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Living the Dream episodes

  • Living the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social Impact Bonds

    Living the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social

    Impact Bonds

     

    In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Rob talk about

    how the provision of welfare and social services are changing. We chat about
    the concept of social reproduction, the welfare state and its evolution and
    critically investigate new developments. As the mining boom ends, the world
    teeters on a the edge of another economic meltdown and states struggle with
    increasing amounts of debt we ask what’s going on with welfare and how can we
    struggle on this terrain in ways that point to a better life and a better
    society.

     

     

    Material referred to includes:

    Multi-million

    dollar 'green bonds' could fund Qld's climate change strategy

     

    Competition

    Policy Review

     

    Global Social Impact Investment

    Steering Group

     

    Delivering

    On Impact: The Australian Advisory Board Breakthrough Strategy To Catalyse
    Impact Investment

     

    Back ground on Debt and Social Reproduction can be found at Australia

    you’re standing in it part 2: Debt & Social Reproduction

     

    Everyone should read this issue of Viewpoint on Social

    Reproduction.

     

    For an inspiring historical of the unemployed struggling

    over the conditions of welfare see The
    WOW factor: Wollongong’s unemployed and the dispossession of class
    and history

     

    And listen to this killer track by Mutant Death

    (which features an on air argument between the scumbag Bob Hawke and dear comrade and friend  Nick)

    1 hr 13 min
  • Living the Dream: Climate, Capitalism & Crisis

    In this episode Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) chat with Jackson who has been an organiser with AYCC and for the Peoples Climate March in Brisbane . We talk about the opposition to the Adani mine project, the PCM, some of the experiences and developments within the climate justice movement, the role NGOs play and how this fits together with a broader understanding of capitalism and our struggles for lives of dignity and justice


    Some of the material referred directly, indirectly, in a sly implied way or are kind of relevant are:

    George Caffentzis The work/energy crisis and the apocalypse

    Nicholas Beuret & Gareth Brown Dancing on the Grave: Salvage, The Walking Dead, and the End of Days

    Andrew X Give up activism

    Naomi Klein Canada's New Climate Movement

    Naomi Klein: Capitalism and the Climate, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015

    Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything live with Owen Jones - Full Length | Guardian Live

    Jacobin on Naomi Klein and the Left

    Ellen Evans & Jon Moses Interview With David Graeber

    The work of Hayek & Keynes can be found in libraries everywhere.

    48 min
  • New Year's Thoughts - Prospects, Predictions, Postulations

    In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) take some time to reflect on 2015 and go through the entrails to make some predictions about 2016. What happened in 2015 and what does it tell us about capitalism and the struggle against it? And how do we even try to make sense of it all?

    Articles and writers mentioned are:

    A panel on the work of Lisa Vogel’s  Marxism and The Oppression of Women

    Prabhat Patnaik on Capitalism and Its Current Crisis

    Dave’s previous writing on #TURC can be found here and here

    Lara Tingle on POLITICAL AMNESIA How We Forgot How To Govern

    Doug Henwood on Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble

    Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron on the Californian Ideology

    Nick Southall on Getting the Gong – A Tale of Two Cities

    Angela Mitropoulo’s work can be found at s0metim3s

    Music by Dilemmas

    44 min
  • New Year’s Thoughts - Prospects, Predictions, Postulations

    In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) take some time to reflect on 2015 and go through the entrails to make some predictions about 2016. What happened in 2015 and what does it tell us about capitalism and the struggle against it? And how do we even try to make sense of it all?
    Articles and writers mentioned are:
    A panel on the work of Lisa Vogel’s  Marxism and The Oppression of Women
    Prabhat Patnaik on Capitalism and Its Current Crisis
    Dave’s previous writing on #TURC can be found here and here
    Lara Tingle on POLITICAL AMNESIA How We Forgot How To Govern
    Doug Henwood on Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble
    Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron on the Californian Ideology
    Nick Southall on Getting the Gong – A Tale of Two Cities
    Angela Mitropoulo’s work can be found at s0metim3s
    Music by Dilemmas
    44 min
  • #qldworkersparadise : Sunny times for the working class in Qld under Labor?

    On this show Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk

    about what is going on in Queensland under the ALP.  We look at the attempt to fund social
    reproduction and stimulate capital accumulation in the conditions of the end of
    the mining boom - all whilst trying to manufacture social peace.

    Special

    attention is given to the Advance
    Queensland initiative. 

    30 min
  • From Liberation to Human Rights - changes in the language of critique

    Today Jon (@JonPiccini)

    and Dave (@withsobersenses) will be talking about two recent articles by Jon
    that trace the changes in key concepts in the languages of activism and the
    Left (for lack of better terms) and the reasons for and the potential costs of
    these changes.

     

    The

    articles discussed are: Human
    Rights and the Left and Damned
    Whores and God’s Police, liberation and the power of activist language: A guest
    post by Jon Piccini

    21 min
  • From Liberation to Human Rights - changes in the language of critique

















    Today Jon (@JonPiccini)
    and Dave (@withsobersenses) will be talking about two recent articles by Jon
    that trace the changes in key concepts in the languages of activism and the
    Left (for lack of better terms) and the reasons for and the potential costs of
    these changes.


     

    The
    articles discussed are: Human
    Rights and the Left and Damned
    Whores and God’s Police, liberation and the power of activist language: A guest
    post by Jon Piccini


    21 min
  • Everything You Know Is Wrong -Conspiracy Theory

    After months of silence Living the Dream podcasts are back.

    Here we look at the prominence of conspiracy theories, what

    it is about contemporary capitalism that gives rise to them and what this means
    for anti-capitalist politics.

    Music from Chumbawamba, Total Control, Voight-Kampff,

    Belgrado, Grey Places and Downtown Boys

    1 hr 3 min
  • Everything You Know Is Wrong -Conspiracy Theory

















    After months of silence Living the Dream podcasts are back.


    Here we look at the prominence of conspiracy theories, what
    it is about contemporary capitalism that gives rise to them and what this means
    for anti-capitalist politics.


    Music from Chumbawamba, Total Control, Voight-Kampff,
    Belgrado, Grey Places and Downtown Boys


    1 hr 3 min
  • Queensland: beautiful one day, workers’ paradise the next?


    In this episode of Living the Dream we look at the recent Qld election and try to grapple with what it all means, what the new ALP government is planning to do, what the challenges facing capital accumulation are and where the lines of antagonism may be.

    Music from The Saints and Tina Harris

    Articles referred include:

    Don't Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts Of Lessons For The Left

     

    Economic and Fiscal Challenges: Interim Results of Medium Term Modelling

    From the Subprime to the Sovereign Crisis. Why Keynesianism does not work?

    Statement on Monetary Policy February 2015

    45 min

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