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The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.

30 August 2023

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose

In the latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast Jacqueline Rose discusses her new book, The Plague.

In the interview Jacqueline discusses what the Covid-19 pandemic revealed about contemporary society and whether the initial wave of global solidarity provoked by the crisis was purely a mirage. The interview also touches on the Ukraine crisis - how Jacqueline connects the themes of war and pandemic in the book - and how Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion has had the troubling consequence of appearing to redeem the foreign policy and security establishments of the United States and Britain. 

Check out the latest episode of PTO here.

Politics Theory Other is a weekly political podcast. The show aims to bring the work of writers on the radical left to a broader public.

Past episodes include Judith Butler on nonviolence, Adam Tooze on the war economy of Nazi Germany, Amia Srinivasan on Sex and the Politics of Desire, and Philip Mirowski on Covid19 and neoliberalism.

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