<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#333333" face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/jodi-dean-main/capsula">New podcast: </a></font><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b style=""><font color="#ff00ff">Jodi Dean</font></b><font color="#333333"> talks</font></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> about communism as a still-latent project,</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> about the Party as a scalable global form, about dystopian municipalism, anamorphic ecologies, and liberal democracies, about Not An Alternative and Liberate Tate as examples of sustainable activism practices at museums, about desires, enthusiasm, and trust and about the emotions captured inside social media.</span><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><font face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/jodi-dean-main/capsula">https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/jodi-dean-main/capsula</a><br></font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,serif">For years, the work of Jodi Dean (b. USA, 1962) has been activating debates in academia and activism, combining tools from the fields of political philosophy, feminism, and psychoanalysis. Dean describes a social landscape mediated by technology in which we vote and share huge amounts of arguments and opinions, but at the same time our capacity to change political structures has come to a grinding halt. Communicative capitalism does in fact thrive on a network of interactions rather than the singularity of the people and contents that comprise it. It does not really matter what is conveyed or who does the conveying: circulation itself produces value. In the face of this paradox, Dean suggests reconstructing the Left, moving away from the demand for more participatory processes, greater consensus and better democracy, and instead placing the antagonism and power of partisan politics back at the centre of common life.</span><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">In this podcast we talk to Jodi Dean about communism as a still-latent project, about the Party as a scalable global form, about dystopian municipalism, anamorphic ecologies, and liberal democracies, about Not An Alternative and Liberate Tate as examples of sustainable activism practices at museums, about desires, enthusiasm, and trust, about the emotions captured inside social media, and about how to squash the impulse to constantly make up new names for everything.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union</b><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Music commissioned to Anna Irina Russell. Editing by Antonio Gagliano.</b><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Timeline</b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">00:00</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Desire and drive</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">03:09</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Pop culture and politics</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">06:30</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Black Panther: something, not everything</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">07:14</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>The left should not argue for democracy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">09:59</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Cognitive capitalism vs Communicative capitalism</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">11:28</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Semiocapitalism vs Communicative capitalism</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">11:51</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Modes of exploitation in Communicative capitalism</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">14:15</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>A new name for everything</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">15:19</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>The decline of symbolic efficiency</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">17:16</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Attacking head-on the claim that communism didn't work</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">18:19</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">19:48</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>A party is a form that scales</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">21.20</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>A party is a part, is partisan, is divisive</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">22:26</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Fragmentation and sectarism</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">24:16</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>A party does not just mirror the factory</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">26:22</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>A party of the proletarianized people</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">27:17</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Populism: trying to be everything to everyone</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">28:29</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Global-financial cities</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">29:22</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Green municipalism</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">31:17</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Not and alternative</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">35:15</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Liberate Tate</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">35:57</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Social achievements of class struggle</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">38:24</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Enthusiasm and circulation value</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">40:13</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> Confidence</span></font><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,0,255)"><b style="">E/N/J/O/Y</b></span></font></div></div>