Politics Theory Other
A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by Alex Doherty. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother Contact: politicstheoryother@gmail.com
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US election and Trump redux (part one)
It's the inflation, stupid w/ James Meadway
Towards war with China? w/ Adam Tooze
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part 2)
“Where are the Arabs?” w/ Nihal El Aasar
Israel's violent escalation w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Nathaniel George
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions
Excerpt - Jeremy Gilbert on Oasis
Zionism as a form of anti-semitism w/ Jake Romm
Excerpt - Phil Burton-Cartledge on Labour's project of authoritarian modernisation
The UK's pogroms and resurgent Islamophobia w/ Nesrine Malik
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)
Germany, Israel, and staatsräson (part one) w/ Bue Rübner Hansen
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions
Peak Hindutva? w/ Radhika Desai
The French left's shock election win w/ Sebastian Budgen
UK Election Special w/ James Meadway and Richard Seymour
The Searchers w/ Andy Beckett
PTO Live! w/ Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny
Sunak calls the election and where now for the UK left w/ James Schneider
How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom w/ Maya Wind
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)
Iran and Israel - stepping back from the brink? w/ Paul Rogers
Israel and the history of imperial feminism w/ Sophie Lewis
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US right's partial disenchantment with Israel
Late capitalism or technofeudalism? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Israel's drift towards pariah status
The seventies and us w/ Michael Hardt
The crisis is permanent - MENA after the Arab Spring w/ Gilbert Achcar
PTO Extra! - Richard Seymour answers listeners questions
Settler colonialism and doppelganger politics w/ Naomi Klein
Excerpt - Sai Englert on BDS and economic democracy
Israel in the dock w/ Noura Erakat
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Yemen, Gaza, and voting for "Genocide Joe"
Interregnum - Gaza, regional war, and Israel in the dock
Settler colonialism - from Columbus to Gaza w/ Sai Englert
[UNLOCKED] Unnatural city - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s Japan
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Gaza, the anti-Deutsch, and threat of global war
Parallels and contrasts - the Gaza crisis and the 1973 war w/ Leila Farsakh
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on liberal Zionist apologetics
[UNLOCKED] Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend
Excerpt - Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend
Israel's war on the Palestinians w/ Amjad Iraqi
Red Africa w/ Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions on Gaza
Israel's genocidal war on Gaza w/ Lara Friedman and Paul Rogers
Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict
Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict
Excerpt - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s Japan
The roots of the new cold war w/ Gilbert Achcar
Excerpt - Adam Tooze on the significance of the Inflation Reduction Act
Excerpt: Adam Tooze on the UK's economic malaise
The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on conspiracism
An ideology of the flesh w/ Amber Husain
Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz
Interregnum - The meaning of Prigozhin's rebellion
The myth of the reforming monarch - Britain and the Gulf w/ David Wearing
Excerpt - The anti-woke grift w/ Aurelien Mondon
The backlash against Palestine solidarity w/ Hil Aked
Interregnum - Israel's radicalising ethnonationalism
Excerpt - France's social explosion w/ Sebastian Budgen
Fascist echoes w/ Adam Tooze
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the lockdown files
The Ukraine war: one year on w/ Paul Rogers
The man who killed Gandhi w/ Dhirendra K. Jha
Macrodose - the UK avoids recession, just…
Interregnum - on the lockdown 'sceptics'
Macrodose - I want to be in America
Interregnum - on the lockdown 'sceptics'
The largest wave of strikes in a generation, but will they win?
Macrodose - Dedollarisation, Bretton Woods III, and a global wealth tax?
Can the unions win? w/ Polly Smythe
Macrodose - Davos, US in debt, and deadly heatwaves
2023 Crisis is the new normal w/ James Meadway
Macrodose - China’s downturn, Blackrock’s predictions and the struggling tech billionaires
Excerpt - What happened to China's new Tiananmen moment? w/ Jane Hayward
Macrodose - The economics of inactivity, covid contracts and Japan’s policy twist
Interregnum - Britain unravelling
Macrodose - Public pay, bankers' bonuses, and who benefits from interest rate hikes?
China's protests and the end of zero-Covid w/ Jane Hayward
Macrodose - Russian oil, the food crisis and a 4-day work week
Hegemony Now (part three) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert
Macrodose - Episode 2: Strike Economics
Macrodose - Inflation, austerity and the wage-price spiral
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the climate movement we need
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions
Why capitalism is not 'an economy' w/ Nancy Fraser
Interregnum - Lula's knife-edge victory
“Woman, Life, Freedom” - On Iran's protest movement w/ Narges Bajoghli
Interregnum - After Truss
Hegemony Now (part two) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert
Excerpt - PTO Extra! David Broder responds to listeners' questions
Hegemony Now (part one) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert
Interregnum - Truss is for turning
The far right victorious in Italy w/ David Broder
Excerpt - PTO Extra! Chileans reject the new constitution w/ Camila Vergara
Interregnum - How will Truss govern?
