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Back to Search12 Teaser | Gustav Landauer: Anarchism, Utopia, Community
Season 1 Episode 12
In this episode, we explore the work of German anarchist Gustav Landauer. We work through the utility of utopia in political transformations and what…
5 years ago
11 | Climate Politics and Global Justice (with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò)
Season 1 Episode 11
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (@OlufemiOTaiwo) (Georgetown University) to discuss his work on the politics surrounding c…
5 years, 1 month ago
10 | Donna Haraway: Socialist Cyborg Affinities
Season 1 Episode 10
In this episode, we discuss Donna Haraway’s distinctive socialist cyberfeminism. We talk through the virtues and vices of her version of postmodern f…
5 years, 1 month ago
9 | C.L.R. James: Leadership, Organization, Mass Politics (with Dr. William Clare Roberts)
Episode 9
Episode 9 explores the antinomies of autonomy and self-emancipation in the thought of C.L.R. James. Dr. William Clare Roberts joins us to discuss Jam…
5 years, 2 months ago
8 | (Neo)colonialism and Anticolonialism
Episode 8
In episode 8, we look to the writings of Aimé Césaire to guide a conversation about colonialism, neocolonialism, and anti-colonial thought and strugg…
5 years, 2 months ago
7 | Why Does Class Matter?
Episode 7
Episode 7 dives into class theory as we discuss why it’s important to make a normative case for class politics, misconceptions about who the working …
5 years, 3 months ago
6 | What's Left of Positivism (with Dr. Liam Kofi Bright)
Episode 6
In this episode, we heal the divide between analytic and continental philosophy by finally giving logical positivism its due. Dr. Liam Kofi Bright (L…
5 years, 3 months ago
5 Teaser | Beauvoir: Existentialism and Liberation
Episode 5
Full episode on the Patreon: patreon.com/leftofphilosophy
In this episode, we talk about Simone de Beauvoir's masterful book The Ethics of Ambiguity. …
5 years, 3 months ago
4 | Security, Supreme Concept of Bourgeois Society?
Episode 4
In our fourth episode we talk about security, digging into Mark Neocleous' argument, following Marx, that security rather than liberty is 'the suprem…
5 years, 4 months ago
3 | Laclau and Mouffe, or How we learned to hate class and love Derrida
Episode 3
In our third episode, we talk about Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, the landmark text of post-Marxism. Both seri…
5 years, 4 months ago