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*Unlocked* Riley's Commie Book Club - 'State of Insecurity'

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Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's that time again! In an unlocked bonus episode, Riley read a book, drank some wine, and is ready to talk about it to you fine people. This month, we're looking at State of Insecurity by Isabell Lorey, available now on Verso. It's all about precariousness and how neoliberalism has turned us into our own disciplinarians. Check out the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1737-state-of-insecurity Do you want more Commie Book Club? Access this month's episode (an examination of the work of Mark Fisher) by subscribing to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25530712 *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We'll be performing live at Bristol Transformed on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm. The venue is Hamilton House 3A, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ View the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/814946762200366/ Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously. Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, friends. It's Nate with a quick update. We're unlocking last month's

0:04.3

comedy book club featuring a review of Isabel Lorry's State of Insecurity. And for March,

0:09.4

the comedy book club features a discussion of the work of Mark Fisher. So if you like this

0:13.4

free episode, definitely sign up on the Patreon to hear more. Thanks. Hope you enjoy.

0:39.8

Hello, premium subscribers and free subscribers about a month from the date of this recording. It's time for yet another episode of Riley's Comey Book Club. That's right. It's the podcast within a podcast

0:45.6

that I have no idea why is popular. Who on earth is the combined audience for Balthazar Speedboat

0:52.8

and Comedy Book Club? I don't get it, but I love all of you

0:55.9

deeply. Anyway, so let's get, let's just kick off, right? Because I've had a big old day at

1:03.7

the freaking office, and I'm ready to roll. So today we are talking about a book that came out in

1:09.7

2015 by Isabel Lorry, who is a political

1:14.1

theorist at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Politics and also is a professor

1:19.9

at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Kassel.

1:22.7

That is the first line of her Wikipedia page.

1:24.2

I've not memorized this information.

1:26.3

She's written only one book. It's called

1:28.3

State of Insecurity, Government of the Bricarius. And it was published by Verso Futures, which is the sort

1:36.7

of sub-imprint of Verso that also published psychopolitics, the first comedy book club episode.

1:43.8

And these are short, sort of highly theoretical works that deal with sort of concepts

1:50.6

that are about describing the future, what it might look like, how it might be

1:55.1

reclaimed from capital, and all this good stuff.

1:59.7

It's just bottom line up front. It's a book I'd recommend getting

2:04.0

if you're interested in theory. It's a book I'd recommend reading about if you have sort of just

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