https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3ejv-1248bdb To commemorate the publication of the German edition of The End of the End of History, co-author Alex Hochuli was in conversation with David Broder, Europe editor of Jacobin Magazine at Spike Magazine, Berlin. The crumbling of the liberal,…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h9vfk-1242ed7 On emergency politics today. We talk to Geoff Shullenberger about competing emergency politics, left and right. Should politics be enjoyable and provide a frisson of transgression, or not? Is bare life all that's on offer? And is declaring the…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rmnfm-123b5ea On crumbling state authority. Benjamin Fogel is back on the podcast to talk us through how South Africa has gone from the hopes of post-apartheid to the Durban riots of 2021. How have corruption, criminal networks, Indian oligarchs,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eb5j2-123600d [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] On neoliberalism and biopolitics. In the fifth session of the "Emergency Politics & Control" theme of the 2022 Reading Club, we take on The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault's 1978-9 lectures…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3xgpf-1232ce8 [Patreon Exclusive] On the economic drivers and political choices of inflation. In the absence of workers demanding higher wages, where is inflation coming from? Is there more to it than pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and the Ukraine…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cbpn6-122e057 [Patreon Exclusive] On your comments & criticisms. We tackle ideological realignments over the use of history; conspiracy theorising; a game-show called The Last True Marxist; whether we've had any progress over the last 50 years; and much more.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3h65d-122149a On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars. We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion going on, where…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fwwzm-1217524 [Patreon Exclusive] We analyse the French presidential election results, the country's geographical and class divides, and what a second term for Macron means for the EU. Three Articles: Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wzs9c-12137f8 [Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works. Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fear. To join a local Reading Club where you…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wgbss-120e7ad On Marxism & the Left. We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left. Who or what is "the Left" today – merely the left wing of Capital?…
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