Podcast appearances and mentions of Nancy Fraser

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Jacobin Radio has featured many presentations from the recent conference held in honor of Boris Kagarlitsky, author of The Long Retreat, a sobering analysis of the international Left that was discussed in our previous episode, and currently a prisoner in Russia for speaking out against Putin's war in Ukraine. We continue with Trevor Ngwane, a South African scholar-activist at the University of Johannesburg, and Nancy Fraser, professor of philosophy and politics at the New School for Social Research, who bring to the table some difficult truths and critical questions for the global Left. After brief introductory comments from Patrick Bond, Trevor Ngwane outlines the brutal history of South Africa's turn to neoliberalism and its consequences — widespread suffering and deepening despair among ordinary people as well as a political crisis in the African National Congress. He asks what it will take to revitalize the vibrant, militant, working-class movements that once overthrew apartheid. Nancy Fraser then reflects on Kagarlitsky's analysis of the chaotic political reality we face today, and raises three central strategic questions for the Left and mass politics: How can we engage with actually existing social forces towards positive social change? How do we navigate the geopolitics of war and migration in mass movement organizing? And what could a transformative working-class movement even look like in the 21st century? Guest host Meleiza Figueroa and Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, follow with a discussion of the critical insights and questions brought up by Trevor Ngwane and Nancy Fraser, and consider what this means for American politics at this particular moment in history, as we face a new year filled with uncertainty, political confusion, and deepening crisis. Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

Nancy Fraser discusses her understanding of capitalism as an integrated social order and explores its implications for envisioning a desirable postcapitalism.   --- If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help: Democratic planning – an information website https://www.democratic-planning.com/ Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1   Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction International Network for Democratic Economic Planning https://www.indep.network/ Democratic Planning Research Platform: https://www.planningresearch.net/ Democratic Planning Forum: https://forum.democratic-planning.com/ --- Shownotes Remarque Institute https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/remarque.html Nancy Fraser at The New School for Social Research: https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/nancy-fraser/ Fraser, N. (2023). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism?srsltid=AfmBOopHZ8reXaCDUToeZsbdoTqnXb-wbejQdYin2J_bsa9tAu36oQCQ Ivkovic, M., & Zaric, Z. (2024). Nancy Fraser and Politics. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nancy-fraser-and-politics.html Fraser, N., & Jaeggi, R. (2023). Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2867-capitalism Fraser, N. (2022) Benjamin Lecture 3 – Class beyond Class (Video) https://youtu.be/jf6laSf6Eko?si=iWL-Za4pPPwF0xvb on social differentiation as discussed in sociology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology) Rodney, W. (2018). How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/788-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa?srsltid=AfmBOoqKZ6g4j8UpPJD6qC5yEmKuP0h6sFTvcEX5qjBF7CtPSzedUtcP on Marx's account of surplus value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value Robaszkiewicz, M. & Weinman, M. (2023) Hannah Arendt and Politics. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hannah-arendt-and-politics.html Vančura, M. (2011) Polanyi's Great Transformation and the concept of the embedded economoy. IES Occasional Paper No. 2/2011 https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/83289/1/668400315.pdf Elson, D. (2015). Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/159-value?srsltid=AfmBOooSko5DiXwMNN2NjSay4BP4n9cM-4y53r7G90VPbvE6itl5rxKT Robertson, J. (2017) The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the web of life: Ecology and the accumulation of capital. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life Patel, R., & Moore, J. W. (2018). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things?srsltid=AfmBOoqMnr0nAUfdHOxlQPTXsnGfQtMkDKgFtJsMQ3mtk7Jcyd3Wjqko Brand, U., & Wissen, M. (2021). The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/916-the-imperial-mode-of-living?srsltid=AfmBOopUs15MsSgvJ7TRVfwmo330sHvjQIAST_UymD-90i3VIfCw6vg8 Bates, T. R. (1975) Gramsci and the Theory of Hegemony. Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 36 No. 2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708933 Bois, W. E. B. Du. (1935). Black Reconstruction. An Essay toward a History of the Part which Black Folk played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Harcourt, Brace and Company. https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf Trotsky, L. (1938) The Transitional Program. Bulletin of the Opposition. https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/ Morris, W. (1890) News from Nowhere. Commonweal. https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1890/nowhere/nowhere.htm Hayek, F. A. von. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4). https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/hayek-use-knowledge-society.pdf Schliesser, E. (2020) On Foucault on 17 January 1979 On the Market's Role (as site) of Veridiction (III) Digressions & Impressions Blog. https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/2020/06/on-foucault-on-17-january-1979-on-the-markets-role-as-site-of-veridiction-iii.html Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège De France, 1978-1979. Palgrave Macmillan. https://1000littlehammers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf Marx, K. (1973) Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. Penguin. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdf on Bernard Mandeville and “Private Vice, Public Virtue”: https://iep.utm.edu/mandevil/ Kaufmann, F. (1959) John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry. The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 56, No. 21. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2022592 on Habermas: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/ on “Neurath's boat”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurath%27s_boat   Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics S03E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e24-grace-blakeley-on-capitalist-planning-and-its-alternatives/ S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/ S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/ S02E51 | Silvia Federici on Progress, Reproduction and Commoning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e51-silvia-federici-on-progress-reproduction-and-commoning/ S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/ S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/   Future Histories Contact & Support If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Contact: office@futurehistories.today Twitter: https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords #NancyFraser, #JanGroos, #Podcast, #Socialism, #PostCapitalism, #Capitalism, #MarketPower, #Markets, #EconomicDemocracy, #PatDevine, #WorkingClass, #WelfareState, #CriticalTheory, #Markets, #Veridiction, #Foucault, #Governmentality, #Care, #CareWork, #Labour, #Labor, #Race, #Imperialism, #DemocraticPlanning, #EconomicPlanning, #SocialReproduction, #PostcapitalistReproduction, #Ecology, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Boundaries, #CannibalCapitalism, #Socialism  

Hello!Today for the holiday weekend, we have Nancy Fraser, the Henry and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at the New School. She has written widely on feminism, injustice, the problem with identity politics, and neoliberalism. Her most recent books are Cannibal Capitalism and The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born, both of which were published by Verso.We revisited an extremely prescient essay she wrote in 2017 for American Affairs about progressive neoliberalism, hegemony, and how Trump both disrupted and reified the existing order. Lotta great talk in this one about whether the Democrats will ever wake up, economic populism, what Trump might do in his second term and more! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe

