{"id":55,"date":"2019-08-30T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T01:09:28","slug":"podcasts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Critical Theory: The Podcast<\/a><\/h1>\n

Find the podcast on Soundcloud and Apple Podcasts<\/p>\n

Latest Episodes:<\/h2>\n

Episode 6: Critical Theoretic Foundations of Concrete Utopias with \u00c9tienne Balibar<\/a><\/h4>\n

In episode 6 of Critical Theory: The Podcast, Professor \u00c9tienne Balibar joins Charles Smith and Giselle Williams of Columbia’s WKCR for a conversation on the critical theoretic foundations for concrete utopias.<\/p>\n

This conversation is part of the Utopia 13\/13 seminars at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Professor Balibar joined us for Utopia 1\/13 at the Maison Fran\u00e7aise on September 28, 2022. You can find the full recording from the seminar and additional resources on the Utopia 1\/13 page here:\u00a0blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/1-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n

At the seminar, Professor Balibar presented a new paper, \u201cUncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes.” You can read the full paper in English here:\u00a0blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/et\u2026catastrophes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In his lecture, \u201cUncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,\u201d the philosopher \u00c9tienne Balibar develops three dimensions of the urgency of rethinking concrete utopias in these times of crises: first, Balibar discusses the dilemmas surrounding the concept of utopia and utopian thinking, without which there could be no \u201cradical\u201d politics, but at a time and in an age of at least three major catastrophes (the climate, the nuclear, and the digital); second, Balibar explores \u201creal\u201d or \u201cconcrete\u201d utopias in light of the Foucauldian distinction between \u201cutopias\u201d and \u201cheterotopias,\u201d which could also be interpreted as a conversion of utopia into heterotopias; third, Balibar concludes on the transcendental problems of the different modalities of the \u201cpossible,\u201d the \u201cimpossible,\u201d the \u201cnecessary,\u201d the \u201cinevitable,\u201d in their relationship to a concept of time (e.g. Bloch\u2019s time of \u201cnot-yet\u201d), as displaced by the questioning of \u201cutopia\u201d in today\u2019s catastrophic circumstances.<\/p>\n

At the seminar, Professors Balibar and Harcourt discussed Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918); Michel Foucault, \u201cOf Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias\u201d (1967\/1984); Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (2005); Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847; Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013; Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (Verso 2010); and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia (2005).<\/p>\n

Episode 7: Union Organizing and the Future of Work with Alyssa Battistoni<\/a><\/h4>\n

In episode 7 of Critical Theory: The Podcast, Professor Alyssa Battistoni joins Charles Smith and Giselle Williams of Columbia’s WKCR for a conversation on union organizing and the future of work.<\/p>\n

This conversation is part of the Utopia 13\/13 seminars at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Professor Battistoni joined us for Utopia 3\/13 at the Jerome Greene Annex on October 26, 2022. You can find the full recording from the seminar and additional resources on the Utopia 3\/13 page here:\u00a0blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/3-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n

We discussed Professor Battistoni’s essay “Spadework” at Utopia 3\/13. You can read her essay here:\u00a0www.nplusonemag.com\/issue-34\/politics\/spadework\/<\/a><\/p>\n

She reflects further on her essay in her blog post here:\u00a0blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/al\u2026on-spadework\/<\/a><\/p>\n

At the seminar, Professors Battistoni and Harcourt discussed \u201cSpadework<\/a>\u201d and \u201cLabor Without Love<\/a>\u201d by Alyssa Battistoni and \u201cDebt and Study<\/a>\u201d in\u00a0The Undercommons\u00a0<\/em>by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.<\/p>\n

Episode 8: Starbucks Union Organizing with Joselyn Chuquillanqui<\/a><\/h4>\n

In episode 8 of Critical Theory: The Podcast, Joselyn Chuquillanqui joins Charles Smith and Giselle Williams of Columbia’s WKCR for a conversation on union organizing at Starbucks.<\/p>\n

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Joselyn Chuquillanqui, 28, of Elmont, was fired on July 27 after what she describes as months of being targeted by managers, who she also claims caused the Great Neck store\u2019s April union vote to fail. While all 11 store employees initially signed petition cards for a union vote, the vote failed 5-6.<\/p>\n

This conversation is part of the Utopia 13\/13 seminars at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Chuquillanqui joined us for Utopia 3\/13 at the Jerome Greene Annex on October 26, 2022. You can find the full recording from the seminar and additional resources on the Utopia 3\/13 page here:\u00a0blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/3-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n

You can learn more about Chuquillanqui’s organizing work here:\u00a0www.bbc.com\/news\/business-62426940<\/a><\/p>\n

More on Starbucks unionizing here:\u00a0www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TBGwcCZK6Ok<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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