https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fuq6e-1ab5dc3 On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology. Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself. How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?…
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/547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4nas7-1aac996 On political capitalism and divided workers. Sociology professor at UC Berkeley, Dylan Riley, talks to Alex and Lee about economic stagnation, the state propping up capitalism, and class politics. What is "political capitalism"? And is it true that plunder…
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/546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dsbzg-1aa0163 On postliberalism, MacIntyre and Gray. How was the 1950s "end of ideology" (Bell, Lipset) different from the Fukuyaman 1990s "end of history"? Is John Gray correct in his characterisation of Alasdair MacIntyre as a prelapsarian? Does hyperliberal individualism lead…
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/545/ Orbanism without Orban: the New European Centre? ft. Szilard Pap
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7mbxn-1a9d3d8 On Hungary's elections. Hungarian political analyst and editor of Partizan, Szilard Pap, talks to Alex about the end of 16 years of Fidesz in government. What is the scale of Fidesz’s wipeout? Who is Péter Magyar, and is he…
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/544/ Iran War: Rogue State USA ft. Arash Azizi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n46yy-1a99d69 On the brave new world we have entered. Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to draw out some firm consequences, beyond the immediate situtation.…
/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v5stx-1a90e8a On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What is queer theory and why should it be abolished?…
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/541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rpw7b-1a7ddc5 On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains. Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks to Alex and George about organising workers…
/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tvsu7-1a72d18 On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose contents have been hollowed out. What is…
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/539/ Reading Club: Where’s Our Flying Cars?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zxter-1a6d6b7 On the slowing rate of technological progress. Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 essay, Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit. This builds on two of this year's themes:…
/538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9s5h-1a67eb8 On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and why we should ask "what…
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