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Critical Theory After Habermas (feat. Philipp Felsch)
Mar 13, 2026
1h 22m 39s
Pierre Bourdieu's Critique of the Intellectual
Mar 13, 2026
2h 50m 29s
Gaza and Revolutionary Philosophy (feat. Yanis Iqbal)
Mar 2, 2026
1h 15m 01s
Anti-Intellectualism in America (feat. C. Derick Varn)
Feb 27, 2026
2h 27m 58s
Chinese Marxism (feat. Josef Gregory Mahoney)
Feb 23, 2026
2h 22m 19s
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| 3/13/26 | ![]() Critical Theory After Habermas (feat. Philipp Felsch)✨ | Critical TheoryJürgen Habermas+5 | Philipp Felsch | Frankfurt SchoolThe Philosopher: Habermas and Us | GermanyGaza | HabermasCritical Theory+6 | — | 1h 22m 39s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() Pierre Bourdieu's Critique of the Intellectual✨ | Pierre Bourdieuintellectuals+3 | C. Derick Varn | Pascalian MeditationsHomo Academicus+3 | — | Bourdieuintellectuals+6 | — | 2h 50m 29s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Gaza and Revolutionary Philosophy (feat. Yanis Iqbal)✨ | Gazarevolutionary philosophy+4 | Yanis Iqbal | Iskra BooksThe Sword and the Neck+1 | Gaza | GazaYanis Iqbal+6 | — | 1h 15m 01s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Anti-Intellectualism in America (feat. C. Derick Varn)✨ | anti-intellectualismAmerican culture+3 | C. Derick Varn | Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeThe American Intellectual Elite+3 | — | anti-intellectualismAmerican life+3 | — | 2h 27m 58s | |
| 2/23/26 | ![]() Chinese Marxism (feat. Josef Gregory Mahoney)✨ | Chinese Marxismpolitics+4 | Dr. Josef Gregory Mahoney | East China Normal UniversityInstitute for the Development of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics+2 | ChinaNanjing | MarxismChinese Communist Party+5 | — | 2h 22m 19s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() Proletarian Accelerationism (feat. Mikey Downs, Nance and Grady Page)✨ | accelerationismpolitics+4 | Mikey DownsNance+1 | — | — | accelerationismpolitical philosophy+5 | — | 2h 43m 41s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() Reviving Anti-Imperialist Marxism (feat. Ali Kadri)✨ | anti-imperialismMarxism+3 | Benji SchoendorffAli Kadri | Resistance is FertileThe Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction | — | Marxismimperialism+5 | — | 2h 08m 29s | |
| 12/31/25 | Accelerationism and Political Violence (feat. Grady Page)✨ | accelerationismpolitical violence+3 | Grady Page | SubstackPatreon+1 | — | accelerationismpolitical violence+3 | — | 2h 18m 00s | |
| 12/24/25 | ![]() Socialism Against Liberalism: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Claude Michéa (feat. Tony of 1Dime)✨ | socialismliberalism+3 | Tony Chamas | 1Dime1Dime Radio+3 | — | socialismliberalism+5 | — | 1h 22m 16s | |
| 12/17/25 | ![]() The Concept of Extimacy in the Work of Jacques Lacan (feat. Nadia Bou Ali & Surti Singh)✨ | ExtimacyJacques Lacan+4 | Nadia Bou AliSurti Singh | American University of BeirutLacanian School of Psychoanalysis+4 | — | ExtimacyJacques Lacan+5 | — | 1h 22m 41s | |
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| 12/15/25 | ![]() Q & A Session | I've have hosted a number of interviews, symposiums, lectures and study groups this year. This is a Q & A session where I answer questions from patrons, listeners and supporters. If you benefit from my work please consider a donation to help defray the costs of organizing all of these events: paypal.me/danieltutt1 You can also become a Patron to gain early access to all of my interviews and videos: https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 1h 25m 15s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | ![]() A Whole New World (The Archimedean Point, Episode 4) | In our latest episode of The Archimedean Point, we turn to Edward Said's theory of Orientalism and address its shortcomings from a Marxist perspective. We focus on Disney's Aladdin from the early 1990s as an example of pop-Orientalism, and we argue that Aladdin offers an allegory for the remaking of Middle Eastern society by capitalism. -- If you benefit from my work please consider a donation: paypal.me/danieltutt1 You can also become a Patron to gain early access to all of my interviews and videos: www.patreon.com/emancipations | 1h 47m 56s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | ![]() Žižek and the Left (feat. Cadell Last) | We are joined by philosopher Cadell Last, the host of Philosophy Portal to discuss his new article "No Marxism Without Žižek", (https://bit.ly/46c4gnj) a review of Flowers for Marx. | 2h 03m 00s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 | ![]() Deleuze for Marxism? A Discussion with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee | I am joined by philosopher Alex Taek-Gwang Lee for a critical analysis and discussion on the legacy of Gilles Deleuze's thought, its influence on the existing left and the ways that the concepts Deleuze developed have interacted with the wider Marxist tradition. This conversation will consider Dr. Lee's recent book Communism After Deleuze, published with Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/communism-after-deleuze-9781350474048. Please support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 1h 50m 16s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 | ![]() The Marxism of Domenico Losurdo - A Critical Discussion (feat. Ross Wolfe) | My guest is Ross Wolfe, a socialist historian and writer. In a recently published three-part essay entitled, "Against Losurdo" (https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo) Wolfe argues that Losurdo's work represents the re-introduction of Stalinism in contemporary Marxism. We discuss and debate Losurdo's work, with a focus on his book Western Marxism and his works on Hegel and Nietzsche. To watch the study sessions we hosted on Losurdo's Western Marxism, please go here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE03jn2k3GYCRd7dnBOAKBN-H-F-wGzYa&si=zkRb8GeYoi_Nc2Gv