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Pre-revolutionary Britain? (Emergency Pod December 2025)
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Finlayson is back to discuss with Jem the key developments in UK politics since the last time they talked about it. Covering the Labour deputy le...
The Factional Politics of the Labour Party
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is actually an episode of the Compass podcast, ‘It’s Bloody Complicated’, that featured me (Jeremy Gilbert) and Alan Finlayson ...
From Superstition to Mythocracy with Yves Citton
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar we will talk with Yves Citton about his books Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our World, Mediarchy, and Spinoza et les Social Science...
The Starmer Disaster
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How h...
Errata
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So, yeah, a listener pointed out that Jem had got some details about Andy Burnham’s career wrong, and he thought it was best to set the record s...
Emergency Podcast September 2025
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rayner resigned! Mandelson sacked! ‘Mainstream’ launched! Your Party Chaos! Fascists on the Streets! Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert bri...
What Adam Curtis Won’t Tell You
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jem offers a critical response to Adam Curtis’ oeuvre: an extraordinary series of fascinating, yet never-fully-satisfying, film...
Emergency Podcast July 2025
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Alan Finlayson is back to discuss the latest developments in UK politics: the suspension of several Labour MPs and the announcement of a new...
What is ‘Blue Labour’
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Blue Labour’, an explicitly conservative tendency within the politics of the UK’s Labour Party, is said to be one of the few intell...
What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor Janega
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jem is joined by medieval historian, comrade and friend of the show Eleanor Janega, to talk about what exactly is ‘feudal’ about ‘te...
Is Capitalism Over? The ‘Technofeudalism’ Debate
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we entering the world of ‘Techno-feudalism’, or ‘Neofeudalism’? Or are there better ways to understand our present situati...
The Crisis of Liberalism (and the 2025 UK local elections)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Finlayson returns for an in-depth discussion of the crisis of liberalism as an effective and legitimate philosophy of government, as exemplified ...
The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism with Brian Massumi
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar, Brian Massumi discusses his new book, The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life. Brian is one of the major ...
Regimes of Violence with John Protevi
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a just world, John Protevi would be far more famous than Slavoj Zizek. An expert on the ideas of Deleuze & Guattari (among many other things), ...
Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the hi...
The Australian Deleuze, Materialist Feminisms, Affect in the Anthropocene
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a recording of the latest in our ongoing series of seminars, From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality.With very special guest, Cla...
From Marx to Spinoza Q&A session
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a recording of the most recent seminar in our From Marx to Spinoza series. This was a fantastic discussion; it was mostly one for the folks wh...
US Election, UK Budget, New Tory Leader
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson talks to Jeremy about the political implications of the recent UK budget, the re-election of Donald Tr...
The Searchers with Andy Beckett
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Beckett discusses his new book about 5 key figures of the British Labour left: Tony Benn, Diane Abbot, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John Mc...
Spinoza and Ideology Critique with Warren Montag
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This was the latest seminar in our ongoing sub-series: From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality. The series is organised by Andrew Goffey, ...
UK General Election 2024 – The Results
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest emergency podcast, Jeremy and Alan Finlayson dissect the historic results of the 2024 UK general election. For more information about th...
Spinoza and Marx on Work
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the recording of the latest seminar in our series ‘From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality‘ This time, our own Jason R...
UK General Election, Mid-Campaign
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of our ’emergency podcasts’ with Professor Alan Finlayson during the UK’s 2024 general election. Alan and Jem dis...
UK General Election 2024
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy is joined once again by Alan Finlayson for an emergency podcast. We discuss the political situation in the UK, at the start of a general electi...
The Affective Turn
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this session, we look at the so-called ‘affective turn’ in the humanities and social sciences since the late 1990s. We consider the multiple fo...
When Marx Met Spinoza with Tracie Matysik
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this session we were joined by Tracie Matysik to discuss the very idea of a Spinozan philosophy beyond the writings of Baruch Spinoza him...
Introducing Affect
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is ‘affect’, why does it matter, and why did people working in the humanities and social sciences start talking about it so much from...
Spinozist Marxism? With Etienne Balibar
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this session, we’re joined by none other than Etienne Balibar to discuss the history and present state of dialogue between Marxism and Spin...
Spinoza’s Philosophy
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert.In this seminar we finally lay out and discuss the core topics from Spinoza’s major philosophical works, and disc...
Music and Radicalism in the 1970s
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Matthew Worley and Jeremy Gilbert. This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was he...
Race, Radicalism and Resistance in the UK 1970s
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Sundari Anitha, Ruth Pearson and John Narayan. This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The ...
Italy and the World in the 1970s
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Michael Hardt This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was held to mark the public...
Women’s Liberation in the 1970s
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This was a session of the event ‘The Radical 1970s’, held in London on December 9th 2023. The event was held to mark the publication of Michael Ha...
Why Would Radicals Read Spinoza?
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does Spinoza fit into the history of Western (and world) philosophy? To what is he relevant outside of academic philosophy? Why did he become a he...
