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The Syllabus / Listen Notes

A curated playlist of the best new podcast episodes that our system uncovers each week. We include our short summaries for each episode. For more information: www.the-syllabus.com

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01:06:54

The dream of indefinite life.

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2025/08/18

Podcast: University of Minnesota PressEpisode: The dream of indefinite life.Pub date: 2025-07-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFrom Plato and Derrida to anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, the dream of indefinite life is technological and, as Adam Rosenthal shows in Prosthetic Immortalities: a matter of prosthesis, the transformation of the original being. There can be no certainty of immortality and yet, the

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01:08:05

The Internal Colony: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Internal Colony: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam KlugPub date: 2025-07-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam Klug about his new book The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2025). In this book, Klug explores how the

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01:06:37

K-Dynasty: How South Korea Went from War to Wealth W/...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Dollar DialogueEpisode: K-Dynasty: How South Korea Went from War to Wealth W/ Mason KimPub date: 2025-07-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow did South Korea go from war-torn poverty to one of the richest, most innovative economies on the planet?In this episode of Dollar Dialogue, Supreeth Nagella and Arib Malik unpack the true story behind what economists call the “Miracle on the Han River” — South Korea’s rapid transformation from

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01:13:32

Episode 56: Human Rights and the Rise of...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 56: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism with Jessica WhytePub date: 2025-07-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat is the relationship between "human rights" and neoliberalism? How deeply are contemporary ideas, ideals, and visions of "human rights" influenced by neoliberalism? What can early theorists and ideologues of

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00:59:15

234 - Failed States (feat. Imre Szeman)

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Cultures of Energy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: 234 - Failed States (feat. Imre Szeman)Pub date: 2025-07-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDominic reports briefly on how your co-hosts returned home to their own personal Hurricane Harvey. Then (4:20) Imre Szeman returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over Renewable Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), a marvelous

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00:36:52

How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and Politics?Pub date: 2025-07-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn today’s episode, journalist and author Joey D'Urso joins us to discuss the themes of his new book More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power. D'Urso travelled across the globe from Birmingham to Belgrade and Medellin

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01:05:01

Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s Purgatorio

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2025/08/18

Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s PurgatorioPub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn his 2014 Dante’s Inferno poet and provocateur Philip Terry moved the action to Essex University. His Purgatorio (Carcanet) transports us to nearby Mersea Island, where Ted Berrigan leads our author up an artificial mountain to meet with artists Grayson

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01:10:00

576: The Myth Of The Narco

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 576: The Myth Of The NarcoPub date: 2025-07-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn order to understand the issue of the cocaine trade in Colombia, we need to look at three factors: 1. Drugs Policy as a Geopolitical tool. 2. Markets: A Political Economic issue. 3. Narratives: the Myth of the Narco. On the Colombia Calling podcast this week

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00:25:18

Planet Patriarchy

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2025/08/18

Podcast: In Solidarity - by openDemocracy (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Planet PatriarchyPub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPatriarchy refuses to die. In every country of the world, women are oppressed by male violence, patriarchal religions, and ideas of the family. But women are resisting, as Rahila Gupta explains, in a fascinating analysis that takes us from Riyadh and Russia, to Rojava.Buy Planet

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00:37:00

Big Tech's Power and Regulatory Change: A Political...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: SociotechsEpisode: Big Tech's Power and Regulatory Change: A Political Philosophy PerspectivePub date: 2025-07-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe power associated to Big Tech, often equated to the ‘Big Five’ (Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft), is posing new problems at the societal and regulatory levels. Such problems lead to deeper questions in terms of power generation, use, and limitation, which a political philosophy

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00:58:19

Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: SPERI Presents...Episode: Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA 2025Pub date: 2025-07-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow are technologies used by militaries to enact organised violence produced? How are post-industrial regions of the UK becoming dependent on the supply chains of the global war industry? What narratives enable organised violence perpetrated by elites, and how are they resisted? What is the role

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00:52:28

#26 - The Economy of Genocide ft. Francesca Albanese

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Let's Talk Palestine (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: #26 - The Economy of Genocide ft. Francesca AlbanesePub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFollowing the release of her groundbreaking report “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide”, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, joins us on the Let’s Talk Palestine Podcast to unpack its findings.In this

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00:59:50

Development and Imperialism with Jayati Ghosh

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2025/08/02

Podcast: Return to Bandung (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Development and Imperialism with Jayati GhoshPub date: 2025-07-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, I’m joined by critical development economist Jayati Ghosh to discuss the complex relationship between imperialism and international development. In this wide-ranging conversation, we explore the problematic assumptions underlying mainstream ideas of

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00:49:27

Movie theatre magic

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2025/08/02

Podcast: The Forum (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Movie theatre magicPub date: 2025-07-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe speed with which cinema caught the public’s imagination is remarkable. The first film screenings took place in the 1890s and just two decades later, in the US alone there were thousands of nickelodeons and other spaces where you could watch a movie. Luxurious picture palaces followed soon after and not

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00:59:59

George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism

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2025/08/02

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: George Monbiot on The Secret History of NeoliberalismPub date: 2025-07-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGuest: George Monbiot is an author, journalist, and environmental campaigner. His books include Feral, Heat, Regenesis, and his latest, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism co-authored with Peter Hutchison.George Monbiot and Peter

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00:34:01

Episode 333: #219 Does Capitalism Deskill Workers? w/...

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2025/08/02

Podcast: From Alpha To Omega (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 333: #219 Does Capitalism Deskill Workers? w/ Paul S. AdlerPub date: 2025-07-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe interview Prof. Adler about his 1990 paper 'Marx, Machines, and Skill'.This is part one. In part two we discuss his 2019 book "The 99% Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome The Crises of Capitalism".The podcast and artwork embedded on

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00:50:59

The 'trial of the juntas' and Evita’s missing body

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2025/08/02

Podcast: The History Hour (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The 'trial of the juntas' and Evita’s missing bodyPub date: 2025-07-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMax Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes, all with an Argentine theme. We find out more about the 1985 ‘trial of the juntas’ when the country’s former military leaders stood accused of torturing and murdering thousands of their own

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00:58:53

Ignacio G. Galán, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist...

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2025/08/02

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ignacio G. Galán, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-07-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAlong with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design and furnishing practices. While the regime’s politics were overtly

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00:50:59

Edward Said and the Question of Palestine

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2025/08/02

Podcast: Throughline (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Edward Said and the Question of PalestinePub date: 2025-07-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEdward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine student protesters on that campus and others have invoked his name. Meanwhile, his

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01:37:03

Pt. II Patrice Lumumba's Pan Africanism w/ the Kenyan...

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2025/08/02

Podcast: Africa World Now Project CollectiveEpisode: Pt. II Patrice Lumumba's Pan Africanism w/ the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals NetworkPub date: 2025-07-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis year represents an important historical conjuncture that has very important implications for our contemporary moment of crisis, yet extremely instructive in how we can move toward a different future. It is the 100th year recognition of the birth of

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