Postmodernism and the Universal Subject
Channel: A New Conversation
Date: 22/02/2020

This is part two of the six linked podcasts on the topic of left-wing hegemony and populism. This part continues its focus on Lacla and Mouffe's 2001 preface to 'Hegemony and Socialist Strategy' but this time examining its relationship with the ideas raise in Zero Books' Doug Lain's video 'Is Postmodernism Conservative?' (linked below). The discussion centres on competing interpretations of the universal subject, and if, as a modern concept, can it still play a role in the struggle for socialism since the advent of postmodernism. It queries the nature of the human subject, if hegemonic strategies can be radical enough to break from possessive individualism, as well as the role played in all of this by Slavoj Zizek's excluded abject.

'Is Postmodernism Conservative?': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LqHm7NQ6I