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What's Left of Philosophy112 | Excavating Utopias w/ Dr. William ParisIn this episode, we discuss WLOP co-host William Paris’s recently published book Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation. In his book, Will examines the utopian elements in the theories of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Delany, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and James Boggs and their critique of racial domination as the domination of social time. The crew talks about the relationship between utopia and realism, the centrality of time for our social practices, and how history can provide critical principles for an emancipated society. We even find out whether Gil, Lillian, and Ow...2025-04-281h 13What's Left of PhilosophyWill Has Published a Book!This is a short promo for Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2025), written by WLOP’s very own Will Paris. You can find the book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/race-time-and-utopia-9780197698877?cc=ca&lang=en&.And check out Will’s interview about the book:https://newbooksnetwork.com/race-time-and-utopiaMusic:“My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN2025-03-0302 minWhat's Left of Philosophy102 TRAILER | The Heidegger EpisodeHere, we finally deliver on our longstanding threat to do an episode all about influential philosopher Martin Heidegger. We give him credit where it’s due: he has a compelling account of the conditions for meaningful existence along with a resonant critique of the alienation endemic to modern society, and is responsible for making important concepts like temporality, finitude, language and historicity into core themes of 20th century continental philosophy. Of course, he’s also an unrepentant Nazi, animated by fascist ideas like originary authenticity and racial destiny, an enemy of conceptual thinking in favor of obscurantist poetics, and an i...2024-12-0306 min
The Franchise Coach PodcastHow Franchising Can Give You Financial Freedom and a Better Life w/ Marc-William AttieGet inspired as Marc-William Attie shares invaluable insights on building financial freedom and strategies for creating a better life through franchising. He also emphasizes helping small and medium enterprises succeed in business. Marc highlights the importance of being part of a supportive business community where knowledge is shared and growth is fostered. He also sheds light on the impact of franchising coaches in diverse markets, taking into consideration language and culture. Please subscribe to this channel so you don’t miss any new episodes!About Marc-William Attie:Marc-William ATTIÉ is the President of ActionCOACH Europe...2024-06-2523 minWhat's Left of Philosophy91 | Fanon’s Dialectic of ViolenceIn this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Throughout the episode we link together Fanon’s endorsement of revolutionary violence against colonial domination with his work as a psychiatrist. How could Fanon argue for the necessity of violence while bearing witness to its regressive effects on both those who suffer violence and those who deploy it? What makes the revolutionary violence of the colonized qualitatively distinct from the violence of colonizers? Finally, what can Fanon's dialectic of violence tell us toda...2024-06-111h 01
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #298 | Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Hit Man, Robot Dreams, Tuesday, Handling the Undead, Longing, The Watchers, Under ParisWilliam Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE, the Richard Linklater crime film HIT MAN, the Oscar-nominated animated film ROBOT DREAMS, the saga of death that is TUESDAY, the saga of undeath that is HANDLING THE UNDEAD, the sad dead son movie LONGING, the magic human terrarium movie THE WATCHERS, and the movie about sharks attacking France called UNDER PARIS!Bad Boys: Ride or Die - 2:54Hit Man - 20:35Robot Dreams - 38:40Tuesday - 57:27Handling the Undead - 1:08:00Longing - 1:17:082024-06-101h 46
Paris Talks MarketingShaping the Future of Sales Emails: The 💜 Lavender Story with William Ballance
Join us as William Ballance, CEO of Lavender 💜, unfolds the journey from a sales representative to a groundbreaking entrepreneur, transforming the sales email landscape with AI-driven innovations.A sales rep turned startup founder, William Ballance is the co-founder and CEO of Lavender.ai, a tech startup that uses communication psychology and AI to help salespeople write more effective emails faster.Explore the intersection of AI and sales email strategy with Lavender's William Ballance.Learn more about:How William's experiences shaped Lavender's developmentLavender's unique approach to optimizing sales emails through AI, balancing automation and...2024-01-2644 min
Hotel Bar SessionsThe Problem Spaces of Philosophy (with William Paris)The HBS hosts are joined by Will Paris to talk about Du Bois, public philosophy, podcasting, and carving out "problem spaces." In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois famously asked the question “What is it like to be a problem?,” highlighting the stigmatizing and dehumanizing treatment of Blacks in the post-Reconstruction but Pre-Brown v. Board of Education United States. The purpose of his question was two-fold: on the one hand, Du Bois was urging his readers to consider the emotional and psychological toll on Black Americans living in a society where their very ident...2023-10-0659 minWhat's Left of Philosophy73 | Effective Altruism is Terrible w/ John DuncanIn this episode, we are joined by researcher and video essayist John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) to talk about the Effective Altruism movement and why it is so comprehensively awful. Granted, it’s got some pretty solid marketing: who could be against altruism, especially if it’s effective? But consider: from its individualism to its focus on cost-effectiveness and rates of return, from its idealist historiography to its refusal to cop to its obvious utilitarianism, from its naive empiricism to its wild-eyed obsession for preventing the Singularity—it’s really just the spontaneous ideology of 21st century capitalism cosplaying as ethics. Look, if...2023-09-201h 00What's Left of Philosophy66 | What's Left of Equality? Between Opportunity and FlourishingIn this episode, we unpack tensions between theories of equality that emphasize opportunity and outcomes in a discussion based upon Christine Sypnowich’s recent Boston Review article, “Is Equal Opportunity Enough?” We also discuss our very own William Paris’s response to Sypnowich in his essay “The Art of Equality.” We debate whether liberalism is tied to capitalist institutions, what it means to lead a flourishing life, and why French social clubs may contain part of the answer. We end with a stirring defense of equality as the best concept for social transformation.leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilReferences...2023-05-301h 00
