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127 | Hayden White's Forms of History
In this episode, we discuss the work of historian Hayden White. His provocative claim is that the practice is inescapably the practice of narrative forms to give sense and significance to events of the past. It is this form that often supplements, or even outright makes, historic ... Show More
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In this episode, we talk about Marx’s critique of the Gotha Program, but you knew that from the title. We discuss Marxian critiques of redistributive left politics, why dogmatic Marxists are wrong about this, and much more. We connect it to the present and disagree. It’s very goo ... Show More
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125 TEASER | Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power
In this episode, we talk about Elias Canetti’s 1960 book Crowds and Power. Equal parts political theory, poetic sociology, and speculative anthropology, this staggering work explores human social life through an increasingly elaborate series of reflections on the nature of crowds ... Show More
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"The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 1: You're Not Wrong, Pinker. You're Just An *sshole
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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
In our final installment of "The Wretched of the Earth" Alyson and Breht summarize, examine, and apply the lessons of the final chapter and conclusion of Frantz Fanon's masterpiece work. Next month, we will cover "The Civil War in France" by Karl Marx Support Red Menace and get a ... Show More
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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity
In our first installment of "The Wretched of the Earth" Alyson and Breht summarize, examine, and apply the lessons of the first two chapters of Frantz Fanon's masterpiece work. Next month, we will cover chapters 3 and 4, and in December we will finish off this text by covering ch ... Show More
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The first episode of a new podcast from The Atlantic about a revolution undone. Subscribe to Holy Week: theatlantic.com/holyweek Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | Spotify The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a ... Show More
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<p>Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! <a href='http://www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness'>www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness</a><br/><br/>Abby, Patrick, and Dan take on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Parts 1 and 2, Frank He ... Show More
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In this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Throughout the episode we link together Fanon’s endorsement of revolutionary violence against colonial domination with his work as a psychiatrist. How could Fanon argue for the necessity of violence while be ... Show More
<p>"If your thesis doesn't hold up to obvious criticisms, there's a chance that your thesis sucks." <br/><br/>Thanks to Paul Musgrave and Alex Cruikshanks for helping us fact-check this episode!<br/><br/><a href='https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod'><b>Support ... Show More
<p><a href="https://www.upstreampodcast.org/">UPSTREAM</a> INTERVIEW W/ BREHT AND ALYSON: </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em>What Is To Be Done?</em> This is the question so profoundly posed by the Russian Revolutionary and Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, in his landmark text of the ... Show More
