https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9fzr6-1acfb38 On Roland Barthes' Mythologies. Alex, George, and contributing editor Catherine Liu delve into Barthes' 1957 classic to understand the form of ideology critique it proposes – and particularly as it relates to left and right. If the bourgeoisie generates…
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/550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fhxhn-1ac971b On world money and war. Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at SOAS, London, talks to George and Alex about financialisation, arrested development, and the Strait of Hormuz. What is the state-led stabilisation of finance capital? How does today's imperialism…
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History’s back, baby! (Event in London)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4x9nq-1ac5c0f History’s back, baby! Thu 28 May, Verdurin, London Tickets: https://verdur.in/store/historys-back-baby-admission/ It is obvious today that the “end of history”, postulated by Francis Fukuyama in 1992, is over. Liberal democracy as the final form of human organisation? Pah! The…
/549/ Why Has Politics Genderised? ft. Ashley Frawley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ifvkg-1abf8ea On angry young women. Ashley Frawley, sociologist and senior editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to delve more deeply into young people's political polarisation on gender lines. Why is there a lack of mutual understanding or goodwill between…
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/548/ Post-Legitimate Society ft. Will Charles
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fuq6e-1ab5dc3 On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology. Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself. How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?…
/547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4nas7-1aac996 On political capitalism and divided workers. Sociology professor at UC Berkeley, Dylan Riley, talks to Alex and Lee about economic stagnation, the state propping up capitalism, and class politics. What is "political capitalism"? And is it true that plunder…
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/546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dsbzg-1aa0163 On postliberalism, MacIntyre and Gray. How was the 1950s "end of ideology" (Bell, Lipset) different from the Fukuyaman 1990s "end of history"? Is John Gray correct in his characterisation of Alasdair MacIntyre as a prelapsarian? Does hyperliberal individualism lead…
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/545/ Orbanism without Orban: the New European Centre? ft. Szilard Pap
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7mbxn-1a9d3d8 On Hungary's elections. Hungarian political analyst and editor of Partizan, Szilard Pap, talks to Alex about the end of 16 years of Fidesz in government. What is the scale of Fidesz’s wipeout? Who is Péter Magyar, and is he…
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/544/ Iran War: Rogue State USA ft. Arash Azizi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n46yy-1a99d69 On the brave new world we have entered. Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to draw out some firm consequences, beyond the immediate situtation.…
/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v5stx-1a90e8a On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What is queer theory and why should it be abolished?…
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