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Sex and the politics of desire - w/ Amia Srinivasan

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4.8553 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amia Srinivasan joins PTO to talk about her new book, The Right to Sex. We spoke about whether it's legitimate to interrogate our sexual desires and to think about how desire is shaped by patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. We also talked about why Amia takes the case of so-called incels as the way into discussing those questions. Finally, we considered the anti-pornography critique of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and whether their work can be generative in spite of its obvious drawbacks and failings.

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The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to

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I'm going to Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

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My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Amir Shrina Vazant.

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We talked about her new book, The Right to Sex.

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We spoke about whether it's legitimate to interrogate our sexual desires and to think about how desire is shaped by patriarchy, racism, capitalism and heteronormativity.

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We also talked about why Amir takes the case of so-called incels as the way into discussing those questions,

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and finally we considered the anti-pornography critique of Andrea Dawkin and Catherine McKinnon,

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and whether their work can in any way be generative in spite of its obvious drawbacks and failings.

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Today's show is brought to you by PTO's supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books,

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who have lots of excellent titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners.

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One that you might like to check out is Overtime Why We Need a Shorter Working Week

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by Kyle Lewis and Will Strong.

1:40.5

As precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time when work-related

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stress and exhaustion are endemic, it's clear that a new radical approach to employment is

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required. In overtime, Kyle Lewis and Will Strong identify a powerful and practicable response

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to these worrying trends, the shorter working week. A call to action in the fight for

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workers' rights, over time, why we need a shorter working week, is out now from Verso Books.

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And now to today's interview. Amir Shrinivazan is Professor of Social and Political Theory

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