Episode 3: Theories of Social Change
1h 32m | Dec 22, 2025Welcome to Sightlines. A podcast where we try to understand today and reimagine tomorrow. My name is Anthony Sosa, my co-host is Brandon Bond.
In this episode we discuss Brandon's theory of social change and the ideas of theorists he’s building his theory upon.
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Music: Preguntas by Temporal Distortions https://temporaldistortions.bandcamp.com/album/american-trauma-bond
Resources and suggested readings:
Brandon’s Metabolic Engine Social Theory (video)
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Pantheon Books, 1980.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. International Publishers, 1971.
Pareto, Vilfredo. The Rise and Fall of the Elites. Arno Press, 1979.
Historical Materialism - Marx and Engels (1844 -1895)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/index.htm
Daniel Immerwahr: All That is Solid Bursts into Flame (2024) https://academic.oup.com/past/article/265/1/97/7625037
Ralph Dahrendorf: Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society PDF (1957)
C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite (1956) https://www.marxists.org/subject/humanism/mills-c-wright/power-elite.htm
Louis Althuser: Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon (1968) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1968/philosophy-as-weapon.htm
