@michaelburns.bsky.social
person that makes philosophic and comedic content, deadhead, lake guy.
it's something i need to do eventually when i have time/capacity to start a podcast feed as well
03.08.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
here's my recent chat with one of my favorite youtube people, Jared Henderson, about online enshitification and how to make philosophical content on a platform that just wants to feed us slop and steal our data.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsX...
Right because without a functional, representative party, the left is doomed to fragment and be on the back foot reacting to situations; sad because there is no such party, at least not at scale, despite efforts to build it. So the left is kind of NGOified at best, leaving us to be weird online.
01.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Great vid! I think it begs one question that everyone struggles with and would be interesting to hear more on, namely what to do in the absence of a viable mediating body. I have some disagreements with Jodi Dean, but her pitch for a kind of vanguardism in Crowd and Party feels both right & sad: 1/2
01.08.2025 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
icymi my most recent video is about how we can avoid the temptation of "online leftism" and ground or thought and politics in organizations and political philosophy.
(some ppl who didn't watch the video assumed this was a right-wing video. weird.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrnO...
session two of the Frederic Jameson reading group is up now on Patreon.
www.patreon.com/posts/jameso...
really wish i wasn't out of town for this : /
31.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
here's my full interview with the OG of YouTube philosophy, Gregory B Sadler, from last week's stream. We talk about how he went from a "burnout metalhead" to one of the innovators of online public philosophy.
youtu.be/OJTfSkCqDeA
fyi - next session of the Patreon Jameson reading group is going to be live streamed tomorrow around 12pm PT/3pm ET.
If you can't make it live the full recording will be up after the fact, but if you're around, feel free to come keep me company.
nah, like 80k people clicked it and watched past the title and largely engaged with it in good faith because they aren't on the computer yelling at strangers b/c of the title of a video they didn't watch.
31.07.2025 04:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and if you're interested in joining:
www.patreon.com/MichaelBurns...
fyi - next session of the Patreon Jameson reading group is going to be live streamed tomorrow around 12pm PT/3pm ET.
If you can't make it live the full recording will be up after the fact, but if you're around, feel free to come keep me company.
you didn't watch the video - it's literally about how to be better leftists.
31.07.2025 01:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0talking to @epochphilosophy.com about their new video AND MORE right now
30.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0joined by @gilmorejon.bsky.social of @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social right now!
30.07.2025 19:46 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0STREAM STARTING UP NOW
30.07.2025 19:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
follow up thoughts on my "problem of the left" video, plus @epochphilosophy.com talks about his new Palantir video.
live at 12pm pt/3pm et.
youtube.com/live/HyvDmyN...
one of my favorite philosopher youtubers, @epochphilosophy.com, is going to be joining me on stream today.
starting up around 12pm PT / 3pm ET
folks have been saying that YT isn't alerting them when I go live, so scheduled tomorrow's stream almost 24 hours in advance, like a serious media mogul.
www.youtube.com/live/HyvDmyN...
NOW LIVE
twitch.tv/technopoverty
new video is now up on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrnO...
Not sure if this was the primary point of the video, but now I’m just imagining the history of modern politics as the Xavier/Magneto scenes from the first X-Men movie, but it’s Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes.
28.07.2025 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0What is #TheLeft, really? Watch this!
27.07.2025 17:38 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0i am so sorry that this has happened to you/me
28.07.2025 02:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0hey thanks so much
26.07.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great video that correctly defines #TheLeft Via @michaelburns.bsky.social
youtu.be/JrnOxlUiPDM?...
and @tailboi.bsky.social helped work out the script on this one, among other things.
26.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Imagine a video ... about a messy discourse ... bet you've never even considered such a thing. Well good news! Such a video has been born hosted by the wiseman Burns! What a gift!
26.07.2025 17:04 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0as always - you're too nice and thoughtful - and i appreciate the hell out of it, my brother from north of the border.
26.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Watch this watch this watch this
Michael always says things I find good and wise but this is the closest I think we've ever been aligned on anything, and he's WAY smarter than me so you'll probably actually understand him rather than my normal finger-sludge.
