Hegemony Now (part one) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO to talk about his new book - co-authored with Alex Williams - Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). In part one of our three part conversation we talked about Antonio Gramsci's notion of Hegemony and how, in the view of Jeremy and Alex, we live in an era in which an alliance between big tech and finance structures the global economy and whose values suffuse the cultural field. We talked about why tech and finance play the leading role in the global economy, in a way that does not characterise the energy sector or other extractive industries. We also discussed why - in contrast to tech and finance - neither the New Left of the 1960s, nor the New Right associated with the Reagan and Thatcher administrations got the world they wanted by the century's end, even if they achieved certain partial victories. We also talk about why Jeremy and Alex argue that the left should appeal to people on the basis of shared collective interests, rather than on the basis of moral values.

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0:00.0	The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for airplay success.
0:05.0	The men beep on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to the one of the I'm Hello and welcome to politics theory other.
0:48.4	My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Jeremy Gilbert.
0:52.0	We talked about his new book, co-authored with Alex Williams,
0:55.7	Hegemony Now, How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World, and how we win it back.
1:01.0	In part one of a three-part conversation, we talked about Antonio Gramsci's notion of hegemony
1:06.6	and how in the view of Jeremy and Alex, we live in an era in which an alliance between big tech and finance
1:12.6	structures the global economy and whose values suffuse the cultural field. We talked about why tech and
1:19.8	finance play the leading role in the global economy in a way that does not characterize the energy
1:24.8	sector or other extractive industries or most of manufacturing.
1:29.1	We also discussed why, in contrast to tech and finance, neither the new left of the 1960s
1:34.9	nor the new right associated with the Reagan and Thatcher administrations got the world they
1:39.9	wanted by the century's end, even if they achieved certain partial victories.
1:45.2	We also talked about why Jeremy and Alex argue that the left should appeal to people
1:49.3	on the basis of shared collective interests rather than on the basis of moral values.
1:56.7	Today's episode is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books,
2:02.4	who have lots of great left-wing titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners.
2:07.0	One that you might like to check out is Abolish the Family,
2:11.0	a manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis.
2:15.4	What if the family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe,
2:19.7	loved, cared for and accepted? In Abolish the Family, Sophie Lewis traces the history of family
2:26.1	abolitionist demands from the communist manifesto to the queer Marxists of the 21st century. Whether
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