VISION LIBRELe Duel #33 : GRAND PARIS, APACHES, BONNE CONDUITEAujourd'hui nous traiterons de Grand Paris de Mathieu Jauvat , Apaches de Romain Quirot et Bonne Conduite de Jonathan Barré présenté par JMA avec Joe et Alexeï
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Le débat de la culture POPNotre-Dame de Paris – Bruno Pelletier meilleur que Garou! Cette semaine, on explore l’univers de la comédie musicale de Luc Plamondon ayant marqué plusieurs dans le début des années 2000, Notre-Dame de Paris. Basé sur le roman de Victor Hugo, est-ce que la pièce vaut le détour ? Qui est le meilleur chanteur entre Garou et Bruno ? Et Daniel Lavoie lui ? Une critique également de la capture fait au palais des congrès de Paris. Invité: Marc Fournier 2023-03-221h 28
Le Débat de la Culture PopNotre-Dame de Paris – Bruno Pelletier meilleur que Garou! Cette semaine, on explore l’univers de la comédie musicale de Luc Plamondon ayant marqué plusieurs dans le début des années 2000, Notre-Dame de Paris. Basé sur le roman de Victor Hugo, est-ce que la pièce vaut le détour ? Qui est le meilleur chanteur entre Garou et Bruno ? Et Daniel Lavoie lui ? Une critique également de la capture fait au palais des congrès de Paris. Invité: Marc Fournier 2023-03-221h 28What's Left of Philosophy61 | Frantz Fanon, Racism, and the Alienation of ReasonIn this episode, we take a deep dive into Frantz Fanon’s first book Black Skin, White Masks. We discuss his views on racism as a form of alienation and narcissism, assess that status of reason throughout his argument, and interrogate his emphasis on futurity over history. Throughout we defend his theory of social pathology and his embrace of reason and universal humanism. This episode should be a stimulating introduction to the anticolonial and revolutionary work of Fanon for both newcomers and experts!leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilReferences:Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, tr...2023-03-201h 06What's Left of Philosophy60 | Antifascism and Emancipatory Violence with Devin Zane ShawIn this episode we are joined by Devin Zane Shaw to talk about his book Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy. We discuss the concept of the ‘three-way fight’, what Beauvoir’s analysis of the antinomies of action can teach us about emancipatory violence, and the necessity of community self-defense. Ambiguity may be an inescapable condition for those of us who truly care about freedom, but you just cannot have dinner with nazis, comrades.leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilReferences:Devin Zane Shaw, Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy (New Yo...2023-03-061h 11
Terrance Gelenter – Your American friend in ParisCafe Terrance – Episode 42 - WILLIAM MIDDLETONCafe Terrance – Episode 42 - WILLIAM MIDDLETON by Terrance - Your American Friend in Paris2023-02-2439 minWhat's Left of Philosophy59 | Herbert Marcuse B-Sides MixtapeFeeling alienated? In this episode, we are here for you. We dig into three periods of Herbert Marcuse’s thought. Marcuse was Martin Heidegger’s student in the 1920s, a member of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s, the philosopher of the New Left in the 1960s, and stays haunting the petit bourgeois in the 2020s. We pay our respects and get to the bottom of his influence on critical theory, social movements, and the culture. leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilReferences:Herbert Marcuse, Heideggerian Marxism, edited by Richard Wolin and John Abromeit (Lincoln and Lond...2023-02-201h 05What's Left of Philosophy58 Teaser | Angela Davis: Dialectics of Oppression and LiberationIn this episode we dig into some early writings by the incomparable black radical feminist and communist Angela Davis. We reflect on some of the contradictions involved in the transformation of women’s labor in the development of patriarchal capitalism and the latent potentials for the emancipated life in common that these developments nevertheless carry within themselves. We talk about the radical potential of industrializing housework, discuss strategies for the formation of effective solidarity, and—as usual—find a way to drag American suburbia. Get out there and contest capitalist power at the point of production! Those potentialities won’t actual...2023-02-0618 minWhat's Left of PhilosophyUNLOCKED: 24 | What's Left of Foucault?We couldn't put together a new episode for you this week, so we thought we'd unlock an old Patreon exclusive! Thanks to everyone who helped us pick which one by voting in our Twitter poll. We'll be back with a brand new ep next Monday.--In this episode, the crew takes on a beloved figure of the academic 'left': Michel Foucault. The discussion gravitates around Foucault’s work in the early 1970’s on the ‘punitive society’, power as civil war, and popular rebellion. This post-‘68 period of his life and work is often seen as his mos...2023-01-301h 10What's Left of Philosophy57 | What is Liberalism? Part II. Policing and Political EconomyIn the second installment of our “What is Liberalism?” series we discuss the relationship between liberalism and the institution of the police. If a core principle of liberalism is the equal application of the law, then some enforcement mechanism is necessary to ensure the stability of the social order. The problem is that in liberal democracies the police are asked to equally apply the law while maintaining an unequal social order. These two tasks create legitimacy crises for the state. We discuss how the liberal political economy of the United States explains the exceptional brutality of the police, why it is...2023-01-161h 01What's Left of Philosophy56 | Special Minisode: Hating on New Year’s Day with Antonio GramsciIn this special holiday episode we bring in the new year by being complete and total haters! We keep it real light and breezy for this short little convo. We drag Auld Lang Syne, the concept of New Years’ resolutions, the very notion of historical dates, and also for some reason the city of Boston. At one point the discussion turns into an unboxing video, which is great content for a podcast, famously a visual medium. Oh and we read Antonio Gramsci’s 1916 essay “I Hate New Year’s Day”. We’re just having some fun with it! Happy new year to...2023-01-0131 minWhat's Left of Philosophy55 Teaser | Rousseau's Discourse on InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau was many things, but chill was not one of them. In this patron-exclusive episode we have no chill either, getting into it about the renegade philosopher’s Discourse on Inequality, his totally bizarre fictional state of nature, and his stunningly prescient critique of modern society. You know, we aren’t primitivists at all, but sometimes it’s kinda hard to maintain that this whole civilization thing was worth it. We gave dogs anxiety disorders and spend our spare time licking the boots of our economic and political overlords! It sure seems like mistakes were made! Come, friends: take t...2022-12-2008 minWhat's Left of Philosophy54 | Expropriating the Expropriators w/ Dr. Jacob BlumenfeldIn this episode we talk with Jacob Blumenfeld about the concept of property in German Idealism. As it turns out, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel each had a pretty different idea of property than their Anglo counterparts who were out there apologizing for private property as a natural right and capitalism as freedom. Some might even say that socialism is what completes the system of German Idealism. They might also say that Fichte is totally bonkers. In either case, the Germans are both way cooler and way weirder than you know.leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilReferences:2022-12-051h 07What's Left of Philosophy53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist SociologyWeber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism is probably the most important foundational text for modern sociology, and we think that’s kind of a downer, actually. We talk about how we are thoroughly unconvinced about his central historical claim in the book, which seems to be that the Protestant reformation created the subjective conditions for the emergence of capitalism somehow. We also take him to task for his weak criticism of historical materialism and for his own sorely lacking methodology. The book’s definitely got some interesting stuff in it, but it’s mostly a swing and a...2022-11-281h 10What's Left of Philosophy52 | Mike Davis: Historical Materialism and Militant TheoryThis is a tribute episode to the great Mike Davis, the visionary social theorist and comrade who recently passed away in October 2022. We discuss his pathbreaking social analysis of Los Angeles, his political economy of urban life, his fondness for and reactivation of Marx’s political writings, and his unique ability to locate concrete phenomena within a specific historical conjuncture. Despite his clairvoyance about our disastrous present trajectory, we show why he was not the ‘prophet of doom’ that some think he was, insisting on the renewal of his spirit of militancy and hope.RIP to a true g...2022-11-141h 03What's Left of Philosophy51 Teaser | What is Utopia? Part III. Hermeneutics and Utopia: From Hans-Georg Gadamer to Ernst Bloch (Part 2)In Part Two of our two-part mini-series we discuss the work of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope. We ask what difference there is between the thought of Bloch and Theodor Adorno, how hope and utopia enable political action, and why so many traditions seem to abhor the concept of utopia. Expand your horizons and come learn how to hope again in this episode!This is just a small clip from the full episode, which is available to patrons:patreon.com/leftofphilosophyReferences:Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, vols. 1 &3, tr...2022-11-0120 minWhat's Left of Philosophy50 | Hermeneutics and Utopia: From Hans-Georg Gadamer to Ernst Bloch (Part 1)In part one of our two-part mini-series on hermeneutics and utopia we discuss the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer in his 1983 text Praise of Theory. We talk about the importance of prejudice and tradition for self-understanding, ask whether the natural sciences or the human sciences have sole claim to truth, and praise the (qualified) freedom of theory from instrumental reason (continental philosophy even gets a positive shout-out!). The purpose of this mini-series is to assess the insights of hermeneutics for theory and social philosophy, so look forward to our Patron exclusive conclusion on Ernst Bloch!leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphil2022-10-171h 03What's Left of Philosophy49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin HägglundIn this episode we are joined by Martin Hägglund to discuss the existentialist's argument for what makes human life meaningful—and why democratic socialism is the logical conclusion to reach after having considered the matter carefully. We also dig into the limits of social democracy, the need for the state, and the revaluation of value that is yet to come.leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilFollow Martin: @martinhaegglund | http://martinhagglund.seReferences:Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Life and Spiritual Freedom (New York: Penguin Random House, 2020)What Is Democratic Soci...2022-10-031h 05What's Left of Philosophy48 | Gillian Rose: Speculative Thinking and Post-Kantian Sociology with James CallahanIn this episode we are joined by James Callahan (aka Crane) to talk about Gillian Rose’s book Hegel Contra Sociology. We explore Rose’s critique of early twentieth-century sociology, which she argues was completely hampered by the limitations of its neo-Kantian framework. Looking to break out of this transcendental circle, Rose turns to Hegel and defends a highly original and sophisticated reading of his speculative political thinking, in order to develop a sociological analysis adequate for grasping and transforming our modern capitalist world. We also talk about why Hegel hated the starry skies above and thought slimes and rash...2022-09-191h 00
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #235 | Cooking With Paris (2021)Our SUDDENLY LAST SEASON event continues with a special guest, author and soap-maker M. Lopes da Silva, joining William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold to review the short-lived Netflix reality series COOKING WITH PARIS, starring Paris Hilton and a cast of celebrity cameos who try to make dinner for themselves!Was COOKING WITH PARIS... canceled too soon? Let's find out!Pre-order M. Lopes da Silva's upcoming SPLIT SCREAM book at Barnes and Noble! Sign up for the SaltCatSoap of the Month Club before October 1st to get the monster-themed soaps described in this episode! ...2022-09-191h 23What's Left of Philosophy47 | Guy Debord and the Society of the SpectacleIn today’s episode we talk about Guy Debord’s critique of life under modern capitalism by looking at his scathing and provocative The Society of the Spectacle. Is it true that all that was once lived is now mere representation? That the whole of society is mediated by an endless proliferation of passifying images? That the fullness of life has been replaced by its bloodless negation in survival? Because it sure feels like it! We discuss what exactly he means by spectacle, reflect on whether and how it’s possible to maintain his distinction between real needs and pseudo...2022-09-061h 01
Give Them An ArgumentSeason 4 Episode 9: Ben Shapiro vs History + William Paris on Utopianism (+ Police Abolition Debate)Buy tickets now to the VERY FIRST GTAA LIVE SHOW (co-sponsored by This is Revolution and Left Reckoning) at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angels on October 23rd, featuring Ana Kasparian, Nando Vila, Ben Burgis, Jason Myles, Kuba Wrzesniewski, David Griscom, Matt Lech, Daniel Bessner, C. Derrick Varn, and more:https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09005D19D53D5C6C*******************************************************Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew review Ben Shapiro's video "Marxism Can't Work in America" and correct Shapiro's understanding of American history, Marxism, and socialism, and...well...everything? After that, we play a...2022-08-272h 01What's Left of Philosophy46 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part V: Adorno's Negative DialecticsIn this patron-exclusive episode, we continue our series on the concept of dialectics by talking about Adorno’s Negative Dialectics. We reflect on what a non-closed dialectical system would look like, why Adorno is definitely not the defeatist he’s often caricatured as being, and what it means for us to hold onto utopian promises for a better world from within the administered nightmare of modern capitalism. Along the way we try to hone in on what’s special about Adorno’s negative dialectics, especially in comparison with what we get out of Kant and Hegel. And we give Heidegge...2022-08-2210 minWhat's Left of Philosophy45 | On Solidarity and Conflict with Nathan DuFordIn this episode we are joined by Nathan DuFord to discuss their new book Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory. We unpack why they believe solidarity ought to be theorized as a political concept rather than moral injunction. For DuFord, we risk missing that solidarity is what the oppressed do with one another and that the oppressed will have disagreements within their solidary groups if we undertheorize the political dimensions of solidarity. We go on to discuss the relationships between trust and conflict, whether groups formed in solidarity can last forever, and contemporary questions concerning conflict in left organizations...2022-08-081h 08
The Master of Demon Gorge: A Chinese History PodcastCernuschi Museum, ParisHenri Cernuschi, an Italian revolutionary who became a French banker, came to collect East Asian and particularly Chinese artifacts later in life.Today, a walk through the Cernuschi Museum in Paris is amounts to a stroll through Chinese history.Support the show2022-08-0445 minWhat's Left of Philosophy44 | Karl Kautsky's Cooperative CommonwealthIn this episode we talk about the most important Marxist thinker during the time of the Second International, Karl Kautsky. We talk about his infamous claim that the breakdown of capitalism is historically inevitable, what he thinks socialist praxis should look like in a liberal democracy, and what the concentration of large-scale capital means for your small business. Plus at some point we realize that almost all anti-socialist arguments are actually just confused anti-capitalist ones, which we find irresistibly delightful. We’re in old-school classical Marxist territory for this one, folks! leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphil References: ...2022-08-011h 01What's Left of Philosophy43 | Transindividuality and Marxism with Jason ReadIn this episode we talk with the wonderful Jason Read about his work on the concept of transindividuality and what it means for critical social theory, Marxist notions like alienation and reification, and traditional conceptions of freedom and equality. It’s bad news for anyone who thinks politics can be directly derived from ontology, but incredibly productive theoretically and practically if you're willing to think social relations as processes. Also Will admits he’s almost ready to confess his Spinozism, so that’s a clear win.follow us @leftofphilReferences:Jason Read, The Produc...2022-07-261h 01
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #226 | Thor: Love and Thunder, The Sea Beast, Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, Persuasion, Fire of Love, Both Sides of the Blade, Clara SolaWilliam Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new MCU event film THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER, the Netflix animated fantasy-adventure THE SEA BEAST, the animated comedy BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO THE UNIVERSE, the feel-good fashion film MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS, the Jane Austen adaptation PERSUASION, the volcanic documentary-romance FIRE OF LOVE, the latest Claire Denis film BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE and the Costa Rican drama CLARA SOLA!
Thor: Love and Thunder - 5:55 The Sea Beast - 44:57 Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe - 57:47 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - 1:13:00 Persuasion - 1:21:24 Fire of Love - 1:33:15 Both Sides of the B...2022-07-182h 02What's Left of Philosophy42 | Going Beyond the Pleasure Principle with FreudIn this episode we talk psychoanalytic theory and practice. With Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle as our touchstone, we get speculative about human desire, the death drive, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and political struggle. We discuss the problem of scaling up from individual psychology to collective organizations, the opacity of the subject, and some of the psychosocial pathologies peculiar to the United States here in the twenty-first century. We could all use a bit more transference!leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphilReferences:Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, trans. and ed. James Strachey (Ne...2022-07-121h 08
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Reclaimed #34 | Paris is Burning (1990)Welcome to CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners!
This week on CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, Bibbs and Witney travel back in time to the 1980s drag scene in New York City, with Jennie Livingston's iconic and influential documentary PARIS IS BURNING (now available on Criterion Channel)!!
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Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for e...2022-06-2746 minWhat's Left of Philosophy41 | James Boggs and the Problem of Rights under CapitalismIn this episode we discuss James Boggs’s 1963 The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook. We talk about Boggs’s materialist conception of rights as “what you make and what you take.” In Boggs we find a novel conception of rights that are grounded in social power. We delve into the dangers automation and structural unemployment present to rights to life and happiness while wondering if a “workless” society would truly be a better one. In the end, we extend a figleaf to egalitarian liberals and offer to heal their psychic distress by showing them that they are alrea...2022-06-2759 minWhat's Left of Philosophy40 Teaser | What is Liberalism? Part I. John Locke's Second Treatise of GovernmentIn this episode we kick off our new series called “What is Liberalism?” with private property, conquest, and a discussion about John Locke’s apologia for both. We appreciate the efforts of the left to civilize liberalism in the wake of its own civilizing efforts across the globe, but we ask whether it’s really possible to separate economic and political liberalism to make liberalism work for the left. Our experiences in DEI workshops suggest not, although many who are smarter than Locke have tried. The full episode is available on our patreon!patreon.com/leftofph...2022-06-1311 minWhat's Left of Philosophy39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity FormIn this episode we discuss the work of György Lukács, focusing on the reification essay from his seminal 1923 book History and Class Consciousness. We talk about why it’s not great that the commodity form has penetrated every aspect of social life, why we need to retain the category of totality in spite of loud protests from postmodernists, and what’s special about the standpoint of the proletariat. Welcome to capitalism, folks: real contradictions and necessary illusions abound. But it’s not over yet! patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil References: Georg Lukács, Histo...2022-05-301h 05What's Left of Philosophy38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the PresentIn this episode, we discuss the infamous Nazi jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt, with particular focus on his 1923 book The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. We attempt to better understand the right-wing, Schmittian case against both liberal ‘parliamentarianism’ and ‘Marxist socialism’, while trying to discern his positive political vision. Doing so requires assessing his paradoxical claim that democracy and dictatorship are perfectly compatible, and that dictatorship is good, actually. We end by asking what the hell a ‘Left Schmittian’ is, asking what if anything he has to offer for leftist theory and practice today. patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil 2022-05-161h 00What's Left of Philosophy37 Teaser | What’s the ‘Structural’ in ‘Structural Injustice’?: Iris Marion Young and Political PhilosophyWhat do we mean when we call something a ‘structural injustice’? In this episode, we take up some of Iris Marion Young’s work and ask what makes the difference between interpersonal injustice and structural injustice. Along the way, we investigate concepts such as political responsibility, social connection, and the character of global injustice. As an extra special treat listeners will find out what is preventing Gil from being a revolutionary (the answer may surprise you)! The full episode is available on our patreon!patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil References: Iris Marion Young, Re...2022-05-0210 minWhat's Left of Philosophy36 | What is Utopia? Part II. Plato's Republic (with Owen Alldritt)In this episode, we talk with Owen Alldritt about justice. We come to Plato’s defense against the Western philosophical canon, mostly in spite of ourselves, and insist on the True coinciding with the Good. What does this all have to do with utopia, you ask? As it turns out, Plato is a realist and he thinks we can know the Good in itself, organize our cities accordingly, and realize justice…or at least philosophers can. Good luck to everyone else! patreon to support | follow us @leftofphil References: The Republic, by Plato Owen Alldrit...2022-04-201h 07What's Left of Philosophy35 | Moral Luck and Pedagogy (with Aaron Rabinowitz)In this episode, we talk with Aaron Rabinowitz of Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space about the paradoxes of moral luck, the problematic nature of our everyday notions of responsibility, and what good pedagogy looks like when you’ve agreed – as you must – that spontaneous, volitional free will is merely an illusion. We do some Kantian maneuvering, form provisional alliances, and all things considered have as good a time as is possible given our total lack of freedom.References:Thomas Nagel, “Moral Luck” Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com2022-04-051h 08What's Left of Philosophy34 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part IV: Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno and HorkheimerIn this episode we talk about Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, focusing on their notion of reason as abstractive domination and their understanding of the culture industry as a means of producing mass complicity with the machinations of capital. The good news is that we've got a much better sense of humor than either of them, so it's not as miserable as all that might sound. The bad news is we're not sure if they're wrong to be so pessimistic. We also drag a fair bit of popular culture, admit we still love it, and call out the...2022-03-2208 min
Beaux-Arts de ParisChaire Dessin Extra-Large avec William KentridgeWilliam Kentridge est l'un des artistes contemporains les plus en vue aujourd'hui. Il travaille une multitude de médiums : dessin, écriture, film, performance, musique, théâtre et pratiques collaboratives, pour créer des œuvres d'art qui sont ancrées dans la politique, la science, la littérature et l'histoire, tout en maintenant un espace pour la contradiction et l'incertitude.
Les œuvres de Kentridge ont été montrées dans des musées, des galeries et des théâtres du monde entier depuis les années 1990, notamment au Museum of Modern Art de New York, au Albertina Museum...2022-03-141h 04What's Left of Philosophy33 | (Un)Learning How to Do Politics with Hannah ArendtIn this episode we discuss what distinguishes politics from other aspects of human existence by looking at Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and “Reflections on Little Rock.” We question why Arendt is so concerned with defending the distinction between politics, the social, and the private realm and what useful insights can be drawn from these distinctions when analyzing real human history. In addition, we touch on Arendt’s controversial relationship to black politics around integration or as she thought of it black “social climbing.” This might be the one that gets us canceled! patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil 2022-03-071h 08What's Left of Philosophy32 | What is Equality? Disagreeing with Jacques RancièreIn this episode we discuss the meaning of equality by delving into French political philosopher Jacques Rancière’s 1995 book, Disagreement. In a contentious conversation we unpack the core concepts of the book, including its expansive notion of the police and its highly restrictive definition of politics as foundationally egalitarian. Above all, we press Rancière (and each other!) on both the meaning and the political utility of equality as a presupposition or ‘axiom’ rather than a social goal. It’s a banger! patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil References: Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy...2022-02-221h 05What's Left of Philosophy31 | Raymond Geuss: Realism in Political TheoryIn this episode we work through some of the ideas laid out in Part 1 of Raymond Geuss’ 2008 Philosophy and Real Politics. It’s a refreshingly clear-eyed argument for what he calls the realist approach in political philosophy, which tries to attend to the messiness of actually existing societies, the opaque and invested people who make them up, and the shifting, contradictory values they hold. We’re talking Hobbes meets Lenin meets Nietzsche here, folks. Leave your rational decision theory and normative idealism at the door. patreonn.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil References: Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real...2022-02-071h 02What's Left of Philosophy30 | What is Utopia? Part I. Thomas More: Critical Realism in a Time of EnclosureIn this episode, we kick off a new series on the concept of utopia by taking a look at the guy who invented the word, Thomas More. We discuss how his wonderfully satirical 1516 book Utopia was written in response to the enclosures happening in England, which forced masses of peasants into unemployment and misery and created the conditions for early capitalist agriculture. His fictional island nation of Utopia thrives without private property, but More’s real trick is how he reveals the wildly utopian and fantastical nature of our own capitalist world order. Plus Owen invents the phrase ‘professional soci...2022-01-241h 00
The Jimbo Paris ShowJimbo Paris Show #62- Redevelop and Turnaround Your Business to Success (Drew Stevens)“Let me find a way to help individuals that struggle and transform them the best way that I know how”– Drew StevensWelcome to The Jimbo Paris Show #62- Redevelop and Turnaround Your Business to Success (Drew Stevens) Drew Stevens works with founders and senior leaders of middle-market organizations that struggle and transforms them into thriving businesses. Drew Stevens has over 30 years of investment banking, private equity and merger, and acquisition experience. He works to affect change, propagate growth, and transition the business. Mr. Stevens's private equity and capital lending experti...2022-01-1258 min
State Of ReadinessWilliam Bierce; "Smarter Business Exits" Video Version https://vimeo.com/653243654 About the Podcast Hello and welcome to another episode of “State of Readiness”. My guest today is William "Bill" Bierce, Co-Founder of Bierce & Kenerson PC and author of the book, "Smarter Business Exits". The topic of discussion for this episode is the importance of taking into consideration the exit strategies that might present themselves in the future and how...2022-01-1044 minWhat's Left of Philosophy29 | Sartre and the Question of PhilosophyIn this episode, we read Jean-Paul Sartre's Search for a Method. We begin by working through Sartre’s puzzling claim that Marxism is this era’s one true philosophy and then branch out into broader questions concerning what it is we are trying to do when we philosophize and whether Sartre was right not to give up on capital-T “Truth.” Other topics include Sartre’s conception of freedom, the relationship of the individual to history, and the problems of dogmatic Marxism up to the present day. This one is sure to delight, and it's just the start for us with old J...2022-01-101h 06What's Left of Philosophy28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques DerridaMerry Christmas and happy holidays! In this surprise gift of an episode, we’re visited by the spectre of Jacques Derrida and his deconstruction of the gift. Like the Ghost of Christmas Past, he forces us to ask whether we have given enough, whether we know how to give without reciprocity, and why it is so hard to give in the first place. The gang reflects on the phenomenology of gift-giving and the insidious politics of philanthropy, and even takes shots at the big guy himself: Santa Claus. So sit back, grab your eggnog, and celebrate the holidays with yo...2021-12-2554 minWhat's Left of Philosophy27 | Crisis and Utopian ConsciousnessIn this episode we get together to discuss a new article by our very own Will Paris! We talk about Will’s critical and materialist conception of consciousness, the role of awareness and normative expectations in processes of social transformation, and why utopia is involved in knowledge production. We talk Bloch, we talk Hayek: you know, the usuals. It’s a classic original crew set, recorded live on stream!patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:William Paris, “Crisis Consciousness, Utopian Consciousness, and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology (forthcoming)Music...2021-12-211h 05What's Left of Philosophy26 | Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin w/ Dr. Ashley BohrerIn this episode we welcome Dr. Ashley Bohrer to discuss Walter Benjamin’s 1921 essay “Critique of Violence”. We talk about the relationship between violence and the law, reflect on the limits of institutional power for emancipatory projects, and get really real about the spiritual dimension of justice. Keep your messianism weak, comrades.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilashleybohrer.comPedagogies for Peace podcast: https://kroc.nd.edu/research/intersectionality/pedagogies-for-peace-podcast/References:Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence,” trans. Edmund Jephcott, in Selected Writings Volume I: 1913-1926, eds. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jenning...2021-12-041h 09What's Left of Philosophy25 | Reflections on Freedom and the Cold War w/ Dr. Lea YpiThis episode dives behind the Iron Curtain into socialist Albania in discussion with Lea Ypi on her new memoir “Free.” The crew explores what has been gained and what has been lost in the transition to capitalism. Lea explains why some of the symmetry may surprise us and why Marxism is a philosophy of human freedom.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Lea Ypi, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Penguin Random House, 2021)Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com 2021-11-191h 02
Paris Talks MarketingEp. 46 - Scale Your Sales Demos with Conversation Intelligence with William Vuong, Head of Marketing at Symbl.ai
What opportunities can conversation intelligence create for your business? Meet William Vuong who is the Head of Marketing at Symbl.ai. Symbl.ai is a platform that helps sales, customer support and marketing team understand customer intents through conversation AI tool. In this episode, William unpacks the concept of "conversation intelligence"- how it works, what kind of value it can add to your organization, and how businesses can start leveraging this technology to pull insights from their daily conversations with customers and understand their intent more deeply. Tune in and enjoy!
2021-11-1148 minWhat's Left of Philosophy24 Teaser | What's Left of Foucault?In this episode, the crew takes on a beloved figure of the academic ‘left’: Michel Foucault. The discussion gravitates around Foucault’s work in the early 1970’s on the ‘punitive society’, power as civil war, and popular rebellion. This post-‘68 period of his life and work is often seen as his most politically ‘radical’, both because of his activist involvement in the Prisons Information Group (GIP) and because he directly engages with Marxist discourse and thought. Nevertheless, the conversation quickly turns skeptical (to put it mildly). We question both the explanatory power and the political stakes of his historical studies: What is t...2021-11-0523 minWhat's Left of Philosophy23 | How Does a Democracy Keep its Character? Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition w/ Prof. Melvin RogersIn this episode, we welcome Professor Melvin Rogers of Brown University to discuss his forthcoming book The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought. We focus on the often elided importance of character in social struggle and transformation, the tension between optimism and pessimism in African American political thought, and the centrality of rhetoric and persuasion in this tradition. It is not to be missed!patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferencesRogers, Melvin. Forthcoming. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought...2021-10-221h 06What's Left of Philosophy22 | The Meaning of Disability (with Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds)In this episode we are joined by Joel Michael Reynolds for a wide-ranging discussion about disability theory. We dig into the relationship between disability and white supremacy, the idea of politics as differential capacitation, genomics and medicalization, justice as equity, and more. Naturally we put full-bore social constructivism on blast. Leftists gotta be materialists, you know?patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Joel Michael Reynolds, “The Meaning of Ability and Disability.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33.3 (2019).Joel Michael Reynolds, “Genopower: On Genomics, Disability, and Impairment.” Foucault Studies 31 (forthcoming).Joel Michael Reynolds, “Disability...2021-10-081h 08
Deep Space Pride: A Gay Star Trek Podcast047 - Lower Decks: We'll Always Have Tom Paris This week, we talk about all the Star Trek we've been watching - including the newly revealed Star Trek: Prodigy opening credits! Johnson also talks about his recent obsession with TNG talent shows, while Mike goes over the eclectic selection of Trek he's been watching, including the finale of The Animated Series. We then get into this week's Lower Decks episode, "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" - which sees our crew back together again! We go over some highlights, which include Tendi and Mariner realizing that they don't know each other at all (it's like...2021-09-031h 00What's Left of Philosophy21 | What is Critical Theory Doing? w/ Dr. Prof. Robin CelikatesIn this episode we are joined by Professor Robin Celikates to discuss the big “method” question in critical theory: What is it doing, and why? Since Marx, this tradition has had a special connection to emancipatory struggles, so we talk about how that works (or doesn’t) in relation to contemporary debates about civil disobedience and migration. patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Robin Celikates, 2019. “Constituent Power Beyond Exceptionalism: Irregular migration, disobedience, and (re-)constitution,” Journal of International Political Theory 15(1): 67-81.Robin Celikates. 2018. “Slow Learners? On Moral Progress, Social Struggle, and Whig History,” "F...2021-08-291h 08What's Left of Philosophy20 | David Walker and the Politics of JudgmentFor this episode we discuss David Walker’s 1830 radical anti-slavery tract An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World and Melvin Rogers’s 2015 article “David Walker and the Political Power of the Appeal.” We explore Walker’s political philosophy of judgment and its relationship to normativity, solidarity, and reconstructing civic society. Walker offers an insightful critique of the insidious pathologies race introduces into Western political formations. We cover questions of universalism, the contentious role of violence in political change, and what it means to inherit a political tradition. patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:David Wa...2021-08-1358 minThe Jimbo Paris ShowJimbo Paris Show #26- You Deserve Greater Opportunities. (Coach AL)Welcome to The Jimbo Paris Show #26- You Deserve Greater Opportunities. (Coach AL)This episode will give us realizations about having a great mindset to overcome life challenges.He was born with obesity and ADHD, has a brother who has Autism and was living in a dysfunctional family, struggled to learn and fit into society. At 15 years old, He found a mentor named Zovek. He learned self-hypnosis from him, and this has changed his life ever since. Coach AL started doing track and field then unfortunately suffered an injury, that lead him to start...2021-08-111h 01What's Left of Philosophy19 | Machiavelli: Cunning, Fortune, and Republican VirtueIn this episode we talk through the work of one of the most infamous figures in the history of political thought, Niccolò Machiavelli. Looking both at the Prince and some passages from the Discourses, we ask ourselves what the Florentine can teach us about strategy, the need for vision and flexibility, and the virtues of leaders and citizens in a world of duplicity and chance. Is he a ruthless lover of cruelty, a clear-eyed political scientist, or a partisan defender of freedom as non-domination? patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, ed...2021-08-011h 11What's Left of Philosophy18 | Spinoza: Necessity, Ethics, JoyIn this episode we finally get around to talking about Spinoza. It turns out normativity is kind of complicated when you think everything is strictly determined and there’s no such thing as contingency! We discuss the relationship between affect and power, the inherently social nature of knowledge, and why you should want joy for others as much as for yourself. Along the way we also manage to work in a needless and slanderous dig against Heidegger, just for good measure.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics, trans. and ed. Ed...2021-07-171h 13What's Left of Philosophy17 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part III: What's the Deal with Marx, Anyway?In this Patron exclusive episode, we move to the third part of our mini-series “What is Dialectics?” and take on the works of Karl Marx. The WLOP crew investigates what Marx took and rejected from Hegelian dialectics while defending why Marx remains deeply relevant in our contemporary moment. We cover the role of mystification under capitalism, Marx’s moral and political critique of value, and the future of Marxism in the context of ecological crisis. There’s even a mention of spectres for you Derrida fans out there! It’s a can’t miss episode for sure.Full episode...2021-07-0219 minWhat's Left of Philosophy16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social ScienceIn this episode, we discuss Erik Olin Wright’s 2010 book Envisioning Real Utopias. We excavate the relationship between social scientific investigation and normative claims concerning how we ought to structure our society. We ask what a theory of social transformation ought to entail and figure out why we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds yet. So sit back and relax while we pour one out for a real one: Comrade Erik Olin Wright.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias, (New York: Verso, 2010).Musi...2021-06-181h 07What's Left of Philosophy15 | What is Dialectics? Part II: We Need to Talk about HegelIn this episode, we continue our series on dialectics by completely losing our minds talking about Hegel. We break through Kant’s critical prohibition on speculative metaphysics and grasp the in-itself as the movement of dialectical negativity. We realize the unity of opposites. We are seized by the necessity of the absolute Idea in history. It’s a banger, folks. In retrospect, it couldn’t have been any other way.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H.B. Nisbet, ed. Allen W. Wood (New Yo...2021-06-041h 16
La Maison de la PoésieSURVIVRE CHEZ SOI (L’ART DU CONFINEMENT) d’après How to live in a flat de William Heath RobinsonSURVIVRE CHEZ SOI (L’ART DU CONFINEMENT) d’après How to live in a flat de William Heath Robinson
Avec Michel LagardeLecture par Laurent Poitrenaux
« Le 16 mars 2020, nous apprenions qu’un vilain virus allait nous confiner pendant quelque temps ; 55 jours exactement. L’ensemble de la population française allait donc devoir apprendre l’art du confinement dans des espaces parfois fort étroits. William Heath Robinson connaissait l’art d’occuper l’espace, et avait visiblement déjà réfléchi à la question. Son œuvre magnifique et superbement ignorée en France venait de tomber dans le domaine p...2021-06-0140 min
Emily Is Not In Paris: The PodcastFrom Paris on a Fulbright to study at The Sorbonne to Harvard Med School | William MbongoBefore entering Harvard Medical School, my guest & friend, William Mbongo decided to spend one year in Paris on a prestigious Fulbright scholarship. During his year in France, he studied at The Sorbonne, worked in a medical lab, and coached kids in sports in his spare time.✩ Where to find Will ✩➫ His podcast: DocDreams2021-05-2441 minWhat's Left of Philosophy14 | Thomas Hobbes Hates Your Book ClubIn this episode, we go back to the seventeenth century to talk about Thomas Hobbes’ hugely influential political philosophy. Focusing mostly on De Cive, we dive into his hilariously bleak anthropology, his totalitarian absolutism, and his uncomfortable fit within the modern tradition of political liberalism. But things are a little more complicated than they first appear: maybe old Bishop Bramhall was right when he said that Hobbes’ ideas are ‘a rebel’s catechism’.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Thomas Hobbes, On the Citizen, ed. and trans. Richard Tuck and Michael Silverthorne (New York: Cambridge...2021-05-221h 03
Embrace The VoidEV - 191 Utopian Sociology with William ParisMy guest this week is William Paris (@WilliamMParis), the Frank B Weeks Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan, starting assistant professor as University of Toronto, and cohost of the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast. We discuss the role of utopia in the work of Du Bois and how it allows the possible to permeate the actual.Convocation: Utopia by Thomas MoreEditing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.htmlMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com...2021-05-071h 13What's Left of Philosophy13 | What is Dialectics? Part I. The Crew Gets Kant-PilledIn this episode, we start our series on dialectics with a conversation about Kant. If you’ve ever wondered what the hell this term means, then the WLOP crew is here for you. We talk about what human beings can know, what we can’t know but need to think, and introduce ourselves to the philosophy of history.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil References:Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, ed. and trans. Paul Guyer and Allan Wood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment, ed. Paul...2021-05-071h 02What's Left of Philosophy12 Teaser | Gustav Landauer: Anarchism, Utopia, CommunityIn this episode, we explore the work of German anarchist Gustav Landauer. We work through the utility of utopia in political transformations and what is required to create richer communities and social life. In the end, we discover the one vibe we’re cool with: joy. Come on through for wild mysticism and learn what Meister Eckhart can do for you while in prison!The full episode is available on our Patreon page.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Gustav Landauer, “Anarchism and Socialism,” in Revolution and Other Writings, edited and translated by Gab...2021-04-2308 minWhat's Left of Philosophy11 | Climate Politics and Global Justice (with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò)In this episode, we are joined by Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (@OlufemiOTaiwo) (Georgetown University) to discuss his work on the politics surrounding climate change and generative frameworks for global justice. In this wide-ranging discussion we address the urgency of climate politics for the African continent, what it means to connect the local to the global, and how we can move towards richer forms of collaborative security. We also offer a theory of “vibes” in politics and theory.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, “Who Gets to Feel Secure?” https://aeo...2021-04-101h 18What's Left of Philosophy10 | Donna Haraway: Socialist Cyborg AffinitiesIn this episode, we discuss Donna Haraway’s distinctive socialist cyberfeminism. We talk through the virtues and vices of her version of postmodern feminism and leftism, the ambivalent character of scientific knowledge production and new technologies, and the strange material powers of metaphor. Ask yourself: would you rather be a cyborg or a goddess?patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991).Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question...2021-03-281h 15What's Left of Philosophy9 | C.L.R. James: Leadership, Organization, Mass Politics (with Dr. William Clare Roberts)Episode 9 explores the antinomies of autonomy and self-emancipation in the thought of C.L.R. James. Dr. William Clare Roberts joins us to discuss James’ legacy and how it fits into his book project on the history of “history from below.” Please be advised that a side-effect of this episode may be republicanism. (No, you Yanks, not the GOP. It’s the Black Jacobins, get it?)References:CLR James, The Black Jacobins, (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).CLR James, World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017)2021-03-121h 01What's Left of Philosophy8 | (Neo)colonialism and AnticolonialismIn episode 8, we look to the writings of Aimé Césaire to guide a conversation about colonialism, neocolonialism, and anti-colonial thought and struggle. Focusing especially on his 1950 Discourse on Colonialism and his 1956 letter to Maurice Thorez—in which he explains his resignation from French Communist Party—we discuss the subjective and objective ‘boomerang effects’ of colonialism on colonizing countries, the tensions between particularism and universalism in putatively global left politics, the relationship between colonialism and capitalism, and the state of neocolonial domination and exploitation.Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism. Ed. Robin D.G. Kelly. Monthly Review Press, 2000...2021-02-261h 06