What's Left of Philosophy

new episode out today! we talk about Alain Locke, the 'Dean of the Harlem Renaissance', reflecting on his ideas about the role of art in the development of social consciousness for Black Americans. tensions and paradoxes abound! avoid artless propaganda! www.patreon.com/leftofphilos...

catch us next week at the Radical Philosophy Association's (@radicalphilosophya.bsky.social) biennial conference at Pomona College for a live show where we will discuss post-liberal political theory!

new episode out today! we discuss Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics, which diagnoses our present moment's curious combination of mass mobilization and debilitating standstill. it's time for a paradigm shift, comrades! www.patreon.com/leftofphilos...

new episode out now! on Marx's Fragment on Machines and AI as potentially emancipatory technology 💖 abolish drudgery! refuse doomerism! your time can be yours! www.patreon.com/posts/163735...

new episode out now! you won't believe where our conversation about an obscure 17th century jurist leads us. it is a delight and you will love it www.patreon.com/posts/162364...

Liam is correct and also my podcast, @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social, is the best show about philosophy. go listen and tell your friends podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

reading Elizabeth Anderson's "What Is the Point of Equality?" for the next @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social ep and my god she really murders the hell out of luck egalitarianism and throws the body right into the dumpster and lights it on fire

Constitutions evolve & remain a site of struggle for today’s Left, as explored on @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social’s chat with @lucienferguson.bsky.social on Reconstruction’s legacy. Loved considering notions of freedom as historically and economically contingent. #marxwasright #socialism #philosophy

Will really hits the correct analysis here, the republicans are the only ones in America that treat the Constitution as a living document, the Dems give it too much deference as a dead document. Legal realism wins again.

new episode out today! professor Luke Ferguson joins us to talk about the history of constitutional law, how the Supreme Court gutted the project of reconstruction, and why the left should treat the law as a site of struggle 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/159412...

for every @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social episode we put out we get a pile of bad faith misreadings in our inbox, accusing us of all manner of reactionary nonsense. to you, our critics, I say: nothing. you howl uselessly into a yawning void prison of your own mind's construction

we've just recorded a banger new @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social episode on the US Constitution, focusing on the reconstruction amendments and the late 19C supreme court cases that limited their reach. 1 key takeaway is that only the reactionary right actively treats it as a living, malleable document

new episode out today! we talk about Kathi Weeks' The Problem with Work, which we are very sympathetic to even if we are probably trapped within some sort of the productivist modernism she criticizes. we promise we don't *want* to work! full ep is a patron exclusive: www.patreon.com/posts/158090...

just wrapped a new @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social episode on Kathi Weeks and our conclusion is that even if the goal of non-alienated, non-exploited work is still too productivist an imaginary, we would nevertheless like some less alienated and less exploited work please

great pod about a great book.

Very Canadian episode of @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social on the politics of recognition and indigenous struggles open.spotify.com/episode/626l...

new episode out today! we discuss Glen Coulthard's book Red Skin, White Masks, talking through land back as the normative basis of radical indigenous struggles and the inadequacy of recognitive politics in settler colonial states. stay vigilant, comrades ❤️ www.patreon.com/posts/156471...

loved chatting with Michael a bit on this livestream -- and we have more collaborations in the works, so keep an eye out!

talked about the pope shredding into dumb AI shit and then had philosopher @gilmorejon.bsky.social from @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social on and we just kinda cooked for a while. grab two beers and lock in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiYe...

If you haven't listened to the podcast "What's Left of Philosophy" (@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social), please do so. The first two episodes of their Marxism and Religion series have been both thought provoking and deeply affirming of a shared humane spirit. So good.

new @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social ep on Terry Eagleton's very beautiful reading of Christianity dropping tomorrow, the second installment in our Marxism and Religion series ❤️

Great @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social episode. Good tune up for my lecture on Sowell/Shelby/Mills in two weeks! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

new episode out today! we talk about Brandon Terry's case for a tragic vision of the Black Civil Rights Movement, in search of a realist political orientation that avoids romantic optimism and ironic pessimism. the struggle continues! www.patreon.com/posts/153672...

new episode out today! we discuss Horkheimer's essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", asking what actually makes critical theory critical, and whether there's any genuinely critical theory going on right now. the social totality causing all kinds of problems rn fr www.patreon.com/posts/130-ma...

new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...

new episode out now! we talk about Hayden White's work on the unavoidably moral and aesthetic aspects of narrativity in historical reconstruction. first as tragedy, then as farce, hopefully something else eventually! www.patreon.com/posts/127-ha...

close out this awful year with our new episode on Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program! self explanatory really www.patreon.com/posts/126-ma...

new episode out now! we talk about Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, which is a sophisticated and nuanced account of approbation, justice, and why you get the ick when someone doesn't appreciate a movie you really like. it's great actually. www.patreon.com/posts/123-ad...

new episode out now! we talk about Alfred Sohn-Rethel's work on real abstraction and his theory of commodity exchange as the origin of transcendental subjectivity. we love a big swing and this is truly a big swing, folks www.patreon.com/posts/122-re...

new episode out today! we read a bunch of the federalist papers to try to figure out what these people had in mind when they started, well, all this. peel back the curtain with us on the vision behind America's first republic! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

this is one of the best episodes yet. if you aren't listening to this podcast you're playing yourself

new episode out now! we talk with Nicholas Vrousalis about why we should understand exploitation as a form of domination and why this is a powerful argument for capitalism being unjust. also we lovingly give G.A. Cohen and John Roemer a little bit of a hard time. www.patreon.com/posts/119-ex...

this one features interviews with @sisyphus55.bsky.social, CJ the X, Dr. Fatima, Dr. Gregory B Sadler, Jared Henderson, @epochphilosophy.com, and @gilmorejon.bsky.social of @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social

highly recommended!

patrons can now watch video of our recent live show! subscribe now and check out our hot takes on the communist manifesto 🥰 www.patreon.com/posts/136785...