Podcasts about economic reason

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered. Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

On this episode of Chasing Leviathan, PJ and Dr. Nima Bassiri discuss the intersection of psychiatry and capitalism. Dr. Bassiri argues that the concept of 'pathological value' is central to understanding this intersection, as it refers to the economic worth conferred upon madness. Dr. Bassiri traces the history of madness and capitalism, highlighting how certain forms of pathology can be seen as assets, particularly in the context of entrepreneurship. Through the conversation, Dr. Bassiri calls attention to the troubling dominance of economic discourse in defining success and evaluating human conduct.For a deep dive into Nima Bassiri's work, check out his book: Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value

Controversial billboards claiming the world is overpopulated and advocating one child families have appeared at bus stops in Vancouver, BC. Darnell & Joel engage in a conversation about:   One Planet, One Child's billboard campaign Canada's all time low fertility rate Thanosian economics The goal of marriage  https://www.sixcentsreport.com/ Song from our intro: Sho Baraka - Pedantic References: New billboard campaign in Vancouver targets global overpopulation One Planet One Child - About Us Malthusianism Too Many Men How China's One-Child Policy Led To Forced Abortions, 30 Million Bachelors The Population Bomb? | Retro Report | The New York Times Only child benefits – show me the research! The Economic Reason for Having Just One Child Canada's fertility rate hits all-time low: Statistics Canada At NYC's Density, the World's Population Could Live in Texas Elon Musk and Jack Ma agree: The biggest problem the world will face is population collapse I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read Thanos, Like Malthus, Is Wrong about Population Control In "Endgame," Thanos Pivots from Malthusian to Revolutionary With Some Help from a Great Economist, Would Thanos Have Had a Different Endgame? Ep. 5 | Barbara Kay | The Woke Left, Cancel Culture and Radical Trans Activism Genesis 1 - NASB Give us your two cents via: Facebook Twitter sixcentsreport@gmail.com

Our excellent fellow podcaster and Red Library patron, Comrade Jared, joins us in the library to tackle a towering figure in the current Marxist theory landscape, David Harvey. We read through his recent work, Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. We discuss different models of how to understand capitalism as a total system, the social creation of value, economics as an objective science, ideology and deception within capitalism, whether there is ethical consumption under capitalism, and tons more! Further Readings/References From78 Podcast InForm: Podcast David Harvey Harvey's Capital Vol. 1 Lecture Series Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason Max Weber Byung-Chul Han William Davies The New Spirit of Capitalism ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

As Red Library is a political education podcast, we think it's important to provide content that can be helpful for our comrade listeners to expand their own thinking and analysis but to also help radicalize others. In that spirit, here is the first of a new mini-episode series we are calling Red Gemz, short snippets from Red Library episodes that can be great introductions to the show and to also help radicalize and educate others on the type of icy-cold takes we specialize in. This is also a special preview of our upcoming episode on David Harvey's Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. Enjoy!

