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#FreeMikey https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe Any money sent to the following links in the next week will go to help Michael get an editing PC so he can make a video essay. I'm matching each donation with a dollar of my own money until $150, but I hope to get more than that for him to have an epic editing station*: + paypal.me/theorypleeb + Venmo @theorypleeb * My buddy Chris is going to build him the work station using salvaged parts from an IRL urbin-mining cyberpunk depot. The first $150 pays Chris' labor (that's coming out of my pocket) and the rest that you all pay goes towards upgraded parts, especially the CPU, GPU, Ram, and storage. Help make history by buying an epic part for Mikey. Amazon wishlist for some seriously epic parts coming soon.

Me n' Mikey did another one of our interview-lectures for Slavoj Žižek's birthday! Michael has put in the work to now argue that Slavoj is one of the greatest thinkers alive, but also in the history of ideas! #FreeMikey https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe Any money sent to the following links in the next two weeks will go to help Michael get an editing PC so he can make a video essay. I'm matching each donation with a dollar of my own money until $150, but I hope to get more than that for him to have an epic editing station*: + paypal.me/theorypleeb + Venmo @theorypleeb * My buddy Chris is going to build him the work station using salvaged parts from an IRL urbin-mining cyberpunk depot. The first $150 pays Chris' labor (that's coming out of my pocket) and the rest that you all pay goes towards upgraded parts, especially the CPU, GPU, Ram, and storage. Help make history by buying an epic part for Mikey. Amazon wishlist for some seriously epic parts coming soon.

You want to be a content creator, but you need to learn production and theory-concepts too. You can either roll those sleeves up and prove yourself helpful and reliable to others already doing it, or you can waste away for years imagining just going into doing it for yourself. In this roadside rant video I argue for why we need an Apprenticeship Culture.

I'm over it and I couldn't be more excited! Subscribe at https://nspleeb.substack.com/

Heidegger and existential limitations. This is just a quick mini-series I did as an experiment to see what the YouTube "shorts" are like. Put 'em in a playlist and republished in a playlist for my subscribers. Subscribe for my FREE updates at www.theorypleeb.com Support to, and follow, my underground imprint New Symbolization Publishing at NSPublishing.substack.com Donate to #FreeMikey at www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe

These letters are usually private but I wanted to make this one public! Dear Friends, Fellow Travelers, and Followers, [Listen to this article here.] Long time no talk. If I haven’t responded to your voice messages, texts, or voicemails, I’ll explain why here… hope to get to those soon! I’ve been crazy busy but also got sick for a week and a half there… still recovering! My goal is to keep this short and give you a quick glimpse of what’s happening. Make sure to do one of the action items at the end if you want to help with the work! I launched the #FreeMikey Campaign a couple of days after planned because of the sickness, and it has been a slow start due to the fact that my livestream campaign I had planned to promote is indefinitely on hold until my voice is healed (totally fried right now! If I’m not careful I’ll lose my voice for two months because my chronic susceptibility is laryngitis. This sucks because I had to cancel a bunch of interviews!). Read up about the #FreeMikey campaign here (audio version of this will add this in text form at the end), listen to his backstory and why I think this needs to happen here, and become his patron here. What I just did that I couldn’t be more excited about to show you soon: An essay on “How to NOT read Capital” A presentation / essay on “Anti-Politics as Means not End” A presentation on practical principles of time-energy management / organizing Ann and I did some New Symbolization Publishing work as a surprise for Michael Downs that you can read here (if you’re not friends and cannot see the post then look at the photo at the bottom) What is keeping me busy right now: - Getting New Symbolization Publishing off to a good first year by - writing my second book, which will be published this year - publishing a couple books for a friend - potentially publishing a couple books for someone else - Building a Creative Studio Space in the next month - my property patrons, the family whose property my tiny house is parked on, is funding a studio I'll build that will later be their shop after I've moved out (I couldn't be more excited) - Organizing a conference - A livestream marathon plan for my buddy Mikey's #FreeMikey Patreon campaign - Three podcasts - People In Our Lives with Astrid -NSP Presents Me n' Mikey Talk… -NSP Presents DavenAnn Talk… Finally, I wanted to make a plug for Alexandrite’s new album. It’s good electronic music that channels the COVID mood in a really relatable way and I couldn’t be more excited for the work they’re doing: https://alexandrite.bandcamp.com/album/rare-earth-fm Ok and finally here is the CALL TO ACTION. Three ways you can help: 1. Share this post on Facebook or retweet it here. 2. Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe 3. https://nspublishing.substack.com/

The oracle told me the only way we're going to liberate timenergy is if we start with freeing Mikey. Become his first patron at patreon.com/TheDangerousMaybe

Me n' Mikey talking Marx. Subscribe at www.NSPublishing.substack.com Mikey's blog: https://thedangerousmaybe.medium.com/ My book: https://www.amazon.com/WAYPOINT-Timenergy-critical-theory-culture-ebook/dp/B09J34PW6N/

What I was reading comes in a few forms that you can view below: as a Twitter thread that you should retweet if you are sick enough to be on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theorypleeb/status/1478759850129584129 as a Medium post: "On the Shortage of Reliable Work" https://medium.com/p/f5c0a5b2beb5/edit?source=post_page-----f5c0a5b2beb5----------------------------------- as one of my “thoughts” at my website: https://www.theorypleeb.com/thoughts/on-the-shortage-of-reliablenbspwork Ted Reese “Capitalism needs lockdowns” article: https://grossmanite.wixsite.com/my-site/post/capital-s-profitability-now-depends-on-lockdowns-acute-social-enclosure-and-medical-tyranny — The song used was without permission but is under Fair Use because I am REACTING to it and it is being tied into educational content: Lyrics to the intro song "Oblivions Peak" by Knocked Loose: One by one Rooted from a place of intolerance I won't cater to a coward That hides behind a fraternity Just so he can feel empowered Institutions supporting murder No, I won't support it But the pressure I feel the pressure to be like you Forced into a life of repentance Searching out for a cure Made to believe that acceptance Is all that we're looking for Is what we need Oblivion's peak But in the end When it's your turn to be judged You'll get what you fucking deserve You son of a bitch One by one (Yea!) One by one Oblivion's peak

The beginning is from my birthday event. This video had to be re-posted because of the technical difficulties (I edited out the two times that the stream went silent for agonizingly long periods of time, but besides that this is all the same) LINKS: - Astrid's Values exercise: https://astridwilde.substack.com/p/values-reflection-exercise - The NSPublishing statement at the end: https://nspublishing.substack.com/p/new-symbolization-publishing