Jeremy Gilbert

I think that there's a really, really strong line of connectivity between what the Greens were doing in the first half of that decade and the offer that Corbyn was making to the electorate in 2017.

And I often cite a line that I heard Jeremy Gilbert deliver once on a podcast.

I was unable to actually find the citation, annoyingly.

It was in a podcast at some point over the last few years, which is that Corbyn offered a moral critique of austerity rather than a political critique of neoliberalism, which I thought was a really, really astute way of looking at what Corbynism offered, at least at the level of rhetoric and in terms of political communications.

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert and I'm here as usual with my friends Nadia Idle.

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And Keir Milburn.

today but also in some way some of the things some of the pieces some of the aphorisms that I read I thought I actually have no idea what this what Guy Debord is trying to get across like is this hyperbole um That's a kind of critique in a way.

I mean, I think it's a very valuable piece to read.

Like you said, Jeremy, we're only going through the first three chapters, but as listeners will hopefully find out, I'm very excited about this.

I just wanted to kind of posit this idea of the way it's written and the way ideas are presented, you know, in the 21st century, you could be thinking, is this written by AI?

Hello and welcome to Culture Power Politics.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert and what you're about to hear is another in-depth conversation between myself and fan favourite Alan Finlayson.

But I wanted to record a little extra introduction to put at the beginning, having finished the whole series, even though you will hear the initial introduction that we recorded when we started recording this episode after this one.

Just to say, firstly, for those who like a variety of content, don't worry, we're not only doing these long multi-part series in future.

Let's get on with this now.

Hello and welcome to Culture, Power, Politics, a podcast about culture, power and politics.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert and I'm here once again with fan favourite Alan Finlayson.

I want to know what that means, favourite, because favourite can be, is it like the favourite child? Is it kind of patronising? Or is it like favourite, you know, is it like, you know, fat, your fave is probably, am I going to be your fave is problematic or something like that? Well, no, I think

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And my other good friend, Jeremy Gilbert.

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And today we are discussing situationism.

Or are we? Are we discussing situationist ideas and the situationist history? For those of you who haven't got a clue what I'm talking about, the situationists were a group of artists, uh, political theorists who were influential on radical politics and culture, especially punk and post-punk scenes through the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Uh, so what do you think, Jeremy?

I think it's a really interesting topic.

I mean, partly we do- we wanna do it this week 'cause Raoul Vaneigem, one of the great situationist thinkers, uh, just, uh, passed away last week.