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Life and Times of Michael K
The ABR Podcast
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Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture
by Josh Bornstein
This week on The ABR Podcast, Josh Bornstein discusses corporate cancel culture. Bornstein argues that ‘Companies now routinely censor their employees far more repressively than any liberal democratic government does’. Josh Bornstein is an award-winning workplace lawyer and writer. His first book, Working for the Brand: How corporations are destroying free speech was recently published by Scribe. Listen to Josh Bornstein’s ‘Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture’, published in the November issues of ABR.
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On this week’s ABR podcast, critic and essayist James Ley reflects on J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, forty years after its publication. Coetzee’s fourth and Booker Prize-winning novel was his landmark work, explains Ley. This was despite it receiving criticism for supposedly eliding the political realities of Apartheid South Africa by being set in ‘the realm of allegory’. Listen to James Ley with ‘An obscure prodigy: J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K at forty’, published in the August issue of ABR.
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