https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9yre4-a640ef On the rise of the 'digital party'. If politics has become distant from the people, what if a new model of party, leveraging platform technology, could bring the people closer to power? Paolo Gerbaudo talks to us about the…
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/59/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 3 ft. Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h8c39-a4948f On democratic planning. Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski propose we look at Walmart and other giant corporations as sites of planning, not of markets -- and that this fact proves planning works. Rather than rely on markets and market…
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/58/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 2 ft. Ishay Landa
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cm3ka-a40695 On the links between economic liberalism and fascism. Ishay Landa talks to us about the "Apprentice's Sorcerer": how political liberalism enfranchises the masses, to the disgruntlement of economic liberals, who then have to turn to an authoritarian or fascist…
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/57/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 1 ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dbmnj-a361d7 On the cult of the entrepreneur. Alex Gourevitch talks to us about the "special kinds of assholes we get in our economy" and the dangers of the heroic capitalist icon. How does the earlier ideal of meritocracy differ from…
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/56/ Popular Not Populist ft. Anton Jaeger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-egcub-a2573c The big 2018 populism discussion. We trash mainstream interpretations of populism (hiya, Cas Mudde) and debate the merits and demerits of 'left populism'. Thatcher, Clinton and Blair are today thought of as anti-populists, but what if they demonstrate many…
/55/ High-Visibility Revolt ft. Aurélie Dianara
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sz3bd-a124ca The 'gilets jaunes' protests have shocked France, expressing a profound exasperation and anger that goes much deeper than frustration at a fuel tax. This is clearly a movement from below, of the people. But it is leaderless and thus…
/54/ Numbers Are Too Powerful ft. William Davies
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5svh2-9fdc1f We discuss Nervous States with its author: How has debate became so angery!1!! and fractious? Why don't we trust institutions any more -- or better, which institutions do we still trust and why? How has war increasingly encroached onto peace?…
/53/ Brexit’s Hotel California
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h854x-9f8be2 Theresa May's Brexit deal seems to have satisfied no one. Britain doesn't properly leave, nor does it stay, it just becomes a passive rule-taker. What are the prospects for the UK actually leaving? Will there be a second referendum?…
/52/ Duterte’s Despotism ft. Nicole Curato
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8wqay-9e8a75 In which we learn of Duterte's promises of blood and how he's lived up to those promises. Is massacring drug user, dealers and anyone caught in the crossfire actually popular? How does violence fit in with his development model?…
/51/ Oh, Brazil: What Now?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7gtt8-9deaf4 In which we update the latest from Brazil, post-election. What will Bolsonaro's government look like? We plot best & worst case scenarios and discuss how bad this really is (really, really bad). And is "fascism" the correct term to…
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