Another World is Podable
By Peter Bloom
Another World is PodableJun 08, 2020
The Revolution Continues with Anke Strauß discussing the creation of "working utopias".
The Revolution continues with Geo Maher and Vanessa Wills discussing revolutionary justice
The Revolution continues with Professor Brad Evans talking about the radical possibility of a world
The Revolution continues with the return of Camila Vergara
The Revolution Continues with Ciara Cremin and a Revolutionary Feminine Future
Episode 31: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Ayesha Hameed talking about Creating New Futures and her Incredible Project "Black Atlantis"
Ayesha Hameed is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London in London, UK. Since 2014 Hameed’s multi-chapter project 'Black Atlantis' has looked at the Black Atlantic and its afterlives in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and soundsystems and in outer space. Through videos, audio essays and performance lectures, she examines how to think through sound, image, water, violence and history as elements of an active archive; and time travel as an historical method. Recent exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2019), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel(Sternberg/MIT forthcoming 2021). She is currently Co-Programme Leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London.
Episode 30: The Revolution Continues with Professor Rutger Claassen radically rethinking freedom, justice, and property
Rutger Claassen is Professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University. Most of his research is at the intersection of politics, economics and ethics, asking fundamental theoretical and normative questions about the way our economies are structured. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a research project on The Business Corporation as a Political Actor, funded by the European Research Council (ERC-Consolidator Grant, 2M euro). In this project, he investigates the societal role and legitimacy of business corporations. Also, he is the principal investigator of a 750K euro research project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) on Private Property & Political Power in Liberal-Democratic Societies. In the field of socio-economic justice, he defends a version of the capability approach – pioneered by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum, which focuses on the development of personal capabilities instead of material resources as the central criterion for a just society. In his monograph Capabilities in a Just Society. A Theory of Navigational Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2018) he argues for a capability approach centered on a notion of autonomous agency. He has published in journals such as Economic & Philosophy, Inquiry, Law & Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy and Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
Rutger Claassen obtained his PhD in 2008 from Utrecht University for a dissertation about the moral limits of markets. He was assistant professor at Leiden University and a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbour and Humboldt Universität in Berlin. At Utrecht University, Rutger Claassen was the first Program Director of the new BA-program in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE), which started in September 2018. He also regularly publishes articles and books in Dutch, and gives lectures and interviews so as to bring philosophy to a broader audience. For years, he was the co-organizer of a monthly Philosophical Café in Utrecht.
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Episode 29: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Camila Vergara talking about the radical possibilities of democracy to challenge oligarchy and systemic corruption
Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, journalist, and public intellectual from Chile writing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and domination. She is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia University Law School, and author of Systemic Corruption. Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020). She also is currently advising local councils in Chile to participate in the ongoing constituent process, and her current affairs essays have appeared in Jacobin Magazine, the Boston Review and Sidecar, the new online publication from the New Left Review.
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Episode 28: The Revolution Continues with Professor Albert Weale talking about the Future of Democracy
Albert Weale is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University College London, where he still teaches and researches. Earlier in his career he worked at the Universities of Newcastle, York, East Anglia and Essex. He stayed at Essex more than 17 years.
His research and writing have concentrated on issues of political theory and public policy, especially health policy, environmental policy, the theory of justice and democratic theory. In addition to over one hundred papers and chapters, he has authored, co-authored or co-edited nineteen books.
He has published widely on social values and health policy, editing Cost and Choice in Health Care for the King’s Fund in 1988 and, as part of the KCL/UCL Social Values Group, has recent articles in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Journal of Health Organization and Managementand the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
In environmental policy, his works include The New Politics of Pollution (Manchester University Press, 1992) and with others Environmental Governance in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000), as well as the edited Risk, Democratic Citizenship and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2002).
His work on environmental policy led to research on the European Union more generally and in this field his published work includes, as sole author, Democratic Citizenship and the European Union (Manchester University Press, 2005), as co-author and as co-editor Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe, with Percy Lehning (Routledge, 1997) and Political Theory and the European Union, with Michael Nentwich (Routledge, 1998).
His latest book. Modern Social Contract Theory, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2020, and it is the first systematic study of the full range of those modern social contract theories that have been developed since 1950. The work follows from his previous book Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (Oxford University Press, 2013). In September 2018 he published The Will of the People: A Modern Myth (Polity Press), a response to the misplaced populism of the Conservative Party in the wake of the 2016 referendum and the global trend against the principles of constitutional democracy.
He is a former co-editor of two books series, Issues in Political Theory (Macmillan) and Issues in Environmental Politics (Manchester University Press), as well as of the British Journal of Political Science.
In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and between 2008 and 2012 was one of its Vice-Presidents with special responsibility for Public Policy. In 2013 he awarded a CBE for services to Political Science.
