On cash welfarism and state investment. Plus regionalism in Belgium & the UK.
Anton Jäger is back on the pod to discuss the emerging 'transfer state'. We examine Biden's massive trillion...
2021-04-20 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On Covid state failure + responses to listeners.
We start off by discussing listener points and criticisms – e.g. is PMC a useful category? Is a counterculture a terrible idea? Were we...
2021-04-13 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On the uprising in Myanmar, plus Covid state failure.
Southeast Asia scholar (and Bunga recidivist) Lee Jones joins us to talk about the coup in Myanmar (and why the word “coup” can be mi...
2021-04-06 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On memes and the counter-culture.
Theorist and curator Mike Watson advances the argument for "acid leftism". What is this, and why do we need a new counter-culture? Is contemporary leftism la...
2021-03-30 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this latest Three Articles, we examine the rise of 'techno-populism', look at the EU's vaccine debacle, and question whether cinema - and popular culture in general - is being desexualised and p...
2021-03-23 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs we're starting a new cycle of Reading Clubs, we've decided to give livestreaming them a go, so that you guys can fo...
2021-03-19 18:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post
On the socialist case for Scottish independence.
David Jamieson and Cat Boyd, writers and hosts of Conter, the Scottish anti-capitalist website and podcast, join us to to talk about the prosp...
2021-03-16 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On gay liberation and sexual politics.
After big advances over the past decades, we can now ask, did the gays win? And if so, so what? Mark Simpson in the UK and River Page in Florida join us...
2021-03-09 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to address the political problems of leftwing parties today?
Liverpudlian historian David Swift argues that the problem is hobbyism - people for whom politics constitutes their iden...
2021-03-02 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostGeorge responds to the discussion in February's Reading Club with some further thoughts on Deleu...
2021-03-01 16:07:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We respond to your questions and comments from the past two months. Plus a continuation of our chat with Catherine Liu (from 55mins onwards) - on PMC unions, PMC child-rearing and the culture indus...
2021-02-23 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On the Professional-Managerial Class.
Catherine Liu joins us to talk about the worst class in history (the PMC), and how and why they hoard all forms of secularised value. We discuss th...
2021-02-16 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, we've now defined our Reading Club list for the rest of 2021, so you get can planning and reading. The recordings happen at the end of each month, specific dates TBC.
It's a go...
Reminder that our next Reading Club will be recorded on 25 Feb, on Deleuze's (rather short!) "Postscript on the Societies of Control". The downloadable pdf can be found here 2021-02-09 11:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
On American breakdown.
Editor of Damage Magazine, Benjamin Fong, joins us to talk about the lack of shared narratives in contemporary America. We discuss QAnon and conspiracy theories, Biden...
Our next Reading Club is being recorded this Friday (8pm GMT), on Richard Tuck's 2021-01-27 17:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
On Uber, class war among the rich, and its political consequences
Articles:
If liberal democracy has been dethroned, what next?
Francis Fukuyama famously declared the "end of history" in 1989. Has he been misunderstood? Should we understand the declaration in a geopo...
2021-01-19 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
On the Biden administration and Trumpist reaction.
We discuss the riot at the US Capitol and why it was not a (failed) coup attempt. How serious was the event, and what next for Trumpist reac...
2021-01-12 08:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
On the 'war communism' solution
As we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant turmoil, suffering and lockdown, inevitably the search for systemic causes and systemic...
On freedom, authority and responsibility.
Theorist Todd McGowan joins us to talk about the End of History, what Hegel can teach us about emancipation, and why Slavoj Zizek’s reinterpretatio...
2020-12-21 15:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostOur "December" Reading Club is on Wolfgang Streeck's latest book, Critical Encounters....
2020-12-18 13:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We round off the year by previewing The End of the End of History and responding to your questions and criticisms, including Strasserism or left-conservatism, revolutionary memories, more ...
2020-12-15 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On Toussaint L'Ouverture.
CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But w...
2020-12-08 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On censorship, platform capitalism and the Left.
We talk to Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books about YouTube taking down their video as a result of the algorithm flagging its content – and what thi...
2020-12-01 08:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Info and links here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-end-hist...
2020-11-25 20:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Game writer & designer Jonas Kyratzes joins us to talk about the art of games, the culture of gaming, the gamification of society, and the identity politics of gamer culture. How far has Jonas...
2020-11-24 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
On “culture”.
We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway an...
2020-11-17 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostReminder that the next Reading Club will be on Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism. It will be recorded on 3 December, so pleas...
2020-11-16 21:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
On Germany, the hegemon of Europe.
We are joined by leading German public intellectual Wolfgang Streeck to discuss the role of Germany at the end of the End of History. How is it and the EU f...
2020-11-10 12:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post