Radical Thoughts Podcast

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Amogh, the cohost of the old Symptomatic Redness podcast, sits down with Patrick to discuss the Marxist obsession with method and totality, interrogating what this implies about the unanswered questions...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Patrick sits down with communist theorist Søren Mau to discuss his book Mute Compulsion , forthcoming in English through Verso Books, and his theory of the impersonal economic power of capital. We discus...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Patrick sits down with Seth Wheeler to discuss cycles of struggle after the Corbyn and Sanders moments, the UK Left, and the new edition of In and Against the State . In and Against the State through Plu...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Djene  Bajalan joins the show in a discussion concerning the state, international politics, and the destructive effects of Left-wing navel-gazing

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Independent writer and editor for Verso Books John Merrick joins Patricknin a discussion about the history of Verso, the Radical Thinkers series, and the cultural project of publishing

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this special crossover episode, Patrick talks with C Derick Varn of Varn Vlog about the legacy of Jean-Luc Nancy. While both bemoan the more frivolous stylings of French theory, the discussion appreci...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this episode, 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, an...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode, Andrew and Patrick sit down to read through some of Franco Moretti's recent work on "Distant Reading" (and one additional essay by Ted Underwood). Does this approach...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick n this Patron-only bonus episode, Patrick interviews philosopher and psychoanalyst Adrian Johnston on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, theories of materialism, and more. This episode fo...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick 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 moder...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this interview, Patrick sits down with the scholar Anton Jäger to talk more about Chantal Mouffe's political theory, the rise of left populism, and the contemporary shape of political struggle. Jä...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode, Patrick sits down with David Broder , a historian of French and Italian political history and European Editor for Jacobin Magazine, to talk about the politics of post-war Italy. He...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode I talk with C Derick Varn - an educator, podcaster, and editor for Zero Books - about Adorno's conception of domination, and  the pitfalls and insights that accompany his critiq...

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode, Patrick sits down with James Turley to discuss Louis Althusser, his theories, and his political situation, in greater detail. Turley is a supporter of the Communist Party of Great...

Andrew and Patrick review a series of debates between Bloch, Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Brecht on the relationship between aesthetics, politics, theory, and practice.  Aesthetics and Politics:  https://www.versobooks.com/books/127-aesthetics-and-politics Our next read is Late Marxism  by Frederic Jameson: https://www.versobooks.com/books/127-aesthetics-and-politics

Andrew and Patrick sit down to discuss Ernesto Laclau's Emancipation(s). How relevant is his theory of democracy and hegemony? Does this prefigure other radical turns away from a unified theory of class as subject? Are we twirling towards freedom? PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts NEXT BOOK: Aesthetics and Politics

Andrew and Patrick discuss the Elvis of Philosophy's book on one of the obscure greats:  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling . We go a bit into Zizek's view of evil, the state, and riff a bit on 90s-to-early-2000s philosophical trends. SHOW NOTES: Peter Dews's Critique of Zizek's Schelling: The eclipse of coincidence:  Lacan, Merleau‐Ponty and Schelling Our next read: Laclau...

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! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RadThotsPod Next Month's Read:  The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek 

Althusser has returned and this time we talk much more about Rousseau and Montesquieu than we do Marx. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts 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. Support us on Patreon Fragments - Baudrillard Cool Memories: Baudrillard and the Crisis of Reading - Mike Gane Politics and History - Althusser

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... Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts  Next Book:  Fragments by Jean Baudrillard

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.

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. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes Our next read will be Paul Virilio's  Strategy of Deception

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. PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts NEXT BOOK: https://www.versobooks.com/books/128-infancy-and-history CITATIONS AND RESOURCES: Political Descartes: https://www.versobooks.com/books/138-pol...

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. Subscribe to our Patreon: https:...