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Our guest today is Richard Seymour. Richard is a writer, broadcaster and the author of numerous books, including: Against Austerity, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, and The Twittering Machine.
This winding discussion focuses on Richard's most recent book, The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism. We discuss the politics of climate breakdown, and the kinds of political subjectivities that must be made through, and in the face of, such existential ecological crisis.