Countersign

Stewart Motha
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Countersign

COUNTERSIGN is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines which open new perspectives on law, difference, and plural existence.

  1. 5 AUG

    Animals as Food: Violence, Labour, Capital

    Discussing two books by Dinesh Wadiwel on animals as food: The War Against Animals (Brill, 2015); and Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Wadiwel examines animal agriculture as sovereign violence; and the structural place of animal labour in capitalist modes of value generation and reproduction. What are the political and ecological implications of treating animals as food? What are the grounds for stopping the cruelty and torture meted out to animals?

    1h 7m

  2. 26 JAN

    Animals, Vivisection, and a Row with Darwin

    Discussing Alison Stone's book ‘Frances Power Cobbe’ regarding the 19th C philosopher and feminist who developed a moral theory on the status and treatment of animals; founded anti-vivisection societies; and reconciled her Victorian Christian ideas with Darwin's theory of evolution. How is the relative status and value of animals to humans to be judged? What do emotions have to do with morality? What is the relationship between culture and norms?

    1h 6m

  3. 11/12/2023

    What we talk about when we talk about genocide

    Discussing the concept of genocide with international human rights lawyer and social theorist, Vasuki Nesiah (NYU Gallatin). Is genocide event or process? How do we move from idea of genocide as apex crime in international criminal law to appreciating its role in the structural process of world-making? We discuss the implications of her analysis for thinking through the war in Gaza. For more details visit: https://countersignisapodcast.com

    48 min

  4. 23/05/2023

    What is the Matter with New Materialism?

    Discussing Richard A. Lee's The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence (2016). Thought and matter are distinct, separate. The explosion of new materialisms emphasise the agency of things without a critical philosophy that can sustain ethical and normative commitments. How does philosophical materialism allow the otherness of thought to emerge?

    1h 11m

  5. 29/03/2023

    Climate Wreckage, Pagan Vitalities, and Truth

    Discussing William E. Connolly's recent books on climate catastrophes; examining geological volatilities; considering pagan thinkers

    1h 5m

  6. 23/12/2022

    Provincializing the Anthropocene

    Discussing human & planetary time with Prof Dipesh Chakrabarty (Uni of Chicago)

    1h 4m

  7. 20/10/2022

    Corporations are Psychopaths

    Discussion with Joel Bakan of book and film, The New Corporation (2020), which reveals a world now fully remade in the corporation's image, perilously close to losing democracy.

    1h 9m

  8. 13/08/2022

    EcoLaw

    Discussing norms derived from nature with Margaret Davies, author of EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature (2022).  Nomos and nature are usually viewed in opposition. Here we ask, what are the norms to be derived from nature? How do they emerge and coexist?

    1h 10m
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COUNTERSIGN is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines which open new perspectives on law, difference, and plural existence.

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  • Creator
    Stewart Motha
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Stewart Motha
  • Show Website
    Countersign

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