Lonely, selfish and maladjusted? NOT. Careful consideration of all the ramifications of your family-size decision is smart. Perhaps you’re leaning toward having only one child; there are plenty of good reasons to stop there. But you’ve heard only children are spoiled and selfish, or can be peculiar. It turns out these are myths. Journalist Lauren Sandler did a lot digging, and in this episode she tells us there is “a lot of data supporting the one-child family as a healthy, important choice.” Lauren wrote a Time magazine cover story on the subject, The Only Child: Debunking the Myths. She followed up two years later with the book, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One. Bottom Line: “In hundreds of studies during the past decades exploring 16 character traits — including leadership, maturity, extroversion, social participation, popularity, generosity, cooperativeness, flexibility, emotional stability, contentment — only children scored just as well as children with siblings.” FINAL WEEK TO FUND THE ONE PLANET, ONE CHILD BILLBOARD CAMPAIGNThe next $1,000 in pledges will be matched. DOUBLE the good your donation can do right now! Pledge Here. “As these climate issues have become more a part of our cultural conversation, I have found the population question to be missing in ways that really scare the hell out of me.”– Journalist Lauren Sandler "When Special Projects Coordinator Carolyn VandenDolder, and I sat down last week for this conversation with Lauren, I was expecting some good information from a knowledgeable journalist. Little did we know, we were in for a supremely thoughtful, intelligent conversation with an amazing woman, mother and citizen of the planet." – Dave Gardner Even though “one-child families make obvious sense in a time of diminishing resources,” Lauren reports, “the world is still telling us we should have larger families.” Lauren shares that kids have been sold a fantastical vision of what adulthood is supposed to be, but they’re bumping into a lot of realities now – student debt, housing costs, job prospects, childcare costs, etc.  “It’s not about buying another Barbie for the dreamhouse anymore.” So when women begin choosing childfree or fewer children, the assumption is that they are not getting what they desire. But that’s just because their desires have been “set” before they’re even ready to decide what their desires are. A few tidbits of her insights: “We live in a society that expects women to be mothers more than they want us to be anything else.” “We aren’t really examining our family size choice, and when we do, we generally end up with a smaller family.” “It turns out brutal sibling rivalry isn’t necessary to beat the ego out of us; peers and classmates do the job.” “…hundreds of studies in the 1980s and found that only children had demonstrably higher intelligence and achievement; only children have also been found to have more self-esteem.” “As the mother of one child, I enjoy more time, energy and resources than I would if I had more children. And it is hard to imagine that this isn’t better for my family as well as for me.” “Instead of making family choices to fulfill breeding assignments we imagine we’ve been given, we might ensure that our most profound choice is a purely independent, personal one.” “Having the bandwidth for citizenship, pleasure, power, is very difficult for women while they’re raising children.” “I don’t care if you’re teaching your kids to recycle if you have five of them…. If you want to have five kids and that’s incredibly important to you, great. But don’t see it as the ‘woke’ choice.”   LINKS: One Planet, One Child Billboard Campaign The Only Child: Debunking the Myths – by Lauren Sandler One and Only – by Lauren Sandler Only Children: Lonely and Selfish? – by Lauren Sandler Confessions of a Juggler – by Tina Fey What’s the rudest question you can ask a mother? Hey, Tina Fey, One Kid is OK — and Greener, Too The Only Kids are Alright: Good Reasons to Consider Stopping at One Child None is Enough: Why Americans are Choosing Not to Have ChildrenTime Spotlight Story 2015 by Lauren Sandler Why One Child Is Enough for Me—and Might Be for You – by Lauren Sandler A smaller family means all of the joy, less of the crap. The Economic Reason for Having Just One Child – by Lauren Sandler Lauren Sandler’s website Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families  – by Bill McKibben   The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by World Population Balance, a non-profit organization committed to alerting and educating that overpopulation is the root cause of resource depletion, species extinction, poverty, and climate change. Our mission is to chart a path for human civilization that – rather than causing greater misery – enables good lives on a healthy planet. We advocate and support a smaller, truly sustainable human population – through dramatic and voluntary reduction in birth rates.  We envision a world where no one suffers in dire poverty and misery for lack of enough food, water, and other basic needs. We see a world where all species thrive and where lower consumption and population are in balance with Earth’s finite resources. Subscribe to Balanced View print newsletter (please request print version only if you’re not content to get this via email/website link) Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email        

David Harvey has taught Capital to huge numbers of people. Dan interviews him about his latest book, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. Harvey explains why he thinks all three volumes are of Capital are key, why we’re still living under neoliberalism at least unless and until ethnonationalist autarchy pushes it aside, how capitalism might survive climate change via mass immiseration, and linking struggles over production and consumption in the fight to transform society toward socialism. And more. Thanks to Verso. Check out Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider versobooks.com/books/2716-mistaken-identity. Register for the Socialism 2018 conference (July 5-8, Chicago!) at socialismconference.org! And support this podcast with $$ and access our weekly newsletter at patreon.com/TheDig.  

This week on Jacobin Radio, Suzi discusses the relevance of Marx for our present moment with anthropologist and Marxist geographer David Harvey. Harvey's newest book, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason, explicates the core of Marx's thinking in the three volumes of Capital, and in less than 200 pages, Harvey develops those ideas so we all can use them to grasp what's going on in the capitalist economy today.

