Jun 10
136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy
In this episode, we talk about the relational paradigm in political philosophy. Made famous by Iris Marion Young, developed later by Elizabeth Anderson, this view of what equality is all about presents a puzzle for the class conscious. It says that the point of equality is to liv ... Show More
9m 17s
May 18
UPCOMING STUFF! | SPEP Webinar on Environmental Philosophy | BISR Class on Anti-Oedipus
Just a quick word about upcoming events you should join us for!SPEP Webinar: Philosophy and Environmental Injustices, with Matthias Fritsch, Romy Opperman, and Michael Peterson, May 25, 5pm Eastern Standard Timehttps://us.list-manage.com/1tRnwaVjgii?e=e22f097f7b&c2id=b595b31be157 ... Show More
1m 55s
Apr 2021
Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone
<p>Prepping for a conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom is intimidating. McMillan Cottom is a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a 2020 MacArthur fellow, co-host of the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hear-to-slay/id1549004673 ... Show More
1h 22m
Nov 2021
The Case Against Loving Your Job
<p>The compulsion to be happy at work “is always a demand for emotional work from the worker,” <a href="https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/work-wont-love-you-back/9781568589398/" target="_blank">writes Sarah Jaffe</a>. “Work, after all, has no feelings. Capitalism c ... Show More
1h 22m
Nov 2023
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer Theory of the State (Floating Opera Press, 2023) expands an earlier online essay from The Point by historian Samuel Huneke to offer a ... Show More
39m 45s
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Megan Hyska to discuss her work on propaganda. She takes us through the history of the term propaganda, what makes propaganda a distinctly political concept, and how propaganda helps create or inhibit group agency. She shows why thinking that assumes propaganda can only work by manipulating our irrationality fails to hel ... Show More
<p>В феврале в приложении «Медузы» вышла <a href="https://meduza.io/book_landing/2024/01/30/signal" rel="noopener" target="_blank">книга «Можем повторить»</a>. Это большое исследование путинской пропаганды, подготовленное авторами и редакторами имейл-рассылки <a href="https://get ... Show More
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #22242f; background: white;"> In this interview, Michelle Stiles reviews some of the basic tools of propaganda, featured in her book, "</span><a href= "https://nam04.safelinks.protect ... Show More