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A podcast about politics, contemporary culture and the ideas that help us understand them. The podcast began life as recordings of a regular seminar on radical theory, culture and politics, and still features seminar recordings from in-person and online seminars, but it now mainly consists of episodes recorded specifically for the podcast. Hosted by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. See culturepowerpolitics.org for more information.
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The Most Boring Budget?
In this episode Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert dig into the politics of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healy’s first budget. What can we discern…
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University Finance with Andrew McGettigan
Following our acclaimed series on the crisis of the British university system, we talk to Andrew McGettigan, author of the The Great University Gamble: Money…
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Affect and Conjuncture with Lawrence Grossberg
How do we understand affective experience as a particular dimension of specific historical conjunctures? If ‘affect’ names a plane of experience that is…
Culture, Power, Politics » PodcastThe Road to 1945 (and what we can learn)
What historical lessons can we learn from the UK’s one experience of a truly transformative progressive government? What were the social and political…
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A New Hope? Labour Conference 2026
In this emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert analyse the key speeches at this year’s Labour Party conference from Prime Minister Andy…
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What Makes Us Experts? (part 3 of 3)
What makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, ‘experts’ on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything, and why does…
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What Makes Us Experts? (part 2 of 3)
What makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, ‘experts’ on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything…
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What Makes Us Experts? (part 1 of 3)
What makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, ‘experts’ on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 4 of 4)
Part 4. What would it mean for a UK government to fully break with the history of neoliberalism? In the final episode of a four-part mini-series, Alan…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 3 of 4)
Part 3. Why do some people say neoliberalism does’t exist? How did neoliberalism respond to the conditions of the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 2 of 4)
Part 2 How did neoliberalism become the ruling idea of our age? Was its victory inevitable? In the second episode of a four-part mini-series, Alan Finlayson…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 1 of 4)
Part 1 What is ‘neoliberalism’ and where does it come from? In the first of a four-part mini-series, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert explore the meaning and…
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Working Class Weird: The Fall & post-Punk with David Wilkinson
This is actually an episode of the Love is the Message podcast that I decided to pop in the Culture, Power, Politics feed, partly because I think it will…
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Angela McRobbie: Feminism, Culture, Politics (part 2)
Part two of our long-awaited conversation with Angela McRobbie, pioneer of feminist cultural studies, covering her work since the early 2000s, the rise and…
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Angela McRobbie: Feminism, Culture, Politics (part 1)
Part one of our long-awaited conversation with Angela McRobbie, pioneer of feminist cultural studies, covering her recent book that looks back to her classic…
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Emergency Podcast: Burnham Begins
In this episode, Alan and Jem discuss the first few days of Andy Burnham’s leadership of the Labour Party and the United Kingdom. We talk about his…
Culture, Power, Politics » PodcastUniversities in Crisis (part 3)
In this epic episode, Alan and Jem conclude their discussion of the crisis in the UK university sector. We summarise and develop some of the analysis from the…
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Universities in Crisis (part 2)
In this episode, Alan and Jem continue their discussion of the crisis in the university sector. How have universities changed in the eras of Fordism…
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Universities in Crisis (part 1)
In this episode, Alan and Jem discuss the crisis in the university sector, mainly in the UK, but in a transatlantic context. We talk about the history of the…
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The Battle for Britain with John Clarke (part 4)
A recording of an online seminar, discussing the fourth and final section of The Battle For Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture with author John…
Culture, Power, Politics » PodcastEmergency Podcast: The Rhetoric of Burnhamism
In this episode, Alan and Jem discuss Andy Burnham’s speech launching his formal bid for the Labour leadership, bringing to bear the full force of…
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The Battle for Britain with John Clarke (part 3)
A recording of an online seminar, discussing the third section of The Battle For Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture with author John Clarke. With…
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The Battle For Britain with John Clarke (Part 2)
A recording of an online seminar, discussing the second section of The Battle For Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture with author John Clarke. With…
Culture, Power, Politics » PodcastEmergency Podcast: History Made in Makerfield
A few weeks ago we predicted that Andy Burnham would defy the predictions of many experts and win this week’s Ashton-in-Makerfield by-election by a comfortable…
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The End of the World as We Know It: Catastrophe Culture
Alan and Jem discuss the role that images of total catastrophe play in our culture and our politics: from fears of nuclear war to visions of environmental and…
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Emergency Podcast June 12th 2026
Alan Finlayson is back to discuss with Jem the resignation of the UK Defence Secretary and the appropriate level of optimism and pessimism to have about Andy…
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The Battle For Britain with John Clarke (Part 1)
What were the historical, political, cultural conditions for Brexit? Jeremy discusses the first section of The Battle For Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the…
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Black Theory in Britain
In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From…
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Stuart Hall: Class, Race and Conjuncture (part 2)
