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#28 Richard Seymour on Brexit and the EU

Richard Seymour joins me to discuss the prospects for Theresa May's Brexit Deal, the People's Vote campaign, and the nature of the European Union.

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#28 Richard Seymour on Brexit and the EU [PATRONS ONLY]

Richard Seymour joins me to discuss the prospects for Theresa May's Brexit Deal, Northern Ireland and the DUP, the People's Vote campaign, and the nature and history of the European Union. 

#27 Will Davies on 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World' (Part 2)

Will Davies joins me for the second part of our discussion on his new book, 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World'. We spoke about the role of neoliberalism in the rise of contemporary popu...

#27 Will Davies on 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World' (Part 2) PATRONS ONLY

Will Davies joins me for the second part of our discussion on his new book, 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World'. We spoke about the role of neoliberalism in the rise of contemporary popu...

#26 Rodrigo Nunes on a victory for fascism in Brazil

Rodrigo Nunes joins me to discuss Jair Bolsonaro's election victory in Brazil. We discussed Bolsonaro's background, the composition of his electoral coalition, the mistakes of the Brazilian worker's p...

#26 Rodrigo Nunes on a victory for fascism in Brazil [PATRONS ONLY]

Rodrigo Nunes joins me to discuss Jair Bolsonaro's election victory in Brazil. We discussed Bolsonaro's background, the composition of his electoral coalition, the mistakes of the Brazilian worker's p...

#25 Nisha Kapoor on 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism'

Nisha Kapoor joins me to discuss her new book, 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism'. We spoke about Islamophobia, the War on Terror, the adoption of counterinsurgency tactics in ...

#25 Nisha Kapoor on 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism' PATRONS ONLY VERSION

Nisha Kapoor joins me to discuss her new book, 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism'. We spoke about Islamophobia, the War on Terror, the adoption of counterinsurgency tactics in ...

#24 Will Davies on 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World' (Part 1)

Will Davies joins me to discuss his new book, 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World'. We spoke about the declining public trust in experts, the blurring of the distinctions between war and ...

#24 Will Davies on 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World' (Part 1) PATRONS ONLY VERSION

Will Davies joins me to discuss his new book, 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World'. We spoke about the declining public trust in experts, the blurring of the distinctions between war and ...

#23 Adam Tooze on 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World' (Part 2)

Adam Tooze joins me for part two of our discussion on his new book, 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World'. We spoke about the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron's EU reform agenda, t...

#22 Tom Mills on reforming the UK media

Tom Mills joins me to discuss the problems of the UK media, the Labour Party leadership's proposals for media reform, and the media class's aversion to workplace democracy.

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#21 Sophie Lewis on Trans-exclusionary radical feminism

Sophie Lewis joins me to discuss trans-exclusionary radical feminism and her article 'SERF ‘n’ TERF: Notes on Some Bad Materialisms':

2018-08-31 17:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post

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#20 Adam Tooze on 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World'

Adam Tooze joins me to discuss his new book, 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World'.

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2018-08-10 17:10:21 +0000 UTC View Post

#19 Richard Seymour on the Labour Party's anti-semitism row

Richard Seymour joins me to discuss the ongoing anti-semitism controversy in the Labour Party. We discussed the scale and nature of modern anti-semitism, the Labour Party's new code of conduct on ...

#18 Jacob Mukherjee on Britain's rent crisis and how to fight it

Jacob Mukherjee joins me to discuss the UK housing crisis, the challenges in organising private renters, the exploitation of recent migrants by landlords, and the political class's response to the hou...

#17 Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy

Grace Blakeley joins me to discuss the neoliberal financialisation of the UK and world economies, the coming reckoning with the UK's current account deficit, and how we can wrest control away from the...

#16 Phil Burton-Cartledge on the Tories in crisis

Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson, Brexit and the European Union, and the long-term decline of the Conservative Party.

2018-07-11 17:25:47 +0000 UTC View Post

#15 Kate Pickett on the mental health effects of inequality

Kate Pickett joins me to discuss her new book - co-authored with Richard Wilkinson - The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being, the foll...

#14 Adam Tooze on Nazi ideology and the German war economy

Adam Tooze joins me to discuss his book 'The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy'. We discussed the entwinement of Nazi ideology and economics, the explanation for the ap...

#13 Catarina Príncipe on Portugal - the Eurozone's good example?

Catarina Príncipe joins me to discuss the state of Portuguese social democracy, the myth of Portuguese anti-austerity policy, and the broader crisis of the Eurozone.

2018-06-27 20:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post

#12 Jo Littler on meritocracy and the neoliberal era

Jo Littler joins me to discuss the history of meritocratic discourse, how the term meritocracy is deployed in the post-Black Lives Matter and MeToo era, and the explanation for the enduring unpopulari...

#11 Ed Rooksby on reform, revolution, and socialist strategy

Ed Rooksby joins me to discuss socialist strategy, Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas' theory of the state and the Corbyn moment in Britain.

2018-06-27 20:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post

https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/jeremy-gilbert-on-maurizio-lazzaratos-experimental-politics

This week I’m joined by Professor Jeremy Gilbert to discuss Maurizio Lazzarato's 'Experimental Politics'. We talked about Lazzarato's intellectual background, the treatment of continental theory in ...

#9 Wendy Liu on Silicon Valley and the democratisation of technology

Wendy Liu joins me to discuss startup culture, the platform economy and the Labour Party's approach to big tech.

2018-06-27 20:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post

#8 Italexit? - David Broder on the crisis in Italy

David Broder joins me to discuss the Italian President's rejection of the Lega's choice for finance minister, the prospect of new elections, and Italy's increasingly precarious membership of the Euroz...

#7 Alex Nunns on the Labour Party

This week I’m joined by Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power to discuss the Labour Party after the local elections, the balance of power within the PLP, and ...

#6 Catherine Rottenberg on the rise of neoliberal feminism

This week I'm joined by Catherine Rottenberg to discuss her work on neoliberal feminism. We talked about the work of neoliberal feminists Sheryl Sandberg and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the role of neoliber...

#5 Will Davies on Windrush and the politics of the Home Office

This week I'm joined by Will Davies to discuss the Windrush scandal, neoliberal governmentality, and the politics of the British Home Office.

2018-06-27 20:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post