@petitfruflou-1: Good idea! I'd love to chat with Brett again - his new book is on the stack.

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Vivian Gornick joins me to talk about her classic book, 'The Romance of American Communism'. We spoke about her experience of growing up amongst communists and socialists in the Bronx in the 1930s, how she sought to counter simplistic depictions of the lives of American communists and how - in spite of its authoritarianism - the American Communist Party enabled ordinary men and women to feel connected to a larger human project.

#90 The Romance of American Communism w/ Vivian Gornick

Simon Whetham - (R)ASSEMBLE - YARMONICS 2020

Cara Tolmie's practice centres itself upon the voice, the body and the complex ties between the two. At once subjective as well as socially determined, she explores voice and body as two codependent entities able to prompt as well as contradict one another. 

Here, on her debut release, her vocal ruminations explore a practice of sounding on both the inhale and exhale as well as a self-soothing touch strategy she developed in reaction to symptoms triggered by post-concussion syndrome. In an attempt to displace vocality towards and through parts of the body extraneous to the mouth, Cara lets sounds forge paths and encircle the body's inner topography, soaking her voice through a labyrinth of pumping blood, organs and the touch of skin.

The result is a music that offers snapshots of the body tempered by different conditions; resting, moving, listening, pleasure, strain and sensitivity. Cara invokes waves of sound; sometimes calm and meditative, sometimes teetering on discomfort; sometimes falling into an anxious refrain. 'Lit by a Car' offers the space and time to come to terms with these feelings and give them life - letting the breath of voice twist and turn in compellingly peculiar new directions.

TR071 - Cara Tolmie - 'towards a party (of 3 or 4 or 5)'

We speak to sociologist and researcher Dr Artyom Tonoyan about the current flare up in conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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94. Armenia and Azerbaijan's Battle for Nagorno-Karabakh

Brett Christophers joins PTO to talk about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why the concept of rentierisation is more useful and accurate than the notion of financialisation when talking about the trajectory of the UK and world economies, and we also talked about how and why entrepreneurialism and competitiveness are values that are taken up far more by ordinary people in the labour market than by UK business.

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#103 Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? w/ Brett Christophers

Jeremy Gilbert joins PTO to discuss why the Corbyn and Sanders projects ultimately foundered. We talked about the significance of personality and strategy versus deeper historical tendencies, and why the Corbyn leadership seemed to prefer a critique of austerity to a broader attack on the neoliberal era. Our discussion was prompted by Jeremy's article in Open Democracy, 'We lost because we weren’t big enough'.

UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

Alison Phipps joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism'. We chatted about the MeToo movement and what it reveals about the mainstream of feminist politics, how violence against women is necessary to the project of capitalist globalisation and how the image of the imperilled white woman has been central to the project of empire both formal and informal.

#106 The trouble with mainstream feminism w/ Alison Phipps

Gavin Mueller joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job'. In the first part of our conversation we talk about the history of the Luddites, why their reputation for conservative technophobia is undeserved and how their struggles to resist the imposition of new deskilling technologies are relevant to the contemporary workplace. We also talked about the problems of leftwing techno-utopianism.

#109 Why the Luddites were right (part 1) w/ Gavin Mueller

Once, it was enough just to work. Now everyone – from self-help gurus to employment counsellors, from superstar artists to glassy-eyed Silicon Valley CEOs – tells us we have to love it as well. Why? When did this change happen? And what should we love, if not work? Sarah Jaffe has reported for years on work and workers' organisation on both sides of the Atlantic, and joins James Butler to explain why work really will never love us back. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone is available from Hurst Publishers.   https://novaramedia.com/?p=30396

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#NovaraFM: I Am Not My Work

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert explore the political power of desire from the storming of the Capitol to the millenarian strands of Corbynism, with music from Portishead and the Au Pairs.

Music: Portishead - Glory Box / Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die / Alton McClain & Destiny - Crazy Love / Alternative TV - Love Lies Limp / The Au Pairs - It's Obvious

Books: Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus / Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams / Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise / Wilhelm Reich - The Mass Psychology of Fascism / Nick Hornby - High Fidelity / Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man / Adkins, Konings & Cooper - The Asset Economy / Alex Williams - On Negative Solidarity and Post-Fordist Plasticity

Produced by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens.

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#ACFM Trip 14: Desire

Should we all be vegan or vegetarian? Does climate change require a new relationship to nature and non-human animals? And will Covid-19 be the moment when we realise industrial farming carries devastating, unacceptable risks? Aaron Bastani speaks to the author of 'Animal Liberation' and professor of bioethics at Princeton University, Peter Singer.

Downstream: Should We All Be Vegan? w/ Peter Singer

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