Natasa Loizou is a research consultant and certified trainer to international business and government organisations. Today on the podcast we sit down to discuss the new global Right, what it is, what is its agenda and interests, who it represents and who is backing it. We also discuss the World Hybrid War, as Natasa names it, how technology is reshaping society and how we can rebuild a progressive world. An insightful discussion on ideas including moralisation, anti-establishment movements, journalism and media and neoliberalism. Find out more about Natasa Loizou here. Listen to our previous podcast discussion with Natasa on gender, politics, education and women in the military here. Mentioned:- Episode on Trump's reelection with political analyst Costa Constanti here. - Episode in Greek on the anti-woke movement here. - Episode in Greek with author of Fake News in Europe, Klimentini Diakomanoli     here. - Books: Bauman's Globalisation  and Nancy Fraser's list of books. Support the show

In our first episode of this third season, Alex Callinicos is joined by Nancy Fraser to discuss her 2023 book, Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It.   To learn more about the Deutscher Prize, please visit our website: www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/

Sugeriram-nos que falássemos de livros sobre empoderamento feminino em geral e nós não fizemos por menos: trouxémos a icónica Tânia Graça e ela veio munida de sugestões de leitura para todos os géneros (literalmente, ihihihih). E ainda levam com algumas técnicas de autodefesa, que é para terem a lição completa. Livros mencionados neste episódio: - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (1:10) - Notes on Heartbreak, Annie Lord (2:11) - Comunicação Não-Violenta, Marshall B. Rosenberg (3:38) - Want, Gillian Anderson (7:07) - Amor e Desejo na Relação Conjugal, Esther Perel (16:14) - (In)Fidelidade: Repensar o Amor e as Relações, Esther Perel (26:20) - The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller (30:35) - Sete Casais em Terapia, Luana Cunha Ferreira (33:05) - State Of The Union: A Marriage In Ten Parts, Nick Hornby (34:10) - Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn (37:25) - Tudo do Amor, bell hooks (41:20) - Mulheres, Raça e Classe, Angela Davis (43:26) - Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot, Mikki Kendall (45:46) - Feminismo Para os 99%, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Battacharya e Nancy Fraser (46:49) - Atlas da V, Lisa Vicente (48:33) - Não é só Sangue: Uma Conversa sobre o Ciclo Menstrual, Patrícia Lemos (49:57) - For the Love of Men, Liz Plank (1:00:33) - Cérebro e Género, Daphna Joel e Luba Vikhanski (1:05:37) - Feminismo de A a Ser, Lúcia Vicente (1:11:00) - Mulheres Invisíveis, Caroline Criado Perez (1:12:53) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/ritadanova Identidade visual do podcast: da autoria da talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com. Genérico do podcast: criado pelo incrível Vitor Carraca Teixeira, que podem encontrar em www.instagram.com/oputovitor.

Seja bem-vindo ao Conversas de Ateliê! Na mesa temos Paulo Henrique Martins, André Magnelli, Bia Martins e Lucas Faial Soneghet. No primeiro bloco, conversamos sobre a qualidade do debate político brasileiro. No dia 15 de setembro, durante um debate com os candidatos à prefeitura de São Paulo na TV Cultura, o candidato do PSDB José Luiz Datena agrediu o candidato Pablo Marçal (PRTB) com uma cadeirada. Marçal foi levado ao Hospital Sírio-Libanês e sofreu uma fratura na costela, segundo sua equipe. O evento ocorreu após Marçal perguntar à Datena quando ele “pararia com a palhaçada” e desistiria da candidatura. Antes, o coach havia mencionado a denúncia de assédio sexual contra o apresentador. Datena retrucou chamando Marçal de “bandidinho”. Marçal responde perguntando novamente quando Datena ia desistir e o chama de “arregão”, além de dizer “Você não é homem.” Na sequência, Datena ataca Marçal com uma cadeira. No dia 23, em um debate organizado pelo Grupo Flow em parceria com o Grupo Nexo na Faculdade de Direito da USP, Marçal é protagonista novamente ao ser expulso por desrespeito às regras do debate, já no final do evento. Estavam proibidos ofensas, insultos e xingamentos, e o participante que acumulasse 3 faltas seria expulso. Marçal já havia sido advertido repetidas vezes. Em paralelo, o marqueteiro da campanha de Ricardo Nunes (MDB) foi agredido com um soco por um assessor de campanha de Marçal. Segundo testemunhas, o marqueteiro de Nunes haveria rido após Marçal ser advertido pelo mediador, o que levou à agressão. Em meio à polarização crescente, à fragmentação dos discursos, às discussões em redes sociais e às cadeiradas em oponentes, surge a questão: como chegamos aqui e o que podemos fazer? A noção de “esfera pública”, discutida desde John Dewey até Jürgen Habermas e Nancy Fraser, evoca um espaço de comunicação entre cidadãos e cidadãs engajados no funcionamento de um regime democrático. Para Habermas, a própria ação comunicativa em sua estrutura guarda um potencial racional emancipatório que é vulnerável às distorções sistêmicas, seja pela influência de forças econômicas ou políticas deturpadoras. Para Fraser, a ideia de esfera pública deve ser alargada para pensar como esta se estrutura de acordo com categorias sociais marcantes. Assim, emergiriam esferas públicas subalternas de populações que se sentiriam alienadas da arena política. Quando observamos o Brasil e o mundo hoje, encontramos ânimos exaltados, raiva e violência, lacrações e refutações, em suma, um campo de batalha que em nada lembra a ágora. Será que tal espaço de debate racional e democrático um dia existiu, ou é um ideal regulador que devemos buscar, especialmente em tempos como o presente? Estaríamos ainda vivendo numa democracia, ou já descambamos para um tipo de “hiperdemocracia” ou para uma “democratura”, nos termos de Rosanvallon, com populações reativas e desacreditadas da política e do político? Se é certo que a qualidade do debate político hoje deixa a desejar, podemos imaginar meios de melhora-lo? No segundo bloco, exclusivo para sócio-apoiadores, conversamos sobre a demissão de Silvio Almeida mediante acusação de assédio sexual. Tópicos discutidos: Debate político; Esfera Pública; Democracia; Eleições municipais. Vamos conversar? No Youtube: https://youtu.be/5zU-Yz6lJxM Torne-se sócio-apoiador do Ateliê Clube! Clique no link para apoiar o Ateliê de Humanidades nos regimes Padrão, Premium e Sócio-leitor e receba quinzenalmente uma conversa com um dedo de prosa, um tanto de inteligência e um bocado de questões do momento. Você encontra as opções de apoio na página inicial do site, clicando em "Torne-se Sócio-Apoiador Aqui": https://ateliedehumanidades.com/

