Politics Theory Other

Politics Theory Other episodes:

• 05.01.2024

  How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom w/ Maya Wind

  Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy and they enjoy warm relationships with their counterparts in north America and Europe - including the University of Columbia. However, as Maya Wind explains in today's...

  
• 04.28.2024

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)

  In today's PTO Extra! Richard Seymour responds to some more excellent listener's questions. We talked about the protests against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza taking place at American universities and the extremely repressive response from university authorities. We went on...

  
• 04.23.2024

  Iran and Israel - stepping back from the brink? w/ Paul Rogers

  Paul Rogers returns to PTO to talk about Iran's attack on Israel on the 13th of April - the first such direct operation carried out by Iran. We discussed whether the operation was a failure or a qualified success, and...

  
• 04.17.2024

  Israel and the history of imperial feminism w/ Sophie Lewis

  Since October 7th Israeli politicians, spokespeople, and Israel's supporters have mobilised feminist narratives in defence of the state's genocidal actions in Gaza and sought to portray Palestinian resistance to Israel as suffused with religiously inspired misogyny. In a recent article in...

  
• 04.11.2024

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US right's partial disenchantment with Israel

  In part one of a two-part episode Richard returns to give his thoughts on an apparent turn against Israel on parts of the American right, the significance of the protests against Netanyahu within Israel, the role of students in the...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US right's partial disenchantment with Israel

  In part one of a two-part episode Richard returns to give his thoughts on an apparent turn against Israel on parts of the American right, the significance of the protests against Netanyahu within Israel, the role of students in the...

  
• 04.04.2024

  Late capitalism or technofeudalism? w/ Yanis Varoufakis

  Yanis Varoufakis joins PTO to discuss his book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. We discussed why Yanis believes capitalism is no longer the appropriate term to describe contemporary economic and social relations. We also talked about the financial crisis, the Covid19...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Israel's drift towards pariah status

  If you'd like to hear the rest of this episode of PTO Extra! Please consider becoming a £5 supporter at patreon.com/poltheoryother Richard Seymour returns to discuss the likelihood of Israel launching its assault on Rafah (in the context of Israel's deliberate...

  
• 03.25.2024

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Israel's drift towards pariah status

  If you'd like to hear the rest of this episode of PTO Extra! Please consider becoming a £5 supporter at patreon.com/poltheoryother Richard Seymour returns to discuss the likelihood of Israel launching its assault on Rafah (in the context of Israel's deliberate...

  
• 03.13.2024

  The seventies and us w/ Michael Hardt

  The 1970s is often depicted straightforwardly as the moment when the radical movements of the 1960s fractured, failed, and radicalised in ways that were self-destructive. In The Subversive Seventies Michael Hardt argues that not only is that a much too...

  
• 03.06.2024

  The crisis is permanent - MENA after the Arab Spring w/ Gilbert Achcar

  Thirteen years have passed since the Arab Spring and the great hopes aroused in 2011 have been overwhelmed by counter-revolution and civil war. And yet, the region is anything but restabilised: Instead of the events of 2011 heralding a brief...

  
• 02.25.2024

  PTO Extra! - Richard Seymour answers listeners questions

  In the latest PTO Extra! Richard Seymour returns to answer your questions on the impact of the Gaza protest movement, Israel's eroding international support, what a Trump presidency might lead to in US domestic politics, and where the late Christopher...

  
• 02.13.2024

  Settler colonialism and doppelganger politics w/ Naomi Klein

  Naomi Klein joins PTO to talk about her book, 'Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World'. In the first part of our conversation we talked about why at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, parts of the anti-vaccine movement started...

  
• 02.03.2024

  Excerpt - Sai Englert on BDS and economic democracy

  In today's episode of PTO Extra! Sai Englert, author of Settler Colonialism: An Introduction returns to the show to answer listeners' questions. We talked about whether Zionism is distinct from other forms of settler colonialism, how struggles against settler colonial...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Israel in the dock w/ Noura Erakat

  Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat joins PTO to discuss South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice and the utility of international law in struggles for global justice. With its roots in providing justification for European settler colonialism in...

  
• 01.20.2024

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Yemen, Gaza, and voting for "Genocide Joe"

  Richard Seymour returns to answer listeners' questions on the history of Yemen and the emergence of the Houthi militia, comparisons made between Israel's actions in Gaza and the Nazi Holocaust, and on the way in which the Trump presidency has...

