Politics Theory Other
@poltheoryother.bsky.social
A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
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Finally getting pitches from truly top-tier guests...
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Finally getting pitches from truly top-tier guests...
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ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/22/2025 · 1m
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November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
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Glasman has such a sepia-tinted view of class, and zero ability to recognise the way economy and society has changed - in good and bad ways. Precarity, the new working class - there is lots of good thinking about this. To call him a third-rate theorist would be an insult to third-rate theorists.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Glasman has such a sepia-tinted view of class, and zero ability to recognise the way economy and society has changed - in good and bad ways. Precarity, the new working class - there is lots of good thinking about this. To call him a third-rate theorist would be an insult to third-rate theorists.
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‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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1-May-2024 How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom w/ Maya Wind by Politics Theory Other (podcast) on.soundcloud.com/jqY4F1HAsbT7...
↓電子版が無料になってる！
_Towers of Ivory and Steel:
How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom_ (2024) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
↓電子版が無料になってる！
_Towers of Ivory and Steel:
How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom_ (2024) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom w/ Maya Wind
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy and they enjoy warm relationships with their counterparts in north America and Europe - including the U
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May 23, 2024 at 3:32 PM
1-May-2024 How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom w/ Maya Wind by Politics Theory Other (podcast) on.soundcloud.com/jqY4F1HAsbT7...
↓電子版が無料になってる！
_Towers of Ivory and Steel:
How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom_ (2024) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
↓電子版が無料になってる！
_Towers of Ivory and Steel:
How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom_ (2024) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Politics Theory Other. One's & Tooze..[New Labour.."Get A Grip..!"]
"This is the disaster of the the Starmer administration so far - preemptively absorbing the most simplistic account of conventional economics, so as to endlessly signal their conformity to what they imagine the lowest common denominator of conservative financial opinion to be..." - Adam Tooze
February 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Politics Theory Other. One's & Tooze..[New Labour.."Get A Grip..!"]
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[on a prospective Andy Burnham Labour leadership]
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/22/2025 · 1m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
[on a prospective Andy Burnham Labour leadership]
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
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📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Interregnum - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions | Politics Theory Other
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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/22/2025 · 1m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Interregnum - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions | Politics Theory Other
Get more from Politics Theory Other on Patreon
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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
thequietus.com/culture/film...
thequietus.com/culture/film...
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany | The Quietus
At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...
thequietus.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
thequietus.com/culture/film...
thequietus.com/culture/film...
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The "social factory" as descriptive metaphor for contemporary capitalism disappeared almost as soon as it was uttered. Extraction has since been far more explanatory. So, to read:
"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The "social factory" as descriptive metaphor for contemporary capitalism disappeared almost as soon as it was uttered. Extraction has since been far more explanatory. So, to read:
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"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
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A society that was doing well culturally, politically, intellectually would show zero interest in Curtis Yarvin
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A society that was doing well culturally, politically, intellectually would show zero interest in Curtis Yarvin
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fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
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So it's funny that David Keith was the name referenced by Bill Gates here, bc this REALLY GOOD @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast episode includes a bunch of detail on Gates + Keith's geoengineering efforts
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
So it's funny that David Keith was the name referenced by Bill Gates here, bc this REALLY GOOD @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast episode includes a bunch of detail on Gates + Keith's geoengineering efforts
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
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"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
100%
"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
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November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM