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Podcast: The Verso Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fascism, Marxism and Israel | Enzo Traverso
Pub date: 2024-10-29
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This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Enzo Traverso. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Podcast, but until then we have some exciting interim episodes coming up for you.Enzo Traverso is a writer, political scientist, and professor of humanities at Cornell University. His previous books include Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914 to 1945, The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right, The Origins of Nazi Violence, and The End of Jewish Modernity. He sat down with verso editor Sebastian Budgen to explore his life, his work and his latest book, Revolution: An Intellectual History - released in a new paperback edition earlier this year.The book charts a new history of the revolutionary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries - from Alexandra Kollontai’s cries for sexual liberation in Russia, to Louis Auguste Blanqui’s barricades in France, to Ho Chi Minh’s independence proclamation in Vietnam. In drawing these examples together, the book seeks answers to the fundamental question of how to unmake and then remake the world - of what revolution means and what it demands from us.In this interview, Enzo talks about his intellectual beginnings, about the new global far right, the Frankfurt School, left wing melancholia, and Israel's war against Gaza. If you'd like to read more about how people down the ages have tried to change the world - and sometimes even succeeded - then Enzo’s book, Revolution: An Intellectual History is available now from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2783-revolutionAnd don’t forget - be sure to subscribe to the show so you can be the first to know when season four drops - and so that you don’t miss any of the bonus content coming your way between now and then. If you enjoy The Verso Podcast please consider leaving a rating or review wherever you get your podcasts - it really helps us out!
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Podcast: Matrix Podcast
Episode: Matrix on Point: War is Back
Pub date: 2024-11-08
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War is back. Open military operations in Europe and the Middle East have driven an escalation of geopolitical tensions in those regions. The conduct of warfare is changing, too, fueled by the deployment and sometimes live-testing of new technologies. Meanwhile, a new cold war seems to be settling in. The growth of China's economic power and worldwide influence has triggered proliferating sovereignty disputes and defensive trade and security policies.
In this Matrix on Point panel, UC Berkeley experts discussed these and other transformations, and offered their views on what to expect in the short to medium term.
Recorded on September 30, 2024, the panel featured Michaela Mattes, Associate Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley; Andrew W. Reddie, Associate Research Professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and Founder of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab; and Daniel Sargent, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy at UC Berkeley, and Co-Director for the Institute of International Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Institute of International Studies, the panel was moderated by Vinod Aggarwal, Distinguished Professor and Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair in Asian Studies, in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science; Affiliated Professor at the Haas School of Business; Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC); and Fellow in the Public Law and Policy Center at Berkeley Law School, all at UC Berkeley.
Matrix on Point is a discussion series promoting focused, cross-disciplinary conversations on today’s most pressing issues. Offering opportunities for scholarly exchange and interaction, each Matrix On Point features the perspectives of leading scholars and specialists from different disciplines, followed by an open conversation. These thought-provoking events are free and open to the public. Learn more at https://matrix.berkeley.edu.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/war-is-back.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Feminist Villains / Nicole Froio
Pub date: 2024-11-05
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Co-founder of the new feminist blog, Flytrap, Nicole Froio joins us to discuss her new piece titled, "The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back." The Flytrap Media is a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group that thinks beyond clicks and hashtag-engagement. "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Nicole's piece here: https://theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/the-feminist-empire-strikes-backHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: The FootPol Podcast
Episode: Can Racism Be Kicked Out of Football? ft. Christos Kassimeris
Pub date: 2024-11-04
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This week co-hosts Guy and Francesco sit down with Professor Christos Kassimeris, a leading expert on racism in football. Together, they explore the roots and complexities of racism within the sport.
Professor Kassimeris provides valuable insights into the nature and definition of racism, shedding light on how it manifests within football. The conversation delves into the role of anti-racism campaigns and racism online, particularly in social media spaces, where football-related abuse is widespread. Professor Kassimeris shares his ongoing research and the efforts being made to address this pressing issue.
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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Substance Fetishism or Historical Materialism With Jason W. Moore
Pub date: 2024-11-08
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This is part two of our conversation with Jason W. Moore, a historical geographer at Binghamton University. In this discussion we delve into the concept of "substance fetishism" within Marxian social theory, the dangers it poses, and its implications for understanding the web of life. Part 1: Against Climate Doomism and the Bourgeois Character of American Environmentalism Moore raises concerns about the misguided focus on substance fetishism, which prioritizes the management of substances over the revolutionizing of labor relations. The conversation also touches on the historical and contemporary implications of this perspective, including its impact on understanding energy histories, class formation, and imperialism. He critiques the narrow focus of some environmental and Marxist scholars, advocating for a more integrated approach that considers the socioecological dynamics of labor and class struggle. We also discuss the role of intellectuals and the limitations of academic discourse in addressing these antagonismss. Our conversation concludes with reflections on the potential for revolutionary change and the importance of historical materialism in understanding and addressing the current ecological and social crises. Special Co-host Casey is a historian and organizer based in New York and Chicago. He is focused on the politics, economy, and connected histories in South Asia and the Middle East, specifically the Arab Gulf. His work focuses on questions of development, ecology, and political resistance, as well as connecting global-scale events to local diaspora communities within the US. As always, If you like what we do and want to support our ability to have more conversations like this. Please consider becoming a patron. You can do so for as little as 1 Dollar a month. We bring you these conversations totally independently with no corporate, state, or grant funding. This episode is edited & produced by Aidan Elias. Music, as always, is by Televangel Links: Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion: From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism? How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life Opiates of the Environmentalists Power, Profit, & Promethianism, Part 1 Power, Profit, & Promethianism, Part 2 The Fear and the Fix
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Podcast: Robinson's Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 233 - Judith Butler: Trump & Harris | Israel & Palestine | Sex & Gender
Pub date: 2024-11-03
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Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. In this episode, Robinson and Judith discuss three broad topics. First, they talk about Judith’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). In particular, they touch on the dynamics of sex and gender, as well as their political dimensions. Second, the conversation turns to the 2024 presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Finally, they broach the topic of Israel and Palestine, with particular attention to the questions of genocide and anti-semitism.Who’s Afraid of Gender?: https://a.co/d/beDcQ1SOUTLINE00:00 Introduction01:03 Judith’s Introduction to Philosophy and Gender Studies11:00 Who’s Afraid of Gender?22:11 On Trans and Intersex Olympics Controversies26:09 Is the Man/Woman Binary a Fantasy?35:17 Are Putin and Orban Transphobic?41:49 How to Change One’s Gender47:25 Language and Gender52:16 On Psychoanalysis58:49 On Gender Issues and the 2024 Election1:04:30 On Trump 20241:06:14 On Harris 20241:10:39 Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?1:18:51 Is Gaza a Concentration Camp?1:20:49 How Will the War in Israel and Palestine End?Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.comRobinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, historians, economists, and everyone in-between.
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Podcast: NeoAcademia (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 21. The Other Side of Conservatism
Pub date: 2024-11-07
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Today I’m joined by Matt McManus lecturer at University of Michigan and author The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics. Matt is an interesting thinker who is know for reading his opposition more carefully than most. I really like this about Matt, and I think we should all be reading works and having conversations with about topics on which we disagree with.
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Podcast: Cloud Civilisations
Episode: Clicks & Capital: FinTech apps and ‘financialization from below’
Pub date: 2024-11-07
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In this third episode, we discuss FinTech apps and how they influence people’s perception & relation to finance. By considering the physical or embodied experience of FinTech apps, we consider their additional effects on individuals. We explore how the glitzy promise of new technology is seen to positively democratise financial wealth for the people; however, this may still result in power inequalities.
This is Clicks & Capital, a five-part series from the archives recorded in November 2023, exploring the role of digital technologies in individuals’ finances. I spoke with Anna Rohmannabout her PhD research on this.
Anna Rohmann (she/her) is doing anthropological research at Goldsmiths and works as Associate Lecturer across multiple universities of the University of London. Her PhD project examines financial technology and (digital) financial inclusion through ethnographic and intersectional frameworks. She focuses on the interplay between retail investors, start-ups, content creators, technologies, and wider socio-economic structures. Her broader research interests lie at the intersection of the (digitized) economy with language, queerness, online communities, and social change. Anna is on the editorial board of Anthways Journal, a Research & Marketing Coordinator for the Political Economy Research Center (PERC), and a member of the TikTok Ethnography Collective.
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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging, Jessica J Lee (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live, Invasion Ecology)
Pub date: 2024-11-07
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In this special episode, writer Jessica J. Lee joins EMPIRE LINES live with visual artist and researcher Iman Datoo to explore the languages of ‘natural’ history and invasive species, through their book, Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging (2024).
Bringing together memoir, history, and scientific research, writer Jessica J. Lee considers how both plants and people come to belong - or not - as they cross borders. Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica often draws on her own lived experiences to observe our world in motion, and close connections between seemingly distant places - sometimes, with shared tastes for seaweed. Dispersals, their latest book of linked essays, journeys further still, exploring migrations, displacements, and the entanglements of the plant and human worlds - and the language we use to describe them.
Jessica shares some of their influences and references, like Richard Mabey’s Weeds and the works of Mary Douglas, to expose our historic human and anthropocentric understanding of plant life. We discuss how our everyday words and phrases are often borrowed from citizenship law, and see how beings are mis/represented in the media, from giant hogweed in Victorian England, to wakame kelp, Japanese knotweed, and eucalyptus plants today. Drawing on their work across the South West of England, Iman Datoo shares their research into soils, potatoes, and tea. Bringing together Iman and Jessica’s works, installed at the exhibition, Invasion Ecology, at Southcombe Barn on Dartmoor, we also delve into the history of botanical illustrations and mapping as tools of colonialism - here reimagined by contemporary artists.
This episode was recorded live as part of the programme for Invasion Ecology, co-curated by Jelena Sofronijevic for Radical Ecology, and Vashti Cassinelli at Southcombe Barn, an arts space and gardens on Dartmoor. The central group exhibition, featuring Ingrid Pollard, Iman Datoo, Hanna Tuulikki, Ashish Ghadiali, Fern Leigh Albert, and Ashanti Hare, ran from 1 June to 10 August 2024.
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2024-10-24
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A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics
With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production.
Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the varied ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs. She uses history, anthropology, food studies, and animal studies to redirect our attention to the margins of Malthus’s essay, where activities such as hunting, gathering, herding, and gardening were rendered extraneous. She demonstrates how Malthus’s omissions and his subsequent canonization provided a rationale for colonial imposition of British agricultural models, regardless of environmental diversity.
By broadening our conception of human livelihoods, Valenze suggests pathways to resistance against the hegemony of Malthusian political economy. The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History(Yale UP, 2023) invites us to imagine a world where monoculture is in retreat and the margins are recentered as spaces of experimentation, nimbleness, and human flourishing.
Deborah Valenze is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College. A recipient of numerous fellowships, she has written four previous books on British culture and economic life. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and New York City.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.
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Podcast: The Detail (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Clean, green mining as corporate branding
Pub date: 2024-10-29
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An Australian mining CEO took a top spot at CHOGM's business plenary to talk about how his company is going 'real carbon zero' by 2030
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Podcast: Not Just the Tudors (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Brutal Basque Witch Hunt
Pub date: 2024-10-31
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In 1609, some 80 people were executed for witchcraft in France's Basque region. It inspired a final push to eradicate witches by the Spanish Inquisition across the border. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist book which has been the source of every subsequent account. But newly discovered evidence paints a very different picture.
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Dr. Jan Machielsen whose book The Basque Witch Hunt: A Secret History shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about this brutal episode is inaccurate.
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Podcast: BJKS Podcast
Episode: 105. Eugenie Reich (Part 1): Plastic Fantastic, scientific fraud, and institutional norms
Pub date: 2024-11-01
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Eugenie Reich is an attorney who defends scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science journalist. We talk about her previous work as a science journalist, in particular her book Plastic Fantastic about one of the biggest fraud cases in physics, the case of Jan-Hendrik Schön. We'd planned to also discuss Eugenie's current work as an attorney, but spent all our time on the Schön case. Eugenie kindly agreed to do another interview, in which we cover the legal aspects of fraud, which will be the next episode (#106).
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
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Timestamps
0:00:00: One of the biggest fraud cases in physics/all of science
0:05:47: How and why Eugenie started writing about the Schön case
0:09:26: Why did Schön commit fraud?
0:19:30: Schön's PhD: he never saved any original data
0:30:05: Bell Labs vs. Schön's PhD lab: long-term revolutions vs. short-term applications
0:36:42: Schön's first work at Bell Labs was 'unpublishable'
0:41:42: How to get away with fraud: pretend you collected data in another lab
0:47:45: Bertram Batlogg and the role of the supervisors of fraudsters
0:56:20: How the bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble and 9/11 may (indirectly) have exacerbated Schön's fraud
1:01:09: How to use your colleagues' ideas to commit better fraud
1:05:05: How Schön's fraud unraveled
1:13:45: What is Schön doing now?
1:18:11: A book or paper more people should read
1:20:20: Something Eugenie wishes she'd learnt sooner
1:22:58: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Podcast links
- Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
- Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt
Eugenie's links
- Website: https://geni.us/reich-web
- Twitter: https://geni.us/reich-twt
Ben's links
- Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
- Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
- Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References and links
Episode with Simine Vazire: https://geni.us/bjks-vazire
Episode with Elisabeth Bik: https://geni.us/bjks-bik
Bell Labs (2002). The Schon report: https://media-bell-labs-com.s3.amazonaws.com/pages/20170403_1709/misconduct-revew-report-lucent.pdf
Reich (2009). Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world.
Shapin & Schaffer (1985). Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Cocaine: a Victorian sensation
Pub date: 2024-10-28
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In a much-publicised race in the 1870s, the most celebrated athlete of his day, the long-distance pedestrian Edward P Weston, admitted that he had chewed coca leaves, sparking a frenzy of interest in the substance and its derivative, cocaine. For the next few decades, cocaine became a household ingredient in many products, and was perfectly legal. It wasn't until the early years of the 20th century that concerns began to be voiced about its dangerous addictiveness. Dr Douglas Small explains how cocaine won over the Victorians in this conversation with David Musgrove.
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Podcast: EcoJustice Radio (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionary Icons: The Power of Black Madonnas and Folk Saints with Artist Mark Steven Greenfield
Pub date: 2024-10-28
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Join us in this episode featuring the profound art of Mark Stephen Greenfield, whose work delves into the African American experience, historical stereotypes, and social justice. Discover his two thought-provoking series, HALO and Black Madonna, which reimagine influential black figures as saintly icons and challenge the narratives of white supremacy. Through a rich tapestry of stories and imagery, Greenfield invites us to explore the transcendental divinity within every black face. Listen as he shares his journey of using art to deconstruct stereotypes, preserve history, and inspire change. We present Los Angeles Art Critic Shana Nys Dambrot and African American visual artist Mark Steven Greefield discussing his exhibition from the Ronald Silverman Gallery at Cal State LA, recorded by L.A. Art Documents. We also feature Yoruba DUNDUN Talking drum ensemble, and an excerpt from a PBS show featuring Greenfield called Craft in America. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Resources/Articles:L.A. Art Documents YouTube: https://youtu.be/IMFtfhAdJM4?si=gcXNAZfIYh38QStd PBS Craft in America: https://www.pbs.org/video/mark-steven-greenfield-his-work-qakt1c/ Yoruba DUNDUN Talking Drum Ensemble: https://youtu.be/F0L2fhqFzKU?si=xFJMJ9axI-p9nV7V Mark Steven Greenfield is an African American visual artist from Los Angeles [https://www.markstevengreenfield.com/]. His work deals primarily with the African American experience and in recent years has focused on the effects of stereotypes on U.S. culture stimulating much-needed and long overdue dialog on issues of race. He has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States as well as internationally. He has served on multiple arts and community boards and received a long list of awards, accolades, and residencies over the years.Shana Nys Dambrot features a weekly substack called 13Things LA [https://hijinxarts.substack.com/]. She has been Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to the Village Voice, Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. She studied Art History at Vassar College, and is the recipient of the 2022 and 2024 Mozaik Future Art Writers Prize, the 2022 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, and the LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Critic of the Year award for 2022. Her surrealist novel Zen Psychosis (Published by Griffith Moon) was released in 2020. Her personal substack is https://substack.com/@shananys Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He writes a column on PBS SoCal called High & Dry [https://www.pbssocal.org/people/high-dry]. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradioPayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Host: Jack EidtEngineer and Original Music: Blake Quake BeatsEpisode 238Photo credit: Detail of Mark Steven Greenfield painting “The French Solution” from the Black Madonna Series
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Podcast: The Systemic Way (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Race, Power, Privilege and the Psychology of Otherness: With Dr Dwight Turner
Pub date: 2024-10-27
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In this episode with speak with Dr Dwight Turner who shares his thoughts, ideas and reflections on his two books Intersections of privilege and otherness in counselling and psychotherapy: Mockingbird (2021) and The Psychology of Supremacy: Imperium (2023).Dwight shares his personal stories around his early life, career and training as a psychotherapist weaving through themes of race, power, intersectionality and privilege. He talks about the creation of otherness and ways to deepen our understanding and relationship to the concepts so that we can develop anti-oppressive and safe spaces for people we meet, live and work with. He invites us into an exploration of interdental difference, alongside discussing the deeper unconscious understanding of difference, and how privilege plays a role in the construction of otherness. Dwight shares from the filed of post-colonial theory, feminist discourse, amongst other theoretical areas. BIO
Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, a PhD Supervisor at their Doctoral College, a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. An activist, writer and public speaker on issues of race, difference and intersectionality in counselling and psychotherapy, Dr Turner can be contacted via his website www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk and can be followed on Twitter at @dturner300.
References:
Turner, D. (2021). Intersections of privilege and otherness in counselling and psychotherapy: Mockingbird. Routledge.
Turner, D. (2023). The Psychology of Supremacy: Imperium. Taylor & Francis.
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Podcast: Feminist Law (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Feminism's Culture Myth with Dr. Serene Khader (part 2)
Pub date: 2024-11-04
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In today's episode, Courtney continues her conversation with Dr. Serene Khader, Kay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture and Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York, about the culture myth in feminism and her newly released book, 'Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop'.
If you would like to learn more about Dr. Khader and her work, you can visit her website here.
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Podcast: Earth Eats
Episode: Wherever there is a dialect there is a cuisine
Pub date: 2024-11-01
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“There is a beautiful Hindustani saying, ‘Kosa kosa per pani badle, chare kosa per vani,’ which means "Every two miles the water changes, and every four the language." So that, in fact, is the geography of taste and terroir in India.”
This week on the show, we talk with sociologist Krishnendu Ray about place and food and caste in India and how identity can be defined as much by what you DON'T eat, as by what you DO eat.
And we share a recipe for a home grown hot sauce that cannot be prepared indoors.
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Podcast: African News Review
Episode: EP 7 Thomas Sankara 37 years on I African News Review 🌍
Pub date: 2024-10-21
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This week ANR's Host Adesoji Iginla with Guest Milton Allimadi delved into the life and legacy of Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, who was assassinated in 1987.
The discussion highlighted his significant contributions to African independence, his political philosophy, and the impact of his charismatic leadership.
The conversation also addressed the recent legal developments surrounding his assassination and the broader implications for African politics and identity.
In this conversation, Adesoji Iginla and Milton Allimadi explore the legacy of Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, discussing his unique approach to leadership, environmentalism, and the importance of reclaiming historical narratives.
They explored the concept of 'madness' as a catalyst for change, the role of reading in shaping political philosophy, and the critical analysis of Western narratives surrounding African leaders. The discussion emphasized the need for agency and transformation in Africa, the impact of debt on sovereignty, and the lessons from Sankara's life that continue to resonate today.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Thomas Sankara's Legacy
06:20 The Assassination of Thomas Sankara
12:58 Sankara's Political Philosophy and Achievements
20:31 Sankara's Charisma and Influence
27:19 The Hypocrisy of Extradition Laws
32:14 Sankara's Vision for Africa
39:33 The Madness of Resistance
42:34 The Power of 'Madness' in Leadership
45:40 Environmental Visionaries: Sankara and Wangari Maathai
47:24 Lessons from Sankara: Agency and Transformation
51:30 The Role of Reading in Political Philosophy
56:21 Revisiting History: The Legacy of Sankara
01:01:06 The Economist's Narrative: A Critical Analysis
01:06:18 Sankara's Ominous Prediction on Debt
01:12:53 Cuba's Role in African Liberation
01:15:59 Reclaiming the Narrative: Sankara's Enduring Legacy
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Podcast: The Culture Journalist (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Astra Taylor's age of insecurity
Pub date: 2024-10-24
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The Culture Journalist is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms. After disappearing into a black hole of summertime sadness, inflationary headwinds, and soul searching in Eastern Europe, we are back with a fresh batch of episodes and bonus content, so buckle up.
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What is it about life in the 2020s that makes us feel so anxious about what tomorrow will bring? In her book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, the writer, filmmaker, and organizer Astra Taylor looks at how insecurity — both as an emotional phenomenon and a material one — can help us make sense of the myriad stressors and challenges of modern life.
It’s not just worrying about the election. It’s not just high prices and the difficulty so many people are having finding a stable job. It’s not just climate change, or how social media makes us feel like our skin isn’t smooth enough. These days, it seems like everyone feels insecure — even (maybe especially?) the billionaires.
On this week’s episode, Astra joins us to talk about how insecurity differs from inequality, and how examining the psychic dimension of precarity can help us explain why things feel hard for so many people right now — even in the face of an ostensibly “strong” economy and labor market. We also get into the story of how the enclosure of the Commons in feudal England was the original sin that paved the way for our current “insecure” mode of capitalism. Finally, Astra tells us about her work as co-founder of the Debt Collective, the first union for debtors — and how returning to the ancient idea of the right to the Commons can help us organize in the face of decades of neoliberal austerity and a decaying social safety net.
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Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-10-15
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Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies.
Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City.
Other publications discussed during the interview are:
Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133.
Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426
Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013
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Podcast: LitHouse podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Afrotopia: The Future of Africa with Felwine Sarr and Andreas Liebe Delsett
Pub date: 2024-10-20
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How can Africa reach its full potential when Europe is still the blueprint to model oneself after? Not only has centuries of colonization and exploitation stripped the continent of opportunities, but the term “development” has all but become synonymous with following in Europe’s footsteps.
This is the argument of Senegalese academic Felwine Sarr in his book Afrotopia, which has had great influence in academic as well as public discourse. In it, he explores the possibility of a new Africa, with the help of African thinkers, artists and philosophic traditions. Africa needs a utopia, a goal to strive towards, without comparing themselves to others, Sarr says. How might such an afrotopia look?
Felwine Sarr is a leading academic and a prominent voice in public discourse. He is professor in economics at the Gaston-Berger University in Senegal, and professor of French and francophone studies at Duke University, USA, as well as a musician and the author of several novels. Together with the philosopher Achille Mbembe, he has established Les Ateliers De La Pensée, which gathers academics and writers from across Africa and the diaspora. In 2018, commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron, Sarr and the French art historian Bénédicte Savoy authored a seminal report on repatriation of African cultural artifacts from French museums.
Andreas Liebe Delsett is a writer and former artistic director at the House of Literature, currently working on a book about South Africa's recent history.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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Climate change is an issue that animates politicians, scientists and activists around the world – but could looking to history help shape our approach to the climate crisis today? And what role do historians have to play in facing the issue? In this conversation with Matt Elton, best-selling author and historian Peter Frankopan and broadcaster and conservationist Chris Packham share their thoughts on these topics and more – and consider whether the past offers any optimism for the future.
Listen to Eugene Linden speak about the history of our relationship with the environment here: https://link.chtbl.com/At5POjeV
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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Prole Psychiatry Threat w/ Sasha Warren
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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Sasha Warren explores the history of psychiatry in relationship to the development of capitalism. We discuss how best to frame the different movements that have emerged with the intention of transforming or abolishing psychiatry. We then spend some time talking about figures such as Foucault, Fanon, and R. D Laing that may be familiar to listeners as well as some lesser-known figures such as Sylvia Marcos, and Marie Langer.
Sasha Warren is a writer based in Minneapolis publishing work on madness, psychiatry, and the history of medicine. His first book Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, Revolt published earlier this year.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Break Down: Keeping the Oil in the Soil w/ Andrés Arauz
Pub date: 2024-10-27
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In a 2023 referendum, the people of Ecuador voted 59% to 41% to stop exploiting oil in the Yasuní region, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, with more tree species in one single hectare than in all of the landmass of Canada and the US combined. It was a massive break with the global status quo, in a year when fossil fuel use around the world reached record highs and profits soared.
However, the referendum was not an overnight success. It built on years of struggle, including the failed Yasuní-ITT initiative undertaken by then-president Rafael Correa in 2007, which asked foreign governments to pay Ecuador not to exploit the oil in this region.
So how did it happen, and what lessons can the rest of the world learn from Ecuador? Here to answer these questions, and many more, is Andrés Arauz, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and, formerly, a politician in the Ecuadorian government.
In this special episode, Adrienne speaks to Andrés about Ecuador’s pursuit of climate and environmental justice, as well as the barriers facing lower income countries in the context of a highly unequal global economic system. From the International Monetary Fund to the rules of international trade, Andrés unpacks the ways that injustice is built into global capitalism, and lays out a blueprint for a radical alternative.
Andrés Arauz is an economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Research and Policy in DC. He has an extensive and diverse background in economic policy, research, organising, and politics, serving in several positions in the Ecuadorian government and running as Vice President in the 2023 Ecuadorian elections.
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Podcast: Future Hindsight (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Abandon the False Narratives: Jason Stanley
Pub date: 2024-10-24
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We discuss the purpose of fascist education, the political nature of universities in defending democracy, and the dangers of America’s powerful exceptionalist narrative.
Jason’s civic action toolkit recommendations are:
- Stand up in solidarity with those who are political targets
- Understand other people’s perspectives because that gives them the voice in a democracy
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the author of seven books. His most recent is Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.
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Podcast: Religion and Justice
Episode: Capitalism's Climate Denial: The Ecocidal Engine of Our Time with Tad Delay
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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In this episode of Religion and Justice, we sit down with Dr. Tad DeLay to discuss his latest work, Future of Denial: Ideologies of Climate Change. As global temperatures rise and wildfires, droughts, and floods become more common, denialism continues to morph—from greenwashing corporate strategies to political distractions. Tad DeLay offers a deep dive into the psychology, history, and capitalist machinery that fuel climate change denial. We explore the violent consequences of this denial for the world's most vulnerable populations, from militarized responses to refugees fleeing climate disasters to bogus claims of carbon neutrality.
DeLay's interdisciplinary work pulls from critical theory, climatology, and political economy to answer pressing questions: Why do we continue to waste the little time we have left, and who will challenge the fossil fuel industry's death grip on the planet? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that calls out capitalism's role in our ongoing ecological crisis.
Welcome to "Religion and Justice," a podcast brought to you by the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
We explore the intersections of class, religion, labor, and ecology, which bring together diverse populations and publics uncovering their implications for justice and solidarity
This podcast is a space for investigation, education, and organizing around these intersections. Join us as we engage in thought-provoking discussions with experts, fostering dialogue for actionable change. Together, we navigate religion, justice, and solidarity for a more equitable future.
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Podcast: 1050 Bascom (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Commodity Activism in Polarized Politics w/ Kai Prins
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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On this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were delighted to welcome Kai Prins who is a candidate studying Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture in the Department of Communication Arts and is minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies here at UW-Madison. Kai studies the influence of neoliberalism on the formation and performance of social identity across a range of case studies in digital and consumer culture, including the advertising and branding of social justice issues; the convergence of wellness, social media, and conspiracy; and the commoditization of drag performance. In this fun and engaging episode we asked Kai about their work on commodity activism, in particular a chapter of their dissertation they wrote called “Friends Don’t Let Friends Shave with Woke Razors”: Commodity Activism and Economic Speech in the Age of Conservative Backlash.” We thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and hope you will too.
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Podcast: Cold War Conversations (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the Cold War almost destroyed European Football (370)
Pub date: 2024-10-18
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In the late 1960s European club football competitions were thriving However unexpected events in 1968 threatened its survival.
I delve into the fascinating world of European football during the Cold War era with Craig McCracken, a self-described peddler and purveyor of quasi obscure retro football nostalgia via the 'Beyond The Last Man' blog.
We explore the political tensions that influenced European football in the 1960s, and the dramatic events of 1968 when the Prague Spring was crushed by Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces.
Discover how these geopolitical events impacted clubs like Celtic, the Milan clubs, and Real Madrid, and the unprecedented decisions UEFA had to make. This episode is a gripping tale of football, politics, and the power struggles that shaped the beautiful game.
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Podcast: Speaking Out of Place (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: An Urgent Episode on Lebanon with Munira Khayyat: A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
Pub date: 2024-10-12
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Today, on Speaking Out of Place, we are honored to talk with Munira Khayyat, a Lebanese anthropologist whose book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon examines what she calls “resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare.” Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living.
We appreciate greatly that she was able to join us now, during the massive and deadly new war Israel is waging on Lebanon. Munira shows how this devastation is a continuation of wars Israel has waged against Lebanon for decades, but also how both the Lebanese people and the Lebanese landscape are resisting death and persisting in life. This episode is especially useful to those wanting to know more about Lebanon, as Professor Khayyat gives us an informative account of the intertwined histories of Lebanon, Palestine, and the State of Israel.
Munira Khayyat is an anthropologist whose research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. Her first book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022) examines resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living.
Khayyat is currently working on a second book that fleshes out the complex heart of empire in Saudi Arabia. Heart of Black Gold draws on a personal archive meticulously created by her maternal grandfather, who was among the first Arabian employees of ARAMCO, the Arab American Oil Company. How has oil — its extractive, shiny infrastructures, camps, big men, politics and corporations, its global ecologies — shaped lived environments? Insisting on a feminist and multidisciplinary rearranging of the archive, the book inhabits history-in-the-making as it unfolds in domestic scenes, lived quarters, the affective terrains of oil.
Khayyat’s research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Rachel Carson Center. Her writing has appeared in American Ethnologist, Public Culture, JMEWS, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology News, HAU, and a number of edited volumes. Khayyat was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2018-2019). Before joining NYUAD, she taught at the American University in Cairo (2013-2023) and the American University of Beirut (2011-2013). She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2013), an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (1998) and a BA in history (1997) from the American University of Beirut.
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Podcast: Chatter (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Freedom of the Seas, with David Bosco
Pub date: 2024-10-15
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The Earth's oceans differ from its land areas in many ways, including the historically powerful norm of "freedom of the seas." David Priess hosted David Bosco, Executive Associate Dean and Professor at Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, for a discussion about the origins and core principles of the freedom of the seas concept, Hugo Grotius, the practice of maritime commerce from ancient times until now, the three mile "cannon-shot" rule of territorial waters, privateering, piracy, the role of shipwrecks in spurring international cooperation on maritime safety, the norm of major canals being open to all, undersea cables, the unraveling of the freedom of the seas doctrine in the 20th century, the post-World War II era of expanding ocean claims, exclusive economic zones, optimism about the future of ocean governance, David Bosco's book The Poseidon Project, and more.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sex tech, AI and the centrality of consent
Pub date: 2024-10-17
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The demand for sex tech is booming. That is, toys and apps that can be used for pleasure, communication or to improve sexual health.
Developers are using innovative ways to incorporate AI in a way that is respectful of both consent and the diversity of human desire.
But it seems some male developers are intent on weaponising it against women.
In this special episode of Future Tense, Stephen Stockwell, explores the power of the emerging technology, its potential benefits and harms, and the need to keep a clear focus on consent.
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Madison Griffiths – Melbourne-based writer, artist and producer
Bryony Cole – host of the Future of Sex Podcast
Professor Alan McKee – pornography researcher and Head of the School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney
Ashley Neale – founder of My Peach AI
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Madison Griffiths - Orifice.ai, and the Arousal of Rejection
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Casino gaming in Macau
Pub date: 2024-10-15
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Identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contemporary Macau has metamorphosed into a surreal, hypermodern urban landscape augmented by massive casino megaresorts, including two of the world’s largest buildings. In Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution, Tim Simpson uncovers various roots of the region’s radical transformation. Here, Simpson is joined in conversation with Cathryn H. Clayton.
Tim Simpson is associate professor of communication at the University of Macau.
Cathryn H. Clayton is associate professor and chair of the Asian studies program at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
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Natasha Dow Schüll / Addiction by Design
Susan Strange /Casino Capitalism
Cathryn H. Clayton / Sovereignty at the Edge
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Podcast: The Antifada (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 264: Endgame Two - 2 End, 2 Game w/ Jamie Merchant
Pub date: 2024-10-16
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Sean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant (@pathtopraxis) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktion Books, called Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. In it, Jamie provides a masterful, insightful and readable account of the political economy of the present moment.
What is the connection between the functioning of the profit system and the world-historic shift away from globalization? How do ruling class ideas like economic nationalism spread and why has conspiracism racked the left and right in recent years? Why has a bipartisan consensus emerged around state industrial policy and beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy? And what might the left do about all this except tail the least worst elements of it? This, along with an update on Independent Labor Club of Chicago and how civil-social organizing might pose a path forward that doesn't end in WWIII or a Brave New World.
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Podcast: Slate Money (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Money Talks: We Could Run Out of Everything Again
Pub date: 2024-10-15
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For this Money Talks, it’s time to turn the rat race into a rat walk on the beach. Brigid Schulte, author of Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life, speaks with about America’s toxic relationship with labor in which employees at all levels are underpaid, under-rested, and over-hustled. They discuss what America can learn from work cultures in other countries and what it will take to achieve the four-day workweek.
In this Money Talks: The pandemic wrecked global supply chains — but they were already set up for disaster. Peter S. Goodman, author of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain, speaks with Emily Peck about the failure of the “just-in-time” logistics model, how a global shipping cartel is suffocating small exporters, and how another pandemic-style supply chain breakdown could leave store shelves empty once again.
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Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 280: Banking and Democracy
Pub date: 2024-10-14
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This week, Jeremi and Zachary have a conversation with Professor Mary Bridges, author of ‘Dollars and Dominion: U.S. Bankers and the Making of a Superpower.’ They explore the significant, yet often overlooked, role of banking institutions, particularly the Federal Reserve, in shaping American democracy and foreign policy. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Reserves”. […]
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)
Pub date: 2024-10-14
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As hyperscale data centers move into communities, they come with significant water and energy demands that some are not willing to put up with. We go to Ireland, Spain, and Chile to learn about the effects of data centers on the ground and why some communities are fighting back. They’re asking whether the tradeoffs they’re being expected to make are really necessary. This is episode 2 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
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The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- People Before Profit TD Brid Smith, Tu Nube Seca Mi Río organizer Aurora Gomez Delgado, and King’s College London lecturer Sebastian Leuede were interviewed for this episode.
- Some pieces by Dara Kerr in NPR, Sarah Emerson and Emily Baker-White in Forbes, and Hannah Daly in The Irish Times were cited.
- A full transcript can be found on the show’s official website.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Jacobin Radio: Imperialism Today w/ Robert Brenner
Pub date: 2024-10-16
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On October 8, the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign held an online conference on “Boris Kagarlitsky and the Challenges of the Left.” Although Kagarlitsky is serving a five-year sentence in a Russian penal colony, he has just published a book called The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left. The conference addressed Kagarlitsky’s wide-ranging analysis of the left’s dilemmas in the face of multiple global crises, including the rise of right-wing authoritarianism. We will bring the whole conference to Jacobin Radio with a stellar lineup of international scholars and activists.
Today we hear the panel “Imperialism(s) Today,” looking at the nature of imperialism historically and in the present. Robert Brenner begins with the theory of imperialism from before WWI through the post-war period and up to the present, essentially arguing that in the present period of American hegemony, imperialism is the weapon of weaker powers. Ilya Matveev follows by examining three theorists of imperialism—Lenin, Schumpeter, and Mearsheimer—and looks at the Russian case through the lens of their different theories. Hanna Perekhoda, originally from Donetsk in the contested Donbas region, examines Putin's view of Ukraine as a creation by Russia's enemies. According to Putin, Lenin's support of the self-determination of Ukraine divided Russia, preventing it from becoming a leading power in the world. For proponents of this view, Russian sovereignty is under threat so long as Ukraine exists.
Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.
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Podcast: Future Histories (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S03E23 - Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
Pub date: 2024-10-13
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Andreas Malm on "Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown", his new book project with Wim Carton (Verso, 2024).
Information on the presentation of the Democratic Planning Research Platform (at INDEP event):
https://www.indep.network/events/
Shownotes
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2024). Overshoot: How the world surrendered to climate breakdown. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3131-overshoot
Malm, A. (2020). Corona, climate, chronic emergency: War communism in the twenty-first century. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2726-corona-climate-chronic-emergency
Malm, A. (2016). Fossil capital: The rise of steam power and the roots of global warming. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital
Malm, A. (2021). How to blow up a pipeline. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2649-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
Andreas Malm at Lund University:
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/andreas-malm
Remarque Institute:
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/remarque.html
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP):
https://www.indep.network/
Presentation of Democratic Planning Research Platform (at INDEP event):
https://www.indep.network/events/
Verso Needs Your Support:
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/comrades-verso-needs-your-support
Christophers, B. (2024). The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong
Cédric Durand at the New Institute:
https://thenew.institute/en/people/cedric-durand
Stranded asset (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranded_asset
Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung: Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp Verlag:
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797
David Keith:
https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/people/david-keith
Ende Gelände:
https://www.ende-gelaende.org/
Tadzio Müller on just collapse:
https://justcollapse.org/2023/11/20/dr-tadzio-mueller-on-justcollapse/
‘No bassaran: (battle)field notes about a few revolutionary days in France’ by Jana Tsoneva:
https://www.crossbordertalks.eu/2023/04/06/no-bassaran/
‘French Police Guard Water as Seasonal Drought Intensifies’ by Catherine Porter:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/world/europe/france-climate-change-water-wars.html
Les Soulèvements de la Terre:
https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/en-eu/blog
Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:
S02E55 | Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/
S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/
S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik:
(German)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/
S02E47 | Matt Huber on Building Socialism, Climate Change & Class War:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e47-matt-huber-on-building-socialism-climate-change-class-war/
S03E05 | Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer Ökologie:
(German)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e16-daniela-russ-zu-energie-wirtschaft-und-produktivistischer-oekologie/
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)
Pub date: 2024-10-13
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Theo Williams’ Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation (Verso, 2022) shows how black radicals transformed socialist politics in Britain in the years before decolonisation. A history that runs from 1929 to the years after WWII here we see a number of significant activists and intellectuals such as George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Jomo Kenyatta and Amy Ashwood Garvey, establish significant groups on the British Left and how they related to the dominant groups in this field, most notably the Communist Party of Great Britian (CPGB) and the Independent Labour Party (ILP). As Williams shows, while these activists continually emphasised the need to combine international socialism with colonial liberation, these other groups were often resistant to this, with the CPGB responding to the shifting demands of international communism and the ILP facing internal splits on the role of colonialism. Despite these frustrations, these activists develop a significant radical tradition which doesn’t reject the British Left, but rather changes it, as the events during, and after WWII show.
As our conversation discusses Williams is encouraging us to reconsider this history, not just in order to correct the historical record and more fully account for the place of this black radical tradition within the British left, but also to think about the continuing impacts of decolonisation and what this may mean for contemporary demands to ‘decolonise the university’.
Your host Matt Dawson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow with research interests in social theory and the history of sociology. He is the author of a number of books, including G.D.H. Cole and British Sociology: A Study in Semi-Alienation (2024, Palgrave Macmillan)
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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
Pub date: 2024-10-06
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This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, global commodity chains or supply chains, exploitation of labour and environmental degradation, and resistance. To discuss these issues, we are joined by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, an environmental and economic anthropologist who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Paredes received her PhD in Anthropology (with distinction) from Yale University in 2020. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including Antipode, Ethnos, Gastronomica, and the Journal of Political Ecology. She is a contributor to the edited volume Multispecies Justice and the Feral Atlas website, and she is co-editor of Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food, forthcoming with the University of Hawai’i Press in April 2025. She is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally titled Bananapocalypse: Plantation Capitalism from Philippine Mindanao, which traces the afterlives of externalities in the making and unmaking of an industrial agricultural crop, drawing on approaches from such fields as anthropology, science and technology studies, human geography, and critical food studies.
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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Political Traitors and Sellouts w/ J. Moufawad Paul & Immanuel Ness
Pub date: 2024-10-11
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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two wonderful comrades to take on a pretty big topic of traitors and sellouts, the processes that take place that cause ideological changing, and some case studies of this phenomenon, including the discussion of Zak Cope's recent heel turn from Thirdworldist to radical free market capitalist and Zionist, and how to try to prevent this from happening within our organizations and within ourselves. We could not ask for better guests to tackle this topic than returning friend Manny Ness, who had collaborated with Cope in the past, and J. Moufawad Paul, who in addition to being a friend of the show also wrote "Obituary": Zak Cope in the aftermath of this situation. You definitely will want to listen closely here!
J. Moufawad Paul is a professor of philosophy at York University and the author of several books including Continuity and Rupture, Politics in Command: A Taxonomy of Economism, and Critique of Maoist Reason. He also is one of the editors at the fantastic Material journal, and has a blog M-L-M Mayhem that you should check out. Be sure to also follow him on twitter @MLM_Mayhem.
Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author or editor of numerous works including Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, and the incredible Journal of Labor and Society. You can follow Manny on twitter @ImmanuelNess.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E179 - Marx's Capital Re-Translated w/ Paul North and Paul Reitter
Pub date: 2024-10-08
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Translating Marx's Capital might be daunting to some, but Paul North, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Yale, and Paul Reitter, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Ohio State University, felt up to the task. Danny and Derek talk to them about their new translation of Capital, what goes into capturing the nuances of the original German text, why they chose the second edition in particular, the cosmopolitanism of the book, Marx's anger, and what they each brought to the table in taking on this massive project.
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Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 503: The Architecture of Urbanity
Pub date: 2024-10-10
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This week on Talking Headways, we're joined by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti to talk about his book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. We discuss the goldilocks density, defining urbanity, and the ennui of young architects.
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Podcast: Sage Sociology (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Teaching Sociology - Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda
Pub date: 2024-10-07
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Author Freeden Blume Oeur discusses the article, "Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda," published in the October 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 373. Press X to Start Revolution (ft. Marijam Did)
Pub date: 2024-10-07
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We chat with Marijam Did, author of the new book Everything to Play For, which bridges radical leftist politics and video games through a real material analysis of video games as an industry, art form, and social space. Marijam lays out the case for why these two communities of radical leftists and gamers—which have largely been distinct and even antagonistic to each other—need to be brought together for the betterment of both sides. Leftists and gamers have a lot to learn from each other. Indeed, as we argue, they need each other. Marijam’s new book – Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3086-everything-to-play-for Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.x.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.x.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Jake Effoduh on AI and the Global South
Pub date: 2024-10-08
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Jake Effoduh, Assistant Professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to share his research on the Global South’s perspective on AI. Jake has carved a unique and important research agenda looking into how AI advances are impacting the pursuit and realization of human rights in Africa.
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Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Ultra-Rich Are Building a Separate World Here on Earth
Pub date: 2024-10-10
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In recent years, we've seen the emergence of cities whose main industry is that they're a great place to live if you're rich. Dubai would be the ultimate example of this dynamic. But it's not just Dubai. Lots of cities, all around the world, exist to cater to the wealthy, with a set of laws and taxation schemes that act like a magnet for global wealth. So how do these cities work? How big are they? And what exactly do they offer the global rich? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks The World. She talks about these booming types of cities, how they emerged, and where they are going.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Behind the News: AMLO vs. Neoliberalism w/ Edwin Ackerman
Pub date: 2024-09-30
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Forrest Hylton, author of a recent piece for the London Review of Books blog, talks about wildfires in Brazil and the political impotence of Lula’s administration. Edwin Ackerman discusses politics in Mexico as AMLO hands over power to Claudia Sheinbaum, having engineered a controversial overhaul of the judiciary.
Read Edwin's article, "AMLO’s War on Neoliberal Corruption," originally published in Catalyst, here: https://jacobin.com/2024/09/amlo-morena-neoliberalism-corruption-mexico
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Exposing the Titans of Capital with Peter Phillips
Pub date: 2024-10-05
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The titans of capital aren’t just the obscenely wealthy. They are the directors of transnational finance companies; they manage the money of the obscenely wealthy.
Steve’s guest, political sociologist Peter Phillips, is the author of Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity. The titans, he says, have doubled their AUM (assets under management) in the past 5 years.
“There's only 117 of them and they manage $50 trillion of capital. That $50 trillion is the core –– almost half of the free-floating capital in the world. And that is what the US calls a vital interest. So, when the US says we have vital interests in the world, that's what they mean.
“And that's why we have military bases everywhere in the world, because these investors are everywhere. And any rivalries are undermined by our intelligence agencies, by the government, by military whenever possible. So, it just happens that governments work on behalf of capital.”
So, if you’re wondering why the US has military interests in Ukraine or Gaza. Look to the titans, whose firms are investing in the defense industry. They profit off of war
While the titans are massively increasing the wealth of the top .05 percent of the world’s population, over 20,000 people die each day from starvation and easily curable diseases.
While the ruling class and their media mouthpieces insist that capitalism is going to save the world and money will trickle down...
“It's not. It's exactly the opposite. People are dying daily. There are 700 million people who live in extreme poverty in the world. And extreme poverty means you're living on $2.15 a day. That's the UN set level for extreme poverty.
Steve and Peter discuss ways in which the titans are able to bend policy to their own purposes. They mention the role of groups like the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
The episode also compares the approaches of the US and China, illustrating China's success in alleviating extreme poverty through state-driven economic strategies and how the US tries to spin China as a threat.
Steve and Peter talk about the need for revolutionary social movements to challenge the entrenched capitalist structures and demand wealth redistribution, using the insights of MMT to spur new thinking about alternative economic possibilities.
Peter Phillips is a Professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University since 1994, former Director of Project Censored 1996 to 2010 and President of Media Freedom Foundation 2003 to 2017.
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Podcast: Theory Underground (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Racial Politics - Against Woke and Anti-Woke - Walter Benn Michaels - No Politics but Class Politics
Pub date: 2024-10-01
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Theory Underground brings on one of the most powerful critics of the woke racial politics that currently dominate academic PMC theory circles. How to be critical of the pseudo progressive left's fixation on DEI (Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X Kendi) style social change without becoming a Matt Walsh style anti-woke douchebag? Find out, with our amazing guest Walter Benn Michaels.
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JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, is a newcomer on the political scene, and as such, a lot of people don’t know very much about his ideas. That’s concerning because Vance identifies with a reactionary far-right tradition that is explicitly and fundamentally at odds with American democracy.
Donald Trump, by contrast, has no core ideology and no core beliefs. His main goal at all times and all places is to advance his own personal interests, and that is literally it.
Vance isn’t like that. He comes from an authoritarian, reactionary tradition that explicitly rejects conservatism, liberalism, and democracy. Trump wants absolute power, and Vance wants him to have it to destroy what he believes to be a decadent and corrupt society.
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Audio Chapters
00:00 — Introduction
02:29 — Distinguishing between conservatism and reactionism
06:34 — Why telling the difference between conservatism and reactionism can be difficult
10:53 — How the Cold War kept reactionaries in check within the Republican party
18:06 — How neoconservatives prepared Republicans for Trumpism
22:40 — Opposing "decadence" unites right-of-center philosophies
26:08 — Redefining "elite" is core to the reactionary project
33:41 — Why epistemic nihilism collapses into totalitarianism
40:17 — Anti-intellectualism and right-wing philosophy
46:45 — The paradoxes of left- and right-wing intellectualism
53:29 — JD Vance's deep connections to reactionary philosophers
59:14 — Why there are atheist and Jewish Christian nationalists
01:04:44 — As the right overtly embraces authoritarianism, the left can reclaim freedom
01:12:50 — The rise of the Nietzchean right
Audio Transcript
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MATTHEW SHEFFIELD: So we have a lot to talk about here today. The political philosophy episodes are always one of my favorites, I have to confess, as my audience may already realize. But nonetheless, so JD Vance, we're kind of organizing the discussion here of reactionism and reactionary politics around him because I think he is very obviously the most prominent reactionary figure now in the United States.
So, but most people don't know a lot about what he thinks because I mean, he's a poor public speaker and, he's mostly known for kind of his bizarre interactions with people and writing a book.That's kind of the framework that I want to put this in. And then we'll come back to Vance later.
But the idea first I want to explore is that conservatism and reactionism are not the same political philosophies. They're very obviously adjacent and contiguous but they're very different from each other. And you have written quite a bit about reactionism and conservatism.
So let's maybe start the discussion off with that. What, what are the fundamental differences between conservatism and reaction in your opinion?
MATT McMANUS: Sure, well I think the important thing to note right from the get go, is that the political right broadly, is a vast and extremely diverse area of political ideologies. It includes everything from, fascists to moderate conservatives like Mitt Romney and arguably quite a few liberals would identify on the political right as well, people like F.A. Hayek, et cetera, et cetera. So at the core of being right wing, I think is Hayek's idea that you believe that there are recognizably superior persons within society and that those recognizably superior persons are entitled to more. Right? More wealth, more power, more status on generally aligned with.
This is a kind of moral view that we have recognizably superior persons in positions of authority on positions of status. Everything will go better for everyone else because you want power and you want status and you want wealth to accrue in the hands of those who are best exercised, wielded. But Who happens to be a recognizably superior person, how you make these kind of determinations.
That's where a lot of the enormous nuance and variation on the political right comes from. Now, one of the things that [00:04:00] distinguishes conservatives from reactionaries is generally speaking, conservatives tend to think that the traditional hierarchies and authority structures that have been present in society for a very long period of times are the ones that we should put our faith in.
For a variety of different reasons, but let's just point to, like, the Burkean tradition, right? A good Burkean would say, and this is putting it a bit simply, the reason we should put our faith in authority structures and hierarchies that have endured over a long period of time is because if they've endured for a long period of time, then they seem to be working reasonably well.
Right? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Now, that doesn't mean we can't tinker around the edges with things, but the main goal of a conservative is to change what must be changed in order to conserve what we can. And in the contemporary American scene right now, you still see a variety of different people on the right who hold this view.
George Will comes to mind. He wrote a big book called The Conservative Sensibility, where He kind of fused Burkean and more classical liberal ideas to say, look, in the United States, we're fundamentally a classical liberal country. The founders were classical liberals. So the job of a kind of conservative in the America is to conserve and to advance classical liberal principles and institutions like those that the founders created.
But that's not the outlook that many of America's reactionaries hold today. Many American reactionaries are fundamentally opposed to the liberal worldview for Again, a wide variety of different reasons, and this includes people like Vance, who's drank deep of the well of post liberal and anti liberal thought, and the goal of these figures is, in the words of Glenn Elmer's, to not conserve anything, right?
Conservatism is no longer enough, as the title of one of Elmer's essays went, because fundamentally, liberalism has been a destructive force, it's wiped out everything that's of value in the United States, and so what we need to do If you're a reactionary, of course is to advance a much more militant and even revolutionary or counter revolutionary program to try to set things right.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, there, there are significant [00:06:00] differences and you've described them well that yeah, conservatives, a conservative in the American sense. And, broadly speaking, maybe the.
Global sense at this point now is, is somebody who wants to conserve liberalism as it is, or maybe perhaps just recently was that's what a conservative is. And a reactionary is somebody who says, liberalism is wrong, and in many cases, democracy is wrong as well. And and we'll get further into that in the discussion here today. But so with with Vance he has a lot of connections to all of these emergent reactionaries.
Why telling the difference between conservatism and reactionism can be difficult
SHEFFIELD: And it's been kind of just both fascinating and dispiriting how a lot of political professionals, including people who are Democratic Party strategists and communicators and professional national journalists, they don't seem to understand this difference between conservatism and reactionism. Now, why, why, why do you think that is?
McMANUS: Well, I think there are a number of different reasons, right? One is that the American right for a very long time has presented itself as fundamentally a conservative movement. Right. Committed to at least market liberalism a fair degree of individual freedom and certainly the promotion of democracy around the globe.
Think back to the advent of Reaganism, right, where a lot of those kinds of tropes were put together. Now, if you're a critic of the American, right, that's more longstanding. Like myself, you might question the sincerity of a lot of those convictions, but that's at least the way that it's been presented.
And this kind of overtly reactionary, anti-liberal kind of muscularly counter revolutionary outlook. Comes quite a shock to a variety of different pundits, including many right wing pundits, people like Jonah Goldberg who were surprised, by what seems to have come out of the Republican party.
Now I would argue again, that if you look deeper into the history of American conservatism, people like Rick Perlstein would say All these kinds of ingredients for a counter revolutionary program were always [00:08:00] there, right? If you go back to something like Barry Goldwater's campaign in 1964, right?
Goldwater probably lost that election in no small part, not just because he was soft on civil rights and even opposed to civil rights but because he said things like, radicalism in defense of liberty or extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, right? It's not really a very conservative attitude endorsing these kinds of extremist views.
But, generally speaking this tended to be a rhetorically quiescent element of the right until comparatively recently, definitely it was less transparent before 2016 when Trump gave license to a lot of these people to become a lot more vocal.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah well, and, and it was both rebranding exercise as well on the part of the people that were saying, well, we're in favor of liberalism. I mean, for instance, obviously William F. Buckley, he presented as, That being his brand of, well, I'm just trying to conserve what we have in this country.
And but at the same time he was saying that he was also being in favor of segregation writing editorials saying that, well, actually segregation is good because black people are just not capable of governing themselves and, and being part of the economy. So this is for their own good.
Sorry, guys, you just, you're just SJWs are wrong. You need to leave it as it is. And, and, and he wrote a
McMANUS: to give another example during the, at the height of the AIDS epidemic William F. Buckley recommended that homosexuals, his term be tattooed above the buttocks, right? With a big warning label, right? And that kind of humor, let's call it that wouldn't be out of place in something like the contemporary Trump movement with this kind of vulgarity and it's just rote and callous dismissal of human life.
So again, I think if you look back, further and look more carefully at some of these figures we kind of view the past of American conservatism with rose colored glasses if we don't recognize that a lot of the seeds of Trumpism were very firmly planted well before he came onto the scenes.
SHEFFIELD: yeah. [00:10:00] And, and then also the fact that, I mean, the, the entire movement, which began calling itself conservatism. I mean, they, they didn't call themselves conservative. Like, that's an important point, which, because most political professionals, journalistic professionals don't know anything about it.
History they don't realize that Buckley and these other people, I mean, they were the point of what they were doing was to stop. The new deal was to roll back social security was to roll back, labor unions and minimum wage. Like that was always the goal, like, and they've never stopped having those goals.
And so, Yeah, it's just, it's pretty disgraceful, frankly, that a lot of, of people who pretend to be experts and put themselves forward as experts don't know any of this stuff. Pretty disgraceful, I think.
McMANUS: Yeah, absolutely, right?
How the Cold War kept reactionaries in check within the Republican party
McMANUS: So, once upon a time the American right, certainly the intellectual American right, used to be described as a three legged stool, right? So, One leg of that stool was militant anti communism which eventually transformed into this idea that America should have a kind of militant and muscular international relations policy in the 1990s and early 2000s when communism for the most part disappeared.
The second leg of the stool was the, evangelical Christian movement which always had a very, very, very pronounced kind of white nationalist undercurrent to it with its opposition to things like civil rights alongside, of course, more conventional kinds of oppositions to things like abortion or gay marriage.
And then the third leg of that stool were American libertarians, certainly right libertarians at the very least who, as you mentioned, were committed to rolling back the new deal or even going further than rolling back the new deal, going all the way back to invert something like The criticisms of the Lochner precedent from early in the 20th century, and as a lot of people have pointed out, the three legs of the stool were never exactly the same size, and the stool itself was always kind of shaky since it's not immediately clear.
What economic libertarianism or economic liberalism [00:12:00] has to do with support for white evangelism let alone the idea that America should use its military and cultural might to try to impose its value system, whatever that happens to be around the globe. Again, what I would argue is that the Shared through line of all these doctrines or all these elements of the classical American right was this conviction that there are superior people and superior countries for that matter on their entitled to greater status, greater agency, and they were hostile to a liberalism, which suggested otherwise.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And I think that probably one of the other reasons that this distinction is harder for a lot of people to grasp is that these early branders and influencers for, for reactionism like Buckley they, they did explicitly market their ideas in the language of liberalism Because Nazism had so, overwhelmingly discredited fascism and authoritarianism as political philosophies in the recent memory of the people they were trying to convict.
McMANUS: Absolutely. Right. So David Austin Walsh has written a very good book about this, so I'm going to draw pretty heavily from that. So arguably the kind of unifying philosophy that was characteristic of the National Review crowd for a long time was Frank Reier's fusionism, right? For those in your audience who aren't familiar with it fusionism refers to this idea that we should combine a commitment to classical liberal liberties certainly economic liberties with this commitment to Judeo Christian virtues and Judeo Christian norms.
Now, again, this fusion of a commitment to a kind of social conservatism with a kind of liberalism, certainly an economic liberalism was uncomfortable, even in Meyer's work and there are enormous debates amongst the National Review crowd about which axes of this fusionist synthesis they should emphasize, right, because People quite rightly pointed out that if you're committed to things like liberal values, there seems to be something [00:14:00] contradictory in calling for banning pornography, for example.
And if you're an economic liberal, there seems to be something very unusual about allying yourself with people who say things like, we should ban pornography, or we should ban gambling, or whatever it happens to be. But I would argue,
SHEFFIELD: at school. Yeah.
McMANUS: yeah, exactly. I would argue following a lot of historians, that this is where the third leg of the stool came in despite all of these various differences and some of these debates were really quite intense and bluntly nasty if you look at the Meyer Kirk debate, for example, they were not nice to each other, a lot of them were papered over because the one thing the American right could do Absolutely agree on was that communism, socialism understood very expansively were bad things and extremely threatening.
Oftentimes they lump the New Deal in with that since or the great society programs of Johnson. And there's nothing like an enemy to kind of bring strange bedfellows together and allow a synthesis intellectually like, fusionism to function. As a kind of ad hoc philosophy for a long period of time.
And some people have pointed out that one of the reasons why the splits on the American right became more transparent as time went on is because without a international adversary like the Soviet Union to kind of band everyone together instead the American right started turning on more domestic enemies which of course leads to more existential questions about just what American conservatism is supposed to be and which elements of American society don't really belong.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And I, I would think that that also, that sort of foreign policy component. Is probably what kept the other two from going off the complete deep end and embracing their inherent radicalism because you know it was it was run by the military industrial complex and their and, and their advocates within the, the, the Republican party that, by definition, they need a stable society and, the, as much as militaries in many countries, our forces for right wing authoritarianism, they also in many countries [00:16:00] do have an inherent apolitical mission and, and, and very often do in fact, are, are, are.
Can be a force for some sort of moderation within between different warring factions.
McMANUS: Absolutely. And I mean, there's no denying this, right? There are plenty of people within the Reagan administration, people like Buchanan or Sam Francis, who were a lot more hostile to liberalism and arguably even American democracy than they let on. But there was an awareness on the part of many of the Reaganites that in an existential battle with world communism, where communism had Quite a bit of appeal to many in the third world.
It was extremely important to position oneself as a defender of freedom, a defender of democracy, a defender of national self determination in some circumstances, right? And again, a lot of that disappeared with the end of communism and, depending on when you want to date it, the late 1980s, early 1990s, right?
As a kind of world historical force. Again, nothing really unites like a good enemy especially internationally. Without that it just leads you to turn inwards and reflect upon one's internal differences in a much more existentially, stringent kind of way.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, and have to actually start developing your, your real ideas and your real values, which apparently have been pretty monstrous.
McMANUS: Exactly. So, in his new book when the clock broke, John Gans talks a lot about Pat Buchanan's early runs in the 1990s and you can read Buchanan's books. He anticipates a lot of the kind of philosophy, if you want to call it that, of Trumpism that later emerges.
But one of the reasons that Buchanan felt that there was this opportunity to run on a more stridently right wing kind of program in the 1990s, at least according to Gans is precisely because he felt, look, Communism is gone and the biggest untapped electorate in America, as he put it, is to the right of Ronald Reagan.
And now that we don't necessarily have to worry about trying to appeal to all the left wingers and appeal to all the people outside of the United States who might be concerned about us pivoting too far to the right it's time to tap that resource. So it's a very interesting thesis. And again, [00:18:00] who knows what would have happened?
If the Soviet Union hadn't fallen, definitely we wouldn't have seen something like Trumpism right now.
How neoconservatives prepared Republicans for Trumpism
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, I think so. There's there is an irony also in the, the the rise of, of reactionism or or fascism, whatever you want to call in the United States. It's, it is in many ways, kind of the The indirect creation of neoconservatism and it's very ironic because the neoconservatives were the very first people who were expelled once the Trump people took over the Republican Party, and, the,
McMANUS: him for it, that's for sure.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, and and so, but the neoconservatives, as much as they hate Trump and hate this kind of fascistic form of politics that he's created this reactionary viewpoint in a lot of ways, they were the predecessors for it. And you talk about that in, in in your book. So let's discuss that further.
If you don't mind.
McMANUS: Yeah, absolutely. I still think that the definitive book on the relationship between, say, the Bush administration, second Bush administration and the Trump administration has yet to be written. But, As you point out, many of the neoconservatives who kind of reached the apex of their influence and their power during the Bush administration deeply resented the Trump administration sidelining them and just pushing them out and tried to present Trump as some kind of aberration from what the Republican party once stood for.
I think about somebody like David Frum, right? Who basically writes op ed after op ed in the Atlantic, make exactly this case week in and week out. I would argue that that is a misconstrual of the real history. So. Look, neoconservatism emerged as a kind of distinct strand of conservatism that began to gain real influence in the 1980s in the American sorry, in the Reagan administration.
There's no doubt that many neoconservatives transitioned from the left, even from communism. If you think about somebody like Irving Kristol, who was once a Trotskyite towards a kind of classical liberalism with the Some conservative values. But this has led many people to misdiagnose neoconservatism as fundamentally a form of [00:20:00] liberalism in the clothes of a kind of re conservative outlook.
I don't think that that's true. I think that if you look deeper into the text of many leading neoconservatives, it's very clear that they hold Conservative views about a wide array of issues, Irving Kristol himself had a variety of different social conservative outlooks on things like homosexuality, or you can take something like the project for the new American century that released a important document in the 2000s that was actually quite upset at the fact that America had won the Cold War.
Now, this can seem odd. But what's articulated in this doctrine, sorry, document is this deep fear that with the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States is going to adopt an isolationist path, demilitarize, and this is going to lead to what on the right is typically called decadence, right? Americans are just going to focus on mindless consumerism.
Choosing which refrigerator to put into their kitchen, and they're not going to dedicate themselves to bigger and more grand projects of the sorts that the neoconservatives found extremely attractive and extremely exciting and necessary in order to retain America's influence in the world. And Not surprisingly when the 2000 sorry, the 2001 terror attack took place many of them said, well, here's our moment.
We have a new enemy. We have a grand imperial project that we can use to elevate society above this kind of decadent libertine liberal outlook that they've associated with things like the Clinton administration. And, think about somebody like Karl Rove who in a New York Times interview in the mid 2000s it's allegedly Karl Rove, I should say said things like all of you people in the fact based community will sit there and say that, what we're doing is wrong or it's not based on the facts but we're an empire now and we create our own reality.
Oh, sorry, not the fact based community, the reality based community. We create our own reality now and all of you are just going to sit there and bear witness to what we do and chronicle it. That's very much a kind of Trumpy outlook, right? This idea that decadent libertinism and permissiveness is going to lead to the decline of American society.
What we need instead are things and [00:22:00] projects that are big and exciting and vital to elevate the masses above the stupor that they inexorably fall into. And combined with that is this ambivalence and even hostility towards the reality based community or the fact based community for pointing out that a lot of these grand projects are going to end in disaster, which is, of course, what eventually happened with the Bush administration because they're not interested in those kind of things.
They're interested in the excitement and the grandeur that they associate with these ideas and, of course, very much like Trumpism, neoconservatism, Found out that the reality of its program when implemented was a lot more banal and a lot more disastrous than they'd ever anticipated. And that's probably why the movement went the way of the dinosaurs and deserved it.
Opposing "decadence" unites right-of-center philosophies
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, well, and this idea of decadence I mean, that is, really kind of, it is a, it is a fundamental belief across all right wing philosophies with this, in addition to being, the superior people, what makes people superior is their lack of decadence. And, their and, and, and this harkens back, even if the people saying it don't realize it, it harkens back, to the the, the, the ancient Greek ideal of Arete or As it's commonly rendered as virtue.
And like the, the people who are excellent, people will not be excellent unless they are forced to be excellent by external circumstances or by the government forcing them into better behavior or better thinking, or, something has to force people to be better because otherwise they're horrible and stupid.
McMANUS: Yeah, absolutely. And this anxiety about potential decadence understood, and I should say in a, in a, Huge variety of different ways is pretty common across a wide array of right wing views and most right wing intellectuals will proffer theories of decadence and decline in one way or another. And they'll also, of course, offer solutions.
And this can be true even of what we might call more moderate [00:24:00] conservatives, people like say Edmund Burke, right? Many people associate with the defense of things like again, moderate conservatism Capitalism this idea that we can engage in incremental change but we shouldn't kind of rock the boat too much.
Much of which is true, but I think if you look deeper in his book there's a lot of anxieties about barbers, for example, getting too much power in political society because what they do is just mundane and banal and a barber doesn't need political power. And associated with that is the idea that What one needs in order to elevate a society and to attach people to systems of authority is to ascribe what he calls sublime qualities onto one's rulers and to the projects that those rulers engage in.
And what's very interesting about Burke is he never says that the rulers actually need to possess these sublime qualities and of themselves is, of course, what? Constitutes the sublime is in the eye of the beholder. What's just important is that you project those kinds of ideals onto them. And that's something that somebody like Donald Trump would understand extremely well, right?
In his book, the art of the deal Trump says that he engages in what he calls truthful hyperbole which is a bit of a contradiction in terms, but very Trumpy in that way. And he says, look most people don't really think very big. But they. Do really admire and want to follow people who do think big.
They want to believe that they are part of something that is the biggest and the most exciting and the most extravagant And of course trump has applied exactly the same kind of attitude towards his politics Always presenting whatever he's doing as some kind of sublime renewal of the country always associating himself with these kind of sublime qualities is the only person who can fix the country and of course serving as the The night of revenge for those who followed him on.
Again, there's a longstanding history of that in all permutations of right wing thought, and every conservative is going to associate this need for sublime figures and authority figures in particular and sublime projects with antidotes [00:26:00] for the decadence that they see creeping in society as the masses and their vulgarity gain too much power.
Redefining "elite" is core to the reactionary project
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, exactly. And related to that though. And it's ironic because. As much as, as the philosophy, as the ideas of philosophy, the rhetoric are anti fundamentally anti democratic and authoritarian. They also are often treated and labeled as populist in a lot of the mainstream press because in fact, they do use.
And borrow, steal, whatever you want to say, they do in fact borrow a lot of of rhetoric and tropes from social democratic communistic traditions, critiques, and that was something that that Sam Francis did. I think he was the one that kind of. really injected a lot of that into the mainstream Republican discourse.
Yeah, but, but there were other figures as well. I, Joe McCarthy obviously is probably the most prominent early exemplar of that. But let's, yeah, let's, what's, what's the I guess, yeah, let's maybe talk about first the, what you see as some of the most. Prominent examples of that in the history of this idea of these borrowings.
And then maybe discuss, what why people in the contemporary press are so unable to understand that this is not populism.
McMANUS: Sure. Well, I mean, anxieties about populism in democracy go all the way back to ancient Greece, right? Many of the ancient Greek philosophers were deeply concerned with the demagoguery they associated with loose figures like Alcibiades, right? Who would say whatever they need to, to rile the people up to get what it is they want.
And of course the term populism comes from the Latin popularis which, was Express the kind of concerns in the Roman Republic about those who sided with the plebeians against the partitions. And a lot of this eventually contributed to the various civil wars that rocked the Republic in its late period.
But in the contemporary era, right, people like Jan Mueller in his book, What is Populism says that populism shouldn't be [00:28:00] understood as being necessarily a left wing or a right wing phenomena. It's more kind of rhetorical You And strategic style of politics where you set a pure and unadulterated people against a decadent and undeserving elite who have been in charge for far too long and usually present yourself as the figure that can Remove this decadence and replace the elite and set the country or set the Organ, you know the company or whatever it happens to be back on the right course And there are left wing populists in the world.
There's no doubt about it. Think about people like Alamo, in mexico, right? Some people have even tried to make the case that somebody like bernie sanders falls into this paradigm Although i'd reject that since sanders has always insisted that this movement is very much focused on the we rather than the I But, in terms of the right it's important to note that, the political right worldwide initially emerged in part as a movement that was hostile to democracy and any kind of attempt to appeal to the people.
Because there was concerns that appealing to the people for support would cede a degree of political authority and political legitimacy to democratic projects, but starting around the 19th century. The most savvy conservative politicians and most savvy reactionary politicians realized that there was really no going back to the ancien regimes of Europe where Lords and Kings could more or less just do whatever they want.
And the people just had to deal with it, right? The people have become a permanent constituent feature of modern political regimes as they, they started to look very cleverly in many cases for ways to mobilize mass support for conservative projects. And they were very successful at it. As we. See today, right now, one of the things that characterizes right wing populism ever and against left wing populism is left wing populism will typically present itself as agitating on behalf of people who have always and everywhere been benign political authority, social status, wealth, [00:30:00] Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The dispossessed or the marginalized right wing populism usually moves in a much more nostalgic register, typically presenting itself as restoring to the people a degree of status, authority, and greatness that was once theirs and has been taken from them or corroded by the presence of liberal elites The swinish multitude and anyone else who's got a shot at power and status that they didn't really deserve.
And Trump was of course, a case in point with that, right? His premier slogan is make America great again. And so what he's really doing is tapping into this right populist sense that people have gotten a leg up who don't deserve it. This is in no small part, the fault of liberal elites allied with the most undeserving people in society.
Yeah. This is exactly what Charlie Kirk, for example, argues in his book, Right Wing Revolution. And Trump is going to restore to the people the status and authority over and above the undeserving that was wrongly taken for them. And of course, he is the only vessel that is capable of enacting this kind of restoration.
And Populism doesn't necessarily have to become anti democratic although it very frequently does but it's almost invariably anti liberal in the sense that populists resent the checks on state authority and on the leader's authority that, any liberal would think is essential to a well functioning democratic regime.
And partly because there is this hostility to liberal checks and balances it's very frequently the case, as Zach Beauchamp puts it in his book On the reactionary tradition that populist movements will eventually swallow the democratic element of their program and just transform into outright authoritarian regimes
SHEFFIELD: Hmm. Yeah, and I think another difference between, people who apply that label to themselves on the left and right, is that for the right when they claim to be the elites that they are attacking are not economic. are intellectual elites. Like that's, so in other words, like for them, the, the, [00:32:00] the bet noire is the, the university professor like yourself or the, or the, fashion stylist in New York or the the, the feminist Instagram.
model. But those are the real elite in society in, in, in this rhetoric.
McMANUS: Yeah, and they're very transparent about that, right? Just to give an example, in Ron DeSantis new book or not new book his last book Fire to a Failed Presidential Run he tried to present himself as fighting against the elites. But he makes it very clear in the book that an elite does not necessarily mean somebody who's reached the commanding heights of society.
Clarence Thomas Billionaires, they aren't necessarily elites. An elite is somebody who shares in the worldview of liberalism, which means that if you're a school teacher in West Virginia earning 35, 000 a year, but you want to talk about black like matters, from this DeSantis perspective, you're a part of the elite.
But the Koch brothers and Supreme Court judges aren't because they side with him, right? Now this is of course absurd by any metric, but again, this relates back to Mueller's point about populism. Populism isn't necessarily about trying to develop a consistent or logically plausible framework for understanding political reality.
It's rhetorical and strategic, right? And DeSantis doesn't want to attack and Trump does not want to attack the billionaire class. He wants to attack liberals. So it makes a lot of sense to them to frame elite status in this way, rather than going after what I would think are the real elites in society, which are, plutocrats.
The very rich Fortune 500 companies, that kind of thing.
Why epistemic nihilism collapses into totalitarianism
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, exactly.
And related to that is that this is, very much an, an epistemic revolution in a lot of ways to reactionary take complete takeover of the Republican Party such that.
These borrowings that we're talking about here, they, they really are basically taking [00:34:00] from a tradition, which is very incoherent, but the only real thing that it has is that you, the individual person are always correct in that they, the unnamed, they, the, the people who control institutions or whatever, they are lying to you, they are controlling you.
And so as such. It's a as the graph we're showing on the screen shows that, these are our beliefs as you move further and further away from any sort of institutional trust that they are features of Marxism. They are features of liberalism, religious democracy, conservatism, libertarianism and then basically it kind of flips around to the other side there that once you do not trust any other institutions, then it.
Only the individual grade leader can come in and save you and save the society, which of course ends up in reaction aism and fascism and, and Marxist totalitarianism.
McMANUS: Yeah, absolutely. I think there's a lot to be said about that. Right. So, Let's just talk a little bit about right wing populism as an example. So John Gans points out in his really good book, again when the clock broke that there's a kind of oddity in some of the aesthetic tropes that you can find in Trumpism, at least a surface oddity where a lot of times Trump's followers will like to.
Characterize him as something like a gangster or a tough guy. You go to a Trump rally, you'll see him, on Scarface t shirts or Godfather t shirts, et cetera, et cetera. And Gantz points out that a lot of commentators have been bewildered by that. Cause they'll say, well, aren't you the party of law and order?
Aren't you supposed to believe in things like Checks and balances on authority and, that includes, the authority of criminals, but of course, the clarity of politicians and yes, points out that that's a pretty silly way of understanding right wing populism. The appeal of people like Vito Corleone Or Scarface, right?
It's precisely that they represent a different kind of authority to the one that, say, liberals would reverence. Procedural and institutional authority. It represents this very masculine kind of [00:36:00] authority figure. Who's not bound or checked by any kind of restrictions. But Shows a degree of loyalty to those who have followed him.
Doesn't really show a great deal of loyalty to everyone else. And is willing to do whatever it takes to advance those who follow him, the in group over and against the out group who are conceived as enemies. And this of course has an enormous amount of appeal to people. The MAGA and the political spectrum.
And it always has and there's deep rooted reasons for that. But there are antecedents and the political right as well. If you look at say the fascist movements of the early 20th century, and we can debate whether Trump is a fascist or not. One of the things that was consistently criticized by fascist intellectuals was the kind of slow.
ponderous, dull, decadent and nebbish quality, the nebbish quality that they associated with the talk shop of liberal parliamentarianism. And they said a leader will cut through all that and just get what done, what needs to be done while eliminating everyone that stands in his way and of course, reward those who's loyally followed him.
And it's important to understand that there's always been something appealing Particularly to right wingers about this idea, although it's not exclusive to the right. And that's why it's unsurprising that somebody like Trump would be associated with gangsters today. And sometimes proudly associated with gangsters, even by his own followers.
Because they embody exactly that kind of unconstrained, masculine ideal.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, And, and, and it's also not just about pa affecting the power of the, the persecuted the heron folk. But it's also that. That the, that when you move from when you, when your epistemology is entirely individualist oriented, eventually, it comes to that. Well, my authority figure is the source of reason and truth and that what he says is not is everything it is, the, the the, the idea of the, the, the great chain of being [00:38:00] divine command theory, that all of these, Things are all interrelated that, that nihilism collapses into totalitarianism.
McMANUS: Yeah, without a doubt. And sometimes they can be very expressive about this. As I was saying before we went on air, if you want, just read Charlie Kirk's new book, Right Wing Revolution. And I don't remember coming into Reading anything by Charlie Kirk if you're looking for deep insight into most subject matters, but if you want to understand how MAGA operates it's not a bad source, but in the most telling chapter of that book he says, look and he's speaking to his conservative readers, you might be beset by uncertainties at any given point but you must militantly, and this is his term, police those uncertainties away and chase an absolute conviction that you are right wherever possible.
And if you're not sure what that absolute conviction be, just look at what the left understood very broadly says, and you can know for sure that they are wrong and he says, what we need to do is chase a right, wrong, good or evil Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader kind of approach to every issue possible.
And he does, it says. We should do that precisely because it's easier to market such a worldview than one that is defined by the nuanced kinds of epistemologies that you're talking about. And of course, this is very coincident with what somebody like Trump wants. Trump is the kind of guy who would sit there and very clearly say, happily tell you who do you believe me or your lying eyes and try to convince you that your lying eyes aren't to be trusted.
But he is right. And there are a lot of different reasons why these kinds of epistemic outlooks can be appealing to people. One of them, I think, going back to people like Eric Fromm or Adorno is just that it's not, a lot of people aren't happy about being uncertain in the world, right?
Uncertainty can lead to confusion, it can lead to anxiety, and sometimes it's nice to chase certainty. But I think it's a very dangerous temptation to give into those impulses because the world is invariably far more complicated than we'll ever be able to understand and trying to reductively simplify it.
And I think that that's [00:40:00] one of the reasons why Trumpism is as childish and immature as it is
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, it is and, and, and related to that is that the the, the Trump, since as the Republican party has become, almost entirely reactionary and certainly in the power
McMANUS: Trumpified,
SHEFFIELD: a hundred percent. Yeah. That's right?
Yeah.
Anti-intellectualism and right-wing philosophy
SHEFFIELD: As this has, has happened, there has been just this overwhelming brain drain among Republican operatives, among Republican, I mean, they don't even Like they don't even try to have policy platforms anymore.
Like in, in 2020 famously, they had no platform at all. And then in 2024, they just kind of put a couple of wishlist items on a, on a, on a roughly, what was it like a five, eight, five. Page paper or something like that. It was very, very, very small, much, much smaller than, and then, and you see that with when Trump was in office, that he had problems getting people to work for him who had any sort of qualifications.
And, and even Republicans didn't want to work for him because they thought that he was, just stupid and, and they couldn't ever achieve anything meaningful to them. And I can say this myself that, I was friends at that time with somebody who, because, you know, as, as. I think I don't know if you would know, I'm trying to remember if I, if I told you or not, but like, I used to be a right wing activist myself.
So, yeah, so, so, when Trump first came into office, I was friends with somebody who was one of his top speech writers and he offered me a job in the Trump White House. And I thought about it for a second only because I thought, well, there's going to be a lot of really stupid people in there.
So maybe there should be at least, one or two adults in the room. But in the end I couldn't, I couldn't justify it to myself morally because I thought, well, to whatever extent I would have any. Influence, I would also be counting and seeing all kinds of horrible [00:42:00] ideas and whatnot and policies And so therefore I I couldn't do it and but that's it is a It's a conundrum that you're that you're seeing not just in the in the policy making realm but also in the in the media realm as well that the the very very well financed and Sort of remnant Yeah liberal reactionism, if you will, that, that prevailed before Trump, the neoconservative hierarchy, they still exist, but they have no influence on the party.
And it's almost, I don't know. It's like you read these people a lot. Like, do they. They know they don't have influence, but do you think that they think that they're ever getting it back?
McMANUS: It's a good question. So I think in order to start answering your question, we have to understand what the relationship between intellectuals and the writers, right? So many people have commented on how the political right has this kind of anti intellectualist quality to it going all the way back to people like Edmund Burke, right? But, there's deep rooted theoretical and practical reasons why the right would have this wariness and even hostility to intellectuals, which stamps movement like MAGA.
I think two of the clearest figures that make express where this anti intellectual impulse comes from are Joseph de Maistre and Yoram Hazony. Right. So for those of your listeners who don't know Joseph de Maistre is usually considered to be the godfather of the reactionary tradition, a fierce critic of the French revolution and a fierce critic of enlightenment reason.
And he's very express about why he's a critic of enlightenment reason. Because he says, look enlightenment reason or what is ignorantly called philosophy is fundamentally, and this is his term, a destructive force, right? When people are. Told to use their own reason to assess what society is doing to ask themselves what kind of political authorities that they want.
Then what we wind up with is an endless series of debates, discussions, and deliberations about who should be in charge and why that will go nowhere and that are toxic [00:44:00] to the establishment of any kind of lasting authority. And so he says very bluntly that we need to treat existent authorities like dogmas, right?
Adopt an almost religious attitude of fidelity towards them not question the foundations of our political order all that substantially. And he pointed out in other works, like the St. Petersburg Dialogues, if that doesn't work, well, the hangman or the executioner will, should always be available to kind of overawe anybody who might be asking too many questions about the order.
Now flash forward to the present day. You have Intellectuals like Yoram Hozoni, who make very similar points, albeit less dramatically, let's call it that because Hozoni says, look one of the things that characterizes liberalism and the left is this endless propensity to want to engage in critical reasoning and Hozoni says there's always, there always should be a place for critical reasoning, but critical reasoning can be very destructive, right, because it leads people to ask Endless questions, one after another, about why we should have this authority, what were the actual facts of our history other reasons to be skeptical of the long standing traditions that we have.
And he says, after a certain point, asking these questions, one after another, after another is either a waste of time or positively dangerous. Which is why, at a certain point, you just have to stop and take things on faith. Which again, has this pronouncedly anti intellectualist attitude. And, you see this expressed policy wise in a lot of the hostility that the right shows towards things like, say, critical race theory or critical theory more generally, right?
Because they don't want people asking this endless series of questions about their society, its history the role of slavery in American life and its enduring impact because that leads to uncomfortable questions about whether existing authority structures and hierarchies should exist. have the kind of legitimacy that the right wants to ascribe to them.
Now, I want to be very clear, there are enormously interesting and profound right wing intellectuals out there. Going from Edmund Burke to people like Casoni or Patrick Deneen and of course, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, the rest of the canon, right? But the right, by and large, has been a lot more [00:46:00] wary of the role intellectuals should play in society than liberals or the left, who tend to welcome or even encourage the
SHEFFIELD: Yeah.
McMANUS: of people's critical faculties, since many people in the liberal tradition or on the left really like this idea that we should have an endless debate about things like first principles, authority structures, hierarchies.
Think about somebody like John Stuart Mill, for example, the emblematic left wing liberal, right? Who said, we should encourage free speech in part because we can never be sure whether our own ideas are the right one. And even if we are pretty sure that our ideas are the right ones, there's always something to learn from combating the other side.
Society should be an endless and critical debate about just these kinds of things. That's a much more liberal attitude. And of course, it's much more conducive to somebody like my taste, somebody like me and my taste.
The paradoxes of left- and right-wing intellectualism
SHEFFIELD: Mm hmm. Yeah, and it's also that, that core difference, though, that you just talked about, it is kind of a flaw, I think, in a lot of left wing attempts to scrutinize right wing politics in that they project. That love of intellectual debate and such that and they don't understand that, like, and I see this on on some podcasts and articles or whatever, where they will go and analyze these.
People like Patrick, the Dean or whoever, and impute all kinds of influence to them when in fact they don't actually have almost any influence on Donald Trump or the people who work for him.
They're
McMANUS: Donald Trump is not flipping through why liberalism failed late at night and being like, yeah,
SHEFFIELD: This guy has a point. No, they're, they're not. And like, but to the extent that they have any influence, it is. The reverse of how things work on the left with regard to intellectuals that for the right you have until influence if you rationalize the ideas of the leader, whereas it works the other way around on the left that, what, what the leaders, at least.
Supposed to be doing on the left is that they are, sort of effectuating the ideas of, of, of the people who created the [00:48:00] ideas. Whereas on the right, the ideas are ex post facto, they are rationalizations for the desires of the
McMANUS: yeah. And sometimes progressive intellectuals can be quite vain for this reason, right? Just to pick on my own side a little bit. I mean, I'm a very left wing guy. John Maynard Keynes famously once said that a lot of politicians that scribble insights late at night are the slaves to some distant and long dead economist or philosopher or whatever it happens to be.
And, if you want to go more radical still think about something like of organic intellectuals who gradually overcome the hegemony of capitalism on replace it with a more emancipatory culture. Now again, these arguments are more in my taste because I do think that intellectuals have a role to play in society, but it can be very substantially overstated.
But there's no doubt that the left is And liberals are considerably more receptive to intellectuals playing a pronounced role in society than the right is. Although I want to stress again the right certainly post 18th century has recognized the need to have an intellectual cadre of its own to combat the seemingly ever growing, at least in its eyes cabal of left wing intellectuals that are kind of nebulously probing holes in authority structures and hierarchies within society and need to be confronted on that terrain if necessary.
I mean, even look at somebody sorry, just like, Thomas Sowell who's emblematic in that respect, right? I wrote a big review of Thomas Sowell for Jacobin Magazine, some people might be interested in. But one of Thomas's biggest books is a book called Intellectuals in Society which is a book about why intellectuals should play no role in society.
Now, of course, He's almost invariably singles out liberal and left intellectuals for the destructive role that they play and chastises them for engaging an interdisciplinary sweep where not that's not warranted before he goes on to talk about everything from the economics to history, to military strategy, to politics, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But, this kind of. I'll be paradoxical stance on the part of a right wing intellectual simultaneously chastising the [00:50:00] influence of intellectuals in society while recognising that he needs to exist precisely to combat left and liberal intellectuals is very characteristic of the right. Yeah,
SHEFFIELD: And there's also a paradox, even as. Let's say philosophically that the left is more open to the ideas of, or to intellectualism. They are less willing to actually support financially things like think tanks. So like, for instance, if you look at on the right, there's just this multiplicity of, of advocacy organizations that they may not be necessarily coming out with policy papers, but at least they're making, the vague noises about policy.
And there, and there are, Probably in D. C. alone, probably like at least a hundred of these organizations with a cumulative budget of probably, something like 500 million a year whereas on the left, there's almost nothing in comparison to that, because like, because like to a large degree, I think that, especially this is more true of
McMANUS: if I could just give you one quick anecdote that makes them. That kind of makes this point.
SHEFFIELD: Mm hmm.
McMANUS: so, back in the day, I used to write some articles for the intercollegiate Institute, which is a conservative organization. Mostly about Edmund Burke and post modern conservatism. And I just want to say they were very nice to me, right.
Despite me making my own orientation clear. One of the reasons I did this was I just wanted to see, like, can I actually present conservative ideas to a conservative audience in a way that they would seem palatable? But you know, I got paid about 400 an article writing for them, which is, Really very good.
And considering how poor I was at the time was helpful. I'll just be candid about that. I've written, 50 pieces for Jacobin magazine soon. I probably made about as much for all 50 pieces as I did writing one thing for Intercollegiate Institute, right? So just to give you a sense of the funding dynamics there, right?
And again, that's not a knock on Jackman. They've been very happy to support my work. It's just, there's, there's no money for advancing those kinds of policies. [00:52:00]
SHEFFIELD: Yeah,
McMANUS: to the right.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, and it's, it is paradoxical because I do think that the, a lot of progressives. They don't understand what the purpose of universities is that it is not to be a factory or prom promulgator of progressive ideas. They don't understand that. That's not what universities intend to be.
And so as such, you should not. Outsource your political popularizing or theorizing to them because they're not going to do it and the people at the top in most universities, in fact, are conservative and because they hobnob with billionaires and oligarchs to grow their endowments and that's, that's how they operate.
Like these are conservative institutions inherently.
McMANUS: Yeah, I always think it's funny whenever sometimes I like reading conservative media because in conservative media, People like me and my friends are made out to be basically in charge of the entire world, right? We're liberal college professors and apparently we're brainwashing generations of students and to becoming, little postmodern neo Marxist to use the Jordan Peterson term.
And when I get back to the real world, I'm like, God, I can't even get people to read the Federalist Papers from beginning to end, despite my sitting there being like, please, please, please, this is your prostitution. We need to read Madison to understand it and your grade is dependent upon it.
So I'm, I'm begging you. So, sometimes it's quite flattering to imagine myself in this conservative vein being like, Oh yeah, I'm just molding hearts and minds. So, it's, it's kind of funny irony that way.
JD Vance's deep connections to reactionary philosophers
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, well, and JD Vance, just to bring him back in here that, he, I think, is. He really is kind of emblematic for much more than almost any other Republican politician of this reactionary sensibility that has become so regnant under Trump. And he has specific. Personal connections to a lot of these reactionary far right thinkers, anti Democrats, monarchists.
Can you talk about some of those connections? [00:54:00] Because I mean, gosh, they they need to be known. Like, every person should know this stuff. I feel like because it's so it's so dangerous.
McMANUS: Sure. Well, I mean, a lot of people have talked about how. The influences on JD Vance's worldview are very online kind of influences, and there's some truth to that. Listing all of them would take too much time, but just to kind of give a short list, right? He was very influenced by Peter Thiel, who he worked for for a long time, and Thiel is, An eclectic billionaire who likes to think of himself as an intellectual.
But one of the kind of through lines to his worldview from the very beginning has been a hostility to democracy. So you can go back and read, I think it's a 2009 essay that Teal wrote called the education of a libertarian where he basically says the prospects for libertarianism in the United States, certainly post Obama are pretty much nil, and he's very transparent that one of the reasons for this is Post, women be gaining the right to vote it's just very unlikely that there's going to be a coalition to support unbridled libertarianism to roll back the New Deal since women, in his opinion, are more likely to support left wing policies.
And so, he expresses a Deep hostility to democracy on that basis because he thinks that democracy is just never going to be conducive to libertarianism. And if that's the case in his mind, at least so much the worst for democracy. Now, of course, this is extraordinarily self serving, and some people pointed out, I try to characterize it as ambiguous.
I don't think there's much ambiguity about a billionaire thinking that a billionaires should have more power, more influence in society. But there's no doubt that this kind of anti democratic sentiment that's been pervasive throughout all of Pierre Attil's permutations has stamped some of Vance's worldview.
Another important person is Curtis Yarvin, our Menchus Nullbug who was also financed, I should say, by Attil, right? It's not clear how, but he's received a lot of money from him. So for those who don't know Really, we're fortunate enough not to know Curtis Yarvin or Mencius Moldbug is the monarchist that you talked about, or the Neomarx monarchist.
He started a blog in the late 2000s, essentially arguing that [00:56:00] American society was pervasively left it was dominated by a kind of left cultural hegemony by Associated with liberal elites, they called the cathedral on DH. There was really no way of breaking through this without the formation of a bunch of different dissonant right intellectuals who took the red pill.
He was one of the people who coined that phrase saw through the kind of illusions that were promulgated by the left wing procedural and recognize that Democracy and socialism and liberalism were really all species of the same kind of bad thing this movement towards what he considers chaos and the only way to offset that would eventually be to transition to something like a neo monarchy now he has a lot of different things and a lot of different flavors of this idea that he's put forward over decades now.
But the basic idea is that somebody like once upon a time it was Steve Jobs. Now, somebody like Elon Musk should take control of the country for the most part Reduce the influence of the people because the masses suck in his term to nil and just do what needs to be done in order to bring economic prosperity and authoritarian order to the state chilling idea, right?
It's important to note though, that, Yarvin is so reactionary that he says that he's Not even anti French and American Revolution. He's anti English Civil War. He's a Jacobite, right? So that's how far back he wants to get. Another important influence on somebody like Vance would be Patrick Deneen, who we mentioned before.
Patrick Deneen is a University of Notre Dame professor, author of a book Why Liberalism Failed. That is actually quite an interesting book and I think correctly diagnoses certain problems with what's called classical or possessive liberalism. But since then he's released a book called Regime Change that calls for exactly what it sounds like, right?
Essentially replacing what he considers to be a decadent neoliberal elite with a conservative aristocracy what he calls aristopopulism that he thinks is going to Be more conducive to passing legislation that'll be for the common good, which in practice is going to mean implementing social conservative policies without the kind of nebbish liberal [00:58:00] restrictions that older conservatives would think are so important given the nature of the American Constitution and American culture.
Now there are other influences that gone into JD Vance's worldview. But we'll just stop there. Cause I think that three is enough for your audiences to be subjected to today.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Well, and, and it's, and it's important to note that like he specifically cites these people by name
McMANUS: Oh yeah, no, this isn't speculation, right?
SHEFFIELD: inferring that these are where he got his ideas from. He says this himself.
McMANUS: Yeah, I mean, look, Jarvan back in the day, used to try to be a little bit more covert I think part of that was also a marketing ploy on his part, being dark and mysterious and a dark elf, as he once used to call it, right, kind of operating in the shadows but, These people are not shy about expressing their intellectual influences.
If you push them even take somebody like Chris Rufo, who had a dialogue with Yarvin not too long ago, right? And once you recognize that these are the people that they are looking to for inspiration it should be concerning. Although like you, I think it's very easy to overstate the influence.
These intellectuals have on shaping the worldview of somebody like say Donald Trump or even shaping what somebody like JD Vance would do once he gets into office, if he gets into office. Let's pray to God he doesn't.
Why there are atheist and Jewish Christian nationalists
SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Well, and speaking of God, there is the, there's an interesting dichotomy between a lot of these reactionary writers in that position of religion vis a vis themselves. So Yorubin has said repeatedly over the years that he is an atheist and does not believe in religion and any of that stuff.
And, but then, but then by contrast, nearly all of these sort of as they're, I guess, currently calling themselves national nationalist right or whatever they want to call it, national conservatism. Almost all of them are Catholic with the one exception of I'm concerning who is a Jewish and, but at the same time he says he's, he's a Christian nationalist who is a Jew by his [01:00:00] own admission.
So these atheists and catholics are kind of Inheriting control of the intellectual right such as it is from the neoconservatives who tended to be either Jewish or non religious, like not atheist, but like just specifically non religious.
And then the shock troops had always been the evangelicals and the evangelicals never have gotten a shot at the intellectual leadership. And I think there's a lot of reasons for that, but I'm curious what your, what your thoughts are and why not?
McMANUS: Well, I think part of the reason is that there's a long history of Catholic reactionary thought that many of these figures can draw upon in a way that there isn't quite as deep a reservoir of evangelical reactionary thought. It's definitely there, right? But it's not as sophisticated or as long standing as, what you find in right wing Catholicism, at least.
And I want to stress right wing Catholicism, right? I know a lot of left wing Catholics Catholics and Christians out there who would deeply resent, needless to say, being associated with somebody like Dineen or Adrian Vermeule. But look, in terms of the role that religion is playing on the contemporary right, it's extremely variated, right?
Some of these people are, without a doubt, true believers. Think about somebody again, like Patrick Dineen or Adrian Villemula, right? Who's flirted with advocating for integralism, basically the idea that the United States and the American government should be subordinated to, or at least put on a position of equal standing with the Catholic Church which is the arbiter of truth and goodness in the world per se.
Probably not Pope Francis's Catholic Church, but a suitably reactionary Catholic Church and the Miller's opinion. But others are just very overt about the fact that they don't personally believe in God but they nonetheless want to advocate for a kind of social conservative Christian or Catholic morality because they feel that this is a necessary to kind of bind society together and.
Eliminate disorderly kind of libertinism on also because they think that a commitment to Christian morality will be good in alleviating the decadence that they see as [01:02:00] sweeping society by committing people to hire a more grand kinds of projects, which include, for instance, producing Enormous numbers of Children.
And I suppose the third thing that we can point about that's some of the darkest of strands of writing thought out there. Many also endorse return to these kinds of religious principles because they're worried about the demographic decline or the great replacement of white Americans by non white Americans or non white immigrants.
And they think that Christian morality can provide an antidote to that. And many are pretty overt about the fact again, that they don't believe, or again, that they question whether there is a God people like say Richard Spencer one of the founders of the term outright characterized himself as a cultural Christian Douglas Murray in the United Kingdom also characterized himself as a cultural Christian.
But I think Yoram Hazony had the kind of best. articulation of this outlook where in a number of essays, he says, look, if you're a conservative that doesn't believe in Christianity again, in great Kirk like language, he says you should kind of sideline those concerns and ask yourself whether the country would be better off committing to Christian principles and returning as he understands at least to the traditions associated with that rather than continuing on the liberal path that it's, that has led it to darkness.
That's far. And he says, if you do think that that's what we should do, then you should go to church. We should pray. You should essentially parrot the language of religion, even if you yourself aren't a believer. Now, to me, that's a horrific idea. And, I believe I have my own kind of religious views, but a lot of them are centered around authenticity, right?
This idea that you should believe because you are wholeheartedly committed to this, the idea of taking a functionalist approach to religion or saying, I'm going to kind of parrot the language of religious belief because it's useful is deeply repugnant to my left liberal outlook. I draw upon people like Charles Taylor here who's a left wing Catholic but you know, it makes a lot of sense if you're a conservative to kind of articulate this kind of vision because you're saying, look, we just need to get as many people on board with this as possible.
If you feel [01:04:00] that we need to return to tradition but you sort of don't believe in God, just don't worry too much about the theology of that right now do what needs to be done as it were.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah,
And Dennis Prager is another example of that, that he, he in fact wrote a column urging non religious conservatives to raise your children as Christian. Because if you don't, then they're going to become liberals. Basically was the was the crux of that column. And it's in it. It's a an interesting admission inadvertent admission on his part, I think, because like, that's that is the kind of the core threat that they feel like that.
They're this. Hierarchical authoritarian sensibility cannot survive on its own merits.
As the right overtly embraces authoritarianism, the left can reclaim freedom
SHEFFIELD: It's so hilarious that, people like Jordan Peterson or whoever are often using the phrase that, that they want a marketplace of ideas, but the reality is that. We, we, their ideas were tried in the marketplace of ideas a hundred years ago and were failed.
They're, they were rejected because they do not have philosophic or empirical merit. And so as such, they lost and, and, and people are not interested in subscribing to those ideas because they're unsupportable. But they, they can't see that this is irrational fundamentally.
McMANUS: yeah. I mean, to paraphrase my friend Nathan Robinson, who writes for sorry, the editor of current affairs, there's something deeply ironic about some of the loudest and best known people in the world constantly complaining about how their ideas are being silenced and haven't been tried yet. Despite the fact that, they'll go on Joe Rogan and they have podcasts that reach millions of people and many people try them and just don't actually happen to find them all that appealing.
Right. Now I want to be clear, right. I don't think that there's anything wrong. From a liberal standpoint with people living a social conservative life, if that's what they so choose to do, right? And I know many people, back at home who find that actually very fulfilling for a wide variety of different reasons.
You do you. But you know, I agree with John Stuart Mill that people are very different in terms of [01:06:00] what is good for them, What their personality gels with, what their aspirations are in life and what they were going to find fulfilling. I would not find a socially conservative lifestyle fulfilling in any way, shape or form.
And I know because, I was raised Roman Catholic and I tried it for a little while and I found it very boring and spiritually unfulfilling, right? Because I'm just not that kind of personality. And I think our society needs to create space for people to pursue, The vision of the good life that they think is conducive to their well being and to their flourishing within reasonable limits, obviously.
Right?
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, well, and so long as they don't impinge on other people's ability to do so.
McMANUS: You're part of the if your vision of the good life includes being a member of the Klan and lynching people, then no. But, if you want to fast for 40 days and go to Mass five times a week and listen to it only in Latin, then by all means do so, right? Perhaps you find something fulfilling in that, that I'm sorry, perhaps you find something fulfilling in that, that I simply do not or simply have not recognized yet.
SHEFFIELD: yeah. And that's what actual freedom looks like. And it's yeah, and there's this, Like, you mentioned Eric from he wrote a whole book called escape from freedom and that, like, that's what a lot of this is, is that the freedom to a reactionary is imposing their opinions on someone else, like, They don't, and Tony Perkins, who is the founder of the Family Research Council, or at least the president, I'm sorry, of the Family Research Council, he had said that if we cannot legislate our opinions in society, we don't have freedom, which is inherently, anti liberal and frankly, anti American.
McMANUS: Oh, I completely agree. I mean, Adrian Vimiole is probably the one who's most express about that, where he's Consistently declaimed that his religious liberty is violated. If he's not allowed to pass legislation or people like him aren't allowed to pass legislation, [01:08:00] restricting LGBTQ rights.
Now I do think that democratic freedom or social freedom. If you want to call it that is a kind of freedom, right? So to a certain extent, he's not wrong. And I think as liberals, we should acknowledge that. Right. But the question then becomes is what is more important to a society committed to liberty AGM Vimula is right to pass religious legislation that is going to restrict people's basic liberties to love who they want or people's liberty to love who they want, right.
Without interfering with anyone else. And I think that's a very, very easy question to answer. Right. Because, Vermouli can very easily live the kind of social conservative lifestyle that he wants within a liberal society, while complaining about how he can't pass legislation to discriminate on the basis of his prejudices.
But LGBTQ persons would not be able to live in a Vermoulian society and love the kind of people that they love. And it's not a hard question for me, which is, are those societies more committed to freedom at all?
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, and, and that's been interesting to see the Democratic Party actually finally starting to make that argument under Kamala Harris as the candidate that, that freedom, this is the first time in decades. That that had been a theme at a democratic political convention. And it's, it's a welcome development in my opinion.
McMANUS: It is, right? And look I have my problems with Kamala Harris. I'm a born, I'm a Bernie guy. But I do welcome this transition to a kind of rhetoric of joy and optimism that you've seen in her campaign. I mean, part of this is, I think is that Biden, just because of his age did himself a disservice by constantly focusing on the threat that Trump posed to democracy.
Cause it really kind of cast this atmosphere of doom, gloom and decline around the Democratic party that, because Biden was so old was not really a great. Look, let's just call it that but I think that fundamentally Americans, and this is a point that my good friend Alexandre Lefebvre makes in his Liberalism as a Way of Life are committed to a kind of comprehensive liberal worldview.
They find sustenance and meaning in being liberal, [01:10:00] and liberalism can be a very joyous philosophy in many ways it's a glass half full kind of outlook in many cases, although it's not naive about human nature. And that's why I think many people, certainly after decades of Trumpism find this rhetoric of joy resonant.
Because I think that, people want to look forward to the future and they want to think that their tomorrow is going to be better than today. And when they are constantly confronted by politicians that say everything is bad and everything is trash and everything needs to be changed it can become a bit of a downer and become a bit exhausting after a certain point Probably the most emblematic moment for me, at least with the N.
C. campaign is when Barack Obama went up and gave a speech and he talked about Trump and he's like, Trump shtick is getting a bit old, isn't it? And as somebody who's been writing about Trump now for the better part of a decade and has two books out on postmodern conservatism I can say I'm pretty much done talking about it and then move on to something else.
Right.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, well, and, and ultimately the, the reorientation toward freedom and, and joy like that is political parties and ideologies do best when they, when their message aligns with their core. Emotional and psychological argument so that, what it boils down to is that hope is progressive and despair and nihilism is reactionary and Biden kind of disrupted that by not by departing.
McMANUS: Oh, without a doubt. Right. The reason, the moment I thought, I mean, I've done have a crystal ball, but I figured that Biden was going to win in 2020 was When Trump was attacking him, I think it was in the first debate over Hunter Biden and Biden just sat there and he's like, my son struggles a lot, he's all right.
And I'm proud of him for doing that. I thought to myself, the country right now, not even America, but the world is going through a horrible pandemic. Many of us are very anxious about what the future I was living in Canada at that point and my grandmother who was 86 was like, I've never seen anything like this before.
Right. And there was something that was ordinary and [01:12:00] comforting about this kind of outlook because he just seemed like a normal guy who was proud of his son, a little bit worried that was going around. And he hit a note that really worked with the message that the democratic party needed to hit at that point which is that things are bad right now.
But they're going to be okay and we're going to get through this, right? And that was a fine message in 2020 but it's 2024 now and comfort, comfort coupled with doom and gloom and apocalyptic anxieties about democracy. Even though I share a lot of those anxieties isn't what we should be going for.
People, I think, want something to look forward to. They want to believe in politics again. And I don't know if the Harris campaign is going to be successful in pulling that off, right? There's still two months before we get the election but they seem to be doing a pretty good job. So far, right.
And again, though I have deep reservations about the Harris candidacy that stem from my own leftism certainly I prefer to be in office to Donald Trump. So,
SHEFFIELD: Yeah,
McMANUS: I want to see happen.
The rise of the Nietzchean right
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, well, and just wrapping it up here like this, this idea of hope and despair and sort of the, the mutual collaboration between atheist reactionaries and, and Christian authoritarians. Lot of this it goes, it derives from, or at least is, is, sensible to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, and who was, of course, famously not religious himself.
But, a lot of people, I, I, who don't, who haven't actually read
McMANUS: Don't, don't tell that shockingly to the expansive number of right wing Christians, so called who seem to find a great deal of value. I wrote an article about this for the Institute for Christian Socialism, but it's truly baffling to me that people like Jordan Peterson or Charlie Kirk or Jonah Goldberg will all cite Nietzsche extraordinarily positively while calling themselves Christian thinkers or at least beholden to a kind of Christian ethic, seemingly unaware of the fact that Nietzsche despised Christianity, characterized himself as the Antichrist.
Partly ironically, partly sincerely and also famously once said that it was socialism and liberalism and democracy that they're [01:14:00] the clearest descendants of the Christian worldview albeit secularized in the contemporary era. Anyway, sorry, just go on, just a bone that I always have to pick.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, Well, and it's like the, but the fundamental point for Nietzsche as a non religious reactionary was that religion was the only thing. That what, or at least religious hierarchy was the only thing that was standing between, the emaciated denuded slop of liberal democracy and the great imagined past, which he believed that humanity had departed from and that that ultimately is why I think that, so many non religious reactionaries are, have decided, well, I think these doctrines are nonsense, but I'm going to get behind these guys because at least It, to paraphrase the dude, at least it's an ideology.
McMANUS: Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, look the rise of what I and others have called the Nietzschean right Certainly intellectually is a very intriguing development in American circles although as one wit put it a lot of American conservatives seem to have traded not reading Locke, but talking a lot about Locke for not reading Nietzsche and talking a lot about Nietzsche.
I think that the American Nietzschean right right now Fundamentally doesn't really take on board a lot of Nietzsche's distinctive ideas, actually. And this relates back to my earlier point about people like Peterson or about people like Kirk or even for that matter, people like Douglas Murray, right?
Who will draw on certain Nietzschean tropes about resentment without taking a lot of the more interesting material on board. But fundamentally, what they are intrigued by is this Nietzschean insistence that people are fundamentally different and they are different in a way that makes them unequal.
Right? Some people are more worthwhile and more valuable than others on. That's very conducive to a wide array of night right wing thinkers who will want to Divide the world up according to IQ or divide the world [01:16:00] up according to a racial hierarchy or divide the world between men and women with men put on top or all of the above, right?
Many of the people who are sympathetic to the one are sympathetic to the other two as well, right? And we can go on and on and on. And deeply funny because rather like how Nietzsche would have been appalled at how fascists banalized his ideas in this kind of populist way. There's no doubt that he would have found it both very funny and deeply frustrating that his work was so profoundly banalized by a lot of what the Nietzschean right in America right now is doing.
But perhaps that's the inevitable legacy or the inevitable endpoint of any intellectual who comes up with a sufficiently interesting set of ideas. Eventually they're going to wind up with proponents and disciples who are just. caricatures of what those ideas once stood for. And I think that's what you see right now.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, it is important to note also, to be fair, that there are, quite a few people who do read their Nietzsche as being in favor of socialism and progressive values in some sense or another, and that they will, and there's an argument to be made, and in fact has been made about that the posthumous writings of his were edited by his sister who was basically a Nazi and she distorted their meaning.
So I, I do want to make sure to point that out.
McMANUS: Oh yeah, I just want to be clear about this because there's actually people, much like people aren't really aware of some of the inter scene intellectual debates that go on in the American right. There's not a lot of transparency on some of the Quite nebbish and hyper intellectualist debates that go on on the American left.
But right now the American left, indeed the worldwide left, is going through a kind of process of denichification. So, if you're like me and, you're a millennial you probably went to college and you would read people like Michel Foucault or Gilles Deleuze for example who were kind of left wing Nietzscheans, right?
I mean, Foucault was very overt about that, right? He said in the interview, I am a Nietzschean. And you might've just assumed that Nietzsche is [01:18:00] fundamentally a left wing thinker because he's anti bourgeois. He's got a very punk mentality. And he really advocates for these kind of grand sweeping transformative projects, right?
