Podcast appearances and mentions of Jodi Dean

Bruno Leipold joins Ben Burgis to talk about his excellent book "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought." Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument responding to Jodi Dean on "neofeudalism." In the postgame for patrons, RM Brown joins Ben and the crew to break down some more of Jordan Peterson's bizarro debate with 20 atheists. And, oh yeah, scattered around all this there's some discussion of the spiraling insanity and authoritarianism going on outside our windows in Los Angeles.Read Ben's review of "Citizen Marx" and Jodi Dean's "Capital's Grave":https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-marx/?us=1Read Dean's response to Ben:https://www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies-a-response-to-ben-burgisRead Ben's response to Dean:https://www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-servants-a-response-to-jodi-deanOrder "Citizen Marx":https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marxFollow Bruno on Twitter: @BrunoLeipoldFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisRead the weekly philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.com

Send us a textWe discuss Jodi Dean's new book Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle. 

ORIGINALLY RELEASED Mar 10, 2023 In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two fantastic guests, Prof. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Prof. Jodi Dean. We discuss their co-edited collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing, which is an absolutely indispensable resource for those of us serious about achieving liberation!  This collection includes writings focused on the period from 1919-1956, which argue that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism.  Pick up the book! Dr. CBS is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University.  She is an organizer with Black Alliance for Peace and a Co-Author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History alongside our mutual friend Gerald Horne.  She can be followed on twitter @blackleftaf or on her website https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/. Dr. Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.  She is the author of numerous books including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging, Crowds and Party, and The Communist Horizon.  She can be followed on twitter @jodi7768. ---------------------------------------------------- Support Rev Left and get access to bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Make a one-time donation to Rev Left at BuyMeACoffee.com/revleftradio Follow, Subscribe, & Learn more about Rev Left Radio HERE

Jodi Dean discusses her book “Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle.” The post Fund Drive Special: Neofeudalism appeared first on KPFA.

Academic and author Jodi Dean returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her new book, "Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle" published by Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3144-capital-s-grave We also have a new “This Week in Rotten History”. Keep our website with a more than ten-year archive of past shows absolutely free, and our show completely listener supported, refusing all advertising and corporate foundation money by following us on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishell and get all sorts of bonus content.

Spencer and Laurie talk with Prof. Jodi Dean about themes from her new book Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle (Verso, 2025). The theme of neofeudalism is one we have returned to several times as it seems more and more clear that our economy has moved well past competition into monopolies and highly concentrated wealth.

After four decades of neoliberalism, capitalism is becoming neofeudal. So argues Jodi Dean, who lays out neofeudalism's main features, explains why she believes capitalism is on the way out, and identifies which sectors of society could spearhead the struggle against neofeudalism. Jodi Dean, Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle Verso, 2025 The post Neofeudalism appeared first on KPFA.

After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism' as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and servants in her new book, Capital's Grave. She talks to Eleanor Penny about a vision of class […]

Ben Tarnoff talks tech worker militancy and the bosses' reaction: a crackdown and hard turn to the right. Jodi Dean, author of Capital's Grave, discusses the concept of “neofeudalism.” Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html

THIS IS AN UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE, TO GET EVERY IN DEPTH CONVERSATION AND SUPPORT THE SHOW SIGN UP AT PATREON.COM/LEFTRECKONINGDavid and Matt talk to Jodi Dean about her newest book, "Capital's Grave:Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle." https://www.versobooks.com/products/3144-capital-s-grave?srsltid=AfmBOorDC60gYp8O5oBY8SKszbk0-LXRgQAsDDXXuAVTsRPaIyK3tmH7

Behind the News, 3/6/25 - guests: Ben Tarnoff on Silicon Valley politics, Jodi Dean on neofeudalism - Doug Henwood

Ben Tarnoff on tech worker militancy, the bosses' crackdown, and their hard turn to the right • Jodi Dean, author of Capital's Grave, on neofeudalism The post Fundraising special: militancy and repression in the Valley, neofeudalism appeared first on KPFA.

Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled to interview them in upcoming weeks. Today's episode features two guests whose work imagine a more emancipatory, dignified, sustainable future should socialist imperatives govern the future of human development. First up is political scientist Jodi Dean, who joined us in 2022 to discuss her book "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States" from 1804 Books. Physicist and researcher Erald Kolasi follows in a 2021 interview in which he outlines his vision for a more ecologically sustainable future as discussed in his Monthly Review article titled "The Ecological State." Rotten History from our dear friend and comrade Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Belgium's Colonial Crimes with Geneviève Kaninda, Part 1Content warning: This interview covers distressing topics including forcible child removal, racism and sexual violence. If you to need to speak with someone for support you can call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, Lifeline on 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN on 13 92 76 and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563.We hear part 1 of a two-part interview with Geneviève Kaninda, Brussels-based Policy and Advocacy Officer at the African Futures Lab, on the Brussels Court of Appeal's landmark decision earlier this month to recognise the Belgian State's responsibility in abducting and racially segregating biracial Métis children under its colonial rule of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC was subjected to brutal colonisation by Belgium from 1908 until it gained independence in 1960, and the struggle for justice and reparations by Mètis children of Congolese mothers and Belgian fathers has been waged across several decades both in Belgium and in the Great Lakes countries of the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda. African Futures Lab is an independent research and advocacy institute that aims to raise global awareness of racial injustice across Africa and Europe and to empower civil society actors and public and private entities to demand justice and achieve reform.// Femicide in Australia with Sherele MoodyContent warning: This interview covers distressing topics including sexual and gender based violence, violence against First Nations women and children, and racism. If you to need to speak with someone for support you can call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, Lifeline on 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467 (all 24-hour hotlines). LGBTQIA+ listeners can also call QLife on 1800 184 527 between 3PM and midnight, and people under the age of 25 can call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN on 13 92 76 and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563 (both 24 hours).Sherele Moody joined us to discuss her work mapping femicides in so called-Australia, unpack mainstream media coverage of gender based violence and analyse the silencing of impacts of gendered violence on First Nations women and children. Sherele has over 20 years of experience reporting across a range of areas for some of Australia's major media companies. Sherele is also the founder and operator of The RED HEART Campaign and has been documenting the killing of women and children since 2015. Please consider supporting The RED HEART Campaign by making a donation here. A vigil organised by theThe Australian Femicide Watch to remember, mourn and celebrate Victorian women lost to violence in 2024 will be held on Saturday, December 14 from 4-6PM at the Darling Gardens rotunda, Clifton Hill.// ‘The Left's Problem with Palestine' with Abdaljawad Omar, Part 2We listened to part two of a talk given by Palestinian scholar and theorist Abdaljawad Omar during the early October 2024 teach-in 'The Left's Problem with Palestine', co-convened by CUNY for Palestine and Grad Center for Palestine. In this talk, Omar presents a critical analysis of the Western left's reflexive condemnation of Palestinian resistance both in relation to October 7th 2023 and more broadly, and the implications of this disavowal for the possibility of the West's genuine engagement with anticolonial struggle. You can watch the full talk and an extended discussion between Omar and Jodi Dean here.// Elijah Kose's Hands with Grace Dlabik and Dan ElborneNaarm-based artists Grace Dlabik and Dan Elborne join us to talk about the upcoming debut exhibition of works by Grace's son Elijah Kose, a collection of sculpture works produced in collaboration with Dan and titled Hands. Grace is an Austrian/Hungarian and Papua New Guinean woman from Lavaipia clan of Lese Oalai, and Motuan clan Botai of Hanuabada, and she is the founder and creative director of BE. Collective and BE. ONE. a grass-roots international collective that forges artistic opportunity and pathways for underrepresented creatives. Dan is a visual artist whose primary working material is clay, which he utilizes for long-form installation-based projects and sculptural series building work on intersecting foundations for memory, time, labour and materiality. Hands opens on Elijah's birthday, Sunday 15 December, 12-3PM at Art Haus Gallery on Wurundjeri Country, 20 Old Warrandyte Road, Donvale.//

Which side are you on? Keir, Nadia and Jem consider the ebb and flow of political commitment with ideas and music from Jodi Dean, Gramsci, John Coltrane and the Raincoats. Is cultural production the same as political action? What's the difference between an ally and a comrade? And why do some communists end up as […]

Which side are you on? Keir, Nadia and Jem consider the ebb and flow of political commitment with ideas and music from Jodi Dean, Gramsci, John Coltrane and the Raincoats. Is cultural production the same as political action? What's the difference between an ally and a comrade? And why do some communists end up as […]

