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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 Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism with Brian Massumi
In this seminar, Brian Massumi discusses his new book, The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life. Brian is one of the major figures…
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Regimes of Violence with John Protevi
In a just world, John Protevi would be far more famous than Slavoj Zizek. An expert on the ideas of Deleuze & Guattari (among many other things), his work…
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Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics
In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the history of…
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The Australian Deleuze, Materialist Feminisms, Affect in the Anthropocene
This is a recording of the latest in our ongoing series of seminars, From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality. With very special guest, Claire…
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From Marx to Spinoza Q&A session
This is a recording of the most recent seminar in our From Marx to Spinoza series. This was a fantastic discussion; it was mostly one for the folks who are…
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US Election, UK Budget, New Tory Leader
In the latest emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson talks to Jeremy about the political implications of the recent UK budget, the re-election of Donald Trump, and…
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The Searchers with Andy Beckett
Andy Beckett discusses his new book about 5 key figures of the British Labour left: Tony Benn, Diane Abbot, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell…
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Spinoza and Ideology Critique with Warren Montag
This was the latest seminar in our ongoing sub-series: From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality. The series is organised by Andrew Goffey, Jason…
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UK General Election 2024 – The Results
In the latest emergency podcast, Jeremy and Alan Finlayson dissect the historic results of the 2024 UK general election. For more information about the podcast…
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Spinoza and Marx on Work
This is the recording of the latest seminar in our series ‘From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality‘ This time, our own Jason Read…
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UK General Election, Mid-Campaign
This is the second of our ’emergency podcasts’ with Professor Alan Finlayson during the UK’s 2024 general election. Alan and Jem discuss the…
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UK General Election 2024
Jeremy is joined once again by Alan Finlayson for an emergency podcast. We discuss the political situation in the UK, at the start of a general election…
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The Affective Turn
In this session, we look at the so-called ‘affective turn’ in the humanities and social sciences since the late 1990s. We consider the multiple forms which…
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When Marx Met Spinoza with Tracie Matysik
In this session we were joined by Tracie Matysik to discuss the very idea of a Spinozan philosophy beyond the writings of Baruch Spinoza himself, and…
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Introducing Affect
What is ‘affect’, why does it matter, and why did people working in the humanities and social sciences start talking about it so much from the…
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Spinozist Marxism? With Etienne Balibar
In this session, we’re joined by none other than Etienne Balibar to discuss the history and present state of dialogue between Marxism and Spinozism. This…
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Spinoza’s Philosophy
With Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert. In this seminar we finally lay out and discuss the core topics from Spinoza’s major philosophical works, and discuss some…
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Music and Radicalism in the 1970s
With Matthew Worley and Jeremy Gilbert. This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was held to mark…
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Race, Radicalism and Resistance in the UK 1970s
With Sundari Anitha, Ruth Pearson and John Narayan. This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was…
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Italy and the World in the 1970s
With Michael Hardt This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was held to mark the publication of…
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Women’s Liberation in the 1970s
This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was held to mark the publication of Michael Hardt’s book…
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Why Would Radicals Read Spinoza?
How does Spinoza fit into the history of Western (and world) philosophy? To what is he relevant outside of academic philosophy? Why did he become a hero to a…
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What is Marxism Anyway? (re-edit)
We slightly re-edited this recording after noticing a glitch in the episode that went out a couple of days ago. Sorry about that – just listen to this…
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Social Reproduction in Theory and Practice: Socialist Feminism and the Politics of Care
‘Social Reproduction’ has re-emerged as a central idea in left-feminist analyses of contemporary power relations and institutions. What light can it shed on…
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Generational Politics and the Asset Economy
While mainstream commentators and far-right apologists insist that that the great political divide today is between different sets of cultural ‘values’, the…
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Why is the Labour Leadership attacking the ‘soft left’?
Emergency Podcast! Once again Jeremy is joined by Professor Alan Finlayson at very short notice to discuss some stupid action taken by the Labour Party…
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Empire, Nation and the British State
In this coronation year, we are visibly reminded that the trappings of the British state are overlaid with the legacies of its empire. But to what extent are…
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Is there a future for British conservatism?
The Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom has experienced a prolonged period of crisis and transformation, from pro-austerity technocrats under…
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Veganism collective political movement or individualistic ethical consumerism?
Veganism (or, at least, consumption of “plant based” foods) has exploded in the last few years. But what is the relationship between veganism, the climate…
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Ecosocialism and Degrowth
What are the philosophical and political coordinates of a contemporary eco-socialism? What are the political, economic, cultural and philosophical implications…
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Can Precarious Workers Be Organised?