That, you might associate with a certain kind of leftism. But recently there's been a lot of intellectual work done by people like like Daniel Tuts myself, I should add Domenico Lacerto, Malcolm Bull Ron Beaner Nancy Love we've all written books talking about how, well, yes, Nietzsche, was interested in being anti bourgeois.
Yes, he was also interested in these big transformative projects but he was also very insistent that an aristocratic society, indeed a radically aristocratic society was the only kind of setting where these kinds of changes could take place. And he was very, very prone to saying things like, Hey, slavery would be a good idea, right?
All these kinds of ideas that would be fundamentally hostile to the left. So it's a very interesting conversation that's going on in the left, on the left in American society right now as many people who once upon a time were weird and left wing flavors of Nietzscheanism become increasingly hostile to the guy.
And I don't know where that's going to go, but it's certainly, it's not something I would have predicted back in the 2000s.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah.
Yeah, no, it is interesting to see and and I do think that sort of debate also does is why you have seen some people aside from the fact that they can get massively rich from flattering Trumpist fascism, like. Matt Taibbi or some of these other people that they did have kind of this more that they were, they were, they were on the left if they were ever at all, but let's say they were, if they were on the left, it was only because of the anti bourgeois sensibility.
And then eventually, once they realized, oh, Donald Trump and his supporters hate America also. And so, hey, we're going to go over there.
McMANUS: Yeah, and actually, this is a good place to wrap up because this is why I wrote a book The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism that's coming out soon, right, to kind of stress to my fellow leftists and my fellow liberals that there's a deep elective affinity between the two traditions that makes them quite different from what you find on the [01:20:00] right.
Now, I just want to be clear, right, Horseshoe Theory, as it's sometimes called I think is a very bad way of looking at the world Partly for the reasons I just mentioned, right? But there is no doubt a certain kind of intellectual, or just a certain kind of personality, that is fundamentally anti liberal and anti bourgeois, and can shift, usually from left to right, although not always, and the one constant that remains in their outlook is this kind of anti liberal mentality, right?
Think about somebody like Sourabh Amari, who I had a debate with, in December 2023, right? Similar kind of attitude towards certain things, although I'm very liberal, and he's certainly not. But, you see that in his transition, right?
He went from being a kind of hardened leftist interested in Trotsky and Foucault and all these things to a very reactionary Roman Catholic and now he seems to have put the two together, and, he'll write a book about, why we should combine Marx with Age of Immunity and Reactionary Catholicism, and see what we can get, right?
And the constant through line, of course, is the kind of anti liberal mentality. So, definitely not possible impossible and there's definitely personalities that are like that. But just to your listeners, Portrait Theory is not a good way of looking at the world. And I think that a lot of centrist commentators rely on this idea that if you go too far left, you eventually end up right, or too far right, you eventually end up left in lieu of serious analysis of what makes these different ideologies discreet.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, no, I agree. It's, it's, it's less about the ideologies and more about the psychologies is, is how I would put it. But yeah. All right. So, well, you, you have plugged. so, when is your book? Here's this other book, that you were talking about here. When's that coming? Yeah.
McMANUS: The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, is coming out late November, right? If people want to check it out, they can pre order it on Amazon or on the Rutledge website and I imagine, for a lot of your listeners there might be a little bit of wariness about the socialist label but one of the things that I point out is that there are many, Constructive and liberal forms of socialism out there, just like there are many forms of emancipatory and egalitarian liberalism out there, and I think it's very worthwhile to put the two traditions into dialogue with one [01:22:00] another, since both are ultimately enlightenment doctrines that are committed to humanism, reason, and liberty, equality, and solidarity for all, and there's a lot to be gained by Dialogue with one another.
And frankly, what could be more liberal than that?
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, and then the other book, which has kind of sort of been the subtext of the discussion of this episode today that you've got, which is already available and has been for a little bit. It's called the political right and equality. turning back the tide of egalitarian modernity. And then on social media, what's your where are you posting that?
for people who want to keep touch with you there?
McMANUS: Sure. People can add me at Matt Paul prof on Twitter. I'm never going to call it X. And the more Elon Musk's insist that I call it X, the more it's going to be Twitter. I can be spiteful that way. Or people can email me at Matt McMahon is 300 at gmail. com. And I do my best to get in touch with people by email.
If they reach out to me.
SHEFFIELD: Okay. Sounds good. And I will commend people to do that. So, thanks for joining me today and we'll stay in touch. I look forward to it.
McMANUS: Thanks, man. Good conversation.
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Pub date: 2024-09-26
Today's episode of The Break Down explores the idea and the power of utopian fiction with guest Kim Stanley Robinson, the acclaimed science fiction author whose most recent novel, The Ministry for the Future, offers a harrowing and detailed vision of how we might respond to the climate crisis.
Among other things, Adrienne and Stan discuss the politics of science and technology; the place of speculative fiction in an era dominated by nostalgia and the importance of utopia at a time when our political imaginations are so constrained.
Like The Ministry for the Future itself, this episode is dedicated to the late Fredric Jameson. You can mind many of Jameson's incredible works here: https://shorturl.at/fYDNJ
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Podcast: The Measure of Everyday Life (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: All We Need is Love?
Pub date: 2024-09-25
Why do our news headlines often focus on war and crime and mortgage rates? Do we spend too much time focused on transactional markets and not enough on our unconditional existence as part of humanity? On this episode, we talk with Rob Faure Walker of University College London, author of Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis.
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Podcast: Upstream (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Pleasure w/ Eric Wycoff Rogers and Zarinah Agnew
Pub date: 2024-09-24
Capitalism’s addiction to growth doesn’t just show up in the external world. It can also be found inside us—in our manufactured desire for more and better. Not only do we have to keep wanting to keep the machine going, we have to keep wanting what is “scarce” and easily privatizable or commodifiable so that the capitalist class can continue to profit.
Critical hedonism(s) is an approach to pleasure and care that is critical of capitalism. It is a politics of pleasure that invites us to remake our desires to be less antisocial, competitive, and harmful, and to instead be more prosocial, collaborative and mutually beneficial.
The idea of critical hedonism(s) has been deeply studied and explored by our guests in today’s episode. Zarinah Agnew is a trained neuroscientist formerly at University College London, and then UCSF, a self-described guerrilla scientist, and part of the Beyond Return organization. Eric Wycoff Rogers is a historian, writer, community organizer, and designer currently based in London. Eric runs a thirdspace project in London, convenes a discussion series on the politics of pleasure, and is the author of the Critical Hedonist Manifesto.
This is Eric and Zarinah’s second time on the podcast, they joined us in 2022 to talk about Fully Automated Luxury Communism, which is a great compliment to this episode. This is also a great episode following our most recent conversation with Jason Hickel, Better Lives for All. Where that conversation focused on human needs, this one takes up the topic of human wants.
In this conversation, we explore what capitalism tells us to desire and why, we interrogate what is truly “cheap,” “expensive,” and “valuable,” and explore what it would be like to participate in a politics of pleasure based on critical hedonism(s)—creating conditions and opportunities for distributed pleasure that don’t cause harm to people or the planet. Finally, we are invited to learn about community gatherings and how to do the work of reclaiming and remaking pleasure.
Further Resources:
- Critical Hedonist Manifesto
- Critical Hedonism(s)
- Beyond Return
- Decoding Labs
- The Joyless Economy, by Tibor Scitovsky
- The Right to Sex, by Amia Srinivasan
- The Zero Marginal Cost Society
- I Dream of Canteens
- The Listening Society: Possible and Necessary
- Post-Growth Living: For An Alternative Hedonism, by Kate Soper
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Becoming Feminist: Consciousness Raising and Social Ecology, Eric Woycoff Rogers (blog)
Related Episodes:
- Fully Automated Luxury Communism with Zarinah Agnew and Eric Wycoff Rogers
- Better Lives for All w/ Jason Hickel
- Grassroots Urban Placemaking with Mark Lakeman
- Sex, Desire, and the Neoliberal Subject
- Suburban Hell and Ugly Cities
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)
Pub date: 2024-09-25
We are joined by Gaby Del Valle who has written a great—and distressingly relevant—essay for The Baffler, which reports on the “eugenic foundations of the war on woke.” We dig into the beliefs of innate biological hierarchy and genetic superiority that underpin so much of mainstream right-wing politics. Whether it’s the convergence of Christian nationalist and tech rationalists around issues like declining birth rates and embryo engineering, or its the resurgence of blood libel with JD Vance’s fascist fairy tale about Haitian migrants, or its the cultural war against woke universities and DEI committees—these various sects are all unified by their use of biological essentialism to justify social domination.••• Live Free or DEI https://thebaffler.com/salvos/live-free-or-dei-del-valle ••• Follow Gaby: https://x.com/gabydvj Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.x.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.x.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Behind the News: Inequality Through History w/ Branko Milanovic
Pub date: 2024-09-24
Niobe Way, author of Rebels with a Cause, talks about the emotional and social lives of boys and what they’re telling us about society. Branko Milanovic, author of Visions of Inequality, reviews what economists have said about the topic over the centuries.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html
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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Robert Neubauer traces how Right-wing populism sells the fiction that fossil fuels are inevitable
Pub date: 2024-09-20
Robert Neubauer studies the media strategies of Canadian environmental and pro-resource extraction social movements, with a focus on populist discourse and public mobilization around proposed energy infrastructure. He is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher and Limited Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he teaches on contemporary media studies and climate politics. In this episode, Robert and I chat about how an effective communication strategy for rallying the public in support of climate action really needs to validate the public’s concerns about things like affordability and health care, while also emphasizing the urgency of the climate crisis. The way we do that, he says, is to create an effective political “container.” I get the sense that the phrase “a big tent” applies here. I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that expanding the tent, when it comes to transformative changes to infrastructure and to our lifestyles, implies the need to communicate the everyday benefits of climate action, while also being realistic with audiences about the severity of the risks we face.If we fall short in our efforts to convince folks that a radical reset is required – so, if we can’t figure out a way to undermine the cultural importance of the automobile, for example – then we’re in even more serious trouble than the science tells us we are. That’s because a creeping fatalism is forcing a lot of people to court the idea that it’s too late. Neubauer says that nihilism is potentially more dangerous than far right populism.Robert unpacks the idea of petro-populism here, which is still a concept that I struggle with a bit. I find Neubauer’s way of bringing this idea into conversation with the notion of “cultural capital” really helpful. Robert uses this famous idea from Pierre Bourdieu’s work to talk about how petro-populism expresses itself and how it has secured such a prominent place culturally and politically.Neubauer gives us a way of critiquing the propaganda of petro-populists like Ezra Levant, whose ability to manipulate a sense of pride and feelings of national belonging have proven to be remarkably effective. In response to the pull of nostalgia and easy answers, the Left can’t focus on its standard techniques of shaming and allyship. Robert feels like these are now simplistic strategies that go nowhere. Resisting the stunting effects of facile forms of solidarity or public shaming is all about accepting real responsibility for the work of decolonization.The constraints of a carbon-intensive society make it hard to imagine any alternative to the way things are, but things are changing nonetheless. As companies with skin in the carbon game realize they need to aggressively brand fossil fuels as an integral part of our lives to maintain their normalized status, the climate movement is positioning itself to counter with a totally different relationship to energy.
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Inside the brain of a dinosaur
Pub date: 2024-09-18
With new technologies, paleontologists are starting to learn more about how dinosaurs lived by connecting them to animals alive today. Amy M. Balanoff, assistant professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution at Johns Hopkins, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the T. Rex and its brain – how paleontologists are piecing together what abilities they had, and why the modern housecat might offer some clues. Her Scientific American article, co-authored by Daniel T. Ksepka, is “What Was It Like to be a Dinosaur?”
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Podcast: The Modern Scholar Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Researching Counterinsurgency with Terrence Peterson
Pub date: 2024-09-17
Terrence G. Peterson is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University. He researches and teaches on France, modern Europe, and their connections to the wider world, with a particular focus on war, empire, and migration. His first book, Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency, was just published with Cornell University Press. His current work focuses on the Rivesaltes Camp in Southern France, which the French government used to detain a wide array of migrant populations from 1939 to 2007.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa
Pub date: 2024-09-17
Soon after gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the new Republic of the Congo was rocked by the assassination of its young firebrand leader, Patrice Lumumba. Stuart A Reid unpicks this story in his Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book The Lumumba Plot. He speaks to Elinor Evans to unravel the tumult that followed independence and the devastating implications of Lumumba's death. Plus, Stuart reveals more about the CIA's murky role in the leader's brutal execution.
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Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: London Feeds Itself: Jonathan Nunn & Owen Hatherley
Pub date: 2024-09-18
Born in the pandemic lockdown of 2020, when Britain’s restaurants had closed their doors, Jonathan Nunn founded the online newsletter Vittles, which rapidly established itself as the premier platform for exploring food cultures in Britain and around the world. Out of Vittles was born London Feeds Itself, a fascinating collection of essays written at the intersections of food, architecture, history, and demography. First published by Open City in 2022, London Feeds Itself now appears in a new edition in association with Fitzcarraldo.
In this episode, Jonathan Nunn speaks about the project with architectural historian Owen Hatherley, whose essay ‘The Housing Estate’ from the book serves as a springboard for the discussion.
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Podcast: Chatter (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: UFO Culture, with Sarah Scoles
Pub date: 2024-09-17
Science journalist Sarah Scoles has written extensively about astronomy and the UFO community, including in her 2021 book They Are Already Here. She joined David Priess to discuss how scientists look at ETs, pop cultural takes on first contact with extraterrestrials, the incredible influence of Carl Sagan's Contact, the Allan Hills meteorite, the evolution over time of beliefs about aliens contacting humans, how the Roswell myth emerged, the International UFO Congress, the Mutual UFO Network, UFO investigators, seeing lights around Area 51, SETI salvationalism, extraterrestrial-visitation belief as a religious movement, and more.
Works mentioned in this episode:
The book Contact by Carl Sagan
The movie Contact
The book Making Contact by Sarah Scoles
The book They Are Already Here by Sarah Scoles
The book Countdown by Sarah Scoles
The event "UAP: The Search for Clarity," at the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security, November 15, 2023
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Madison: A Climate Haven? with Richard Keller and Sumudu Atapattu
Pub date: 2024-09-17
What are climate havens? They are seen as places with an abundance of freshwater that are cooler on average, and would benefit from milder winters. Wisconsin, and Madison in particular seem to fit that bill. In fact, this CBS News piece, holds Madison is stark contrast to Paradise, California which burned to the ground in 2018. Madison is toted as a place safe from–or even benefiting from–climate change. In her recent piece There will be no “climate haven”, Tone Madison News and Politics Editor Christina Lieffring writes that these narratives create “a false sense of security” and offers “potential easy answer to this crisis.”
Lieffring hosts today’s A Public Affair and goes more in depth with Professors Sumudu Atapattu and Richard Keller about the complex issue of climate-based displacement. Keller is the author Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003, and he argues that heat, even in cooler climates, can have drastic and deadly consequences when the infrastructure is not ready.
Atapattu, author of UN Human Rights Institutions and the Environment, offers that developing nations are disproportionately impacted by the rise in temperature, sea level, and natural disasters. She press that globally we must be prepared to relocate populations whose homes will become inhabitable.
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Podcast: Social Science for Public Good
Episode: Imagination: Narrative & Foundational w/ Dr. Richard Kearney
Pub date: 2024-09-18
In this episode, we focus on how the narrative imagination helps us make sense of the world. Additionally, we dig into the connection between story and imagination. Our guest scholar in this episode is Dr. Richard Kearney, Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College
Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne), the Australian Catholic University and the University of Nice.
He is the author of over 26 books on European philosophy and literature (including three novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 23 more. His most recent publications include Anatheism (2012), Reimagining the Sacred (2015), Carnal Hermeneutics (2015), Twinsome Minds: An Act of Double Remembrance (2018), Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense (2021), Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies (ed. Richard Kearney and M.E. Littlejohn) (2023).
He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995).
He has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and broadcast extensively on the European media.
He is currently international director of the Guestbook Project–Hosting the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality.
While his full catalog of articles and books is far too long to list here, the publications below provide a useful introduction to his scholarship addressing the topic of imagination:
Kearney, R. (2002). The wake of imagination. Routledge.
Kearney, R. (2002). On stories. Routledge.
Littlejohn, M. E. (Ed.). (2020). Imagination Now: A Richard Kearney Reader. Rowman & Littlefield.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: States of Injury — with Wendy Brown
Pub date: 2024-09-17
On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Wendy Brown, distinguished American political theorist and Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Together they discuss Wendy’s writing on the emergence of and critical responses to identity politics, physical border controls as performative expressions of sovereignty, the replacement of democratic values with neoliberal values of free market competition and individualism, and her forthcoming work on expanded notions of democracy that account for the past, future, human and non human. They also discuss the 2024 American presidential race, and as this episode was recorded in May, before President Joe Biden announced that he would not run for re-election, some comments are out of date, though still relevant to larger conversations around electoral politics.Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/250-wendy-brown.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/250-wendy-brown.htmlResources:Wendy Brown: https://www.ias.edu/sss/wendy-brownStates of Injury: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691029894/states-of-injuryWalled States, Waning Sovereignty: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781935408031/walled-states-waning-sovereigntyUndoing the Demos: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781935408543/undoing-the-demosBio:A political theorist who works across the history of political thought, political economy, Continental philosophy, cultural theory and critical legal theory, Wendy Brown is the UPS Foundation Chair in the School of Social Science. Prior to her appointment at the Institute, she was Class of 1936 First Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a prize-winning teacher and scholar. Drawing from Nietzschean, Weberian, Marxist, Foucauldian, feminist and postcolonial angles of vision, Professor Brown writes about the subterranean powers shaping contemporary EuroAtlantic polities, with particular attention to the political identities, subjectivities and expressions they spawn. The author/co-author of a dozen books in English, she is best known for her interrogation of identity politics and state power in States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (1995); her critical analysis of tolerance in Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (2006); her account of the inter-regnum between nation states and globalization in Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010); and her study of neoliberalism’s assault on democratic principles, institutions and citizenship in Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (2015) and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (2019). Across her work, Brown aims to illuminate powers unique to our era and the predicaments they generate for democratic thought and practice. These predicaments range from rule by finance, to the de-democratization of political culture, to the nihilistic depletion of truth, values and conscience. Currently, Brown is exploring how political freedom can be salvaged from its historical imbrication with regimes of class, race and gender subjection and be made responsive to the climate crisis. Her driving question is whether and how political freedom can be reformulated in light of both. She is also extending and revising for publication her 2019 Yale Tanner Lectures, “Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber.” Cite this episode:Chicago StyleJohal, Am. “States of Injury — with Wendy Brown.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 17, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/250-wendy-brown.html.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 367. A Brief History of Apocalypse
Pub date: 2024-09-16
To mark the occasion of his new best selling airport book, we take a deeper look at Yuval Noah Harari’s impoverished thought and intellectual style via a great review essay by Daniel Immerwahr. We see how Harari’s doomsday scenarios are based on an extreme form of technological determinism + a romanticized humanism-as-critique + a disinterest in material analysis of political economy + an ironically chatbot-esque style of intellectualism. ••• Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/yuval-noah-harari-nexus-book/679572/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.x.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.x.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: Dis a fi mi History Podcast
Episode: Control and Resistance: The Untold Story of Indentured Labor in Suriname
Pub date: 2024-09-22
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Rosemarijn Hoefte, a historian specializing in the history of Suriname after 1873. She is a professor at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in the Netherlands.
Professor Hoefte discusses her article, "Control and Resistance: Indentured Labor in Suriname," offering an in-depth look into the period following the abolition of slavery. She explores the origins of indentured laborers, mainly from British India and Java (present-day Indonesia), and the significant impact they had on Suriname's society and economy.
The episode delves into the mechanisms of control imposed by colonial authorities and plantation owners, including penal sanctions and restricted movement, as well as the various forms of resistance employed by the laborers. From open rebellions to subtle acts of defiance, the laborers' struggle for justice is brought to light.
We also discuss the long-term cultural and economic consequences for the laborers and their descendants, and the importance of preserving and respecting this often-overlooked chapter in Suriname's history. Professor Hoefte emphasizes the need for broader recognition and understanding of the entire colonial history of the Netherlands, including the indentured labor system.
Tune in to gain a comprehensive understanding of the control and resistance dynamics within Suriname's indentured labor system and its lasting legacy.
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Rose Marie Adelheid Leonie (Rosemarijn) Höfte is a Dutch historian and Surinamist . She publishes under the name Rosemarijn Hoefte .
Professor Hoefte studied history at Leiden University and at the University of Florida in Gainesville . She received her doctorate from this institution in 1987 with a dissertation on British Indian and Javanese contractlabor in Suriname , Plantation labor after the abolition of slavery: the case of plantation Marienburg (Suriname), 1880-1940 . An adaptation of this was published as In Place of Slavery (1998).
Rosemarijn Hoefte was head of the Caribbean Department and subsequently head of Collections at the KITLV in Leiden and editor-in-chief of the Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide . She is a member of the editorial board of the journal for Surinamistics , Oso , on behalf of the KITLV . In addition to the journals mentioned, she has published articles in Latinamericanist , Boletín de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe , Hemisphere: a magazine of Latin American and Caribbean affairs , Intermediair , Internationale spectator: journal for international politics , Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Slavery & abolition: a journal of comparative studies , International labor and working-class history , the women's history journal Historica and Wadabagei: journal of the Caribbean and its diaspora , and in various volumes. She was co-editor of the series Caribbean Abstracts .
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Podcast: Superficial Podcast
Episode: Gun Control, Climate Issues, Philosophy| Dr William French | Ep 24
Pub date: 2024-09-14
Background: William French is an Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. His main research interests are religious ethics, ecological ethics and policies, and war and peace issues. He has written articles and book chapters on such topics as global climate change, land use issues, ecological security, just war theory, the moral status of animals, the Catholic natural tradition, Biblical views of creation, and on comparative religious ethics.
We discuss topics from the infrastructure of war to philosophical history as well as Dr French’s & my opposing views on climate change.
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Podcast: Deep Dive with Shawn C. Fettig
Episode: After America E11: Backsliding to the Brink - A Global Playbook for American Authoritarianism
Pub date: 2024-09-08
Is democracy at risk worldwide? In this penultimate episode of After America, we examine the alarming trend of democratic backsliding, the global rise of authoritarianism, and how it might provide a blueprint for a second Trump presidency.
We compare the authoritarian tendencies of leaders in India, Russia, and Hungary, whose tactics in weakening the judiciary, manipulating the media, and undermining fair elections have set a troubling precedent, influencing similar movements across Europe and even some Republican figures in the U.S. This discussion also highlights the broader implications of sacrificing civil liberties for nationalism and security, reflecting on the erosion of democracy in these countries and the potential roadmap it provides for the U.S.
Finally, we discuss the intricate relationship between liberalism and democracy, using Hungary as a case study to explore how democracies without full liberalism can falter. The concept of a "post-communist mafia state" provides a lens through which we analyze Hungary's journey from democracy to autocracy. We also tackle the challenges the European Union faces in addressing Hungary's defiance of democratic norms and consider the global threat of authoritarianism, weighing the contrasting approaches of the EU and the U.S. in imposing sanctions.
Guests: Flemming Rose, Dr. Sheri Berman, Dr. Shalu Nigam, & Dr. Balint Magyar
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Podcast: Swamp Chronicles (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Swamp Chronicles: Chris Murphy on America’s metaphysical malaise
Pub date: 2024-09-12
Statistics show that the United States has a robust economy flush with opportunity; but poll after poll of the American public indicates discontent. The 2024 election will be framed by this metaphysical malaise, with Donald Trump and his MAGA movement finding strength in the community of alienated voters. Now Kamala Harris must also secure a narrative which not only addresses the country’s emotional burden, but helps her to form a loyal community of her own.
For the second episode of ECFR’s Swamp Chronicles series, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş and Jeremy Shapiro welcome Connecticut senator Chris Murphy to discuss America’s ‘metaphysical’ crisis and the post-neoliberal framing of the 2024 election. What is the impact of the loneliness epidemic on US society? How is post-neoliberalism shaping the Harris-Walz agenda? And what might a post-neoliberal path mean for Europe?
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Podcast: Serious Feather Arts with Brett Gregory
Episode: Interview: Jon Greenaway discusses his book 'Capitalism: A Horror Story'
Pub date: 2024-09-13
Jon Greenaway is a horror expert, with a PhD from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He is the co-host of the leftist film analysis podcast Horror Vanguard and his work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Baffler and a host of other online publications. He lives and works in the North of England.
Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination
What does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism?
Blending film criticism, cultural theory, and philosophy, Capitalism: A Horror Story examines literature, film, and philosophy, from Frankenstein to contemporary cinema, delving into the socio-political function of the monster, the haunted nature of the digital world, and the inescapable horror of contemporary capitalist politics.
Revitalizing the tradition of Romantic anticapitalism and offering a “dark way of being red”, Capitalism: A Horror Story argues for a Gothic Marxism, showing how we can find revolutionary hope in horror- a site of monstrous becoming that opens the door to a Utopian future.
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Euthanizing Rentier Capitalism with Daniel Conceição
Pub date: 2024-09-14
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Daniel Conceição is back to discuss the social damage of rentier capitalism and the potential to address it through the insights of Modern Monetary Theory.
Rentier capitalism derives profit from ownership and manipulation of assets rather than through productive activity. While industrial capitalism also creates inequality, rentier capitalism, or rent seeking, exacerbates the division.
State-controlled money creation could nullify some of the speculative advantage of rentiers by directly funding critical public services, such as housing and healthcare. It may not be the ultimate answer, but it’s worth looking at.
Daniel and Steve discuss the importance of overcoming mainstream economic fallacies that serve the interests of the financial elite.
Daniel Negreiros Conceição did his undergraduate studies in Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and his postgraduate studies at UMKC (under Professors Wray, Kelton, et al). He is a professor of macroeconomics and public finance at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He helped create the Institute for Functional Finance and Development (iffdbrasil.org), and he helps run the Brazilian Modern Money Network (https://mmtbrasil.com/) aimed at producing more easily accessible material for teaching MMT to the wider public.
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Podcast: Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Thing from Another World: Howard Hawks and the Cold War
Pub date*: 2024-09-15
As always there are spoilers ahead!
For the full show notes with no character limits you can click the episode on the website watch page here.
Description:We are finally in the 1950s! The Golden Era of science fiction cinema.
Although the 1950s are known for may B Movies The Thing from Another World was produced (and possibly directed) but the very famous Howard Hawks and came from RKO which was a big name studio at this time.
This film capitalised on the growing appetite for science fiction in the USA which was up until this recently largely in print but also a little on television although studios were still wary of the science fiction label. Based on the John W Campbell novella Who Goes There? from 1938 there were a few significant changes made to the story.
The Experts
Jay Telotte is Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written/edited numerous books and articles about science fiction film including the 2023 Selling Science Fiction Cinema.
Marc Longenecker is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Film Studies at Wesleyan University.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the show and guests
02:40 The 1950s sci-fi explosion
06:34 The studio aversion to science fiction and the paramount decree
09:55 Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes and who really directed this film?
16:20 If it walks like a Hawk: Hallmarks and the Hawksian woman
21:52 The Cold War, flying saucers and “the group”
34:05 Jay’s comparison to The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
36:26 The influence on John Carpenter and The Thing (1982)
44:21 The legacy of the film
48:56 Recommendations for listeners
NEXT EPISODE!Next episode we will be taking a closer look at The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). You can check Just Watch to find out where it can be found in your region and is available to buy or rent at many outlets including Apple TV.
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Podcast: Education Technology Society
Episode: What’s the problem with Google Classroom?
Pub date: 2024-09-12
We talk with Sonia Livingstone (LSE) about the ways in which EdTech and data protection policies often fail to protect children’s rights at school.
In particular we look at Google Classroom as an example of how policymakers, regulators and governments need to intervene more forcibly in the EdTech marketplace.
Accompanying reference >>> Livingstone, S., Pothong, K., Atabey, A., Hooper, L., & Day, E. (2024). The Googlization of the classroom: Is the UK in protecting children's data and rights? Computers and Education Open, 100195.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Heat, A History / On Barak
Pub date: 2024-09-10
Returning to This is Hell!, On Barak, author of, "Heat, a HistoryLessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet." On is a social and cultural historian of science and technology and Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.After the interview, we hear a new "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi.Check out Barak's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/heat-a-history/paperHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism
Pub date: 2024-09-09
The Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic is one of the world’s leading authorities on inequality. In this KEEN ON America conversation, we talked about Milanovic’s interpretation of the history of American economic inequality - from slavery to contemporary capitalism. Why has America become so much unequal over the last fifty years, I asked. And today, in what Milanovic sees as a post neo-liberal age, how does he imagine the future of economic inequality?
Branko Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics (1987) from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years, leaving to write his book on global income inequality, Worlds Apart (2005). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005) and has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997- 2007). He was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford, and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (2010-11). Professor Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, including in preindustrial societies. He has published articles in Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Political Philosophy, among others. His book The Haves and the Have-nots (2011) was selected by The Globalist as the 2011 Book of the Year. Global Inequality (2016) was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the best political book of 2016 and the Hans Matthöfer Prize in 2018, and was translated into 16 languages. It addresses economic and political effects of globalization and introduces the concept of successive “Kuznets waves” of inequality. In March 2018, Milanovic was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His most recent books are Capitalism, Alone, published in 2019, and Visions of Inequality, published in 2023..
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Osculate me, you fool! A brief history of romantic kissing
Pub date: 2024-05-15
This hour, a look at why humans touch others with their lips (and often their tongues!).
Join us as we overthink the simple act of kissing.
GUESTS:
- Marcel Danesi: Professor Emeritus of Linguistic Anthropology at The University of Toronto and author of The History of the Kiss! The Birth of Popular Culture
- Matthew Longcore: Director of Membership and Outreach for the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University and an Adjunct Faculty Member in Anthropology at the University of Connecticut Stamford
- Andréa Demirjian: Runs The Kissing Expertwebsite, Instagram feed, and Facebookpage. She’s the author of the book Kissing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About One of Life’s Sweetest Pleasures
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Podcast: Korea Deconstructed (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Neoliberalization and Psychological Ruptures in South Korea
Pub date: 2024-08-25
Professor Moon Seungsook is a political and cultural sociologist, scholar of gender studies, and East Asianist specializing in South Korea. She grew up in Seoul, Korea and lived and worked in Boston and Cambridge, MA before moving to Vassar College. Her research evolved from feminist critiques of nationalism, militarism, democratization, and citizenship to globalization and transnationalism shaping militarism and civic agency, production and consumption of food and masculinities. She is a recipient of notable awards, including a Fulbright Scholars Award (2004-05), an inaugural endowed-chair visiting professorship at Harvard University (2014-15), and the Laboratory Program for Korean Studies Research Grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (2018-23). Her latest book is Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism (2024).
Civic Activism in South Korea: https://www.amazon.com/Civic-Activism-South-Korea-Neoliberalism/dp/023121149X
Discussion Outline
0:00 Introduction
7:00 The real life effects of neoliberalization
15:40 Life in pre-democratic South Korea
21:00 Neoliberalism and democracy in South Korea
32:53 Citizens' Organizations in South Korea
42:05 Neoliberalization and religion
51:35 The profound irony of individualism
55:05 Multiculturalism in South Korea
1:02:45 Recommendations
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Podcast: Connecting the Global Ummah - Islampodcasts
Episode: IMF, World Bank, and the New Colonialism: Pakistan’s Economic Struggles- Br. Azeemuddin | Islam and the Subcontinent | Session 1 |
Pub date: 2024-09-03
IMF, World Bank, and the New Colonialism: Pakistan’s Economic Struggles- Br. Azeemuddin | Islam and the Subcontinent | Session 1 |
In this compelling discussion, Br. Azeemuddin sheds light on the modern form of economic colonization perpetuated by international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank. Focusing on the debt trap that has ensnared countries like Pakistan, the speaker argues that these organizations have merely replaced traditional colonialism with economic domination, where nations are bound by crippling debts and forced to adopt policies that perpetuate their dependency on the West. The discourse critically examines the economic data of Pakistan, highlighting alarming statistics such as skyrocketing inflation, unsustainable debt, and a shrinking GDP, all of which contribute to the ongoing economic hardship faced by its citizens.
Join Br. Azeemuddin as he calls for reevaluation of the capitalist framework imposed by these institutions and copels the listeners to look to Islamic economic principles for more just and sustainable alternative.
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Podcast: New Books in National Security (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2024-09-04
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. In The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent (Pluto Press, 2022), David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret police of American capitalism up to today, where they luxuriate in a near-limitless NSA surveillance of all.
Price looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and corporations to understand how we got here. Starting with J. Edgar Hoover and the early FBI's alignment with business, his access to 15,000 pages of never-before-seen FBI files shines a light on the surveillance of Edward Said, Andre Gunder Frank and Alexander Cockburn, Native American communists, and progressive factory owners.
Price uncovers patterns of FBI monitoring and harassing of activists and public figures, providing the vital means for us to understand how these new frightening surveillance operations are weaponized by powerful governmental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy.
David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University’s Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.
Deniz Yonucu is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University. Her work focuses on counterinsurgency, policing and security, surveillance, left-wing and anti-colonial resistance, memory, racism, and emerging digital control technologies. Her book, Police, Provocation, Politics Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), presents a counterintuitive analysis of policing, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence and perpetual conflict by state security apparatus.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E174 - Woke Iron Man w/ Spencer Ackerman
Pub date: 2024-09-03
Danny and Derek welcome back AP mega-guest Spencer Ackerman, author of the Forever Wars newsletter and soon-to-be-published issues of Marvel Comics’ Iron Man. The group explores Spencer’s inspiration to pursue more work in the world of comic books, writing for a character who is a defense contractor, bringing left-wing messaging into the medium, the sand box of Marvel Comics vs. the behemoth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plus Spencer’s impressions on some major current events.
NOTE: This interview was recorded on 8/30/24, prior to reports that the Israeli military had recovered the bodies of six hostages inside Gaza.
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More of Spencer’s work:
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The graphic novel Waller vs. Wildstorm
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Forever Wars newsletter
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His book Reign of Terror
Further Reading:
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Annie Nocenti, journalist, writer, editor and filmmaker
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Six Stops on the National Security Tour by Miriam Pemberton
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Rights of Nature | Mongabay Newscast
Pub date: 2024-09-05
This week, P:C features Mongabay.
Nations across the globe are trialing “rights of nature” laws and “legal personhood” for various ecosystems and a range of reasons, from Indigenous reconciliation to biodiversity protection. While these two concepts are closely related, they have some key differences.
Viktoria Kahui discusses what distinguishes them and how they’ve been used for conservation, while stressing there’s still little evidence that legal personhood protects biodiversity. Kahui is an environmental and ecological economist at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand and joins the Mongabay Newscast to interrogate these legal frameworks.
In this conversation with co-host Rachel Donald, Kahui outlines instances where the laws have been applied and why, despite some flaws, she thinks they are worth considering and iterating upon to combat environmental degradation, despite a global debate and many critiques, based on their intent and design. Chief among these is their imposition of an anthropocentric (and primarily Western) legal viewpoint upon something as complex as nature, which transcends the confines of human liability and, therefore, cannot be subjected to it without knock-on effects that potentially harm the people these laws are intended to empower.
Kahui weighs in on this debate and where she sees such laws being applied in a promising fashion, such as in Ecuador, where courts have examined nature in the context of established constitutional law, leading to outcomes that have benefited both people and nature.
“Very slowly, as lawyers and judges are becoming more familiar with the concept, they’re able to interpret it when there is a legal case being brought, and they’re [better able to argue] the side of nature,” she says. “It’s certainly much, much more positive than what we’ve seen in the past.”
