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A Detour on the Paris Peace Conference (1919 - 1920)

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

03:40 A New Kind of War

11:11 The Economic View

16:35 Considerations of the Peace

23:59 Outro

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Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.

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Episode 4 | We break into chapter two of Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's historical materialist account of "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire." We cover the US as a global creditor during WWI, Woodrow Wilson's strengthening of the state through the Fed & FTC, the prefiguration of "Wilsonian" interventionism in Mexico, the international visions of Wilson & Keynes for the postwar order, the Paris Peace Talks, and close with Panitch & Gindin's analysis of, by the 1920s, the informal power of the US versus its state incapacity.

CHAPTERS.

00:00 Intro

02:20 Death of Old Order

09:29 Wilsonianism Prefigured

14:54 ReElection & WWI

21:47 Paris Peace Talks

28:17 State Incapacity

37:30 Outro

SOURCES

- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"

- Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers"

- Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes"

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Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.

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Ep. 2 | We break into chapter one of Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's historical materialist account of "The Making of Global Capitalism." From the yeoman farmer to agro-industrialization, the fierce struggle between labor and capital in the 1870s-90s, innovations in the labor process via Taylorism's "scientific management" and Fordism's assembly line mass production, the founding of the Federal Reserve in response to the 1907 crisis, and more.

CHAPTERS.

00:00 Historical Materialism

03:20 Armature of History

10:45 Exportability, Taylorism, Active State

19:03 Yeoman Farmers & NY Investment Banks

28:34 Due Process & Repub-Business Alliance

41:05 Tariffs, Americanization, 1907 Crisis, Fed

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SOURCES

- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism: Political Economy of American Empire"

- Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (Theses on the Philosophy of History)

- Michael Lowry's Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'

- Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin FilesREQUEST THE "FREE FEED"- Unlock it as a "free member" on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-feed-here-109526622

Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.

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Ep. 1 | Setting the stage with glimpses of Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History," including his warnings about the just-so stories of historicism, the dialectic between past-present and personal-historical, and the call for historical materialism to reckon the "triumphal procession" that today marches as the status quo against a "distanced observer." A brief mention of Mark Fisher's worry about the consequences of a lost sense of the future and thus the past. More on this in Episode 3 on Patreon.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Walter Benjamin's Historicism

03:23 A Secret Heliotropism

06:45 The Historical Materialist

10:45 Dialectical History

13:57 Weak Messianic Power

15:20 Mark Fisher's Lost Futures

16:45 We Always Start with Caricatures

SOURCES

- Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (multiple various translations)

- Michael Lowry's Fire Alarm

- Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files

- Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism & Ghosts of My Life

SOLID AIR

Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.

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Ep. 0 | A lot has changed. The show should too.

CHAPTERS

00:00 The Story So Far

08:05 One Flagship, Two Detours

10:15 Stumbling Productively

Figuring things out through slow-motion reading series. "Solid Air" works through political economy x history. "Invisible Hands" covers the lives and theories of economists. "Reading Room" is an excuse for a friend and me to read and talk about philosophy or literature. Every third episode is on Patreon, but not really - there's a "free feed" just a click away. This is a self-education project, and nothing more.In the Solid Air series, we dig into Panitch & Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism" and then take two "detours" into other texts. Rinse and repeat. For those detours, we tend to focus on Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Heilbroner, David Harvey, and Garry Gerstle - but we've also read first-hand texts from the time, like John Maynard Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace or Frederick Winslow Taylor Principles of Scientific Management.