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Nov 19 2024 80 ep. 114 mins 2.7k
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Recordings of a regular seminar on radical theory, culture and politics led by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London.

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From Marx to Spinoza Q&A session

Nov 19 2024 73 mins  
This is a recording of the most recent seminar in our From Marx to Spinoza series. This was a fantastic discussion; it was mostly one for the folks who are deeply involved in the series, but if you are just casually interested in what we make of the ‘New Materialism’, then it’s certainly worth a […]

US Election, UK Budget, New Tory Leader

Nov 19 2024 106 mins  
In the latest emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson talks to Jeremy about the political implications of the recent UK budget, the re-election of Donald Trump, and the Conservative Party becoming the first major British political party to elect a Black woman as Leader. For more information about the podcast and project see culturepowerpolitics.org If you can […]

The Searchers with Andy Beckett

Sep 02 2024 154 mins  
Andy Beckett discusses his new book about 5 key figures of the British Labour left: Tony Benn, Diane Abbot, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell. The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies was published earlier this year by Allen Lane. Andy and Jem go deep into some […]

 Spinoza and Ideology Critique with Warren Montag

Jul 28 2024 102 mins  
This was the latest seminar in our ongoing sub-series: From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality. The series is organised by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert. In this session we were honoured to be joined by one of the greatest Anglophone scholars of Spinozist Marxism: Warren Montag. This was a fantastically lucid and […]

UK General Election 2024 – The Results

Jul 05 2024 127 mins  
In the latest emergency podcast, Jeremy and Alan Finlayson dissect the historic results of the 2024 UK general election. For more information about the podcast and project see culturepowerpolitics.org If you can support us with a small regular donation, please do so here. If you’d like to make a one-time donation, please do so here.

Spinoza and Marx on Work

Jun 18 2024 124 mins  
This is the recording of the latest seminar in our series ‘From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality‘ This time, our own Jason Read discusses his recent book The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. If you want a more basic introduction to the book then here’s a video, and if […]

UK General Election, Mid-Campaign

Jun 18 2024 122 mins  
This is the second of our ’emergency podcasts’ with Professor Alan Finlayson during the UK’s 2024 general election. Alan and Jem discuss the controversies of Labour’s de-selection of left-wing parliamentary candidates. the entry of Nigel Farage into the campaign, the politics of the party manifestos and the long-term crisis of the Conservative Party. Come for […]

UK General Election 2024

May 24 2024 87 mins  
Jeremy is joined once again by Alan Finlayson for an emergency podcast. We discuss the political situation in the UK, at the start of a general election campaign that nobody thought would be happening exactly now. For more information about Culture, Power and Politics see here. If you can support us with a small regular donation, […]

The Affective Turn

May 06 2024 179 mins  
In this session, we look at the so-called ‘affective turn’ in the humanities and social sciences since the late 1990s. We consider the multiple forms which this ‘turn’ to affect has taken, in both political terms (from libertarian accelerationists to radical communists) and disciplinary ( from film theory to geography), asking how Spinozan it all […]

When Marx Met Spinoza with Tracie Matysik

Mar 19 2024 163 mins  
In this session we were joined by Tracie Matysik to discuss the very idea of a Spinozan philosophy beyond the writings of Baruch Spinoza himself, and particular in the work of Marx. To what extent is there a consistent tradition of materialist monism that can be traced back to Spinoza and necessarily or possibly informs historical materialism? […]