Video / Audio Collection

• Video: Don Quixote/Giselle - Solos by Ballet Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
  20 February
• Audio: George Paizis on Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary
  20 February
  (Socialist History seminar - Institute of Historical Research, UCL)
• Audio: Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn’t going away (Sean Illing talks to Prof Jason Stanley) | Jan 28, 2021
  12 February

  Vox’s Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to flirt with a fascist future and what we can do about it.

• Isyana Sarasvati - Opera Arias - Frühlingsstimmen - Walzer, Op. 410 - Johann Strauss II | Jakarta Concert Orchestra
  12 February

  ("Spring’s Voices," or commonly "Voices of Spring") is an orchestral waltz, with optional solo soprano voice, written in 1882 by Johann Strauss II

• Video: State of India’s Economy Far Worse than Govt Admits, GDP Will Shrink 29% This Year - Economist Arun Kumar interviewed by Karan Thapar | Jan 30, 2021
  6 February
  In an interview that will come as a shock to most people and will probably be strenuously refuted by the government, one of India’s highly regarded economists has said that this financial year GDP will shrink by 29% whilst the Central  (...)
• Video: COVID, Capitalism, and Ecology - A conversation with Mike Davis & Rob Wallace
  6 February

  A 90-minute online conversation with Mike Davis and Rob Wallace on the issue of the pandemic in the world

• Film: La Jetée (The Jetty) 1962 by Chris Marker
  6 February
• Video: The Disappearing Present - Reflections on Ideology by Dilip Simeon
  29 January

  Ours is an age of ideology. Ideology is a means of submerging everyday existence into a dream-like waiting room. Ideologically-sustained life is a relentless deferral of presence on behalf of a hoped-for glorious future. Our gaze is prompted backward and forward, the future being the domain wherein the past may be rectified. If the criterion of truth is not in agreement with reality, but in agreement with the spirit of a nation, class or caste, then apparently, truth has been replaced by perspective; theory by interpretation; presence by transience; and actuality by possibility. We are left with neither knowledge nor wisdom, but recipes for endless conflict and linguistic chaos. Such are the dimensions of contemporary nihilism.

• Audio: Rationalism, atheism and Hinduism in dravidian India, c.1920-90 by Dr David Washbrook (Majewski Lecture Nov 2005)
  29 January

  lecture by Dr. David Washbrook (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford) on 16 Nov 2005.

• Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology Social Europe Podcast
  22 January
  Politics
  Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the  (...)

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