To celebrate the 100th episode of FreshEd, I’ve saved an interview with a very special guest. Back in October, I had the privilege of sitting down with Professor David Harvey during his visit to Tokyo. For those who don’t know him, David Harvey is considered “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century.” He is one of the most cited academics in the humanities and social sciences and is perhaps the most prominent Marxist scholars in the past half century. He has taught a course on Marx’s Capital for nearly 40 years. It is freely available online, and I highly recommend it. You can go online and find all sorts of interviews with David Harvey where he explains his work and understanding of Marx in depth. For our conversation today, I thought it would be best to talk about higher education, a system David Harvey has experienced for over 50 years. Who better to give a Marxist critique of higher education than David Harvey himself? David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. His newest book is entitled Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason, which was published last month.

Beyond Blade Runners and Replicants, there must be a place “Over the Rainbow” for us to exist in solidarity and equanimity. And certainly, the 21st Century hovering above us should be a cause for hope, not despair; yet even with this new century being no way near its quartermark, it's already given us a planet wheezing from ecological crisis-to-crisis, where an untenable economic system of neo-feudalism ravages plants and animals, as well as the rights of those we love (or should love). In the Terror & Twilight of Our Broken Age, what ideology best speaks and acts from a place made from compassion and love? Instead of passively looking at the new century that hangs in the sky, blinking obliquely above us, we should instead reorganize our motions to The North Star of Human Decency, namely that of Anarchy. For this 21st episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse will finally come out of the “political closet” and show some raw & real skin: they are both Anarchists Without Adjectives, and they believe that this ideology of love is the only practical solution to the world's byzantine disorders, fraught with confusion, warbling on without a just antidote. In their most personal and revealing podcast since the show's first episode, Jesse & Matt explore their disparate journeys to humanity's greatest romance, Anarchy; they will describe its origin story, its turbulent relationship with authoritarian communists and how this political philosophy is not only the most idealist of ideologies, but also why it's the only one which can ride inside us--whispering out “hope” for a utopian future. HELPFUL RESOURCE GUIDES ABOUT ANARCHY: The Most Popularly Cited and Shared Introduction to Anarchy: David Graeber's “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You?!” Thomas Giovanni in the Black Rose Anarchist Confederation: “Who Are the Anarchists and What Is Anarchism?” Have More Specific Questions? Go to An Anarchist FAQ from The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective. The Anarchist Library: A Deep Database and Archive of Out-of-Print & Hard-to-Find Articles, Books, Speeches and Interviews on Anarchy America's Legendary AK Press, Which Runs as a Worker-Cooperative Since 1990, and Publishes Important as well as Far Reaching Works of Political Theory, Journalism, Fiction and Non-Fiction Works. Freedom: The Oldest (& Once Longest Running) Anarchist Newspaper in Print (1886-2014) Get a ‘Memorial Copy' of Freedom's Last Print Issue for February/March 2014 KEY FIGURES & WORKS ON ANARCHISM: Lao Tzu (604 BC - 501 BC) → Most Important Work On Early Notions Anarchy: Tao Te Ching Chuang Tzu (370 BC - 287 BC) → Most Important Work On Early Notions Anarchy: The Book of Chuang TzuGerard Winstanley (1609-1676) → Most Important Work On Early (Western Notions of) Anarchy: The New Law of Righteousness (1649) William Godwin (1756-1836) → Most Important Work On Early (Western Notions of) Anarchy: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) Max Stirner (1806-1856) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority (1844) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: What Is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1840) Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: God and the State (1882) Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) → Most Important Works On Anarchy: The Conquest of Bread (1892) & Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) Emma Goldman (1869-1940) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: Living My Life (1931) David Graeber (1961 & Still Kicking) → Most Important Works On Anarchy: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) & The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (2013) MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Judy Garland's “Over the Rainbow” & Where to Watch the Legendary Film in All of Its Proto-Camp Glory The Legendary Theme Song for the Reading Rainbow & Where to Watch the Show in All of Its Kid-Camp Fury Anarchists and Molotov Cocktails! Why Do Black Lives Matter? Why Do Comrades Lives Matter? Because the Police Are Still Swinging Butcher-Batons and Gatling-Guns Against People's Heads: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here and Lastly Sophia Wilansky--a Hero of the Dakota Pipeline Protest--Finally Speaks Out Here. The Rectum & The Shithole of the State Jesse Herring: “Anarchy is a dream . . . Anarchy is