/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
Added 2022-12-20 07:00:02 +0000 UTCOn atomisation and association.
Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone came out 22 years ago and the structural changes he identified then – increasing atomisation – have only worsened. Everyone now blames the internet, and though it may have accelerated some aspects, the problem goes deeper. The social consequences – loneliness, mistrust, depression – are widely discussed, but the political ones less so.
Does the decline of associationalism open the door to authoritarianism? Are 'right-wing' associations (say, churches or homeowner groups) just as threatened as left-wing ones (like unions or labour clubs)? What are the political valences of growing atomisation?
And are we now like the peasants that Marx described in his 18th Brumaire: just potatoes in a sack - and does this explain the crazy politics of our time?
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Comments
hahahahaha
Aufhebunga Bunga
2023-01-17 13:55:34 +0000 UTCi remember him mentioning something about Serbia once? i'm not too sure though
Ceren Temizyurek
2023-01-11 10:22:49 +0000 UTCi got an irl girlfriend due to bunga/podcast fuelled internet parasocial relationships and we want to get a dog and name it philip cunliffe. so dont knock it too hard
John O'Riordan
2023-01-09 15:23:51 +0000 UTCWhat a cringe episode. At the umpteenth mention of "social science" I wanted to just give up. PolScis have very weird ways of misusing their brain when they deal with "cultural" or microsocial stuff. Just stop.
Andrea
2022-12-26 14:13:19 +0000 UTCDid I hear Phil correctly? He didn't live in "the West" until his undergrad? Where did he live?
NigelBOpinion
2022-12-23 04:53:17 +0000 UTC
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