https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cuwap-13b677c On the crisis of crisis. Bulgarian critical theorist Albena Azmanova joins us to discuss her widely-discussed 2020 book, Capitalism on Edge. We talk critical theory, the paradox of emancipation, her criticisms of Thomas Piketty and why we should…
Tag: Ideology
UNLOCKED! /319/ The Dead Left (II) ft. Steve Hall & Simon Winlow
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dmdwm-13b07d8 On the left's understanding of freedom. We continue our talk with Steve Hall and Simon Winlow, social scientists in the northeast of England, about their new book, The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin From the Beginning…
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Excerpt: /326/ What Did Capitalism Do Next?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ipc5g-13adb93 On what comes after neo-liberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] After 40 years of neo-liberalism, governments are inching their way to some new settlement, under the pressure of repeated crises, as well as populist upsurges. In this episode we try…
Excerpt: /235/ Reading Club: Freedom (1)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rvdiu-13a361a On Martin Hägglund's This Life. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We begin the 2023 Reading Club with the theme of FREEDOM. In this episode, we examine Martin Hägglund's arguments for secular faith presented in the first half of…
/324/ Reifying Race ft. Kenan Malik
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cq42u-13a22eb On the mainstreaming of racial thinking. We welcome back author and broadcaster Kenan Malik to talk about his new book, Not So Black and White. The book presents a historical account of how racial thinking has accompanied the…
/312/ Consolation-Prize Marxism & the Bunga-Bunga State ft. Dylan Riley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i69ck-1359c94 On the achievement of democracy and the 'impartial' state.We speak to sociologist Dylan Riley about his new book Microverses, a series of aphorisms on social theory and politics.The rational-legal state seems to be under threat by politicians who have…
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Excerpt: /311/ Reading Club: The Precariat
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d5zc3-1357261 Is there a new 'transformative' class? [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We close of the 2022 Reading Club, and the final section on 'Neo-Feudalism', by discussing how class is changing. Through readings by Guy Standing and Ruy…
Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vbce6-13526bf On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth is official policy. Yet its advocates, drawing from the work of radicals…
/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3wc5d-133c2f5 On atomisation and association. Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone came out 22 years ago and the structural changes he identified then – increasing atomisation – have only worsened. Everyone now blames the internet, and though it may have accelerated…
Excerpt: /308/ A Balance-Sheet of the Left
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9tcvb-133847e On the global left after the Cold War. [Patreon Exclusive] Has the left declined, been defeated, or is it dead? Is the continuity with the Old and New Lefts of the 20th century, or should we understand 1989 as…
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