https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q4pqh-12b0d6e On Anthony Giddens' The Consequences of Modernity (ch.3) [Patreon Tier 2&3 Exclusive] In the second episode of the Cynical Ideology section of the 2022 Reading Club, we look at what trust is and why it has declined so precipitously…
Tag: Ideology
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…
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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/268/ Emergency vs Emergency ft. Geoff Shullenberger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h9vfk-1242ed7 On emergency politics today. We talk to Geoff Shullenberger about competing emergency politics, left and right. Should politics be enjoyable and provide a frisson of transgression, or not? Is bare life all that's on offer? And is declaring the…
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Excerpt: /266/ Reading Club: Foucault & Biopolitics
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eb5j2-123600d [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] On neoliberalism and biopolitics. In the fifth session of the "Emergency Politics & Control" theme of the 2022 Reading Club, we take on The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault's 1978-9 lectures…
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/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3h65d-122149a On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars. We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion going on, where…
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