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…
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/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…
/270/ Russia vs the West ft. Richard Sakwa
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2st8d-125e567 On the endgame to war in Ukraine. Eminent Russian expert, Putin and Gorbachev biographer and ex-Sovietologist, Prof Richard Sakwa, joins us in advance of his imminent retirement from the University of Kent. We talk about the geopolitics of…
Excerpt: /269/ Three Articles: The 90s
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xa37f-125535e [Patreon Exclusive] On the whatever decade. People are turning back to reinterpret the 1990s. Clearly, they were peak End of History years. But does that mean that no politics actually happened? If it's the period of the…
Anti-Politics & Beyond (Munich Book Launch – Audio)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8qh4q-1248bf2 If the End of History was characterised by post-politics, and the 'populist decade' of the 2010s dominated by anti-politics, then how should we understand more recent phenomena? Are the following of a qualitatively different nature to anti-politics, namely: the…
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Ruling Class Hysteria (Berlin Book Launch – Audio)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3ejv-1248bdb To commemorate the publication of the German edition of The End of the End of History, co-author Alex Hochuli was in conversation with David Broder, Europe editor of Jacobin Magazine at Spike Magazine, Berlin. The crumbling of the liberal,…
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