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Podcast: Laid Off and Looking
Episode: Pop The News Bubble
Pub date: 2024-09-06
We're BACK!!!!Season 2 of Laid Off and Looking Dom and Jenna talk pop culture's essential yet dismissed role in the news ecosystem and especially politics.This week's guest is Dr Joel Penney PhD, professor of communication and media at Montclair University in New Jersey. He's also author of 'Pop Culture, Politics and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape' Pop Culture is News, Not Clickbait, University Professor Says in New Bookhttps://www.montclair.edu/newscenter/2023/03/03/pop-culture-is-news-not-clickbait-university-professor-says-in-new-book/Dr Penney explains: How political leaders use pop culture trends to connect with votersThe under appreciated role of entertainment news within journalismAnd the changes in journalistic approaches to pop culture due to digital media and its importance to younger audiencesDom and Jenna also share what they've got planned for this new season of the podcast!Headlines: 1:23Interview: 17:00Headline Links:Hollywood Reporter: Musical Acts Who’ve Called Out 2024 Trump Campaignfor Illegal Use of Their Songshttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/muscial-acts-trump-campaign-illegal-use-songs-1235988369/USA Today: Donald Trump's campaign prohibited from using Isaac Hayessong after lawsuit threathttps://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/09/03/isaac-hayes-lawsuit-donald-trump-campaign/75061399007/
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Manufacturing Consent and Fake News | Marc Owen Jones
Pub date: 2024-09-02
In this episode, produced in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation, Marc Owen Jones — Associate Professor of Media Analytics at Northwestern University Qatar — talks to us about this age of disinformation and how it manifests in the context of the Middle East. We discuss regulating social media platforms and try to understand what exactly disinformation is and where it came from. Touching on significant socio-political events such as the Arab uprisings of 2011, Professor Owen Jones reflects on the unique role that social media plays in the region. Referencing the dangers posed by monopolized social media platforms and data colonialism, we also talk about how the news industry is changing and what this means for historical records. Finally, the conversation moves to young people today and how they grapple with Ai, disinformation, false and new narratives, and orientalist perceptions of the Arab world.
Marc Owen Jones is Associate Professor of Media Analytics at Northwestern University Qatar. He is the author of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media.
Connect with Marc 👉 https://www.instagram.com/marcowenjones/?hl=en
Get his book 👉https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/digital-authoritarianism-in-the-middle-east/
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Podcast: Now and Men
Episode: Gender, the Far-Right, and the Riots in Britain – Dr Elizabeth Pearson
Pub date: 2024-09-04
For one turbulent week at the end of July this year, serious rioting broke out across around 20 towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland. Rioters attacked homes and businesses owned by immigrants, and set fire to accommodation housing asylum-seekers. The riots began near Liverpool after the horrific murder of three young girls in a neighbouring town, about which far-right supporters spread false claims online that the perpetrator was a Muslim migrant or asylum-seeker.
Whilst some women were involved, the vast majority of the rioters were men. So how should we understand the place of masculinities and misogyny in these events, and in extreme movements more generally? What should we make of the response of the authorities, focused largely on criminality, arrests, and imprisonment? How significant is the subsequent upsurge in anti-racism rallies across the country, which heavily outnumbered the far-right rioters?
We talk to Dr Elizabeth Pearson about her recent book ‘Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation’, which explores misogyny and masculinities in relation to the far-right (English Defence League, Britain First, and For Britain) and the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun. The book is based on interviews with figures including Anjem Choudary, Tommy Robinson, Jayda Fransen, and Anne Marie Waters. Elizabeth argues that radicalisation is a ‘masculinity project’ for those who get involved in extremism – both for those on the far-right, and those in Islamist groups.
Elizabeth is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defence and Security Studies. Prior to academia, she worked as a radio journalist for the BBC.
- Profile: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/elizabeth-pearson
- Twitter: https://x.com/lizzypearson
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-pearson-3572a117/
- Elizabeth’s ‘Extreme Britain’ book: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
- She also co-authored ‘Countering Violent Extremism: Making Gender Matter’ (2020): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-21962-8
- Her Conversation piece about the riots: https://theconversation.com/the-hypermasculine-far-right-how-white-nationalists-tell-themselves-they-are-protecting-women-and-children-when-they-riot-236250
- Her writing for RUSI: https://rusi.org/people/pearson
Episode timeline
- Introduction (00:00-02:37)
- Elizabeth’s feelings as she saw the riots unfold (02:37-05:42)
- Government and public responses to the riots (05:42-09:30)
- Discourses about ‘protecting’ women and girls (09:30-14:41)
- Connections between misogyny, domestic abuse, and extremism (14:41-19:06)
- Men's responses (19:06-23:55)
- Break (23:55)
- Why extremist radicalisation is a ‘masculinity project’ (24:00-27:45)
- Similarities and differences between the far-right and Islamist extremism (27:45-33:37)
- Elizabeth’s experience of conducting her research (33:37-39:40)
- Women’s place in the far-right (39:40-49:11)
- What got Elizabeth involved in this area of research (49:11-54:12)
- Conclusion [The counter-protests; addressing the root causes; links between the mainstream and far-right; exploitation of working-class men; protest masculinity; engaging with people across divides] (54:12-01:02:29)
Explainers
- More info at Hope Not Hate: https://hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-hub/
- Tommy Robinson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson
- Andrew Tate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate
- Nigel Farage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage
- Greggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greggs
- Anjem Choudary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjem_Choudary
- ‘Home Grown’ by Joan Smith - https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/joan-smith/home-grown/9781787476066/
- Prevent Strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONTEST
- UCL ‘Grievance’ research team: https://www.grievance-erc.com
- Prof Joel Busher: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/joel-busher
- English Defence League: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League
- Britain First: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_First
- For Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Britain_Movement
- Al-Muhajiroun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muhajiroun
- Jayda Fransen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayda_Fransen
- Anne-Marie Waters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Marie_Waters
- Boudica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
- Pegida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegida
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Podcast: History in Focus
Episode: S3 E1 A New Welfare History
Pub date: 2024-09-04
What story can be told of the American welfare state when you broaden the view beyond established government programs and official actors? We kick off season 3 with a conversation with historians Salonee Bahmen, Bobby Cervantes, and Salem Elsway on their AHR article “A New Welfare History.”
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Podcast: Disintegrator (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 17. Computation is Computation (w/ M. Beatrice Fazi)
Pub date: 2024-08-19
This episode features one of our most anticipated guests: M. Beatrice Fazi.
M. Beatrice Fazi is a philosopher working in philosophy of computation, philosophy of technology and media philosophy. In this episode we mostly cover some key definitions relating to computation and its onto-epistemology grounded in Fazi’s landmark book, Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics published in 2018. But our discussion doesn't end in 2018.
Now more than ever, Fazi`s work on computation holds unbelievable importance with wide-ranging implications. Philosophy is becoming a major foil to technocapital and technopolitics, forcing us to seriously (re)consider fundamental questions about technology and correlated fundamentals of knowledge and being.
Ever wondered what computation actually is? According to Fazi, it exists and unfolds not only as a function, but also as a creative modality forming its own conditions for existence. This episode dives deep into the concept of computation as an autonomous form of thought and creation, that is nevertheless contingent, i.e. not independent from the material conditions of the world.
We move further into Fazis more recent work in ontology: the triangulation of abstraction, representation and thought. This pushes us into massive questions - what does computation mean for the future of thought? How should we conceptualize the relationship between humans and technology? And why should we rethink the idea of technology as merely an extension of ourselves?
Relevant Links & References:
Fazi’s landmark book, Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics—still essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of technology. About the fundamentals of what computation does and what material, ontological and epistemological consequences this holds.
* Brian Cantwell Smith’s essay, “The Foundations of Computing” (2003)—a text we explore, even if Fazi offers a different perspective on the nature of computation.
* Oh, also, look to Anil Bawa-Cavia's (life changing) episode of Interdependence, where he enumerates further on computational functionalism, computational realism, but more importantly for more color on the paths to incompleteness traced in Gödel and Turing -- to which Fazi builds her main thesis: these incompletenesses are actually strengths* and not limitations of computation.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 361. The Artists vs. the Machines (ft. Brian Merchant)
Pub date: 2024-08-20
We’re joined by Brian Merchant to chat about his reporting on the frontlines of labor exploitations in video games development and animation studios where companies are using AI to replace and degrade jobs, fracture and disempower the workforce, and push the quality of artistic works down even further. When executives explicitly say they are going to use a technology to destroy your livelihoods, then you should believe them and act accordingly. The collective response by workers – especially in the highly unionized animation industry – has been strong and swift. Their message is clear: “AI can fuck right off.” ••• AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/••• He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-animators-fight-artificial-intelligence-labor-mike-rianda/ ••• Brian’s newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.x.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.x.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: Hegemonicon - An Investigation Into the Workings of Power (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Flows and Chokepoints, with Tim Sahay
Pub date: 2024-08-13
Tim Sahay returns to the show provide a world tour of the flows and chokepoints of goods and finance that make up our global economy. While the US economy is supposedly doing better than ever, it's a very different story in the Global South, which is suffering from lack of investment capital and economic sovereignty. Tim helps explain why, and we speculate about potential sites of leverage for reforming the international economic order.Tim Sahay is the co-editor of "The Polycrisis" newsletter, published at Phenomenal World, and the co-director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps
Pub date: 2024-08-20
The Soviet gulag was a place of brutality, exploitation and death. But it was also home to tens of thousands of medical personnel who had to overcome limited facilities, appalling conditions and political menace in a battle to save the inmates' lives. Professor Dan Healey, author of a new book on these Gulag doctors, talks to Rob Attar about their complex roles in the heart of Stalin's labour camps.
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Podcast: Hacking State
Episode: 32 - Jonathan Anomaly: The Virtues of Enlightened Tribalism
Pub date: 2024-08-12
Jonathan Anomaly is a world renowned expert on the science and ethics of genetic enhancement and the Academic Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, & Economics in Quito, Ecuador.
Dr. Anomaly introduces the concept of Enlightened Tribalism, a virtuous mean between blind tribalism and undiscerning universalism.
We discuss why tribalism gets a bad rap, the evolutionary origins of tribalism, how altruism gets selected for in groups, liberal cosmopolitanism as a response to the excesses of nationalism in World War I and World War II, the difference between Enlightened tribalism and pathological tribalism, pitfalls in the ways liberals propose to extend altruism indefinitely, the problems with genetically engineering people for altruism, why people are not fungible to institutions, the moral case for Enlightened Tribalism, and why real diversity requires a rejection of cosmopolitan liberalism.
Paper on Enlightened Tribalism: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=ANOETA
Jonathan Anomaly: https://jonathan-anomaly.com/
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Podcast: Upstream (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Better Lives for All w/ Jason Hickel
Pub date: 2024-08-27
We’re often told that it would be unfeasible for everyone on the planet to live good lives—that if there wasn’t some degree of poverty—or at least lower living standards—in the rest of the world, then we’d blow right through the ecological limits of the planet. Even if it’s not said explicitly, the argument is that some people need to be poor in order for us in the Global North to live good lives. There’s a lot wrong with this assumption on a lot of different levels, but most importantly—it’s empirically inaccurate.
It is possible, in fact, for everybody on the planet to have their needs met and to live a good life and make it happen, in fact, with only 30 percent of current global resource and energy use. That might sound unbelievable, right? Well, that’s capitalist realism for you. Because not only is it believable—it’s based on solid research and empirical data. It would, however, require ending capitalism and moving towards eco-socialism. So yes, it’s possible. But it won’t be easy.
To discuss the research behind these exciting findings we’ve brought on economic anthropologist Jason Hickel. Jason is a professor at the The Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the author of the books The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions and Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World. He’s the lead author of the paper “How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis” published in the journal World Development Perspectives, and which we’ll be discussing today.
As you may know, Jason is a regular guest on the show and was on most recently to discuss two other fascinating and important papers he recently co-authored, “Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015” published in journal Global Environmental Change and "Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy" published in the journal Nature Communications.
What assumptions go into traditional economic thinking and how have they limited the way we conceptualize poverty and how we address it? How do we conceive of good lives—and how does our current economic system limit these conceptions and perpetuate environmental destruction and social immiseration? What would an economic system that is designed around meeting actual human and planetary needs look like? And, perhaps most importantly, how do we get there? These are just some of the questions we discuss in this fascinating conversation with economic anthropologist Jason Hickel.
Further Resources:
- The Political and Economic Determinants of Health Outcomes: A Cross-National Analysis, Hugh F. Lena and Bruce London
- How to pay for saving the world: Modern Monetary Theory for a degrowth transition, Christopher Olk, Colleen Schneider, Jason Hickel
Related Episodes:
- How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
- The Divide – Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets with Jason Hickel
- International Development and Post-capitalism with Jason Hickel
- How Degrowth Will Save the World with Jason Hickel
- The Green Transition Pt.1 – The Problem with Green Capitalism
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Podcast: Culturally Determined (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Political Economy of Hollywood, with Daniel Bessner
Pub date: 2024-08-12
Daniel discusses his recent Harper's cover story, "The Life and Death of Hollywood," which focuses on the economics of entertainment as private equity and streaming have changed the industry.
Recorded May 24, 2024
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LINKS
Daniel's piece, "The Life and Death of Hollywood"
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/
Max Read on the piece
https://maxread.substack.com/p/one-weird-trick-for-fixing-hollywood-6f0
Sean Clements's podcast, "Subtitles On"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/subtitles-on-with-sean-clements/id1694805292
Daniel's podcast, "American Prestige"
https://www.americanprestigepod.com/
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Abolish Managed Care
Pub date: 2024-08-16
Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 21st, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodFind our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communismFind Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogynyDeath Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merchAs always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
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Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Elite Networks, Mafia Families, and the Rise of Rome: Interview with Professor Nicola Terrenato
Pub date: 2024-08-29
When we think of the rise of Rome, our usual image is one of conquest: Roman armies marching out year after year to subdue their adversaries. But Professor Nicola Terrenato has an alternative way of understanding that process, one rooted in negotiation, the relationships and networks of elite families, and the self-interest of powerful individuals both in Rome and other Italian communities.
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Podcast: Africa World Now Project
Episode: echoes of FESTAC '77 w/ Bro Abdul Alkalimat
Pub date: 2024-08-08
The use of forum, colloquium, and festivals to center African/a intellectual creative cultural production flows rhythmically alongside the long tradition of Pan-African tendencies. This historical continuity and our duty to move within its legacy is a project that the International Colloquium at the International Black Theatre Festival, that we [AWNP collective] have the pleasure to coordinate, is the explicit dictum that guides it creation. Furthering our work in this Pan-African genealogy is intentional. Our theme this year was titled: ‘Echoes of FESTAC ’77’.The primary objectives of FESTAC ’77 was to “provide a forum for the focusing of attention on the enormous richness and diversity of African contributions to world culture and the ‘opportunity for recounting the achievements of [their] ancestors’ (quoted from Lt.-General Olusegun Obasanjo, Head of the Federal Military Government and Patron of FESTAC, in Africa, No. 65 [January 1977], p. 6 FESTAC).” For the 2024 iteration of the international colloquium, as we continue think deeply about form and function and its relationship to critical consciousness formation and radical practice in the use of the arts to map and proliferate Black/African sociopolitical and cultural life, we had the pleasure of being in dialogue with Dr. Abdul Alkalimat, who was at FESTAC ’77 [for more, visit https://www.alkalimat.org/festac/]. In fact, you will hear his presentation given at FESTAC ’77 in this program. As part of a consortium of cultural workers, intellectuals, activists/organizers, Dr. Alkalimat along with Dr. Ron Walters, Dr. Maulana Karenga, and a host of others took part in the colloquium. Dr. Abdul Alkalimat is one of the founders of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar/organizer with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught, and directed academic programs across the U.S., the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and China.I would be remiss to not highlight that along with Dr. Alkalimat, we were joined by artists and cultural scholars from Nova Scotia, Canada, where they explored the continuities in the histories of people of African descent in Canada. We had the pleasure to be in conversation with Walter Borden as he presented: The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time, a powerful autobiographical play and the story of Walter Borden’s life, his life’s work, and his letter to the world. An artist and cultural worker, Mr. Borden is an internationally acclaimed and nationally honoured African/Indigenous actor and activist born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. His activism spans six decades while his professional acting career is in its 54th year. He has performed throughout Canada, Europe and the United States.We look to bring you his thoughts and meditations in the coming programs on Africa World Now Project.As you prepare to engage this program … we share this meditation we hope will guide you as you share your time and energy with us …The universe of thought and ideas are the playground of Africana creativity. Black life lives on the fulcrum of the seen and unseen, constantly merging theory and practice … Effortlessly creating, recreating – through radical acts of remembering moving in and out of the deep well of Africana ways of being and forms of knowing, this is the essence of Black cultural production, the production of life itself.Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; Ghana; Ayati; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people.Listen intently. Think critically. Act accordingly.Link to paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_NFkkpy8dSySP6PtmqjBF5aM-3aTM8m/view?usp=sharing
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 530: The Latin American Review of Books
Pub date: 2024-08-06
The Latin American Review of Books – LatAmRoB – has been publishing online continuously since 2005 as a small, independent website based in the UK that reviews books and films. And we are very fortunate to have founder Gavin O'Toole here on the Colombia Calling podcast this week. The Latin American Review of Books is commercially and politically independent and value, above all sharp writing and commentary that brings to a wider audience knowledge, understanding and insight about all things Latin American. So, this week we chat about literary offerings from the region, goings on in Venezuela and Colombia, Boris Johnson's bizarre trip to Venezuela and much much more. Check out the website: https://www.latamrob.com Support the Colombia Briefing and Emily Hart on Substack: https://substack.com/@ehart and support us: www.patreon.com/colombiacalling
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Podcast: Sociotechs
Episode: Cyber Conflict and Data Violence in Gaza
Pub date: 2024-07-31
The ongoing war on Gaza, one of the deadliest military assaults in history, has been accompanied by extremeapplications of digital technologies to warfare. This feeds into the many layers of cybercontrol to which Palestine, a land under military and settler occupation, has long been subjected. Today we are joined by Fabio Cristiano to explore data violence in the ongoing Israeli assault, and the multiple implications it has in the space of human and digital rights.
Fabio Cristiano is Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University. His research explores the making ofinternational conflict in/through cyberspace, focusing primarily on questions related to automation and non-human agency (AI); violence; socio-technical knowledge production; sovereignty/territoriality; and digital rights. He is an Associate Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cybersecurity and the lead editor of Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2023) and Hybridity, Conflict, and the Global Politics of Cybersecurity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
Resources:
- Cristiano, F., & Distretti, E. (2021). Toward anAesthetics by Algorithms—Palestinian Cyber and Digital Spaces at the Thresholdof (In) visibility. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: A SavageJourney into the Heart of Digital Cultures, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65497-9_10 .
- Cristiano, F. (2019). Deterritorializing cybersecurity and warfare in Palestine: Hackers, sovereignty, and the NationalCyberspace as normative. CyberOrient, https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.cyo2.20191301.0002.
- Cristiano, F. (2019). Internet access as humanright: a dystopian critique from the occupied Palestinian territory.Springer International Publishing, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-91770-2_12 .
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Podcast: The Anti-Imperialist Archive (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ilan Pappe - The False Paradigm of Peace: Revisiting the Palestine Question (2012)
Pub date: 2024-08-05
An Israeli historian, Dr. Pappé is currently a professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK. He is also director of the university's European Center for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies. He obtained his PhD in history from the University of Oxford.
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Podcast: The Overpopulation Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: James Hopeward | The Delusion of Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Impact
Pub date: 2024-08-06
In this episode, we chat with Dr. James Hopeward, an environmental civil engineering professor at the University of South Australia. We explore the limitations of conventional economic growth models and their environmental impacts, emphasizing the need for more holistic and ecologically grounded engineering practices and cultural beliefs.
Highlights include:
- Why decoupling economic growth from energy and material use relies on temporary efficiency gains and ultimately fails in a growth-based system, rendering the concepts of absolute and relative decoupling meaningless;
- How the IPCC treats economic and population growth as exogenous to its modelling scenarios, and has therefore both overestimated fossil fuel supplies and underestimated catastrophic social and ecological outcomes resulting from overshoot;
- Why understanding exponential growth was a crucial lesson for James and is now a key part of his engineering curriculum;
- Why future infrastructure projects must prioritize climate resiliency;
- Why the significance of population issues within environmental and degrowth movements must be urgently elevated to minimize further overshoot-related harm and suffering.
See episode website for show notes, links, and transcript:
https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/james-hopeward
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: [LIVE] The Future of Global Politics w/ Verso & The Dig
Pub date: 2024-08-05
Today we're publishing part two of our sell-out live event recorded at London's Union Chapel on July 26th.
For this discussion we teamed up with our friends over at Verso Books and the Dig Podcast for a podcast extravaganza. Eleanor Penny of the Verso Podcast and Dig host Daniel Denvir sat down with writer and academic Laleh Khalili and the freshly re-elected, newly independent, MP Jeremy Corbyn, to talk about the past present and most importantly the future of Internationalism.
We talked about Palestine, Congo and Iran, about the Labour Party, the welfare state, the climate crisis and the economics of global trade. The event opened up with a live recording of Macrodose podcast which is already up on your feed if you want to take a dive into that.
Thank you so much to everyone who came down sold out the event and brought such an incredible energy to the evening. If you didn’t get the chance to come join us in person never fear we have the full recording for you here and now - I hope you enjoy the show.
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Podcast: Hear Me Out (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Olympics Are a Tool of Oppression
Pub date: 2024-08-06
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: opening ceremonies (and a can of worms).
We come to you midway through the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. But amid the patriotism, athletic prowess, and sheer spectacle of these games — the most watched and streamed to date, by some measures — there’s also concerns about geopolitical power, human rights abuses, and the facilitation of facism.
MacIntosh Ross of Windsor University joins us to talk about the uglier facets of the Olympic Games.
If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com
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Podcast: The Real News Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: JD Vance: Silicon Valley's puppet? w/Paris Marx
Pub date: 2024-08-09
J.D. Vance has tailored his political image to suit an all-American, blue-collar model. There's just one problem. While the Yale-educated Vice Presidential candidate may be from Appalachia, his journey has also taken him under the patronage of the decidedly elite Peter Thiel, who helped launch Vance's venture capital career. Thiel has been a longtime supporter of Donald Trump, and over the years, other Silicon Valley billionaires have come around to sharing the PayPal founder's outlook. The GOP now counts David Sacks, Elon Musk, the Winklevoss brothers, and possibly even Mark Zuckerberg among their supporters. So why is Big Tech aligning behind the Trump ticket, and what does Vance's inclusion have to do with it? In a special discussion with author and tech critic Paris Marx, we dive into the labyrinth of shady political dealings and patronage relationships undergirding the new covenant between Silicon Valley and the GOP.
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Podcast: The Social Contract Research Podcast
Episode: From Natural Politics to Social Contract in the History of Ideas, with Simon Kennedy
Pub date: 2024-08-06
In this seminar Dr Simon Kennedy addresses the prehistory of ideas of the social contract. After sketching a genealogy running through Plato, Aritsotle, Cicero and the Hebrew Bible, he reflects on the extent to which Hobbes's and Locke's social contract accounts are continuing, or breaking with, the natural law tradition. The seminar is followed by a time of questions and discussion.
A video version of the seminar is available at https://youtu.be/evM_m4ZNFgQ
The seminar took place over Zoom on 6 August 2024, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To find out more about the SCRN, and to subscribe to email updates, please visit https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/social-contract-research-network
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Podcast: Lever Time with David Sirota (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The American Roots Of The World’s Right-Wing Nationalism
Pub date: 2024-08-09
For more than a decade, global politics have been rocked by the rise of right-wing nationalist governments. Similar to Donald Trump’s rise in the United States, countries like India, Hungary, Brazil, and Italy have seen the emergence of far-right governments who’ve channeled popular anger into support for nativist and anti-immigrant platforms. It turns out we’re largely to blame for it.
Today on Lever Time, Arjun Singh sits down with Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp to discuss his new book The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept The World, in which Beauchamp traces the roots of modern right-wing regimes to an antidemocratic tradition that began in the United States.
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Podcast: Asian American History 101 (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Origin of Vietnamese American Nail Salons
Pub date: 2024-07-29
Welcome to Season 4, Episode 31! Have you ever wondered why Vietnamese Americans seem to dominate the nail salon industry in America? Although not all Vietnamese Americans are nail technicians, there are enough to make up approximately 50% of the nail technicians in the $8 billion per year American nail industry.
It all started with the celebrity activist, Tippi Hedren, an actress known for being in The Birds, Marnie, and many more features. She has made an effort to work on a variety of causes throughout her life, and that includes helping the Vietnamese American refugees starting in 1975. In this episode, we share the origin of the Vietnamese American Nail Salons. To learn more, check out the documentary by Adele Pham called Nailed It!
We open the episode by talking a little about AAPI athletes in the Olympics, API Emmy nominees, and other current events. In our recurring segment we introduce “So Annoying” where we take a topic that annoys us and talk about it. Today we’re talking about people who question the meat in Asian restaurants.
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- 00:25 Intro, current events, catching up
- 09:09 The Origin of Vietnamese Nail Salons
- 19:55 So Annoying, Accusations of Dog Meat in Asian Food
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Podcast: Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Spinoza and Ideology Critique with Warren Montag
Pub date: 2024-07-28
This was the latest seminar in our ongoing sub-series: From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality. The series is organised by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert.
In this session we were honoured to be joined by one of the greatest Anglophone scholars of Spinozist Marxism: Warren Montag. This was a fantastically lucid and informative seminar focussing mainly on Althusser’s relationship to Spinoza, but ranging widely over political, metaphysical and theological topics.
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Podcast: Europe Talks Back
Episode: About the racist origins of fatphobia
Pub date: 2024-08-01
The Cambridge dictionary defines fatphobia as the “unreasonable dislike or unfair treatment of people because they are fat”. Going deeper, Fatphobia equates fatness with ugliness, inferiority, and immorality. Subjecting people to fat phobia or weight stigma can be very harmful, not just to people who are fat but also to anyone else who has been co-opted by a system that designates only one “correct” body size or weight. But is fatphobia also an intersectional issue or opression? How does it relate to race, disability, colonisation and enslavement? In this episode we'll be discussing fatphobia and its intersectionality with racism. To do so, we are going to talk to Caleb Luna, a writer, fat activist and professor in the US. We will also be hearing from Saskia Calliste, a black London-based writer. Tune into episode 15 now!
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Uses of Automation
Pub date: 2024-07-29
Automation, its advocates contend, will usher in a new era of leisure and abundance. Is that true, and what kind of thing is automation, anyway? Salem Elzway emphasizes the political dimensions of automation, including how it’s been used against workers and how the discourse of automation has been deployed by elites.
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff, “Whence Automation? The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History
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Podcast: Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: /427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
Pub date: 2024-07-30
On emotional capitalism + Israeli politics.
Renowned sociologist Eva Illouz joins us to talk about her recent book on the emotions of populism, and her work on the sociology of emotions in general. We discuss:
- Why have emotions become such a collective obsession?
- Where can you buy emotional commodities? What are influencers really selling?
- What emotions accompany victim culture?
- How is identity and victimhood linked in a way that allow us never to forgive or forget?
Plus: * How has Netanyahu failed even on his own terms? * How has Israeli populism channelled fear, disgust, resentment, and love? * Why have Eva's views on the progressive left changed?
Readings & Links:
- The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy, Eva Illouz
- Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings, Bungacast series
- Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, Eva Illouz
- /232/ Reading Club: Cold, Hard / Warm, Soft - on Eva's 'Cold Intimacies'
- The Global Left Needs to Renounce Judith Butler, Eva Illouz, Ha'aretz
- 'Never has peace seemed so necessary and impossible' — Eva Illouz on the horrors of Oct. 7 and its aftermath, Forward
- Eva Illouz, sociologist: 'I think that after the terrorist attacks, for Israeli society, Hamas has become the Nazi' Le Monde
- Israel Is Facing Existential Threats From Inside and Out. There's One Solution, Eva Illouz, Ha'aretz
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Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Influence of Politics and Tribalism on Climate Science
Pub date: 2024-07-27
Shermer and Lipsky discuss: the scientists who first sounded the alarm about climate change • science consensus that global warming is real and human caused • the politicization of climate change • George H.W. Bush and Obama • a collective action problem • climate skeptics • Climategate • strategies of global warming skeptics • connection between cigarette smoking/tobacco industry and climate change • what is to be done now.
David Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, and many others. His new book is The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial.
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Podcast: Sonic Acts Podcast
Episode: Margarida Mendes – Sensorial Ecologies
Pub date: 2024-07-31
Researcher, educator, and curator Margarida Mendes’ lecture asks how our understanding of the environment is shaped on different scales from the way we sense, to social protocols and intergovernmental infrastructures. For Mendes, a collective sense of our surroundings is formed by practices and policies that mould our ecological pedagogies and politics, giving space (or not) to future worlds. Through her work she transmits an ontology of the sensory, starting with her experiments in listening to riverine sites that are undergoing transformation. Addressing acts of sensory co-emergence as non-linear and intertwined with ecosystems, she questions how the protocols of listening intercede with one’s relation to environmental grief, and what role the environmental humanities has in developing better ears towards the planet.The lecture is followed by a Q&A session with curator and researcher Rachael Rakes, as well as audience members.24 Feb 2024Amsterdam, The Netherlands→ Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.comCREDITSProduction: Sonic ActsCamera: Engage! TVIntro sound: Jessica EkomaneIntro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja KaiserRealised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Data Workers, In Their Own Words
Pub date: 2024-07-28
The Distributed AI Research Institute, or DAIR—which seeks to conduct community-rooted AI research that is independent from the technology industry—has launched a new project called the Data Workers' Inquiry to invite data workers to create their own research and recount their experiences. The project is supported by DAIR, the Weizenbaum Institute, and TU Berlin. For this episode, journalist and audio producer Rebecca Rand parsed some of the ideas and experiences discussed at a virtual launch event for the inquiry that took place earlier this month.
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Podcast: Ordinary Unhappiness (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 62: Lacan and Psychosis in the City feat. Loren Dent
Pub date: 2024-08-03
Abby and Patrick welcome Loren Dent, a clinical psychologist in the Lacanian tradition. The topic is psychosis, both as understood theoretically by Freud and Lacan, and also as experienced and encountered by real people in New York City, where Loren practices and where he has helped establish an innovative program of treatment and care. Starting by tackling a basic question – what is “psychosis?” – the three chart Freud’s struggles to grasp psychotic phenomena, his messy efforts to make the notorious case of Judge Daniel Paul Schreber fit his theories about sex, and his late-career notion of “disavowal” as a mechanism of psychosis distinct from neurotic repression. Loren then describes how Jacques Lacan took this last concept, often translated as “foreclosure,” and integrated it with his own accounts of language, desire, and otherness. When taken together with therapeutic innovations by radical psychoanalytic thinkers like Félix Guattari, François Tosquelles, and Jean Oury, Lacan’s insights, as Loren explains, lay the groundwork for a robust and efficacious approach to treating psychotic patients in ways that challenge traditional hierarchies in hospitals, group homes, and beyond. After walking Abby and Patrick through what talk therapy looks like with patients with psychosis, Loren outlines his recommendations for treatment and support in the clinic and beyond. As Loren explains, this approach goes against the grain of how psychotic patients have been processed by institutions under contemporary neoliberalism, and has grown only more urgently necessary in New York City under the mayorship of Eric Adams. It also forces us all to confront and manage our anxieties about “madness,” from which Freud himself was hardly immune, which haunt commonplace assumptions about normative behavior and market rationality, and which manifest in day-to-day acts of avoidance, confinement, neglect, and violence that people with psychosis encounter in urban life.
Key texts cited in the episode:
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-OedipusBret Fimiani, Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for TreatmentFreud, Civilization and its DiscontentsFreud, “Psychoanalytic Notes on An Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)”
Nev Jones & Robyn Lewis Brown, “The absence of psychiatric C/S/X perspectives in academic discourse: Consequences and Implications.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(1).
Darian Leader, What is Madness?Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar FranceStijn Vanheule, The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian PerspectiveFoundation for Community Psychoanalysis: https://www.communitypsychoanalysis.org/
Fountain House: https://www.fountainhouse.org/
The Greene Clinic: www.greeneclinic.com
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Podcast: Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Nudes Changed Britain
Pub date: 2024-08-02
Why were nudes so significant in Victorian England? What role did painting them play in wider social change at that time? And why didn't men think that women had the capacity for genius?
Joining Kate today is Tabitha Barber, curator of the Tate Britain exhibition Now You See Us, which explores women artists in Britain over the last 500 years.
You can also watch Kate in a documentary all about this, called The Fight To Paint, over on History Hit - simply follow this link.
This episode was edited by Tom Delargy and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Looting Cacti
Pub date: 2024-07-22
How does capitalism tap into our desires with the promise of objects to satisfy us? Yet when we possess them, the urge for something new reemerges. Geographer Jared Marguiles attempts to explain that paradox by looking at some of most endangered, and coveted, species in world: cacti. He examines the market for succulents and the collectors who drive it, including the strange illicit trade in legally available cacti. (Encore presentation.)
Resources:
Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade University of Minnesota Press, 2023
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Podcast: Once More, With Feeling Podcast: When TV Breaks into Song
Episode: Episode 1.1: Speech in Drag and Other Philosophical Foundations ft. Brandon Absher
Pub date: 2024-07-14
For episode one, I invited Brandon to grill me on why I’m doing a podcast about this topic. This also sets a few seeds in motion for future episodes and hopefully inspires you all to think about television and musicals a little differently already. We get into consumer culture, philosophy, and I may have even coined a new phrase - “speech in drag.”Check out Brandon’s recent book, “The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom” here - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793616005/The-Rise-of-Neoliberal-Philosophy-Human-Capital-Profitable-Knowledge-and-the-Love-of-WisdomMarshall McLuhan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_MediaAnahid Kassabian - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520275164/ubiquitous-listening“Oz and the Musical” - Ryan Bunch - https://academic.oup.com/book/44854Media Referenced“Once More, With Feeling” - Buffy the Vampire Slayer“2 Girls, 1 Tongue” - Todd and the Book of Pure Evil“Brigadoom” - Lexx“Song Beneath a Song” - Grey’s Anatomy“My Musical” - Scrubs“The Bitter Suite” - Xena: Warrior Princess“Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire” - Xena Warrior Princess“Subspace Rhapsody” - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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Podcast: 5x15 (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: George Monbiot On The Invisible Doctrine
Pub date: 2024-07-26
Join 5x15 for an explosive online event with leading writer and thinker George Monbiot on his #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Invisible Doctrine in conversation with Rosie Boycott.How can you fight something if you don’t know it exists?We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law.But trace it back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated, and then concealed by the powerful few. Our task is to bring it into the light—and to build a new system that is worth fighting for.Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is?Praise for The Invisible Doctrine'Explosive and beautifully told … these truths can set us free' -Danny Dorling'This book is dynamite – shining a spotlight on the evils of neoliberalism, shattering the myth that ‘there is no alternative’, and laying the foundations for a new politics' -Caroline LucasGeorge Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include The Invisible Doctrine, Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, Feral: Rewilding the land, sea and human life and Heat: how to stop the planet burning and Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan; and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40m times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, that he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 50m times.Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/5x15storiesFacebook: www.facebook.com/5x15storiesInstagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
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Podcast: The Real News Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 'Social cleansing': The Paris Olympics' war on homeless people | Edge of Sports
Pub date: 2024-07-25
The Paris Olympics have provided an excuse to turn the host city into a security state overrun by police, military, barricades, and AI-powered surveillance technology. In brutal yet predictable fashion, authorities have reportedly been sweeping homeless encampments, rounding up unhoused people, and expelling them by bus to other parts of France ahead of the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Reporting from Paris, TRNN's Dave Zirin speaks with Paul Alauzy, a project manager at Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) and an organizer of Le Revers de la Médaille (The Other Side of the Medal) campaign.
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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Neoliberal Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
Pub date: 2024-07-23
Melinda Cooper describes the combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes neoliberal monetary policy and how these ideas emerged from the crises of the 1970s.
Melinda Cooperis Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She is the author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism andCounterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Break Down: Net Zero Militarism w/ Khem Rogaly
Pub date: 2024-07-25
If you listen to this podcast, chances are you’ve heard of the global target of “net zero emissions” by 2050. You’ve probably also heard about how off track we are from meeting it. But what if I told you we’re even more off track than you might think, because thanks to some effective lobbying, governments don’t have to count the emissions from their militaries, despite their being some of the world’s foremost consumers of fossil fuels. Like me, you might be wondering how that happened, and what special treatment for the military might mean for our ability to tackle climate and ecological crisis.
Here to answer these questions and many more is Khem Rogaly, Senior Researcher at Common Wealth, our partners in The Break Down. In today’s episode, we break down the complex, often hidden, but vitally important relationship between militaries and the climate crisis, from their long-standing role in upholding the fossil fuel economy to the enormous extent to which governments prioritise military spending over other urgent tasks — not least addressing a climate crisis that makes us all more insecure.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Peak Hindutva? w/ Radhika Desai
Pub date: 2024-07-22
On January 22nd the new Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh was consecrated in a ceremony led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event kicked off Modi's election campaign that was widely expected to lead to a landslide for Modi and the BJP. Instead, the Hindu nationalist party lost 63 seats and the opposition coalition led by congress made significant gains. In today's episode I spoke with Radhika Desai about the causes of the electoral upset, the image and reality of the Indian economy and what the election results announced in June might mean for Indian Muslims.
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Podcast: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Science of Violence
Pub date: 2024-07-23
After the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, Jess talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California - Davis, about the science of political violence and what we can do to stop it. This episode discusses difficult topics like gun violence and mentions suicide, so please take note.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Political Economy of Prisons w/ Adam Elliot Cooper
Pub date: 2024-07-24
On this week's Macrodose, Adam Elliot Cooper takes a close look at prisons. What can we learn when we begin to think about the prison through an economic lens? What is the role of mass incarceration in our economy? And what can the relationship between crime and capitalism tell us about the world we are living in today?
Adam Elliot-Cooper is a lecturer in public and social policy at Queen Mary University, London. He is also the author of Black Resistance to British Policing tinyurl.com/54e5yhsn and co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State tinyurl.com/2nb77awb
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Podcast: BBC Inside Science (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Taylor Swift Seismology
Pub date: 2024-07-18
Taylor Swift fans danced so hard they made the ground shake at her recent Edinburgh gig so this week we’re meeting Earth Scientists Emma Greenough and James Panton to measure the Cardiff show - and explain some Swiftie Seismology.
We’re joined by the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring and Cardiff University's Professor Martin Innes to talk the science of tracking election disinformation on social media.
What’s in the election manifestos? BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh explains all.
And Marnie dashes to Kew Gardens to meet horticulturalist Solene Dequiret, hoping to be in time to see two very foul-smelling plants in very rare bloom.
Nose pegs at the ready...
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Gerry Holt, Katie Tomsett & Ella Hubber Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
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Podcast: Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The power of passports
Pub date: 2024-07-18
The passport - if you can get one - gives freedom, but it also means state surveillance. This is one of the many passport paradoxes observed by author Patrick Bixby, in an account that ranges from indigenous passports to literary references to passport 'rankings'.
Guest: Patrick Bixby, Professor of English at Arizona State University
Author of ‘License to Travel: A Cultural History of th Passport’ (University of California Press)
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Podcast: Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks
Episode: Aggression and the Political Economy of War
Pub date: 2024-07-18
- Aggression and the Political Economy of WarIn this episode Douglas Guilfoyle and Ntina Tzouvala discuss Ntina's article "Aggression, Capitalism, and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints?" https://academic.oup.com/clp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/clp/cuae006/7690074Ntina's recommendations: Joanna Kyriakakis, Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/corporations-accountability-and-international-criminal-law-9780857939494.html ; Scott Veitch, Law and Irresponsibility, https://www.routledge.com/Law-and-Irresponsibility-On-the-Legitimation-of-Human-Suffering/Veitch/p/book/9780415442510 ; Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory, https://shop.redflag.org.au/products/the-palestine-laboratory ; and here is Margot the kitten: https://x.com/djag2/status/1813360318468571429 !Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait
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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: America's history of assassinations and political violence
Pub date: 2024-07-16
At this point, it's still unclear what motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks to climb a nearby roof with an AR-15-style rifle and attempt to shoot former U.S. president Donald Trump. But he is far from the first person to make an attempt on the life of an American president. From the high-profile assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy to attempted assassinations of Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt, acts of politically motivated murder — whether successful or otherwise — are often major turning points in the nation's history.
Centre College associate professor Jonathon L. Earle walks us through the legacy of political violence in the United States, and what that history could teach us about what could happen next.
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Podcast: Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)
Episode: Bourgeois Bloc Blues w/ Bruno Amable
Pub date: 2024-07-20
Olly & Marlon host Bruno Amable, the co-author with Stefano Palombarini of The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis.
Bruno's a political economist and a Professor at the University of Geneva, so this guys knows his stuff.
This is Olly's favorite book, so we really get into it.
Marlon hasn't read it but we have a good discussion about what the bourgeois bloc was, what it is, what alliances it's pursuing, its relationship to racism, and the way it dissimulates - to itself and others.
Bruno's recent publications: https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/bruno-amable/
Bruno's Twitter: @bruno_amable
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Against the Grain – July 15, 2024
Pub date: 2024-07-15
John Bellamy Foster on Albert Einstein’s radical politics and his 1949 essay “Why Socialism?”
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Podcast: Cold War Conversations (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mafia Spies and the Plot to Kill Fidel Castro (356)
Pub date: 2024-07-16
Thomas Maier an investigative journalist is our guide to the shadowy world of organized crime and espionage where shares insights from his extensive research and writing, including his latest book and drama documentary "Mafia Spies," which explores the unlikely alliance between the CIA and the Mafia in their attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
We dive into the lives of two central figures in "Mafia Spies": Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli. Giancana, the head of the Chicago mob in the early 1960s, and Roselli, the mafia's fixer in Hollywood, had a complex relationship that intertwined with the glamorous world of celebrities and the dark underworld of organized crime. Thomas elaborates on Giancana's personal turmoil following the sudden death of his wife and his increasing involvement with Roselli in Las Vegas.
We explore the intriguing character of Judy Campbell, who was introduced to Frank Sinatra and eventually to John F. Kennedy, becoming a key player in this intricate web of relationships.
The episode uncovers the CIA's covert operations to eliminate Castro, detailing the various assassination attempts and the involvement of Mafia figures like Giancana and Roselli. Thomas provides a fascinating look at the historical context and the extensive espionage network set up by Castro with the help of the Soviets.
We also examine the ethical implications of the CIA's collaboration with the Mafia, the internal conflicts within the U.S. government, and the ultimate fates of Giancana and Roselli.
The Paramount Showtime series based on "Mafia Spies," is released on July 16, and promises to bring this captivating story to a wider audience.
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Podcast: Circular Metabolism Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Rich Countries are guilty of Climate Appropriation? Andrew Fanning
Pub date: 2024-07-18
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Today we will talk about how it is possible to provide safe and just space for all. In other words can we provide essential services of food, housing, mobility, education and more to everyone, everywhere and still stay within planetary boundaries ? More specifically, how are countries doing today and which countries are the main responsibles for our ecological overshoot ?
To help us navigate through these questions I have the great pleasure to welcome Andrew Fanning. Andrew is an ecological economist that carries out quantitative analyses that track nations’ progress in terms of both meeting basic needs and respecting environmental limits in nearly 150 countries since 1992. He is currently the Analysis & Research Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds.
🔷 CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:08:57 Doughnut economics & planetary boundaries
00:13:19 Downscaling the Doughnut
00:23:19 Integrating the Doughnut over time
00:32:32 Scenarios and trajectories
00:42:35 Including fair shares & responsibility
01:09:02 Provisioning Systems
01:14:51 Moving between theory and practice
01:21:23 Recommendations
🔷 REFERENCES
• Doughnut Economics Action Lab website: https://doughnuteconomics.org
📰 Articles:
• A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries (2018) D. O’Neill, A. Fanning, W. Lamb, J. Steinberger
• The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations (2022) A. Fanning, D. O’Neill, J. Hickel & N. Roux
• National responsibility for ecological breakdown (2022) J. Hickel, D. O’Neill, A. Fanning, H. Zoomkawala
• Compensation for atmospheric appropriation (2023) A. Fanning, J. Hickel
• Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries (2020) A. Fanning, D. O’Neill, M. Buchs
🧑 People:
• Herman Daly: Economist known for his work on Steady-State Economics.
• William Rees: Researcher in ecology, creator of the “ecological footprint” concept.
• Dan O'Neill: Ecological economist working on sustainable economy within planetary boundaries.
• Kate Raworth: Economist, creator of the Doughnut Economics concept.
• Johan Rockström: Earth system scientist known for proposing the planetary boundaries framework in 2009.
• Julia Steinberger: Ecological economist working on the relationship between well-being and resource/pollution flows.
• Václav Smil: Interdisciplinary researcher in ecology, economics and energy.
• Joel Millward Hopkins: Interdisciplinary researcher in ecology, economics and energy.
• Jason Hickel: Anthropologist focusing on global political economy.
🎞️ Episodes :
• Herman Daly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91M622cvrLg
• Kate Raworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdWe85G8lo
• Timothée Parrique: https://youtu.be/1-fuJYvJ7Sk
• Julia Steinberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5ghdS1Hv8
• Jason Hickel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umg2pGadrc8
🎤 Interview: Aristide Athanassiadis
🎞️ Editing: https://codexprod.fr
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Podcast: The Antifada (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E256: IVF or IMF w/ Jason Smith
Pub date: 2024-07-17
Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left.
Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this phenomenon? Why has the potential for population decline made the capitalists so crazy?
For the complete episode and much more bonus content become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Check out Jason's article in Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter
Referenced article: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i137/articles/wally-seccombe-marxism-and-demography
Song: Dystopia - Population Birth Control
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who pays the price of America’s climate damage?
Pub date: 2024-07-11
The U.S. is one of the biggest carbon emitters in the world, but it’s the smaller countries that suffer the most. Vann Newkirk, senior editor at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the idea of climate reparations, what responsibility the U.S. has to pay a fair share, and why this might be the most solid plan for approaching climate change solutions. His article is “What America Owes The Planet.”
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Podcast: The China in Africa Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Who Gets to Tell the Africa-China Story?
Pub date: 2024-07-11
So much of the framing of Chinese engagement in Africa is done through the prism of Western media, academia, government, and civil society. Stories about debt traps, malign influence, and exploitation are all firmly embedded in the larger discourse about Africa's relations with China.
Conversely, the relationship is also framed in equally binary terms by Chinese media and government narratives.
But there's growing demand from African stakeholders to tell a radically different story about this relationship, one that is far more nuanced and puts African interests at the center.
A new collection of papers published by the Africa Policy Research Institute explores the emergence of non-Western-centric narratives. Eric & Cobus spoke with Lina Benabdalla from Wake Forest Univeristy, Yu-Shan Wu from the University of Pretoria, Yunnan Chen from ODI, and Folashadé Soulé from Oxford University, four of the world's leading scholars in this field who contributed to this collection for their perspectives about what a new Africa-China story looks like.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Imperial Narratives vs Palestine’s Reality | Lorenzo Kamel
Pub date: 2024-07-08
This episode of the afikra podcast was recorded on April 10th at 1pm Palestine Time
Lorenzo Kamel teaches Global History and History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin. He has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, ‘Ain Shams University in Cairo, and a number of other universities in Europe and the Middle East. His most recent books are 'History Below the Global' (Routledge 2024) and 'The Middle from Empire to Sealed Identities' (Edinburgh UP 2020).
Connect with Lorenzo 👉 https://twitter.com/lorenzokamel?lang=en
Theme music: Peninsular, Tarek Yamani 🔊 https://spoti.fi/47I59ns
Hosted by:
Mikey Muhanna 👉 https://www.instagram.com/mikey_mu/?hl=en-gb
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ABOUT AFIKRA
afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region – past, present and future – through conversations driven by curiosity.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The French left's shock election win w/ Sebastian Budgen
Pub date: 2024-07-12
Sebastian Budgen returns to the show to discuss the recent shock result in the French legislative elections that saw the left wing New Popular Front win the highest number of seats, beating both Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble and the far-right National Rally, who had been widely expected to emerge with the most deputies in the French parliament.
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Podcast: The FootPol Podcast
Episode: Tales of South American football ft. Jorge Knijnik
Pub date: 2024-07-08
Football plays a central role in many Latin American countries. In this episode, co-hosts Francesco and Guy talk with Jorge Knijnik, Associate Professor at Western Sydney University about his new book, Tales of South American Football: Passion, Revolution and Glory. Jorge provides examples of how the beautiful game is entwined with the continent's politics and society. They include the actions of players like Brazil's Afonsinho and Reinaldo who promoted labour and political rights during the 1970s, Argentine and Chilean fans who are continuing the fight against the dictatorships of the past by demanding restorative justice, and the players and NGOs who challenge partriarchal prejudice against women's football in Bolivia and elsewhere. Jorge also shares his thoughts on the current Copa America taking place in the United States and the impact it might have on American politics.
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Podcast: Voices of Excellence (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Sean Downey: The Significance of Indigenous Knowledge
Pub date: 2024-06-12
Sean Downey, associate professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University, discusses his research on the social and environmental dynamics of farming and foraging societies. Dr. Downey talks about his Human Complexity Lab and its work on swidden agriculture in Belize, highlights the significance of indigenous knowledge, and advocates for interdisciplinary approaches to understanding ecological patterns. He also shares his journey into anthropology, his passion for fieldwork, and the future direction of his research in supporting indigenous rights and addressing climate change.
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Podcast: A is for Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Tony Fretton: The social art of architecture
Pub date: 2024-07-10
A is for Architecture’s 112th episode is with the British architect, Tony Fretton. Previously founder and principal of Tony Fretton Architects, and more recently acting as a design consultant, and previously Chair of Architecture and Interiors at TU Delft, Tony’s work includes Westkaai, Residential Towers, Antwerp, The British Embassy, Warsaw, Art Museum, Fuglsang, Denmark, and the The Red House and the Camden Arts Centre, London.
Speaking of his work on galleries, Tony says: ‘I think it's much more subtle and much more interesting to make buildings which sometimes are impressive and visible, and sometimes […] very low visibility. That's much more interesting, much more intellectually satisfying. And how can you make somebody feel comfortable, without [them] even seeing you do it? That's the measure of a good host, a good person, that you let people see the work. […] In Furslang we made a series of rooms which are different in character: one is for temporary exhibitions, and the other for small scale works in gold frames, and then there was section on Danish Impressionism. But each of them shares a vocabulary but it's treated in slightly different ways so that as you go through the room, you see the art but in the periphery of your vision the room stimulates you’.
Sums it up rather neatly.
You can find Tony on Instagram, on at tonyfretton.com, too.
Thanks for listening.
Music credits: Bruno Gillick
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Podcast: The Fire These Times: Voices from the Periphery (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 164/ El Salvador's Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg
Pub date: 2024-07-12
For episode 164, Dana El-Kurd is joined by Michael Paarlbeg, associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, to discuss the intersection between crime and authoritarian politics in Latin America. They particularly focus on the the state of emergency happening today in El Salvador, covering the rise of Nayib Bukele and the political implications of the “gang state” emerging in the country.
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Show notes:
- Transnational Gangs and Criminal Remittances (academic article, Comparative Migration Studies)
- The Emerging Gang State in El Salvador (Global Americans)
- Gang Membership in Central America: More Complex Than Meets the Eye (Migration Policy Institute)
- How a Fake Gang Crisis in the US Fueled a Real One in Central America (Duke conference)
- Gangs, Guns and Judas Priest (The Guardian)
Credits:
- Host(s): Dana El-Kurd
- Guest(s): Michael Paarlberg
- Music: Rap and Revenge
- Sound editor: Liam Evans
- Episode designer: Elia J. Ayoub
- Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple
- Original TFTT design: Wenyi Geng
- TFTT Transcripts: Antidotezine
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A new push in the search for alien life
Pub date: 2024-07-11
NASA's new telescope will revolutionise the search for non-Earth based life. It's to be called the Habitable Worlds Observatory and will be powerful enough to peer into the atmosphere of planets outside of our solar system.
But if, or when, we do find evidence of a life form beyond our solar system what do we do next? And who should decide whether or even how we make contact? A new research hub at the University of Andrews is among those drawing up a plan.
Guests
Dr Megan Ansdell – Program Manager, Habitable Worlds Observatory, NASA
Professor Adam Frank – Astrobiologist and astrophysicist, University of Rochester, New York
Dr John Elliott – Computational linguist and Coordinator of the SETI Post Detection Hub, University of St Andrews
Professor Ian Roberts — Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
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Podcast: Journalism History (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 142: The Peopleization of TV News
Pub date: 2024-07-01
Researcher Maddie Liseblad discusses the early days of television in the U.S. and how the format for local TV news that continues today was developed in the 1960s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 351. How AI is Boiling the Oceans
Pub date: 2024-07-03
We get into how the massive global expansion of data centres — thanks largely to demand from training and operating AI — is putting major strain on energy systems and requiring the generation of more electricity. How’s all that new energy demand being met? Some renewables, a lot of fossil fuels, but also maybe futuristic magic technology? Big tech firms like Micorosoft and their nuclear tech partners—including startups backed by Sam Altman and Bill Gates—say they expect to harness fusion by 2028. This prediction is totally unserious and fantastical, while also hiding the fact that the expansion of AI is powered largely by fossil fuels.••• AI Is Already Wreaking Havoc On Global Power Systems https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/••• AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Facebook Is the Zombie Internet w/ Jason Koebler
Pub date: 2024-07-04
Paris Marx is joined by Jason Koebler to discuss the AI-generated spam filling Facebook, how the platform seems to have given up trying to stop it, and where the internet goes from here.
Jason Koebler is the co-host of the 404 Media Podcast.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Jason wrote about his theory of the zombie internet and what he’s been seeing on Facebook.
- Back in 2018, Motherboard reported on the rules Facebook gave its content moderators.
- Users of Facebook Free Basics and Wikipedia Zero in Angola found out how to make their own video streaming service for free.
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Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Elizabeth Ingleson on the Past and Present of Made in China
Pub date: 2024-07-01
Today, China is the U.S. third largest trading partner and second-largest source of imports. This wasn’t always the case. Indeed, in the 1970s, when the United States first began trading with communist China after several decades, few could have foreseen such a scenario. In this episode, guest Elizbeth Ingleson reveals the surprising story of how two Cold War foes found common cause in transforming China’s economy into a source of cheap labor. Along the way, we discuss some of the key policy decisions and Chinese and American actors, including U.S. business, that facilitated China’s convergence with the capitalist world.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Free Bonus - The American Far Right and Conservatism in the Last Century w/ David Austin Walsh
Pub date: 2024-07-05
In the first of two consecutive non-news Friday releases, Danny sits down for another rigorous academic exchange, this time with David Austin Walsh, historian at Yale’s program for the study of antisemitism and author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right. The two dig into the big issues broached by the book, including the “right-wing popular front” opposed to socialism, communism, and New Deal liberalism, the nature of conservatism vs fascism, figures from Pat Buchanan to Richard Spencer to Donald Trump, the advent of the left-right divide, and what, if anything, American liberals and leftists can do to defeat American fascism/semi-fascism/fascistish-ism.
NB: this is what some might call a “debate episode” wherein things get a little heated, but everyone left as friends in the end.
Also check out David’s May op-ed in the New York Times, “Do You Want a ‘Unified Reich’ Mind-Set in the White House?” and see him at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 29 to talk about the 2024 election.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ideologies of Climate Change / Tad DeLay
Pub date: 2024-07-04
Tad DeLay returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Tad's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2857-future-of-denialHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: Robinson's Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 214 - Joyce Carol Oates: On Philosophy and Literature
Pub date: 2024-06-30
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7
Joyce Carol Oates is the Rogers S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Princeton University with the Program in Creative Writing. She is among the most widely-recognized and respected writers of our time, and has written in a wide variety of media and genres, from poetry and fiction in the former category to horror and Gothic in the latter. Her work has also been adapted into various other media, from plays to film. Joyce is the recipient of two O. Henry Awards and the National Book Award, among many others. This is Joyce’s second appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode 137, she and Robinson discussed craft in fiction and poetry. In this episode, they talk about Joyce’s most recent collection of short stories, Zero-Sum (link in the description), as well as philosophy, Peter Singer, dealing with criticism, translation, and more.
Joyce’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates
Joyce’s Substack: https://joycecaroloates.substack.com
Zero-Sum: https://a.co/d/0cYh3ndo
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
03:16 On Peter Singer
12:41 On Buddhism
21:50 On Hemingway
25:50 Dealing with Criticism
38:17 On Translation
47:53 Writing Short Stories
58:38 Imagery and Recreating the World
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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: A Short History of Pirates
Pub date: 2024-07-03
Swashbuckling, murder and robbery on the high seas! We're bringing back the fan-favourite episode on Dr Rebecca Simon's 'Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read' from our archive.
She takes Dan through a dramatic history of piracy in the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. She tells the extraordinary stories of pirates Anne Bonny, and Mary Read as well as captains Blackbeard, Jack Rackham and the notoriously sadistic Charles Vane. She also gives Dan the lowdown on pirate treasure.
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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Feminism and the Police w/ Leah Cowan
Pub date: 2024-07-01
Leah Cowan explains the long and complex relationship between British feminism and British policing. From women's suffrage, through the Women's Liberation movement of the 1970s, to recent conflicts over the murder of Sarah Everard by a London Metropolitan Police officer.
Leah Cowan is a writer, editor and previously the political editor of Gal-dem magazine. She is the author of two books Border Nation: A Story of Migration (Pluto Books, 2021) and Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? (Verso Books, 2024)
Some of My Best Enemies are Feminists: On Zionist Feminism by Sophie Lewis (https://salvage.zone/some-of-my-best-enemies-are-feminists-on-zionist-feminism/)
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Podcast: A Word … with Jason Johnson (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Journalism Under the Gun
Pub date: 2024-06-28
In this election year, there’s more criticism and distrust of the media than ever. For veteran journalist Ali Velshi, his belief in the power of journalism is rooted in a family history of pursuing social justice, across continents and generations. On today’s episode of A Word, he joins host Jason Johnson to talk about his career, and his new memoir Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy.
Guest: Ali Velshi, MSNBC host and author of Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Red Sea Shipping & Gaza Genocide w/ Laleh Khalili
Pub date: 2024-06-28
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the esteemed Professor Laleh Khalili to discuss Red Sea Shipping and the regional consequences of the Gaza Genocide. This conversation bridges two of the major topics of her work, and is an incredibly thought provoking and generative discussion. We would love to hear what you find particularly useful from this one, so let us know on Twitter once you listen!
Laleh Khalili is Professor and Director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at University of Exeter, and author of multiple books we discussed today including Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, and Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Follow her on twitter @LalehKhalili
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Podcast: Time To Say Goodbye (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The misunderstood 1990s, LA Riots, and the triumph of the Paleoconservatives with John Ganz
Pub date: 2024-06-26
Hello!
Today, we are extremely excited to have on John Ganz, author of the new book When the Clock Broke, a retelling of the 1990s that touches on politics, music, television, and the history of right wing cranks who ultimately would become a prelude for Trumpism. There’s a ton that we discuss: The LA riots, Pat Buchanan, Murray Rothbard, Sister Souljah, and much more. If you’re interested in how the fringe elements of the 1990s became much less fringe by 2016, this is a wonderfully written and engaging history that not only feels relevant and prescient, but also funny and alive.
QUICK NOTE: We will not have an episode next week bc of vacation stuff but we will have a lot of announcements about the show throughout July so please stay tuned.
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Podcast: Transforming Society podcast
Episode: Veganism: imagining a world beyond contemporary food systems
Pub date: 2024-06-25
If the way we eat now is bad for our health, bad for animal welfare and bad for the planet, is veganism the answer? That’s the key question that Catherine Oliver of Lancaster University pursues in the latest addition to the What is it for? series.
In this episode of the podcast, Catherine tells George Miller why she hopes 'What is Veganism For?' helps reframe the often-polarized debate around veganism by showing the role it plays in wider justice movements, talks about how veganism has gone from fringe to mainstream in the past decade, and describes how vegan eating (including banana blossom fritters) can be a joyful experience.
Catherine Oliver is a lecturer in the Sociology of Climate Change at Lancaster University. A geographer interested in research beyond the human, she works on historical and contemporary veganism, the ethics and politics of interspecies friendship through human-chicken relationships, and multispecies ethnographic research, most recently with seabirds. Follow her on Twitter: @katiecmoliver.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-is-veganism-for
The full transcript of the podcast is available here:
Timestamps:
01:10 - Why did the seemingly straightforward question, what is veganism for, appeal enough to write a book?
04:51 - Broadening the perspective on what led to contemporary veganism
07:00 - An invitation to take the idea of change on board in a serious way
09:51 - How do you see the aim of the book?
13:05 - Looking outward into the ways in which veganism can be practised and the various other things with which veganism can fruitfully intersect
15:00 - Can you say something about your own particular trajectory that led to you writing this book?
17:51 - Is it becoming easier to become vegan?
21:48 - Should the emphasis be on eating a bit less meat and leaving veganism for later?
26:00 - The complications of big corporations
29:32 - Beyond the binary of vegan or not
33:30 - In what ways is vegan eating potentially joyous?
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A cultural history of UFOs
Pub date: 2024-06-20
Last summer, former military officials testified to Congress about UFOs, and once again the nation’s imagination was ignited. Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history of America’s fascination with UFOs — an obsession that spread globally — and what it all means for our civilization back here on Earth. His book is “After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon.”
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Podcast: Broken Law (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 151: The Fraud of Originalism and a Progressive Alternative
Pub date: 2024-06-25
As we approach the end of another Supreme Court term where originalism has dominated opinion after opinion in furtherance of an extremist conservative ideology, a question once again arises - how should progressives interpret the Constitution? Madiba Dennie joins Valerie Nannery to discuss her new book, The Originalism Trap, and how progressives can reclaim what the Constitution means.
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Host: Valerie Nannery, Senior Director of Policy and Program
Guest: Madiba Dennie, Author of "The Originalism Trap"
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel
Pub date: 2024-06-27
Paris Marx is joined by Jason Hickel to discuss how technology would change in a degrowth society and why it doesn’t make sense to organize society around profit and infinite expansion.
Jason Hickel is the author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. He’s also a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Jason wrote about technology and degrowth and the objectives of democratic ecosocialism for Monthly Review.
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Podcast: UCLA Housing Voice (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 73: French For-Profit Social Housing Developers with Julie Pollard
Pub date: 2024-06-26
Before the 2000s, French real estate developers were prohibited from building social housing. Today, they build more than half of it. Julie Pollard shares how two seemingly unrelated policies came together to make this rapid shift possible.
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Podcast: Annotations
Episode: Practicing Decoloniality: A Curator's Perspective
Pub date: 2024-06-18
Nico Heller in Conversation with Lou Mo.
Lou Mo is a leading Taipei-based artist and curator, specialising in her curatorial practice in contemporary Asian and African art. She read Art History at McGill University (2009-2013), graduating with a BA, and later studied Chinese Art in the Asian Studies division of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (2014-2017).
In 2022 Lou was selected as one of four guest curators of the 14th Dakar Bienniale in Senegal (2022) and in 2023-24 she curated Hot Flux: Modern and Contemporary Photography in Taiwan and Africa at the Tainan Art Museum. As a member of the School of Mutants collective, her works have been exhibited in venues such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Centre Pompidou Metz, the 12th Berlin Bienniale, the autostrada biennale, and the Glasgow International. Her other research-based works have recently been exhibited at the Hong-Gah Museum and The Cube Space in Taipei, and the Kochi Bienniale in India.
In this dialogue, we explore how Lou, as a Chinese-Canadian female curator and artist, engages with, frames, and presents the practices and work of different African and Asian artists through a decolonial lens, centring non-European artistic approaches rather than relating them primarily to Western conventions.
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Podcast: GND Media (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Extinction and Denial: How humanity is coping with the climate crisis.
Pub date: 2024-06-17
This week we are starting at the End.
This week on the show myself and lucy are joined by Tad Delay and Ben ware. Tad the author of Future of Denial:The Ideologies of Climate Change. He’s also an assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baltimore City Community College. Ben Ware author of OnExtinction: Beginning Again At The End. Ben is the Co-director of the centre for Philosophy and art at Kings College London.
I imagine if you’re listening or watching this you’re probably in some state of shock when it comes to how humanity is responding to the collapse of the planet as we know it. Maybe you’re also finding yourself cringing or at odds with how some of those who are most seemingly committed to stopping climate breakdown go about their business. How are we to understand how humanity is reacting at this moment. Are we in denial about the end of the world? Are some of us enjoying the idea of the end? Is learning more and more facts about climate change actually helping? Or are we finding comfort in being correct about the rolling doom.
We decided to bring ben and Tad together to discuss there work as they both draw on psychoanalysis to understand how we’re reacting at the end of the world. We discuss how our relation to time affects our ability to act on climate change, how denial can manifest itself in government action, the joy at the end of the world and how joe biden can be the “best president on climate” while opening oil and gas fields and support a genocide in Gaza.
Links
Tad has done a great series of podcast discussing his book with varies thinkers and contemporaries. Listen to it here
https://open.spotify.com/show/64e8AfK6GmHyhztfTVY8sI?si=6c756546bfe94433
You can pick up Ben's book On Extinction: Beginning at the end from Verso here
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2604-on-extinction
And you can get Tad's book Future to Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change from Verso here.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2857-future-of-denial
Shout outs
Kairos, a new venue in London exploring radical ideas for social and cultural change in response to the climate and nature crises. @KairosClub
https://www.kairos.london/
All the staff at Stepping hill hospital in Stockport
Richard Seymour @leninology
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E153 - Assassination and US Foreign Policy Since 1945 w/ Luca Trenta
Pub date: 2024-06-18
Danny and Derek are pleased to welcome back to the podcast Luca Trenta, associate professor in International Relations at Swansea University and author of The President’s Kill List. The group discusses assassinations and international law, when and how assassination became a tool for US foreign policy, the difficulties in accessing declassified documents about this topic, unsuccessful attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and successful operations against the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Patrice Lumumba, the intelligence community using assassination as a “low level” (i.e. not nuclear) form of retaliation in the Cold War, contemporary justifications for assassinations as “self defense” and the notion of “imminence”, and more.
Check out Luca’s podcast on intelligence and covert action, Out of the Shadows.
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Linguistics, Automated Systems, & the Power of AI, with Emily M. Bender
Pub date: 2024-06-18
In this "AI & Equality" podcast, guest host and AIEI board advisor Dr. Kobi Leins is joined by University of Washington’s Professor Emily Bender for a discussion on systems, power, and how we are changing the world, one technological decision at a time. With a deep expertise in language and computers, Bender brings her perspective on how language and systems are being perceived and used—and changing us through automated systems and AI.
Why do words and linguistics matter when we are thinking about these emerging technologies? How can we more thoughtfully automate the use of AI?
For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/aiei-leins-bender
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Finding the Humanity in an Automated World
Pub date: 2024-06-18
Madhumita Murgia, AI editor at the Financial Times, is the author of a new book called Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI. The book combines reporting and research to provide a look at the role that AI and automated decision-making is playing in reshaping our lives, our politics, and our economies across the world.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can Europe Chart Its Own Path on Tech? w/ tante
Pub date: 2024-06-20
Paris Marx is joined by tante to discuss why it’s hard for Europe to challenge the US and China on tech and why we should change how we think about innovation.
tante is a writer, speaker, and Luddite working on tech and its social impact.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- tante spoke about innovation at re:publica 2024.
- Paris also gave a presentation on data centers.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron wrote an op-ed about shared priorities in the Financial Times.
- Sam Altman successfully lobbied to water down the EU’s AI Act.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Thawra Ep. 12 – Origins of Saudi Reaction
Pub date: 2024-06-09
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the TWELFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment tells the story of Saudi Arabia, a country whose reactionary, US-aligned trajectory was throughout the 1950s and 60s challenged by labor strikes, dissident currents, rebellious princes, and an anticolonial oil minister. But Saudi royal conservatism asserted itself and a friendship with Nasser’s Egypt turned into conflict. Ultimately both countries got drawn into North Yemen’s civil war, which sapped Egypt’s military strength ahead of the 1967 war with Israel. Plus: radical politics against British colonial power in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial States.
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Podcast: "Be Bold America!"
Episode: From Ronald to Donald: How the Myth of Reagan Became the Cult of Trump
Pub date: 2024-06-18
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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)
Throughout Reagan’s eight years in the oval office, the “Great Communicator” was largely successful in shaping the soul of America to reflect his durable mantra that “government is the problem.”
That same American soul later embraced Donald Trump—a president who, arguably would have appalled Reagan.
Reagan’s contemporary mythology as tax cutter, deficit hawk, promoter of deregulation, the ordinary citizen, champion of traditional family values, small government and free market capitalism – all indelible images.
Reagan’s myth persists, and by understanding his time in office in the context of American history and of the American presidency, we can understand how a transformative president created more than policy by also shaping culture with the instrumental force of mythology.
Interview Guest:
Ed Oswaldis a lawyer with an expertise in the federal taxation of municipal bonds. He is a partner in an international law firm in Washington, D.C. Ed is a frequent lecturer and speaker on financing infrastructure for State and local governments, non-profit organizations, and related matters. A graduate of St. John’s University in New York, B.S Accounting. He received his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. In 1991, he received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University.
Ed served as an attorney-advisor at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Legislative Counsel during the second term of the Clinton Administration, where he worked on tax policy matters impacting US public infrastructure. At the US Treasury, he worked with the IRS, SEC, White House staff and economists, House Ways & Means Committee, and the Senate Financing Committee staff on a range of matters.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. The American College of Tax Counsel is a professional association of tax attorneys who are “recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments and professional achievements and for their dedication to improving the practice of tax law.” Fellows must be nominated by their peers and undergo a rigorous screening process before being admitted. Membership is limited to a maximum of 700 tax attorneys across the United States.Ed’s new book, From Ronald to Donald: How the Myth of Reagan Became the Cult of Trump, is now available wherever books are sold.
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes
Pub date: 2024-06-17
Jackson and Donald are joined by Christian Noakes author of Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing to discuss jazz music and musicians during the Cold War. We cover the U.S. state department's attempts to weaponize Jazz for imperial cultural diplomacy and how artists in the Jazz avant-garde of the 1950s-60s resisted the exploitation of their music by both the U.S. government and the capitalist music industry.
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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Queer Vision of Old Hollywood
Pub date: 2024-06-21
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with author Patrick Nathan about his latest novel, and this month's LARB Book Club pick, The Future Was Color. The novel chronicles the life of Hungarian immigrant writer George Curtis. When we meet George, he's writing the hacky sort of monster movies that are today's cult classics, trying to find sex and love amid the closeted ambiance of life between the wars and in the midst of the McCarthyite purges of communists and homosexuals that plagued the mid-century film industry. As George demurs writing the studio's next big hit to create something of greater substance about Hungary and the war from his exile perspective, he follows a passionate affair with his coworker in the writers' room. But when he departs the studio office for a residency of sorts with a Malibu actress and her gay husband, a dramatic chain reaction brings new motivations and possibilities to light. A novel about a moment in time that is also in so many ways timeless, The Future Was Color is an exploration of the line between the personal and political, between safety and risk, the art we create and the art that creates us.Also, Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History, returns to recommend Susie Boyt's novel, Loved and Missed.
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Podcast: Feminist Law
Episode: Sex Dolls and Misogyny with Caitlin Roper
Pub date: 2024-06-17
In today's episode, Courtney speaks to Caitlin Roper, Campaigns Manager for Collective Shout and Author of 'Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman-Hating: The Case for Resistance' about how sex dolls contribute to misogyny, how the law applies to these dolls, and what can be done about it.
If you would like to read Caitlin Roper's book, it is available through Spinifex Press here.
If you would like to follow Caitlin and her work, you can find her on X here and on Instagram here.
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Feminist News
Lia Thomas' challenge to rules preventing trans women from competing in elite sports fails
US Supreme Court upholds access to mifepristone
Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach accused of sexual offences against three women
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 77 - Post-Socialist Infrastructure
Pub date: 2024-06-19
In this episode we talk about garages, trams and trolleybuses! Our guests for this episode, Tauri Tuvikene and Wladimir Sgibnev, help us think about post-socialist mobility in terms of continuities and ruptures. Using examples from Estonia, East Germany, and the former Soviet Union, they question the future of mobility, highlight the importance of studying mundane infrastructural issues as social subjects, and explain how we could also make policies and knowledge travel westward.