a beautiful dream. Anarchy is the North Star of Human Decency” Ursula K. Le Guin's Most Famous Quote: “What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” What Is Anarcho-Primitivism? A Working Primer (However, if you want a popular conception of the idea, you can watch this popular piece of “ManArchy.” If you want the documentary version, you can watch this instead. Or--fuck all--if you just want a visual sight-gag of Anarcho-Primitivism, you can watch this ode to pre-millennium dread.) The Creators of Novara Radio, Aaron Bastani and James Butler, Discuss the Ideas of Anarchism in This Podcast: “What Is Libertarian Communism?” Ursula K. Le Guin's Official Website & Her Blog MusingsUrsula K. Le Guin's Career-Defining Magnum Opus: The Dispossessed (1974) The New Yorker: Julie Phillip's “The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin” Structo Magazine: Euan Monaghan's Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin: “Ursula K. Le Guin on Racism, Anarchy and Hearing Her Characters Speak” (2015) The Anarchist Library: “Anarchism and Taoism” A Working Biography of Paul Goodman: an American Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Psychotherapist and Anarchist Philosopher A History of Revolutionary Catalonia in Libcom: “1936-1939: The Spanish Civil War and Revolution” A Summary of The Dispossessed in Wikipedia Ursula K. Le Guin's Description of “The Wall” in in the opening paragraph of The Dispossessed:“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.” An Online Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, Generated from Questions by Readers of The Guardian: “Chronicles of Earthsea” The Rules of Being a Mormon in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or Mormon Church) In Ask Gramps: “Do I Need to Confess Masturbation to My [LDS] Baptist?” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: “Why and What Do I Need to Confess to My Bishop?” {Which Basically Avoids Mentioning All the Sex and Dirty Parts in Case Readers Become Too Inspired} Catholic Online: “A Guide to Confession” Terry Eagleton in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “In Praise of Marx” Karl Marx's Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Originally Published in 1867; This Was Translated & Reprinted in 1992) David Harvey: A Companion to Karl Marx's Capital (2010) Louis Menand in The New Yorker: “Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today” Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (2011) Rachel Holmes' Eleanor Marx: A Life (2015) Ralph Nader's Most Notable Works:   Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think (2016) The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012) “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us”: A Novel (2011) A Fantastic Essay on Barack Obama's Patina-Presidency: “The Gap Between Rhetoric and Action: The Failed Foreign Policy of Barack Obama” Matthew Snyder's Ph.D. Dissertation: Welcome to the Suck: The Film and Media Phantasm's of The Gulf War (2008) Noam Chomsky's Most Notable Works on Politics & Anarchy: On Anarchism (2013) Who Rules the World? (2016) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media (1988; 2002) Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration and Power (2017) On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume (1998) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2007) Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (2002) The Anarchist Library: Workers' Solidarity Federation's “History of the Anarchist-Syndicalist Trade Union” The Anarchist Library: Rudolph Rocker on Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in “The Reproduction of Daily Life” Mikhail Bakunin, The Founder of Modern Anarchism: Mark Leier's Bakunin: The Creative Passion (2009) America's Most Famous Anarchist & Greatest Dissident; as Seen in Candace Falk's Love, Anarchy & Emma Goldman (1990), and Also in Kevin and Paul Avrich's Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman (2012) Michael Albert, the co-founder of Participatory Economics (Parecon): as Seen in the Graphic Novel-ization Parecon: Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thomspon's Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics (2013) The Big Think: “Do Scientists Have a Special Responsibility to Engage in Political Advocacy?” Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003) & Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society (KAIROS) (2017) Andrew Anthony in The Guardian: “Ex-diplomat Carne Ross: The Case for Anarchism” IMDb: John Archer and Clara Glynn's The Accidental Anarchist (About Carne Ross' Epiphany Toward Anarchy After Becoming Disillusioned of Serving State Power) Biola Magazine: “What Are the Key Difference Between Mormonism and Christianity?” Jehovah's Witnesses (JW.org): “What Happens at a Kingdom Hall?” Reddit: “How to Make Molotov Cocktails”  (!!!) David Graeber's Most Famous Essay on Anarchism: “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You?!” The Anarchist Library: “An Anarchist FAQ” Bakunin on Karl Marx's Idea of Socialism Within the State: “A dictatorship of the proletariat is still a dictatorship.” The Anarchist Library: Wayne Price's “In Defense of Bakunin and Anarchism” (Responses to Herb Gamberg's Attacks on Anarchism) The First International (AKA the International Workingmen's Association) The Socialist International David Harvey's Most Recent Work: Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017) David Graeber's Idea of Baseline Communism Is Fully Explored in His Most