The racial constitution of neoliberalism w/ Arun Kudnani
Nazi Billionaires w/ David de Jong
The overturning of Roe vs. Wade w/ Sophie Lewis
Progressive Economy Forum - Industrial Strategy Or Industrial Decline
Progressive Economy Forum - Digital Futures
Progressive Economy Forum - How To End The Cost Of Living Crisis
Interregnum - Who will be Britain's next Prime Minister?
Interregnum - the labour movement resurgent?
Excerpt - Sebastian Budgen on Macron's defeat in France's legislative election
Accidental Gods w/ Anna Della Subin
Excerpt - The French left unites against Macron w/ Sebastian Budgen
The radicalisation of Russian nationalism w/ Oleksiy Radynski
Excerpt - Jeremy Gilbert on New Labour's early days
Interregnum - The Disenchanted Earth
Orbanism - Europe's post-neoliberal future? w/ Dorit Geva
Excerpt - Is a Le Pen presidency possible? w/ Sebastian Budgen
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions
How the legacies of empire continue to shape the world w/ Kojo Koram
Interregnum - The cruelties of self-help culture
India's Russian dilemma w/ Ravinder Kaur
Russia and the West - the economic war w/ James Meadway
Interregnum - Russia invades Ukraine
Excerpt - Paul Rogers on the Ukraine crisis
Chile's left turn w/ Camila Vergara
Eric Zemmour and the mainstreaming of the French far-right w/ Sebastian Budgen
Excerpt - The Omicron wave w/ Richard Seymour
Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part two)
Excerpt - Will Davies on whether Boris Johnson's days as PM are numbered
Coming of age at the end of history w/ Lea Ypi
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)
Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part one)
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions
Neither artificial nor intelligent - Kate Crawford on AI
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the UK's new Covid wave
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Covid and civilisational crisis
Is support for the Conservatives finally starting to erode? w/ Andy Beckett
Sex and the politics of desire - w/ Amia Srinivasan
Germany's election - the end of Merkelism? w/ Ines Schwerdtner and Adrian Daub
The AUKUS pact w/ Paul Rogers and David Brophy
Teaser - James Meadway responds to PTO patron's questions on the end of neoliberalism
Adam Tooze on Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
The graveyard of empires, a second Vietnam - Timothy Nunan on the cliches of the war in Afghanistan
Variations: Juliet Jacques on stories of Britain's transgender history
Teaser - Listener questions: Paul Rogers on the aftermath of the Taliban's victory
The Taliban on the verge of victory w/ Paul Rogers
Teaser - PTO Extra! Owen Hatherley responds to listener questions
After neoliberalism w/ James Meadway
The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World w/ Benjamin Bratton
Late capitalism at 20,000 ft. w/ Margret Grebowicz
Teaser - PTO Extra! - Jeremy Gilbert responds to listener questions on Labour and left strategy
Clean living under difficult circumstances w/ Owen Hatherley
Does Labour face terminal decline? w/ Jeremy Gilbert
On violence and on violence against women w/ Jacqueline Rose
PTO Extra! Palestine - a new era of resistance? w/ Rana Barakat
On violence and on violence against women w/ Jacqueline Rose
How China escaped shock therapy w/ Isabella Weber
New Pandemics, Old Politics w/ Alex De Waal
Teaser - PTO Extra! Daniel Finn on Northern Ireland and the DUP's dilemma
Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam
Teaser - PTO Extra! "Global Britain" and the UK defence review w/ Paul Rogers
HyperCurtisisation w/ Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano
The entwinement of police and male violence w/ Melissa Gira Grant & Chardine Taylor Stone
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? w/ Emma Dowling
Teaser - PTO Extra! Shamima Begum and normalising citizenship revocation w/ Nisha Kapoor
#111 Why the Luddites were right (part 2) w/ Gavin Mueller
Teaser - Understanding Burma's coup w/ Carlos Sardiña Galache
#110 Biden begins w/ Kate Aronoff
Teaser - PTO Extra! Is Scottish independence inevitable? w/ Rory Scothorne
#109 Why the Luddites were right (part 1) w/ Gavin Mueller
Teaser - PTO Extra! Richard Seymour on the UK's disastrous Covid-19 response
#108 Capitalist dreams and nationalist designs w/ Ravinder Kaur
#107 Climate activism and the fetishisation of nonviolence w/ Andreas Malm
#106 The trouble with mainstream feminism w/ Alison Phipps
UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)
#RedHacks - Economic journalism and the end of neoliberalism w/ Laurie Macfarlane
