Episodes

  • "Games are Perfect Anarchist Practices" -- Miguel Sicart
    Jul 17 2024

    Here's a crossover episode from my other podcast, Plumbing Game Studies.

    Things have been crazy lately, and I have emails from back in April I haven't responded to. My apologies if you've emailed me and not heard back. I hope to get caught up soon, or at least in 2024!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Hobbes' Leviathan -- Alison McQueen (English Revolution)
    Jul 11 2024

    Who create the modern theory of political sovereignty?

    Thomas Hobbes.

    What was Hobbes afraid of?

    Anarchy.

    What made Hobbes so afraid of anarchy?

    The English Revolution.

    Today's guest is Alison McQueen, who can be found at https://www.alisonmcqueen.info/

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 127. Debt Discussion 7, Honor and Dignity with Clif Mark
    Jun 26 2024

    Clif Mark, host of the Good in Theory podcast, joins me to discuss honor and degradation in Graeber's Debt. Also I make Clif talk about representation in Star Wars, for some reason.

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    49 mins
  • 126. Milton's Radicalism -- Nick McDowell and Nigel Smith (English Revolution)
    Jun 12 2024

    One of the most famous author's in the English language, John Milton, was a 17th century English radical who not only supported but also worked for the English revolutionary government. I'm joined by Nigel Smith, a returning guest, and Nick McDowell, author of Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton, to discuss Milton's radicalism and its relationship to the English Revolution.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 125. Graeber's Debt Chapter 7, Honor and Degradation
    Jun 5 2024

    A little belatedly, here's my episode about Graeber's Debt, Chapter 7. A discussion on honor and dignity will be coming later this month with Clif Mark of the Good in Theory podcast!

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    46 mins
  • 124. The Early Quakers -- Kate Peters (English Revolution)
    May 29 2024

    Kate Peters, author of Print Culture and the Early Quakers, joins me to discuss the Quakers, the last of the radical groups we're covering the English Revolution series. You can hear about how the Quakers can be seen as the end of political radicalism in the revolution, or alternately as a different form of radical organizing, as evidenced by William Penn's political declarations in the 1701 charter for Pennsylvania:

    https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/1701-pennsylvania-charter-of-liberties

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • 123. Debt Discussion 6: Graeber as Grand Theorist with Fuad Musallam
    May 22 2024

    In this debt discussion, Fuad and I discuss Chapter 6 of Debt, "Games with Sex and Death," and especially the way that Graeber is writing in the grand theory tradition of anthropology. Fuad also taught with David at the London School of Economics, and is able to explain how Graeber approached these same concepts in anthropology as a teacher and colleague.

    You can find Fuad's anthropological work on activism here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/dasa/musallam-fuad

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • 122. The Fifth Monarchists -- Bernard Capp (English Revolution)
    May 15 2024

    In the next episode of Radicalism in the English Revolution, I'm joined by Bernard Capp to discuss The Fifth Monarchists - a radical protestant sect that was trying to bring about the end of the world, and wanted Cromwell to help them!

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    1 hr and 10 mins