Excerpt: /209/ Aufhebonus Bonus + Kabul Falls
On the Fall of Kabul, plus responding to your questions & comments. On this Aufhebonus Bonus, we take your critical comments on 'positive biopolitics' and authoritarian responses to Covid. Plus, w...
17 Elo 20218min
/207/ Pangolin vs Lobster, pt 1 ft. Paolo Gerbaudo
What comes after neoliberalism - the protective state? We talk to Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, The Great Recoil, in which Paolo argues we are now turning inwards – globalisation is no longer a s...
10 Elo 202159min
Excerpt: /206/ Three Articles: Post-Liberalism
On post-liberalism: loving the state, crushing the individual? For this 3A, articles from different 'conservative' outlets - but how conservative, and of what kind? Articles: The real danger...
3 Elo 20217min
/205/ The World In One Country: The Final ft. Many Guests
What country best captures 20th and 21st century history? For our 200th episode special, we posed the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereby unders...
27 Heinä 20211h 29min
/204/ Three Articles: People's Republic of Fleeing
On Chinese investment, Swiss democracy, and fleeing from Afghanistan. In this Three Articles, we discuss flight or departure in various ways: China opening the gates for its huge savings to spill onto...
20 Heinä 202145min
Excerpt: /203/ Positive Biopolitics? ft. Benjamin Bratton
On pandemic & post-pandemic politics. We talk to Benjamin Bratton about his new book, The Revenge of the Real, and its argument for a "positive biopolitics". What does an "epidemiological view of ...
13 Heinä 20219min
Excerpt: /202/ 3 Articles: Clerisy, War, Football
In our latest 3A, we discuss "the clerisy" and how it relates to the PMC; how the EU is doing forever war just as much as the US; and the hyper-commodification of football. The full episode is for su...
6 Heinä 20218min
Excerpt: /201/ Reading Club: The New Class War
We discuss Michael Lind's The New Class War. Lind identifies new lines in the class war, between working class and managerial overclass, between those in the "heartlands" and those in the "hubs". How ...
2 Heinä 20217min
