisms, I show how human rights can benefit from critical Marxist perspectives but also how Marxists can benefit from engaging with human rights

Bibliography in the pinned comment

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https://youtu.be/BP1dGdwGHgY

Video Blurb:

Human rights and Marxism have had a pretty contentious relationship over the years with Marxists claiming that human rights are necessarily bourgeoise ideology and therefore anti-Marxist. This video looks at the question of how much Marxists should engage with human rights by looking at three central Marxist criticisms:

1) Marx was explicitly against human rights

2) That human rights necessarily mask the economic class divisions and are therefore bourgeois ideology

3) That human rights are necessarily tools of western imperialism

By engaging with these criticisms, I show how human rights can benefit from critical Marxist perspectives but also how Marxists can benefit from engaging with human rights

Bibliography in the pinned comment