#105 The mainstreaming of the far right w/ Aurelien Mondon & Aaron Winter
#104 The meaning of Maradona w/ Marcela Mora y Araujo & Jonathan Wilson
#103 Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? w/ Brett Christophers
#102 What Covid-19 reveals about the family w/ Sophie Lewis
#101 What happened to the 'blue wave'? w/ Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic
#100 Corbyn, Labour, and the EHRC report w/ Barnaby Raine
PTO Extra! The week austerity died? w/ Grace Blakeley
#99 Morrissey, nationalism, and the aesthetics of English misery w/ Owen Hatherley & Kojo Koram
#98 Feminism, Interrupted w/ Lola Olufemi
Teaser - PTO Extra! Anti-politics & Covid denialism w/ Richard Seymour
Between Washington and Beijing w/ Tobita Chow & David Brophy
Teaser - PTO Extra! The Fox Newsification of UK media w/ Will Davies
#97 For an alternative hedonism w/ Kate Soper
Teaser - PTO Extra! Land of hope and culture wars w/ Nesrine Malik
#96 Is Trump's America a failed state? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara
Teaser - PTO Extra! A recession like no other w/ James Meadway
#95 The IDF - an army like no other w/ Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
Teaser - PTO Extra! Adam Tooze on China and the US Democrats and the return of austerity politics
#94 After the capitalocene w/ Rosie Warren
Teaser - PTO Extra! Is time up for Lukashenko? w/ Nelly Bekus
Teaser - PTO Extra! Northern Ireland and the politics of John Hume w/ Daniel Finn
#93 Towards a New Cold War? China and the US w/ Tobita Chow & Jake Werner
Teaser - PTO Extra! Outsourcing and the UK's Covid-19 shock doctrine w/ Rachel Shabi
#RedHacks - Ana Naomi de Sousa on privilege and representation in journalism
#92 Covid-19 and transforming the global food system w/ Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese
Teaser - PTO Extra! Sweatshop reshoring - fast fashion and Leicester's lockdown w/ Ashok Kumar
#91 Corona, climate, chronic emergency w/ Andreas Malm
Teaser - PTO Extra! Understanding racism in America and Britain w/ Gary Younge
Teaser - PTO Extra! Great power rivalry at 14,000 ft w/ Arif Rafiq
#90 The Romance of American Communism w/ Vivian Gornick
#89 Black Lives Matter and racial capitalism w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
#88 Triple shock in the global south - oil, debt, and Covid-19 w/ Adam Hanieh
#87 A theory of extinction w/ Troy Vettese
#86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck
#RedHacks - Grassroots media in the time of Covid-19 w/ Aaron Bastani
#85 Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste w/ Philip Mirowski
#84 Iran and the politics of a pandemic w/ Narges Bajoghli & Arron Merat
#RedHacks - Socialism, football and when sports journalism turns radical w/ Suzanne Wrack
#83 A crisis like no other w/ Adam Tooze
#82 Coronavirus and the networked society w/ Will Davies
#81 COVID-19 - neoliberalism's grave digger? w/ Paul Mason
#80 The Force of Nonviolence w/ Judith Butler
#79 Italy under lockdown w/ Antonella Serrecchia & David Broder
#78 After Super Tuesday w/ Jodi Dean & Adom Getachew
Teaser - PTO Extra! There's a Starmer waiting in the sky w/ Owen Hatherley
#77 Where now for the UK left? w/ Leo Panitch
#76 Syria - Authoritarian Apprehensions w/ Lisa Wedeen
Teaser - PTO Extra! Sinn Féin's electoral breakthrough w/ Daniel Finn
#75 Being a trade unionist w/ Len McCluskey
Teaser - PTO Extra! Iowa and after w/ Thea Riofrancos
#74 Narendra Modi and Hindu nationalism w/ Achin Vanaik
Teaser - PTO Extra! Trump's apartheid plan w/ Lara Friedman
#73 Inside Wuhan w/ Tom Hancock
Teaser - PTO Extra! The Labour leadership - Starmer's contest to lose? w/ Tom Blackburn
#72 Popular culture and the middle class takeover w/ Rhian Jones
#71 Hostile Environment w/ Maya Goodfellow
Teaser - PTO Extra! Whatever happened to Tory decline? w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge
#70 The Middle East after Suleimani w/ Paul Rogers
#69 Where now for Labour and the left? w/ Richard Seymour
#68 The Clamour of Nationalism w/ Sivamohan Valluvan
Election Special: At the sharp end of British foreign policy w/ David Wearing
Election Special: High stakes - GE2019 and the climate emergency w/ Adrienne Buller
Election Special: Polls, manifestos, and the battle for the north w/ James Meadway
#67 A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal w/ Thea Riofrancos
Election Special: Boris Johnson - the great campaigner? w/ Will Davies
Election Special: The digital war w/ Paolo Gerbaudo
#66 Hong Kong, China, and the nationalist moment w/ Jake Werner
Election Special: Momentum's plan to win the general election w/ Emma Rees
