Ghosts of the Millennial Left – An Online Seminar w/ C Derick Varn

“There is today in the world a dominant discourse […] This dominating discourse often has the manic, jubilatory, and incantatory form that Freud assigned to the so-called triumphant phase of mourning work. The incantation repeats and ritualizes itself, it holds forth and holds to formulas, like any animistic magic. To the rhythm of a cadenced march, it proclaims: Marx is dead, communism is dead, very dead, and along with it its hopes, its discourse, its theories, and its practices. It says: long live capitalism, long live the market, here’s to the survival of economic and political liberalism!”

― Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx

“those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever”

― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

C. Derick Varn is a poet, teacher, and arm-chair theorist. He use to be an expatriate but has returned to the US. He has worked as lecturer on English Literature, Composition, and Intercultural communication as well as a high school teacher in literature, writing, critical thinking and ethics. While being a frequent podcast guest across the leftcast sphere, Varn also hosts his own podcast called Varn Vlog as was as the host of the now defunct Symptomatic Redness . He lives with his partner, and a bunch of books, and writes at night.

Join poet and educator C. Derick Varn as he delves into the complex world of the millennial left. In his talk, Varn explores how the US and European left often attempts to rejuvenate a misunderstood past. He highlights how the left’s own history has been clouded by manipulations of its collective memory, making it harder to adjust our current reality.

This event will be held via zoom and open to all.

See the Zoom link here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88048308821?pwd=CDL8IbQINSJwWayEUvWMJ7pFX7IOff.1