Public Communication and Power: Talking Capitalism, Theory and Critique with John McMurtry

Abstract

This interview with globally distinguished Canadian philosopher and author, John McMurtry, presents dialogue discussing capitalism, asymmetrical power relations, life capital, social theory, common life interest, life value, global problems, market theology, media, values of the market and free market ideology today in relation to public education, academia, intellectual fads and the broader intellectual culture in relation to enabling public understanding of meaning-making and power, totalising market culture, climate, dispossession, health, influence, energy, labour, income, slavery, corporate welfare, neo-liberalism, the global ecosystem, and inequalities of class and power.

Keywords

• public communication
• media
• international political economy
• power
• social power
• economic power
• ideological power
• public sphere
• capitalism
• slavery
• corporate hegemony
• democracy
• everyday life
• life value
• economics
• health
• public knowledge
• education
• sociology of intellectuals
• social theory
• ideas
• values
• common good
• civil commons
• money
• captial
• social class
• meaning
• technology
• intellectual culture
• academia
• social agency
• global problems
• social change
• labour