„Der Allesfresser“ von Nancy Fraser untersucht die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen des Kapitalismus auf Gesellschaft, Umwelt und Demokratie. Den Kapitalismus charakterisiert Fraser als allesfressendes, umfassendes Gesellschaftssystem, welches seine eigenen Grundlagen und Funktionsbedingungen verschlingt. Als marxistisch orientierte Kapitalismuskritik analysiert das Buch diese Probleme nicht nur in Bezug auf die Sphäre der Arbeit und Produktion, sondern betont die Wichtigkeit von Grenzkämpfen zwischen anderen Sphären wie Reproduktion, Care-Arbeit, Ökologie und Politik. Zur Überwindung des Systems fordert sie eine radikale Neuausrichtung hin zu einem „Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts”.

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political stakes in these debates are enormous: attributing primacy to particular social processes or structures risks alienating constituencies that also experience other forms of domination, but analzying these processes as separate structures with their own distinct ‘logics' makes it difficult to find common ground on which to construct viable political coalitions. My guest today, geographer William Conroy, has written a series of articles that deal with thorny questions pertaining to the relationship between race, gender, ecology, and capitalism. We'll be discussing four articles in particular, the links to which you can find on the episode's page on the New Books Network web site: Conroy, William. 2023. “Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser's Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55 (5): 1091–1113. Conroy, William. 2024. “Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric.” Review of International Political Economy 31 (3): 955–77.  Conroy, William. 2024. “Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate.” Theory, Culture & Society 41 (1): 39–58. Conroy, William. 2024. “Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes? Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Studies, January 22, 2024. Each of these articles deals with the question of how to study the interactions between forms of domination without succumbing to the dangers of a) reducing all axes of domination to effects of one fundamental antagonism, or b) reaching the bland conclusion that “everything is related to everything else” without specifying how or why forms of domination are related. Will is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and he is a research affiliate of the Urban Theory Lab, which is housed at the University of Chicago. 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

