Ryan and Lavit discuss Mark Fisher's 2013 essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle" and Ryan Grimm's Intercept essay "The Elephant in the Zoom." How has it happened that the Vampire Castle Fisher described as a trap for the radical left has come to define the progressive bureaucracy? Why are the institutions ranging from the ACLU to the Audubon Society so woke as to be crippled by internal strife and crisis? 

Mark Fisher's Exiting the Vampire Castle Essay
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/

Ryan Grim's "Elephant in the Zoom"
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/

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