  
• 01.11.2024

  Interregnum - Gaza, regional war, and Israel in the dock

  Richard Seymour on the possibility of Israel's assault on Gaza leading to broader escalation in the Middle East. We talked about the strategic calculations of Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthi militia, and Israel, the possibility of the United States increasing its...

  
• 01.02.2024

  Settler colonialism - from Columbus to Gaza w/ Sai Englert

  Israel's assault on Gaza has led to a huge upsurge in discussion of settler colonialism and the extent to which the term accurately describes the Zionist project in Palestine. In Settler Colonialism: An Introduction, Sai Englert provides an authoritative overview...

  
• 12.23.2023

  [UNLOCKED] Unnatural city - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s Japan

  Around 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi and music...

  
• 12.14.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Gaza, the anti-Deutsch, and threat of global war

  Richard returns to answer listener's questions on the situation in Gaza, the extent to which Joe Biden's support for Israel is about electoral calculations, the anti-Deutsch tendency and the pro-Israel current on the German left, and the threat of a...

  
• 12.05.2023

  Parallels and contrasts - the Gaza crisis and the 1973 war w/ Leila Farsakh

  Palestinian writer and academic Leila Farsakh joins the show to talk about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the parallels Leila sees between the current situation and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. We also talked about the revival...

  
• 11.28.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on liberal Zionist apologetics

  Richard Seymour responds to the arguments of Jonathan Freedland and other liberal Zionists who, despite the marginalisation of the liberal Zionist tradition within Israel itself, continue to produce talking points for supporters of Israel and the Western media in their...

  
• 11.27.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on liberal Zionist apologetics

  Richard Seymour responds to the arguments of Jonathan Freedland and other liberal Zionists who, despite the marginalisation of the liberal Zionist tradition within Israel itself, continue to produce talking points for supporters of Israel and the Western media in their...

  
• 11.23.2023

  [UNLOCKED] Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend

  A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, security officials, journalists and business leaders to hail Israel's high-tech industry and its synergy with the Israeli military....

  
• 11.18.2023

  Excerpt - Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend

  A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, security officials, journalists and business leaders to hail Israel's high-tech industry and its synergy with the Israeli military....

  
• 11.16.2023

  Excerpt - Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend

  A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, security officials, journalists and business leaders to hail Israel's high-tech industry and its synergy with the Israeli military....

  
• 11.08.2023

  Israel's war on the Palestinians w/ Amjad Iraqi

  Palestinian writer Amjad Iraqi joins the show to talk about where Israel's assault on Gaza is going. We talked about Israel's professed goal to wipe out Hamas in the Gaza strip and what Israel intends to do with the territory...

  
• 11.01.2023

  Red Africa w/ Kevin Ochieng Okoth

  Kevin Ochieng Okoth joins PTO to discuss his new book, Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics. We talked about the concept of Afropessimism and why Kevin believes it relies on a fundamentally parochial, US-centric understanding of Blackness and we discussed...

  
• 10.24.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions on Gaza

  Description: Richard returns to answer questions sent in by listeners on Gaza, Israel and the broader ramifications of the ongoing crisis. Become a £5 PTO supporter to get access to this and all other episodes of PTO Extra! - https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

  
• 10.23.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions on Gaza

  Richard returns to answer questions sent in by listeners on Gaza, Israel and the broader ramifications of the ongoing crisis. Become a £5 PTO supporter to get access to this and all other episodes of PTO Extra! - https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

  
• 10.17.2023

  Israel's genocidal war on Gaza w/ Lara Friedman and Paul Rogers

  Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace joins PTO to discuss the dire situation in Gaza and the West Bank, and the dramatic escalation of islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in the United States. In the second half...

  
• 10.12.2023

  Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict

  Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlantic festival, rattled off a list of positive...

  
• 10.11.2023

  Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict

  Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlantic festival, rattled off a list of positive...

  
• 09.26.2023

  Excerpt - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s Japan

  Owen Hatherley joins the show to discuss his love of 1980s Japanese pop and ambient. Although much of the episode is on the music itself, we do touch on the politics - particularly how these artists were influenced by and...

