Backlog: C Derick Varn on Baudrillard

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Amogh, the cohost of the old Symptomatic Redness podcast, sits down with Patrick to discuss the Marxist obsession with method and totality, interrogating what this implies about the unanswered questions of the communist project. -- Rob Lucas on "Feeding the Infant": https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats/150-error-and-feeding-the-infant 

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Patrick sits down with Seth Wheeler to discuss cycles of struggle after the Corbyn and Sanders moments, the UK Left, and the new edition of In and Against the State.In and Against the State through Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341811/in-and-against-the-state/  Seth Wheeler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethnotes 

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Djene  Bajalan joins the show in a discussion concerning the state, international politics, and the destructive effects of Left-wing navel-gazing

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Independent writer and editor for Verso Books John Merrick joins Patricknin a discussion about the history of Verso, the Radical Thinkers series, and the cultural project of publishing

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this special crossover episode, Patrick talks with C Derick Varn of Varn Vlog about the legacy of Jean-Luc Nancy. While both bemoan the more frivolous stylings of French theory, the discussion appreciates the serious questions that Nancy raised about the nature of community and the assumptions that underpin the concept.This episode was released as a crossover episode also available to Varn Vlog Patreon supporters. Varn Vlog Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog/ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy page for Nancy: https://iep.utm.edu/nancy/  Verso Interview: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5150-jean-luc-nancy-communism-means-conceiving-being-in-common

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this episode, PH sits down with our first recurring guest, C Derick Varn, to give more context to the work of Jean Baudrillard. We discuss his relation to the Situationists, his break with Marxism, and the ultimate conclusions of his theory of simulation and simulacra.

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this bonus episode, Andrew and Patrick sit down to read through some of Franco Moretti's recent work on "Distant Reading" (and one additional essay by Ted Underwood). Does this approach constitute a whole new framework for cultural sociology? Or is it mostly a disparate set of statistical methods? What are the "cabbages of literature"? Find out as we discuss: "Hidden in Plain Sight" - Moretti & Sobchuk "Operationalizing" - Moretti "The Roads to Rome: Literary Studies, Hermeneutics, Quantification" - Moretti "A Genealogy of Distant Reading" - Underwood

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick n this Patron-only bonus episode, Patrick interviews philosopher and psychoanalyst Adrian Johnston on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, theories of materialism, and more. This episode follows our discussion of the work The Metastases of Enjoyment, so you may want to listen to that episode first. NOTES: -Johnston's article on Lacan in the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy  -Less Than Nothing by Žižek -Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience by Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick Following our discussion on Virilio, Patrick sits down with sociologist Hartmut Rosa to discuss social acceleration and modernity. The conversation touches on the types of acceleration we face in a modern world, classic and late modernity, and Rosa's concept of "resonance." MORE BY ROSASocial Acceleration: A New Theory of ModernityResonance LSE Lecture: Do We Really Live in an Acceleration Society?

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick In this interview, Patrick sits down with the scholar Anton Jäger to talk more about Chantal Mouffe's political theory, the rise of left populism, and the contemporary shape of political struggle. Jäger's piece "Making Sense of Populism" can be read for free online.