Sophie Lewis: Abolishing the Family for Universal Care
Sophie Lewis explains how the family shapes care in capitalist societies and what health might look like in a society that is no longer structured around the institution of the family. Drawing on the ...
22 Nov 202252min
Joe Glenton: Towards an Anti-Fascist Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Joe Glenton reflects on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu’s complex and intimate relationship with various currents of right-wing politics.He explores the dominant cultures within BJJ including the prevalence of re...
8 Nov 202249min
James Schneider: Fighting for Health, Care, and Socialism
In this episode James Schneider outlines a strategy for the left in Britain drawing on his new book OUR BLOC: How We Win. He argues that the left must organize an alliance of socialists in Parliament,...
15 Sep 202255min
OBJECT RELATIONS | Lewis R. Gordon: Frantz Fanon and Black Conciousness
Lewis R Gordon discusses the philosopher, psychiatry and revolutionary Frantz Fanon as well as his own work on Black consciousness.Gordon is a philosopher, educator, public intellectual and the author...
1 Sep 20221h 14min
OBJECT RELATIONS | Hannah Zeavin: Psychoanalytic Politics and the Myth of Neutrality
Writer Hannah Zeavin discusses the politics of the psychoanalytic encounter. Specifically she explores the supposed neutrality of the psychotherapist, the relationship between analysis and political o...
19 Aug 202242min
OBJECT RELATIONS | John Foot: The Radical Psychiatry of Franco Basaglia
Historian John Foot discusses the movement in 1960s Italy to reform and eventually abolish the psychiatric asylum system. Specifically, he’ll be focusing on the work of Franco Basaglia, whose antifasc...
5 Aug 202246min
OBJECT RELATIONS | Camille Robcis: Institutional Psychotherapy in Post-War France
Object Relations is a series of discussions about the relationship between politics and the psyche produced in collaboration with The Polyphony.Taking its name from the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s t...
29 Jul 202258min
Boris Groys: The Philosophy of Care
In this episode Boris Groys discusses his new book Philosophy of Care which has recently published with Verso Books. In Philosophy of Care Groys engages with figures such as Plato, Nietzsche, Bataille...
27 Mai 202250min
