Radical Thoughts Podcast

Patrick and Andrew discuss On The Shores of Politics, a collection of essays by Jacques Ranciere, anti-Platonist extraordinaire! What is politics? Or democracy for that matter? Maybe we'll find out!

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Next Month's Read: The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek 

Djene Bajalan joins the show in a discussion concerning the state, international politics, and the destructive effects of Left-wing navel-gazing.

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This Is Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uDM4rFf_4w

Independent writer and editor for Verso Books John Merrick joins Patrick in a discussion about the history of Verso, the Radical Thinkers series, and the cultural project of publishing.

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Culture and Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3824-culture-and-politics
Internet for the People: https://www.versobooks.com/search?q=internet
Work Without the Worker: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker

Althusser has returned and this time we talk much more about Rousseau and Montesquieu than we do Marx.

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Politics and History: https://www.versobooks.com/books/129-politics-and-history

Next read - On the Shores of Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3635-on-the-shores-of-politics

Baudrillard is back, and we still don't really know what he's on about.

We read Fragments (Vol. III of Cool Memories) and chat about the use of fragments for or against the purpose of theoretical criticism.

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Fragments - Baudrillard

Cool Memories: Baudrillard and the Crisis of Reading - Mike Gane

Politics and History - Althusser

We're releasing this bonus interview with Loren Goldner, discussing  his history with the New Left, to our public feed as thanks to our dedicated listeners.

We discuss Paul Virilio's Strategy of Deception, a book ostensibly about the Kosovo War. But maybe about a whole lot more... maybe, we're not entirely sure...

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Next Book: Fragments by Jean Baudrillard

In this episode, we discuss the controversial Giorgio Agamben's early work Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience and the intersection of language, praxis, history, and experience.

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Our next read will be Paul Virilio's Strategy of Deception

In this bonus episode, Patrick talks with the writer-activist Loren Goldner about his experiences with the Left from Berkeley in the 1960s, through Cambridge in the 80s, all the way to South Korea in the 90s. We talk about the popularity and disappearance of Marxist politics, the influence of Noel Ignatiev and Race Traitor, and much more.

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Read Goldner's work on his website breaktheirhaughtypower.org
You can also read his contributions to Insurgentnotes.com

In this episode, we discuss Antonio "Toni" Negri's Political Descartes and debate the theory of ideology, the development of the bourgeoisie, and the political effects of nostalgia.

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CITATIONS AND RESOURCES:
Political Descartes: https://www.versobooks.com/books/138-political-descartes
Review by Knox Peden: https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp145_reviews.pdf
Review by Robert T Tally Jr: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/3927
Negri Clip Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLa0Xk9XCDs&t=821s