web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:46:18 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Marxism” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/marxism Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:00:00 -0400 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com Subversive Mobility vs Academic Orthodoxy with Jacob Shell https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/subversive-mobilities ccc5b351-edbb-41d6-b9c8-2d708935800b Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Geographer Jacob Shell joins me to discuss the Canadian trucker convoy in light of his research on "subversive mobility," how academic radicals became establishment apologists, plus pipelines, Ivan Illich, de-growth, elephants, and more. 2:19:29 no Jacob Shell is Associate Professor of Geography at Temple University and the author of Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (2019) and Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility (2015). He joins me to share his insights into the Canadian trucker convoy, the congealment of radical theories into stale academic orthodoxies and establishment aplogias, the blind spots of environmentalism, plus Ivan Illich, de-growth, elephants, and more. https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/shell-jacob https://twitter.com/JacobAShell geography, mobility, transportation, infrastructure, Marxism, biopolitics, academia, elephants, de-growth, Ivan Illich, environmentalism Jacob Shell is Associate Professor of Geography at Temple University and the author of Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (2019) and Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility (2015). He joins me to share his insights into the Canadian trucker convoy, the congealment of radical theories into stale academic orthodoxies and establishment aplogias, the blind spots of environmentalism, plus Ivan Illich, de-growth, elephants, and more.

https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/shell-jacob

https://twitter.com/JacobAShell

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https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/shell-jacob

https://twitter.com/JacobAShell

]]> The Non-Dupes Err with Tom Syverson https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/non-dupes-err fbb39703-7304-4ee6-aff2-908e76ac0ff7 Thu, 13 May 2021 15:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Tom Syverson, author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is an essential form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. 1:34:21 no Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present. Buy Tom's book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics: https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/ Read Tom's other work: https://linktr.ee/tomsyverson reality TV, materialist analysis, Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, The Bachelor, Real Housewives, Marxism, Jacques Lacan, Georg Lukacs, Frederic Jameson, Slavoj Zizek Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present.

Buy Tom's book:

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics

Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics:

https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/

Read Tom's other work:

https://linktr.ee/tomsyverson

]]> Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present.

Buy Tom's book:

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics

Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics:

https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/

Read Tom's other work:

https://linktr.ee/tomsyverson

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