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political stakes in these debates are enormous: attributing primacy to particular social processes or structures risks alienating constituencies that also experience other forms of domination, but analzying these processes as separate structures with their own distinct ‘logics' makes it difficult to find common ground on which to construct viable political coalitions. My guest today, geographer William Conroy, has written a series of articles that deal with thorny questions pertaining to the relationship between race, gender, ecology, and capitalism. We'll be discussing four articles in particular, the links to which you can find on the episode's page on the New Books Network web site: Conroy, William. 2023. “Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser's Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55 (5): 1091–1113. Conroy, William. 2024. “Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric.” Review of International Political Economy 31 (3): 955–77.  Conroy, William. 2024. “Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate.” Theory, Culture & Society 41 (1): 39–58. Conroy, William. 2024. “Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes? Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Studies, January 22, 2024. Each of these articles deals with the question of how to study the interactions between forms of domination without succumbing to the dangers of a) reducing all axes of domination to effects of one fundamental antagonism, or b) reaching the bland conclusion that “everything is related to everything else” without specifying how or why forms of domination are related. Will is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and he is a research affiliate of the Urban Theory Lab, which is housed at the University of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political stakes in these debates are enormous: attributing primacy to particular social processes or structures risks alienating constituencies that also experience other forms of domination, but analzying these processes as separate structures with their own distinct ‘logics' makes it difficult to find common ground on which to construct viable political coalitions. My guest today, geographer William Conroy, has written a series of articles that deal with thorny questions pertaining to the relationship between race, gender, ecology, and capitalism. We'll be discussing four articles in particular, the links to which you can find on the episode's page on the New Books Network web site: Conroy, William. 2023. “Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser's Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55 (5): 1091–1113. Conroy, William. 2024. “Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric.” Review of International Political Economy 31 (3): 955–77.  Conroy, William. 2024. “Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate.” Theory, Culture & Society 41 (1): 39–58. Conroy, William. 2024. “Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes? Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Studies, January 22, 2024. Each of these articles deals with the question of how to study the interactions between forms of domination without succumbing to the dangers of a) reducing all axes of domination to effects of one fundamental antagonism, or b) reaching the bland conclusion that “everything is related to everything else” without specifying how or why forms of domination are related. Will is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and he is a research affiliate of the Urban Theory Lab, which is housed at the University of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political stakes in these debates are enormous: attributing primacy to particular social processes or structures risks alienating constituencies that also experience other forms of domination, but analzying these processes as separate structures with their own distinct ‘logics' makes it difficult to find common ground on which to construct viable political coalitions. My guest today, geographer William Conroy, has written a series of articles that deal with thorny questions pertaining to the relationship between race, gender, ecology, and capitalism. We'll be discussing four articles in particular, the links to which you can find on the episode's page on the New Books Network web site: Conroy, William. 2023. “Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser's Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55 (5): 1091–1113. Conroy, William. 2024. “Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric.” Review of International Political Economy 31 (3): 955–77.  Conroy, William. 2024. “Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate.” Theory, Culture & Society 41 (1): 39–58. Conroy, William. 2024. “Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes? Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Studies, January 22, 2024. Each of these articles deals with the question of how to study the interactions between forms of domination without succumbing to the dangers of a) reducing all axes of domination to effects of one fundamental antagonism, or b) reaching the bland conclusion that “everything is related to everything else” without specifying how or why forms of domination are related. Will is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and he is a research affiliate of the Urban Theory Lab, which is housed at the University of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political stakes in these debates are enormous: attributing primacy to particular social processes or structures risks alienating constituencies that also experience other forms of domination, but analzying these processes as separate structures with their own distinct ‘logics' makes it difficult to find common ground on which to construct viable political coalitions. My guest today, geographer William Conroy, has written a series of articles that deal with thorny questions pertaining to the relationship between race, gender, ecology, and capitalism. We'll be discussing four articles in particular, the links to which you can find on the episode's page on the New Books Network web site: Conroy, William. 2023. “Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser's Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55 (5): 1091–1113. Conroy, William. 2024. “Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric.” Review of International Political Economy 31 (3): 955–77.  Conroy, William. 2024. “Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate.” Theory, Culture & Society 41 (1): 39–58. Conroy, William. 2024. “Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes? Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Studies, January 22, 2024. Each of these articles deals with the question of how to study the interactions between forms of domination without succumbing to the dangers of a) reducing all axes of domination to effects of one fundamental antagonism, or b) reaching the bland conclusion that “everything is related to everything else” without specifying how or why forms of domination are related. Will is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and he is a research affiliate of the Urban Theory Lab, which is housed at the University of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political stakes in these debates are enormous: attributing primacy to particular social processes or structures risks alienating constituencies that also experience other forms of domination, but analzying these processes as separate structures with their own distinct ‘logics' makes it difficult to find common ground on which to construct viable political coalitions. My guest today, geographer William Conroy, has written a series of articles that deal with thorny questions pertaining to the relationship between race, gender, ecology, and capitalism. We'll be discussing four articles in particular, the links to which you can find on the episode's page on the New Books Network web site: Conroy, William. 2023. “Background Check: Spatiality and Relationality in Nancy Fraser's Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55 (5): 1091–1113. Conroy, William. 2024. “Spatializing Social Reproduction Theory: Integrating State Space and the Urban Fabric.” Review of International Political Economy 31 (3): 955–77.  Conroy, William. 2024. “Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate.” Theory, Culture & Society 41 (1): 39–58. Conroy, William. 2024. “Constitutive Outsides or Hidden Abodes? Totality and Ideology in Critical Urban Theory.” Urban Studies, January 22, 2024. Each of these articles deals with the question of how to study the interactions between forms of domination without succumbing to the dangers of a) reducing all axes of domination to effects of one fundamental antagonism, or b) reaching the bland conclusion that “everything is related to everything else” without specifying how or why forms of domination are related. Will is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and he is a research affiliate of the Urban Theory Lab, which is housed at the University of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ein Gespräch über Heide's Buchkapitel "Embracing the Small Stuff - Caring for Children in a Liberated Society" im von Christoph Sorg und mir herausgegebenen Sammelband Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st century and beyond (erscheint voraussichtlich im Q4 2024).   Shownotes Heide Lutosch Heide Lutosch (TU Berlin): https://www.literaturwissen.tu-berlin.de/menue/personen_am_fachgebiet/lutosch_heide/ Lutosch, Heide. 2023. Kinderhaben. Matthes & Seitz Berlin: https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/kinderhaben.html LuXemburg Artikel "Kein Kinderspiel", Heide Lutosch im Gespräch mit Jan Groos: www.zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/kein-kinderspiel Groos, Jan und Sorg, Christoph (eds.). 2024. Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol: Bristol University Press:  https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction Zeitschrift LuXemburg: https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/ Abo der Zeitschrift LuXemburg: https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/abo/ Link zur LuXemburg-Ausgabe "Zukunft mit Plan" (gültig ab dem 6.5.2024): www.zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/ausgaben/zukunft-mit-plan     Weitere Shownotes Pflegeversicherung (Wikipedia) : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pflegeversicherung_(Deutschland) Foucault, M. (2008) The birth of biopolitics: lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-79. Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France. Senellart, M. (ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 94.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277164772_Michel_Foucault_The_Birth_of_Biopolitics_Lectures_at_the_College_de_France_1978-1979_Edited_by_Michel_Senellart_Translated_by_Graham_Burchell_New_York_Palgrave_MacMillan_2008_ISBN_978-1403986542 Lewis, S. (2022) Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Brooklyn NY. Verso.: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2890-abolish-the-family Fraser, N. and Jaeggi, R. (2018) Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory.  Brian Milstein (ed.), Cambridge: Polity Press. pp. 47-58. https://www.academia.edu/38075239/Nancy_Fraser_and_Rahel_Jaeggi_Capitalism_A_Conversation_in_Critical_Theory Arbeitszeitrechnungsdebatte in der Jungle World: https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/31/faires-arbeiten https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/28/rechnen-ja-tauschen-nein https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/30/anders-als-im-kapitalismus https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/32/komplizierte-rechenschritte Arbeitszeiterfassung (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales): https://www.bmas.de/DE/Arbeit/Arbeitsrecht/Arbeitnehmerrechte/Arbeitszeitschutz/Fragen-und-Antworten/faq-arbeitszeiterfassung.html Arbeitszeiterfassung (ver.di): https://www.verdi.de/themen/recht-datenschutz/++co++0ba8cc14-1882-11ed-9793-001a4a160129 Lutosch, Heide. 2022. „Wenn das Baby schreit, dann möchte man doch hingehen“.: https://communaut.org/de/wenn-das-baby-schreit-dann-moechte-man-doch-hingehen Vortrag: „Wenn das Baby schreit, dann möchte man doch hingehen“. Ein feministischer Blick auf Arbeit, Freiwilligkeit und Bedürfnis in aktuellen linken Utopie Entwürfen von Heide Lutosch auf Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewN3gaAAr0Q Zu Care, siehe auch: https://care-revolution.org/   Thematisch angrenzende Folgen S02E38 | Eva von Redecker zu Bleibefreiheit und demokratischer Planung: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e38-eva-von-redecker-zu-bleibefreiheit-und-demokratischer-planung/ S02E32 Heide Lutosch zu feministischem Utopisieren in der Planungsdebatte: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e32-heide-lutosch-zu-feministischem-utopisieren-in-der-planungsdebatte/ S02E25 | Bini Adamczak zu Beziehungsweisen: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e25-bini-adamczak-zu-beziehungsweisen/ S01E37 | Eva von Redecker zur Revolution für das Leben: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e37-eva-von-redecker-zur-revolution-fuer-das-leben/   Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today  Diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurehistories.bsky.social auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories oder auf Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Keywords #HeideLutosch, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Interview, #CreativeConstruction, #CareArbeit, #Kinder, #Pflege, #KollektivierungDerCareArbeit, #Kinderbetreuung, #Bedürfnisorientierung, #Familie, #Beziehungen, #Bindung, #DemokratischePlanung, #Planungsdebatte, #BefreiteGesellschaft, #BedürfnisorientierteGesellschaft, #Sorge, #CreativeConstrucion, #ZeitschriftLuxemburg, #Planungsdebatte

