Radical Thoughts Podcast

As our second season gets rolling, we are releasing this bonus interview for free to all of our listeners.

Patrick sits down with Phil O'Brien of the Raymond Williams Society and the journal Keywords to discuss Williams's theory of culture, his interactions with other theorists, and the newly released archival work that O'Brien has been collecting.

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Culture and Politics: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3824-culture-and-politics
Raymond Williams Tapes: https://soundcloud.com/user-902721807-400345305
Raymond Williams Foundation: https://www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/
Raymond Williams Society: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/
Key Words Journal: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/journal/

Radical Thoughts Culture and Materialism episode: https://radicalthoughtspod.buzzsprout.com/865147/2692846-culture-and-materialism
Radical Thoughts interview with Andrew Milner: https://radicalthoughtspod.buzzsprout.com/865147/3088609

In this episode, we discuss Peter Dews's Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory, an attempt to provide an immanent critique of Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, and Lyotard.

Next month, we'll be discussing Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology, and the Bourgeois Project by Antonio "Toni" Negri.

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In this episode, our first of Season 2, we discuss Raymond Williams' posthumous work Politics of Modernism, investigating the relationship between the cultural traditions and cultural foundations of modernism, as well as the current possibilities for new, confrontational ways of life.

This episode has been produced with the support of the Raymond Williams Foundation as part of a series of resources celebrating Raymond Williams' thought for the centenary of his birthday.

You can learn more about Williams and the Foundation, as well as discover other material from the centenary explainers project, on the RWF website here: http://www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/

PH sits down with our first recurring guest, C Derick Varn, to give more context to the work of Jean Baudrillard. We discuss his relation to the Situationists, his break with Marxism, and the ultimate conclusions of his theory of simulation and simulacra.

Our next book is Politics of Modernism by Raymond Williams 

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What is the difference between a serial object and a model object? What is a gizmo? What is consumption in the modern world? In this episode, our season one finale, we read Jean Baudrillard's exposé on the dizzying system of objects that makes up contemporary consumer society.

We will be on break for a few months while we prepare for season 2, but we will continue making Patreon-exclusive bonus episodes during that time. Support us for just $3 a month if you want to keep listening while we prepare for our next set of roundtable episodes, starting with Raymond Williams's The Politics of Modernism.

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The System of Objects: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3146-the-system-of-objects

Politics of Modernism: https://www.versobooks.com/books/136-politics-of-modernism

In this special bonus episode, Patrick sits down with practicing psychoanalyst and author Patricia Gherovici to discuss her work on transgender issues in psychoanalysis, questions of embodiment and subjectivity, and the accessibility of psychoanalytic practice today.

RESOURCES
Patricia's Website: https://www.patriciagherovici.com/articles-and-book-chapters.html

(Das) Unbehagen Collective: http://dasunbehagen.org/

Psychoanalysis in El Barrio (Documentary): https://vimeo.com/223464423
The whole film can be accessed on PEP: http://www.pep-web.org/

PATREON
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After we finish The System of Objects we will be taking a break from our roundtable episodes for a couple months before starting season 2. We will only be releasing bonus episodes during that time, so don't miss out!

This episode, Patrick and Andrew sit down and discuss Franco Moretti's early collection of essays on everything from Frankenstein and Dracula to James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Unfortunately, Donald was too unwell and overworked to join us on this episode, but we think it turned out as a pretty good discussion on the connection of literature to sociology.

Support us on Patreon to listen to our bonus episodes. We have a discussion with psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici that will be recorded very soon to follow up our discussion of Jacqueline Rose.

Our next book (the end of season 1!) is Jean Baudrillard's The System of Objects. 

In this episode, Patrick and Andrew discuss Sexuality in the Field of Vision by Jacqueline Rose. We go a little further into our impressions of Lacanian psychoanalysis, its interactions with feminism and film theory, and whether this is a good book to turn to for newcomers to psychoanalytic theory.

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Grab a copy of Franco Moretti's Signs Taken for Wonders if you want to read along. 

This is a preview from one of our patron-only bonus episodes. In this episode, Patrick interviews philosopher and psychoanalyst Adrian Johnston on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, theories of materialism, and more. 

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-Read Johnston's article on Lacan in the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy

We discuss Slavoj Žižek's book The Metastases of Enjoyment and discuss the merits of psychoanalysis, the concept of trauma and cause, and the perverse enjoyment of seeing others as victims.

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Our next read will be Jacqueline (not Gillian, like I say in the episode) Rose's Sexuality in the Field of Vision.