COUNTERSIGN is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials across disciplines.
💥🎙️💥 Latest @countersign_sm episode on animals as food with Dinesh Wadiwel @ArtSS_Sydney - discussing 'War Against Animals' (2015), and 'Animals and Capital' (2023).
Animal agriculture as violence; animal labour in theorising capital
1/2🚨🎙️Latest @countersign_sm podcast with Alison Stone on 19th C philosopher Frances Power Cobbe's moral theory on status of animals, anti-vivisection, and row with Darwin.
What are philosophical grounds for ending experiments on animals?
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🚨🎤🎧Latest @countersign_sm episode, ‘What we talk about when we talk about genocide’ with @VasukiNesiah discussing genocide as process of world-making; settler-colonialism, and war in Gaza. Where you get podcasts
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@countersign_sm is free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. You can use it for teaching, or as a supplement to reading groups. See streaming options on website:
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💥@countersign_sm podcast celebrates its 3rd birthday this week!
I want to thank my amazing guests on 17 episodes for sharing your thoughts and generously discussing your work.
Thank you also to 5000+ listeners in over 70 countries. 1/3
Series 4 now LIVE.
With the proliferation of thinking on things, actants, affects - I’ll be considering works that provide grounds for ethical and normative commitments.
💥What is the Matter with New Materialism?
@countersign_sm episode with @rickleephilos discussing his book 'The Thought of Matter'. If matter is irreducible to thought, what are the conditions for presenting materiality?
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A short article on why the new transgender prisoner policy in England & Wales won't make women in prison safer. Prisons are fundamentally unsafe. ⤵️ https://t.co/tH7mAoweRg
What does the Anthropocene epoch mean for humanist history? What concept of the political is apt for a planetary age?
Latest @countersign_sm episode - Provincializing the Anthropocene - discusses 'The Climate of History' with Dipesh Chakrabarty.
https://t.co/TJ7Ztfatrc
Corporations are psychopaths!
Big news day in the UK, rivalled by new @countersign_sm discussion with Joel Bakan @joelbakan on the book and film, The New Corporation (2020), which reveals a world now fully remade in the corporation's image, perilously close to losing democracy.
Latest @countersign_sm episode with @margjdavies on EcoLaw - the norms of more than human life and nonlife is available where you get your podcasts, or at
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Is nature normative? What are the implications of nature's norms for law and politics?
For the weekend: catch up on new @countersign_sm podcasts with an ecological focus featuring Dr Dan Matthews, and Prof Irene Watson @irenewatsonlaw
From the archive, Beth Povinelli @EPovine on geopower: "When Rocks Speak"!
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What does it mean to be *earthbound* in the time of the Anthropocene?
Discussion with Dan Matthews @Warwick_Law on aesthetics, sovereignty, and the ethics/politics of obligation
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@WarwickCCLS#Anthropocene
NEW @countersign_sm
What does it mean to be *earthbound* in the time of the Anthropocene?
Discussion with Dan Matthews @Warwick_Law on aesthetics, sovereignty, and the ethics/politics of obligation
Where you get podcasts, &
https://t.co/TJ7Ztfs4PM
@WarwickCCLS#Anthropocene
Home Office (HO) has decided to put GPS tags on refugees who were set for #RwandaDeportation and also on those arriving on boats. Here is my interview in @Independent very clearly highlighting as to why electronic tagging must not be used: https://t.co/4w6gYY9G00
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A fascinating conversation on the 'lies' of Mabo v Queensland (1992), widely acclaimed as a progressive judgment on indigenous peoples' rights.
As Irene Watson asks, who decides what is a justiciable question in law?
As Australians try once again to reach for truth, treaty, and indigenous voices, the latest @countersign_sm podcast discusses the Mabo case on its 30th anniversary with @irenewatsonlaw
Find it on Spotify, and wherever you get podcasts;
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Countersign podcasts @countersign_sm is a year old!!
My thanks to those engaging with these discussions in over 50 countries. And very grateful to the 10 guests who generously gave time for in-depth discussions.
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OUT NOW! Countersign podcasts presents Behrouz Boochani @BehrouzBoochani discussing the border mentality that leads to torture and degrading treatment of refugees. Available where you get your podcasts and at https://t.co/kn1Gz3DYQE