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Renowned marxist feminist scholar Nancy Fraser joins us to discuss her recent book Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It (Verso 2022).  In this tightly argued and urgent volume, Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death.  Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the “Global Justice” Chair at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. Her books include Redistribution or Recognition; Adding Insult to Injury; Scales of Justice; Justice Interruptus; and Unruly Practices.  Cannibal Capitalism is available for purchase through Verso at https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts and guests, please contact  latampodcasts@gmail.com        

No es pintoresco, no es exótico ni decorativo y, desde luego, no permite versiones de bisuteria como las que se pueden hacer con esa culebrilla alquímica tan mona que se muerde la cola hasta que se devora. No es un anillo, es el capitalismo, que también se devora a sí mismo. Y tú vas dentro. Este párrafo podría ser un buen resumen del libro que nos ocupa hoy: “Capitalismo caníbal. Cómo nuestro sistema está devorando la democracia y el cuidado y el planeta, y qué podemos hacer con eso” (Nancy Fraser, Siglo XXI editores, 2023). Pero si a ti, como a nosotros, te apasiona Nancy Fraser puedes seguir leyendo. Los libros de Fraser tienen la virtud de ser directos, hacer partir la teoría crítica del sentido común, del realismo que llevamos dentro, porque nadie necesita una ristra de demostraciones para desvelar la crisis y los efectos del capitalismo. Basta con experimentos simples, que cualquiera puede hacer en casa: querer respirar, querer comer, querer dormir en una cama calentita, querer tener tiempo. Otra de las grandes contribuciones de Fraser, que reaparece aquí y allá en este libro, es su visión integral de la justicia, ese asunto del que no se discute en la política de izquierdas porque la moral es una enorme fuente de pasiones políticas, pero hemos convenido en que sea un asunto extra-político. Por supuesto, el texto de Fraser no necesita meter estas pullitas, se basta con recordar que una idea de justicia sin la adecuada articulación de los valores de redistribución, reconocimiento y representación produce monstruos. Ahora bien, este escenario de crisis constante, estructural, policéntrica no es suficiente para afectar de forma sería la legitimidad sistémica. Como una decena de marksfisheres nos han recordado, casi nadie cree que el capitalismo sea la mejor idea. De hecho, existe un entero sector de negocios basado sobre la premisa de que los más ricos se van a cargar el mundo y la gente les va a perder el cariño, de modo que tienen años para dar con un cohete de escape, construir un búnker, diseñar la varita mágica para que su jefe de seguridad no les esclavice. Si la perspectiva de la crisis de Fraser es brillante es porque descansa en una concepción ampliada del capitalismo y de su crisis: no se trata de un sistema económico, sino de una institucionalización extensa de un determinado orden social. En su estricta versión económica, el capitalismo tampoco era la pera, sino más bien ese régimen irracional y poco cercano a la libertad y a la buena vida de quien debe trabajar bajo el mismo. Pero esta perspectiva ampliada sube al máximo la apuesta. Así, a lo largo de las últimas décadas, Fraser ha identificado e historiado distintas esferas de la realidad social que el capitalismo se ha empeñado en excluir, como un medio para que las cuentas económicas y políticas le cuadren. En este ámbito de los pilares ¿no-económicos? Fraser sitúa a todos los pueblos, personas, territorios y riquezas que las economías centrales extraen sin compensación o con una compensación menor, debido a que existe un entramado colonial y racista, hacia fuera y hacia dentro, que permite esta expropiación acumulada. Entre estos pilares ¿no-económicos?, esta, por ejemplo, la esfera de la reproducción social. Esa conocida actividad de dar cuerda al mundo y a sus vivientes que se paga, cuando se hace, en peores condiciones que otras producciones, porque para eso está la virtud femenina, el amor, el contrato matrimonial, los linajes y la posibilidad de encalomar el ajuste de nuestros horarios imposibles a otras mujeres más pobres y con menos opciones. Otro tanto ocurre con las relaciones que el capitalismo adopta con la naturaleza: grifo o vertedero. Pozo sin fondo de materias primas (que es como se dice en económico “te voy a pagar un mojón y ya te lo devolveré caro como coche o barato como residuo”). Un otro constitutivo del nosotros prometeico. Y, por supuesto, existe toda una institucionalidad pública y común que lo protege, sostiene y amplía con distintos servicios públicos, saberes jurídicos y prácticas comunales estas actividades. En este contexto, crisis política no significa otra cosa que el viejo “no se os puede dejar solos”. Es decir, una necesidad creciente de romper el pacto social del bienestar y erosionar las bases de la democracia para poder orientar esas instituciones hacia el beneficio cortoplacista. Una perspectiva ampliada del capitalismo implica la inclusión de todos estos elementos en su análisis. Asimismo, entender que esas distintas esferas cuya subordinación hace posible que la institucionalidad capitalista profundice esa crisis estructural se alimentan y se constituyen de forma inescindible, como bien saben las resistencias a esas formas de injusticia. Encontramos aquí, al final del programa, este otro gran aporte de Fraser: la mejor forma de comprender el funcionamiento sistémico la han alcanzado las resistencias, cuando defienden la naturaleza y con eso su modo de vida y continuidad en el mundo, o cuando explican de qué manera la regulación de la extranjería es un producto de la misoginia tan intenso como el patriarcado intra-hogares. De este modo, la manera que propone la autora de diseñar una estrategia socialista, desde esa misma ambición sistémica, debe contar también con una noción ampliada de las alternativas, no solo economicista, y que se haga cargo de todas estas esferas. Es decir, un reto del volumen de nuestros problemas. Nos escuchamos. 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Previously exclusive to Patreon subscribers. The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first of the "exes" never quite goes away. Legendary socialist feminist and Marxist theorist Nancy Fraser joins TPS to discuss how this core insight can offer an overdue reassessment of the left's current canards on the family, race, the environment, and 'the political'. This is a big one!  Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive 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

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. 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