Tauri Tuvikene (PhD in Geography, UCL, 2015) is a professor of urban studies at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University. His research covers comparative urbanism in relation to post-socialist cities and comparative methods, as well as the study of practices and regulations of urban mobility (including walking, automobility and public transport) on which he has published in leading journals such as IJURR, Geoforum, Eurasian Geography and Economics, the Journal of Transport Geography etc as we as co-edited two books, including one on post-socialist urban infrastructures (2019, Routledge, co-edited with Wladimir Sgibnev and Carola Neugebauer) and one one on post-socialist streets (2023, Berghahn, with Ger Duijzings). Prof. Tuvikene was the Project Lead (PL) of the HERA-funded research project PUTSPACE (2019-2022) that studied public transport as public space in European cities through narratives, experiences and contestations. Currently, he is the PL of the ERA-NET funded research project CARIN-PT that explores the relation between social inequalities and public transport (2022-2025). He also curates MA curriculum in urban governance at Tallinn University.
Wladimir Sgibnev is a Senior Researcher coordinating the Mobilities and Migration Research group at IfL, with a profile combining mobility studies and urban studies. He has a track record of publications in leading journals (e.g. Journal of Transport Geography, Antipode, Journal of Transport History), international project funding acquisition and dissemination activities, and teaching. His main fields of interest include mobilities turn theories (in particular informal mobility), mobility justice and a critical reading of transportation projects and policies, qualitative and comparative research methods, and innovative approaches such as mental mapping and mobile methods. He is PI of the “Contentious Mobilities through a decolonial lens” project (“CoMoDe”, Leibniz Competition, 2020-2025) and of the international HERA-funded research project “Public Transport as Public Space” (“PUTSPACE”, 2019–2022).
Leah Bonvin holds an MA in Critical Urbanisms from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on vernacular landscapes and questions of heritage in post-socialist contexts. Her article “Reimagining Garage Complexes’ Futures in the Former GDR » will be published in Volkskunde in Sachsen. Jahrbuch für Kulturanthropologie later this year.
Sources
Tuvikene, T., Sgibnev, W., & Neugebauer, C.S. (Eds.). (2019). Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351190350
Tuvikene, T., Sgibnev, W., Kȩbłowski, W., & Finch, J. (2023). Public transport as public space: Introduction. Urban Studies, 60(15), 2963 2978. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231203106
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Podcast: Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How To Stop A Pipeline: Jonathan Mingle, GASLIGHT
Pub date: 2024-06-13
What did a group of ordinary citizens find out when they managed to stop a huge gas pipeline from being built?
We spend the hour with Jonathan Mingle talking about his book, Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline And The Fight For America’s Energy Future. It’s the story of how a diverse group of citizens came together to fight a pipeline proposed by one of America’s biggest corporations — and won.
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Gaslight: The Fight Against America’s Energy FutureIn this episode, we delve into the David versus Goliath narrative about the battle against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Jonathan Mingle, author of Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline And The Fight For America’s Energy Future, joins us to unravel the story behind the successful resistance against one of America’s biggest corporations.
Key Points Covered:Introduction to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Jonathan Mingle sets the stage by introducing the proposed pipeline project by Dominion Energy, a corporate endeavor billed as a solution for America’s energy needs.
The Dark Reality of “Natural” Gas: Despite its innocuous name, Mingle exposes the hidden dangers of fossil gas, highlighting how it leaks methane and other toxins, contributing to environmental degradation and health hazards.
The Community Uprising: Mingle shares the remarkable tale of how ordinary citizens from diverse backgrounds rallied together to oppose the pipeline’s construction. Their fight, spanning six years and reaching the Supreme Court, serves as a testament to the power of grassroots activism.
The Battle for America’s Energy Future: At the heart of the conflict lies a pivotal question: Is natural gas truly a “bridge fuel” to a cleaner future, or is it a ticking methane bomb jeopardizing both local communities and the planet’s stability?
Jonathan Mingle’s Insights: As a seasoned journalist whose beat is climate change, energy, and environmental issues, Mingle provides invaluable insights into the broader implications of the pipeline saga, touching upon political, policy, and climate-related ramifications.
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 522: The Last South American Guerrilla
Pub date: 2024-06-11
The aim of "Colombia at a Crossroads" is designed not only to focus on Colombia’s politics and history, but also to celebrate her culture and society and this is the reason it’s divided into several parts and includes contributed essays by experts in their fields. This is not a guide book, nor a travelogue and nor is it a list of dry facts, but it has a heartbeat as the author has been located in Colombia for almost two decades. Writing this has been a multi-year challenge and the hope is to create something which is more of a summary of Colombia, something with a pulse. In keeping with the idea that this book has a “heartbeat”, there are chapters and essays contributed by: Adriaan Alsema, Nicolas Forsans, Andrei Gomez Suarez and Peter Watson amongst others. There are also collections including forgotten histories in Colombia, curiosities, further anecdotes and some articles which have been published in the mainstream press as well, all of which add to the colour and depth of the book. The publication of this book has been delayed due to the election of Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president and "the Last South American Guerrilla", it makes sense to begin with an overview of his first year and a half in power 2022-2024. A word of advice to the reader is warranted as well. It’s a herculean task to separate Colombia and Colombians from the conflict and this makes writing a book of this nature a dangerous venture. One must remember and be very aware that the violence has spread through every level of Colombian society and in every corner of the country is of course not without its consequences. Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Colombia-Crossroads-Historical-Social-Biography/dp/B0D3681YKG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KW73AWMCF36Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Oqkbz2vU-PEZFkC6yphpZFgV8BTm3Sodyi2IC9jJ-RnGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.y1QoKOQKQZfeQEUEaEyZFqi2ezVjLsdwkAk31RJVCKI&dib_tag=se&keywords=colombia+at+a+crossroads&qid=1718056872&sprefix=colombia+at+a+%2Caps%2C259&sr=8-1
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Podcast: Thinking Allowed (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The politics of the body
Pub date: 2024-06-11
The politics of the body: movement and posture. Laurie Taylor talks to Matthew Beaumont, Professor in English Literature at UCL, about how race, class, and politics influence the way we move: You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Through a series of dialogues with thinkers and walkers, his book explores the relationship between freedom and the human body. Also, Beth Linker, Associate Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania discusses the posture panic which once seized America - a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of slouching, with potentially catastrophic health consequences. Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, she reveals how this period influenced the 20th century eugenics movement and the belief that sitting or standing up straight was a sign of moral rectitude.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Podcast: The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hollywood’s Blockbuster Crisis
Pub date: 2024-06-08
The summer season has started with a fizzle for Hollywood, as expected hits like The Fall Guy, and Furioso have far underperformed their expectations. This isn’t a matter of a few films. Over the last few years, Hollywood is discovering that audiences are no longer reliably willing to buy tickets for the action adventure franchises that are the mainstay of the film industry. In particular, the once-dominant superhero genre is now fizzling. Adding to the troubles of Tinsel Town is the fact that streaming services, long touted as the future revenue model for the industry, are being squeezed by falling profits and rising interest rates.
Historian Daniel Bessner wrote a lengthy survey of Hollywood’s woes for the May issue of Harper’s Magazine. His account gives particular focus to political economy: the way government regulations and unions once made Hollywood a hospitable home for culture workers and how this has been undermined by the rise of private equity and monopolies. Daniel joins the podcast to talk about the movie industry and its discontents.
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Podcast: Gresham College Lectures (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is Music Infinite? - Milton Mermikides
Pub date: 2024-06-12
This lecture explores the very limits of music: investigating historical efforts to catalogue musical materials including the melacarta of Carnatic music, the wazn of Arabic maqam, Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, Schillinger’s Encyclopedia of Rhythms, Forte numbers, and contemporary attempts to ‘pre-copyright’ every possible melody yet to be written.
It also tackles the bigger questions: how much music might exist, whether it ever will be exhausted, and if there are any boundaries of our musical perception and imagination.
This lecture was recorded by Milton Mermikides on 16th May 2024 at LSO St Luke's Church, London
The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website:
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Nazi Origins of Gender Surveillance in Sports
Pub date: 2024-06-10
In 1936, Nazi Germany hosted the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, amidst international calls to boycott. It was an enormously consequential event in the politics of the times, granting Hitler an international spotlight to promote the Third Reich. Much less known, as writer Michael Waters argues, is how Nazi eugenics and paranoia about transgender athletes gave rise to the gender surveillance that characterizes contemporary sports to this day.
Resources:
Michael Waters, The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024
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Podcast: Said & Done
Episode: Language and the Public Space, with Dave Malinowski
Pub date: 2024-06-07
Professor David Malinowski of San Jose State University discusses the topic of the linguistic landscape, which refers to the "symbolic construction of the public space." He defines and introduces the topic, shares examples of linguistic landscapes, and discusses the kinds of relationships that two or more languages appearing (or not appearing) simultaneously in public can have with one another.
Materials for those interested in learning more about LL
Handout for language instructors/learners looking for a framework to get started with the linguistic landscape: (link)
A more detailed essay introduction to the topic: (link)
The two books that Dave mentions in the episode:
- Dubreil, S., Malinowski, D., & Maxim, H. H. (Eds.). (2023). Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape (Vol. 62). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39578-9
- Malinowski, D., Maxim, H. H., & Dubreil, S. (Eds.). (2020). Language teaching in the linguistic landscape: Mobilizing pedagogy in public space. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-55761-4
Additional resources on LL:
- Backhaus, P. (2007). Linguistic landscapes: A comparative study of urban multilingualism in Tokyo. Multilingual Matters.
- Ben-Rafael, E., Shohamy, E., Hasan Amara, M., & Trumper-Hecht, N. (2006). Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel. International Journal of Multilingualism, 3(1), 7–30.
- Scollon, R., & Scollon, S. B. K. (2003). Discourses in place: Language in the material world. Routledge.
- Solmaz, O., & Przymus, S. (Eds.). (2021). Linguistic landscapes in English Language Teaching: A pedagogical guidebook. http://llineltproject.com/
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Architecture Firms Drive Ever-Larger County Jails / Amanda Abrams
Pub date: 2024-06-12
Amanda Abrams on her story at The Intercept, "The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.Check out Amanda's article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/31/jail-construction-justice-architecture-firms/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The “brain school” that experimented on Indigenous children
Pub date: 2024-06-14
In 2014, a U.S. brainwave scientist claimed he could increase people’s creativity and cure their traumas. And he got permission to experiment on Indigenous children in Canada, offering an all-expenses-paid trip to Victoria, B.C.
But a decade later, some study participants say the testing they went through — which included staff attaching electrodes to their heads and being asked to talk about the most traumatic moments of their lives — wasn’t what they signed up for and may have left side-effects.
We hear from CBC’s Geoff Leo about what his investigation turned up and why critics are demanding more accountability and transparency over how the study was approved in the first place.
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Podcast: The End of Sport Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 141: Protest Politics with Robin D. G. Kelley
Pub date: 2024-06-04
In this episode, Derek and Nathan are immensely privileged to be joined by UCLA historian Robin D. G. Kelley for a discussion of the remarkable and obscene events that took place at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment and an assessment of the encampment movement in the context of the neoliberal university and racial capitalism more broadly. We also talk about the role of sport in protest politics.
Robin D.G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He honestly does not need any introduction from me, but just to gesture to his impact, he is the author of books including, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination(Beacon Press, 2002); with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon Press, 2001); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York: The Free Press, 1994); Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) [Vol. 10 of the Young Oxford History of African Americans series]; and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). Very recently, he is also the author of an astounding appraisal of the events at the UCLA encampment in Boston Review.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the FBI Tapped the Encrypted Chats of Criminals Around the World w/ Joseph Cox
Pub date: 2024-06-06
Paris Marx is joined by Joseph Cox to discuss how the FBI created an encrypted phone company called Anom to read criminals’ messages and eventually carry out the largest international sting operation by law enforcement.
Joseph Cox is the author of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever and the host of the 404 Media Podcast.
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The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Read an excerpt of Dark Wire at Wired.
- Joseph wrote about the revelation that Lithuania hosted the Anom interception server and provided the intercepted messages to the FBI.
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Podcast: Empathy to Impact
Episode: ENCORE: AI & the Critical Media Classroom with Dr. Nolan Higdon
Pub date: 2024-06-08
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Episode Summary
How might we reimagine social media and our use of technology as a force for good that lets us feel happier and more connected? How do we develop critical media literacy in our students? How does AI fit in to the critical media classroom? All this and more in this timely and inspired conversation with Dr. Nolan Higdon. Join us.
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Podcast: The French History Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mass Surveillance in France & Britain: The Aristocratic Age
Pub date: 2024-05-31
Part 1 of 3 looking at the history of government surveillance in France and Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War I
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Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Jazz Shaped the Civil Rights Movement
Pub date: 2024-06-05
In a speech written for the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music.” King considered jazz music “triumphant” — and this belief is rooted in the widespread popularity of three men: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, according to author Larry Tye. Respectively known as Satchmo, Duke and the Count, the three men were, Tye writes, “symbols of American culture on par with Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse.” He profiles the trio in his new book, “The Jazzmen.” In it, he pieces together over 250 interviews, including family members and former bandmates, to illustrate how their appeal among both Black and white audiences paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement. Tye joins us to share more.
Guests:
Larry Tye, journalist; author, "The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America"
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Podcast: The Verso Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Building the Ark: The Life and Legacy of Mike Davis | Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Owen Hatherley
Pub date: 2024-05-30
This week on The Verso Podcast Eleanor Penny is joined by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Owen Hatherley to look at the unflinching work of writer, urban theorist and historian Mike Davis. Verso x The Dig LIVE Podcast in London with Jeremy Corbyn, Laleh Khalili: tinyurl.com/bj2zx265You can find Mike Davis' works here: tinyurl.com/3pse83y3
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Podcast: Chatter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Oceania's Nuclear and Climate Storytelling with Anaïs Maurer
Pub date: 2024-05-28
Raised in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia), Dr. Anaïs Maurer is assistant professor of literature at Rutgers University and author of The Ocean on Fire. Her research and writing, including this book, have explored the intersection of the legacy of colonial powers' massive nuclear detonations in Oceania, critical threats from climate change, and the stories the people of Oceania tell about it all.
David Priess chatted with Maurer about her experience growing up in Oceania, the scope of the nuclear detonations in the region, how the people of Oceania have addressed radiation effects through stories, why cultural resilience has remained a greater theme than individualism or victimhood, how these narratives inform our current era of climate change, and more.
Works mentioned in this episode:
The book The Ocean on Fire by Anaïs Maurer
The book Quand le cannibale ricane by Paul Tavo
The short story "Eden" in the collection Vai: La Rivière au ciel sans nuages by Ra'i Chaze
The book The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
The visual art French Apocalypse Now by Cronos
The Coconut poetry series by Teresa Teaiwa
The book Pensées insolentes et inutiles by Chantal Spitz
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Black Scare/Red Scare: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly
Pub date: 2024-06-05
Historian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The book explores how related panics about Black political power and communism in the early 20th century drove the US government’s attempts at repression of anti-capitalist and anti-racist movements.
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Podcast: RevDem Podcast
Episode: Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe
Pub date: 2024-05-27
In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman – editors of the new volume Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe –discuss how to approach the question of social justice historically; show how this aspiration may be placed at the confluence of key developments in the twentieth century; explain how focusing on these questions allows us to study the interactions between rulers and the ruled; sketch some of the main features of different eras of social justice; and consider whether social justice is still understood primarily by its absence as it so often was during the past century.
Martin Conway is a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford. His recent booksinclude the major monograph Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945 to 1968.
Camilo Erlichman is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe who acts as an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University. He is also the co-founder and co-convenor of the Occupation Studies Research Network.
Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe has been published by Cambridge University Press.
The conversation was conducted by Ferenc Laczó. Ádám Hushegyi prepared the audio file for publication.
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Podcast: The Sociology Show (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interview with Anton Roberts on homelessness and masculinity
Pub date: 2024-06-05
In this episode, Matthew talks to Anton Roberts about his research on homelessness and masculinity. Anton is a researcher at the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at Manchester Metropolitan University, within the disciplines of Sociology and Criminology. His specific research areas of focus are homelessness and exaggerated 'hyper' forms of masculinity.
You can lcontact Anton on email - A.Roberts@mmu.ac.uk
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: PTO Live! w/ Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny
Pub date: 2024-06-06
This week's episode is the recording of our recent live event. Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny were joined by an audience in Finsbury Park, London to discuss the fascism debate, disaster nationalism, and the relationship between fascism and racial capitalism.
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Podcast: The Eurasian Knot (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Soviet Industrial Ecology
Pub date: 2024-05-20
The Soviet economy used a lot of wood. For fuel, construction, consumer products, even in military weaponry. Wood could be shaped and transformed. But wood was also finite–and trying to balance the demand with the supply in forests was a delicate dance. The Soviet forestry industry understood this, and developed a unique form of industrial ecology—a practical approach toward natural resources for the economy and society to extract wood in a sustainable way. This ecological sustainability is not about preserving the natural world, like we think today. Rather, Soviet sustainability was about maintaining supply for production. What did this mean in theory and practice in the Soviet economy? How was it applied to cutting of forests, especially the so-called virgin forests of Siberia? To learn more about the Soviet world of wood, the Eurasian Knot turned to Elena Kochetkova to learn about her book The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology.
Guest:
Elena Kochetkova an Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. Her first book is The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology published by MIT Press.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: On Festac ’77
Pub date: 2024-05-22
Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed Festac ’77, a global celebration of Black and African art that she described as ‘the Olympics, plus a Biennial, plus Woodstock’. In his review of Nance’s book, Sean Jacobs traces a more fraught history of the festival than her photographs would suggest. Sean joins Tom to discuss what Festac meant for politicians, attendees and the proponents of négritude, third worldism and pan-Africanism.
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Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: War Tech and Nationalism in Turkey and Israel
Pub date: 2024-05-21
This episode explores the link between technology, warfare and nationalism. Turkey and Israel are two countries in the region who have developed their technological capabilities for both domestic and international conflict. We speak to two researchers who have been tracing the use of military technologies and the effect they have had on a sense of nationalism amongst their populations. Digdem Solaytin Colella speaks to the regime-boosting effects of drone production in Turkey whilst Sophia Goodfriend provides a more granular analysis of how military technology has transformed a new generation of Israeli soldiers’ views of Palestinians and Israeli occupation. Digdem is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen. Her research concentrates on the politics of corruption, mechanisms of state capture and regime survival, autocratic bureaucracies & illiberal governance, and Southeast European and Turkish politics. Sophia is a PhD candidate at Duke University’s Department of Cultural Anthropology and Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellow. Her academic work examines the ethics and impact of new surveillance technologies in Israel and Palestine.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: EXTRA: The Poverty of Growth w/ Olivier De Schutter
Pub date: 2024-05-24
On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Olivier De Schutter to discuss his new book The Poverty of Growth - a concise and well evidenced argument against the idea that economic growth is the route out of poverty.
Olivier was UN Special Rapporteur on The Right to Food, a member of the UN Comity on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and is an internationally recognised expert on food systems, poverty and international law.
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Podcast: The Political Theory Review (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 149: Richard Bourke - Hegel's World Revolutions
Pub date: 2024-05-24
A conversation with Richard Bourke about his recent book "Hegel's World Revolutions" (Princeton University Press).
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Podcast: Crisis and Critique (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Mladen Dolar on the limits of psychoanalysis, Marx and Hegel, Beckett, theatre/opera… and a lot more
Pub date: 2024-05-29
Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalytical theorist and cultural theorist, Mladen Dolar to discuss his forthcoming books on rumours and “The Riskiest Moments” reading(s) of Marx, limits orthe end of psychoanalysis, Hegel, film and series, music and opera, theatre… and many other things.
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Podcast: Chasing Leviathan (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe with Dr. Caroline Pennock
Pub date: 2024-05-28
On this episode of Chasing Leviathan, PJ and Dr. Caroline Pennock discuss the gap in Indigenous history being brought to European consciousness and the erasure of Indigenous perspectives in colonial societies. She highlights the complexity and diversity of Indigenous experiences, exploring a third culture that emerges between Indigenous and European cultures in the Americas. The conversation emphasizes the importance of recognizing Indigenous peoples as agents and the need to complicate identities and understand shared histories.
For a deep dive into Caroline Pennock's, check out her recent book: On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524749265
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Who thinks that they can subdue Leviathan? Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it. When it rises up, the mighty are terrified. Nothing on earth is its equal. It is without fear. It looks down on all who are haughty; it is king over all who are proud.
These words inspired PJ Wehry to create Chasing Leviathan. Chasing Leviathan was born out of two ideals: that truth is worth pursuing but will never be subjugated, and the discipline of listening is one of the most important habits anyone can develop.
Every episode is a dialogue, a journey into the depths of a meaningful question explored through the lens of personal experience or professional expertise.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Gaming Africa
Pub date: 2024-05-30
Ghanaian gamer and broadcaster Kobby Spiky explores the video game landscape across Africa. He speaks to everyday gamers and developers about their experiences of playing and creating them. Although Asia and North America are usually seen as the hubs of the video game industry because they are the homes of the three major console manufacturers and some of the largest publishers in the world, countries like Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria are paving the way for Africa to emerge as the next big thing in gaming. As smartphones and tablets become more accessible, mobile gaming has taken hold across the continent. And as more people look for authentic characters and stories, African developers are standing out from their foreign competitors.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Food & Freedom
Pub date: 2024-05-28
Reclaiming the commons sounds good in the abstract, but what’s being done on a practical level? Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma, the Hawai‘i-based co-founders of Eating in Public, describe projects like Free Gardens and Free Stores. Also: Wren Awry discusses the volume to which Chan and Sharma contributed an essay.
Eating in Public
Wren Awry, ed., Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid PM Press, 2023
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Podcast: Queer Lit (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “Lesbian Fashion History” with Eleanor Medhurst
Pub date: 2024-05-28
Did you know that lesbians sporting sportswear is a queer tradition dating back centuries? Or that 1910s Japanese lesbians liked to don a yukata to send subtle signals about their gender identity and sexual orientation? My favourite foremost expert in lesbian fashion history, Eleanor Medhurst, is gracing the podcast with a return performance, sharing her vast knowledge about all of these topics and more.
Listen now to learn all about how queer and gendernonconforming people dressed through the ages and follow @dressingdykes and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram to stay up-to-date and to book your tickets for Ellie’s book tour!
References:
@dressingdykes
Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion
https://dressingdykes.com/
Lesbian Lives Conference
Anne Lister
Sarah Wingrove
Queen Christina of Sweden
Radclyffe Hall
The Well of Loneliness
Crufts
Female Husbands
Jen Manion
Sappho
Meiji Era
Seitō
Sexology
Hiratsuka Raichō
Otake Kōkichi
Yukata
Kimono
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity
Amy Tooth Murphy
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
“Ring of Keys”
Roots Lesbian Fashion
Gillian Anderson
Cameron Esposito
Queery (podcast)
Lesbian Chique
k.d. lang
Vanity Fair
The L Word
The Queery (Brighton)
The Feminist Bookshop
Freya Marske’s The Last Binding Trilogy
Kristen Stewart
Happiest Season
Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
1. Can you name at least three historical fashion icons we speak about in the episode?
2. Eleanor explains why literature is important in fashion history. In which ways does Ellie use literary texts to learn about lesbian dress?
3. We use multiple words to describe the people whose fashion Eleanor writes about in Unsuitable. Why is that and what are some of the difficulties with labelling a historical figure?
4. Many of the people Ellie speaks about combine clothes with different gender connotations. Can you give an example of this? Do you think this is still relevant today?
5. Do you think lesbians are fashionable?
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79: CYBORG — A Conversation on Technology, Feminism, and the Future of a Concept
Pub date: 2024-05-17
Have 21st century technologies—from smartphones to medical devices to the commonplace use of artificial intelligence—made cyborgs of us all? In this episode of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at BISR Central, BISR faculty Rebecca Ariel Porte sits down with fellow faculty Danya Glabau and co-author Laura Forlano to parse what the latter, in their recent book Cyborg (MIT Press), have termed “critical cyborg literacy”: a lens through which to critically examine the constitutive role technology plays in the ways we think, behave, know, and interact. Glabau and Forlano begin with a synthetic overview of the history and affordances of thinking with the figure of the cyborg, after which the three discuss, among other things, the hidden human labor behind apparently automated systems, failure and the glitch, feminist scholarship as collaborative process, and the cyborg as, beyond its technicity, a social, political, and aesthetic project.
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Podcast: The Kitchen Sisters Present (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dissident Kitchens
Pub date: 2024-05-21
On February 16, 2024 Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died under unexplained circumstances in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic just weeks before the election that enthroned Vladimir Putin for another six years of near-absolute power. Within days of Navalny’s death his wife Yulia Navalnaya rose up, spoke out and vowed to continue her husband’s struggle.
A decade ago The Kitchen Sisters were in Moscow reporting for our NPR series Hidden Kitchens: War and Peace and Food. We were at lunch with writer, television journalist and government critic, Victor Erofeyev and asked what his hidden kitchen was.
“Dissident Kitchens,” he said. “The Soviet Union fell apart because of the kitchen.”
We started digging.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, millions of people poured into Moscow from the countryside, many living crammed together in the appropriated grand apartments of the wealthy — a single, communal kitchen shared by the ten or so families squeezed together under one roof. Spaces were crowded, food scarce, privacy nonexistent.
After Stalin’s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev came to power. His new Soviet government built hundreds of huge standardized apartment buildings with single family units, each with their own kitchen. These new, private kitchens became hotbeds of politics, forbidden music, literature – "dissident kitchens" where the seeds of ending the Soviet Union were sewn. Just as Victor Erofeyev told us over lunch.
Today, in honor of Alexei Navalny and in honor of Victor Erofeyev, who fled Russia with his family after the invasion of Ukraine, The Kitchen Sisters Present: Dissident Kitchens.
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Podcast: KPFA - Flashpoints (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Deconstructing Warlandia with Arun Grupa
Pub date: 2024-04-05
Today on the show: Biden to Bebe: slow down the slaughter, or we won’t fill your next weapons orders. Israeli military sacks a couple of officers on the World Food kill blame game. Also, automated war in the Gaza strip, twenty seconds to massacre. And Deconstructing War Landia with Arun Gupta, our weekly column covering what the media misses, misunderstands, or suppresses when covering the wars and plunder of Exceptional America
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Podcast: Gresham College Lectures (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Western Magical Tradition - Ronald Hutton
Pub date: 2024-05-20
This lecture makes a survey of learned ceremonial magic in Europe throughout history and demonstrates that both of the customary claims made for it by practitioners since the Middle Ages are actually correct: that there is a continuous tradition of it and that it is ultimately derived from ancient Egypt.
In doing so, it also shows what is distinctive about Western magic.
This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on 24th April 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/western-magic
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Podcast: Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)
Pub date: 2024-05-20
How much can we really know about the words we use? What are the facts behind some of the most tangled etymologies in English? And is our "Related or Not" game a good way of approaching word history?
We're talking to Dr Anatoly Liberman, perhaps the world's preëminent living etymologist and the author of Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Island School of Social Autonomy — with Srećko Horvat
Pub date: 2024-05-21
On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Srećko Horvat, a philosopher, author, and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. Am and Srećko discuss the journey behind launching the Island School of Social Autonomy on the Adriatic island of Vis. ISSA is a place for imagining, experimenting with and cultivating forms of knowledge-production and knowledge-sharing for the “age of extinction”..Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/242-srecko-horvat.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/242-srecko-horvat.htmlResources:Srećko Horvat: https://sreckohorvat.org/Island School of Social Autonomy: https://issa-school.org/Subversive Festival: https://subversivefestival.com/Democracy in Europe Movement 2025: https://diem25.org/en/The Radicality of Love: https://sreckohorvat.org/the-radicality-of-love/After the Apocalypse: https://sreckohorvat.org/after-the-apocalypse/Bio:A Croatian philosopher and author who produced a blizzard of political works – with several books published when he was barely into his thirties. Nowadays he is known as a fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape. If you aren’t familiar with Horvat’s work, you can probably recognise a lot of people who are. He is friends with the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; had regular visits with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, an organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. He is also a staunch friend of Slavoj Žižek, the maverick Slovenian celebrity academic with whom Horvat co-wrote a book in 2013 entitled “What Does Europe Want?”. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel. Aside from co-founding DiEM25, which campaigns to reform the EU into a “realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity”, he is a founder of the Subversive festival, an annual jamboree in Zagreb of radical thought that has featured the likes of Oliver Stone and Antonio Negri.Cite this episode:Chicago StyleJohal, Am. “Island School of Social Autonomy — with Srećko Horvat.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 21, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/242-srecko-horvat.html.
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: (Guest) Are Fast Food Jingles Pop Music?
Pub date: 2024-05-21
From our friends at Switched on Pop: Where were you when you learned that the McDonald's jingle "I'm lovin' it" was originally part of a full-fledged pop song by Justin Timberlake and Pharrell that flopped on the charts but found staying power as a slogan? For us, it was recording our live episode about sponsored content in pop back in March 2024, and we have not been the same since. Shaken by this revelation, we found ourselves asking, "What else don't we know about fast food jingles?"
Turns out, it's a lot. From Taco Bell to Popeye's to Chili's, the music of fast food represent some of the most familiar melodies in society, across state lines and generations. But the stories behind those songs, and the way that fast food production and pop music production often move in parallel, was something we never saw coming.
Since we are music experts but amateur foodies, we invited the brilliant hosts of Gastropod, Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, to help serve up the history of fast food and its changing role in culture. Tune in and pig out with us as we listen and debate the artistic and ethical implications of the sounds of fast food.
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Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Money Behind Ultra-Processed Foods, with Marion Nestle
Pub date: 2024-05-23
Critics of the food industry allege that it relentlessly pursues profits at the expense of public health. They claim that food companies "ultra-process" products with salt, sugar, fats, and artificial additives, employ advanced marketing tactics to manipulate and hook consumers, and are ultimately responsible for an endemic of health ailments among Americans today. Companies are also launching entirely new lines and categories of food products catering to diabetes or weight management drugs such as Ozempic.
Marion Nestle, a leading public health advocate, nutritionist, award-winning author, and Professor Emerita at New York University, first warned in her 2002 book "Food Politics" that Big Food deliberately designs unhealthy, addictive products to drive sales, often backed by industry-funded research that misleads consumers. This week on Capitalisn't, Nestle joins Bethany and Luigi to explore the ultra-processed food industry through the interplay of four lenses: the underlying science, business motives, influencing consumer perceptions, and public policy.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett
Pub date: 2024-05-23
What's the relationship between our energy consumption, our material footprint and our economies?
Tim Garrett and I come to refer to these as “the holy trinity”. Tim is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, and over two years ago, he joined me to discuss the thermodynamics of collapse, where he explained his research into the behaviour of snowflakes and how you could extrapolate the behaviour of economies and civilization using the laws of thermodynamics. He's back on the show to explain how we use our energy, the necessity of a surplus of energy and how all of this relates to a society's growth and health.
In this conversation we discuss questions like: Will renewables facilitate an increased consumption of fossil fuels? Can we reduce inequality by reducing energy consumption? How can we organise a wave-like civilisation, which grows and decays within safe boundaries? Can we decline in order to recover before crashing completely?
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Reimagining A.I | John Wild
Pub date: 2024-05-16
What does artificial intelligence have in common with eugenics?
The first person to float the idea of a "general intelligence" was a eugenicist who was determined to rank intelligence according to race. This is just one of the legacies of A.I., a technology which Silicon Valley vehemently promises will transform the world, but which for now only consumes enormous quantities of energy. Despite the warnings from technologists around the world, for-profit companies are racing to develop A.G.I. no matter the costs.
Artist John Wild has traced the deep history of A.I., finding its roots in disturbing schools of thought which seek to raise the dead. He's also found where these histories are alive and kicking in C-Suite boardrooms. He joins me to reveal the disturbing imaginaries associated with A.I., and how we can begin to reimagine it as an entangled, decentralised, collaborative tool to create new ways of being.
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Podcast: Sinica Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jay Kuo on Beijing's Gay 90s
Pub date: 2024-05-16
This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome — my brother! Jay Kuo is a Broadway writer & producer, and the man behind the terrific U.S. politics-focused Substack newsletter The Status Kuo. In a previous life, from 1996 to 2000, he was also really active in Beijing's gay community, just at the time when homosexuality was being decriminalized and was stepping out of the shadows. We talk about how it all took off. Jay also puts on his other hat to talk about how China figures into American politics with the election less than five months away, and about the legal standing of the TikTok divest-or-ban law.
4:54 – The gay community in Beijing in the ‘90s, and the Half-and-Half bar in Sanlitun
16:06 – How the gay community in Beijing changed after two major rulings
27:33 – The end of the “golden era” for the gay community in China
36:26 – Progress and its drivers and obstacles
42:28 – Jay’s “China priors”
50:41 – The issue of China in the upcoming U.S. presidential election
57:08 – The TikTok ban bill
Recommendations:
Jay: The TV series Manhunt (2024), available on Apple TV
Kaiser: The TV series The Sympathizer (2024), available on HBO; the audiobook of The Sympathizerby Viet Thanh Nguyen, narrated by François Chau
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Podcast: The Future of Work Podcast
Episode: Who’s making money from forced labour?
Pub date: 2024-04-30
Forced labour is not just a brutal abuse of fundamental human rights, but it also generates hundreds of billions of dollars in criminal business profits, according to a new ILO report. We discuss the issue with the report's co-author Michaëlle de Cock and Anousheh Karvar, the French government delegate to the ILO.
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Podcast: Victor's Children (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 41: What Is Imperialism Today?
Pub date: 2024-05-18
What is Imperialism Today?More people are talking about imperialism because of the US's backing of Israel's war against Gaza and heightened rivalry between the US, China and Russia. But what is imperialism in the third decade of the 21st century? Jeff Webber and Charlie Post discuss how we should understand imperialism and its relationship to capitalism today, the need for a better theory of imperialism than those developed by marxists like Lenin a century ago, and the political implications of how we understand imperialism.If you're interested in this topic, check out other Victor's Children episodes on imperialism and anti-imperialism including episodes 31, 32, 33, 36 and 40. If you're new to the topic you may want to listen to episode 31 before this episode.Recommended reading:Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber, Prelude to a New Imperial Order? – Spectre Journalhttps://spectrejournal.com/prelude-to-a-new-imperial-order/
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Podcast: Sur-Urbano
Episode: Outlaw Capital and Contraband Urbanism with Jennifer Tucker
Pub date: 2024-05-16
One of the central nodes of capitalist circulation in Latin America is a city you may have never heard of. It is also, by some accounts, the largest illicit economy in the hemisphere – raising the question of how central transgression is to the circulation and globalization of capitalism. The city in question is Ciudad del Este, a Paraguayan city at the border with Brazil and it is the subject of Jennifer Tucker's new book "Outlaw Capital, Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development". Tucker explores the city's history, beginning with her connection to Paraguay as a Peace Corps volunteer, and delves into the complexities of street vending, the intertwining of legal and illegal economic activities, and the racialized and class-based disparities within these practices. She weaves personal stories of street vendors with the spatial and economic transformation of Ciudad del Este through malls and informal trade, and the state's role in shaping and sustaining these practices. The episode critically examines how contraband and informal economies are legitimized and contested, offering insights into broader themes of globalization, urban development, andsocial justice.
00:00 Introduction to Sur Urbano and Guest Jennifer Tucker
00:15 Exploring Street Vendor Life in Ciudad del Este
02:12 Unveiling 'Outlaw Capital': The Book on Ciudad del Este
02:34 Jennifer Tucker's Connection to Paraguay and Research Journey
03:53 The Dynamics of Ciudad del Este's Border Economy
08:18 Theoretical Insights: Outlaw Capital and Accumulationof Transgression
29:29 Contraband Urbanism and the Struggle for Space
44:25 Methodology and Ethnographic Challenges
48:15 Recent Changes and Ongoing Struggles in Ciudad delEste
51:50 Concluding Thoughts on Outlaw Economics and UrbanFutures
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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Polycentric World & the 'Sixth Great Power' w/ Paris Yeros
Pub date: 2024-05-17
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the fantastic and vitally important Paris Yeros to discuss his fabulous article A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power’, which was published by the Agrarian South Network. Paris himself and the Agrarian South Network more generally are both some of the best resources out there today, and we hope that you will engage with more of their work. We hope that this conversation similarly will be of great use to you!
