Money on the Left

Hosts Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo critique the Enlightenment myth that treats private property as the basis of political economy and they reflect, in particular, on the limits of a contemporary left media ecosystem that unquestioningly relies upon this spurious foundation for analysis & praxis. Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

Cohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Maxximilian Seijo are joined by historian Dan Berger to reflect on the political economy of abolitionism and its critical importance for the Left.Dan Berger (Twitter: @dnbrgr) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington at Bothell.Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting.flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.com/Twitter: @actualflirtingLink to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

Victor Pickard joins Money on the Left to discuss the public bases and potentials of money and media in The United States. Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Pickard is a prolific researcher and author of over one hundred articles and six books on the history of media institutions, media activism, and the avowedly political and public foundations of journalism and media policy. Our conversation with Pickard is far ranging. We survey his early work on the postwar settlement for American media, when the fundaments of the current media landscape such as its tendency toward private and consolidated ownership were first put in place. We explore the critical role and shortcomings of political liberalism in shaping that midcentury settlement and all that’s come after. And we identify means for creating resilient and diverse public media infrastructures that are better equipped to help leftists resolve the most pressing political, economic, and ecological crises of our moment. Along the way, we also uncover complementary impulses between Pickard’s vision for the future of public media and the Modern Money Movement’s project to democratize public money. Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

Cohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Maxximilian Seijo reflect on the importance of Modern Monetary Theory for the Left.Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

Pulling from the archive, Money on the Left presents the second episode of the Superstructure podcast, "The Virus is the Virus." In this episode, hosts Will Beaman and Maxximilian Seijo embark on a deep dive into intersections between the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben and reductive Marxist discourses around capitalism and nature. In so doing, they uncover a highly problematic historical and political economic lineage for the widely used COVID19 meme: 'Capitalism is the virus'.Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

Cohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo discuss Maxx's recent article in the Journal of Environmental Media, titled “Governing media information through a Green New Deal: History, theory, practice."Featuring a special report by Australian Twitter Correspondent @moltopopulare from inside the Superstructure, and a surprise call-in from friend of the show, Liz Bruenig.Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting.flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.com/Twitter: @actualflirtingLink to Maxx's paper: www.academia.edu/43950105/Governi…_theory_practice. Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

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Dipping into the archive, Money on the Left presents the very first episode of the Superstructure podcast. Framed by a cold open from Chapo Trap House's recent Bernie retrospective, hosts Will Beaman and Maxximilian Seijo inaugurate the Superstructure project with a discussion of the failures of a reified left wing imagination. To chart a path forward for an MMT-informed leftist praxis, they critique reductive castigations of spectacle, damaging affirmations of scarcity and zero-sum politics as well as a burgeoning 'anti-woke' left-right coalition.Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure

Will, Naty and Maxx are joined by @moltopopulare to critique the hopeless aesthetic imagination of the Red Scare podcast and related films by Red Scare cohost Dasha Nekrasova.

Money on the Left is thrilled to introduce the latest project by our growing collective over at the Modern Money Network Humanities Division: Superstructure. Superstructure is a new podcast hosted by Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Money on the Left’s own Maxx Seijo.   Debuting in late Spring 2020 via Soundcloud and other platforms, Superstructure builds on the sensibility Money on the Left has made legible, but it does so through a daring new model of left podcasting which combines high-octane critical theory with biting wit.  The gambit of Superstructure speaks through its title. Vulgar Marxisms past and present have reduced political economy to supposedly direct material relations known as the “base.” Such approaches then cast off the remote or abstract relations of language, aesthetics, government and law as mere second order phenomena called “superstructure.” In contrast to such reductive and polarized suppositions, the Superstructure podcast insists on the superstructure’s constitutive and fundamentally generative priority for any monetary economy. It places language, aesthetics, government and law at the very heart of critical efforts discern and transform the ways money mediates social production and participation. Superstructure is an integral contribution to the evolving Money on the Left project--so much so that going forward we plan to release both archived and new Superstructure episodes through the Money on the Left podcast feed.     To kick things off, we present episode 6 of Superstructure, released formerly under the title, “Beyond The Bellows." Framed by a new introduction from Money on the Left host Scott Ferguson, "Beyond The Bellows" serves as an apt entree into Superstructure since it nicely encapsulates the program's overall argument, tone, and stakes. Please help us spread the word about Superstructure by following @Superstruc on Twitter and  sharing episodes in your networks.  Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure