As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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.
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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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 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
As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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
Djene Bajalan joins the show in a discussion concerning the state, international politics, and the destructive effects of Left-wing navel-gazing
As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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 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
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
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
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
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 ROSA
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of ModernityResonance
LSE Lecture: Do We Really Live in an Acceleration Society?
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, 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.
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
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/
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-politics
Our next read is Late Marxism by Frederic Jameson: https://www.versobooks.com/books/127-aesthetics-and-politics
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
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 Schelling
Our next read: Laclau's Emancipations
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/radicalthoughts
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RadThotsPod
Next Month's Read: The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek
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-history
Next read - On the Shores of Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3635-on-the-shores-of-politics
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.
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Fragments - Baudrillard
Cool Memories: Baudrillard and the Crisis of Reading - Mike Gane
Politics and History - Althusser