Best Benjamin Studebaker Podcasts (2025)

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/522/ At the Bottom of the Tar Pit ft. Benjamin Studebaker 53:40

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On legitimacy and chronic crisis. Benjamin Studebaker talks to Alex and Lee about his book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracy – and why the absence of the threat of revolution makes the crisis drag on. What's wrong with 20th century accounts of legitimacy crises? What's changed? Why is contemporary politics so stuck? Is it inescapable? How does the b…

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How to Confront Political Despair (feat. Benjamin Studebaker) 1:47:30

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I am joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to discuss the retreat of the political and the concomitant rise in despair. How do we theorize this despair, and how does it differ from spiritual despair? Please read Studebaker's article which is the focus of this discussion: "Political Despair and Moral Injunctions" https://bit.ly/469EqkQ…

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Venezuela: How to Destroy a Nation (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker) 1:55:34

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined again by regular guest Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist and PhD from University of Cambridge to break down everything you need to know about Venezuela. In the public episode, Studebaker and I break down …

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E140| Money, Power, Inequality and AI w/ Forrest Landry 1:53:28

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Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization. Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence…

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The Rise of Neo-Stalinism (Ft. Ross Wolfe) 1:35:20

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon.com/onedimeIn this episode of 1Dime Radio, I have an in-depth discussion with Ross Wolfe about neo-Stalinism. We examine the influence of Domenico Losurdo, and how his work relates to a niche defence of Marxism-Leninism. We take up the concepts of state power and revolution, and how the…

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Deleuze for Marxism? A Discussion with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee 1:50:16

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I am joined by philosopher Alex Taek-Gwang Lee for a critical analysis and discussion on the legacy of Gilles Deleuze's thought, its influence on the existing left and the ways that the concepts Deleuze developed have interacted with the wider Marxist tradition. This conversation will consider Dr. Lee's recent book Communism After Deleuze, publishe…

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The Marxism of Domenico Losurdo - A Critical Discussion (feat. Ross Wolfe) 2:04:09

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My guest is Ross Wolfe, a socialist historian and writer. In a recently published three-part essay entitled, "Against Losurdo" (https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo) Wolfe argues that Losurdo's work represents the re-introduction of Stalinism in contemporary Marxism. We discuss and debate Losurdo's work, with a focus on his book Western Marxism …

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/524/ You've Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter 1:11:04

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On overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority. Amber Trotter, practicing psychologist and an editor at Damage magazine, and George Hoare tell Alex about their co-written article in the print issue of Damage on "the pre-political". What is driving the explosion in mental health diagnoses? Why are people seeking diagnosis? How is it the product o…

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Other People's Money 1:02:45

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This episode is on the 1991 film, Other People's Money. To hear the B-side on Iris Murdoch, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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A New Old Left? (Ft. Vivek Chibber) 1:00:13

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I have a provocative discussion with a much-requested guest, Vivek Chibber. Chibber is a professor and published writer (Catalyst and Jacobin). We discuss the state of the left today, and whether recent elections mark m…

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/523/ Woke in the Dark ft. Ryan Zickgraf 34:55

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On post-woke strategies. Ryan Z is back on, talking to Alex and George about the US Democrats' attempt to respond to Trump/MAGA. In association with Damage magazine. Can the Democrats escape the shadow of woke? Is Big Woke dying? Everywhere? Who are the groups and think-tanks pushing for a reorientation, and what are they proposing? Will the Dems a…

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Psychoanalyzing ChatGPT (Ft. Isabel Millar) 1:16:07

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I sit down with philosopher Isabel Millar, author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence, to think through ChatGPT and large language models using psychoanalysis. We get into Lacan and the Real, Symbolic, and Ima…

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Liberalism in Decay (Ft. Catherine Liu) 1:10:40

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined again by Professor ⁠Catherine Liu⁠, author of the book ⁠Virtue Horders⁠, to talk about the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani, the crisis of the Democratic Party, liberalism as ideology of decay, and her upcomi…

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The Devil's Advocate 1:03:14

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This episode is on the 1997 film, The Devil's Advocate. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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E139| Cosmic Drives, Intuition, AI and the Soul w/ Iain McGilchrist 1:49:14

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Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft. We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul. Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcas…

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Michel Clouscard's Critique of Liberal-Libertarian Ideology (feat. Michael C. Behrent) 1:39:10

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My guest is Michael C. Behrent, a historian of French intellectual history and a leading scholar of Michel Foucault. Behrent has been at the forefront of an important debate about the legacy of Foucault's thought, and specifically his political influence on the contemporary left and the rise of neoliberalism. Behrent is also working on the thought …

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Can Ressentiment Be Revolutionary? (feat. Zahi Zalloua) 1:38:44

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I am joined by philosopher and scholar Zahi Zalloua to discuss the politics of resentment, and how to theorize the problematic concept of "ressentiment" and whether this concept can be applied to emancipatory ends. Is ressentiment a political affect that can be harnessed for revolutionary action? We discuss Zalloua's recent works: Fanon, Žižek, and…