What is Marxism Anyway? (re-edit)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We slightly re-edited this recording after noticing a glitch in the episode that went out a couple of days ago. Sorry about that – just listen t...
Social Reproduction in Theory and Practice: Socialist Feminism and the Politics of Care
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘Social Reproduction’ has re-emerged as a central idea in left-feminist analyses of contemporary power relations and institutions. What light can ...
Generational Politics and the Asset Economy
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While mainstream commentators and far-right apologists insist that that the great political divide today is between different sets of cultural ‘v...
Why is the Labour Leadership attacking the ‘soft left’?
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emergency Podcast! Once again Jeremy is joined by Professor Alan Finlayson at very short notice to discuss some stupid action taken by the Labour Part...
Empire, Nation and the British State
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this coronation year, we are visibly reminded that the trappings of the British state are overlaid with the legacies of its empire. But to what ext...
Is there a future for British conservatism?
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom has experienced a prolonged period of crisis and transformation, from pro-austerity technocr...
Veganism collective political movement or individualistic ethical consumerism?
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Veganism (or, at least, consumption of “plant based” foods) has exploded in the last few years. But what is the relationship between veganism, the...
Ecosocialism and Degrowth
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the philosophical and political coordinates of a contemporary eco-socialism? What are the political, economic, cultural and philosophical imp...
Can Precarious Workers Be Organised?
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic exposed the insecurity and vulnerability of workers – from delivery riders to poorly paid culture industry freelancers – who struggle...
The Left and the ecological crisis
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The high point of Left electoral success represented by Corbynism, the Sanders campaign, Mélenchon and others seems to have passed. Meanwhile, the cl...
The Meaning of the Monarchy
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded Live at the Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London, on May 3rd 2023 WithAnthony Barnett, Founder of Charter 88 and open Democracy, author...
‘Hegemony Now’ Launch with Natalie Fenton, Will Davies, Jacob Mukherjee
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an audio recording of the event held to launch the book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and how we win it back). The...
Woke Capitalism
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series of seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021. Corporate ‘wokeness’...
This Conjuncture: Perspectives from Mexico
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
with Gabriela Méndez Cota and Benjamín Arditi The electoral success of Mexico’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the MOREN...
This Conjuncture – Digital Patriarchy
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture Digital platforms create new opportunities to express misogyny in increasingly extreme ways, intersect with the ...
This Conjuncture – Racial Capitalism
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth seminar in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series hosted by the journal New Formations. With Gargi Bhattacharyya and Anamik Saha.
The Environmental Conjuncture
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the third seminar in a series hosted by the journal New Formations, inspired by the journal’s special issues on ‘This Conjuncture&...
This Conjuncture – Britain after Brexit, Corbyn and Covid
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of a series of online seminars hosted by the journal New Formations (current editor: Jeremy Gilbert) in Autumn 2021, organised by R...
The Exhaustion of Merkelism
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of a series of online seminars hosted by the journal New Formations (current editor: Jeremy Gilbert) in Autumn 2021, organised by Re...
Keir Starmer’s ‘The Road Ahead’
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An analysis of, and response to, UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s project-defining pamphlet ‘The Road Ahead’. With Alan Finlays...
What is (or was) ‘Postmodernism’? – 3 hour version!
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The s...
What is (or was) Postmodernism? – 1 hour version
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The l...
The Aftermath of Defeat: a Conversation with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
  In January 2019 we were planning a public event with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour, discussing the aftermath of the December 2019 general ele...
The Costs of Connection
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonising Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias     Just ...
High Weirdness
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
    High Weirdness with Erik Davis, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert Presented in Association with #ACFM – the Home of the Weird Left ...
Britain’s Nervous Breakdown: What is Actually Happening?
22 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Will Davies, and Jeremy Gilbert What on Earth is happening to British politics, culture and society? What is at the root of the present cri...
Vitruvian Mantology: Architecture and Posthuman Politics
22 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Debra Benita Shaw and Alberto Duman Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s perfectly proportioned human based on the recommendations of a Roman architect w...
The War on Drugs: Race, Class, Colonialism and the Politics of Pleasures
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Kojo Koram, Mike Jay, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert It is now a matter of historical record that when Nixon and his aides officiall...
After Work: The Fight for Free Time
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world of work has been the central political battleground. ...
The People vs The Media: Power and Democracy in the Public Sphere
26 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Natalie Fenton and Tom Mills The institutions of the modern media are supposed to serve the public interest: entertaining, educating and inform...
Whose Empowerment? Feminism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Banet-Weiser and Sara R. Farris Once an insurgent movement against patriarchy, feminism now finds itself occupying a far more complex posit...
Digital Politics
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here – we’ve figured out the technical causes and should be back to normal next week! Yo...
The Deserving Rich?
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
  Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here. It’s listenable, but you can also find a video you can watch at http://www.antiu...
Generation Left
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Milburn discusses his new book Generation Left with Lynne Segal, Jeremy Gilbert, and many others. For information about the culture, power, polit...
Hegemony Now: Power in the Twenty-First Century (2)
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Alex Williams. In this session Alex and Jeremy go into more detail on some of the key conceptual arguments of their forthcoming book Hegemony Now...
PFI: The Financialisation of Everything
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Grace Blakely The ‘Private Finance Initiative’ still sounds like a dry, technical procedure that nobody could get too excited about. That’...
The Right to the City: politics, place and policy in neoliberal London
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Anna Minton and Jacob Mukherjee. London’s housing market is in crisis because the global super-rich use our homes as piggy-banks and the govern...
Black Lives Matter – ‘race’, bodies and biopolitics in the 21st century
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Bufkin and Jacob Mukherjee. The Black Lives Matter movement has seen arguably the most significant revival of Black radicalism in the Engli...
Art, Glitch, Politics
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when the meaning of democracy is challenged by the power of algorithms and the politics of misinformation what has become apparent is that t...
Hegemony Now: Power in the Twenty-First Century (Part 1)
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Alex Williams. Gramsci’s concept of ‘hegemony’ remains indispensable to understanding the relationships between culture, politics, econom...
Eyes Right: Trumpism, Brexit and the rise of the alt-right
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Bufkin and Alan Finlayson. The Brexit vote and Trump’s election both seem to mark a terminal crisis for the liberal cosmopolitan consensu...
Wars and Capital
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year sees the publication of the English Edition of Lazzarato’s recent collaboration with philosopher Éric Alliez: Wars and Capital. In this ...
Work, Debt, Creativity, Resistance: An Introduction to the thought of Maurizio Lazzarato
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Maurizio Lazzarato and Andrew Goffey Maurizio Lazzarato is best known for having coined the term ‘immaterial labour’ as a way of describing t...
Democracy is in the Streets: Fifty Years of 1968
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Hilary Wainwright   PHOTO: TIM CRABTREE May 1968 saw an escalation of protests and political actions by students and workers in France, lead...
The End of Neoliberalism? (part three)
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is the audio from part three of our event ‘the end of neoliberalism’, December 2016
The End of Neoliberalism? (part two)
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is the audio from part two of our event ‘the end of neoliberalism’, December 2016
The End of Neoliberalism? (Part One)
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The End Of Neoliberalism? 15th december: 10am-5pm Organised by Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert Free, all welcome, no need to book Doors open 9:30,...
Who Broke Britain?
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This seminar was presented by the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London as part of the Culture, Power, Politics ...
Where Are We Going? The Politics of the Future
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Where Are We Going? The Politics of the Future What kind of world are we heading into, and who gets to decide? Will artificially-intelligent robots be...
How did we get here? Forgotten Moments, Lost Leaders, and Remembering our Recent Radical Past
08 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
with Natasha Nkonde, Deborah Grayson, John Medhurst and Andy Beckett
Can You Feel It? Deleuze & Guattari, Schizoanalysis, Affect
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
  Can you Feel it? Once upon a time, Cultural Studies was basically about looking at everything as if it were a language: fashion, advertising, m...
The Multitude and the Metropolis
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the ideas of Hardt & Negri and others in the Autonomist tradition, followed by a discussion of the ‘Take Back the City’...
Queer As Folk
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Another huge cultural and political change of recent years has been the transformation in social attitudes towards same-sex relationships. It’s hard...
This is What a Feminist Looks Like
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
If historians of the future remember our era for anything, it is probably going to be the unprecedented revolution in the social status of women that ...
‘No such thing as society’: Neoliberalism as a cultural and ideological project
02 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
http://www.culturalstudies.org.uk/Neoliberalism%20OSE.mp3   “There’s no such thing as society: only individuals (and their families)”. This...
Computer World
10 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
  Computer World March 8th 2016 ‘Computer World’ is the title of Kraftwerk’s best album (yes it is). At just around the time they record...
We Are All Migrants
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is the recording of the Feb 23rd 2016 lecture / discussion 'We Are All Migrants', given by Jeremy Gilbert, covering issues around the legacies of...
Culture, Power and Politics Seminar 6 – Podemos and Democracy – Part Two
10 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This was the second session of an afternoon symposium on Podemos and radical democracy, jointly convened by the Culture, Power and Politics semina...
Culture, Power and Politics Seminar 6 – Podemos and Democracy – Part One
10 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This was the first session of an afternoon symposium on Podemos and radical democracy, jointly convened by the Culture, Power and Politics seminar ...
Culture, Power and Politics, Seminar 3: The Politics of the Unconscious
28 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The third session deals with some of the political insights than be drawn from the psychoanalytic tradition, and from some radical critiques of it.
Culture, Power and Politics, Seminar 2: Power and the Self
16 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The second session deals with Althusser and Foucault with reference to the ways in which they conceptualised the relationships between power, subjecti...
Culture, Power and Politics Seminar 1: Neoliberal Common-Sense
20 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The first seminar in the series covers Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, the idea of common-sense, and how we can use these ideas to understand th...