  
• 09.14.2023

  The roots of the new cold war w/ Gilbert Achcar

  In 1999 in the wake of the Kosovo conflict Gilbert Achcar published a book titled 'The New Cold War: The World After Kosovo'. At the time, describing tensions between the United States, Russia and China in terms of "a cold...

  
• 09.05.2023

  Excerpt - Adam Tooze on the significance of the Inflation Reduction Act

  Adam Tooze returns to PTO to respond to the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. Become a £5 supporter on patreon to get access to this and other episodes of PTO Extra! Go to patreon.com/poltheoryother to sign up. We talked about...

  
• 09.02.2023

  Excerpt: Adam Tooze on the UK's economic malaise

  Adam Tooze returns to PTO to respond to the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. Become a £5 supporter on patreon to get access to this and other episodes of PTO Extra! Go to patreon.com/poltheoryother to sign up. We talked about...

  
• 08.31.2023

  Excerpt - Adam Tooze on the UK's economic malaise

  Adam Tooze returns to PTO to respond to the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. Become a £5 supporter on patreon to get access to this and other episodes of PTO Extra! Go to patreon.com/poltheoryother to sign up. We...

  
• 08.23.2023

  The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose

  Jacqueline Rose returns to the show to discuss her new book, The Plague: Living Death in Our Times. We talked about what the Covid-19 pandemic revealed about contemporary society and whether the the initial wave of global solidarity provoked by...

  
• 08.12.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on conspiracism

  Richard Seymour responds to questions sent in by listeners on subjects ranging from conspiracy theory, the ferocity of anti-communist rhetoric on the right - in spite of the absence of a global communist movement - to the history of the...

  
• 08.09.2023

  Excerpt - Richard Seymour on conspiracism

  Richard Seymour responds to questions sent in by listeners on subjects ranging from conspiracy theory, the ferocity of anti-communist rhetoric on the right - in spite of the absence of a global communist movement - to the history of the...

  
• 08.03.2023

  An ideology of the flesh w/ Amber Husain

  Amber Husain joins PTO to talk about her new book, Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh. We talked about whether it's possible for there to be such a thing as 'ethical meat', why Amber thinks veganism need not be...

  
• 07.20.2023

  Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz

  Adam Shatz joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination'. We talked about why Adam, though a huge admirer of Edward Said and his classic work Orientalism, feels that some of the...

  
• 07.10.2023

  Interregnum - The meaning of Prigozhin's rebellion

  On the 23rd of June, following months of increasing tension between the Wagner Group and the Russian Ministry of Defence, Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his rebellion. Prigozhin's forces quickly took control of the head quarter's of Russia's Southern Military District in...

  
• 06.25.2023

  The myth of the reforming monarch - Britain and the Gulf w/ David Wearing

  David Wearing joins PTO to discuss his article 'The myth of the reforming monarch: Orientalism, racial capitalism, and UK support for the Arab Gulf monarchies' We talked about the nature of Britain's relationship with the Gulf states, and why it's a...

  
• 06.14.2023

  Excerpt - The anti-woke grift w/ Aurelien Mondon

  The recent National Conservatism conference in Britain brought together an array of politicians, journalists, and academics of varying stripes of conservatism, but united by their hostility to so-called woke politics. I spoke to Aurelien Mondon about his recent article in...

  
• 05.16.2023

  The backlash against Palestine solidarity w/ Hil Aked

  Hil Aked joins PTO to talk about their new book, Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity, the first book length treatment of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain. We talked about the strategies that Israel and pro-Israel organisations in Britain...

  
• 04.24.2023

  Interregnum - Israel's radicalising ethnonationalism

  Richard Seymour discusses the protest movement in Israel that has emerged in response to the plans of the most right-wing Israeli government in history to dramatically curtail the power of the judiciary and further empower the executive. We discussed the...

  
• 03.31.2023

  Excerpt - France's social explosion w/ Sebastian Budgen

  Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to talk about the protest movement in France, sparked by Emmanuel Macron's pension reform bill. We talked about why the new bill has encountered such broad opposition in the country, and why it is that...

  
• 03.16.2023

  Fascist echoes w/ Adam Tooze

  Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the key causal factors that allowed fascism to emerge in the early twentieth century and whether conditions that would enable fascism on the interwar model exist today. We also talked about whether describing...