I'm joined by Derek Guy (AKA Menswear Guy) to take on the intersection of fashion history & the history of political thought. Derek argues the suit is a creation of liberalism, but was also killed by liberalism, & we discuss what that means for how we see the tradition & ourselves.Toby Buckle által

Matt McManus is back on the podcast to discuss liberal socialism throughout history from early antecedents, to Mill, Thomas Paine, and Rawls, as well as the neoliberal critique of it by Hayek & others.Pre-order Liberal Socialism: https://t.co/0r9ZVpLF2iToby Buckle által

The history of unions, including antecedent forms of worker organisation, the different justifications for them, and how these relate to values like equality, freedom, and democracy.Toby Buckle által

in this episode I read Gabriel Winant's "The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialization" published online on October 1, 2024 in Historical Materialism. brill.com/hima --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode I read prose piece Watches by Jeff McMahon, originally published in the Table Talk from The The Threepenny Review in 2015. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

I develop an original account of the increasing gender voting gap & relate it to why some people are much more alive to the dangers of the populist right than others.Toby Buckle által

Rawls, religion, the reasonable & unreasonable, and what are our obligations when liberal democracy is under threat? Do we have a duty to try and persuade people out of the populist right?Toby Buckle által

Following a tumultuous month in American politics, I take a range of audience questions on all things USA.Toby Buckle által

in this episode I read So Mayer's piece "gunge," which was originally posted July 25, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

"The Orange and the Brick" an essay by Caridad Svich. featured in The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance edited by Noe Montez and Olga Sanchez Saltveit. Published 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading CJ THE X's WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A Manifesto to Return to Web 1.5, first posted on their website on March 1, 2024. https://www.cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/ continuing my recording of work of artists I admire. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

in memory of scholar, poet, playwright, theatre-maker, director Kit Danowski, who passed away the week of July 29, 2024 (announced on July 31, 2024 on social media), a reading of their MANIFESTO: THEATRE FOR THE DEAD, published in Global Performance Studies, vol.3, no. 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv3n2a9 --- Support this podcast: https://po…

In this episode, I read scholar Pantea Javidan's important article "False Divisions and Dubious Equivalencies: children's rights during the Covid-19 pandemic." the article was published as an open access piece on ManchesterHive.com on July 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

reading from and engaging with chapter one and seven from Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism (Published 2009, John Hunt Publishing) through the lens of modernism and post-modernism. with nods to Wallace Shawn, Julio Torres, Samuel Beckett, and more in passing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

two readings in this episode: 1. from my essay on Maria Irene Fornes published in the Mentorship issue of The Dramatist Quarterly spring 2024 (Vol 26, No 2). and 2. Vicky Osterweil's "Work Will Set You Free" published on their substack All Cats Are Beautiful on July 17, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad…

the introduction to Helen Iball's study guide to Sarah Kane's BLASTED (Methuen Drama, 2008) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

some text from work in progress, untitled desert play by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

Most Americans know the outsized influence big corporations and the wealthy can have on our democracy. What does it look like to build a theory of liberal democracy based on avoiding that? Samuel Bagg and I get into that, the ethics of voting, and the reality of activism.Toby Buckle által

How has equality been thought about throughout human history? Is there a final definition of the term? Does it have a potential dark side, and how does its history compare to that of freedom? Darrin McMahon joins the podcast to discuss.Toby Buckle által

in this episode, i continue musings on Samuel Beckett and Modernism. with excerpt from James McNaughton's SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE POLITICS OF AFTERMATH (Oxford University Press, 2018). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode I read from chapter one of Dalton Trumbo's novel JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN. (published by Penguin Random House edition 1984). the novel was written in 1938 and published in 1939. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture/musing on the author Samuel Beckett, focusing a bit on his works KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and WAITING FOR GODOT, through a modernist lens. with excerpt from Steven Connor's book BECKETT, MODERNISM AND THE MATERIAL IMAGINATION published by Cambridge University Press. (2014) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh…

reading Elinor Fuchs' essay "Waiting for Recognition" (2007) first published by Modern Drama journal. University of Toronto Press. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode, I read T.S. Eliot's THE WASTE LAND. 434 lines. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture musing on T.S. Eliot and Modernism, esp. in relation to THE WASTE LAND as a core text of Modernism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture on what begat/influenced Modernism in literature and art. key figures. key thinking. and as always, how capitalism intersects with all --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading from Nate Holdren's slow cancellation of the future. blog piece dated June 6, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

the first in a series of informal musings on Modernism in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

excerpt from David Barnett's book THEATRICALITY, PLAYTEXTS AND SOCIETY. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading from sections of the book PERFORMING GRIEF IN PANDEMIC THEATRES by Fintan Walsh. published by Cambridge University Press, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an excerpt from Sara Freeman's book Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space published by Cambridge University Press in 2023 as part of the Cambridge Elements Contemporary Performance Texts series. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture/reflection by Caridad Svich on the relationship among the text, the author and the reader --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture on ghosts in writing - their function and their existence. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading from the introduction to Jonas Barish's The Anti-theatrical Prejudice (UC Press, 1981), and abstract/summary of Eileen Fischer's review of this book in Modern Drama journal (University of Toronto Press, Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 1982, pp. 435-437) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

an informal lecture on wound theory and affect in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture on how secrets and suspense work in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode, i read selections from Joyelle McSweeney's work, as follows: a. "Toxic Sonnets: A Crown for John Keats" from Toxicon and Arachne, Nightboat Books, 2020. b. the poems "Black Orchid" and "The History Plays" from Arachne, as published in folder magazine c. the essay "The Toxic & The Lyric II: Hearing and Hell; Inversion as Subversion;…

an informal lecture/reflection on narrative in literature, its uses and positions within power structures. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

informal lecture on aspects of character and voice in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

excerpts from several scenes from the play AGUA DE LUNA (psalms for the rouge) by Caridad Svich. this play is published by Intellect Books, UK in the collection THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS AND OTHER PLAYS by Caridad Svich. There is also a single edition of the play published by Santa Catalina Editions, an imprint of NoPassport Press --- Support this pod…

musing on literature as portal, affectivity, the book as object, film as dream, and relationality in this informal lecture on where to begin in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode I read a monologue from my play ARCHIPELAGO - a love story about someone from here, and someone from there trying to forge a connection in a troubled world. The monologue feels especially apt given everything that is happening in the world today. Also in this episode I chat a bit about the play's development and how it premiered in …