Support my work on Patreon by becoming a paid member: https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 2h 04m 09s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | ![]() How to Confront Political Despair (feat. Benjamin Studebaker) | I am joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to discuss the retreat of the political and the concomitant rise in despair. How do we theorize this despair, and how does it differ from spiritual despair? Please read Studebaker's article which is the focus of this discussion: "Political Despair and Moral Injunctions" https://bit.ly/469EqkQ | 1h 47m 30s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | ![]() Michel Clouscard's Critique of Liberal-Libertarian Ideology (feat. Michael C. Behrent) | My guest is Michael C. Behrent, a historian of French intellectual history and a leading scholar of Michel Foucault. Behrent has been at the forefront of an important debate about the legacy of Foucault's thought, and specifically his political influence on the contemporary left and the rise of neoliberalism. Behrent is also working on the thought of Michel Clouscard, the most important French Marxist from the 20th century you have likely never heard about. The second half of this conversation is a discussion on Clouscard's work, his critique of the wider ecosystem of French philosophy from the 60s and 70s and specifically his analysis of the ideology of "liberal libertarianism." Michael C. Behrent is a professor of History at Appalachian State University. His scholarship has sought to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. This work evaluates the political significance of Foucault's reflections on free-market economics by situating his work in the shifting ideological landscape of France in the 1970s. And his current project seeks to show how Foucault’s thought was (to a significant degree) rooted in his upbringing in Poitiers, France from the 1920s to the 1940s. Behrent is also developing a project that seeks to reconstruct the thought of the “young Foucault” (spanning 1949 through to the mid-1960s). Behrent also writes about American politics and culture for several French publications, notably Esprit as well as Dissent, Foreign Policy, and Oxford University Press blog. Read his article on Michel Clouscard here, "Michel Clouscard vs. the Hipster Left" https://bit.ly/3Kn6jO0 | 1h 39m 10s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | ![]() Can Ressentiment Be Revolutionary? (feat. Zahi Zalloua) | I am joined by philosopher and scholar Zahi Zalloua to discuss the politics of resentment, and how to theorize the problematic concept of "ressentiment" and whether this concept can be applied to emancipatory ends. Is ressentiment a political affect that can be harnessed for revolutionary action? We discuss Zalloua's recent works: Fanon, Žižek, and Violence of Resistance and The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment. Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a professor of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. His most recent work includes Fanon, Žižek, and Violence of Resistance (2025), The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (2024), Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality (2023), Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (2021), Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). | 1h 38m 44s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | ![]() Palestine and the Political Economy of the Middle East (feat. Adam Hanieh) | My guest is the political economist Adam Hanieh, a foremost expert on the political economy of the Middle East, fossil capitalism and imperialism. We discuss the war on Gaza, the prospects of Palestinian statehood, the dominance of Gulf oil and how it shapes the ruling classes in the region and the status of labor struggles across the wider Middle East. Professor Adam Hanieh is the author of six books including the most recent Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine with co-authors Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah as well as Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market and Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and thePolitical Economy of the Contemporary Middle East which was awarded the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize. Please support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 1h 28m 18s | ||||||
| 9/22/25 | ![]() Marxism and the Literary Left in America (feat. Alan Wald) | I am joined by Alan M. Wald to discuss his extensive work on the literary left and the history of intellectuals and the communist movement in America. We discuss Wald's new book of essays called "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" which features a number of Wald's more recent essays and interventions on the history of US communism, including essays that touch on Richard Wright, James T. Farrell, Mike Gold, Agnes Smedley, John Steinbeck, Lorraine Hansberry and many other writers who incorporated a commitment to the class struggle in their writing, and who were influential propagating socialist and communist ideals. In this interview, we discuss the meaning of "realism" and why it is important to socialist writers, the founding of the communist party of America, the role of Trotskyism on US left intellectuals, the role of Browderism on the cultural development of the communist party in America, the legacy of The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick, Wald's methodology as a researcher and writer, African American literature, the New Left and various individual authors. Alan Maynard Wald is an American professor emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and writer of 20th-century American literature who focuses on Communist writers; he is an expert on the American 20th-Century "Literary Left." Wald's subjects have included: 20th Century United States Literature; Realism, Naturalism, Modernism in Mid-20th Century U.S. Literature; Literary Radicalism in the United States; Marxism and U.S. Cultural Studies; African American Writers on the Left; Modernist Poetry and the Left; the 1930s (Literature); New York Jewish Writers and Intellectuals; 20th-Century History of Socialist, Communist, Trotskyist and New Left Movements in the U.S.; the 1960s Politics and Culture; Cold War Culture and Resistance; Old Left/New Left in U.S. Politics and Culture; and Film Noir and the Left. Please join our Patreon to get early access to all interviews and to participate in our study groups https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 1h 53m 26s | ||||||