In this epic effort, Jem completes his narrative account of Stuart Hall’s career and public images, from Marxism Today to the posthumous revival of his…
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Stuart Hall: Class, Race and Conjuncture (part 1)
In this episode, Jem offers an introduction to the career and ideas of British cultural theorist, political activist and pubilc intellectual, Stuart Hall. This…
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Answers to Questions May 2026
In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert answer questions posed by listeners during the live recording of the previous episode, covering topics from…
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Emergency Podcast Live! May 2026
In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the crisis in the Labour Party following the cataclysmic local and devolved election results of the…
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Religion and Politics Part 3
In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert conclude their exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the twenty-first century. We…
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Religion and Politics Part 2
In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert continue their exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the twenty-first century. We…
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Religion and Politics Part 1
In this episode, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert begin an exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the twenty-first century. We…
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Political Update: Mandelson, Starmer, Tenants’ Rights
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…
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The Politics of Feeling
This is a recording of an online seminar about the book The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism by Ben Anderson and Anna Seccor. With the…
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Vibes Theory, Structures of Feeling, Stranger Things
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…
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Multitude in Spinoza and Marxism with Michael Hardt
In this recording of an online seminar, Michael Hardt discusses the significance of the concept of ‘multitude’ for radical philosophy, from…
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Multitudes in the Age of Brexit: on Hardt & Negri
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…
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Greens Win Gorton
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…
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Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy with Katja Diefenbach
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…
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Reactionary Feminisms with Jilly Kay part 2
In this episode, Jeremy is joined by Dr. Jilly Kay of Loughborough University to discuss her fascinating and crucial research into new forms of reactionary…
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Reactionary Feminisms with Jilly Kay part 1
In this episode, Jeremy is joined by Dr. Jilly Kay of Loughborough University to discuss her fascinating and crucial research into new forms of reactionary…
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The Meaning of Peter Mandelson
Jem and Alan get deep into the historical significance of Peter Mandelson, his career and his recent fall. What has the Epstein case revealed about the…
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Why was Burnham Blocked? (Emergency Pod January 2026)
In this actual emergency podcast, Alan and Jem give way to overwhelming public pressure to respond to a recent decision taken by Labour’s National…
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Nationalism and the Future of Britain
In this episode, Alan and Jem go deep and long on the concept of nationalism and its implications for UK politics, at a time when nationalist parties are…
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Good Vibes: One Battle, Zohran, Affect, Immediacy
Why was One Battle After Another the biggest film of 2025? What does it have to do with Zohran and Trump? How can Anna Kornbluh’s concept of…
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Pre-revolutionary Britain? (Emergency Pod December 2025)
Alan Finlayson is back to discuss with Jem the key developments in UK politics since the last time they talked about it. Covering the Labour deputy leadership…
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The Factional Politics of the Labour Party
This is actually an episode of the Compass podcast, ‘It’s Bloody Complicated’, that featured me (Jeremy Gilbert) and Alan Finlayson being…
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From Superstition to Mythocracy with Yves Citton
In this seminar we will talk with Yves Citton about his books Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our World, Mediarchy, and Spinoza et les Social Sciences: De la…
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The Starmer Disaster
A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all…
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Errata
So, yeah, a listener pointed out that Jem had got some details about Andy Burnham’s career wrong, and he thought it was best to set the record straight…
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Emergency Podcast September 2025
Rayner resigned! Mandelson sacked! ‘Mainstream’ launched! Your Party Chaos! Fascists on the Streets! Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert bring you…
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What Adam Curtis Won’t Tell You
In this episode, Jem offers a critical response to Adam Curtis’ oeuvre: an extraordinary series of fascinating, yet never-fully-satisfying, films about…
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Emergency Podcast July 2025
Professor Alan Finlayson is back to discuss the latest developments in UK politics: the suspension of several Labour MPs and the announcement of a new left…
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What is ‘Blue Labour’
‘Blue Labour’, an explicitly conservative tendency within the politics of the UK’s Labour Party, is said to be one of the few intellectual…
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What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor Janega
Jem is joined by medieval historian, comrade and friend of the show Eleanor Janega, to talk about what exactly is ‘feudal’ about…
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Is Capitalism Over? The ‘Technofeudalism’ Debate
Are we entering the world of ‘Techno-feudalism’, or ‘Neofeudalism’? Or are there better ways to understand our present situation, such…
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The Crisis of Liberalism (and the 2025 UK local elections)
Alan Finlayson returns for an in-depth discussion of the crisis of liberalism as an effective and legitimate philosophy of government, as exemplified by the…