I don't know about you, but I love the colors in professional Soviet photography from the 70s and 80s, like the ones you find in old postcards. I don't know what causes it, but they look cozy to me, making any district look like home. I wish I could achieve colors like that in my own film photography.
These are a coupl...
The most popular video topic in my last poll was the one on Lazdynai, the most praised residential district in all of the USSR in the 70s. I've been reading a lot on the topic in preparation for writing the script, and there's a lot of material that can be covered. So I wanted to ask: what aspects of this topic were you most ...
2025-08-25 07:04:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I was surprised to see that the winning topic for my next video was about Soviet urban development (the district of Lazdynai), given than in an earlier poll, architecture was the least popular topic. A close second was the St. Louis Commune, so those are the two topics I have started researching for. Just got this book in the...
2025-08-23 03:57:53 +0000 UTC View PostIT'S POLL TIME. Let me know which topic you're most excited about. Multiple choice is enabled!
1) There’s an Italian movie about Friedrich Nietzsche called Beyond Good and Evil (1977) that I’d like to talk about simply because of how bizarre it is. This would be more of a fun video, less theoretical and mo...
After a long period of demotivation and creative block, I'm getting back into a variety of readings with a view to writing a new video. I know most of you are looking forward to my new videos regardless of the topic, but I wanted to check which of these topics there's generally more interest in:
1) Film photography is ...
The Schiller essay cited in the video can be found in the anthology Classical and Romantic German Aesthetics, edited by J. M. Bernstein, which I uploaded to our Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/...
There were some safety concerns that had led me to temporarily privatize all my videos, but the immediate threat has passed now, and so I'm happy to announce my channel is back up!
If any video you're looking for is still missing from the channel, you should be able to find it on our Google Drive:
2025-07-01 11:35:41 +0000 UTC
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Like I promised, here's another short-form video! For now this is a Patreon-exclusive but I will be releasing it on YouTube eventually. Kind of a niche topic - Friedrich Schiller's analysis of beauty as freedom of appearance applied to a specific architectural phenomenon. I hope you enjoy!
2025-06-09 23:52:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently did some black & white photos of soviet architecture in my original hometown (used Rollei Retro 400S which is my favorite b&w film + a basic old point-and-shoot camera). I'm quite happy with how some of them turned out. If you'd like to use any of these for anything, I can send you the full-size .TIFF files...
2025-05-02 04:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi, hope you are well. I wanted to let my patrons know that I will be privatizing all my YouTube videos for now. I can't talk about the reasons behind this, but it IS temporary, so don't worry. I will make them available later this year. I also will still be coming out with another short-form video as planned.
Meanwhil...
Although the first thumbnail proved to be the most successful one, I was too proud of the other two not to share em. Feel free to use them for something if you want. Long Live Scatman.
2025-04-01 19:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
It's out! This is something that's been on my mind for a decade.
In the near future I'll be putting out another short video. See you then. Thank you!
Recent political events have had a pretty negative effect on my mental state, and I've had trouble concentrating on research and writing, but I am currently working on two shorter videos (about 6-7 minutes each), one of which will come out on April 1st. See you then!
2025-03-24 02:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostRepeater Books has been taken over by a venture capitalist with investments in Israel who has suppressed pro-Palestine sentiments, and I don't want purchases of my book to support that piece of shit, so I'm attaching a full free copy of my book, How to Philosophize With a Hammer and Sickle. It'll be our secret. Enjoy...
2025-03-16 17:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostI'm often choosing what to read based on how likely I think it is to make for interesting video material, but there's also always too much to choose from. These are not yet specific video ideas, just a couple of topics I've looked into recently, and I wanna do a poll so as to decide which of them I should do more reading on:<...
2025-02-20 22:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostKind of an unusual question, but Any Austin has recently become one of my favorite gaming YouTubers, to the point where I'm considering making a philosophy video on some of his content. I just love the way he uses video games in ways completely unintended by the developers, and how he approaches video games as aesthetic pheno...
2025-02-17 03:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe video is out, hope you discover something new to read from it!
I've uploaded all the titles mentioned in the video on our Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rasWDAFyI4t1EOSePbe...
Lately, my main reading interest in my free time has been about 20th century Lithuanian history, especially the early Lithuanian communist movement. It's a topic that can be difficult to research because so much material is either Soviet state propaganda that omits a lot of details, or rabid nationalist anti-communism.
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2025-01-17 20:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostDread Delusion is a relatively little known indie game that was one of my favorite games I played last year, and I wanted to recommend it as I think it deserves to be more well-known. It's a choice-heavy fantasy RPG with retro-style graphics. Like Disco Elysium, it has extensive worldbuilding that includes its own history, lo...
2025-01-14 01:50:41 +0000 UTC View PostHappy new year, everyone! I'm currently working on my annual top 10 video of my favorite books I read last year, and I wanted to publish the list to my patrons in advance.
Here it is, in no particular order:
Ghassan Kanafani - Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
Karl Marx - Economi...
I have attached the script for my latest video on Bergson and comedy. You can also find it on our Google Drive, where I have also uploaded a PDF of Bergson's book:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...
The video is out! It's essentially a summary of Bergson's book "Laughter".
Some might be disappointed that I didn't cover other Bergsonian concepts around matter and memory, duration, etc. but I would definitely like to make another Bergson video covering them in the future, just gotta find a good angle.
I hope yo...
2024-11-23 15:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostHappy to say I have now finished writing the script for my video on Bergson's theory of laughter and comedy, about 6 pages long. It's a bit different from most of my other philosophy scripts, as it focuses entirely on one book, rather than being a mix of different philosophy texts. I hope this allowed me to do it justice.
... 2024-11-16 04:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently writing my video script on Bergson's philosophy of comedy, and to test it out some more, I thought I'd ask my patrons: What's something that made you laugh recently? Could be something that happened, a joke, an image, a movie scene, anything. If it ends up being particularly illustrative, there's a chance I'll use i...
2024-11-11 00:45:39 +0000 UTC View PostPeople tend to assume that my YouTube ad revenue and Patreon money is enough for me to live off of, but it's nowhere near enough for monthly rent and groceries. I would probably be able to make a living off YouTube if I started taking sponsorships, but I'm too stubborn because recommending some product or service solely for m...
2024-10-21 20:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostTime for a new poll! Don't have any brand new topics for this one, but these need to be a given a chance!
1) There’s an Italian movie about Friedrich Nietzsche called Beyond Good and Evil (1977) that I’d like to talk about simply because of how bizarre it is. This would be a more fun video, and less t...
Since people liked the music I made for my post-punk vid, here's something I made more recently and used in the patron credits of my latest video. I made it using samples from a 90s sample pack archive + my own guitar and bass, and ran in thru cassette tape for effect. Feel free to use it however you wish!
2024-09-12 19:59:13 +0000 UTC View PostI have uploaded some of the material I used for research to our Google Drive, namely:
The Nazi Voter by Thomas Childers - A highly detailed analysis of Nazi voting patterns.
The Social Bases of the National Socialist Vote by Thomas Childers - a p...
Uploading the intended uncensored version here because YouTube sometimes restricts content with Nazi imagery. I'll also be uploading the script and some reading material soon. Thanks everyone!
2024-09-10 00:11:13 +0000 UTC View PostHad to re-upload the video because of a copyright strike, but it's all been worked out now. If you see the video thumbnail change it's because I'm doing an A/B/C thumbnail test for the first time.
This video covers middle class support for Nazism, the relation between the petty bourgeoisie and conspiratorial thinking, ...
