Radical Thoughts Podcast

Following our discussion on Virilio, Patrick sits down with sociologist Hartmut Rosa to discuss social acceleration and modernity. The conversation touches on the types of acceleration we face in a modern world, classic and late modernity, and Rosa's concept of "resonance."

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MORE BY ROSA
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity
Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
LSE Lecture: Do We Really Live in an Acceleration Society?

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Sexuality in the Field of Vision by Gillian Rose 

In this episode, Andrew and Patrick talk about French cultural theorist, architect, and philosopher Paul Virilio and his book The Information Bomb. We discuss speed, the 90s, information, and more.

Our next episode will be on Slavoj Zizek's The Metastases of Enjoyment. Check it out if you want to read ahead.

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In this bonus episode, Patrick sits down with the author Peter Salmon to discuss the life of Jacques Derrida and contextualize his philosophical project (if there is such a thing). We go over Derrida's upbringing, his academic life, and his conception of friendship in and outside of his theoretical work. Salmon brings his viewpoint after researching and writing a new biography of Derrida, forthcoming from Verso Books this October.

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An Event, Perhaps by Peter Salmon: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3678-an-event-perhaps

Rick Roderick on Derrida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvAwoUvXNzU&t=151s

Our next book is The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio: https://www.versobooks.com/books/42-the-information-bomb

We sit down to talk about the (in)famous French philosopher Jacques Derrida and his book The Politics of Friendship. Listen as we discuss the instrumentality of friendship, the role of friends and enemies to define politics, and whether we actually understand anything we read.

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Our next read will be The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio

Derrida's lecture on friendship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTIvyRIrquI

This is a preview for our latest bonus episode. Patrick interviews Anton Jäger - a PhD candidate in history at the University of Cambridge working on populism in the US - on the political theory of Chantal Mouffe and its connection to contemporary political movements.

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This is the second half of our conversation on Chantal Mouffe's The Return of The Political. We delve further into the trap of idealism, NGO-styled radicalism, and the influence of populism on real-life movements like Podemos and Britain's New Labour.

Our next bonus episode will discuss Left Populism in theory and practice with special guest Anton Jäger. If you want to hear the discussion, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts

The next book for discussion is The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida.

You can check out the Aufhebunga Bunga episode we mentioned here.

In this episode, we begin our discussion of Chantal Mouffe's book The Return of The Political. We discuss the concept of the friend/enemy distinction, debates between Liberalism and Civic Republicanism, and whether or not political struggles have to remain fragmentary and non-universal.

We decided to divide our discussion of Mouffe into two episodes because 1) the discussion was pretty long anyway, and 2) we uploaded more content than usual this month so our hosting subscription was running out of space until it renews. We'll upload part 2 at the start of August and follow up with our next discussion later that month.

Next Month's Read: The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida

This is a clip from a discussion with David Broder, a historian of French and Italian political history, and European Editor for Jacobin Magazine.

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Broder's new book First They Took Rome is now available through Verso Books.

In this special bonus episode, Patrick talks with his friend Misha about current events. The discussion touches on everything from rural/urban divides, the complications of identity and community, the American conception of East Asia vs. its reality, and the implications of recent BLM struggles.

This bonus episode is being made available to both the standard feed and the Patreon feed.

A bonus episode with guest David Broder on Norberto Bobbio is forthcoming for the Patreon feed. The bookclub discussion will also continue later this month with Chantal Mouffe's The Return of the Political.

In this episode, we discuss the Italian legal theorist and politician Norberto Bobbio and his text "Liberalism and Democracy." We talk about the history of Liberalism, the relationship of the individual to the State, and how radicals should conceive of democracy.

Other texts mentioned in this discussion:
- "The Affinities of Norberto Bobbio" by Perry Anderson
- "Law and State as Holes in Marxist Theory" by Mike Macnair
- "Liberty Before Liberalism" by Quentin Skinner
- "Citizens to Lords" and "Liberty and Property" by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Next month's text:
- "The Return of the Political" by Chantal Mouffe

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