Surplus: Labour and Capital, Utopia and Dystopia
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler are joined by Hannah Forbes Black as they discuss ideas of surplus in relation to labour and capital, utopia and dystopia.
What is Revolution?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the concept of revolution. Is the binary of reform and revolution a useful one in informing ‘what is to be done’?
‘Once Upon a Time in (a ‘deadbeat’) America’: Where next for the US Economy?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the US economy in 2013 and beyond – is it, to use the words of Barack Obama, a ‘deadbeat’ economy?
‘Columnism’: In Conversation with Laurie Penny
This week’s show sees James Butler and Aaron Bastani joined by Laurie Penny as they discuss Ulrike Meinhoff’s essay ‘On Columnism’ and it’s relationship to the limits of contemporary journalism.