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, debate and decision among the broadest group of those affected. This book is intended, then, not as a finalized blueprint or technical report delivered from on high but as a conversation opener for democratic debate among my fellow citizens. – Christopher F. Zurn, Splitsville USA (2023) Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States (Routledge, 2023) argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that “Splitsville” represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. The publisher's summary above of Professor Zurn's latest book is a worthy overview, even more are the insightful thoughts and comments he shares in this interview. There is something here for everyone, as he shares insights about two key influences on his work - Honneth and Habermas, as well as his gratitude for his Northwestern graduate school experience under Thomas McCarthy in heady times when Nancy Fraser was still there. Zurn explains his argument ‘that democracy minimally requires a widely shared precommitment to obeying and accepting the outcomes of free, fair and regular elections for political representatives' and contends ‘if we look frankly at our current situation, we—the United States ‘we'—no longer sufficiently share this democratic precommitment.'  The professor elaborates on ideas and concepts such as ‘conflict entrepreneurs' and their manipulation of an existential framing of our political struggles to gain and maintain power. However, he also makes clear that the American public agrees at a ‘high level on the basic values of American society' and he expands his argument to ‘think about the complex constellation of values we want to realize in our politics'. As you will hear, Splitsville USA was written by an articulate and passionate voice that is both supportive and highly committed to saving representative government. Some of Professor Zurn's other books and chapters in edited books mentioned in this interview: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015) Chapter 12: ‘Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders' in  Axel Honneth: Critical Essays - With a Reply by Axel Honneth (2011) Introduction to The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009) Christopher Zurn is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her 2022 book, "Cannibal Capitalism", Professor Nancy Fraser argues that "capitalism harbors a deep-seated ecological contradiction that inclines it non-accidentally to environmental crisis."  Like the contradictions of capitalism that Karl Marx predicted would lead to crises and capitalism's ultimate downfall, Professor Fraser compelling lays out even more contradictions of capitalism that have all led to the multitude of crises humanity faces in 2023.  Racism, gender oppression, the lack of care, the threats to democracy, and the climate crisis are all inevitable consequences of capitalism, according to Professor Fraser, and none can truly be solved without turning our backs on capitalism altogether.  Professor Fraser joins The Climate Pod this week to dive deep into these topics and more. Co-hosts Brock and Ty also fondly remember their favorite Jimmy Buffett songs and the late musician's odd connection to The Climate Pod. Buy "Cannibal Capitalism" As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group.

This week, we cast a spell of double double toil and trouble and caught the pair from Burst Your Bubble; it's Andrew Tenzer and Ian Murray.  The duo behind a treasure trove of award-winning research on the culture of marketing, Andrew and Ian have recently launched a radical new consultancy powered by the art and science of perspective-taking.  There's no eye of newt or toe of frog in this cauldron of conversation topics, but the duo turned up the heat on studying politics, when their paths first crossed, monkeys, bananas, and pandas, provocative research, why Ian is sickened by the idea of the ‘London bubble', spotting bad research, whether the ad industry is left-leaning (h/t Steve Harrison), banning the word insight, and lots more.  ///// Follow Andrew and Ian on LinkedIn Check out Burst Your Bubble  Here's their workshop on research for open thinkers Read why we shouldn't trust our gut instinct And listen to our episode with Steve Harrison for good measure Timestamps (02:08) - Quick fire questions  (02:54) - Andrew's first jobs, failed music career, and how he got into research  (07:54) - What happened when Ian followed what interested him (13:43) - Their first joint research piece on gut instinct  (16:31) - How marketers compare to the rest of the population when it comes to taking notice of context (28:01) - The Myth of the ‘London Bubble' and why it sickens Ian (33:39) - Their new consultancy Burst Your Bubble (40:31) - Listener questions  (47:12) - 4 pertinent posers  Andrew and Ian's book recommendations are:  The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart  The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Lemon by Orlando Wood Look Out by Orlando Wood Decoded by Phil Barden  Obliquity by John Kay  Feminism for the 99% by Nancy Fraser  The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born by Nancy Fraser /////

A new format where top scholars and commentators respond to our biggest interviews! In TPS166 THE TWO EXES, we spoke to socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her groundbreaking new work of Marxist theory Cannibal Capitalism. In the inaugural TPS ROUNDTABLE, friends of TPS Jilly Boyce Kay, Olly Haynes, and Mareile Pfannebecker convene to debate Fraser's significance for protest, political movements, and political theory. SUBSCRIBE now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for the full interview with Nancy Fraser, or check out this taster @ the Popularity Media YouTube channel: 'A Defeated Left is a Dangerous Thing'. 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

The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first of the "exes" never quite goes away. Legendary socialist feminist and Marxist theorist Nancy Fraser joins TPS to discuss how this core insight can offer an overdue reassessment of the left's current canards on the family, race, the environment, and 'the political'. This is a big one! Subscribe now on Patreon for audio and video versions of the full interview! 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

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. 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

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In other words, like David Foster Wallace — who celebrates McCain for his display of “‘moral authority'” and commitment to “‘service' and ‘sacrifice' and ‘honor'” — Clinton responds to the extremes of free-market ideology by imagining that “American community” can be rebuilt through the practice of what he calls “old values,” or what Hillary Clinton calls, in a 1993 speech, the “politics of meaning.” In this sense, Clintonian rhetoric offers a particularly clear, particularly influential example of the kind of centrist “communitarianism” that would shape American writing and politics – including the politics of the party's next president, Barack Obama, a self-described “New Democrat” – for at least a generation." – Ryan M. Brooks, Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (2022) What happens when the right scholar expands his doctoral research to insightfully engage with the pressing issues of a fragmented American society by drawing together and contrasting visions of Reaganite and Clintonian neoliberalism and its implications for literature and politics moving forward? The answer is Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (Cambridge UP, 2022) by Ryan M. Brooks, professor of English and podcast host for Humanities on the High Plains. Professor Brooks' book is the latest in the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture which describes his efforts this way: Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers – including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others – grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this frantic right-wing shift while still performing its essential gesture, the personalization of otherwise irreducible social antagonisms. Thus, we see these writers reinvent political struggles as differences in values and emotions, in fictions that explore non-antagonistic social forms like families, communities and networks. Situating these formally innovative fictions in the context of the controversies that have defined this rightward shift – including debates over free trade, welfare reform, and family values – Brooks details how American writers and politicians have reinvented liberalism for the age of pro-capitalist consensus. Some of the other writers discussed in this interview: Bret Easton Ellis, Sesshu Foster, Sapphire, David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead William Davies, Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Georg Lukacs, Joe Klein, Robert Reich Ryan's critical and literary studies recommendations: Walter Benn Michaels - The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History; Daniel Zamora and Michael Behrent, ed. - Foucault and Neoliberalism; Melinda Cooper - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism; Nancy Fraser - Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis; Janice Peck – Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era; Eve Bertram - The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from New Deal to New Democrats Nonsite.org - a peer-reviewed online journal of arts and humanities scholarship Ryan M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television. He hosts the podcast Humanities on the High Plains. 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

