https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xs7x3-11ededf
On the fusion of technocracy & populism.
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the “new logic of democratic politics”. How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the same time? How does this distinguish our age from a more ideological age in the past? And what can be done to make politics ideological again?
Part 2, which includes the rest of the interview, and the After Party where Alex, George and Phil debate why politics are toxic today, is available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64729183/
Readings:
- The Age of Technopopulism? George Hoare, Damage
- Alex’s thread on consensus-through-dissensus
- The Berlusconi – cocktail recipe
Aufhebunga Bunga 
Carlo and Chris might like the distinction made by Joe Jackson in his 1986 song “Right and Wrong” the first stanza and chorus of which is as follows:
“Stop everything
I think I hear the President
The Pied Piper of the TV screen
Is gonna make it simple
And he’s got it all mapped out
And illustrated with cartoons
Too hard for clever folks to understand
They’re more used to words like:
Ideology
They’re not talkin’ ’bout right and left
They’re talkin’ ’bout
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
Right and wrong, do you know the difference”
Hah, that’s excellent!