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Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast

A podcast about politics, contemporary culture and the ideas that help us understand them. The podcast began life as recordings of a regular seminar on radical theory, culture and politics, and still features seminar recordings from in-person and online seminars, but it now mainly consists of episodes recorded specifically for the podcast. Hosted by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. See culturepowerpolitics.org for more information.

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104:06

The Meaning of Peter Mandelson

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2026/02/17

Jem and Alan get deep into the historical significance of Peter Mandelson, his career and his recent fall. What has the Epstein case revealed about the ideology of our ruling elites? Why did Mandelson achieve the complicated status that he did, and was his reputation ever deserved? Why did Starmer and his advisors cling to […]

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57:11

Why was Burnham Blocked? (Emergency Pod January 2026)

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2026/01/26

In this actual emergency podcast, Alan and Jem give way to overwhelming public pressure to respond to a recent decision taken by Labour’s National Executive Committee. The NEC have voted to block popular Mayor of Manchester (and former cabinet minister and MP) Andy Burnham from even having a chance of being selected by the local party to […]

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194:21

Nationalism and the Future of Britain

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2026/01/26

In this episode, Alan and Jem go deep and long on the concept of nationalism and its implications for UK politics, at a time when nationalist parties are making significant gains across the country. Where do ideas of nation and nationalism come from? Is the break-up of Britain inevitable or desirable? Is England an incorrigibly […]

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59:55

Good Vibes: One Battle, Zohran, Affect, Immediacy

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2026/01/19

Why was One Battle After Another the biggest film of 2025? What does it have to do with Zohran and Trump? How can Anna Kornbluh’s concept of ‘immediacy’, Raymond Williams’ idea ‘structures of feeling’ and Lawrence Grossberg’s analysis of Trump’s chaotic politics help us understand these signs of our times? Jem tackles all this single-handed, […]

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157:02

Pre-revolutionary Britain? (Emergency Pod December 2025)

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2025/12/24

Alan Finlayson is back to discuss with Jem the key developments in UK politics since the last time they talked about it. Covering the Labour deputy leadership, the politics of the Budget and of immigration, the origins of Britain’s bargain-hunting austerity mindset, Starmer on Tik-Tok, the Green Party surge, whether Blue Labour actually exists, whether […]

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95:00

The Factional Politics of the Labour Party

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2025/11/16

This is actually an episode of the Compass podcast, ‘It’s Bloody Complicated’, that featured me (Jeremy Gilbert) and Alan Finlayson being interviewed by Compass director, Neal Lawson. I’ve recorded a ten-minute introduction explaining who and what Compass is. Most of the recording is an excellent discussion of the history of factionalism in the Labour Party, […]

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119:58

From Superstition to Mythocracy with Yves Citton

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2025/10/26

In this seminar we will talk with Yves Citton about his books Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our World, Mediarchy, and Spinoza et les Social Sciences: De la Puissance de la multitude à l’économie des affects (co-edited with Frédéric Lordon), and about the myths that dominate contemporary thought, how they are disseminated, and how and understanding of the intersection […]

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100:34

The Starmer Disaster

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2025/10/13

A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government elected with one of the largest peacetime majorities on record? How have we got here? Do Starmer and his political allies even want […]

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19:10

Errata

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2025/09/20

So, yeah, a listener pointed out that Jem had got some details about Andy Burnham’s career wrong, and he thought it was best to set the record straight, as well as follow up on a couple of other questions left open by the September 2025 Emergency Podcast. So here we are!

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Emergency Podcast September 2025

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2025/09/18

Rayner resigned! Mandelson sacked! ‘Mainstream’ launched! Your Party Chaos! Fascists on the Streets! Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert bring you all the analysis they can fit into two hours of this truly momentous couple of weeks in UK politics… For more information about Culture, Power and Politics see https://culturepowerpolitics.org To book free tickets for ‘The Starmer […]

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82:33

What Adam Curtis Won’t Tell You

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2025/09/04

In this episode, Jem offers a critical response to Adam Curtis’ oeuvre: an extraordinary series of fascinating, yet never-fully-satisfying, films about culture, power and politics in the epoch of advanced capitalism. This is something that friends of the show have been requesting for years, so here it finally is! For more information about Culture, Power […]

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102:17

Emergency Podcast July 2025

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2025/07/18

Professor Alan Finlayson is back to discuss the latest developments in UK politics: the suspension of several Labour MPs and the announcement of a new left party to be led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn (maybe). We also discuss the vexed questions of why Starmer’s government is so unpopular after its first year in […]

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109:39

What is ‘Blue Labour’

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2025/07/15

‘Blue Labour’, an explicitly conservative tendency within the politics of the UK’s Labour Party, is said to be one of the few intellectual influences on the government of Keir Starmer.So in this episode, Jeremy is joined by Alex Worrad-Andrews to answer the question on everyone’s lips: what is ‘Blue Labour’? We discuss the history of the term […]

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89:58

What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor...

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2025/07/04

Jem is joined by medieval historian, comrade and friend of the show Eleanor Janega, to talk about what exactly is ‘feudal’ about ‘techno-feudalism’ or ‘neo-feudalism’. Several prominent theorists and commentators have recently claimed that somehow, we’ve left the age of capitalism behind and entered a new epoch of…some kind of ‘feudalism’. But what even is […]

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113:26

Is Capitalism Over? The ‘Technofeudalism’ Debate

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2025/07/04

Are we entering the world of ‘Techno-feudalism’, or ‘Neofeudalism’? Or are there better ways to understand our present situation, such as the concept of ‘Platform Capitalism’ ? In this episode Jeremy Gilbert, discusses these issues and lays out what’s at stake in defining terms like ‘capitalism’ ‘technofeudalism’ and ‘mode of production’. To find out more […]

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158:48

The Crisis of Liberalism (and the 2025 UK local...

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2025/05/13

Alan Finlayson returns for an in-depth discussion of the crisis of liberalism as an effective and legitimate philosophy of government, as exemplified by the success of the right-wing populist Reform party at the May 2025 UK local elections. If you can support us with a small regular donation, please do so here. If you’d like to […]

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120:03

The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism with...

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2025/04/02

In this seminar, Brian Massumi discusses his new book, The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life. Brian is one of the major figures of Anglophone continental philosophy in our age and a key figure in the dissemination of the work of Deleuze & Guattari. This is part of our series From Marx […]

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114:14

Regimes of Violence with John Protevi

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2025/01/24

In a just world, John Protevi would be far more famous than Slavoj Zizek. An expert on the ideas of Deleuze & Guattari (among many other things), his work brings together continental philosophy, analytical philosophy, rigorous science and political radicalism. In this recording he talks about his new book Regimes of Violence, ranging over topics […]

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179:45

Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics

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2025/01/15

In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the history of reactionary digital politics, the changing shape of our knowledge culture, the politics of the platform economy, and possible strategies for progressive forces. We also get into an argument […]

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94:35

The Australian Deleuze, Materialist Feminisms, Affect...

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2024/12/09

This is a recording of the latest in our ongoing series of seminars, From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality.With very special guest, Claire Colebrook, author of many books including Death of the Posthuman: Essays on Extinction If you can support us with a small regular donation, please do so here. If you’d like to make a one-time […]

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