https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-22g6s-9c2afc In which we talk to Amber about the limitations of liberal feminism and why socialism is better (duh). Personal trauma as a form of political argumentation is critiqued. And we debate the unfashionable topic of parenting and families. Maybe,…
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/48/ Ultra-Politics in Brazil ft. Sabrina Fernandes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ikn28-9b76fc In which we preview Brazil's election in which democracy itself is at stake. Who is Bolsonaro and why should Bolsonaro be understood as a neofascist? We discuss the #EleNão feminist resistance and the backdrop of 'antipetismo'. How has the…
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/47/ Woke Consumerism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s6mtu-99a3a4 In which we ask whether political consumerism is still a thing. We chart its course from 90s Adbusters-style anti-branding, to 2000s ethical consumerism, through to today's woke outrage economy. Has commodification and cynicism overwhelmed all consumer activism? Plus, we…
/46/ Exiting Capitalist Realism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6kgxr-987bc9 The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time - the age of 'TINA' and the end of…
/45/ Liberalism: A Counter-Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ccccx-976109 In which we discuss the work of the late Domenico Losurdo, especially his brilliant Liberalism: A Counter-History. Part of an ongoing series on the contradictions of liberalism, we debate whether Losurdo is right to point to liberalism's complicity with slavery,…
/44/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome (N.O.B.S.)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-asd99-96e754 In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink's sofa. It's a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order. Why can't the liberal establishment accept that…
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/43/ City Struggles ft. Ben Bradlow / David Adler
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5xzrk-95659b In which we ask why the urban question become so pointed today - in the Global North as well as in the South? We look at contestation in urban politics - in São Paulo, Johannesburg, London, New York, and beyond. What…
/42/ Erdogan Ever-Present? ft. Yasemin Yilmaz
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3y3v-948e65 In which we survey Turkey's election results in light of five years of tumult - Gezi, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, Syrian war, coup, repression. Are cracks beginning to show for Erdogan? He teamed up with ultranationalists, while opposition secularists and Islamists…
/41/ The Colombian Exception ft. Pablo Uribe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wmeej-9407ec In which we discuss how the Right won this month's election -- in a country that has never seen the Left in power. Is Colombia an exception? The civil war there feels like part of the Cold War that…
/40/ Centrists Are the Bad Guys ft. David Adler
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wfz5p-9396e3 In which we try to understand why it's not the extremes, but the centre, that has given up on democracy. David Adler talks to us about his research, and we learn about the centrist tribes: elites, anti-elite populists, and…
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