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…
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/93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
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…
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/92/ Three Articles
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;…
/91/ Exhaustion Revealing ft. Leigh Phillips
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.…
Excerpt: /90/ Work, Bitch ft. Amber A’Lee Frost
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.…
/89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
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…
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Excerpt: /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rda95-c0088e On post-work. We discuss Anton's review of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and why it seems to have such appeal, even amongst elites. There is a crisis in the work ethic, but is it an error to counterpose work and leisure and…
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/83/ Now It’s Syrizous [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ikfyj-bf230e Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to a party that, for a time, represented the European radical left's hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk about Tspiras' "betrayal" -…
Excerpt: /87/ Berluscoming
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qv32m-babd54 We discuss Paolo Sorrentino's "Loro" (2018), a dreamlike cinematic depiction of Silvio Berlusconi. Does the film succeed in capturing Silvio, or does it glamourise him? What explains the appeal he had - and why was the left never able…
/86/ Monsters of the Interregnum ft. Rune Stahl
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4ghvq-baf24e Why hasn't neoliberalism died? We talk to Rune Møller Stahl about his paper "Ruling the Interregnum" in which he examines previous interregnums, such as the 1920s or the 1970s, and the forces that led to the establishment of new…
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