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened to part one of a talk given by Palestinian scholar and theorist Abdaljawad Omar during the early October 2024 teach-in 'The Left's Problem with Palestine', co-convened by CUNY for Palestine and Grad Center for Palestine. In this talk, held in the lead up to the first anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood operation of October 7th 2023, Omar critically analyses the Western left's reflexive condemnation of Palestinian resistance both on that date and more broadly, and the implications of this hasty disavowal for a genuine engagement with anticolonial struggle. We'll play part two next week, but you can watch the full talk and subsequent extended discussion between Omar and Jodi Dean here.// Content warning: this conversation touches on themes of transphobia, sexual assault (r*pe), and suicide. If you require support, you can call QLife( (national) - 1800 184 527 (3PM - midnight), Rainbow Door(Victoria) - 1800 729 367 (10AM-5PM), Lifeline (national, 24/7) 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service (national, 24/7) 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13YARN on 13 92 76 or Yarning SafeNStrong on 1800 959 563. As part of our '16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence' we revisit a piece from 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility 2024 special programming, where Priya caught up with Katie and Stacey, two trans women with lived experience of incarceration in the Victorian Prison system. Katie and Stacey speak about their experiences of transphobic violence while being incarcerated in men's prisons, their fight to access gender-affirming care, self-advocacy, and how the state tries to quash rehabilitation and second chances in the community. Listen back to the full set of conversations for our Trans Day of Audibility 2024 broadcast here.// Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O'Connell joined us to talk about the catastrophic impacts of energy poverty on low-income folks in so-called Australia. On Monday this week, Antipoverty Centre, Parents for Climate and Sweltering Cities launched their Stop The Bill Shock Campaign by delivering a $173 million energy bill to Origin Energy headquarters, with the figure representing the estimated cost to the company to wipe the slate of energy debt owed by the 98,000 Origin customers currently on a hardship program. The campaign is demanding an end to price gouging by Australian energy retailers and immediate debt forgiveness for consumers experiencing financial hardship in the face of over a decade of increasing energy poverty in the country. As Kristin mentioned during our chat, Antipoverty Centre are encouraging people to share their stories about energy poverty and difficulties with energy retailers here.//Ibi spoke with us about a fundraiser event running this Friday the 6th of December at Catalyst Social Centre raising money for Sisters Inside and mutual aid initiatives for people in Sudan and Palestine. Head to Catalyst at 144/146 Sydney Road, Coburg, tomorrow from 6:30PM to enter an art raffle, enjoy food and drinks by We Eatin' Good, listen to music and poetry by incredible BIPOC artists, and grab some second-hand clothes for a good cause. Organisers are sharing updates on the fundraiser via Black Peoples Union's Instagram, and you can also donate directly to Sisters Inside here, Bakri's (@bakri2) fundraiser for Sudan here, and Ibrahim's (@ibrahim_palestine20) fundraiser for Gaza here.//

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Jodi Dean's book, “Blog Theory.” They focus on her notion of “communicative capitalism,” treating the book as a time capsule of sorts. They take her arguments from 2010 and suggest their relevance to our current situation in 2024.

On this edition of Parallax Views, Prof. Jodi Dean, who was recently relieved of teaching duties after the publication of her Verso blog post "Palestine speaks for everyone" on April 4th, 2024. In said piece she described the sight of Hamas paragliders breaking through Israel's air defenses to get into Israel as "exhilarating". Although many have condemned her blog post, even a number of commentators who disagree with her, chief among them Sohrab Ahmari of Compact Magazine, have argued that relieving Dean of her academic duties amounts to viewpoint discrimination that goes against standards of academic freedom. This is the basis for the conversation. This is sure to be one of the most controversial episodes of Parallax Views to date. I encourage my listeners to read Dean's original blog post as well as the piece it was responding to: Judith Butler's October 19th, 2023 London Review of Books essay "The Compass of Mourning". Another piece that I would argue is necessary reading for this episode is Judith Butler's response to Jodi Dean that is also at Verso's blog entitled "There Can Be No Critique". My primary reason for reaching out to Prof. Dean was in regard to academic freedom and the issue of viewpoint discrimination. If speech has ideational content, it should be debated freely in the halls of academia no matter how much we may disagree with said content. Since October 7th, I have strived to be sensitive when discussing anything related to Israel/Palestine especially as someone who has friend in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is my hope that listeners will engage with me in respectful dialogue and critique of this episode but also my episodes in general. Your feedback is welcome.

