Intellectual Life in Times of Ideological Disorder - A Conversation with Tyler Austin Harper

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We are joined by writer and literary scholar Tyler Austin Harper, whose writing in The Atlantic and New York Times has raised debates on class, race and the meaning of the left in ideologically turbulent times. In this conversation, we discuss the meaning of the left, how Marxism is to be interpreted in terms of class analysis, the merits of different interpretive models of class power and ideology, the professional or "New Class" problem which arose after the Second World War, and what is now referred to as the "PMC problem." We also discuss psychoanalysis and the theme of subjective limits and why Freud and Lacan are important for politics.
To learn more about Tyler's work, please visit www.bates.edu/faculty-experti...

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@anightbluefruit 23 күн бұрын

I enjoy this channel, love your interviews, and find your insights productive even when I disagree with them, so I intend this more as a suggestion than a critique: perhaps the first step toward opening up a dialogue between the PMC and working class people would be to engage in more discussions like this with actual working class people who lack accreditation but are nonetheless perfectly capable of articulating their own position for themselves. There is kind of a frustrating lack of reflexive awareness in this endless parade of left wing media discussions between members of the PMC about what the working class is like without ever once consulting any of the people experiencing this immiseration. I don't necessarily believe that our direct experience of domination in that sense renders us more capable of objectifying and giving an account of that experience, but if you guys do believe there is a movement to be built between the PMC strata and workers, then the first step seems to me to be talking to them more than about them. Lovely interview in any case. Enjoyed the discussion. This is just my suggestion

@emancipations 15 күн бұрын

Who might you recommend I speak to?