| 9/22/25 | ![]() Socialist Realism and the Communist Ideal: On Mikhail Lifshits (feat. Angela Harutyunyan) | My guest is art historian and Marxist thinker Angela Harutyunyan, who has joined us to discus the work of the Marxist philosopher Mikhail Lifshits. Lifshits was an important Soviet Marxist thinker who developed a theory of aesthetics that remained committed to the proposition that communism entails the overcoming of alienation. Lifshits offers a critique of modernism and theories on classicism and socialist realism that are deeply relevant to today's time. We discuss Lifshits's major works, key concepts and his wider philosophy of art and aesthetics. We also discuss an important debate on the concept of the ideal that occurred between Lifshits and Soviet Marxist Evald Ilyenkov. Dr. Angela Harutyunyan is a founding editor of ARTMargins published by MIT Press and has published extensively on post-Soviet art, Marxist aesthetics, and curatorial theory. She is the author of "The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-garde: The Journey of the \'Painterly Real\'" and co-author of "After Revolution: Historical Presentism and the Political Eclipse of Postmodernity". Harutyunyan has taught at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. She is currently based at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Please join our Patreon to support our efforts https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 1h 54m 16s | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | ![]() The History of Riots and the Left (feat. C. Derick Varn) | C. Derick Varn, host of the Varn Vlog is a Marxist theorist, poet and political commentator. Varn joins our show to discuss the protests and riots against ICE in Los Angeles and across the country that popped off in late spring and early summer 2025. We examine the history of riots in the US, the role of the left in the context of a second Trump presidency, how Marxists have theorized the return of riots and uprisings in our time (with a focus on communization theory) and what we might expect moving forward. Please support our work by becoming a Patreon member https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 2h 16m 47s | ||||||
| 7/23/25 | ![]() A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (feat. Christoph Schuringa) | Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world and most academic philosophy departments are analytic. But what explains this power and what is the history of analytic philosophy. Where did it begin and how did it rise to such prominence? I am joined by philosopher Christoph Schuringa to explore the social history of analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy tends to think of itself as concerned with eternal questions, transcending the changing scenes of history. It thinks of itself as apolitical. This book, however, convincingly shows that the opposite is true. To this day, analytic philosophy is the ideology of the status quo. It may seem arcane and largely removed from the real world, but it is a crucial component in upholding liberalism, through its central role in elite educational institutions. Learn more about this book and acquire a copy here: https://bit.ly/4lhoHF5 SHOWNOTES: We discuss why Christoph wrote the book, the origin of the analytic/continental divide, the meaning of logical positivism, Wittgenstein's influence and the various schools in Cambridge and Vienna that formed analytic philosophy. The contradictions of the "linguistic turn" and the ways it failed to address social concerns. Whether there are exceptions within analytic philosophy, or philosophers whose methods might offer a more robust engagement with the social and with radical philosophy. The theory of the "colonization" of analytic philosophy in other disciplines, from ethics, to politics, to continental thinkers. Can analytic philosophy shake off liberalism and if not why. If so, how? #EmancipationsPodcast | 2h 21m 52s | ||||||
| 7/22/25 | ![]() Gramsci's Theory of Bonapartism (feat. Francesca Antonini) | My guest is Dr. Francesca Antonini, a historian and scholar of Antonio Gramsci. Dr. Antonini teaches at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice Italy. Her latest book is an exhaustive study of Gramsci's theory of Bonapartism, and it is entitled, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity. In this discussion, we examine the Marxist view of Bonapartism and how it differs from liberal theories, the different periods of Gramsci's thinking on the concept, how Bonapartism relates to fascism in Gramsci's thought and why Gramsci retains the idea of Caesarism even though Marx rejected it. Please support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 1h 47m 35s | ||||||
| 7/22/25 | ![]() Analytic Marxism and the Future of Scientific Socialism (feat. Ben Burgis) | Ben Burgis joins us for a discussion on the analytic Marxism of G.A. Cohen and the implications of his reading of Marx for 21st century socialism. We discuss Burgis's essay in the new book Flowers for Marx available now with with Revol Press. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/emancipations | 2h 37m 12s | ||||||
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