Radical Thoughts Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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

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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast.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!

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Next Month's Read: The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek