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In this video Rachel O'Dwyer, author of Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, discusses digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy with Nathaniel Tkacz.
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform by Rachel O'Dwyer is out now: versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2957-tokens?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tokens_the_future_of_money_in_the_age_of_the_platform
Rachel O'Dwyer is a lecturer at the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. She was a Fulbright Scholar at UC Irvine and the Microsoft Research labs, Cambridge; she is currently a fellow at Connect, the centre for Networks and Telecommunications at Trinity College, Dublin. She is the co-editor of Neural Magazine and has written for outlets such as Convergence, MIT Press and the London Review of Books. She has curated a number of exhibitions of digital practise that explore the intersection of art and the Blockchain.
Nate Tkacz' work focuses on the cultural, political, economic and organisational dimensions of technology, with a specific focus on networked and digital forms. Hos most recent book is Being with Data: The Dashboarding of Everyday Life (Polity Press, 2022). His most recent work is on phone apps, interfaces, data formats, and media and economy.
0:00 Intro
0:45 How did you write the book?
5:05 Airtime payment systems
7:04 What is a token?
16:26 Ancient tokens
21:40 Definition of money
24:50 Research methods
27:46 Twitch tokens
31:22 Banking and technology
39:10 Web3
48:19 Art, blockchain and NFTs
52:42 Dystopias
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/YZnH74raJ_E?feature=shared
Kevin Ochieng Okoth's new book - Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics - makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa versobooks.com/products/2896-red-africa?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=red_africa&utm_content=video
Watch Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth talk about Walter Rodney's life and work here: youtube.com/watch?v=NgO1bxKfXOw
Kevin Ochieg Okoth is a writer and researcher based in London. He is part of the Salvage Editorial Collective and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. He holds an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford and regularly participates in conferences, speaking on themes related to anti-imperialism and twentieth century anti-colonial movements. He is a founding editor of Nommo Mag.
Ashok Kumar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Political Economy. He has published widely on a number of issues including urban theory, development, capitalist crisis, workers’ movements, global supply chains and identity.
0:00 Intro
0:56 What is Red Africa?
2:50 What is Afro-pessimism
14:56 Critiques of Marxism
19:05 ‘De-linking’
24:38 Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
36:41 Negritude
43:30 Portuguese anti-colonial movements
50:20 The future of black politics
On July 13th 2023 Ruth Wilson Gilmore joined Arun Kundnani at an event to launch his new book, What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism, at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. This is the event footage from that evening.
Find Arun Kundnani's new book here: versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2670-what-is-antiracism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=what_is_antiracism
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a noted prison abolitionist. Her latest book is Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation versobooks.com/products/2615-abolition-geography?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=what_is_antiracism
This event is the twenty-seventh in the ISRF’s series of Book Launches: isrf.org/events/book-launches
With thanks to Arun Kundnani, the ISRF, the IRR, and SOAS University of London for hosting this event.
00:00:00 Arun Kundnani
00:17:17 Ruth Wilson Gilmore
00:45:58 UK’s attitude to colonialism
00:49:38 Identity Politics and CRT
00:58:38 Fascism and Neoliberalism
01:08:36 Liberal foundations
Liberal antiracism has proven powerless against structural oppression. Fighting racism means striking at its capitalist roots.
Arun Kundnani writes about racial capitalism and Islamophobia, surveillance and political violence, and Black radical movements. He is the author of What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2670-what-is-antiracism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=what_is_antiracism
Arun Kundnani writes about racial capitalism and Islamophobia, surveillance and political violence, and Black radical movements. He is the author of What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2670-what-is-antiracism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=what_is_antiracism
Kojo Koram is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law. In 2022 he published his debut book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire, which was nominated for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Intro 0:00:00
Corporate diversity 00:00:52
Neoliberalism and colonialism 00:04:10
The Role of Personal experience 00:06:46
Racial capitalism and surplus populations 00:10:48
Marxism and Anti-Colonialism 00:18:05
CRT, Unconscious Bias Training and the conservative backlash 00:20:52
US vs UK perspectives 00:26:00
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Should we be fighting for a Green New Deal, or do we need to move towards degrowth? How do we move from consciousness-raising to strategizing? And how do we build upon the demand of decarbonisation?