#RedHacks - Reportage in an age of commentary w/ Sarah Jaffe
Election Special: Tory party strategy w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge
#65 West winging it w/ Corey Robin
Election Special: Can Labour win? w/ Eleanor Penny
#64 Teaching empire and migration w/ Kimberley McIntosh
#63 Acid Communism, Labour, and the counterculture w/ Jeremy Gilbert
#62 Land for the Many w/ Beth Stratford
Teaser - PTO Extra! Tory Brexit strategy w/ Richard Seymour
#61 Double government and the neoliberal world w/ Quinn Slobodian
#RedHacks - Live @ TWT w/ Owen Jones, Kimberly McIntosh, and Simon Childs
#60 Racism and the global war on drugs w/ Kojo Koram
#59 Has Labour Lost the North? w/ Alex Niven
#58 (Pro)rogue nation w/ James Meadway
#57 Chelsea Manning and outsider truth-telling w/ Lida Maxwell
#56 The nightmare of social media w/ Richard Seymour
#55 On non-fascist life w/ Natasha Lennard
#54 Conservatism's last hurrah? w/ Andy Beckett
#53 Neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics w/Christopher Connery
#RedHacks - Riley Quinn on comedy as the new political frontier
#52 Austerity and the demonization of disabled people w/ Frances Ryan
#51 Ralph Miliband and The State in Capitalist Society w/ Leo Panitch
#RedHacks - Juliet Jacques on punditry, pigeonholing and transphobia
#50 The Thatcherite Offensive w/ Alexander Gallas
#49 Roger Hallam on Extinction Rebellion
#48 Christine Berry on preparing for a Corbyn government
#47 Adom Getachew on 'Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination'
#46 Owen Hatherley on Scott Walker's strange musical journey
#45 Hilary Aked on Islamophobia and the ‘counter-jihad’ movement
#44 Love thy Neighbour? Dawn Foster on religion and the left
#43 Ash Sarkar on understanding Brexit
#42½ PTO First Annual Report
#42 Corey Robin on understanding conservatism - from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
#41 Bridget Anderson on the case against borders
#RedHacks - George Eaton on the end of politics as usual and the rise of a new left media
#40 David Edgerton on Britain and the declinist narrative
#39 Kojo Koram on the politics of the Tory Brexiteers
#38 Phil Burton-Cartledge on the Independent Group
#RedHacks - Jess Hurd on photojournalism, police harassment and witnessing revolutions
#37 Bruce Fink on Lacanian psychoanalysis
#36 David Wearing on 'Anglo Arabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain'
#35 Sophie Lewis on 'Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family'
#RedHacks - Paul Mason on ideology, fake news, and making it as a left-wing journalist
#34 Dan Hind on 'The Constitutional Turn: Liberty and the Cooperative State'
#33 Joni Alizah Cohen on anti-semitism, transmisogyny, and the value form
#32 James Butler on the EU and the Brexit endgame
#31 Thea Riofrancos on populism, left and right
#30 "A bonsai de Gaulle" - Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron and the Yellow Vests movement
#29 Aeron Davis on 'Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment'
#28 Richard Seymour on Brexit and the EU
#27 Will Davies on 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World' (Part 2)
#26 Rodrigo Nunes on a victory for fascism in Brazil
#25 Nisha Kapoor on 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism'
#24 Will Davies on 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World' (Part 1)
#23 Adam Tooze on 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World' (Part 2)
#22 Tom Mills on reforming the UK media
#21 Sophie Lewis on trans-exclusionary radical feminism
#20½ Supporting Left Media
#20 Adam Tooze on 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World' (Part 1)
#19 Richard Seymour on the Labour Party's anti-semitism row
#18 Jacob Mukherjee on Britain's rent crisis and how to fight it
#17 Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy
#16 Phil Burton-Cartledge on the Tories in crisis
#15 Kate Pickett on the mental health effects of inequality
#14 Adam Tooze on Nazi ideology and the German war economy
#13 Catarina Príncipe on Portugal - the Eurozone's good example?
#12 Jo Littler on meritocracy and the neoliberal era
#11 Ed Rooksby on reform, revolution, and socialist strategy
#10 Jeremy Gilbert on Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics
#9 Wendy Liu on Silicon Valley and the democratisation of technology
#8 Italexit? - David Broder on the crisis in Italy
#7 Alex Nunns on the Labour Party
#6 Catherine Rottenberg on the rise of neoliberal feminism
#5 Will Davies on Windrush and the politics of the Home Office
#4 David Broder on Italy's Political Impasse
#3 Patricia Reed on Xenofeminism
#2 Jamie Allinson on the war in Syria