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Palestine and the Political Economy of the Middle East (feat. Adam Hanieh) 1:28:18

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My guest is the political economist Adam Hanieh, a foremost expert on the political economy of the Middle East, fossil capitalism and imperialism. We discuss the war on Gaza, the prospects of Palestinian statehood, the dominance of Gulf oil and how it shapes the ruling classes in the region and the status of labor struggles across the wider Middle …

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/521/ Too Smart to Read ft. C. Derick Varn 59:48

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On the crisis in literacy. Poet, podcaster and teacher, C. Derick Varn – who has taught in Mexico, Korea, Egypt and the US, at various levels – joins Alex and George to interrogate the coming "post-literate society". What do we mean when we say 'post-literate'? This seems a global problem – so is it a problem of the education system? Is it as simpl…

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Persona 1:01:32

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This episode is on the 1966 film, Persona. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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/520/ Conspiracy Culture & Paranoid Styles ft. Catherine Liu 12:21

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In this special episode, we present talks given by contributing editor Catherine Liu and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style at a recent conference at UC Irvine, co-hosted by the Palm Springs School for Social Research. 00:01:23 – Catherine Liu: Opening Remarks, on Richard Hofstatder’s classic essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” …

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/519/ Reading Club: White Collar & Post-Mass Culture ft. Dustin Guastella 31:07

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On the middle classes and cultural compression. For the concluding episode of the 2024/25 Reading Club, we discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar, plus some additional short texts on what mass culture is like today. credit: Ryan Zickgraf, based on The Wilson Quarterly/Russell Lynes 1949 For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Does M…

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The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 1:01:41

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This episode is on the 1986 miniseries, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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UNLOCKED: /497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh 1:08:22

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On technology, transhumanism, and progress. James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips. What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL? Why is it wrong to worry about future transhumanism when we need to grappl…

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/518/ We Have Never Been Postmodern ft. Geoff Shullenberger 43:11

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On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation. Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel, René Girard, victimhood and the antichrist. Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"? Is it different from the left's? Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western c…

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Socialism with Canadian Characteristics (Ft. Yves Engler) 1:45:18

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon): https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I interview Yves Engler, “Canada’s Noam Chomsky” - an activist, academic who ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada (The NDP). We discuss the problems with the NDP today (and when it was …

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The Witches of Eastwick 1:01:26

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This episode is on the 1987 film, The Witches of Eastwick. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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/517/ Wonders of the Modern World ft. Pier Paolo Tamburelli 45:21

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On places of ritual. Architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli talks to Alex about his project to catalogue modern wonders – structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. For the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast How has architecture lost its ritual dimension? Why are these "modern wonders" kitsch? And why are t…

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Debating the Legacy of Marxism (Ft. Conrad Hamilton) 2:03:09

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Get access to The Backroom (80+ exclusive episodes) and support 1Dime Radio: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Conrad Hamilton for a debate on the big questions: Is Marxism still relevant? Is Marxism-Leninism a failed ideology—or are critics misreading its history and aims? Most of all, we DEBATE the hist…

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E138| Presence & The Machine | w/ Andrea Hiott, Simon van der Els, Anna Gyllenklev, Tim Adalin 1:43:12

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What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject? This dialogue welcomes philosopher, neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, and design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher …

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Deliverance 1:02:01

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This episode is on the 1972 film, Deliverance. To hear the B-Side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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/516/ France's Two Peripheries: Riots and Insurrection ft. Fred Lyra 35:36

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On 20 years since the 2005 riots. Fred Lyra, philosopher and musicologist based in Paris, joins Alex to talk about France through 4 moments: 1995 – the last moment of classic class struggle; 2005 – riots in the banlieues; 2015 – Islamist terror; 2025 – government collapse. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast How were the riots …

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Gaza Solution: What is To Be Done? (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker) 1:40:35

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Get access to The Backroom (75+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined again by regular guest Benjamin Studebaker—we now have a monthly show together. We break down Trump’s Gaza plan: what it is, which countries are involved and what incentives they have (Egypt, Jord…

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/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami 1:14:14

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On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but is global? What does the rise of state capitalism tell us about the health of contemporary capitalism? How did globalisation and st…

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Building a Political Party (Ft. Chris Cutrone) 2:20:42

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Get access to The Backroom (75+ exclusive episodes) and support 1Dime Radio: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Chris Cutrone— “the last Marxist”—returns to 1Dime Radio to discuss his “Campaign for a Socialist Party” and lays out, in plain terms, what it would actually take to build a socialist party today. In The Backroom on Patreon, Chris and I disc…

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E137| Who or What is the Revolutionary Subject Today? w/ Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin 2:26:26

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What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject? Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Com…

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Pass Thru 1:00:38

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This episode is on the 2016 Neil Breen film, Pass Thru. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power

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/514/ The Expressway World ft. Richard Williams 59:29

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On living with modernity. Richard J Williams talks to Alex and George about his new book, The Expressway World and how cities have adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century. We talk about New York, London, São Paulo, Madrid, Glasgow and Seoul. Why do people hate expressways – and who actually loves them? What are Big Man citie…