COUNTERSIGN is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials across disciplines.

Joined June 2020
💥🎙️💥 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
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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? Wherever you get podcasts
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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 Or countersignisapodcast.com/po…
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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
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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? countersignisapodcast.com Wherever you get podcasts Pls RT
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Latest @countersign_sm episode has dropped with Dipesh Chakrabarty @UChicago @UChicagoHistory discussing his book The Climate of History countersignisapodcast.com/
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. countersignisapodcast.com
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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.
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It's #InternationalPodcastDay! Here are some of my faves: @hotelbarpodcast (of course) @waiting2xhalepd @leftofphil @ICYMI_pod @countersign_sm @PartiallyExLife @pchh @SmartLess @AIwithAI @overthink_pod @BMR_podcast Follow & subscribe to them! 🎧
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Latest episode with @Flinders Prof Margaret Davies of @flindersbgl on EcoLaw is now available where you get podcasts or at countersignisapodcast.com @TaniaLeiman #ecology #legalphilosophy
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 countersignisapodcast.com Is nature normative? What are the implications of nature's norms for law and politics?
Wonderful start today to discussion of history and memory for Oxford Handbook at ZiF Bielefeld.
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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"! Wherever you get podcasts & countersignisapodcast.com
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New episode on the #Anthropocene out now where you get your podcasts
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, & countersignisapodcast.com @WarwickCCLS #Anthropocene
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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: independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho… A thread (1/10)
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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; countersignisapodcast.com
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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; countersignisapodcast.com
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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. countersignisapodcast.com
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Next @countersign_sm episode features @BehrouzBoochani discussing writing as a political act, Australian border mentality,mutuality of human/animal. Catch previous episodes on race with Patricia Williams, speaking about rape with @TanyaSerisier, testimony with Nichanian
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