Jodi Dean on her Verso column, "Palestine Speaks for Everyone." Following the interview, we hear feedback from listeners like you. Check out Jodi's column here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/palestine-speaks-for-everyone Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn't like. Keri Leigh Merritt, who recently wrote an essay for Aeon, discusses the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society. Finally, we hear excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of a paper about the postbellum South, on the effects of white migration out of the region.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Behind the News, 4/25/24 - guests: Jodi Dean on her cancellation, Keri Leigh Merritt on the backward social structure of the South, Sam Bazzi on the Confederate diaspora - Doug Henwood

Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn't like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas The post Professor silenced for controversial article, the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society appeared first on KPFA.

We start with the announcement of Jathan's new book, plus direct attention to a new special issue on ideologies and power in AI. Then we send our solidarity and support to Jodi Dean and others who are being punished for speaking out for Palestinian emancipation, before digging into the main subject of this episode and the next one: a giant, magisterial essay by Andreas Malm which lays out a longue durée analysis of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, situating it in a history of fossil empire, colonial annihilation, and ecological catastrophe that stretches directly back to 1840. The project of settler-genocide today is one that kicked off nearly two hundred years ago. ••• The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth | Andreas Malm https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth ••• Palestine Speaks for Everyone | Jodi Dean https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/palestine-speaks-for-everyone ••• Special issue on Ideologies and Power in AI https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/749 ••• Jathan's new book - The Mechanic and the Luddite https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Jathan's new article on the moral economy of behavioral insurance https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2024.2328992 Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book ORGANIZE, FIGHT, WIN: Black Communist Women's Political Writing. The post The Black Women in The Communist Party 1919-1956 appeared first on KPFA.

This episode is from our sister podcast Guerrilla History, subscribe to it on your preferred podcast app!   In this absolutely fabulous episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back on the one and only Dr. CBS, Charisse Burden-Stelly!  Here, we discuss her outstanding new book Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.  This work focuses on how anti-radical repression (especially anti-communist repression) is infused and inseparable with anti-Black racial oppression, and vice versa.  This is a critical work by one of the most critical voices in our times, and we think that this conversation is a truly important one for everyone to hear!   Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the coauthor (alongside Gerald Horne) of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the coeditor (alongside Jodi Dean) of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing.  Join the Black Alliance for Peace or BAP Solidarity Network, keep up with Dr. CBS's work by checking out her website www.charisseburdenstelly.com, and follow her on twitter @blackleftaf.   Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

In this absolutely fabulous episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back on the one and only Dr. CBS, Charisse Burden-Stelly!  Here, we discuss her outstanding new book Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.  This work focuses on how anti-radical repression (especially anti-communist repression) is infused and inseparable with anti-Black racial oppression, and vice versa.  This is a critical work by one of the most critical voices in our times, and we think that this conversation is a truly important one for everyone to hear! Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the coauthor (alongside Gerald Horne) of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the coeditor (alongside Jodi Dean) of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing.  Join the Black Alliance for Peace or BAP Solidarity Network, keep up with Dr. CBS's work by checking out her website www.charisseburdenstelly.com, and follow her on twitter @blackleftaf. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

Today we talk with the prolific and wide-ranging scholar Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, just out from the University of Chicago Press. The book shows the emergence and conjuncture of two strands of discourse and practice that were used to suppress Blacks in the United States, beginning in the early twentieth century and still present today. The Black Scare created and nurtured a phobic psychic disposition towards Blacks on the basis of race, the Red Scare was based on anti-Bolshevik and anti-Communist fears rampant at the time. The Black Scare was used to maintain White Supremacy, the Red Scare to prop up Capitalism. Charisse Burden-Stelly talks with us about these phenomena on both the national and international stages, and attends to the specific dynamics of gender, race, and class through a series of case studies.Charisse Burden-Stelly is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. Their research pursues two complementary lines of inquiry. The first interrogates the transnational entanglements of U.S. capitalist racism, anticommunism, and antiblack racial oppression; the second area of focus examines twentieth-century Black anticapitalist intellectual thought, theory, and praxis. Burden-Stelly is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and my single-authored book titled Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States is forthcoming in November 2023. They are also the co-editor, with Dr. Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writings (Verso, 2022) and the co-editor, with Dr. Aaron Kamugisha and Dr. Percy Hintzen, of the latter's writings titled Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State.They also edited the “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality.Charisse Burden-Stelly's published work appears in journals including Small Axe, Monthly Review, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, CLR James Journal, and American Communist History and in popular venues including Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, and Black Agenda Report.