Important Work: Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Lord of the Rings & Gandalf's Anxiety & Terror of the Rings Corrupting Powers: “Don't Tempt Me Frodo!” Jonathan Franzen About Those Facebook “likes” in The New York Times: “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.” Jim Dwyer's Article on Marina Abramovic's Art Project to Stare at People, Eye-to-Eye, Twenty Minutes Each for Hours and Hours; As Explored in The New York Times: “Confronting a Stranger, for Art” Buzzfeed: “Watch Six Pairs Stare Into Each Others' Eyes as a Love Experiment” The Guardian: “Literary Fiction Readers Understand Others' Emotions Better, Study Finds” Annie Murphy Paul in Time Magazine: “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer” Adam Gopnik Explores the Paris Commune in The New Yorker: “The Fires of Paris” The Anarchist Library: Murray Bookchin's “To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936” Noted Correction: Matthew incorrectly stated that members of Congress receive lifetime pension after only being in office one term (two years); In actuality, members of congress receive pension after five years (but Senators do get pensions after just one term of six years). For more information on this, go to FactCheck.org's article on the subject. Margaret Atwood's Interview on Canada's Q TV Where She Discusses Her Creation of God's Gardeners in The Year of the Flood (2009) & How Environmental Activists Must Make Friends with the Religious for a Truly Big Tent Movement to Save the Planet; Also Talks About the Split Between Christian Fundamentalists & Environmental Christians Who View Humans as Stewards of the Earth. Jessica Alexander in The Atlantic: “America's Insensitive Children?” {How Schools in Denmark Teach Students Empathy From a Young Age} Kevin Carson in Center for a Stateless Society: “Libertarian-splaining to the Poor” Learning About Worker Cooperatives: A Working Definition from the Canadian Worker Co-Op Federation Alana Semuels in The Atlantic: “Worker-Owned Cooperatives: What Are They?” National Community Land Trust Network: An FAQ About Community Land Trusts Mikhail Bakunin: “To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.” {For More Quotes by Bakunin, Hit Up His Wikiquote} The Future Is A Mixtape's First Three Episodes Exploring The Poison Pyramid: What Jesse Calls An Unconsciously Inspired Anarchist Idea-Shape: Episode 001: The Desire For Certainty: On the Terrifying Costs of Religious Tyranny Upon Humanity Episode 002: The Invisible Hand: Explores the Death-Dealing Nature of Capitalism Episode 003: Star-Fuckers: Concerns Our Toxic Relationship to the Cult of Celebrity-Worship Mikhail Bakunin's Quote on God as a Bad Boss: "A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” Vivir la utopía: Juan A. Gamera's Documentary on the Anarchist Revolution in Catalonia: Living Utopia (1997) Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892: 2017 Edition Translated by Jonathan-David Jackson) Utopia As Seen George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia Where He Describes How Everyday Workers Were in the Saddle of the 1936 Revolution: "The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle." Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009) Why is it that the German Air-Bombings during WWII (The Blitz) caused suicide rates to plummet so dramatically? British scientists discover the reason as seen in The Telegraph's article: “Terror Attacks Cause Drop in Suicide Rates as They Invoke Blitz Spirit” PBS NewsHour: “Sebastian Junger's Tribe Examines Loyalty, Belonging and the Quest for Meaning” How Spending $25 on Others (Instead of Keeping It for Yourself) Creates More Happiness; as Seen in The New Republic Interview with Scientists: “Want to Be Happy? Stop Being Cheap!” Time Magazine: “Do We Need $75,000 a Year to Be Happy?” The US Military-Industrial-Complex: $700 Billion on Murder and Machinery: Alex Emmons in The Intercept: “The Senate's Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free” Armistead Maupin: “There is your biological family and then your logical family.” As Seen in His Autobiography, Logical Family: A Memoir Is Kamala Harris America's Future President or Just Another Transactional Politician Buried in Corporate Money? Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Universal Basic Dividend (UBD)? Matthew Bruenig's Essay-Report: “How Norway's State Manages Its Ownership Of Companies” (From the People's Policy Project) Michael Zannettis in The People's Policy Project: “Why Americans Are Going to Love Single Payer” Alan Moore's Most Important Works, Both Past and Present: Watchman (Released in 1986-87; Reprinted 2014) V for Vendetta (Released in 1989; Reprinted in 2008 Jerusalem: A Novel (Hardback Release: 2016 & It's 1280 Pages!) From Hell (2004) When V for Vendetta was published it was seen as an SF allegory for Margaret Thatcher's World Gone Mad; As Seen in George Monbiot's Excellent Essay in The Guardian: “Neoliberalism -- the Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems” But There's A World We Can Have from the Anarchist Principles of Mutual Aid, Solidarity and Community Wealth: Marcin Jakubowski's Open Source Ecology Project & It's Philosophy The Making of “America's Most Radical City” as Explored with the Founding of Cooperation Jackson; Jackson's History of This Struggle Is Also Explored in Ajamu Nangwaya & Kali Akuno's Book  Jackson Rising (2017) Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website . . . The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

