/169/ Authoritarian Liberalism and Its Discontents ft. Amber A’Lee Frost & Daniel Bessner

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tqdkw-f7488d On the Biden administration and Trumpist reaction.   We discuss the riot at the US Capitol and why it was not a (failed) coup attempt. How serious was the event, and what next for Trumpist reaction - will it lead…

/168/ Corona, Climate, Communism ft. Andreas Malm

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uiv86-f6b195 On the 'war communism' solution As we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant turmoil, suffering and lockdown, inevitably the search for systemic causes and systemic responses grows more intense. Swedish ecologist and social theorist…

/167/ The Kingdom of God Is on Main Street ft. Todd McGowan

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9zuq3-f565c2 On freedom, authority and responsibility. Theorist Todd McGowan joins us to talk about the End of History, what Hegel can teach us about emancipation, and why Slavoj Zizek’s reinterpretation of Hegel is so important. If contradiction is the basis…

/161/ Culture is Bad for You ft. Mark Taylor (UNLOCKED)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ak92q-f55eba On “culture”.   We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway and end up defending “low culture” from Red Hot…

/165/ Black Spartacus ft. Sudhir Hazareesingh

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wtwf3-f45ea2 CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But we now know a lot more about the life of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture.…