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The Verso Podcast

Podcasts, readings, lectures and events: big ideas and radical discussion from authors and collaborators with Verso Books

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The Storyteller: Walter Benjamin

The Storyteller: Walter Benjamin

The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness gathers for the first time the fiction of Walter Benjamin, edited and translate... Read more

7 Jun 2016

58mins

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Anna Feigenbaum Discusses Tear Gas at Wooden Shoe Books

Anna Feigenbaum Discusses Tear Gas at Wooden Shoe Books

Discussion with author Anna Feigenbaum about Tear Gas, which tells the story of how a chemical weapon went from the batt... Read more

14 Feb 2018

1hr 5mins

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The End Of Policing: A conversation with Alex Vitale

The End Of Policing: A conversation with Alex Vitale

Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond to and improve policing has focused... Read more

12 Oct 2017

45mins

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Against Everything: Mark Greif and Brian Dillon in conversation

Against Everything: Mark Greif and Brian Dillon in conversation

From the tyranny of exercise to the crisis of policing, via the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), Mark G... Read more

11 Oct 2016

51mins

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New Dark Age: James Bridle and Ben Vickers on Technology and the End of the Future

New Dark Age: James Bridle and Ben Vickers on Technology and the End of the Future

What is technology trying to tell us in an emergency? James Bridle, in conversation with Serpentine Galleries CTO Ben Vi... Read more

16 Jul 2018

1hr 14mins

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John Berger at 90

John Berger at 90

John Berger has revolutionised our understanding of art, language, media, society, politics and everyday experience itse... Read more

31 Oct 2016

1hr 18mins

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The Ontological is Political: Timothy Morton in conversation with Verso Books

The Ontological is Political: Timothy Morton in conversation with Verso Books

Timothy Morton discusses the political idea of the collective, subscendence, solidarity, fighting Nazis, and lots more. ... Read more

27 Sep 2017

1hr 14mins

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Who really killed Osama bin Laden? Seymour Hersh chats to Christian Lorentzen

Who really killed Osama bin Laden? Seymour Hersh chats to Christian Lorentzen

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy Seals stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin L... Read more

11 May 2016

43mins

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Futurability: Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the Verso Podcast

Futurability: Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the Verso Podcast

Franco “Bifo” Berardi discusses his new book, Futurability, with editor Federico Campagna.Renowned Italian Marxist theor... Read more

12 Jul 2017

57mins

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Tariq Ali discusses May '68 on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, February 2018

Tariq Ali discusses May '68 on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, February 2018

1968 was one of the most seismic years in recent history -- Vietnam, the Prague spring, Black Power at the Olympics and ... Read more

23 Mar 2018

53mins

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