This week, distinguished professor David Harvey joins us in the studio to talk about the spirals of capitalism and his new book Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. Then we meet with filmmaker Pau Faus who captured in his film Ada for Mayor the unlikely, successful, campaign of Barcelona's Ada Colau, from activism to governance.  And Catalan Crisis or Capitalist Crisis? What's happening in Spain is not only about ancient history. Music featured: El Run Run, by Ivan Lagarto ft'ing Ada Colau, Voces en Guerra by Opoloh featuring Diego Pedragosa and Cant de Batre by Maria Arnal & Marcel Bagés

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History by Professor David Harvey.

In GBA 278 we get even better acquainted with my dad. We sit down to talk about his working life making documentary films about the coal mining industry and the communities who provided it their labour, and we do touch on that frequently, but we also end up talking about lots and lots of other things. Threading through the conversation are the changes, both physical and mental, that have happened to my dad over the last few years. He's currently 92 so the underlying themes of the conversation are memory, age and death. Content Note: Dementia, old age, death, bereavement, assisted suicide, structural oppression Past dad episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes Dad plugs: Andre Gorz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gorz Critique of Economic Reason: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critique-Economic-Reason-Radical-Thinkers/dp/1844676676/ Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reclaiming-Work-Beyond-Wage-based-Society/dp/0745621279/ Farewell to the Working Class: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Farewell-Working-Class-Post-Industrial-Socialism/dp/0861043642/ Letter to D: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Letter-D-Andre-Gorz/dp/0745646778/ I plug: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Thatcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher Wolfgang Suschitzky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Suschitzky https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/07/wolfgang-suschitzky-obituary Data Cooperative: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0302636/ BFI: http://www.bfi.org.uk/ Harry Rée: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R%C3%A9e My dad and Harry Rée: http://zlistdeadlist.tumblr.com/post/142372305681/s06e5-the-spys-wife-who-loved-me Paul Rotha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rotha My dad's first film: Sabotage, 1942 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-sabotage-1942/ National Coal Board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coal_Board Citizen Kane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane Orson Welles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Get Carter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Carter Eric: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-eric-episodes The Tweet: Fully Automated Luxury Communism: http://novaramedia.com/2015/06/19/fully-automated-luxury-communism/ Universal Basic Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income Pitman Painters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashington_Group Lee Hall (is the name we were looking for): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hall_(playwright) Patrick Russell's book: https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/shadows-of-progress-james-taylor/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781844573226 Dads Films/Interviews on dvd: http://shop.bfi.org.uk/shadows-of-progress-dvd-bluray.html http://shop.bfi.org.uk/the-national-coal-board-collection-volume-one-dvd-bluray.html Antony Gormley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gormley Billy Elliot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot Pride: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(2014_film) The Spirit of 45: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2745 The iPhone related mineral is Coltan (not Colbalt): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan The Restart Project: http://therestartproject.org/ Theresa May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May 5 Steps to Tyranny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hteidPuaIdM Hassan Akkad @ Spark: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/escape-arefuaidspecial-truestorieslive Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama Orgreave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orgreave Hillsborough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!