Jodi Dean, author of a recent article for the Los Angeles Review of Books, takes on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. Then Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute discusses the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Behind the News, 9/14/23 - Jodi Dean on postliberals; Sarang Shidore on the G20, the BRICS, and US imperial decline - Doug Henwood

Jodi Dean, author of this review, on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. • Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute on the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power The post Postliberalism; the meaning of the G20 and the BRICS appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing. The post How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America appeared first on KPFA.

Episode 70 of the Podcast for Social Research is a live recording of the concluding panel of BISR's July symposium Frankfurt School and the Now: Critical Theory in the 21st Century. To what extent, 100 years later, can critical theory help us make sense of the particular conditions, crises, and prospective futures of the contemporary twenty first-century moment? Panelists Isi Litke, Barnaby Raine, Samantha Hill, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Moira Weigel, and Jodi Dean consider big data and social media, György Lukács, Black Marxism, climate and class struggle, hyper-individualism, optimism versus pessimism, and the objectification of everything. Is interactive media a democratic alternative to a top-down culture industry, or does it actually exacerbate authoritarian dynamics? How can we think about politics and political subjects under conditions of climate change? In what ways does the twenty-first century echo the twentieth? How do we think with critical theory without fetishizing it? What are the political uses of failure? Is there an imperative to hope?

Reading list:* Corey Robin's Facebook Page* Not Yet Falling Apart: Two thinkers on the left offer a guide to navigating the stormy seas of modernity, by moi* Straight Outta Chappaqua: How Westchester-bred lefty prof Corey Robin came to loathe Israel, defend Steven Salaita, and help cats, by Phoebe Maltz Bovy* Online Fracas for a Critic of the Right, by Jennifer Schuessler* Scholar Behind U. of Illinois Boycotts Is a Longtime Activist, by Marc ParryA few years ago, I got this text from a friend after my guest on this episode of the podcast, Corey Robin, said something nice about my book on Facebook: “When Corey Robin is praising you on Facebook, you've arrived, my friend.”He was being funny, but also just saying a true thing. Corey Robin is a big deal on the intellectual left in America, and for the better part of a decade, from about 2012 to 2019, his Facebook page was one of the most vital and interesting spaces on the American intellectual left. Back in 2017, I wrote this about Corey and his most influential book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin:The Reactionary Mind has emerged as one of the more influential political works of the last decade. Robin himself has become, since the book's publication, one of the more aura-laden figures on the intellectual left. Paul Krugman cites him and the book periodically in his New York Times columns and on his blog. Robin's Facebook page, which he uses as a blog and discussion forum, has become one of the places to watch to understand where thinking on the left is. Another key node of the intellectual left is Crooked Timber, a group blog of left-wing academics to which Robin is a long-time contributor, and another is Jacobin, a socialist magazine that often re-publishes Robin's blog posts sans edits, like dispatches from the oracle.I've long been fascinated by Corey's Facebook page, in particular, because it was such a novel space. It couldn't exist prior to the internet, and if there were any other important writers who used the platform in that way, as a real venue for thoughtful and vigorous political discussion, I'm not familiar with them. It didn't replace or render obsolete the magazines, like The Nation and Dissent, that were the traditional places where the left talked to itself. It was just a different thing, an improvisational, unpredictable, rolling forum where you went to see what people of a certain bent were talking about, who the key players were, what the key debates were. And Corey himself, in this context, had a charismatic presence. To even get him to respond seriously to a comment you made on one of his posts was to get a little thrill. To be praised by Corey, in the main text of a post, was to feel like you were a made man. Over the past few weeks I've spent some time dipping into the archives of his page, and while there I compiled a list of notable names who showed up as commenters. My list included: Lauren Berlant, Matt Karp, Tim Lacy, Miriam Markowitz, Annette Gordon Reed,  Doug Henwood, Jeet Heer, Freddie Deboer, Raina Lipsitz, Elayne Tobin, Scott Lemieux, Paul Buhle, Jedediah Purdy, Jodi Dean, Alex Gourevitch, Tamsin Shaw, Rick Perlstein, Greg Grandin, Katha Pollitt, Joel Whitney, Liza Featherstone, Andrew Hartman, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Samuel Moyn, Tim Lacy, Yasmin Nair, Bhaskar Sunsara, Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Gideon Lewis Kraus.This is just the people I recognized (or googled ) in my brief time skimming. The full list of eminent leftist Americans who populated Corey's page over the years would surely run to hundreds of names, which is to say that a significant portion, maybe even a majority, of the writers and intellectuals who comprised the intellectual left in those years was reading and participating in his page. How this came about, and what it meant, is one of the topics we cover in the podcast, which ended up being a kind of stock-taking of sorts of the very recent history of the American left. We also talk about Corey's involvement as an organizer with GESO, Yale's graduate student union, when he was getting his PhD in political science; his retrospective thoughts on why he over-estimated the strength of the American left in the mid-2010s; what he got right about Trump and Trumpism; and why Clarence Thomas may be corrupt, but is at least intellectually honest about it. Corey is a professor at Brooklyn College and the author of three books: Fear: The History of a Political Idea, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (revised and re-issued as Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump), and most recently The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Jacobin, among many other places.  Eminent Americans is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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Jodi Dean is the author of the esay "Neofeudalism-The end of capitalism?" in the LA Review of Books, the essay "Same As It Ever Was?" in the New Left Review,  and “Capitalism is turning itself into neofeudalism” in e-flux. She is also the author of the books, "Blog Theory," "The Communist Horizon," and "Aliens in America," amongst many others. In this episode of Diet Soap she discusses neofeudalism with Sublation's Ashley Frawley.Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

