On the country of the future.
Italy has stagnated for 30 years, becoming a neoliberal gerontocracy with crumbling infrastructure (sound familiar?). Worse, it's a country without a Left. How did the populist right come to triumph? What is the relationship between high emigration and hostility to immigration? And how were the seeds sown 30 years ago with the collapse of the First Republic, Europeanisation, and Berlusconi's rise? Is there now a possibility of 'Italexit'?
Readings:
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, David Broder, Verso
Excerpt: /106/ The Endless Scrolling of Cinema ft. Maren Thom
Excerpt: /105/ The Lorax & the AK-47 ft. Leigh Phillips
/104/ The Aristocracy of Finance ft. Alexander Zevin
Excerpt: /103/ Three Articles: The Future!
[UNLOCKED] /77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2
/101/ UK Election: A Disaster Foretold
/100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /99/ Proof in the Pudding
/98/ Painful Politics ft. Jennifer Silva
/97/ Bungacast Analytica ft. João Magalhães
Excerpt: /96/ Three Articles
/95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
Excerpt: /94/ Reading Club 2: Anti-Politics
/93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
Excerpt: /92/ Three Articles
/91/ Exhaustion Revealing ft. Leigh Phillips
Excerpt: /90/ Work, Bitch ft. Amber A'Lee Frost
/89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
Excerpt: /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
/83/ Now It’s Syrizous [UNLOCKED]
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