Radical Thoughts Podcast

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Amogh, the cohost of the old Symptomatic Redness podcast, sits down with Patrick to discuss the Marxist obsession with method and totality, interrogating what this implies about the unanswered questions of the communist project. -- Rob Lucas on "Feeding the Infant": https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats/150-error-and-feeding-the-infant

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Patrick sits down with Seth Wheeler to discuss cycles of struggle after the Corbyn and Sanders moments, the UK Left, and the new edition of In and Against the State.In and Against the State through Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341811/in-and-against-the-state/ Seth Wheeler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethnotes

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Independent writer and editor for Verso Books John Merrick joins Patricknin a discussion about the history of Verso, the Radical Thinkers series, and the cultural project of publishing

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this episode, PH sits down with our first recurring guest, C Derick Varn, to give more context to the work of Jean Baudrillard. We discuss his relation to the Situationists, his break with Marxism, and the ultimate conclusions of his theory of simulation and simulacra.

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick n this Patron-only bonus episode, Patrick interviews philosopher and psychoanalyst Adrian Johnston on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, theories of materialism, and more. This episode follows our discussion of the work The Metastases of Enjoyment, so you may want to listen to that episode first. NOTES: -Johnston's article on Lacan in the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy -Less Than Nothing by Žižek -Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience by Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this interview, Patrick sits down with the scholar Anton Jäger to talk more about Chantal Mouffe's political theory, the rise of left populism, and the contemporary shape of political struggle. Jäger's piece "Making Sense of Populism" can be read for free online.

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode I talk with C Derick Varn - an educator, podcaster, and editor for Zero Books - about Adorno's conception of domination, and the pitfalls and insights that accompany his critique of modern life. Listen to more of Varn's analysis of the Marxist research program on the Mortal Science podcast through Emancipation Network: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/mortal-science-WObZ5daMXxL/ Listen to Varn discuss the history of Marxism in politics over on the Zero Books channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjH4yubnVHc Our next episode will be on Norberto Bobbio's Liberalism and Democracy, check it out if you'll be reading along: https://www.versobooks.com/books/45-liberalism-and-democracy

Andrew and Patrick review a series of debates between Bloch, Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Brecht on the relationship between aesthetics, politics, theory, and practice. Aesthetics and Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/127-aesthetics-and-politicsOur next read is Late Marxism by Frederic Jameson: https://www.versobooks.com/books/127-aesthetics-and-politics

Andrew and Patrick discuss the Elvis of Philosophy's book on one of the obscure greats: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. We go a bit into Zizek's view of evil, the state, and riff a bit on 90s-to-early-2000s philosophical trends.SHOW NOTES:Peter Dews's Critique of Zizek's Schelling: The eclipse of coincidence: Lacan, Merleau‐Ponty and SchellingOur next read: Laclau's Emancipations

Althusser has returned and this time we talk much more about Rousseau and Montesquieu than we do Marx.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts Politics and History: https://www.versobooks.com/books/129-politics-and-historyNext read - On the Shores of Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3635-on-the-shores-of-politics

We're releasing this bonus interview with Loren Goldner, discussing his history with the New Left, to our public feed as thanks to our dedicated listeners.

In this episode, we discuss the controversial Giorgio Agamben's early work Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience and the intersection of language, praxis, history, and experience.Support us on Patreon for bonus episodesOur next read will be Paul Virilio's Strategy of Deception

As our second season gets rolling, we are releasing this bonus interview for free to all of our listeners.Patrick sits down with Phil O'Brien of the Raymond Williams Society and the journal Keywords to discuss Williams's theory of culture, his interactions with other theorists, and the newly released archival work that O'Brien has been collecting.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughtsCulture and Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3824-culture-and-politicsRaymond Williams Tapes: https://soundcloud.com/user-902721807-400345305Raymond Williams Foundation: https://www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/Raymond Williams Society: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/Key Words Journal: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/journal/Radical Thoughts Culture and Materialism episode: https://radicalthoughtspod.buzzsprout.com/865147/2692846-culture-and-materialismRadical Thoughts interview with Andrew Milner: https://radicalthoughtspod.buzzsprout.com/865147/3088609