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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /327/ Capitalism on Edge ft. Albena Azmanova
Description:
On the crisis of crisis.
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Bulgarian critical theorist Albena Azmanova joins us to discuss her widely-discussed 2020 book, Capitalism on Edge. We talk critical theory, the paradox of emancipation, her criticisms of Thomas Piketty and why we should be thinking in terms of precarity capitalism, not neoliberalism.
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Albena also discusses her concept of the ‘crisis of the crisis of capitalism’ - how the current crisis of capitalism fails to augur a new type of society. Albena makes the case that concepts like neoliberalism obscure more than they clarify.
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We also discuss how far critical theorists can be drawn into providing practical politic...