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This episode presents a conversational overview of the first part of the article: Hosseini, S. A. H. (2023)  The Well-Living ParadigmLinks to an external site. : Reimagining Quality of Life in Our Turbulent World, Discover Global Society, 1(19), 1-22.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-023-00022-8Links to an external site.  Or  https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44282-023-00022-8.pdf This...

This episode presents a conversational overview of the first part of the article:Hosseini, S. A. H. (2023)  The Well-Living Paradigm Links to an external site. : Reimagining Quality of Life in Our Turbulent World,  Discover Global Society , 1(19), 1-22.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-023-00022-8Links to an external site. Or  https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44282-023-00022-8.pdf Thi...

This episode presents an overview of the following source: Giorgi, C. (2022)  Utopia , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 1234-50),The chapter argues that while Marx and Engels critiqued utopian socialism for lacking historical grounding and ignoring class struggle, the concept of utopia, particularly in its "concrete" form as develo...

This episode presents a conversational overview of the following source: Dawson, M. (2017)  Sociology and Utopia , in M. Dawson (ed.)  Social Theory for Alternative Societies  (pp. 162-79), United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. The chapter suggests that the history of sociology is marked by "subterranean utopian currents," which figures like Levitas and Wright are now openly bringin...

This episode presents an overview of the following source: Ejsing, M. (2023).  The Arrival of the Anthropocene in Social Theory : From Modernism and Marxism Towards a New Materialism.  The Sociological Review (Keele) , 71(1), 243-60.

This episode presents a conversational overview of the following source: Luke, T. W. (2017). Reconstructing social theory and the Anthropocene.  European Journal of Social Theory ,  20 (1), 80–94. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431016647971The author, Timothy W. Luke, argues that while the scientific concept of the Anthropocene (a new geological age defined by human-caused changes to the Earth) is si...

This episode presents a conversational overview of the following source:Stevenson, N. (2021)  Critical Theory in the Anthropocene : Marcuse, Marxism and Ecology,  European journal of social theory , 24(2), 211-26.

The episode presents an overview of the following source: Huber, M. (2022)  Climate Change , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism , The author, Matt Huber, gives us a Marxist perspective on the climate crisis, aiming to provide a clear explanation of its causes and potential solutions. The chapter builds its argument key point by key point,...

The episode presents an overview of the following source:Fraser, N. (2022).  Nature in the Maw: Why Ecopolitics Must Be Trans-Environmental and Anti-Capitalist , in  Cannibal Capitalism  (pp. Ch. 4), United States: Verso Books,

The episode presents an overview of the following source: Ritzer, G. & Stepnisky, J. (2022)  Chapter 12 - Science, Technology, and Nature,  in   Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics , Los Angeles: SAGE.  à Sections on Theories of the Anthropocene  (pp. 409-419)

This podcast episode, "Empowerment or Control? Surveillance Capitalism and the Algorithmic Capture of Affect" explores the conflict between the perceived empowerment offered by digital platforms and the underlying reality of surveillance capitalism. It argues that while platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok promise wider reach and smarter matches, they operate through an architec...

This podcast episode explores the  increasing integration of technology with human bodies , questioning traditional definitions of humanity in light of advancements like neural implants and genetic editing. It examines  posthumanism , the idea that human identity is intertwined with technology and the environment, alongside  digital embodiment , which considers how digital capitalism shapes our ph...

The source under discussion as: Mau, S. (2022)  The   Body , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 1268-86) This chapter from the Sage Handbook of Marxism, titled "The Body" by Søren Mau, offers a comprehensive look at how the concept of the body has been understood within Marxist thought, from Marx's own writings to conte...

The source under discussion is: Dowling, E. (2022)  Affect , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 1251-67), 

This discussion is based on the following resource:Bacevic, J. (2019)  With or without U? Assemblage Theory and (De)Territorialising the University,  Globalisation, Societies and Education , 17(1), 78-91.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2018.1498323

The source under discusson is: Elliott, A. & Lemert, C. C. (2022)  Chapter 12-   The Digital Revolution: Posthumanism and Beyond  in:  Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction  (pp. 375-405), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge

Source: Ritzer, G. & Stepnisky, J. (2022)  Chapter 12: Science, Technology, and Nature  Download Chapter 12: Science, Technology, and Nature ,  in   Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics , Los Angeles: SAGE,  Sections on “Affect Theory and the New Materialism"; “Science Studies and Actor-Network Theory”  (pp. 389-408)

This is the audio version of S.A. Hamed Hosseini’s lecture, transcribed and subsequently edited and refined by the author; the lecture was delivered on 3 April 2025 as his Week 6 Lecture in SOCS2200-Social Analysis at the University of Newcastle.

This is the audio version of S.A. Hamed Hosseini’s lecture, transcribed and subsequently edited and refined by the author; the lecture was delivered on 10 April 2025 as his Week 7 Lecture in SOCS2200-Social Analysis at the University of Newcastle.

This episode gives a conversational overview of the essay: " Disposable Futures: Racial Capitalism and the Infrastructures of Inequality " by S A Hamed Hosseini

This episode presents a conversational overview of the essay Flexible Bodies, Fixed Inequalities: The Gendered Dynamism of Capital, written by S A Hamed Hosseini

This episode, generated using AI under S. A. H. Hosseini's supervision, offers a conversational overview of the following source: Laster Pirtle, W. N. (2020). Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19)  Pandemic Inequities in the United States,  Health Education & Behavior , 47(4), 504-08. 

This episode offers a conversational overview of the following book, generated by AI under S. A. H. Hosseini 's supervision: Matlon, J. (2024). Ten Theses of Racial Capitalism. Critical Sociology , 50(7-8), 1151-66. 

This AI-generated conversation presents an overview of the following source, making it more accessible to undergrad students in social sciences: Bhattacharya, T., Farris, S. R. & Ferguson, S. (2022)  Social Reproduction Feminisms , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 45-67),Made under S.A.H. Hosseini's supervision.

Gives an AI-generated overview of the following source, making it more accessible to undergrad students in social sciences (generated under the supervision of S. A. H. Hosseini): Dawson, M. (2017).  Selma James, Andrea Dworkin, and Their Interlocutors: Feminist Alternatives . In  Social Theory for Alternative Societies  (pp. 121–140). London: Bloomsbury Academic.