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Back to Search134 TEASER | The Problem with Work
Season 1 Episode 134
In this episode we discuss Kathi Weeks’ 2011 book The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. The text brin…
6 hours ago
133 | Indigenous Struggles Beyond the Colonial Politics of Recognition: Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks
This episode engages with Glen Coulthard’s 2014 book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Coulthard weaves a rich a…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
132 TEASER | Marxism and Religion, Part II: The Gospel According to Terry Eagleton
Season 1 Episode 132
In this episode, we discuss Terry Eagleton’s defense of religion. We focus on his diagnoses of the Enlightenment, modernism, and post-modernism as di…
1 month ago
131 | What's Left of Black Politics? Brandon Terry's Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Season 1 Episode 131
In this episode, we discuss Brandon Terry’s 2025 book Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement. There is little …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
130 | Max Horkheimer: What Makes Critical Theory Critical?
Season 1 Episode 130
In this episode we talk about Max Horkheimer’s essay “Traditional and Critical Theory”, which serves as a kind of manifesto for the Frankfurt School …
2 months ago
129 TEASER | The General Strike and Socialism: Sorel's Reflections on Violence
Season 1 Episode 129
In this episode we discuss Georges Sorel’s 1908 Reflections on Violence. We focus on his central claim that all of socialism is concentrated in the i…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
129 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Season 1 Episode 128
In this episode, we introduce our new series on “Marxism and Religion.” At political, social, and spiritual levels, the series explores this complica…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
127 | Hayden White's Forms of History
Season 1 Episode 127
In this episode, we discuss the work of historian Hayden White. His provocative claim is that the practice is inescapably the practice of narrative f…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
126 | Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program
Season 1 Episode 126
In this episode, we talk about Marx’s critique of the Gotha Program, but you knew that from the title. We discuss Marxian critiques of redistributive…
4 months, 1 week ago
125 TEASER | Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power
Season 1 Episode 125
In this episode, we talk about Elias Canetti’s 1960 book Crowds and Power. Equal parts political theory, poetic sociology, and speculative anthropolo…
5 months, 1 week ago