"In other words, like David Foster Wallace — who celebrates McCain for his display of “‘moral authority'” and commitment to “‘service' and ‘sacrifice' and ‘honor'” — Clinton responds to the extremes of free-market ideology by imagining that “American community” can be rebuilt through the practice of what he calls “old values,” or what Hillary Clinton calls, in a 1993 speech, the “politics of meaning.” In this sense, Clintonian rhetoric offers a particularly clear, particularly influential example of the kind of centrist “communitarianism” that would shape American writing and politics – including the politics of the party's next president, Barack Obama, a self-described “New Democrat” – for at least a generation." – Ryan M. Brooks, Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (2022) What happens when the right scholar expands his doctoral research to insightfully engage with the pressing issues of a fragmented American society by drawing together and contrasting visions of Reaganite and Clintonian neoliberalism and its implications for literature and politics moving forward? The answer is Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (Cambridge UP, 2022) by Ryan M. Brooks, professor of English and podcast host for Humanities on the High Plains. Professor Brooks' book is the latest in the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture which describes his efforts this way: Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers – including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others – grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this frantic right-wing shift while still performing its essential gesture, the personalization of otherwise irreducible social antagonisms. Thus, we see these writers reinvent political struggles as differences in values and emotions, in fictions that explore non-antagonistic social forms like families, communities and networks. Situating these formally innovative fictions in the context of the controversies that have defined this rightward shift – including debates over free trade, welfare reform, and family values – Brooks details how American writers and politicians have reinvented liberalism for the age of pro-capitalist consensus. Some of the other writers discussed in this interview: Bret Easton Ellis, Sesshu Foster, Sapphire, David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead William Davies, Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Georg Lukacs, Joe Klein, Robert Reich Ryan's critical and literary studies recommendations: Walter Benn Michaels - The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History; Daniel Zamora and Michael Behrent, ed. - Foucault and Neoliberalism; Melinda Cooper - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism; Nancy Fraser - Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis; Janice Peck – Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era; Eve Bertram - The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from New Deal to New Democrats Nonsite.org - a peer-reviewed online journal of arts and humanities scholarship Ryan M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television. He hosts the podcast Humanities on the High Plains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

"In other words, like David Foster Wallace — who celebrates McCain for his display of “‘moral authority'” and commitment to “‘service' and ‘sacrifice' and ‘honor'” — Clinton responds to the extremes of free-market ideology by imagining that “American community” can be rebuilt through the practice of what he calls “old values,” or what Hillary Clinton calls, in a 1993 speech, the “politics of meaning.” In this sense, Clintonian rhetoric offers a particularly clear, particularly influential example of the kind of centrist “communitarianism” that would shape American writing and politics – including the politics of the party's next president, Barack Obama, a self-described “New Democrat” – for at least a generation." – Ryan M. Brooks, Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (2022) What happens when the right scholar expands his doctoral research to insightfully engage with the pressing issues of a fragmented American society by drawing together and contrasting visions of Reaganite and Clintonian neoliberalism and its implications for literature and politics moving forward? The answer is Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (Cambridge UP, 2022) by Ryan M. Brooks, professor of English and podcast host for Humanities on the High Plains. Professor Brooks' book is the latest in the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture which describes his efforts this way: Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers – including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others – grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this frantic right-wing shift while still performing its essential gesture, the personalization of otherwise irreducible social antagonisms. Thus, we see these writers reinvent political struggles as differences in values and emotions, in fictions that explore non-antagonistic social forms like families, communities and networks. Situating these formally innovative fictions in the context of the controversies that have defined this rightward shift – including debates over free trade, welfare reform, and family values – Brooks details how American writers and politicians have reinvented liberalism for the age of pro-capitalist consensus. Some of the other writers discussed in this interview: Bret Easton Ellis, Sesshu Foster, Sapphire, David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead William Davies, Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Georg Lukacs, Joe Klein, Robert Reich Ryan's critical and literary studies recommendations: Walter Benn Michaels - The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History; Daniel Zamora and Michael Behrent, ed. - Foucault and Neoliberalism; Melinda Cooper - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism; Nancy Fraser - Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis; Janice Peck – Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era; Eve Bertram - The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from New Deal to New Democrats Nonsite.org - a peer-reviewed online journal of arts and humanities scholarship Ryan M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television. He hosts the podcast Humanities on the High Plains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

"In other words, like David Foster Wallace — who celebrates McCain for his display of “‘moral authority'” and commitment to “‘service' and ‘sacrifice' and ‘honor'” — Clinton responds to the extremes of free-market ideology by imagining that “American community” can be rebuilt through the practice of what he calls “old values,” or what Hillary Clinton calls, in a 1993 speech, the “politics of meaning.” In this sense, Clintonian rhetoric offers a particularly clear, particularly influential example of the kind of centrist “communitarianism” that would shape American writing and politics – including the politics of the party's next president, Barack Obama, a self-described “New Democrat” – for at least a generation." – Ryan M. Brooks, Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (2022) What happens when the right scholar expands his doctoral research to insightfully engage with the pressing issues of a fragmented American society by drawing together and contrasting visions of Reaganite and Clintonian neoliberalism and its implications for literature and politics moving forward? The answer is Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era (Cambridge UP, 2022) by Ryan M. Brooks, professor of English and podcast host for Humanities on the High Plains. Professor Brooks' book is the latest in the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture which describes his efforts this way: Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers – including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others – grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this frantic right-wing shift while still performing its essential gesture, the personalization of otherwise irreducible social antagonisms. Thus, we see these writers reinvent political struggles as differences in values and emotions, in fictions that explore non-antagonistic social forms like families, communities and networks. Situating these formally innovative fictions in the context of the controversies that have defined this rightward shift – including debates over free trade, welfare reform, and family values – Brooks details how American writers and politicians have reinvented liberalism for the age of pro-capitalist consensus. Some of the other writers discussed in this interview: Bret Easton Ellis, Sesshu Foster, Sapphire, David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead William Davies, Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Georg Lukacs, Joe Klein, Robert Reich Ryan's critical and literary studies recommendations: Walter Benn Michaels - The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History; Daniel Zamora and Michael Behrent, ed. - Foucault and Neoliberalism; Melinda Cooper - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism; Nancy Fraser - Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis; Janice Peck – Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era; Eve Bertram - The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from New Deal to New Democrats Nonsite.org - a peer-reviewed online journal of arts and humanities scholarship Ryan M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television. He hosts the podcast Humanities on the High Plains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Dr. Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do About It, brings "a trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite".(Note: This is a reupload of an episode initially uploaded January 4th.)

