this fits nicely into work by Melinda Cooper on US welfarism and neoliberalism.

This is brilliant.  You've changed my reading list and priorities.  Thanks.

Emma Dowling joins PTO to talk about her new book 'The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It'. We chatted about the scale of the care crisis today, how social reproduction theory can help us to make sense of the crisis, and we also talked about how conservatives conceive of care and of how they believe practices of care should be undertaken.

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? w/ Emma Dowling

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert dig into the politics of folk. With music from The Pogues, Steeleye Span and Enigma, the gang discuss island cults, progressive patriotism, Communist folkies and the pitfalls of accelerationism. Turn on, tune in, muck out!

Music: Woodie Guthrie - You Gotta Join That One Big Union / Steeleye Span - Hard Times of Old England / The Pogues - The Irish Rover / The Incredible String Band - The Hedgehog's Song / Ewan MacColl and The Pogues - Dirty Old Town / Billy Bragg - A New England / Enigma - Return To Innocence

Books: Alex Niven - Folk Opposition / Simon Reynolds & Joy Press - The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll / Raymond Williams - Culture and Society; The Country and the City / Fred Turner - From Counterculture to Cyberculture / Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work / Simon L. Lewis & Mark A. Maslin - The Human Planet

Film and TV: The Wicker Man / Blood on Satan’s Claw / Straw Dogs / Deliverance / The Owl Service / The Good Life

Other: My Albion podcast

Produced and edited by Chal Ravens and Matt Huxley. PRS Licence Number: LE-0016481

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#ACFM Trip 15: Folk

Robbie Shilliam joins PTO to talk about his article, 'Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician' which appeared in the New Political Economy Journal. We spoke about how Enoch Powell, far from being a political throwback was in fact a key figure in the emergence of neoliberalism and Thatcherism, and how his politics presaged the Brexit project. We also chatted about how Powell, in contrast to many conservatives became hostile to nostalgia for the British Empire and how he believed that an independent Britain, neither ruling an empire, nor becoming part of the embryonic European Union would find its proper place in the world.

Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam

Owen Hatherley joins PTO to discuss a new career spanning collection of his writings, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. We talked about the early 2000s blogging scene as a reaction to New Labour, Owen's writings on music and how Black Box Recorder's work seemed to anticipate the world of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. And finally, we talked about Owen's review of K-Punk - the collected writings of Mark Fisher - and the strange phenomenon of American leftists seeing Fisher as a "class first" social democrat, shorn of his theoretical touchstones.

Clean living under difficult circumstances w/ Owen Hatherley

What do we mean by solidarity? Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert consider the real meaning of a much-used word in this unusual Trip, recorded live as part of HKW's online festival, Acid Communism: Spectres of the Counterculture.

With music from Nina Simone, The Youngbloods and The Special AKA, the gang consider the legacy of the counterculture in creating solidarity between liberation campaigns, what happened to solidarity with the emergence of identity politics in the 1980s, and how the flourishing of mutual aid during the pandemic might have a lasting impact on culture.

Music: The Youngbloods - 'Get Together' / The Specials AKA - 'Nelson Mandela' / Nina Simone - 'Revolution'
Books: Emma Dabiri - What White People Can Do Next / Jeremy Gilbert - Notes Towards a Theory of Solidarity / Rodrigo Nunes - Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization / Asad Haider - Mistaken Identity

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS Licence Number: LE-0016481

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#ACFM Trip 17: Solidarity

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Okinawa-based artist Kanako Horiuchi centres her practice around her voice and the sanshin - an Okinawan musical instrument and precursor of the mainland Japanese shamisen – but opens the aesthetic possibilities of the instrument wide open, including excursions into electronic music, Senagelese music, minimalism and more. On 'Hope' she explores both the opaque nature of our current times and the glimmer of hope we can find in different places. ‘Darkness’ dives into the present with industrial synth washes and electronic drum cycles, before setting new co-ordinates on with the help of a drifting Okinawan Taiko on ‘Break Away’. On ‘Hope’ she shares vocal refrains with her 2 year old daughter, telling the tale of a buddha's arrival, world peace, mothers and the sea appearing. On final track ‘thanks’, recorded in Senegal before lock-down, she returns her instrument to folkloric traditions of the country, embracing the hope that can be gained through travel, exploration and generational love between mothers and children.
“I never thought the covid-19 pandemic would affect my personal life, but it did. Somehow I wanted to formalise my thoughts and feelings I have had over this period into music.

Okinawa, the county of Japan once used to be an independent country /kingdom, totally independent from Japan and any other country, has gone through and still has been going through the many layers of dark long history. I believe there are many places like Okinawa in the rest of the world. I wanted to make the music of Hope.” - Kanako Horiuchi

TR053 - Kanako Horiuchi - 'Hope'

Kate Soper joins me to talk about her new book, 'Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism'.  We chatted about why a transition to a sustainable, post-growth economy need not mean privation and a reduction of pleasure but instead an increase in human flourishing. We also talked about why consumerism should be seen neither as an expression of sovereign public choice, nor as mere surrender to the manipulations of the advertising industry.

#97 For an alternative hedonism w/ Kate Soper

Looking Glass Spiral

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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.

#ACFM Trip 14: Desire

Gavin Mueller joins PTO for part two of our conversation on his new book, 'Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites were Right About Why You Hate Your Job'. We talked about Taylorism and the deskilling of workers, how automation was used by American military planners during the Vietnam war in order to maintain control of the increasingly mutinous US Army, and finally we talked about why - in spite of how the increasing deployment of deskilling technologies made working conditions worse and more dangerous - many union leaders in both the United States and Europe supported the imposition of these new technologies.

#111 Why the Luddites were right (part 2) w/ Gavin Mueller

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