Episode 27: The Revolution Continues with Zack Walsh talking about the Radical Possibilities of the "Contemplative Commons"
Zack Walsh is a Senior Researcher of Economics at the One Project. He completed doctoral coursework in Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. He holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Foguang University, Taiwan and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Denison University. He was a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany where he co-led the A Mindset for the Anthropocene (AMA) project. He is also a fellow of the Courage of Care Coalition and a partner of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. His publications focus on the integration of social justice, sustainability, and systems change.
Episode 26: The Revolution Continues with Rayelle Davis
Episode 25: The Revolution Continues With Gavin Mueller
Episode 24: The Revolution continues with Brendan McQuade and the threat of "Mass Supervision"
Episode 23: The Revolution Continues with Professor Tanner Mirrlees talking about the Socialist Project in Toronto, Media Imperialism, and the Revolutionary Potential of Digital Technologies
Tanner Mirrlees is an associate professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. Mirrlees is the author of Hearts and Mines: The US Empire’s Cultural Industry (UBC Press, 2016), Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (Routledge, 2013), co-author of EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2019), and co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Mirrlees participates in Toronto-based community organizations such as the Centre for Social Justice and the Socialist Project, and over the past three years, he was a co-organizer of The Capitalism Workshop, a series of public talks downtown Toronto that brought together educators, workers, students, and activists to collectively discuss and debate knowledge about capitalism, as well as old and new Left strategies and tactics for going beyond it.
If you would like to donate to "The Socialist Project" you can do so at the following link: https://socialistproject.ca/donate/
*Please note GM closed down auto assembly at the Oshawa plant and plans to convert some of the old facility into a test track for autonomous vehicles. Green Jobs Oshawa continues to campaign for the public ownership and reconfiguration of the plant for socially and ecologically sustainable manufacturing. Learn more about Green Jobs Oshawa here: https://www.greenjobsoshawa.ca/
Episode 22: The Revolution Continues with Professor Angela Naomi Paik Discussing her new book "Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary" and "abolitionist sanctuary"
Episode 21 : The Revolution Continues with Professor Gerald Horne Talking about Resisting "Settler Colonialism" and a New Generation of Internationalist Anti-Imperialist Struggle
He is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His current research includes an examination of U.S.-Southern African relations since the so-called “Anglo-Boer War” at the end of the 19th century and an analysis of the Political Economy of the music called “Jazz” from the late 19th century to the present.
Latest Book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century": nyupress.org/9781583678725/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/
Episode 20: The Resistance Continues with the Brilliant Professor Priyamvada Gopal discussing "Insurgent Empire", race, class and empire in the 21st century, and her recent twitter "controversy"
Episode 19: The Revolution Continues with the Incredible Professor Vanessa Wills on Morality, Revolution, and White Privilege
She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. In 2019/20, she is additionally the DAAD Visiting Chair in Ethics and Practice at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität’s Munich Center for Ethics.
Her areas of specialization are moral, social, and political philosophy, nineteenth century German philosophy (especially Karl Marx), and the philosophy of race. Her research is importantly informed by her study of Marx’s work, and focuses on the ways in which economic and social arrangements can inhibit or promote the realization of values such as freedom, equality, and human development.
She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic, “Marx and Morality.” Dr. Wills received her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Princeton University in 2002.
Episode 18: The Revolution Continues with Professor Nicole Fleetwood on her book "Marking Time", Radical Creativity, and a 21st Century Abolitionist Politics
Link to her new book: www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228
Episode 17: The Revolution Continues with Sara Farris and Mark Bergfeld on the Radical Possibilities of "Life Making Labour" During the Corvid - 19 Crisis
Sara Farris is sociologist teaching at Goldsmiths whose latest book is the brilliant "In the name of women's right. The rise of femonationalism" (Duke 2017).
Link to Article in Spectre "The COVID-19 Crisis and the End of the 'Low-skilled' Worker": spectrejournal.com/the-covid-19-crisis-and-the-end-of-the-low-skilled-worker/
Link to Journal "Spectre": spectrejournal.com/
Link to Book ""In the name of women's right. The rise of femonationalism": www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-name-of-womens-rights
Episode 16: The Revolution Continues with Radical Human Rights Lawyers Professor Clara Sandoval-Villalba and Chris Esdaile
Clara Sandoval is Professor of Human Rights Law at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and co-director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex. Clara is co-authored of the book Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System (OUP, 2019).
Chris Esdaile is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Previously, he worked at Leigh Day, Solicitors, using legal action in England to hold large UK companies to account for harming people in other countries, and latterly working on some of the claims resulting from alleged mistreatment by British forces during the Iraq conflict. Prior to that he had worked on human rights issues in South Africa, Chile and in the UK. A UK-qualified solicitor, Chris has an LLM in International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
Learn more about the case of Azul: redress.org/casework/azul-rojas-marin-formerly-luis-alberto-rojas-marin/
Learn more about the Essex Human Rights Centre: www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/human-rights
Episode 15: No Cuts to Essex GTAs Campaign with Anam Kuraishi and Amelia Horgan
Anam Kuraishi is a PhD student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Representative in the government department of the University of Essex. Her work is focused on theorizing the post-truth phenomenon and examining citizen responses to political information in ethnically diverse democracies of the Global South.
