https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wzs9c-12137f8 [Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works. Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fear. To join a local Reading Club where you…
Tag: Ideology
/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wgbss-120e7ad On Marxism & the Left. We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left. Who or what is "the Left" today – merely the left wing of Capital?…
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/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xs7x3-11ededf On the fusion of technocracy & populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the…
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/246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jvx2i-11c5896 On class & material self-interest. We talk to Vivek Chibber about his new book, The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn, which seeks to answer why capitalism has proven remarkably stable. Vivek explains why classical Marxism does…
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Excerpt: /245/ Reading Club: Emergency Politics II – Agamben
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mrumt-11c5623 On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception (2005). How did a darling of the left during the War on Terror become a resource for the right during Covid? Is Agamben right to blur the boundary between fascism and liberal democracy?…
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/242/ Bureaucracy Rules OK ft. Michael Lind
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yrmqi-11b2dba On class wars, new and old. Michael Lind, Professor of Practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, joins us to talk about what it might take to restore working class power in Western states. He explains…
/239/ Against Justice ft. Ross Wolfe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fzq3t-1194308 On the critique of egalitarian ideology. We talk to writer Ross Wolfe about his essay "Marxism Contra Justice". Given that struggles for justice have been central to all sorts of radical movements, why is it important to cleave Marxist…
Excerpt: /236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yfqwf-11803cf On the German Greens' shady history. Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations into the Green Party, who are now back in power in Germany. The 68ers attempted to combat…
/235/ Political Ritalin ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t4z5n-11769e3 On our current attention-deficit and hyperpolitical disorder. In our book, The End of the End of History, we discuss the move from post-politics to anti-politics; from consensus to rejection; from apathy to anger. In a new article,…
/232/ Reading Club: Cold, Hard / Warm, Soft
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d9n5i-115d579 On Eva Illouz's Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism How has the cold and hard world of bureaucratic, instrumental rationalism penetrated the intimate sphere of love and relationships? And how has open communication and emotional understanding been used…
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