Mises à l'écart depuis trop longtemps, les communautés noires, indigènes et à faibles revenus sont aujourd'hui les plus vulnérables face aux événements climatiques. Ceux qui souffrent le plus de l'injustice, de la pauvreté et de la violence sont aussi ceux qui pourraient être les plus impactés par les changements à venir. Comment concevoir des politiques environnementales justes et inclusives ? Comment intégrer l'expérience de l'ensemble des populations aux prises de décisions ?[Ce podcast a été produit en partenariat avec l'Ambassade des États-Unis d'Amérique en France]Intervenant·e·s :Charles Lee, conseiller au bureau de la justice environnementale de l'EPA (Agence américaine de protection de l'environnement)Matthew Tejada, directeur du bureau de la justice environnementale de l'EPA (Agence américaine de protection de l'environnement)Nancy Fraser, professeur à la New School for Social Research de New YorkCRÉDITS : Adapt or What? est un podcast Binge Audio, un hors-série Programme B produit en partenariat avec l'Ambassade des États-Unis d'Amérique en France. Présenté par Thomas Rozec. Prise de son et réalisation : Quentin Bresson. Production et édition : Albane Fily, Lorraine Besse et Charlotte Baix. Direction de projet : Soraya Kerchaoui-Matignon. Communication : Jeanne Longhini et Lise Niederkorn. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Sam is back! Him and Emma speak with Nancy Fraser, professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research, to discuss her recent book Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet-and What We Can Do About It. Emma and Sam first run through updates on Elon polling his own demise, the continued failures of the New York Democratic Party, referrals from the 1/6 committee, and the complete lack of excitement for either likely nominee in 2024. Nancy Fraser then joins as she parses through the multi-layered general crisis of capitalism that we find ourselves in the midst of today, the deeply irrational nature of capitalism as a social structure, and why a critique of capitalism must extend beyond a solely economic lens. Thus, expanding on a solely Marxist critique of capitalism, Professor Fraser walks through her work on a larger view of capitalism and its crises, first tackling the economic crisis of work and the disappearance of decent paying labor, before also touching on the crisis of care, and the ongoing environmental crisis, all stemming from capitalism's constant undermining of any regulatory capacities. After walking through the evolution of capitalism from its mercantile inception, through the industrial and fossil fuel revolution, to the downfall of New Deal Capitalism as the West turned to Neoliberalism, Emma, Sam, and Nancy explore the COVID-19 Pandemic as an intersection of the various strands of crises within capitalism, and what we can learn about tracing our society's myriad failures back to the social structure of capitalism. Wrapping up, Professor Fraser dives into the importance of expanding the anti-capitalist front, exploring what we can learn from the far-left and far-right brands of populism that have come about, and what the role of theory is in this project against capitalism. And in the Fun Half: Sam parses through his new identity find through cruising, and he and Emma tackle the highlights from this weekend's Turning Point USA conference, as Kari Lake brings back that whole “deplorables” thing, and Josh Hawley begs his audience to stop jerking off. Cameron from Indianapolis discusses a history of regional public transportation, Mark from LA tells of his harrowing experiences with Jazz Daredevil Whisky Highball, and Richard from Western PA discusses the disrespect for non-romantic partnerships in the debate on the Respect for Marriage act. They also tackle Elon trying to reconcile his desire to be loved with being a tremendous ass who makes the world a worse place, and talk Senate reform with Jay from NC, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Nancy's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3859-cannibal-capitalism Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: Aura: Protect yourself from America's fastest-growing crime. Try Aura for 14 days for free: https://aura.com/majority Givewell: Many of us open our hearts and make donations during the holiday season. But when you donate, how can you feel confident that your donations are really making a big impact? GiveWell spends over 30,000 hours each year researching charitable organizations and only directs funding to a few of the HIGHEST-IMPACT, EVIDENCE-BACKED opportunities they've found.If you've never donated to GiveWell's recommended charities before, you can have your donation matched up to ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS before the end of the year or as long as matching funds last. To claim your match, go to https://givewell.org/ and pick PODCAST and enter The Majority Report with Sam Seder at checkout. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

Nancy Fraser joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It'. In the book, Nancy argues that we need to move away from seeing capitalism solely in economic terms, and instead reckon with how capital is always reliant on cannibalising the non-economic, from the natural environment to providers of care and social reproduction, and from the political sphere to racialised populations subject to brutal expropriation outside of the wage system.

Capitalism, COVID & the climate crisis are interconnected. Capitalism careens from one disaster to another. Its inequalities are grotesque. The pandemic is likely to take on new forms in the future. The climate emergency is all too obvious. The latest IPCC report, the UN agency on climate, makes for sobering reading. It warns that dire impacts from climate change will arrive sooner than many expect. The co-chair of the working group behind the report said, "Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.” Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said some governments and businesses were “lying” in claiming to be on track for 1.5C. He warned: “Some government and business leaders are saying one thing – but doing another. Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”

Dr. Nancy Fraser - The Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She works on social and political theory, feminist theory, and contemporary French and German thought. She joins Tavis for a conversation unpacking her new book “Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It.” A book which gives a trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world

Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making, ecological extraction, sexism, racism, and more. Dan's 2018 interview from the archives.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making, borders, appropriation of nature, sexism, racism, and more. Dan's 2018 interview from the archives. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig