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Back to SearchExcerpt: /196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia
Episode 196
On atrocity and sovereignty.
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The disasters of Iraq, Libya, Syria and beyon…
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/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
Episode 195
On China, economic reform, and the future.
While Russia famously succumbed to destructive neoliberal "shock therapy", China managed to avoid it. How …
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Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
On global insurrection and identity politics.
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We discuss an essay by the ult…5 years, 1 month ago
/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
Episode 194
On liberal idealism and imperial overreach.
Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism c…
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Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
Episode 192
On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK. We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent lo…
5 years, 2 months ago
Excerpt: /191/ Reading Club: Ever Closer Union?
Episode 191
We discuss the second of Perry Anderson's three LRB essays on the making and unmaking of the EU: "Ever Closer Union?"
Our monthly Reading Club is fo…
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/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
Episode 190
On class reductionism, commodity fetishism, and value theory.
To discuss Covid, the state as 'PMC leviathan', and the politics of value theory, we’re…
5 years, 2 months ago
UNLOCKED /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
Episode 192
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 ne…
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/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
Episode 189
On Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents.
A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms …
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UNLOCKED /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
Episode 191
How to address the political problems of leftwing parties today? Liverpudlian historian David Swift argues that the problem is hobbyism - people f…
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