Amelia Horgan is a writer and researcher. She is currently writing a PhD on feminism and the philosophy of work. Her first book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism is out next year with Pluto Press.
For more information about the Campaign see:
- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nocutstoessexgtas
- Open Letter: https://sites.google.com/view/nocutstoessexgtas/petitions/open-letter-to-the-vc?authuser=0
- Petition: https://sites.google.com/view/nocutstoessexgtas/petitions/no-to-gta-and-gla-cuts-at-essex?authuser=0
Media Coverage
- https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18400770.petition-launched-try-save-jobs-essex-university-doctoral-students/?ref=twtrec&fbclid=IwAR3CHEW3u2sHReQpWyR68EMVtDyPgyXx-u1d5b6wJDpk3kt-MRFCLFsyOsU
- https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/april/push-this-button-with-your-face
- https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/04/coronavirus-exposes-class-conflict-in-britains-universities
Episode 14: The Revolution Continues With Dr. Phoebe Moore
Episode 13: The Revolution Continues with the Revolutionary Historian Doug Greene
Link to "Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution": www.haymarketbooks.org/books/697-communist-insurgent
Link to the blog "the Blanquist": blanquist.blogspot.com/
Episode 12: The Revolution Continues with Charlene Carruthers Discussing 21st Century Activism and Liberation
Website: www.charlenecarruthers.com/
Episode 11: The Revolution Continues with Councillor Matthew Brown and his "Preston Model" to Democratize the Economy
Episode 10: The Revolution Continues Again with Keir Milburn talking about the Crisis and Generational Solidarity
Episode 9: The Revolution Continues with Trebor Scholz and "platform cooperativism"
Episode 8 - The Revolution Continues with Alex Worrad-Andrews from Common Knowledge
Episode 7: The Revolution Continues with Jeremy Gilbert
He writes regularly for the British press (including the Guardian, the New Statesman, open Democracy and Red Pepper).
Episode 6: The Revolution Continues with Claudia Sofia Garriga-Lopez Podcast
Dr. Claudia Sofía Garriga-López is an Assistant Professor of Queer and Trans Latinx Studies in the Department of Multicultural and Gender Studies of California State University, Chico. An interdisciplinary scholar-activist, with a PhD in American Studies from the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis of New York University, she is the author of “Transfeminist Crossroads: Reimagining the Ecuadorian State” published in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (2016), and is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation Gender for All. Dr. Garriga-López conducted long term participatory research with trans, feminist, and queer activists and artist groups in Quito, Ecuador, and has deep roots in community health and advocacy organizations in New York City. Her scholarship and visual art have been featured in a number of publications, including the Global Encyclopaedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, and Latinas: Struggles and Protest in 21 Century USA, as well as the Social Science Research Council’s Items blog. Dr. Garriga-López is also one of the co-editors for the “Trans Studies en las Américas” issue of TSQ (2019). Her scholarly work is grounded in a critical engagement with activism, public policy, and public health, as well as trans, feminist, and queer performance art and cultural production in Latin America, the Caribbean, and within people of color communities in the United States.
La Dra. Claudia Sofía Garriga-López es Profesora Asistente de Estudios Queer y Trans Latinx en el Departamento de Estudios Multiculturales y de Género de la Universidad Estatal de California, Chico. Una académica-activista interdisciplinaria, con un doctorado en Estudios Americanos del Departamento de Análisis Social y Cultural de la Universidad de Nueva York, es la autora de "Transfeminist Crossroads: Reimagining the Ecuadoran State" publicado en TSQ: Transgender Estudios Trimestral (2016), y actualmente está preparando un manuscrito de libro basado en su disertación Gender for All. La Dra. Garriga-López llevó a cabo investigaciones participativas a largo plazo con activistas y grupos de artistas trans, feministas y queer en Quito, Ecuador, y tiene profundas raíces en organizaciones de salud y defensa comunitarias en la ciudad de Nueva York. Su beca y arte visual han aparecido en una serie de publicaciones, incluyendo la Enciclopedia Global de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Transgénero y Queer (LGBTQ) Historia, y Latinas: Luchas y Protestas en 21 Century USA, así como la Ciencia Social Artículos del Consejo de Investigación. La Dra Garriga-López es también uno de los coeditores de la edición "Trans Studies en las Américas" de TSQ (2019). Su trabajo académico se basa en un compromiso crítico con el activismo, las políticas públicas y la salud pública, así como el arte trans, feminista y queer y la producción cultural en América Latina, el Caribe y dentro de comunidades de personas de color en Estados Unidos.
Episode 5: The Revolution Continues with George Ciccariello-Maher
Website: georgeciccariello.com/
Episode 4: The Revolution Continues with Andy Greene
Episode 3: The Revolution Continues with Keir Milburn
Episode 2 - The Revolution Continues with Kayleigh Walsh
Episode 1 - The Revolution Begins with Dr. Jamie Woodcock.