In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert conclude their exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the twenty-first century. We look at the big historical picture: what has happened to the relationship between religion and politics in the age of ‘postmodernity’.
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In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert continue their exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the twenty-first century. We ask the crucial question: are religion and socialism compatible?
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In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert begin an exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the twenty-first century. We discuss some of the key issues in thinking about this historically crucial issue, as well as talking about our own religious or non-religious backgrounds.
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In this episode, Jem and Alan discuss a range of current issues in UK politics: the continued fallout over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US, the build up to possibly the most consequential set of local and devolved elections in living memory, the continued speculation over the political fate of Prime Minister Keir Starmer (and his possibly successors), and the new rights for housing tenants that come into effect today.
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In this episode Jem comes back to the question of how to think about ‘vibes’ in politics, discussing how they relate to the question of material interests and whether vibes can be rational. We look at a few different thinkers who have tried to define ‘vibes’, we go back to Raymond Williams’s concept of the ‘structure of feeling’, and we finally get to talk about Stranger Things.
In this recording of an online seminar, Michael Hardt discusses the significance of the concept of ‘multitude’ for radical philosophy, from Spinoza, to Marx, to Michael’s own writing with Antonio Negri.
NB: The podcast immediately before this one in your feed should be ‘Multitudes in the Age of Brexit: on Hardt & Negri’. That episode was recorded as an introduction to Hardt and Negri for listeners to listen to before this episode. However, that episode doesn’t seem to have downloaded to Apple Podcasts properly (it seems so be working on all other apps). If you can’t find it in your feed and would like to listen, you can find it HERE.
In this episode, Jem offers an introduction to the work and ideas of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Who are they? Where did their ideas come from? Why were they so widely read at the turn of the twenty-first century? How does their idea of the democratic ‘multitude’ confronting the ‘Empire’ of international institutions help us think about the politics of…Brexit?
(I managed to post this with the wrong audio file initially, but hopefully this will now download the right one for podcast listeners. If you have an audio file that is about 73 minutes long in your podcast app, then that’s the wrong file – just delete this and then re-download the episode)
Alan and Jem discuss the implication of the Green Party’s historic win in last week’s Gorton and Denton by-election. We cover the meaning of Manchester, making Britain normal and the ordinary charisma of new Green MP Hannah Spencer. Finally we ask – what are the strategic implications for the Labour left and the broader, multi-party left of a possible Green wave sweeping away a large section of the Parliamentary Labour Party?
This is a recording of an online seminar with philosopher Katja Diefenbach . It forms part of our ongoing series, From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality. This is a more specialist seminar than much of what you will find in this podcast feed, so check out some of the introductory sessions in that series if this material is interesting but new to you.
With respect to contemporary Marxism or Post-Marxism , Spinoza is one philosopher, infinite interpretations: Louis Althusser, Antonio Negri, Pierre Macherey, Etienne Balibar, Gilles Deleuze, and Alexandre Matheron all draw from Spinoza, but in fundamentally different ways.
Althusser’s use of Spinoza to develop a theory of ideology as the imaginary representation of the relationship to their real relations is fundamentally different from Negri’s use of Spinoza to construct a theory of the multitude as the political subject, which is in turn different from Deleuze’s examination of the affective dimension of politics.
Up until now no one has really examined these different interpretations in relation to each other, investigating how they emerge from tensions within Spinoza’s work. Katja Diefenbach’s Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy is the first book to appear, at least in English, that examines the different and diverse strands of Spinozist Marxism, examining how they overlap and diverge from each other.
On this recording, you will also hear the voices of seminar participants John Protevi, Kimberly DeFazio and the hosts Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy Gilbert.
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