https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rda95-c0088e On post-work. We discuss Anton's review of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and why it seems to have such appeal, even amongst elites. There is a crisis in the work ethic, but is it an error to counterpose work and leisure and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8ibsd-bae1e8 In our first Reading Club, we discuss Nancy Fraser's The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (Verso, 2019) and take readers questions and contributions. Readings: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born, Verso From Progressive…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e5s7f-b39a9d On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. We talk to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neoliberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, but promote order? Is neoliberalism about more…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s8akx-b2dc81 On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about wolves and also Brexit. Reading:…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hce9b-b22518 [PREVIEW. For full episode, subscribe.] On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about…
Read More Preview: /72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani
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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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…
Read More /58/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 2 ft. Ishay Landa
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?…
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…
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,…
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