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I don't understand the point of your background music. Is there some study which shows background music keeps your listeners? If not, I'd ditch the music. When I hear music on videocast or podcast I often stop listening to it because such background music intensely annoys me. Eventually the background music stopped so I was able to continue listening. Thanks for the videocast. The author's interesting. I'll no doubt read the book although some of his terminology is, possibly, a bit Marxian. Calling your analysis "materialist" today, is almost a tell. Two years after this videocast, saying "trans" is almost putting your foot in your mouth. Trans is a fictional identity; with no materialist basis in society. "Trans" is almost an autocritique of identitarian politics = the identitarian 'movement' digging their own grave! "Trans" is easy to understand: The modern left are intrinsically social contructivist. So trans is the left's self-validation of social contructivism. Look "we're so socially contructed that men can become women, and women become men !" In reality, most transwomen as autogynephiles. It's a kink.

Why would Medicare for All, tuiton-free college, no- or low-cost apprenticeships, student-debt relief or cancellation in 2017 to 2019 have required large federal personal and corporate income tax increases? 25:00 Also, the Biden primary and caucus campaign was doing very well until after Nevada, when Saint Obama got Klobuchar and Buttigieg to drop out and Warren to stay in, Bloomberg to run interference, etc.. There's some serious ex-post facto revisionist critique of Sanders 2.0. 26:00

No, Benjamin, the Federal Government does _not_ "have fewer and fewer resources (sic) to redistribute (sic)" because Congress has reduced personal and corporate income tax rates and treated capital income increasingly more favorably for income tax purposes. The US Govt does not "re-distribute resources". It does not appropriate resources by taxing so that it has a "pile of resources" to then "re-distribute".

15:00 *multilateral ideal* “So I’m not trying to suggest in this book that globalization is evil or bad, or that interaction with different people is evil or bad. I would prefer personally a multilateral approach where states come together and setup new rules for how to do international trade that facilitates movement of people and movement of stuff. It’s very difficult to do that and it’s because it’s very difficult to do that that we start to get talk of unilateral strategies.”

Excellent conversation, much appreciated:)

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White people must love this guy lmao

Amazing interview. A lot of points to get back to.

I agree with Prof. Táíwò on many points, but the language question is a bit more complex. There are socio-economic privileges that are attached to languages in our world, and these are preventing African languages from thriving or being experimented with. In Nigeria, for example, speaking English gives you more access than speaking “local” languages such as Hausa or Yoruba. So, people tend to neglect and discourage their kids from learning their mother tongues. This not only places local languages at the bottom when you consider the economic advantages one can get from learning or speaking them, but it also places them in a stagnant position. People experiment less with these languages since not many intellectual productions are made in them nowadays. Translating concepts and classical texts from the West or other parts of the world could be a way to solve this imbalance. Still, I think special attention should be paid to “indigenous” African languages. There is also the question of audience. Choosing to write in French or English means that you have the West as an audience in mind, which sometimes affects what the artists write about. Meanwhile, when a Western author writes, I am not sure he has English speakers in Africa in mind. As a result of this, African authors often time include in their works explanations of words and concepts that African readers from their home country would not read. These explanations are not just footnotes. Some of them are included in the narrative which shows how limited their freedom is as artists. Marketing African literature and intellectual products to Africans would be a way of reclaiming African agency but serious attention should be given to these languages and more translation should be done.

Another water biscuit?

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Good Talk! The one thing I missed where the Solutions to our current issues discussed in "Earth4All" - Club of Rome or "Doughnut Economics" by Kate Raworth. You mentioned briefly T. Piketty, but in his book "Capital & Ideology" where also some possible Solutions, which could be implemented to handle international capital-mobility. It would be nice, if Benjamin could share his view to those Solutions.

french theory destroyed everything.. gosh..

I like the way he thinks. We can't confuse the decolonization with anti europeanism. The central thing for valuation of cultures is the life, we must embrace everthing that potencialises the life, it doesn't matter where this thing comes from. But his thought about "stopping" talk about decolonization is very problematic. So, I agree with him partially in this matter

What a lovely interview with a brilliant teacher

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Nizan Shaked is obviously insanely liberal.

What about South Africa? Since 1652

great content! thank you!

11:35 :~)

Decolonial Critical theory has run its course. Let's throw it overboard and move on. Thanks prof Taiwo.