65 | Gramsci's The Modern Prince

In this episode, we begin our new series on modernity with a discussion of Marshall Berman’s 1982 book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Some of the questions we will tackle in this series will address the substance of modernity, whether modernity is ...  Show more

In this episode, we use Marx’s infamous “Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse as a starting-point for a wide ranging discussion about the emancipatory and regressive potentials of AI technologies. Marx thought that automated systems of machinery are incredible embodiments of ...  Show more

ORIGINALLY RELEASED Feb 12, 2020

In this episode, Jon Greenaway and Brenden Leahy return to the show and join Breht to explore the life, thought, and revolutionary legacy of Antonio Gramsci— ...

An in-depth discussion of Machiavelli’s The Prince, including its social, historical and moral context and the book’s continuing relevance to contemporary political thought. 

Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview. Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email Peru ...  Show more

In our second episode, committee member Gilbert Achar is joined by Francesca Antonini to discusses themes from Antonini's 2020 book, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity To learn more about the Deutscher Prize, please visit our website: www.d ...  Show more