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/281/ Foreign Fighters, Left & Right (I) ft. Stefan Bertram-Lee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-j4pj7-129d61d On Rojava and Ukraine.We talk to Stefan Bertram-Lee, former volunteer fighter for the the YPG in Rojava, about whom a Hollywood movie is being made. We ask him about the type of person who volunteers, and how this compares…
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Excerpt: /280/ Three Articles: Liberal Nationalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t468r-12938f2 [Patreon Exclusive] With European liberals waving Ukraine flags, how might the war and escalating geopolitical tensions between major power be prompting a return to nationalism and patriotism? Is it just a means for elites to extract sacrifices from the…
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/279/ Society of the Speculative ft. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cjspg-128b425 On our financialised world. We talk to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou about his new book, Speculative Communities. How has speculation become the very practice around which modern societies coalesce? And how does speculation actually give voice to the waning legitimacy of…
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Excerpt: /278/ Reading Club: Cynicism & Ideology
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z34ya-1286a6d [Patreon Tier 2&3 Exclusive] On Zizek's "How Marx Invented the Symptom" from The Sublime Object of Ideology. We kick off the second phase of the 2022 Reading Club, on Cynical Ideology, with this selection from Slavoj Zizek's…
/276/ Broken Promises ft. Fritz Bartel
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kv4bb-128234f On the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism. Fritz Bartel talks to us about his new book in which the 1970s crisis and its aftermath takes centre-stage. How did the response to this global crisis…
/273/ Eco-Leninism? [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9sbfq-127bf03 On the climate emergency. We are specially unlocking this episode of our monthly Reading Club – the concluding episode of the first half of the 2022 syllabus (download it here). If you'd like full access to all of the…
Excerpt: /275/ Our Reply to Critics: Review of Reviews
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tubr9-1277e76 On reviews of our book, The End of the End of History A year since the book came out, and two years since we finished writing it, we take a look at published reviews the book has received…
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Excerpt: /274/ Aufhebonus Bonus: July 2022
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dyzrb-126f987 [Patreon Exclusive] On your questions & criticisms. We discuss the link between Covid and war in Ukraine and return to the question of who exactly is the ruling class. Plus: inflation, what actually happened in the 1990s, contemporary art,…
/272/ As Late As Necessary ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mvydt-1267417 On abortion. After the US Supreme Court ruling, where does this leave women in the US? Political theorist Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss Roe v Wade, and how the fact it rooted abortion in a right to privacy…
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