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Episodes
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
On The Fall of Public Man.
We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we discuss chapter 13, "Community becomes uncivilised", and deal with listener questions.
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How does the changed relationship between public and private impact notions of community and of place?
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How does the maintenance of impersonal relations signify 'civility'?
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Is impersonality really the summation of all the worst evils of industrial capitalism?
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What is wrong with yearning for community, or specifically “love of the ghetto, especially the middle-class ghetto”
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How does "fratricide" become "logical" when people use intimate relations as a basis for social relations? Why is fratricide "system-maintaining"?
Links:
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2024/25 Bungacast Syllabus (with links to readings)
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Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt
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The Making of a New Political Subject, George Hoare, Café americain
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