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On "thin ideologies" in a postmodern age.
The Reading Club kicks off with an exploration of illiberalism, a "new ideological universe" that exists in "a permanent situational relation to liberalism."
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/532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet (01:17:58)
On Trump & radical right ideology.
Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into it...
/531/ Interiorising the Border ft. Ryan Zickgraf (00:55:02)
On ICE, Minneapolis – and your questions & comments.
Contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf is back from Minnesota and tells us what is happening on the ground. We also discuss:
If this was Trump picking...
/530/ Urgent and Immediate and Impossible ft. Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt (00:25:45)
On the social turn in psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysts Christie and Ricky talk to Alex and George about their article in issue #5 of Damage, on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through ther...
/529/ Don't Pick Up: The Scam Economy ft. Mark Bo (00:47:25)
On Southeast Asia's scam compounds.
Mark Bo, organised-crime researcher and co-author of Scam, talks to Alex and Lee about his book, his experiences and why this fusion of gangsterism and speculation ...
/528/ The Heroic Bourgeoisie in the Democratic Post-Colony ft. Sandipto Dasgupta (01:11:02)
On the making of independent India – and its lessons.
Assistant professor of politics at The New School, Sandipto Dasgupta, talks to contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about this new book, Legalizing...
/527/ Exit the Minoritarian ft. Panagiotis Sotiris (01:02:52)
On the collective subject at the end of the End of History.
Panagiotis Sotiris, Historical Materialism editorial board member and assistant professor at the University of the Aegean, talks to Alex and...
/526/ Come On Feel the Paranoise (00:35:12)
On US derangement on screen.
The OG Bunga boys get togther for the annual end-of-year film episode. We discuss Ari Aster's Eddington, as well as a bit of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Anothe...
/525/ Neoliberalism in One Country? ft. Branko Milanovic (01:02:03)
On homoploutia and national market liberalism.
Branko Milanovic, Research Professor at City University of New York, talks to Phil and Alex about his most recent book, The Great Global Transformation: ...
/524/ You've Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter (01:11:04)
On overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority.
Amber Trotter, practicing psychologist and an editor at Damage magazine, and George Hoare tell Alex about their co-written article in the print issue...
/523/ Woke in the Dark ft. Ryan Zickgraf (00:34:55)
On post-woke strategies.
Ryan Z is back on, talking to Alex and George about the US Democrats' attempt to respond to Trump/MAGA.
In association with Damage magazine.
Can the Democrats escape the sha...
/522/ At the Bottom of the Tar Pit ft. Benjamin Studebaker (00:53:40)
On legitimacy and chronic crisis.
Benjamin Studebaker talks to Alex and Lee about his book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracy – and why the absence of the threat of revolution makes the crisis drag on.
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/521/ Too Smart to Read ft. C. Derick Varn (00:59:48)
On the crisis in literacy.
Poet, podcaster and teacher, C. Derick Varn – who has taught in Mexico, Korea, Egypt and the US, at various levels – joins Alex and George to interrogate the coming "post-li...
/520/ Conspiracy Culture & Paranoid Styles ft. Catherine Liu (00:12:21)
In this special episode, we present talks given by contributing editor Catherine Liu and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style at a recent conference at UC Irvine, co-hosted by the Palm Springs S...
/519/ Reading Club: White Collar & Post-Mass Culture ft. Dustin Guastella (00:31:07)
On the middle classes and cultural compression.
For the concluding episode of the 2024/25 Reading Club, we discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar, plus some additional short texts on what mass culture ...
UNLOCKED: /497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh (01:08:22)
On technology, transhumanism, and progress.
James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and c...
/518/ We Have Never Been Postmodern ft. Geoff Shullenberger (00:43:11)
On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation.
Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel, René Girard, victimhood and the antichrist.
Does...
/517/ Wonders of the Modern World ft. Pier Paolo Tamburelli (00:45:21)
On places of ritual.
Architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli talks to Alex about his project to catalogue modern wonders – structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly.
For th...
/516/ France's Two Peripheries: Riots and Insurrection ft. Fred Lyra (00:35:36)
On 20 years since the 2005 riots.
Fred Lyra, philosopher and musicologist based in Paris, joins Alex to talk about France through 4 moments: 1995 – the last moment of classic class struggle; 2005 – ri...
/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami (01:14:14)
On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion.
Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism.
Why is state capitalism not jus...
/514/ The Expressway World ft. Richard Williams (00:59:29)
On living with modernity.
Richard J Williams talks to Alex and George about his new book, The Expressway World and how cities have adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century. We t...
/513/ Global Right: LATAM Division ft. Guilherme Casarões (00:47:43)
On the Bolsonaros, Milei and MAGA.
Alex talks to Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University, about Bolsonaro's sentencing, Trump's tariffs on Braz...
On Göran Therborn's article, "Dreams and Nightmares of the World's Middle Classes".
The penultimate episode of this block on the middle class, we discuss the differing fortunes and politics of the glo...
/511/ Britain's Tinderbox ft. Lisa McKenzie (01:19:05)
On the UK's working-class unrest.
Sociologist Lisa McKenzie talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about why the country feels like a powder-keg.
What's behind protests like Unite the Kingd...
/510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf (00:26:25)
On critiques of entertainment.
New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases.
How does consensus-age comedy like King...
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