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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /476/ Freedom against the New Nihilism ft. Jensen Suther
Description: On critical theory and autonomy.
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Jensen Suther, a junior fellow at Harvard working in philosophy and literature, talks to Alex H and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about art, culture, and socialism. He also offers a riposte to previous guest Anna Kornbluh's discussion of immediacy, and its cultural forms such as autoficition.
What does Suther think Kornbluh gets wrong – and right – in her critique of contemporary culture?
How autonomous is art from society and the economy?
To what extent can we tie...