The pandemic exposed the insecurity and vulnerability of workers – from delivery riders to poorly paid culture industry freelancers – who struggled to access…
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The Left and the ecological crisis
The high point of Left electoral success represented by Corbynism, the Sanders campaign, Mélenchon and others seems to have passed. Meanwhile, the climate and…
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The Meaning of the Monarchy
Recorded Live at the Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London, on May 3rd 2023 With Anthony Barnett, Founder of Charter 88 and open Democracy, author of many…
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‘Hegemony Now’ Launch with Natalie Fenton, Will Davies, Jacob Mukherjee
This is an audio recording of the event held to launch the book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and how we win it back). The seminar…
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Woke Capitalism
This is the last in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series of seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021. Corporate ‘wokeness’ puts…
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This Conjuncture: Perspectives from Mexico
with Gabriela Méndez Cota and Benjamín Arditi The electoral success of Mexico’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the MORENA coalition has…
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This Conjuncture – Digital Patriarchy
Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture Digital platforms create new opportunities to express misogyny in increasingly extreme ways, intersect with the…
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This Conjuncture – Racial Capitalism
The fourth seminar in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series hosted by the journal New Formations. With Gargi Bhattacharyya and Anamik Saha.
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The Environmental Conjuncture
This is the third seminar in a series hosted by the journal New Formations, inspired by the journal’s special issues on ‘This Conjuncture’…
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This Conjuncture – Britain after Brexit, Corbyn and Covid
This is the second of a series of online seminars hosted by the journal New Formations (current editor: Jeremy Gilbert) in Autumn 2021, organised by Rebecca…
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The Exhaustion of Merkelism
This is the first of a series of online seminars hosted by the journal New Formations (current editor: Jeremy Gilbert) in Autumn 2021, organised by Rebecca…
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Keir Starmer’s ‘The Road Ahead’
An analysis of, and response to, UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s project-defining pamphlet ‘The Road Ahead’. With Alan Finlayson and…
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What is (or was) ‘Postmodernism’? – 3 hour version!
I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The short…
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What is (or was) Postmodernism? – 1 hour version
I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The long…
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The Aftermath of Defeat: a Conversation with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour
  In January 2019 we were planning a public event with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour, discussing the aftermath of the December 2019 general election and…
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The Costs of Connection
The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonising Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias     Just about any…
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High Weirdness
    High Weirdness with Erik Davis, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert Presented in Association with #ACFM – the Home of the Weird Left Since the…
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Britain’s Nervous Breakdown: What is Actually Happening?
With Will Davies, and Jeremy Gilbert What on Earth is happening to British politics, culture and society? What is at the root of the present crisis of…
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Vitruvian Mantology: Architecture and Posthuman Politics
With Debra Benita Shaw and Alberto Duman Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s perfectly proportioned human based on the recommendations of a Roman architect who thought…
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The War on Drugs: Race, Class, Colonialism and the Politics of Pleasures
With Kojo Koram, Mike Jay, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert It is now a matter of historical record that when Nixon and his aides officially launched their…
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After Work: The Fight for Free Time
With Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world of work has been the central political battleground. What work…
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The People vs The Media: Power and Democracy in the Public Sphere
With Natalie Fenton and Tom Mills The institutions of the modern media are supposed to serve the public interest: entertaining, educating and informing to the…
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Whose Empowerment? Feminism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism
With Sarah Banet-Weiser and Sara R. Farris Once an insurgent movement against patriarchy, feminism now finds itself occupying a far more complex position in…
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Digital Politics
Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here – we’ve figured out the technical causes and should be back to normal next week! You should…
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The Deserving Rich?
  Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here. It’s listenable, but you can also find a video you can watch at…
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Generation Left
Keir Milburn discusses his new book Generation Left with Lynne Segal, Jeremy Gilbert, and many others. For information about the culture, power, politics…
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Hegemony Now: Power in the Twenty-First Century (2)
With Alex Williams. In this session Alex and Jeremy go into more detail on some of the key conceptual arguments of their forthcoming book Hegemony Now, talking…
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PFI: The Financialisation of Everything
With Grace Blakely The ‘Private Finance Initiative’ still sounds like a dry, technical procedure that nobody could get too excited about. That’s what it’s…
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The Right to the City: politics, place and policy in neoliberal London
With Anna Minton and Jacob Mukherjee. London’s housing market is in crisis because the global super-rich use our homes as piggy-banks and the government does…
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Black Lives Matter – ‘race’, bodies and biopolitics in the 21st century
With Sarah Bufkin and Jacob Mukherjee. The Black Lives Matter movement has seen arguably the most significant revival of Black radicalism in the…