I thought the RNN channel got banned, is this a new private one? Can you share an invite?
21Gramsci
joined 4 years ago
Yup, I have no clue how him and Ezra Miller got involved with a movie so niche.
Neptune Frost is a one-of-a-kind movie. It's weird, cryptic, experimental, beautiful, and honestly just a unique experience. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea but it's a movie I won't easily forget.
Oh, it's also about being trans hackers. And about dying in the cobalt mines.
Fuck I got beaten to the punch...
Edit: Saloum is an amazing movie, can't recommend it enough!
Hmmm good question. I don't know of any official repository, I can see a bunch of their most famous works in English on Anna's Archive though.
Thanks to you for reminding me about MCR! I've been binging their music for the past few days. Even with their latest album all about people dying in the Mediterranean, they just. don't. miss.
And yeah Inside Man isn't particularly deep or political, it's just the kind of movie that's fun on every rewatch for me.
I'm afraid I don't have much I can recommend, I had pretty much the same reaction as you with the writing I found both by and about him. Most of what I know about his philosophy is from either school or or other media that references him. I remember reading a good essay by the Wu Ming collective that talked about Gramsci, but I can't find it right now and idk if it there was a translation. If I manage to find it I'll let you know.
Unrelated to Gramsci, but Wu Ming wrote some great historical novels with an impressive amount of research behind them and an explicitly leftist perspective. Some good non-fiction commentary about Italian/European recent history as well. It's not all good, they have some bad takes here and there (don't read Clockwork Orange Duck), but I like most of their stuff. I'm reading Proletkult right now and even though I have mixed feelings about it it's still an interesting book. Most of their best work is translated.
Resetting the "days since being told to read theory" counter back to 0 once again... 
Jk, I read your old thread on Lucio that you linked, was that the one you're referring to or is there another? And if you have other resources on it beside the ones in the thread please do share!
About Money Heist, oof. I only watched the first season and a while ago too. I remember being kinda unimpressed because I felt like a lot of the plot conceits were pretty directly lifted from Inside Man, one of my favorite movies. The political content seemed pretty surface level to me back then, at least that's what I remember, but I might have missed stuff. Definitely interested in the documentary about it's impact though, that stuff is right up my alley as you can tell. 
Jreg is still posting???? Holy shit that's a name I haven't heard in a while...
I just checked out Agalloch and I vibe with it a lot! Will check out Cult Of Luna as well, cheers <3
Ok to be fair the story of Lucio rocks, thanks for sharing that. I didn't know that was the inspiration for Money Heist.
I would usually agree with you about the Treat Entryism. I'm not an ideological purist and I actually like "cultural remixes" in a general sense: pieces of media that reuse and recontextualise older cultural artifacts in a modern form. Bella Ciao though is the one cultural product I become conservative about, in my head it has too much significance to hear it taken out of context without cringing.
Oh wow ok so it's locally banned in my country. Looks like the block is based on the phone number, a VPN doesn't work. Thanks anyway...
Strangely enough the Quds News Network channel isn't banned, even though it's directly affiliated with Hamas.