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Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano join PTO to talk about Adam Curtis's new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head. We chatted about Curtis' politics, the changes in his documentary style since the early 1990s, and why he avoids talking about neoliberalism.

HyperCurtisisation w/ Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano

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

Jason Hickel joins PTO to talk about his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. In part one of the interview we discussed the comprehensive and all-encompassing character of the ecological crisis which extends well beyond the issue of CO2 emissions. We also talked about the violent emergence of capitalism, and how that process entailed the radical transformation of human subjectivity and how humans relate to the natural world. Finally, we talked about the emergence of GDP as an indicator of societal progress and well being.

Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part one)

Music by Nadalands. Mixed by Will Holtz. Harmony vocals by Virginia Bradley. Harmony part by Alexis Stevens.

The Loan Officer (Socialism or Barbarism)

Jason Hickel returns to PTO for the second part of a two part interview on his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. We talked about the concept of 'green growth', and why the notion of decoupling growth from intensive resource use is ultimately unconvincing. We also chatted about the Green New Deal and whether it is compatible with the politics of degrowth. And finally we talked about Jason's argument that a green energy and resource transition, if undertaken with no challenge to the growth imperative of capitalism, could pave the way for radically increased exploitation of workers.

Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part two)

Perception & Mick James - Live on VisionradioUK (23.02.22)

Kojo Koram returns to PTO to talk about his new book, Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. We chatted about how the British empire and its legacy continues to structure the UK and world economies, and why the supposed opposition between critics of Britain's imperial inheritance and the material concerns of ordinary working class people - ignores the way the economic innovations of empire and decolonisation - from tax havens and outsourcing, to the corporate form, itself - continue to structure all of our lives.

How the legacies of empire continue to shape the world w/ Kojo Koram

Arun Kudnani joins PTO to talk about his article, The Racial Constitution of Neoliberalism which appeared in the Race & Class journal. We talked about how neoliberalism has generated novel forms of racism that cannot be understood simply as residual phenomena from the pre-neoliberal era, why it was that the key neoliberal thinkers were as fixated on defeating leftist movements in the global south during the Cold War as they were on defeating the European and American Labour movements, and finally we talked about whether it is possible to imagine a form of capitalism that is able to dispense with racialisation.

The racial constitution of neoliberalism w/ Arun Kudnani

September 2014 Arcade - Khutor's Ruin

From the tyranny of exercise to the crisis of policing, via the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), Mark Greif’s Against Everything is an essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism and a vital scrutiny of the contradictions arising between our desires and the excuses we make. 

In a wide-ranging conversation for the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Mark Greif and Brian Dillon discuss modes of critique and cultural forms, and the role of the intellectual in stripping away the veil of everyday life.

Against Everything: On Dishonest Times by Mark Greif is available now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2256-against-everything

Mark Greif is a founder and editor of n+1 magazine. 

Brian Dillon is a writer and critic.  He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches critical writing at the Royal College of Art.

Against Everything: Mark Greif and Brian Dillon in conversation

This one's a journey! Nearly 6 hours, it's the recording of the whole night down at Peckham's Rye Wax, me and Jerome Hill bussin out all shades of the rave new and old b2b from start to finish at JERK. Saying you've got White Line's to Trace's Sonar doesn't even start to scratch the surface. And talking of scratching, there's decksterity a plenty with Jerome bending it. And talking of talking, well, listen in and let the blend of music do it....

Next JERK: Friday September 15th 2017
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JERK - Jerome Hill B2b Warlock @Rye Wax - July 1st

Tom Mills joins me to discuss the problems of the UK media, the Labour Party leadership's proposals for media reform, and the media class's aversion to workplace democracy.

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#22 Tom Mills on reforming the UK media

This is gonna be one heck of a show because it's a LAUNCH PARTY for our new release on our RIOT Radio Records label. And the man responsible for the release, Jerome Hill, has jumped back on board the RIOT train with a humpin' humdinger of a set to celebrate. 

'Voices Of Dissent' vinyl 12" and digital download is available to buy from our website or Bandcamp page NOW! @ riotradiorecords.bandcamp.com/album/voic…-dissent-2 & riotradiorecords.com/store/jerome-h…es-of-dissent/

This release sees the welcome return of Jerome to RIOT Radio Records for a second outing with three original tracks and a blustering ‘Bar Room Rumble’ of a remix by those Swedish lunatics TSR. The Don’t master is once again on top form with his own unique style of funkin’ and bumpin’ and wonk to make you stomp. It’ll even shake your body’s as yet undiscovered Cuban hip movements to bust a move or two from the over indulgent rhumba mayhem it’ll stir up within. Enjoy .................... LOUD.

Track List:

Tim Taylor & DJ Slip - Pleasure Unit (Jerome Hill Remix)
MASC - Nine Oh
Neil Landstrumm (Feat. Alan Parley) - Modini29
Truncate & Chambray - Trax 4 The Club
David Vunk - No Winners No Losers
TVIS - 1234
Jerome Hill - Breakneck Rhumba
Unknown Archetype - Tripp
Temudo - Tough To Say
OverworX - Untitled
Alexander Kowalski - Lost Episodes
Ara-U - Arvo's Sound Speech
Jerome Hill - Lunacy Module
Joey Beltram - Time
DJ Hyperactive - Wide Open (Len Faki DJ Edit)
Asquith - Conditioning Track
Kikoman - Noise Box
Ancestor - Control
Caspar Hastings - Renegade Rizla
Pump Panel - To The Sky
Kareem Smith - Nice Mix 
Michael Wells aka GTO - Bounce Back
Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Mellotron

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Jerome Hill DJ set on RIOT - 31st January 2020

My guest this week is Mark Iration. I drove up to the High Rise Studio in Leeds where we sat down to talk about how he started out in music, the birth of Iration Steppas and how Mark and the crew evolved into one of the most successful & highly influential sound systems out there. I’ve known Mark a long time so, it was great to sit down and talk through his life in dub and hear about buying records in long since closed record shops and being king of the ghetto blaster in Leeds.

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LIFE IN DUB PODCAST #5 MARK IRATION hosted by Steve Vibronics

In celebration of Joe Biden's inauguration, "socialist" magazine Jacobin attempts "ironic satire" with a cover that aims to "make fun of the libs". Did they succeed? Fox and Alex are joined by Peter Coffin to figure that out. In this episode we talk about political fandom, "precuperation", Niobiom's viral meme that triggered the libs (https://twitter.com/nobum62/status/1352042371148640273) the spectacle of protest and more!

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Ep 007 Satire is Dead, Long Live Satire (feat. Peter Coffin)

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

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

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

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