Radical Thoughts Podcast

In this preview I talk with C Derick Varn about Adorno's conception of domination, and the pitfalls and insights that accompany his critique of modern life.

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Listen to the roundtable discussion on Minima Moralia here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/865147/3800207-minima-moralia

Our next episode will be on Norberto Bobbio's Liberalism and Democracy, check it out if you'll be reading along: https://www.versobooks.com/books/45-liberalism-and-democracy

Can one seek the good life when life has been irreparably damaged? In this episode, we sit down to discuss Theodore Adorno's Minima Moralia and talk a bit about psychoanalysis, pleasure, astrology, and automation in the contemporary world.

Join our Patreon for $3 a month if you want access to our bonus episodes to hear guests interviewed about the authors we've discussed.

If you're reading along, our next book will be Liberalism and Democracy by Noberto Bobbio: https://www.versobooks.com/books/45-liberalism-and-democracy
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Hear Patrick talk about Walter Benjamin on The Regrettable Century here: http://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/

Read Andrew's essay on Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality here: https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2020/05/07/revisiting-the-authoritarian-personality-conspiracy-theories-and-the-crank/

This is a preview from our most recent bonus episode. James Turley from the CPGB and Weekly Worker joins us to talk about Althusser and the political circumstances surrounding his life and career.

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In this month's episode, we sit down to discuss the controversial French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his early book For Marx. We discuss the merits and problems with concepts such as overdetermination, problematics, epistemological break, and the Althusserian meaning of ideology.

We'd also like to announce that we've just started a Patreon to help us make podcasting just a little bit easier! It's only $3 a month to get future bonus episodes featuring special interviews on the topics we discuss each month.

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In our first bonus episode Patrick interviews the literary critic and social theorist Andrew Milner to talk a little bit more about Raymond Williams and the approach of cultural materialism. (If you missed it, make sure to check out our first episode on Williams' Culture and Materialism too!)

Milner is a literary critic and a cultural theorist. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University. And author of books such as Cultural Materialism, Locating Science Fiction, and Again Dangerous Visions. His latest book, Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Perspective, is due out at the end of this month from Oxford University Press.

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This time all four members of the podcast sit down to talk about Terry Eagleton's The Function of Criticism. We discuss the emergence of the "public sphere," the meaning of the intellectual, and the commodification of literature and knowledge. We had some technical issues this time around, but we hope you enjoy the conversation nonetheless.

Radical Thoughts is an attempt to read through as many texts in the Verso Radical Thinkers series as possible in order to come to a better understanding of radical theory and its tendencies. Our goal is to find the problems and frameworks worth addressing in order to move beyond radical thought into radical practice.

Radical Thoughts is an independent project and not associated with Verso Books in any way. 

In our debut episode of the Radical Thoughts Podcast, P.H. Higgins, Donald Parkinson, and Andrew Woods sit down to talk about Raymond Williams' book "Culture and Materialism." We discuss how it is best to think about culture as a part of societal relationships, communication in contemporary society, base and superstructure, utopia, and more.

Radical Thoughts is an attempt to read through as many texts in the Verso Radical Thinkers series as possible in order to come to a better understanding of radical theory and its tendencies. Our goal is to find the problems and frameworks worth addressing in order to move beyond radical thought into radical practice.

Radical Thoughts is an independent project and not associated with Verso Books in any way.