Are we entering the world of ‘Techno-feudalism’, or ‘Neofeudalism’? Or are there better ways to understand our present situation, such as the concept of ‘Platform Capitalism’ ?

In this episode Jeremy Gilbert, discusses these issues and lays out what’s at stake in defining terms like ‘capitalism’ ‘technofeudalism’ and ‘mode of production’.

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Some of the texts that we refer to here include:

Cédric Durand How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism : the Making of the Digital Economy
McKenzie Wark Capital Is Dead:Is This Something Worse?
Jodi Dean Capital’s Grave:Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle

Evgeny Morozov ‘Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason’
Nick Srnicek Platform Capitalism

Jeremy Gilbert ‘Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism: Conceptualising the Digital Society’

Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World

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 success of the right-wing populist Reform party at the May 2025 UK local elections.

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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 of Anglophone continental philosophy in our age and a key figure in the dissemination of the work of Deleuze & Guattari.

This is part of our series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, co-hosted by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert. 

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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 brings together continental philosophy, analytical philosophy, rigorous science and political radicalism. In this recording he talks about his new book Regimes of Violence, ranging over topics from the politics of neoliberalism to evolutionary psychology to the beauty of sport.

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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 reactionary digital politics, the changing shape of our knowledge culture, the politics of the platform economy, and possible strategies for progressive forces. We also get into an argument about Bitcoin.

Don’t say we never do anything for you. Yes it’s long, but you know how to use the pause button.

We’re not sure why the audio on Jeremy’s mic was so bad most of the way through. It’s still listenable, but apologies for that.

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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 Colebrook, author of many books including Death of the Posthuman: Essays on Extinction

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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 deeply involved in the series, but if you are just casually interested in what we make of the ‘New Materialism’, then it’s certainly worth a listen!

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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 the Conservative Party becoming the first major British political party to elect a Black woman as Leader.

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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. The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies was published earlier this year by Allen Lane. Andy and Jem go deep into some of the book’s key themes, including the strange place of London in the British left’s political imaginary, the decades-long political contest over what a post-industrial Britain could look like, and the long legacy of 1968.

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 Read and Jeremy Gilbert.

In this session we were honoured to be joined by one of the greatest Anglophone scholars of Spinozist Marxism: Warren Montag. This was a fantastically lucid and informative seminar focussing mainly on Althusser’s relationship to Spinoza, but ranging widely over political, metaphysical and theological topics.

Thanks to everyone who came and took part in the seminar and to everyone who has been supporting the project! 
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