A continuation of our wide-ranging discussion on Roberto Bolaño. ATEOH is guaranteed the only podcast to discuss eunuchs, Peso Pluma, Oswaldo Zavala, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Antonio Gramsci in the same episode. 

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[Recorded on January 22, 2024]

Longtime friend, ATEOH supporter and commentator of Latin American politics, Pat Cabell, joins us for a discussion on the great Chilean novelist, Robert Bolaño, and his work's relevance to themes of realism, international relations and revolutionary politics.  Drawing from an array of texts including 2666, By Night in Chile  and Distant Star and the works of Frederic Jameson and Guy Debord, Pat guides us through an exploration of the Chilean master's key thematic elements, including the persistence of fascist violence, the vanishing of socialist utopianism and its replacement by transnational narco-narratives. What is the longer historic pattern Bolaño's work fits within? 

The music you hear on After the End of History is courtesy of Matt Coakley and Jason King. Thanks for listening. 

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A continuation of our discussion on Stephen Brooks's Producing Security. 

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Mario looks at Seymour Hersh’s latest on corruption inside Ukraine and assesses those claims alongside some of the more elliptical admissions from the mainstream press. 

The music you hear on After the End of History is courtesy of Matt Coakley and Jason King. Thanks for listening. 

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Recorded on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023.

Mario goes solo this week to share some initial thoughts on the recently leaked Pentagon documents and the lessons to be drawn for the Ukraine-Russia War.  

Topics include: 

• Initial reflections on the leaks
• Assessing Ukraine's capacity for a counter offensive
• Has the US infowar limited foreign policymakers' ability to think strategically?
• Lessons China has drawn from the war

The music you hear on After the End of History is courtesy of Matt Coakley and Jason King. Thanks for listening. 

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Part I of our discussion on Producing Security by Stephen G. Brooks, including introductory remarks on the association between commerce and peace, and the author's nuanced polemic against realism. 

In what sense is the globalization of production (as distinct from trade) and the rise of inter-firm cooperation a qualitatively unique development under capitalism? What are the stakes for global conflict?

ATEOH covers the legendary Seymour Hersh's latest revelations about the Nordstream II bombing.

Readings discussed in this week's episode include:

 How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (substack.com)

Alexander Zevin & Seymour Hersh, How to Blow Up a Pipeline — Sidecar (newleftreview.org)

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Recorded in late October 2022 as part of ATEOH's longer discussion on the history and future of NATO. 

Discussed in this episode: Wolfgang Streeck's "Pipe Dreams." Thanks for listening. 

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ATEOH Season 3 continues with a series of discussions on the history of NATO and its continual reinvention through internal dissent, external resistance and expansion.

Part I is about Thomas Meaney's excellent piece "How Putin's invasion returned NATO to the centre stage," published in The Guardian this May.

Recorded on 10 October 2022

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Mario and Tom 

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Mario presents to the Chicago Political Economy Group on Marlene Laruelle's Is Russia Fascist?  Recorded on 24 August 2022. 

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