The World Transformed

Sep 25 2022 100 ep. 60 mins 6.7k

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A four day festival of music, art & politics building power to Transform the World. Debates, discussion & other sounds from Liverpool & Brighton. If you have audio from previous festivals please get in touch so we can share it here.

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04 Act 4 Late Summer V2 - Three Sisters - The End of the Project

Sep 25 2022 31 mins

How to live? In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live? Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflinchingly at what might change and

03 Act 3 Night Time V2 - Three Sisters - The End of the Project

Sep 25 2022 35 mins

How to live? In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live? Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflinchingly at what might change and

02 Act 2 Winter V2 - Three Sisters - The End of the Project

Sep 25 2022 37 mins

How to live? In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live? Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflinchingly at what might change and

01 Prologue And Act 01 Spring V2. - Three Sisters – The End of the Project

Sep 25 2022 35 mins

How to live? In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live? Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflinchingly at what might change and

Know Your Enemy Week 4 - Gargi Bhattacharyya and Richard Seymour

Jan 11 2022 47 mins

Week 4 advance viewing for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. In this session, Gargi and Richard Seymour discuss: - In what way are the Tories trying to recompose the state? Is the party a unified actor? - Does the Ruling Class really rule? And if so, how do they do it? - Does Nationalism serve to build an alliance of the different parts of the right in Britain? - Why is it that m

Know Your Enemy - Week 3 with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Sita Balani

Dec 02 2021 33 mins

Week 3 of The World Transformed's "Know Your Enemy" course. In this interview, Gargi Bhattacharya talks to Sita Balani about how the right is changing today, starting with Stuart Hall’s essay The Great Moving Right Show on the emergence of Thatcherism and tracing the current terrain with “Johnsonism”, the new authoritarianism and the differences between how elite interests a

Know Your Enemy - Week 2 with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Tom Mills

Nov 26 2021 40 mins

Week 2 advance watching for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. Gargi Bhattacharyya and Tom Mills discuss: - Who are the elite in this country? - How should we understand the state? - What is corporate power? How does it relate to other forms of power? - What techniques of power analysis might be useful to us?

Book launch! Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan

Jul 28 2021 78 mins

For people today, hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. In response, we've seen increased demand from the left for workers to join a union. But what can workers achieve when they unionise their workplace and rally around a set of demands? How do

Understanding TWT: The New Left with Hilary Wainwright

Jun 22 2021 34 mins

In this week's episode of Understanding TWT, we spoke to Red Pepper co-editor and co-founder Hilary Wainwright. Hilary spoke to us about the history of the ‘new left’ from the Hungarian revolution of 1956, how the Soviet Union’s domination of its bordering countries led many socialists to re-evaluate their understanding of Marx and relationship to the party and state, how TW

Understanding TWT: Collective Joy with Jeremy Gilbert

Jun 14 2021 25 mins

Introducing "Understanding TWT" - a series on the ideas and concepts that have inspired our work. First up, a presentation on the role of 'affect' (bodily emotion) in political practice, what we mean by 'collective joy', why these are essential for building a mass political movement, and how TWT has and can continue to embed this thinking in its work. Political theorist, DJ and