Who Will Build the Ark, edited by Benjamin Kunkel and Lola Seaton is out now: versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2917-who-will-build-the-ark?_pos=1&_psq=who+will+build&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=who_will_build_the_ark
Intro 00:00:00
A summary of the book 00:00:16
De-growth vs Green growth 00:03:48
The Inflation Reduction Act 00:11:05
Strategy and ideas on the left 00:14:15
Extinction rebellion/JSO 00:17:03
Decarbonisation as a demand 00:18:32
US competing with China 00:21:37
Ecology beyond Carbon - carboncentrism 00:24:11
In this interview she talks about many of the ideas that traverse her life's work, including gender oppression, race and capitalism; growing up during de-segregation; intersectionality; the American New Left; debating Judith Butler; and much more.
She also discusses a new book she is working on, inspired by the work of W.E.B Du Bois.
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser is out this month: versobooks.com/products/2867-capitalism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nancy_fraser
You can find all of Nancy Fraser's work here: versobooks.com/blogs/authors/fraser-nancy?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nancy_fraser
Highlights:
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nancy_fraser
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis versobooks.com/products/2305-fortunes-of-feminism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nancy_fraser
The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond versobooks.com/products/849-the-old-is-dying-and-the-new-cannot-be-born?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nancy_fraser
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto versobooks.com/products/774-feminism-for-the-99?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nancy_fraser
She is interviewed by Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director, Verso Books.
Nancy’s time in France 00:00:00
Post-structuralism vs Marxism 00:07:27
Foucault’s legacy 00:25:04:00
Habermas 00:27:52
Growing up during de-segregation 00:38:44
Comparing the American New Left with Europe 00:44:45
Lenin and Trotsky 47:25:20
A global critique 50:45:23
New Left Review 53:34:22
Idpol and class reductionism 00:56:57
The enlarged view of capitalism 01:04:58
Production and social formation 01:09:36
Gender opression and capitalism 01:17:37
Gender and the Soviet Union 01:22:48
Race and capitalism 01:26:31
Antisemitism 01:31:10
The eras of capitalism 01:33:43
The post left populist moment 01:35:48
Intersectionality 01:43:12
Debating Judith Butler 01:44:48
Cancellation 01:48:39
Jamie Woodcock and Lydia Hughes (authors of Troublemaking) discuss how we can seize this surge in union membership, and what can the unions fight for beyond improvements in pay, conditions and pensions - from solidarity with Palestine to trans liberation.
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock is out now! versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2889-troublemaking?_pos=1&_psq=troublemaking&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=troublemaking_23
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock is out now! versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2889-troublemaking?_pos=1&_psq=troublemaking&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=troublemaking_23
“No advance for working people has been achieved without troublemaking and a read of this book will turn many more into effective troublemakers.” — John McDonnell MP
Lydia Hughes (co-author of Troublemaking) and Maritza Castillo (Vice-President of the IWGB) discuss the power of trade unions, as the workplace is where we most directly encounter capitalism.
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock is out now! versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2889-troublemaking?_pos=1&_psq=troublemaking&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=troublemaking_23
“No advance for working people has been achieved without troublemaking and a read of this book will turn many more into effective troublemakers.” — John McDonnell MP
Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries discuss the life and legacy of Walter Benjamin.
When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "a work of fundamental importance," but declared "its unusual form" and "obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers."
David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Grundrisse builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital. Read more about that book here: versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
See all our David Harvey reading here: versobooks.com/en-gb/collections/the-essential-david-harvey?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
“An indispensable companion to the Grundrisse. Harvey's newest is as illuminating for experienced readers as it is helpful for those who are encountering Marx’s great text for the first time.” – Nancy Fraser
In this interview David Harvey recalls the formation of his Marxist ideas, intellectual influences, and writing. He also talks about the growth of the populist right and how that is connected to geographical electoral splits, Marx's Grundrisse (which he has written a companion to - see below), and Marx's theories more broadly.
David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including:
A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
A Companion To Marx's Capital: The Complete Edition versobooks.com/en-gb/products/1967-spaces-of-global-capitalism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development versobooks.com/en-gb/products/1967-spaces-of-global-capitalism?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
Rebel Cities:: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2236-rebel-cities?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
The Limits to Capital versobooks.com/en-gb/products/1676-the-limits-to-capital?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
See all his work here: versobooks.com/en-gb/collections/the-essential-david-harvey?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essential_david_harvey_2023
His website is http://davidharvey.org.
He is interviewed here by Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director, Verso Books.
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About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin is out now: versobooks.com/products/173-the-storyteller?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_storyteller_april2023
See all Verso's Walter Benjamin reading here: versobooks.com/blogs/authors/benjamin-walter?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_storyteller_april2023
See Stuart Jeffries work here: versobooks.com/blogs/authors/jeffries-stuart?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_storyteller_april2023
See Esther Leslie's work here: versobooks.com/blogs/authors/leslie-esther?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_storyteller_april2023
The brand new edition of New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle is out now! versobooks.com/products/640-new-dark-age?_pos=1&_psq=new+dark+age&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow is out September 5th, 2023.
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Against Borders: The Case for Abolition is out now! versobooks.com/books/3983-against-borders?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_podcast
Kern proposes a genuinely decolonial, feminist, queer, anti-gentrification. One that demands the right to the city for everyone and the return of land and reparations for those who have been displaced. Her new book, Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies, is out now!
versobooks.com/books/4047-gentrification-is-inevitable-and-other-lies?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social
Sophie Lewis is the author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation versobooks.com/books/4075-abolish-the-family?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=abolish-the-family-videos
Ben Smoke is the commissioning editor of Huck Magazine
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They discuss the concept of hegemony—the importance of passive consent; the complexity of political interests; and the structural force of technology—and why we need an updated theory of power for the twenty-first century.
Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams are the authors of Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) versobooks.com/books/4015-hegemony-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=hegemony-now-videos
The panel, chaired by James Schneider, included Len McCluskey (author of Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist), a major figure in the trade unionist movement as the leader of Unite the Union for a decade from 2011 until 2021 and Clare Farrell, one of the co-founders of the Extinction Rebellion movement, with a background in the UK fashion industry.
In this video Ben Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future out now: versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=internet_for_the_people&utm_content=author_video
In this video (and his new book) Tariq Ali looks at the development of the Churchill cult: where it came from, why his legacy is being used in this way, and how long it will last.
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali is out now: versobooks.com/books/3971-winston-churchill?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=winston_churcill&utm_content=author_video
“In Ali's telling, which draws on more honest existing historical scholarship than most popular biographies of Churchill, the two-times prime minister emerges not so much as deeply racist - some of his contemporaries remarked on it in shock - as profoundly authoritarian, with a soft spot for fascist strongmen, and a hostility to working-class assertion.” – Priyamvada Gopal
Ben Smoke talks to Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone about their new book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest. Out 24th May: bit.ly/3LxPHy1
Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Galloway explains the technology that drives the world today. With an eye for the limits of rationality in computing, Galloway shows how computation emerges or fails to emerge, how the digital thrives but also atrophies, how networks interconnect while also fray and fall apart. By re-building obsolete technology using today’s software, the past comes to light in new ways.
Please follow this link to check out the book:
versobooks.com/books/3885-uncomputable
Also check out Galloways re-coded version of Guy Debord's Kriegspiel: http://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel
And also listen in here to a free audiobook: youtu.be/UxC3HzeJIEw
versobooks.com/books/3885-uncomputable
Interview with Alexander Galloway: youtu.be/cldpGDt-Jw8
After addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership.
Here, Sheila Rowbotham speaks to Gary Younge about her influences as an activist in the 70s.
'Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s' is out now: bit.ly/3kXTla6
#Shorts
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Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - a book that explains the brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=work_without_the_worker&utm_content=tech_video
Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - a book that explains the brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=work_without_the_worker&utm_content=microwork_video
versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police