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On March 30th, 2021, the city newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine (HAZ) reported that the city of Hannover cancelled a lecture by Professor Helmut Bley, a renowned historian of colonialism in Africa, because an activist group, Initiative für Diskriminierungssensibilität und Rassismuskritik (IDiRa), that was also invited as a discussant, protested.[1] Professor Bley was scheduled to speak about […]
Der Beitrag On Cancel Culture erschien zuerst auf Philosophie InDebate.

Ein Tagungsbericht der Tagung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs "Recht als Kultur", 22. bis 24. November 2017 in Bonn verfasst von Hendrik Erz Das Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur" in Bonn unter Leitung von Werner Gephart steht mit seinem Ansatz rechtssoziologischer Forschung in einer langen Tradition, die bis zu Max...

Does Silicon Valley have a capitalism problem or does capitalism have a Silicon Valley problem? On this episode, Kate and Luigi sit down with Mike Isaac, New York Times technology reporter and author of "Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber " to find out if these tech startups have a toxic corporate culture issue.

Interview mit Georg Kurz, Bundessprecher der Grünen Jugend und Ginan Osman, M.A. Studentin an der American University in Beirut

Around 21,000 children die every day around the world.

That is equivalent to:

1 child dying every 4 seconds14 children dying every minuteA 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every dayA 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 daysA 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 daysAn Iraq-scale death toll every 19–46 daysJust under 7.6 million children dying every yearSome 92 million children dying between 2000 and 2010

The silent killers are poverty, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes.

Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.

This update includes updated numbers, charts and graphs. It shows that there is steady progress each year in reducing the number of children that die each year, but clearly the number is still high.

Read full article: Today, almost 21,000 children died around the world

Coulter & Nagle, Eds.

On today's episode, we are joined by Colin Coulter, of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Colin is a Lecturer in Sociology, and he has an article out recently in Critical Sociology, co-authored with Francisco Arqueros-Fernández and Angela Nagle, entitled Austerity's Model Pupil: The Ideological Uses of Ireland during the Eurozone Crisis.

As some listeners may know, I have myself been working on a book about the role of culture in Irish austerity. And I've always found Colin to be a really great writer on this subject. He has a real knack for seamlessly blending together both analysis of the material dynamics of the Irish financial crisis, with a critique of the role of culture as force sustaining the legitimacy of austerity as the necessary solution. This cultural project is one being carried out by government institutions, to be sure, but also by a number of other cultural agencies that exist within Irish society, as they seek to orient Irish people better to understand their responsibility in causing the crisis.

But Colin also has an analysis of how certain strains within the Irish academic left have perhaps enabled this process — namely by overlooking questions to do with the production of capitalist culture. Colin explains the role of capitalist culture in Ireland in a really accessible manner, so its great to have him on the show. I think you'll really enjoy the interview.

You can find a copy of Colin's article on my Dropbox. Remember, if you like what you hear, please leave us a positive review on iTunes. As ever, if you have any feedback, you can reach us on Twitter @occupyirtheory. Enjoy the show!

The consulting firm McKinsey has agreed to pay nearly $600 million for its role in advising Purdue on how to push opioids sales, even at the cost of human lives. The details of their work are gruesome and should demand self-reflection among all those who work in big business. Has the profit motive gone out of control, and do business schools have a role to play in creating this culture?

Anand Giridharadas says yes to both questions. He's the author of the renowned book "Winners Take All" and the publisher of "The Ink" on Substack. He joins us in this episode to discuss McKinsey, the culture of profits at all costs, and how businesses use philanthropy to distract us from the price we all pay.

Paula-Irene Villa, Richard Traunmüller & Matthias Revers TEIL 1 Paula-Irene Villa, LMU München und DGS Vorsitzende seit April 2021 Richard Traunmüller, Universität Mannheim Matthias Revers, University Leeds haben im Februar 2021 gemeinsam einen längeren Artikel zum Thema und, vor allem, zur empirischen Beforschung von 'Cancel Culture / Meinungsvielfalt an Unis' verfasst. Sie vertreten darin unterschiedliche … "Debattenbeitrag: Bedrohte Meinungsvielfalt an deutschen Universitäten? Impulse für eine pluralistische Fachdebatte" weiterlesen

We have a very special guest for this episode. Douglas Lain, of Zero Books. In the interview, we discuss a range of topics, but I think the focus of the interview is on how capitalist narcissism is playing out in leftist online culture.

Specifically we address:

How podcasting has enabled a new debate among the left, concerning the priority of identity;
The rise of the Alt-Left, and whether or how the term functions to smear those seeking to re-assert the priority of revolutionary values in leftist discourse;
We also address the critical reception of Angela Nagle's sensational new book, Kill All Normies, published by Zero Books … a book that is ostensibly about the emergence of the Alt-Right, but in this conversation, Doug and I focus mostly on the other main aspect of the book, which is Nagle's explanation of the rise of "call out culture" on the left.
Finally, with the #DSACon17 (the 2017 Democratic Socialists of America convention) starting this week, I ask Doug if he has any advice for delegates to the convention.

Judd Apatow is a filmmaker, writer, and comedian. He joins David to talk about how his parents' divorce helped fuel his interest in comedy, his struggles with anxiety at the height of his career, the psychology behind Trump's political prowess, how Hollywood culture parallels that of Washington, and much more.
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Differing political cultures and migration traditions among EU member states have given rise to a variety of national policy approaches toward irregular migration. While in principle this diversity hinders agreement on common asylum and migration policies, EU member states are now increasingly converging toward more restrictive migration policies. National policy approaches are deeply rooted in […]
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Contributor(s): Professor Sarah-Banet-Weiser, Dr Grace Lordan, Shani Orgad | Welcome to LSE's award-winning podcast, LSE IQ, where we ask leading social scientists - and other experts - to answer an intelligent question about economics, politics or society. In this episode, Jess Winterstein asks 'Is gender equality possible?' This episode features LSE's Sarah-Banet-Weiser, Grace Lordan and Shani Orgad, who examine issues of gender inequality in our culture, work and home lives. For further information about the podcast visit lse.ac.uk/iq and please tell us what you think using the hashtag #LSEIQ

Greetings! Welcome to Part Two of Episode 26, where we continue our interview with Adam Proctor. As I noted last time, while this is a long interview, it was also a long overdue interview. There was so much good stuff to talk about, it seemed wasteful to try to cram it all into one episode.



In Part One, we spent some time looking back over the main themes and controversies of four years of DPS (freedom of speech issues, cancel culture, race essentialism, etc.). We also talked socialist strategy, and the application of work by Sam Ginden and Leo Pantich to the Grexit question.



In Part Two, we turn our gaze more to the present, and to future. We join the conversation mid-flow, debating the post-Bernie moment, and the question of whether or not we should swallow, as it is sometimes termed, "the black pill." Here, I push Adam on his latest slogan. That is, a warning that we should eschew taking up residence in "the basement of the vampire's castle." This of course is a modification of Mark Fisher's 'Vampire Castle' hypothesis. In a well-known 2013 essay, Exiting the Vampire Castle, Fisher noted how in Late Capitalism the left confronts obstacles emanating not only from its foes on the other side of the ideological equation, but also from its own tendency for self-destructive behavior. Part of the problem, he wrote, is that the hyper-individuation of social life under the neoliberal cultural project has been so successful that even the left has forgotten the importance of collective power for politics. Hence its paradoxical descent into culture war and performativity.



Addressing this critique, we discuss first the importance of Angela Nagle's stance on sub-culture, and its tendency to compete for the accumulation of cultural capital, before then moving on to address what we might call "the black pill" question. The key, Adam notes, is to take measure of the goals you want the left to accomplish, and then envision what the left would have to look like, in order for these goals to be achieved.



Later in the episode, we look at the post-2008 de-linking of the financial economy from the productive economy, the threat of a return of austerity (did it ever go?) in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, and the question of what the left is, today. And we wrap up with a sympathetically critical discussion of the state of left media in general, and the "Patreon" model of left podcasting in particular.

When journalist Evan Osnos returned to the US in 2013 after eight years in China, he experienced somewhat of a culture shock. He found the underpinnings of the country shaken, so he set off to find out why. Evan joined David to discuss his journey from small-town newspaper photographer to The New Yorker writer, how technology has made China more autocratic, the power of money in politics, how President Joe Biden defies expectations, and what he learned traversing the country, chronicled in his book "Wildland: The Making of America's Fury."
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