We are sharing a recent Guerilla History episode on the Rev Left feed for those that missed it! Make sure to subscribe to Guerrilla History on your preferred podcast app! In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two fantastic guests, Prof. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Prof. Jodi Dean. We discuss their co-edited collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing, which is an absolutely indispensable resource for those of us serious about achieving liberation!  This collection includes writings focused on the period from 1919-1956, which argue that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism.  Pick up the book! Dr. CBS is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University.  She is an organizer with Black Alliance for Peace and a Co-Author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History alongside our mutual friend Gerald Horne.  She can be followed on twitter @blackleftaf or on her website https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/. Dr. Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.  She is the author of numerous books including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging, Crowds and Party, and The Communist Horizon.  She can be followed on twitter @jodi7768. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed. We have a really special episode for you today, which we hope will highlight International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8th!  Joining us is Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly. Charrise is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology. Charisse's work focuses on the transnational entanglements of U.S. racial capitalism, anticommunism, and antiblack structural racism. Charisse is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the co-editor of the recent book Organise, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's political writings, with Jodi Dean. Listen in as we discuss what it is to be a comrade, and how to push back on liberal notions that might equate it with allyship. We learn more about Black Communist Women in the U.S. and unpack tensions around political education and organizing. Thanks to Dr. CBS for spending time with us!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State Dr. CBS webpage   Our guests: Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (@blackleftaf)   Music this week from "Lioness" by Kevin Graham. 

Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing.   Photo credit: Charisse Burden-Stelly's website The post KPFA Fund Drive Special – How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two fantastic guests, Prof. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Prof. Jodi Dean. We discuss their co-edited collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing, which is an absolutely indispensable resource for those of us serious about achieving liberation!  This collection includes writings focused on the period from 1919-1956, which argue that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism.  Pick up the book!   Dr. CBS is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University.  She is an organizer with Black Alliance for Peace and a Co-Author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History alongside our mutual friend Gerald Horne.  She can be followed on twitter @blackleftaf or on her website https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/.   Dr. Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.  She is the author of numerous books including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging, Crowds and Party, and The Communist Horizon.  She can be followed on twitter @jodi7768.   Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

In this episode, we spoke to Professor Jodi Dean regarding what a socialist future would look like. And how we can make steps in advancing to a socialist project in the United States

Jennifer Berkshire discusses the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven't been working for them). Then Doug interviews Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of Black Communist women's writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Behind the News, 12/1/22 - guests: Jennifer Berkshire on the right's school plans, Jodi Dean on black Communist women - Doug Henwood

Jennifer Berkshire on the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven't been working for them), and Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of black communist women's writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s. The post The right reinvents its approach to schools, and black communist women of the 20th century appeared first on KPFA.

