Money on the Left

Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Page 127-128) In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique.  After the first fi...

Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Vol. 2): Identity and Diaspora , "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities"   (Page 67) In Processions , host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left E...

Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution  (Page 6) In Processions , host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. Af...

Inferno , by Dante Alighieri (Canto 1, lines 1-15) In Processions , host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, P...

The Stars Down to Earth, by Theodor W. Adorno (Pages 48-49) In Processions , host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five ep...

Simulation and Simulacra , by Jean Baudrillard (Page 1) In Processions , host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique.  After the first five episo...

This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our sixth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure .   If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct messag...

Money on the Left speaks with Sibel Kusimba, Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of South Florida, about her work on mobile money and digital finance in Kenya. In her recently published book with Stanford University Press titled Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution , Kusimba both theorizes and critiques Kenya’s thriving M-Pesa mobile phone-based payment system a...

@moltopopulare joins co-hosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo to problematize unquestioned leftist critiques of the “Professional Managerial Class,” or “PMC,” past and present. As exemplified by a recent episode of The Dig podcast , leftists frequently invoke the epithet “PMC”--as well as its cousin, “ultra leftist,” or simply “ultra”--in order to shore up class solidarity again...

¡Llegó el primer episodio de Superstructure en Español!   Andrés Bernal (@andresintheory) y Natalie Smith (@orangeasm)  conversan sobre la relevancia de la Teoría Monetaria Moderna para Latinoamérica con dos expertos económicos de la región, Jesus Resendiz (@Tlacuachito) y Daniel Rojas (@DanielRMed).  Analizamos las protestas recientes en Colombia, con sus formaciones reaccionarias y las posibilid...

Andrés Bernal joins Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo to discuss the historical and political implications of the latest Marvel streaming series, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier . Together, they tease out unstable contradictions between the show’s desires for racial and geopolitical reparation and justice, on one hand, and its punishingly zero-sum Malthusian drama, on the other. The result is...

This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our fifth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure .  If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message...

Documentary filmmaker Maren Poitras joins the podcast to discuss and share a teaser from Finding the Money, the first feature-length documentary on the past, present, and future of Modern Monetary Theory. The film is currently under consideration for audience and jury awards in the DocLands film festival. Head to the festival website to watch a longer clip and to vote for Finding the Money by May...

Money on the Left is joined by Emily K. Hobson and Dan Berger, coeditors and curators of the recently published collection Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001 .  https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357256/remaking-radicalism/ Hobson is associate professor of history and gender, race, & identity at the university of Nevada, reno, and author of Laven...

In this episode; Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo discuss the politics and aesthetics of Marvel’s WandaVision (2021), which was released via the Disney Plus streaming service earlier this year. Picking up questions about blockbuster form and apophatic analysis they’ve pondered in previous episodes, Scott and Maxx affirm the show’s exceptional foray into past sitcom aesthetics and other similar...

Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo) speaks with Natan Last (@natanlast) about his recent essay for the Superstructure vertical, "A Graceful Kind of Non-Absence." Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

In this brief recording, Will Beaman announces the launch of our new Superstructure Vertical, highlighting its first two publications: " Money Beyond Sovereignty " by Will Beaman and " A Graceful Kind of Non-Being " by Natan Last. Check out these pieces and pitch us with ideas! 

This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our fourth premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure .  If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct...

Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson joins Money on the Left to discuss his Modern Monetary Theory-inspired “cli-fi” novel, The Ministry for the Future (2020). Throughout his distinguished Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-decorated career, Robinson has repeatedly offered visions of the future that are grounded in, and speak directly to, urgent present problems. These stories, includ...

Contra leftist praise for today’s seemingly anti-capitalist papacy, co-hosts Naty Smith, Maxx Seijo, & Will Beaman offer a critical close reading of “Fratelli Tutti,” Pope Francis' third and most recent encyclical. Unearthing the austere logics that inhere in Bergoglio's ideas of encounter, charity, and reconciliation, Naty, Maxx, and Will take on the pope’s not-so-lefty Jesuit caree...

The Money on the Left Editorial Collective is proud to present a recent talk by English literature scholar Rob Hawkes titled, “‘The Power of Money is so Hard to Realize’: Literature, Money and Trust in George Gissing's 1891 Novel New Grub Street. ” In it, Hawkes draws out urgent, though regularly overlooked linkages between modern money and modern literature. In particular, he explores Britis...

This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our third premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure .  If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct m...

Money on the Left is joined by Dr. Lua Kamal Yuille to discuss heterodox economics, property law & the politics of vulnerability.  Dr. Yuille is professor of law and affiliated professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kansas. Her work, which spans property theory, heterodox economics, business law, critical pedagogy, and group identity--truly puts the “inter” in i...

Cohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, & Maxximilian Seijo are joined by Ian from Twitter ( @tweet_boxian ) to visit America’s favorite socialist family, the Bruenigs. They begin with reflections on a New York Times piece by Elizabeth Bruenig on the need to forgive the recently canonized Franciscan friar Junipero Serra, who oversaw the torture, enslavement and murder of indigenous Americans in Ca...

In the wake of the release of Rep. Ayanna Pressley's (D-MA) job guarantee resolution, Maxximilian Seijo invites Andrés Bernal to reflect on this historical moment in intersectional left-wing activism. Link to the resolution: https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-pressley-economists-advocates-unveil-historic-federal-job-guarantee Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsu...