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Who screwed millennials?
Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1

Who screwed millennials?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 20:35


With rising house prices, a decade of wage stagnation and ballooning student debt, young people in Australia are living through what author Jill Filipovic describes as ‘a series of broken promises'. In episode one of this new series from Guardian Australia, Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley sort through these broken promises, investigating why young people are living in a time of such economic strain. In this episode, we hear from a handful of experts featured in Who screwed millennials? – including author Jill Filipovic, youth researcher Intifar Chowdhury, author Malcolm Harris, Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about how millennials became the first generation to be worse off than their parents

Today in Focus
Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind – Full Story podcast

Today in Focus

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2024 21:34


Guardian Australia's Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley investigate the mystery of who screwed young people out of affordable housing, education and secure work. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Full Story
Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1

Full Story

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 20:09


With rising house prices, a decade of wage stagnation and ballooning student debt, young people in Australia are living through what author Jill Filipovic describes as ‘a series of broken promises'. In episode one of this new series from Guardian Australia, Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley sort through these broken promises, investigating why young people are living in a time of such economic strain. In this episode, we hear from a handful of experts featured in Who screwed millennials?, including author Jill Filipovic, youth researcher Intifar Chowdhury, author Malcolm Harris, Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about how millennials became the first generation to be worse off than their parents

Manchester Green New Deal podcast
WCV S2: Keir Milburn " Glorious Variation in the Global Working Class"

Manchester Green New Deal podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2023 66:32


This week on Working Class Voices Ads' is joined by writer and activist Keir Milburn. Keir is the author of “Generation Left” and is a co-host of ACFM on Novara Media. Keir is also a founding member of the think tank Abundance.They discuss how the definition of who is working class affects organising strategies, are the working class more resilient to police oppression and brutality and has this had an affect on groups like XR? Keir discusses the Spy Cops scandal, Why the working class has to build its own institutions to save the just transition from venture capital, the cycles of social movements and what the left needs to do when Starmer takes power. LinksACFM- Keir's podcast with Nadia Idle and  Jeremy Gilbert https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/acfm/Red Plenty Gameshttps://redplentygames.com/Abundancehttps://www.in-abundance.org/Under cover policing inquiry (Spy Cops inquiry )https://www.ucpi.org.uk/Support the show

Manchester Green New Deal podcast
Class Politics in a Warming World with Keir Milburn

Manchester Green New Deal podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 58:23


It's been said on this podcast many times that the working class will be the ones who make sure we have a just transition. For the last few years deciding who the working class are has been up for debate. Are graduates in minimum wage jobs the working class? Are plumbers on £80k a year the working class? How will climate change affect these categories?This week on the show we are joined by writer and activist Keir Milburn. Keir is the author of “Generation Left” and is a co-host of ACFM on Novara Media. Keir is also a founding member of the think tank Abundance.We discuss who the working class in 21st century Britain are, how climate and class politics have expressed themselves in the past, the horrendous spycops saga and how it affected climate activists in the 2000's, what current climate activist have forgotten from previous movements, how to discuss the realities of planetary boundaries in politics without having a reductive vision for the future and whether climate organisers should use moral arguments in their campaigning.P.S WE'RE ALL LEEDS ARNT WE?!LINKS Check out Working Class Voices HERE https://www.gndmedia.co.uk/working-class-voicesCheck out Keir's work at Abundance HEREhttps://www.in-abundance.org/You can listen to ACFM HEREhttps://novaramedia.com/category/audio/acfm/You can buy Keir's book Generation Left HERE https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Generation+Left-p-9781509532247 Listen to our episode with Jason Hickel HERE https://www.gndmedia.co.uk/podcast-episodes/degrowth-jason-hickelShout out Issac Rose and Manchester Housing Action.  Check out Issac's work at Greater Manchester Housing Action HEREhttp://www.gmhousingaction.com/Support the show

Mornings with Gareth Parker
Generation Left: younger people less inclined to change political affiliation

Mornings with Gareth Parker

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2023 5:41


If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart; and if you are not a conservative when old, you have no brain, as the saying goes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lighthouse Hockey: for New York Islanders fans
Weird Islanders: The Podcast! - Episode 31 - Trevor Linden (with guest Jon Zella)

Lighthouse Hockey: for New York Islanders fans

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2023 80:57


Joined by Nassaumen Hockey podcast co-host Jon Zella, Mike and Dan remember when the Islanders acquired Trevor Linden, an actual NHL star, during a tumultuous time on an off the ice. Linden was just 27 at the time, a multiple time 30-goal scorer and All Star, and a longtime captain of a recent Stanley Cup finalist. He should have been the cornerstone piece for a "word salad of a team" that needed all the help it could get. But he ended up just passing through this very foggy era, and his acquisition left the Islanders "Generation Next" as more of a "Generation Left." Jon talks about his fuzzy memories of Linden as a player and about this very strange time in Islanders history; when the overmatched players, cheapskate owners and psychotic general manager made rooting for them impossible (unless you were a little kid and were just happy to be there). Subscribe to our Patreon! Plans start as low as $2 a month and patrons get ad-free episodes of the shows, bonus podcasts, written posts, discounts and much more. Pre-order your Bryan Trottier-Mat Barzal "Then & Now" bobblehead from the fine folks at Foco today. These pieces are limited to just 72, so don't wait. Pre-order today. Visit our friends: Vintage Ice Hockey for t-shirts, hoodies and jerseys with hundreds of classic hockey logos, and our Al Arbour and The Island merch which benefit dementia research. If you spend $50 or more, use the code FOURCUPS to get a free The Island coffee mug or pint glass or an Islanders Anxiety puck. The Pinot Project has a Rosé, a Pinot Grigio and a Wine Enthusiast Best Buy Pinot Noir, all under $15 a bottle. Available at local wine stores and UBS Arena. Visit Lighthousehockey.com for the most up-to-date Islanders news and discussion. Islanders Anxiety podcasts are part of the Fans First Sports Network (@FansFirstSN). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Red Medicine
Keir Milburn: How We Smash The Cosmic Right and Build The Weird Left

Red Medicine

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 79:21


Keir Milburn analyses the 'Cosmic Right' a new wave of reactionary politics built around conspiracy theories and new age spirituality and calls for the construction of a Weird Left to counter this worrying turn. Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and political activist. His most recent book is Generation Left. He works on municipalism, economic democracy and political economy for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and is a research associate for the think tank Common Wealth. He co-hosts the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media and is part of the Red Plenty Games collective. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7HSUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark Pilkingtonwww.redmedicine.xyz

The Popular Show
TPS132 THE RIGHT NOW | Curt Mills

The Popular Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2023 75:24


What is the dissident right's plan for Generation Left? What was populist about overturning Roe v Wade? Are conservatives still 'anti-anti-Putin'? And what red-pilled Tucker Carlson on JFK and Watergate? All on the agenda as contributing editor at the American Conservative Curt Mills returns to The Popular Show! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Aufhebunga Bunga
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)

Aufhebunga Bunga

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2022 304:57


A special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. Previously released in 2021 only to subscribers at patreon.com/bungacast, a year on we're releasing the whole series to everyone. Part 1: (00:00:00) Part 2: (00:38:11) Part 3: (01:07:54) Part 4: (02:50:32) Part 5: (03:59:24) Part 1: We look at the current, vexed discourse around generations, and analyse competing theories on how to understand generational cleavages. Guests include: Felix Krawatzek, political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin Jennie Bristow, sociologist at Canterbury Christ Church University Joshua Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow Part 2: We look at the emergence of ‘youth' as political concept in the age following the French Revolution, and its shifting meanings. How important was generational consciousness in the Young Italy movement and its imitators in the 19th century, and how should we understand the so-called ‘Lost Generation' of 1914? Guests include: Niall Whelahan, Chancellor's Fellow in History, Strathclyde University Part 3: We examine the Baby Boomers – myth and reality. The revolt of the '60s has been misunderstood in many dimensions. Was it betrayed or did it always express capitalist ideology? Were the Boomers the ones who really did the 1960s anyway? And what world have the Boomers created as they passed through life – and institutions? Guests include: Jennie Bristow, senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative Josh Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow Jeffrey Alexander, professor of sociology at Yale University Holger Nehring, chair in contemporary European history at the University of Stirling Kristin Ross, professor emeritus of comparative literature at New York University Part 4: We examine Generation X – the generation of the End of History. How was this generation overshadowed by the Boomer's failures? In the Eastern Bloc, the fall of Soviet regimes was a traumatic moment – how did this shape consciousness? And how did the Iranian Revolution – and subsequent war – shape the political perspectives of Iranians?   Guests include: Maren Thom, film scholar Alexei Yurchak, professor of anthropology at Berkeley  Jennie Bristow, senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University Josh Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow Arash Azizi, historian of Iran at New York University Felix Krawatzek, political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin Part 5: We examine the Millennials and Generation Z. Uniquely, generation war today seems to be a conflict over resources more than over values. Is there any basis for this, and what do Millennials actually want? With generational and class conflict seemingly bound together today, we analyse ‘Generation Left' and ‘Millennial Socialism'. And we ask what the effect of the pandemic may be on the creation of a Gen Z consciousness. Guests include: Paul Taylor, former director, Pew Research Jennie Bristow, senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative Clive Martin, journalist who has written for VICE Magazine Josh Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow Jennifer Silva, assistant professor in sociologist, Indiana University   Original music by: Jonny Mundey Additional music: Peter Kuli / OK Boomer / courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc. Liru / For the Floor / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Leimoti / Don't Leave It Here / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com Leimoti / The Small Things / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com Philip Ayers / Trapped in a Maze / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com Walt Adams / Dark Tavern / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com Medité / A Change in My Heart / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Ondolut / Blumen / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Elliott Holmes / Bull Chase / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Kick Castle / Kick Down / courtesy of epidemicsound.com T. Morri / Nuthin' but Nuts / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Kit Kruger / Freakin' Freefall / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Cacti / I Will Be Waiting / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Filthy the Kid / Vampire / courtesy of epidemicsound.com Other Clips: Black 47 Trailer © 2018 – WildCard Distribution Arracht Trailer © 2019 – Break Out Pictures The Sun Also Rises © 2019 – 20th Century Fox Mr Lloyd George Speaks To The Nation (1931) British Pathé American Pastoral Trailer © 2016 – Lionsgate Mai 1968 © France 3 Paris Ile-de-France Imitation de Daniel Cohn-Bendit © C'est Canteloup Baader Meinhof Complex © 2008

ReImagine Value
Acid left, cosmic right and the games inbetween - with Keir Milburn (CGCG015)

ReImagine Value

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 48:21


We're joined by Keir Milburn joins us to talk about the rise of the cosmic right and their conspiritual weirdness, as well as the fate of the acid left and the role of games in revolutionary movements. Keir Milburn is a longtime political activist from the UK. He spent over a decade teaching political economy and organization but now works on municipalism, economic democracy and political economy for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. His most recent book is Generation Left. He is a member of the Red Plenty Games Collective and co-hosts the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media.

Bryan Cutshall Ministries
No Generation Left Behind | Episode 055

Bryan Cutshall Ministries

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 25:55


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Fully Automated
Episode 33: Can't Get Chairman Moe out of My Head

Fully Automated

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2021 99:04


Hey everybody! Its your old pal, “Dr. Nick” here (Simpsons heads will get that reference pretty easily). This episode features the return of Chairman Moe, your favorite Fully Automated regular guests. Last we heard from them, they were interviewing Keir Milburn on his book Generation Left (see Episode 19). This episode sees them returning to Fully Automated, for a long chat on Adam Curtis's recent documentary, Can't Get You Out of My Head. Yes, true enough, this is hardly the first time you'll have heard a discussion about this documentary in a podcast. But it is the first time you'll have heard it discussed quite like this. Here, we adopt a unique take on Curtis, reading him through the lens of an eclectic group of texts drawn from our own readings, over the last year or so. These include, tho by no means exclusively, Gilles Dauvé's Crisis and Communization, Thomas Frank's The People, No, and Marx and Engels's The German Ideology. Our goal, as one quick whip put it on Twitter, is to "figure out what in the hell Curtis's politics are in 2021." In the end, we conclude that Curtis is an important and necessary commentator, but that he comes to some unhelpful conclusions. This, we think, can be attributed to his tendency to ignore the lessons of materialism and blame idealism for the flaws of the left. For us, Marx, Frank, and Dauvé can each bring something unique to the task of patching up the missing parts of Curtis's framework. Dauvé, despite his weird normative focus on localism and simplistic low-tech authenticity, provides perhaps the greatest insight into why only a materialist critique can work in our effort to assess the flaws of the contemporary left. Whereas, perhaps more controversially, Frank provides the antidote to Curtis's occasional tendency to fall into anti-populist cynicism. I want to thank Chairman Moe (who are, in real life, Columbus OH-based independent scholars Charlie Umland and Jim Calder) for sharing his valuable time with us, and also Darren Latanick for so patiently indulging the Chairman's antics, and producing a great show for us. We'll be back quite soon, with an interview with Sebastian Kaempf on MOOCs in Higher Ed. And then we have a number of other guests lined up, between now and the end of the year. Thanks for listening!

Neuma Melbourne West
No Generation Left Behind - Ps Sonia Fuentes

Neuma Melbourne West

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021 36:25


No Generation Left Behind - Ps Sonia Fuentes Originally recorded at Neuma Church Melbourne West on the 9th of May 2021, 5pm service

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COMRADIO
49 - The Kids Aren't All Right feat. Keir Milburn

COMRADIO

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2021 60:58


We're joined by Generation Left author Keir Milburn to discuss the generational divide. How has it been produced? And what are the implications it has for our politics?     Buy our merch     Second Row Socialists on Twitter     Comradio on Twitter     #ACFM    Generation Left    Keir on Twitter    Polling on 2017 voting UK    Polling on 2019 voting UK    Polling on responses to Meghan and Harry being interviewed    Sanders popular with young people    More young people left wing in Poland    Fossil fuel emissions    Ever Given blocks the Suez Canal    Rugby Player Heather Fisher on facing discrimination    Montero (Call Me By Your Name) - Lil Nas X    The religious symbolism in Montero (Call Me By Your Name)

F23 Podcast
F23 Podcast E17 feat Keir Milburn

F23 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2020 78:20


Keir Milburn is co-host on Novara Media's #ACFM Podcast author of the book Generation Left and a seasoned activist. I invited him on the show after listening to trip 12 of #ACFM something I recommend you do. We talk the Cosmic Right, conspiracy, protest and re-enchantment. It's a fantastic conversation and it was great to reconnect with Keir and and reflect on some of the ways our projects have come together in the past and he offers to deliver a consciousness raising workshop at an F23 event in the future so it looks like this will keep happening.Find Keir on Twitter @KeirMilburn#ACFM Podcast https://novaramedia.com/2020/08/16/trip-12-the-cosmic-right/Generation Left https://politybooks.com/generation-left/Find me on Twitter @JimthediamondMusic courtesy of: https://dragondreams.bandcamp.com/Theme tune: Daisy Eris Campbell and Tom Baker

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Floodcast
Floodcast Episode 29 - Generation Left with Keir Milburn

Floodcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2020


Matt and Jo interview Keir Milburn, host of Novara Media podcast ACFM and author of Generation Left.

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Radio åt alla
Det Gemensamma Intellektet #1: Keir Milburn – Konstig vänster mot Corona

Radio åt alla

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 57:30


Det Gemensamma Intellektet är serien där vi i Allt åt alla Malmö träffar tyckare och tänkare från hela världen. I detta första avsnitt träffar vi Keir Milburn, författare till boken Generation Left och en av deltagarna i podcasten ACFM som finns att hitta i våra vänner Novara Medias podcast-flöde. Tillsammans med Keir diskuterar vi den […]

RT
Going Underground: Sanctions on Iran show US’ evil nature during Covid-19 pandemic(Sam Mahdi Torabi)

RT

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 27:41


On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sam Mahdi Torabi, the Director of the Risalat Strategic Studies Institute. He discusses the current situation regarding coronavirus from Qom, US sanctions on Iran that have prevented Iran from getting access to vital medicines and equipment which has exacerbated the Covid-19 outbreak, the Iranian government’s request access its funds in foreign bank accounts to buy the equipment, Saudi Arabia’s continued bombing campaign against Yemen and more! Next, we speak to the Co-Founder and former General Secretary of the United Voices of the World Union Petros Elia. He discusses attempts to gag healthcare whistle-blowers who are exposing the shortage of PPE in the fight against the coronavirus, the shortage of PPE in the NHS, how frontline staff such as cleaners and porters, not just nurses and doctors, are at risk due to the shortages, how workers of color are disproportionately the most at risk in the NHS, his demand that the government pay all essential staff a £15 minimum wage, and the case of Percy, a cleaner at King’s College London, who was fired for not attending a disciplinary hearing due to the lack of social distancing measures. Finally, we speak to Keir Milburn, author of Generation Left. He discusses what has caused the generational political divide between the young and old, the importance of the 2008 financial crisis in shifting the politics of young people leftwards, why economic interests entrench the generational divide, the generational divide in the UK 2019 General Election, which saw Boris Johnson’s victory and Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat and more!

Lounging with a Thought
Book Review - Generation Left

Lounging with a Thought

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2020 13:42


Review of the book #Generation_Left By Tarek Osman: https://tarekosman.com

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The Sustainability Agenda
Episode 87: Interview with Dr. Keir Milburn on generational politics, and Public-Commons Partnerships

The Sustainability Agenda

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2020 58:49


Today we speak with Dr. Keir Milburn about the ongoing shift of young people to the left in the UK. In this interview, Keir notes how the material interests of older people are aligned with the performance of the financial sector and real estate whereas younger people are less tied to such measures and more invested in public and social good. Keir argues that we need to find a way to get people with many different views to want to work toward the same thing. We have no time to wait and we must move from the place we've gotten through awareness raising through efforts such as Extinction Rebellion into action. Dr. Keir Milburn is a British writer, activist and lecturer on political economy and organization at the University of Leicester. He has a special interest in generational politics and is the author of Generation Left, exploring the large scale move to the left by young people in Britain. Keir's research also explores the potential for progressive governance, in particular public commons partnerships as a means to socialize the way we process economics decisions. The post Episode 87: Interview with Dr. Keir Milburn on generational politics, and Public-Commons Partnerships appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

Another World is Podable
Episode 3: The Revolution Continues with Keir Milburn

Another World is Podable

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2020 64:30


Keir Milburn is a longtime activist on the radical left as well as a lecturer in Political Economy and Organisation at the University of Leicester. His latest book, Generation Left, published by Polity, explains why young people are moving to the left while older people are tending towards the right. He tweets from @KeirMilburn and is one of the hosts of the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media

Radio åt alla
Generationer i historiens slut

Radio åt alla

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2019 39:41


I detta avsnitt så har vi läst boken Generation Left av Keir Milburn som handlar om finanskrisen 2008 och de massiva vänsterrörelser som växte fram i dess svallvågor, och hur dessa skapat en helt ny generation av radikala vänsteraktivister. Boken handlar främst om exempel från Storbritannien, Spanien och USA men vi försöker hitta exempel på […]

Radio åt alla
Rojava och det globala motståndet

Radio åt alla

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 16:24


I detta avsnitt så följer vi upp den turkiska invasionen av Rojava. Sen vi hördes sist så har vi lyckats stoppa svensk vapenexport till turkisk militär, och nu är det dags att byta mål till att istället få bukt med den turkiska turistnäringen. I detta avsnitt pratar vi om varför detta är viktigt, hur det […]

Fully Automated
Episode 19: Generation Left, with Keir Milburn & Chairman Moe’s Magic Contradiction

Fully Automated

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 105:50


Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated! Our guest for this episode is Keir Milburn, Lecturer in Political Economy and Organization at the University of Leicester. Keir has a new book out, called Generation Left. I had a chance to discuss the text recently, with my Columbus, OH-based friends, Chairman Moe’s Magic Contradiction (AKA Charlie Umland and Jim Calder). We liked it so much, we thought we’d reach out to Keir and see if he’d come on the show, to discuss. American audiences may have heard Keir interviewed by Chuck Mertz a couple of weeks ago, on This Is Hell! We’re kind of hoping this could be a good companion episode to that interview, as we go deep into some aspects of the book that Chuck didn’t have time to address. And there is a LOT going on in this book! It starts by questioning the popular notion that Millennials and Zoomers are a bunch of entitled snowflakes, and suggesting that this myth is actually doing quite a lot of work, politically, in dividing young and old members of the working class, giving them over to the idea that they have fundamentally different interests. But of course, as with many myths, an investigation of the facts produces a rather different persecutive. It turns out, says Keir, that the generations are stuck in rather different material trajectories. One statement Keir makes early in the book really caught our attention: “the older generation are still tied to the neoliberal hegemony of finance while the young seek to escape it.” But these trajectories are not a given. To the contrary, the logic of neoliberalism forces the Boomer generation to hold onto its material advantages, as a retirement strategy. And, as it does this, it condemns Millennials and Zoomers to a life of debt and forces them into a culture of cynical entrepreneurialism. In the show, we talk with Keir about the role of events in composing generations. Events, he says, can disrupt our accepted ways of making sense of the world, and lead to the emergence of radically new social energies. But not every disruptive event will necessarily lead to some kind of new configuration, nor will every new configuration necessarily be a progressive one. One particular event, the 2008 financial crisis, of course looms large in Keir’s story. Unleashing austerity on the developed world, it represents in a sense the apogee of neoliberal governmentality. Milburn cites academic theorists like Wendy Brown, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Jennifer Silva to try to explain how neoliberal capitalism tries to get us to think and act as if there is no alternative to neoliberalism, even tho we all know its not working — we know we can’t all be entrepreneurs. (This reminded us a bit of Adam Curtis, and his hyper-normalization documentary). A key figure for Milburn here is Mark Fisher, and his argument about consciousness deflation. Whatever we want to call this system (authoritarian neoliberalism? zombie capitalism?), clearly it is making us sick. Throughout the text, Milburn make repeated reference to how we are living in the midst of an epidemic of “depression, insomnia and mental distress.” Yet there’s kind of a mystery to unpack here. He cites Jennifer Silva, for example, to explain how capitalism prefers us to internalize these issues, making them questions more to to do with our emotional and psychic resilience, than anything to do with the structure of the economy. And, as he argues, this way of thinking about our mental wellbeing even showed up in the “assemblyism” of the occupy Wall Street movement. Nevertheless, he insists, Occupy’s approach to the collective discussion of experiences and struggles did offer therapeutic and even political potentials to the young people who participated. And, as we discuss in the show (admittedly not in nearly enough detail) there are things we can learn here, very much in the spirit of the late Mark Fisher, that might be applied to a new model of treating mental and ...

Weekly Economics Podcast
Generation Left

Weekly Economics Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2019 38:32


The polls show that while previous generations became more conservative with age, millennials are staying left wing for longer. And age and education now seem to be the big dividing line in our politics, replacing class as the key division. So what’s going on? And what are the political implications of Generation Left? That’s our big question on the Weekly Economics Podcast this week and to help us answer it, Ayeisha is joined by Keir Milburn, author of Generation Left, and lecturer in political economy and organisation at University of Leicester, and Shelly Asquith, a political advisor at Unite the Union. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! Music this week is by Covox and Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence. The award-winning Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the UK's only people powered think tank. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

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Novara Media
#NovaraFM: Generation Left?

Novara Media

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 67:34


James Butler is joined by Keir Milburn to discuss his new book ‘Generation Left’. Why has age become a predictor of political preference? What does it mean to talk about generations in a political context? Do they detract from a class analysis? What happened to the generation of 2011? Where does conservatism come from? And […]

Living the Dream
Living The Dream with Acid Communism and/or Acid Corbynism

Living the Dream

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2019 100:14


In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Keir Milburn (@KeirMilburn ). Keir is from Leeds and has been an anti-state communist for a respectable amount of time (and an all round good egg). Previously a member of Class War and the Leeds May Day Group/ The Free Association he is now part of Plan C. Recently he has been trying to think through how anti-capitalists can related to the rise of Corbyn and the return of social democracy. We talk through the arguments and deal with some of the critiques. He has a new book Generation Left out now. Some stuff we mention includes Acid Corbynism is a gateway drug Class War is Dead… Long Live The Class War On Social Strikes and Directional Demands Turbulence: What would it mean to win What can an institution do? Towards Public-Common partnerships and a new common-sense

Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast

Keir Milburn discusses his new book Generation Left with Lynne Segal, Jeremy Gilbert, and many others. For information about the culture, power, politics seminar series, go to: https://culturepowerpolitics.org.

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Bella Ciao!
Ep. 3 TIG Are Genocidal feat. Keir Milburn

Bella Ciao!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 46:56


Ben, Liam, Helena and Jake sat down with Keir Milburn to discuss his new book, Generation Left. We also ended up chatting about Windrush and the #YouthStrike4Climate. Music from Nina Simone, Heaven 17 and Demolition Group.

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Neighborhood Church's Weekly Messages
No Generation Left Out

Neighborhood Church's Weekly Messages

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2019 46:47


God's covenant love and purposes are for each generation.

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