Stewart Motha

Countersign

Society EN ↓ 28 episodes

COUNTERSIGN is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines which open new perspectives on law, difference, and plural existence.

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Stewart Motha

Episodes

When Rocks Speak 07.07.2020 1:07:55

Discussing Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s Geontologies: A Requiem To Late Liberalism - challenging the distinction between life and non-life. Drawing on knowledge from Indigenous people from the Northern Territory, Australia, hear how humans and apparently inert things like rocks and fog are intertwined and co-constituted. 

The Day After Independence 23.06.2020 1:01:12

Discussing Naeem Mohaiemen’s film 'Two Meetings and a Funeral' which revisits the Non-Aligned Movement, decolonisation of the 1960-70s, and the legacy of the hopes and disappointments of political movements.

Culture Wars to Algorithmic Feudalism 10.06.2020 1:01:13

Taking Patricia J. Williams’ 1997 BBC Reith Lectures as a point of departure, we discuss the paradoxes of race in the U.S and U.K from then to now. What will gene manipulation, biotechnology, and data gathering bring?