https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c62c9-c93718 On working class pain and politics. We talk to Jennifer Silva about her most recent book, and working class Americans' experience of and perspectives on pain. We discuss racial, gender and class identities and sense of relative losses and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9sxga-c84129 On algorithms and politics. Can we "blame the media" today for political outcomes? Who's responsible for The Discourse in a fragmented landscape? It seems like there's increasing polarisation today, driven by social media 'filter bubbles'. Are they real? Who's…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-68vzv-c74c0e This is a sample. Go to Patreon for the full episode. On Bolivia, Macron, Randian Chile. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack - we…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…
Read More /95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4779-c57291 In our second Reading Club, we discuss Eliane Glaser's Anti-Politics (Repeater, 2018) and take readers questions and contributions. Readings: Anti-Politics: On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State, Repeater For access to this and other bonus episodes, become…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eeph3-c481cf On Argentina's elections and Chile & Ecuador's revolts. Macri's election was heralded by the right across the continent as the end to a sequence of centre-left governments in South America. Now only four years later, he is likely to…
Read More /93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdiys-c36143 A new format in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack. This week we take a sharp look at the crumbling US political establishment and its empire: impeachment and regime legitimacy;…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cbfcn-c2d83b On environmental protest politics. Extinction Rebellion and the Climate Strike have brought eco protest back to the front pages. But it all seems a bit of a flashback to the 2000s. We examine the protests' alarmism and post-political positioning.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9yrn5-c1e5cc On UBI and social reproduction. Following on from ep. 88 where we discussed post-work with Anton Jäger, we have Amber on to talk about her recent article in Jacobin on Andrew Yang's proposals for a Universal Basic Income.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gud7e-c0ec36 On the Hong Kong rebellion. Four months of protests is forcing a confrontation with the Hong Kong authorities and the Chinese state. The demands are for civil liberties and some more democracy - but what are the social conditions…
Read More /89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
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