Love, Magic and Capitalism with Rob Faure Walker (Theorize and be Damned: Ep. 5)

The Acid Left

Mike Watson and Bram E. Gieben talk to Rob Faure Walker, author of Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis. Buy Love and the Market from Bristol University Press here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/love-and-the-market Pre-order Bram and Mike's books here: https://www.revolpress.com/ Follow Revol Press on Instagram: @revol_press About Rob Faure Walker Formerly a teacher in North and East London, Rob was drawn into politics as a teachers' union rep. He has since worked to oppose the Government's promotion of Islamophobia via the Prevent Counter Terrorism Strategy. A process described in his first book The Emergence of "Extremism" (Bloomsbury 2021). In recent years, he has worked at SOAS and at UCL to develop strategies to oppose the propagation of anti-intellectual faux-research by Government aligned think tanks. This has involved developing communications training for academics and designing communications strategies to deliver genuine academic research to Westminster. His latest book Love and the Market develops a post-Marxist 'loving critique' of the market economy. He now works as an ecotherapist, developing people's loving connection with nature as a way of healing us and nature from the multiple crises of modernity.