Jodi Dean analyzes the political landscape in the wake of last week's election. Tobias Hübinette, author of a recent Boston Review article, discusses the role of immigration in the backlash against Swedish social democracy.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Behind the News, 11/17/22 - guests: Jodi Dean on post-election politics, Tobias Hübinette on racism vs. social democracy - Doug Henwood

What would socialism look like in the United States—the richest country ever known yet 38 million people are hungry? Socialism would use that wealth and our development for the needs of the people, stop endless wars, and crush racism, sexism, and all forms of bigotry. A new book, "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States," demonstrates what this could look like in detail, starting in “the first decade of socialism in the United States." Brian is joined by Dr. Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges & author of several books. She and Brian were part of the collective effort to produce the just-released book “Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States." Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

We have on Jodi Dean, author of, "Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States."

In this conversation Charisse Burden-Stelly returns to the podcast, and is joined by Jodi Dean to talk about their new book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing.  Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Along with Gerald Horne she co-authored W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life In American History. She is a co-editor of the book Reproducing Domination On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State. She is also the author of the forthcoming book Black Scare / Red Scare. She is a member of Black Alliance for Peace and was previously the co-host of The Last Dope Intellectual podcast. Jodi Dean teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including The Communist Horizon, Crowds and Party, and Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging. She is also a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings together three decades of Black Communist women's political writings. In doing so, it highlights the link between Communism and Black liberation. Likewise, it makes clear how Black women fundamentally shaped, and were shaped by, Communist praxis in the twentieth century. Organize, Fight, Win includes writings from card-carrying Communists like Dorothy Burnham, Williana Burroughs, Grace P. Campbell, Alice Childress, Marvel Cooke, Esther Cooper Jackson, Thelma Dale Perkins, Vicki Garvin, Yvonne Gregory, Claudia Jones, Maude White Katz, and Louise Thompson Patterson, and writings by those who organized alongside the Communist Party, like Ella Baker, Charlotta Bass, Thyra Edwards, Lorraine Hansberry, and Dorothy Hunton. Dr. CBS and Dr. Dean introduce the text further in the discussion, and read some excerpts from it along the way as well. In conversation we talk about a number of the interventions made by Black Communist Women that are collected in Organize, Fight, Win. We also talk about how many of these women have often been written about, frequently to further intellectual frameworks that are not the Black Communist analysis and modes of organizing that they themselves espoused. We discuss the interventions these women made in relation to unionization efforts, anti-imperialism, anti-fascism, and the struggle for peace. We also discuss the difference between common manifestations of identitarian politics  today and the materialist analysis these Black Communist Women deployed.  We also talk about the internal critiques that they leveed against certain positions of the CPUSA, not in attempts to destroy the party, but in dedication to its mission. Organize, Fight, Win is available for pre-order from Verso Books and it will come out on this coming Tuesday. Black Alliance for Peace has a webinar kicking off the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM on Saturday October 1st. We'll include links to those as well as to pre-orders for Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future all of which are named in the episode. We'll also include links to some previous discussions that relate to topics covered here. And as always if you like what we do, please support our work on patreon. You can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.  Relevant links: Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future   Black Alliance for Peace webinar on AFRICOM  Black Alliance for Peace's International Month of Action Against AFRICOM  Our previous conversation with Dr. CBS which provides a lot of useful context on anti-communism and anti-blackness and other terms and frameworks that are relevant to this discussion. Our previous discussion on Lorraine Hansberry's time at Freedom Our conversation with Mary Helen Washington (who was also referenced in the show)    

Political theorist and professor of political science Dr. Jodi Dean joins DOSED to diagnose our dystopian hellscape as “neofeudalism.” Listen to this full episode of DOSED free wherever you stream podcasts: https://linktr.ee/dosedshow

Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book "Crowds and Party" from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]