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About Stephen Dozeman
RN (in training). Author of Being Possible (Resource 2020). Studied philosophy, art history and gender studies at Calvin College. Interested in philosophy (with a special focus on continental thought), critical theory and Marxism. Founding editor of New Books in Historical Materialism. Currently time is split between nursing school, working in memory care, reading and working on the latest entry in the western canon. They/them.NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
October 8, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
Over 150 years ago, Marx published the first volume of Capital, a systematic and voluminous account of capitalism, from the economic bedrock all t…
August 4, 2024
The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky
Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). S…
June 22, 2024
Infinite Greed
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible inter…
June 18, 2024
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actuall…
May 25, 2024
Care
During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled throu…
March 20, 2024
Lenin's Childhood
On January 21, 1924 and at the age of 53, Vladimir Lenin passed away. We’ve now had a century of a world without him, but also a century of a worl…
December 31, 2023
The Politics of Transindividuality
Many major political questions today revolve around questions of human nature; what sort of people we are and what sort of people we're capable of bei…
November 23, 2023
Lenin
Returning to the New Books Network today is Paul Le Blanc, here to discuss his new book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution (Pluto…
November 15, 2023
Theology, Horror and Fiction
When one thinks of your typical horror movie and it’s usual imagery, a number of tropes may come forward. Graveyards behind old cathedrals, crucif…
August 19, 2023
Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis
Thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it is hard to think of him without imagining him in very particular contexts. One will likely…
June 9, 2023
Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn
As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing soc…
March 28, 2023
Class Warrior
The socialist activist E. T. Kingsley occupies an odd place in the history of labor and the left. Often mentioned due to his prolific life of spea…
March 21, 2023
Combat Trauma
One of the most recognizable tropes in American society in the past few decades is the scarred war veteran, returning from foreign lands with woun…
February 6, 2023
In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms
The philosophy of deconstruction, most famously pushed forward by Jacques Derrida, has left an undeniable dent on contemporary thought, and even r…
January 17, 2023
The Coming of the American Behemoth
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked and appalled a number of people, forcing a critical reevaluation of what was possible, and what we ou…
January 2, 2023
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age
The last several decades have seen a mass consolidation of wealth among a few, the rest of the world left to various degrees of dispossession. On …
December 25, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3 parts. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first dec…
December 24, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3 parts. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first dec…
December 23, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3
Part 1 of 3 parts. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first …
December 18, 2022
Marx's Wager
Marx’s Capital looms large today, a century and a half after first publication, a massive tome that attempts to document and map out the dynamics …
October 28, 2022
Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics
In 1848, as political movements and events were sweeping Europe and Marx and Engels penned their famous Communist Manifesto, Kierkegaard wrote in …
September 23, 2022
Failure of Vision
The Democratic Socialists of America have exploded in the last few years, going from just a couple thousand members to close to a hundred thousand…
June 8, 2022
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspir…
June 6, 2022
Revolutionary Collective
Revolutionary politics are experiencing a resurgence in popularity, and a quick look at today’s headlines make it easy to see why. For those dippi…