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- 1 weeks ago58 min
Episode 20: Inside the Manesar Labor Movement
Mac and Re are joined by Shreya from the Center for Struggling Trade Unions (CSTU) to discuss the recent workers strikes in various industries of North India. Since March, workers in the automobile and garment industry were joined by domestic service workers to mobilize against low wages, unpaid overtime and deteriorating labor conditions. We also discuss the history of the workers mobilization in North India and raise some questions of the problems of labor organizing today.History of the Manesar automobile workers struggle: https://class-notes.org/2025/06/04/maruti-story-book/If you want to support the show donate to us on PatreonVisit our website for writing and updatesFollow our socials:TwitterBlueskyInstagram
- 3 weeks ago1h 12m
Episode 19: Peter Damerow and the Ontogeny of Thinking
Anatarah, Mac, and Re return once more to the realm of science studies. This time it is to discuss the indomitable Peter Damerow and the Max Planck history of science’s program of historical epistemology via their book Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking. We discuss the usage and development of (reflective) abstractions, the similarities between Piaget and Hegel, and finally the genesis of the number concept. Along the way, we discuss Damerow's theory of writing and language as well as his concept of historiogenesis.Recommend readings:The new Damerow translation by the Marxism & Science JournalThe Creation of Numbers from Clay by McLaughlin & SchlaudtEye of the Master by PasquinelliMaterial Engagement Theory by Malafouris
- Apr 30, 20261h 15m
Episode 18: Rupture Theory (Ft. Cam West)
J. E., Cam, and Mac are joined by Cam West of Negation Magazine to discuss his essay "Rupture Theory" and the possibility of politics at a distance from the state. We discuss the status of the party-form, the dialectic of spontaneity and organization, and so on, especially as they pertain to the last 10 years in the US.Cam West's article = https://www.negationmag.com/articles/rupture-theory
- Apr 21, 20261h 11m
Episode 17: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 2)
By popular demand, J. E. and Crane unite in a two-part episode (of which this is the second part) to, uh... review? critique? lampoon? Gabriel Rockhill's book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism Inter alia, they answer pressing questions like, who controls the academic world? (Probably not annoying "idealist" grad students) Did the Frankfurt School destroy the American labor movement? (No, lol) And, what does it mean to use wissenschaftlich DHM hermeneutics to dialectically situate subjective agency with the objective totality of material conditions? (Hell if we know!)
- Apr 21, 20261h 11m
Episode 16: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 1)
By popular demand, J. E. and Crane unite in a two-part episode to, uh... review? critique? lampoon? Gabriel Rockhill's book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism. Inter alia, they answer pressing questions like, who controls the academic world? (Probably not annoying "idealist" grad students) Did the Frankfurt School destroy the American labor movement? (No, lol) And, what does it mean to use wissenschaftlich DHM hermeneutics to dialectically situate subjective agency with the objective totality of material conditions? (Hell if we know!)
- Apr 3, 20261h 13m
Episode 15: Wokeness Must be Defended
The description: JE, Cam and Re interrogate Foucault's mid 1970s lectures at the Collège de France, Society Must be Defended. They discuss Foucault's method, his genealogy from Race Wars to Racism and modern conspiratorial thinking among other things.
- Mar 21, 20261h 6m
Episode 14: Theoretical Players' Ball
J. E. and Anatarah discuss Johan Huizinga's classic book Homo Ludens, a foundational work for game studies.
- Mar 5, 20261h 31m
Episode 13: Discoursing the Discorsi
Helen, Esther, and Crane tackle the first book of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, reading Machiavelli as a precursor to historical materialism and a radical republican. In the process, they pose the question: what can the critical theory of society learn from Machiavelli today?
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