Mandatory Redistribution Party
2020-01
Episodes
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Jack interviews writers Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith about work and how its logic bleeds into everything we do, from our day to day desires to the futures we imagine beyond capitalism.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley.
Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith’s book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism is out in March from Zed Books. https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/work-want-work/
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Nationalise or privatise - which is your favourite? Sean and Jack come up with money making schemes (e.g. roads, national grid) before exploring the story of the first private finance initiative: the Skye bridge. Jack also takes a deep dive on nationalisation.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Evans.The original source for the Isle of Sky toll bridge story is George Monbiot's 'The Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain' (2000)
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Sean ensnares Jack in a discussion about his secret fascination with an online subculture where people transform their imaginary friends into sentient brain-beings beyond their control.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley and a short excerpt from Michael Nyman's 1986 Opera A Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Jack interviews writer, poet and lecturer Alex Niven, whose new book argues that the map of the British Isles should be torn up, that instead of pandering to patriotism we must move toward radical regionalism.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.
Alex Niven’s excelelnt book 'New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England' is available here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england/