Dig: Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon
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🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Max Fox and Chris Nealon on the late Christopher Chitty's book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System.
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Further reading:
libcom.org/article/after-fall-communiques-occupied-california
viewpointmag.com/2012/09/12/towards-a-socialist-art-of-government-michel-foucaults-the-mesh-of-power
thenewinquiry.com/blog/in-love-and-memory
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:04.9 | and by verso books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners |
| 0:10.3 | like you. |
| 0:12.0 | One that you might like is Abolition Geography, essays towards liberation by Ruth Wilson |
| 0:17.2 | Gilmore, which is out now in paperback. |
| 0:21.0 | Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography |
| 0:25.2 | presents her contribution to the politics of abolition as a theorist, researcher, and |
| 0:30.1 | organizer, something that Ruthie and I discussed not so long ago here on The Dig. |
| 0:36.3 | Abolition Geography moves away from uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion |
| 0:40.9 | of neoliberal economics. |
| 0:42.9 | Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates |
| 0:49.1 | through an anti-state state that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people |
| 0:54.9 | and environments deemed surplus. |
| 0:58.8 | Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography |
| 1:04.7 | undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration and reminds us that freedom |
| 1:10.5 | is not just a principle, but also a place. |
| 1:14.3 | Abolition Geography by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, out now from verso books. |
| 1:25.9 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:32.2 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:37.2 | Christopher Chitty left so much paradigm-shifting scholarship unfinished when he tragically died |
| 1:42.4 | at age 32 in 2015. |
| 1:45.6 | Thankfully, his friend and comrade Max Fox picked up Chitty's unfinished dissertation, |
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