At the end of the 1980s, China's leaders came close to implementing the kind of economic shock therapy reforms that a few years later caused a social and economic catastrophe in the former Soviet Union and much of eastern Europe. A moment of enormous significance for Chinese and world history, Isabella Weber explains how and why China came to the brink of initiating an economic "big bang", and why ultimately the leadership chose to pursue a gradualist process of market reform instead.

Later this month Isabella will be taking part in the book's official launch, along with James Galbraith, Branko Milanović and Bin Wong. You can register here if you would like to attend:

https://tinyurl.com/4ybec9z2

How China escaped shock therapy w/ Isabella Weber

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am i talking loud
they tell me yeah  

i say i cannot control it
they say its driving them mad  

if you got a number i got a name
jesus christ better not hang up and explain  

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he will follow all the way

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c-c-c-c-c-cut to the take

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he will follow all the way

flesh!
cut to the cut to the play
make the bastard chase you
he will follow all the way
follow all the way
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yeah and its cool
c-c-c-cut to the take  

make that fucker chase you
he will follow all the way
follow all the way
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Cut to the Play

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Another jam using the Strymon Big Sky. Deckards Dream steals the show at the end with some huge chords!

Video: https://youtu.be/e0NxnbdXHoM

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Log on to any social media and you'll be plunged into a whirlwind of demands for recognition, each voice trying to shout louder than the others. And for decades, political theorists have thought that the demand for recognition is one of the most powerful forces driving popular discontent – on right and left. But what happens to the demand for recognition when it collides with the digital platform? Who seeks recognition and from whom, and why has reputation become so politically important? And is this linked to the degradation of the public sphere? Will Davies, Professor in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, has written on the politics of recognition and reputation in the digital era for the New Left Review. He joins James Butler to discuss that transformation, and delve into the secret explanation linking together online outrage machines, why apparently prosperous right-wing voters identify as 'left behind', and the modern hunger for authenticity. https://novaramedia.com/?p=35477

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

#NovaraFM: Notice Me! Recognition and Reputation in the Platform Age

Pre-order date: 15th September 2021
Release date: 22th September 2021
Format: Cassette, Digital

Featuring: Chie Otomi, Moss Covered Technology, No Death

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Silencing of the reefs forject in collaboration with TBA21 Academy. Recorded in Greenland, Belize, Dominican republic 2007, 2012 and 2013.

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Each installment of this ongoing portfolio series features an original audio recording by a musician, composer, or sound artist along with their commentary. Projects range from raw documentation of live performances to sound collage and experiments with aleatory music. Click here for more details: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/field-recording-3/

Lea Bertucci: Field Recording #8

Line Clean 9-6 was a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Resonance Extra as part of Strands, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Line Clean 9 – 6 is composed around a series of abstract, rhythmic recordings made on shift at work (in the cellar of a pub), household objects (bins, bikes and cookers) and snippets of found sound recorded on a phone. Using a process of layering and splicing plus augmenting with ‘traditional’ instruments, he aims to draw out the beauty and musicality in everyday sound exploiting the harmonic and structural qualities inherent in everything we hear. The resulting collage combines, water pumps, beer kegs, bin lids, sound checks, bouzouki, clarinet, MS20, cowbells, choral polyphony, pipes and whistles.

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Oliver Pitt - Line Clean 9 - 6

In this episode CRMEP's Peter Osborne reflects on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, 50 years after its first (posthumous) publication in 1970. He addresses the book, the history of its English-language reception and its significance today.
(The names mentioned at the end of the podcast are: Asha Varadharajan,
Fred Moten and Fumi Okiji.)

Adorno's 'Aesthetic Theory' 50 Years On. (Peter Osborne)

A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by Alex Doherty.

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Contact: politicstheoryother@gmail.com

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