Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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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. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archive at thedigradio.com 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 Buy Abolition Geography versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography

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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.
0:21.1	Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography
0:25.3	presents her contribution to the politics of abolition as a theorist, researcher, and organizer,
0:31.2	something that Ruthie and I discussed not so long ago here on The Dig.
0:35.6	Abolition Geography moves away from uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull
0:40.2	compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary
0:47.1	racial capitalism operates through an anti-state state that answers crises with the organized
0:53.4	abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus.
0:58.5	Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries,
1:03.1	Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration
1:08.9	and reminds us that freedom is not just a principle, but also a place.
1:13.6	Abolition Geography by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, out now from verso books
1:23.5	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting
1:34.6	from Providence, Rhode Island. Christopher Chitty left so much paradigm shifting scholarship
1:40.5	unfinished when he tragically died at age 32 in 2015. Thankfully, his friend and comrade Max Fox
1:48.3	picked up Chitty's unfinished dissertation, and turned it into a truly remarkable,
1:53.2	if inevitably unfinished book. Sexual hegemony, statecraft,
1:58.1	sodomy, and capital in the rise of the world system. This interview is with Max and with Chris
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