A broadcast tracing the historical connections between oil and capitalism, from the late nineteenth century through to today’s climate crisis, with Adam Hanieh.
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Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema (with Nicolas Helm-Grovas and Adam Field)
A broadcast discussing Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s work towards a counter-cinema, with Nicolas Helm-Grovas and Adam Field.
The Latin American Revolutionary Movement (with M Becker, D Broder, S Ellner, and M Taber)
A broadcast panel on the Latin American revolutionary movement, with Marc Becker, David Broder, Steve Ellner, and Michael Taber.
The Narrowest Path (with Omid Mehrgan)
A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, ‘The Narrowest Path’ reveals the characteristically modern, revolutionary project of freedom-as-autonomy to be unresolvably antinomic. Basing himself on four seminal texts by Kleist, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno, Mehrgan develops four basic figures: the literary, the person, the republic, and the artwork.
Crisis and Criticism (with Benjamin Noys and Harrison Fluss)
‘Crisis and Criticism’ is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the
Episode 9: Racecraft
Looking at the history of the Siddis, ‘liberated’ East African slaves settled in the Indian subcontinent, helps answer these questions. In this episode, Lukas Slothuus and Ashok Kumar interview Tania Bhattacharyya from the University of Cambridge about Tania’s article Steam and Stokehold: Steamship Labour, Colonial Racecraft and Bombay’s Sidi jamāt from the Race and Capital
Episode 8
What is the role of Israeli settler colonialism on Palestinian agriculture? How is indigeneity invoked in the commodification of land and produce? How does land matter for the Palestinian struggle for liberation? In this episode, Ashok Kumar and Lukas Slothuus speak with Gabi Kirk from California Poly State University about her article Commodifying Indigeneity? Settler Colonialism
Marxism and Disability
Sexuality and Political Economy
For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion, and personal domination. In capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labor. Can we imagine a different future? In Family Abolition,
1001 Nights of the Totality: A Lecture Series
This video is the first session of the six-part History and Class Consciousness Marathon with Mariana Teixeira, Victor Strazzeri, Konstantin Baehrens, and Alexandros Minotakis.
Sean Sayers Lecture Series
This video is part 1 of the Sean Sayers Lecture Series ‘Marx, Hegel, and Dialectic’, based on revised and extended passages from “The Rational Kernel of Hegel’s Dialectic” International Critical Thought 12 (2). 2022: 327–336.
Critical Explorations in Historical Materialism
Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality. An Alternative legacy of Modernity, s considered one of the most important recent contributions to political philosophy. Its main argument is that within traditions of subaltern resistance and insurgency, a different form of universality emerges – radical, agonistic, egalitarian – that represents the alternative ‘subterranean’ current of modernity. This resonates with
