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| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Amogh Sahu on Lukacs | As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Søren Mau on Economic Power | As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 communist theorist Søren Mau to discuss his book Mute Compulsion, forthcoming in English through Verso Books, and his theory of the impersonal economic power of capital. We discuss Value Form Theory, Foucault, and some future prospects for Marxist research. Order the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion?_pos=1&_psq=mute+compulsion&_ss=e&_v=1.0 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Seth Wheeler on Cycles of Struggle | As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Djene Bajalan on International Politics | As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 Djene Bajalan joins the show in a discussion concerning the state, international politics, and the destructive effects of Left-wing navel-gazing | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: John Merrick on Verso and Publishing | As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 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 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Crossover Episode - Jean Luc Nancy and Community | 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 special crossover episode, Patrick talks with C Derick Varn of Varn Vlog about the legacy of Jean-Luc Nancy. While both bemoan the more frivolous stylings of French theory, the discussion appreciates the serious questions that Nancy raised about the nature of community and the assumptions that underpin the concept.This episode was released as a crossover episode also available to Varn Vlog Patreon supporters. Varn Vlog Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog/ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy page for Nancy: https://iep.utm.edu/nancy/ Verso Interview: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5150-jean-luc-nancy-communism-means-conceiving-being-in-common | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: C Derick Varn on Baudrillard | 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. | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Moretti Revisited | 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, Andrew and Patrick sit down to read through some of Franco Moretti's recent work on "Distant Reading" (and one additional essay by Ted Underwood). Does this approach constitute a whole new framework for cultural sociology? Or is it mostly a disparate set of statistical methods? What are the "cabbages of literature"? Find out as we discuss: "Hidden in Plain Sight" - Moretti & Sobchuk "Operationalizing" - Moretti "The Roads to Rome: Literary Studies, Hermeneutics, Quantification" - Moretti "A Genealogy of Distant Reading" - Underwood | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Adrian Johnston on Psychoanalysis | 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 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Hartmut Rosa on Social Acceleration | 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 Following our discussion on Virilio, Patrick sits down with sociologist Hartmut Rosa to discuss social acceleration and modernity. The conversation touches on the types of acceleration we face in a modern world, classic and late modernity, and Rosa's concept of "resonance." MORE BY ROSASocial Acceleration: A New Theory of ModernityResonance LSE Lecture: Do We Really Live in an Acceleration Society? | — | ||||||
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| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Anton Jäger on Mouffe and Left Populism | 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. | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: David Broder on Post-War Italian Politics | 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, Patrick sits down with David Broder, a historian of French and Italian political history and European Editor for Jacobin Magazine, to talk about the politics of post-war Italy. Hear us discuss the relationship between the Action Party and the Communist Party, interpretations of Antonio Gramsci, and the effect of the Historic Compromise. | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: Complicating Adorno with C Derick Varn | 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 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Backlog: The Legacy of Althusser with James Turley | 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, Patrick sits down with James Turley to discuss Louis Althusser, his theories, and his political situation, in greater detail. Turley is a supporter of the Communist Party of Great Britain and has written for the CPGB newspaper The Weekly Worker.Gregory Elliott's Book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/286-althusser The Weekly Worker: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/ | — | ||||||
| 11/5/22 | ![]() Aesthetics and Politics | 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 | — | ||||||
| 7/29/22 | ![]() Emancipation(s) | Andrew and Patrick sit down to discuss Ernesto Laclau's Emancipation(s). How relevant is his theory of democracy and hegemony? Does this prefigure other radical turns away from a unified theory of class as subject? Are we twirling towards freedom?PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts NEXT BOOK: Aesthetics and Politics | — | ||||||
| 5/5/22 | ![]() The Indivisible Remainder | 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 | — | ||||||
| 1/23/22 | ![]() On the Shores of Politics | Patrick and Andrew discuss On The Shores of Politics, a collection of essays by Jacques Ranciere, anti-Platonist extraordinaire! What is politics? Or democracy for that matter? Maybe we'll find out!Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughtsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RadThotsPodNext Month's Read: The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek | — | ||||||
| 11/2/21 | ![]() Politics and History | 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 | — | ||||||
| 10/1/21 | ![]() Fragments (Cool Memories vol. 3) | Baudrillard is back, and we still don't really know what he's on about.We read Fragments (Vol. III of Cool Memories) and chat about the use of fragments for or against the purpose of theoretical criticism. Support us on PatreonFragments - BaudrillardCool Memories: Baudrillard and the Crisis of Reading - Mike GanePolitics and History - Althusser | — | ||||||
| 8/24/21 | ![]() UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: Loren Goldner | 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. | — | ||||||
| 8/24/21 | ![]() Strategy of Deception | We discuss Paul Virilio's Strategy of Deception, a book ostensibly about the Kosovo War. But maybe about a whole lot more... maybe, we're not entirely sure...Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts Next Book: Fragments by Jean Baudrillard | — | ||||||
| 7/31/21 | ![]() Infancy and History | 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 | — | ||||||
| 6/27/21 | ![]() Political Descartes | In this episode, we discuss Antonio "Toni" Negri's Political Descartes and debate the theory of ideology, the development of the bourgeoisie, and the political effects of nostalgia.PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughtsNEXT BOOK: https://www.versobooks.com/books/128-infancy-and-historyCITATIONS AND RESOURCES:Political Descartes: https://www.versobooks.com/books/138-political-descartesReview by Knox Peden: https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp145_reviews.pdfReview by Robert T Tally Jr: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/3927Negri Clip Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLa0Xk9XCDs&t=821s | — | ||||||
| 5/30/21 | ![]() FULL BONUS EPISODE: Phil O'Brien on Raymond Williams and Culture | 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 | — | ||||||
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