Paris Yeros is the a Professor at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil, and is on the Editorial Board of the Agrarian South Network. The edited book he worked on, which is mentioned in the conversation, Gender in Agrarian Transitions: Liberation Perspectives from the South, is now available. We also recommend you keep up to date by checking out Paris's website and following him on twitter @parisyeros
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Podcast: The History of English Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse
Pub date: 2024-05-09
Theaters were an important part of cultural life in Elizabethan England, and they contributed many words to the English language. Those words joined thousands of other words that were pouring into English from around the world. In this episode, we look at how distant cultures were contributing to the growth of English and how Shakespeare’s acting company built a world-famous theater in the late 1500s. Works discussed in this episode include:
‘Henry IV, Parts One and Two’ – William Shakespeare
‘The Merry Wives of Windor” – William Shakespeare
‘“A Report of the Kindome of Congo’ – Abraham Hartwell, Translator
‘The Isle of Dogs’ – Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe
‘Discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies’
‘A Worlde of Wordes’ – John Florio
‘Palladis Tamia, Wit’s Treasury’ – Francis Meres
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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: De(Generative) AI: Is ChatGPT Killing The Essay?
Pub date: 2024-05-13
In this episode of All Things Policy, Rohan Pai and Anisree Suresh discuss the various knee-jerk responses from educational institutions to prevent academic dishonesty in the ChatGPT era. Should bans be placed on the use of ChatGPT by students? Should schools and universities restructure assignment prompts to circumvent the capabilities of ChatGPT? Or, by contrast, should teachers use ChatGPT ethically as a tool for teaching? Listen to the episode to find out!
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Podcast: Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor - Solidarity: A World-Changing Idea
Pub date: 2024-05-16
Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor talk to Rob about their recently released book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. The wide-ranging conversation covers the importance of solidarity in addressing the current crises of economic inequality, climate change, and democracy, emphasizing the need for collective action and social movements to bring about change, as well as the role of education and the arts in fostering a sense of community and shared identity.
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Podcast: Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The shadowy figures that connect Israel, India and Mexico
Pub date: 2024-05-13
Coups, assassinations, detentions and disinformation are just some of the tactics that have been used to undermine democracies. But who is behind them? A new research consortium is delving into the connections between politicians, think-tanks and private IT companies who they say are propping up reactionary forces around the world. And their work has drawn links between Israel, India and Mexico.
Guest: David Adler, founder, The Reactionary International. David is also the Co-General Coordinator of Progressive International.
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Podcast: Time To Say Goodbye (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the media has handled the protests and the lessons of the 2010s with Vincent Bevins
Pub date: 2024-05-08
Hello!
This week we are happy to present one of our most requested guests, Vincent Bevins. He is a longtime foreign correspondent and the author of two books, The Jakarta Method and If We Burn. We talked about the lessons of the mass protests of the 2010s around the world, the allure and some of the downsides to leaderless/horizontal protest movements, and about how the media has covered the campus protests around the country. This is a good one so please enjoy!
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Podcast: Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 185: Paul Cronin on Columbia 1968
Pub date: 2024-05-07
Paul Cronin has spent years creating a massive oral history about the Columbia University student uprising in 1968. The work titled "A Time to Stir" was first presented publicly in 2008 as a four rough cut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Village Voice critic Scott Foundas wrote that it was "the most vital movie" of that year's festival. Ultimately, Paul recorded over 700 interviews that he compiled into a 10-part project that has a length of 15 hours. You can watch it for free on his Vimeo page.
Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviewed Paul this month, a few days after Columbia University called in police again to quell student protests. Suddenly, Paul's research has a new currency as people seek comparisons between campus protests in 1968 and 2024.
For more about Paul's work, including his projects on Werner Herzog, Abbas Kiarostami, Haskell Wexler, Amos Vogel and Peter Whitehead, see his website thestickingplace.com
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Podcast: Climate One (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
Pub date: 2024-05-10
Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that they’re massive climate polluters too. The production of plastics alone produces about 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. After what is often a single use, the resulting waste continues releasing the greenhouse gasses ethylene and methane as it breaks apart.
Yet, as petrochemical companies pay lip service ending fuel production, they are pouring resources into plastics production. How do we wrap up our reliance on plastics?
Guests:
Diane Wilson, Founder and Director, San Antonio Bay Waterkeeper
Jane Patton, U.S. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager, Center for International Environmental Law
Susannah Scott, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alexis Jackson, Ocean Policy and Plastics Lead, California Chapter, The Nature Conservancy
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Podcast: RevDem Podcast
Episode: The Spaces and Networks of Critical Theory
Pub date: 2024-05-08
In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Philipp Lenhard – author of the new book Café Marx. Das
Institut für Sozialforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Frankfurter Schule (Café Marx. The Institute for SocialResearch from the Beginnings to the Frankfurt School) – discusses the history of the Institute For Social Research and the Frankfurt School and his approach to this subject; shows what his exploration of less famous actors in this history and his focus on spaces and networks have yielded; and reflects on what the impact of the Institute for Social Research and the Frankfurt School has been like – and what might be mostrelevant about critical theory today.
Philipp Lenhard is a DAAD Professor at the Department of History, the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his PhD and Habilitation at the University of Munich. His research interests include Modern Jewish History; Modern German History; Intellectual History; Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School; and Comparative European History.
Café Marx. Das Institut für Sozialforschung von denAnfängen bis zur Frankfurter Schule (Café Marx. The Institute for Social Research from the Beginnings to the Frankfurt School) has been published by C.H. Beck.
The conversation was conducted by Ferenc Laczó. Lucie Hunter prepared the recording for publication.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ilan Pappe on A History of Palestinian Resistance
Pub date: 2024-05-09
Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of A History of Modern Palestine.
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Aesthetics after Autonomy with Grant Kester
Pub date: 2024-05-03
Money on the Left is joined by Grant Kester, professor of Art History at University of California, San Diego. We speak with Kester about his multi-decade career, researching and teaching the history of socially engaged art.
Kester’s scholarship underscores the limits and contradictions of the dominant modern Western tradition of aesthetics. Such aesthetics value “autonomy,” insisting that the artist, the artistic medium, or art as an institution ought to stand alone and outside of society and its corrupting influences. Paradoxically, autonomy in this tradition is supposed to secure art’s political dimension by blunting and often deferring any claims to immediate social efficacy. Kester, by contrast, affirms what is variously called dialogical aesthetics or socially engaged art, a collaborative sensuous practice in public space, which aims to transform thought and action by forging complex relationships among artists and publics.
Here, we focus on Kester’s two recent books published by Duke University Press. In The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde (August 2023), Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Beyond the Sovereign Self Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art(December 2023), Kester then shows how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester demonstrates how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation.
Throughout our conversation, we tease out affinities between Kester’s scholarship and heterodox theories of public money and provisioning. Problematizing unquestioned desires to cordon off aesthetics from political economy, we call on artists and activists to contest, reconstruct, and build anew the forms of mediation that heterogeneously shape a shared sensuous life.
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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Rosalia is Not Your Friend - with Anita Fuentes
Pub date: 2024-05-05
This week Alan is joined by culture critic and researcher Anita Fuentes to discuss Spanish celebrities and politics.
Should celebrities use their platforms to stand up for injustices like the genocide in Palestine and a recent revival in the Spanish MeToo movement?
Furthermore, Rosalia is often claimed to have a progressive image, but is she? From real estate to cultural appropriation much would indicate that she isn't. We look at the reality behind the image of Spain's largest international star today.
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Podcast: The Most Interesting People I Know (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 35 - Yoshua Bengio on Why AI Labs are “Playing Dice with Humanity’s Future”
Pub date: 2024-05-09
I'm really excited to come out of hiatus to share this conversation with you. You may have noticed people are talking a lot about AI, and I've started focusing my journalism on the topic. I recently published a 9,000 word cover story in Jacobin’s winter issue called “Can Humanity Survive AI,” and was fortunate to talk to over three dozen people coming at AI and its possible risks from basically every angle. You can find a full episode transcript here.
My next guest is about as responsible as anybody for the state of AI capabilities today. But he's recently begun to wonder whether the field he spent his life helping build might lead to the end of the world. Following in the tradition of the Manhattan Project physicists who later opposed the hydrogen bomb, Dr. Yoshua Bengio started warning last year that advanced AI systems could drive humanity extinct.
(I’ve started a Substack since my last episode was released. You can subscribe here.)
The Jacobin story asked if AI poses an existential threat to humanity, but it also introduced the roiling three-sided debate around that question. And two of the sides, AI ethics and AI safety, are often pitched as standing in opposition to one another. It's true that the AI ethics camp often argues that we should be focusing on the immediate harms posed by existing AI systems. They also often argue that the existential risk arguments overhype the capabilities of those systems and distract from their immediate harms. It's also the case that many of the people focusing on mitigating existential risks from AI don't really focus on those issues. But Dr. Bengio is a counterexample to both of these points. He has spent years focusing on AI ethics and the immediate harms from AI systems, but he also worries that advanced AI systems pose an existential risk to humanity. And he argues in our interview that it's a false choice between AI ethics and AI safety, that it's possible to have both.
Yoshua Bengio is the second-most cited living scientist and one of the so-called “Godfathers of deep learning.” He and the other “Godfathers,” Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, shared the 2018 Turing Award, computing’s Nobel prize.
In November, Dr. Bengio was commissioned to lead production of the first “State of the Science” report on the “capabilities and risks of frontier AI” — the first significant attempt to create something like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for AI.
I spoke with him last fall while reporting my cover story for Jacobin’s winter issue, “Can Humanity Survive AI?” Dr. Bengio made waves last May when he and Geoffrey Hinton began warning that advanced AI systems could drive humanity extinct.
We discuss:
- His background and what motivated him to work on AI
- Whether there's evidence for existential risk (x-risk) from AI
- How he initially thought about x-risk
- Why he started worrying
- How the machine learning community's thoughts on x-risk have changed over time
- Why reading more on the topic made him more concerned
- Why he thinks Google co-founder Larry Page’s AI aspirations should be criminalized
- Why labs are trying to build artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- The technical and social components of aligning AI systems
- The why and how of universal, international regulations on AI
- Why good regulations will help with all kinds of risks
- Why loss of control doesn't need to be existential to be worth worrying about
- How AI enables power concentration
- Why he thinks the choice between AI ethics and safety is a false one
- Capitalism and AI risk
- The "dangerous race" between companies
- Leading indicators of AGI
- Why the way we train AI models creates risks
BackgroundSince we had limited time, we jumped straight into things and didn’t cover much of the basics of the idea of AI-driven existential risk, so I’m including some quotes and background in the intro. If you’re familiar with these ideas, you can skip straight to the interview at 7:24.
Unless stated otherwise, the below are quotes from my Jacobin story:
“Bengio posits that future, genuinely human-level AI systems could improve their own capabilities, functionally creating a new, more intelligent species. Humanity has driven hundreds of other species extinct, largely by accident. He fears that we could be next…”
Last May, “hundreds of AI researchers and notable figures signed an open letter stating, ‘Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.’ Hinton and Bengio were the lead signatories, followed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the heads of other top AI labs.”
“Hinton and Bengio were also the first authors of an October position paper warning about the risk of ‘an irreversible loss of human control over autonomous AI systems,’ joined by famous academics like Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari.”
The “position paper warns that ‘no one currently knows how to reliably align AI behavior with complex values.’”
The largest survey of machine learning researchers on AI x-risk was conducted in 2023. The median respondent estimated that there was a 50% chance of AGI by 2047 — a 13 year drop from a similar survey conducted just one year earlier — and that there was at least a 5% chance AGI would result in an existential catastrophe.
The October “Managing AI Risks” paper states:
There is no fundamental reason why AI progress would slow or halt when it reaches human-level abilities. . . . Compared to humans, AI systems can act faster, absorb more knowledge, and communicate at a far higher bandwidth. Additionally, they can be scaled to use immense computational resources and can be replicated by the millions.
“Here’s a stylized version of the idea of ‘population’ growth spurring an intelligence explosion: if AI systems rival human scientists at research and development, the systems will quickly proliferate, leading to the equivalent of an enormous number of new, highly productive workers entering the economy. Put another way, if GPT-7 can perform most of the tasks of a human worker and it only costs a few bucks to put the trained model to work on a day’s worth of tasks, each instance of the model would be wildly profitable, kicking off a positive feedback loop. This could lead to a virtual ‘population’ of billions or more digital workers, each worth much more than the cost of the energy it takes to run them. [OpenAI chief scientist Ilya] Sutskever thinks it’s likely that ‘the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.’”
“The fear that keeps many x-risk people up at night is not that an advanced AI would ‘wake up,’ ‘turn evil,’ and decide to kill everyone out of malice, but rather that it comes to see us as an obstacle to whatever goals it does have. In his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking articulated this, saying, ‘You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green-energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants.’”
Links How We Can Have AI Progress Without Sacrificing Safety or Democracy by Yoshua Bengio and Daniel Privitera in TIME Magazine * AI extinction open letter * AI and Catastrophic Risk by Yoshua Bengio in the Journal of Democracy * Regulating advanced artificial agents by Michael K. Cohen, Noam Kolt, Yoshua Bengio, Gillian K. Hadfield, Stuart Russell in Science* * How Rogue AIs may Arise by Yoshua Bengio * FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks by Yoshua Bengio
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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The ‘trad wives’ glamorizing life at home
Pub date: 2024-04-24
For some time now, there’s been a growing trend on TikTok and Instagram of young women sharing about their daily lives as “trad wives.” “Traditional wives” forego the workplace, extol the virtues of homemaking, and often talk about the ways they “submit” to their husbands.
So why do these women say they’ve chosen a life at home? How does their messaging cross into religion and politics? And is this “movement” a reaction to the burdens on modern women, or a threat to feminism’s progress?
Journalist Sophie Elmhirst recently published a piece in the New Yorker titled “The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife.”
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 77: Revolution and Counterrevolution — Klee's Angelus Novus and Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History
Pub date: 2024-04-25
In episode 77 of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at Goethe-Institut Chicago, BISR faculty and Chicago Coordinator Audrey Nicolaïdes sat down with special guest, art historian Annie Bourneuf, to discuss revolution and counterrevolution, in text and dialectical image. Annie begins with a reexamination of Walter Benjamin’s aesthetic and philosophical project in light of a surprising discovery: Paul Klee’s famous Angelus Novus—a print in Benjamin’s own collection—is in fact a piece of collage; Klee’s image is glued atop a sixteenth-century engraving of a portrait of Martin Luther. What did such an image mean to Klee, in the context of counterrevolutionary Munich in the 1920s? And how does this citation bear on Benjamin’s attachment to the image and the inspiration he drew from it? Then, Audrey walks us through the schisms that put socialist movements in pre- and interwar Europe on their back foot—and the world-historical consequences these schisms entailed. What were the fundamental assumptions—fundamentally in error—about the progressive nature of historical processes that Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” is an attempt to redress? Along the way, the two touch on the centrality of concepts like ephemerality and contemporaneity in Benjamin’s work, parody and citation, the revolutionary potential of “hatred for the oppressor,” and more.
This episode of the podcast was produced by Ryan Lentini.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Religious Foundations of Transhumanism w/ Meghan O’Gieblyn
Pub date: 2024-04-25
Paris Marx is joined by Meghan O’Gieblyn to discuss parallels between transhumanism and Christian narratives of resurrection, despite the fact many transhumanists identify as staunch atheists.
Meghan O’Gieblyn is an advice columnist at Wired and the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Meghan wrote about transhumanism and religion for n+1.
- Paris wrote about the religion of techno-optimism in Disconnect.
- Amy Kurzweil wrote about her father’s chatbot of his own father.
- In China, AI “deathbots” are being used to help people grieve.
- Richard Dawkins now identifies as a “cultural Christian” (not Catholic, as Paris mistakenly said in the episode).
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Podcast: Ordinary Unhappiness (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam
Pub date: 2024-05-04
Abby and Patrick welcome Palestinian psychoanalyst and psychologist Dr. Jess Ghannam to talk about his twenty-five years of work doing empirical research and carrying out public health initiatives in Gaza. They discuss his studies of mental health in refugees from across the Middle East and in Palestinian children; intergenerational histories of traumas both collective and individual; the limits of the “post-” in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when it comes to what is “normal” in spaces of concentrated and ongoing trauma; his reflections from years of observing thousands of Palestinian children at play; the relationship between physical repression and psychic violence; and much more.
Relevant articles by Dr. Ghannam include:
Unattended Mental Health Needs in Primary Care: Lebanon’s Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp. Clinical Medicine Insights Psychiatry. 2020 Jan 1; 11:117955732096252. Segal SS, Khoury KV, Salah SR, Ghannam GJ. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1179557320962523
Coping with trauma and adversity among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: A qualitative, culture-informed analysis. J Health Psychol. 2020 10; 25(12):2031-2048. Afana AJ, Tremblay J, Ghannam J, Ronsbo H, Veronese G. PMID: 29974813. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29974813/
Contributors to Screening Positive for Mental Illness in Lebanon's Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2018 Jan; 206(1):46-51. Segal SP, Khoury VC, Salah R, Ghannam J. PMID: 28976407. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28976407
The psychological toll of slum living—an assessment of mental health, disability, and slum-related adversities in Mumbai, India. The Lancet Global Health. 2014 May 1; 2:s26. Subbaraman SR, Nolan NL, Shitole ST, Sawant SK, Shitole SS, Sood SK, Nanarkar NM, Ghannam GJ, Bloom BD, Patil-Deshmukh PA. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(15)70048-3
Health and Human Rights in Palestine: The Siege and Invasion of Gaza and the Role of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement. Human Rights in the Middle East. 2011 Jan 1; 245-261. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137001986_14
Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety among Gaza Strip adolescents in the wake of the second Uprising (Intifada). Child Abuse Negl. 2007 Jul; 31(7):719-29. Elbedour S, Onwuegbuzie AJ, Ghannam J, Whitcome JA, Abu Hein F. PMID: 17631959. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17631959
The use of psychoanalytic constructs in the service of empire: Comment on Baruch (2003). Psychoanalytic Psychology. 2005 Jan 1; 22(1):135. https://doi.org/10.1037/0736-9735.22.1.135
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Podcast: Departures with Robert Amsterdam (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Vienna and the birth of the knowledge economy
Pub date: 2024-05-01
From the late-nineteenth century until the mid-1930s, Vienna was Europe's undisputed powerhouse of ideas. But along with the exhilirating achievements of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt, there were also darker forces emerging in parallel which have had their own negative impact on modernity, from organized anti-Semitism to ethnonationalism ideologies.
These complex tensions are explored in detail in Richard Cockett's excellent new book, "Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World." In this discussion with Robert Amsterdam, Cockett explains how the Habsburg emperor, Franz Joseph, permitted such intellectual flourishing to occur, as the rapid influx of Jews and other groups and their assimilation into the Austrian middle class via commercial and educational success augmented intellectual curiosity, discovery, and experimentation throughout the city. Viennese café and salon culture also helped to foster schools of thought, as students and professors would furiously debate disputed major questions of the day into the wee hours.
The conditions for this fervent intellectual incubation of course was not to last, and we're all aware of what followed. Cockett's thoughtful history of the city in this period highlights what we can learn about encouraging greater intellectual vitality, pluralism, and civilizational development.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental Destruction
Pub date: 2024-04-30
Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Chatter: How the Cold War Made Miami with Vince Houghton
Pub date: 2024-04-30
For a period of time in the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, employer in the city of Miami. The CIA had set up a base of operations there, aimed primarily at undermining the regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. From those early days, writes historian Vince Houghton, the Cold War battle against communism shaped the city, which he says should rank among the world’s great capitals of espionage.
Houghton and co-author Eric Driggs, both Miami natives, chronicle the city’s spooky history in their rolicking new book Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami. Houghton spoke to Shane Harris about some of the colorful characters that span this decades-long story, why Miami has played such a pivotal role in the history of U.S. spying, and how the the Cuban intelligence service became one of the best in the world.
The books, people, events, films, TV shows, video games, and actors discussed in this book include:
- Covert City https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vince-houghton/covert-city/9781541774575/?lens=publicaffairs
- The Mariel Boatlift https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/cuba/mariel_port.htm
- Operation Mongoose https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2019-10-03/kennedy-cuba-operation-mongoose
- “Griselda” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15837600/
- “Contra,” the video game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)
- Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years by Peter J. Lapp, with Kelly Kennedy https://44thand3rdbookseller.com/book/9781637589595
- Chatter episode about Montes with author Jim Popkin https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chatter-podcast-ana-montes-american-who-spied-cuba-jim-popkin
- 537 Votes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13128292/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
More about Vince Houghton
- https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/2423003/from-soldier-to-scholar-vince-houghton-named-director-of-national-cryptologic-m/
- https://twitter.com/intelhistorian?lang=en
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Podcast: The Taxcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Blockchain havens
Pub date: 2024-04-30
"This will supersede them all." Offshore specialist and human rights lawyer Paul Beckett of Corlett Bolton & Co sounds the alarm on the fast development of 'blockchain havens.'
The Tax Justice Network's Bob Michel speaks about the challenges regulators, anti-corruption campaigners and poorer nations face.
A transcript of the podcast is available here: https://podcasts.taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Blockchain-havens-transcript-2.pdf
Further reading/resources:
- Paul Beckett's book: An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110985108/html
- Beneficial Ownership and Legal Responsibility: Concealment, Avoidance and Impunity, also by Paul Beckett https://www.routledge.com/Beneficial-Ownership-and-Legal-Responsibility-Concealment-Avoidance-and-Impunity/Beckett/p/book/9781032537603
- Offshoring DAO Foundations: Top Legal Considerations https://dilendorf.com/resources/offshoring-dao-foundations-top-legal-considerations.html
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Eyeliner: A Cultural History | Zahra Hankir
Pub date: 2024-04-30
This episode was recorded on March 27th, 2024.
Zahra Hankir is a Lebanese-British journalist, editor and author. She was awarded a Jack R. Howard Fellowship to attend the Columbia Journalism School and holds degrees in politics and Middle Eastern studies. Her first book "Our Women on the Ground" was a bestseller and won the Susan Koppelman award for best anthology in feminist studies. This second book "Eyeliner: A Cultural History" was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ pick and had starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.
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Podcast: The Accidental Geographer: A Podcast with Vincent Del Casino, SJSU Provost
Episode: The Accidental Geographer S4 E4: SJSU Department of Anthropology Roberto Gonzalez
Pub date: 2024-04-12
The latest episode of the Accidental Geographer features Roberto Gonzalez, a professor in the SJSU Department of Anthropology. The two will discuss several topics including the use of local technology, the farming and agricultural systems in southern Mexico, the militarization of technology in everyday life and how we think about Mariachi here in the Bay Area.
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Podcast: Anthropology on Air
Episode: #12 Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem
Pub date: 2024-04-23
In this special episode, we speak with Tomas Salem, a PhD fellow in our own department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. We do a deep dive on some of the themes covered in Tomas’s first book, Policing the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right (Palgrave Macmillian, 2024), which is released this week. Based on fieldwork Tomas conducted in 2015 when he was a Master’s student here, the book explores the links between militarized policing and far-right ideologies.
We talk about the social and political conditions that preceded the rise of the man who became the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, forms of everyday violence in the favelas of Rio, masculinity and hierarchy in the police force, doing ethnography with those you might disagree with, and how Tomas’s thoughts about the political and analytical value of anthropology have evolved in the years since he carried out the original research.
More broadly, Tomas’ research focuses on the intersection of inequality and the environment as the two overarching and co-constituting crises of the 21st century. He approaches these crises and their effects by zooming in on emergent social, political, cosmological and economic tensions, exploring the links between non-dualist ontologies and the re-enchantment of the world in politics and science, the material and symbolic conditions for the growth of illiberal ideologies, and technological change—particularly related to technologies of governance, datafication, and AI.
Tomas has carried out ethnographic research in diverse contexts, including Rio de Janeiro's Military Police Forces, and wilderness areas in the Norwegian High-Arctic and in Southern Argentina. In his PhD project he explore romantic pursuits of happiness and the good life in the outdoors and the changing meanings of nature in the Anthropocene.
We hope you enjoy the conversation.
Tomas Salem’s UiB profile: https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Tomas.Salem
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: ROUNDTABLE: A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things (Revisited)
Pub date: 2024-04-26
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On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore for a revisit of their book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: a guide to capitalism, nature and the future of the planet. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology and leads the World-Ecology Research Collective. Grab you copy of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things here www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-thingsA massive thank you to all of our existing Patreon subscribers, your support keeps the show running and we are very grateful. If you have the means and enjoy our work, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today.Find our socials, newsletter and more here: linktr.ee/macrodosepodcastWe want to hear from you! Leave a comment or get in touch at macrodose@planetbproductions.co.ukFor more about the work we do at Planet B Productions, go to planetbproductions.co.uk
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Podcast: The Brian Lehrer Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets
Pub date: 2024-04-24
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University, chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W.W.Norton, 2024), argues the neoliberal idea of freedom has led to economic crises and social unrest and argues for a more humane, 21st-century reframing of the concept.
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Podcast: BerlinsideOut
Episode: 23 – Germany’s Wealth, Power – and its Limits: Economic Miracles, Imperialist Hangovers, and the "End of History"
Pub date: 2024-04-24
In the fourth episode of BerlinsideOut season two, Ben and Aaron sit down with Albrecht Ritschl, a renowned German economic historian, to trace the historical origins of Germany’s economic model – and how its current emphasis on geoeconomics and free riding on security has influenced German foreign policy towards Russia, Ukraine, and wider Europe. We also look at how Germany hasn’t completely shaken off its imperial mindset, and how its selective memory culture continues to influence how it views Russia and wider Europe. A spirited discussion of the neoliberal globalisation and (lack of) alternatives to it, ensues.
Guests:
- Albrecht Ritschl, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics (@AlbrechtRitschl)
Resources:
- Is Germany Again the Sick Man of Europe?, The Economist, August 2023
- Understanding West German Economic Growth in the 1950s, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Barry Eichengreen & Albrecht Ritschl, 2008
- Germany’s Ukraine policy is incoherent for a reason, Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico
- Tweet Message on ZDF poll: “Occupied territories: If it could end the war, should Ukraine…”, Christopher Wratil, March 25th, 2024
- 1977 Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture, Helmut Schmidt, International Institute of Strategic Studies
- Germany Needs a New Growth Model, Sander Tordoir and Shahin Vallee, Centre for European Reform Policy Brief
- Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-economics, Stephen Szabo
- Latvia blasts Germany’s ‘immoral and hypocritical’ relationship with Russia and China, Louise Westendarp, Politico
- Empires: Eine Globale Geschichte 1780-1920 (in German), Ulrike von Hirschhausen and Jörn Leonhard
- Kraftwerk and the International Rebirth of Germany: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations, Benjamin Tallis, 2022
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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Case Against Extreme Wealth (with Ingrid Robeyns)
Pub date: 2024-04-23
This week, Nick and Goldy sit down with ethics professor Ingrid Robeyns to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. Robeyns challenges the idea that it’s acceptable to allow extreme wealth concentration and inequality to persist, advocating instead for a hard cap on wealth accumulation. Nick and Goldy navigate the moral and practical implications of wealth limits on society, democracy, and ecological sustainability.
Ingrid Robeyns is a distinguished scholar and Professor of Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, and author of the new book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. Professor Robeyns’ research in the field of Ethics and Political Philosophy focuses on issues of justice, inequality, well-being, and the ethical dimensions of societal structures and policies.
Twitter: @IngridRobeyns
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
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Podcast: Trending Globally: Politics and Policy (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A new history of the Sandinista Revolution
Pub date: 2024-04-17
In the 1970s in Nicaragua, left-wing rebels, calling themselves the Sandinista National Liberation Front, fought to overthrow their country’s dictator.
Itworked. The Sandinistas led a coalition that took over the government in July 1979, in what became known as the Sandinista Revolution.
However, within a few years, the Sandinistas faced a violent backlash, which pushed the country into a state of unrest that lasted for almost a decade.
This period of violence, from roughly 1982-1988, was known as the Contra War. To many Americans, it’s often associated with the Cold War and Ronald Reagan. It’s been described as a proxy battle between the Soviet-supported Sandinistas on one side, and the U.S.-supported counter-revolutionaries, or Contras, on the other.
But in this episode, we’ll go beyond that Cold War framing of the conflict, to uncover a fuller explanation of why the Sandinista revolution was successful in Nicaragua in 1979, why it was replaced by a liberal democratic government in 1990, and why that democracy has since fallen apart.
Mateo Jarquín is a historian and author of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History.” Through interviews with former Sandinistas and archival research conducted across Latin America, Mateo tells the story of this momentous decade in Latin American politics from the perspective of those who lived it. In doing so, he challenges our understanding of the Cold War’s impact on Latin America, from the 1980s straight through to the present.
In the second half of the episode, we’ll talk with Watson Senior Fellow Steven Kinzer about Nicaragua’s repressive political regime today, and a surprising act of resistance whose full effects are yet to be seen.
Learn about and purchase “The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History”
Listen to episode 1 of “Revolution Revisited” a limited series on the history of the Sandinista Revolution, from Trending Globally
Learn more about the Watson Institute’s other podcasts
Transcript coming soon to our website
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Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Laleh Khalili & James Butler: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
Pub date: 2024-04-24
Laleh Khalili’s new book The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack) draws on her own experiences to describe with care and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary commerce at sea, detailing (in the words of Steve Edwards) ‘the labouring bodies – hands, legs, and eyes; flesh and soul; suffering and solidarity – that make the world go round. In the process, the connections and divisions of the world economy come into view.’ Khalili was in conversation with LRB contributing editor James Butler, the co-founder of Novara Media.
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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 357: Empire of Climate
Pub date: 2024-04-22
"..Since ancient times, the idea that the climate exerts a determining influence on minds and bodies, health and well-being, customs and character, war and wealth has attracted a long line of committed followers.” Alarm over climate change brought about by anthropogenic global warming has renewed—or perhaps simply enhanced—an idea with a very long history. It was after all in 1748 when Montesquieu wrote that the “empire of climate is the first, the most powerful of all empires.” But intellectual attentiveness to climate predates that remark by at least two millennia.
In my guest David Livingstone’s new book The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea, his object is to “take a measure of this impulse over the longue durée.” To do that he travels from the Hippocratic treatise On Airs, Waters, and Places, to seemingly the very latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change, scaling a mountain of literature between those two points.
David N. Livingstone is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author and joint editor of numerous books which congregate around the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientific culture, and the historical geographies of science and religion.
For Further Investigation
- For some past HT episodes related to climate see Episode 156: Stories Told by Trees; Episode 209: Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith, and Episode 340: Price of Collapse
Clarence Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (University of California Press, 1967)
Dane Kennedy, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (University of California Press, 1996)
Mike Hulme, “Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism.” Osiris 26 Klima (2011): 245–266
Diana K. Davis, The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge (MIT Press, 2016)
Dagomar Degroot, The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Israel and the history of imperial feminism w/ Sophie Lewis
Pub date: 2024-04-17
Since October 7th Israeli politicians, spokespeople, and Israel's supporters have mobilised feminist narratives in defence of the state's genocidal actions in Gaza and sought to portray Palestinian resistance to Israel as suffused with religiously inspired misogyny. In a recent article in Salvage, Sophie Lewis wrote about the way in which Zionist feminists have worked to defend the settler colonial project and how it places them in a long lineage of self-described feminists who have been enthusiastic supporters and participants in imperial conquest. In our conversation we talked about that history, and whether we're seeing a decline in Zionist feminism that parallels the broader crisis of liberal Zionism. Book your spot at the first PTO Live! event on May 16th in London here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disaster-nationalism-politics-theory-other-podcast-live-tickets-883198700087
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Podcast: Pirikara Queer
Episode: Homonationalism: Going Beyond Pinkwashing
Pub date: 2024-04-11
Recently, the term “pinkwashing” has garnered attention in the context of Israel’s continuous genocide of the Palestinian people. Join us as we delve into the conceptual framework of “homonationalism” in order to understand the foundation behind how queers are utilized within nationalist agendas. This longer episode pulls from entire books, like Puar’s influential 2007 work, “Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” which has not yet been translated into Japanese. It is not a comprehensive overview but, offers Pirikara Queer’s understanding of concepts like “homonormativity” and “homonationalism” to unpack the roots of queer politics!
最近「ピンクウォッシング」という用語は、イスラエルによるパレスチナ人の虐殺という文脈の中で注目を集めています。このエピソードでは、「ホモナショナリズム」という概念を掘り下げて、クィアがどのように国家主義的な目的に利用されるのか、その背後にある基盤と政治性を取り上げます。このちょっと長めの回では、日本語訳がまだ出版されていないプアの重要な著書『Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times』（2007年）など、情報量が多い本から引用しています。なので決して包括的なものではなく、ピリ辛クィアの視点を共有し、クィア・ポリティクスの根源を理解するために、「ホモノーマティヴィティー」「ホモナショナリズム」といった概念を読み解いていくものです!
References and Links
参考文献とリンク
Emily Karasawa Grabil, “Liberation>Peace” Zine in Solidarity with Palestine (March, 2024)
エミリー・カラサワ・グレイビル『解放＞平和』パレスチナと連帯を示すジン（2024年3月）
https://www.emilykgportfolio.com/zine/on-pressure-and-performance-anxiety-bpzz9
Huffpost Article
https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp_660a06d4e4b007c08f9dfb99
Tokyo Rainbow Pride
https://tokyorainbowpride.com/
Duggan, Lisa. "The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism". Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics, edited by Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson and Donald E. Pease, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 175-194. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383901-008
Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2007.
Puar, Jasbir, and Shirin Deylami. "Forum on Rahul Rao’s Out of Time, Part II: Rethinking Homonationalisms." Contexto Internacional 45 (2023): e20220007.
Puar, Jasbir. “Rethinking Homonationalism.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, 2013, pp. 336–39. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43302999. Accessed 11 Apr. 2024.
Puar, Jasbir, K. (2015). Homonationalism as assemblage: Viral travels, affective sexualities. Revista lusófona de estudos culturais, 3(1), 319-337.
Novara Media, “What is Homonationalism?” by Shon Faye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l3shYm6Jao
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Architectural Future of the Gulf: Out With the New In With the Old | Civil Architecture
Pub date: 2024-04-15
This afikra podcast episode with Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi of Civil Architecture delves into the architectural, geographic, cultural, and historic fabric of "the Gulf". We ask what and where is the Gulf? Is it a concrete geography or an abstract entity? Ali and Hamed reflect on what it means to be of and from this region and how this has evolved over time.
Through an economic and political lens, they talk about the branding of the Gulf, the intellectual project behind it, and the impact of neoliberal policies on its present and future. Finally, we ask them both to compare and contrast their home cities of Kuwait (for Hamed) and Bahrain (for Ali) — and explain why some people consider highways to be public spaces.
Civil Architecture is a cultural practice pre-occupied with the making of buildings and books about them. Civil's work asks what it means to produce architecture in a decidedly un-civil time, presenting a new civic character for a global condition. Since its founding by Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi, the practice has attracted a strong following for its provocative works and its offer of an alternate future for a nascent Middle East.
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Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 409. Capital’s Codes: The Legal DNA of Economy and Inequality feat. Katharina Pistor
Pub date: 2024-04-17
Our guest today suggests that law is the cloth from which capitalism is cut. And lawyers are the tailors! From the enclosure movement to the financial crisis, law has been the engine of capital accumulation.
Katharina Pistor is a Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, about how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys and why this little-known fact is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else.
Katharina and Greg discuss the nuanced ways in which legal coding privileges certain groups. Katharina lays out the path of capital developing from land ownership and its metamorphosis into powerful financial instruments. Katharina and Greg analyze the legal frameworks that have contributed to the economic tapestry of today. They conclude with a discussion of the intricacies of global legal systems and their sway over commerce and society.
unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.
Episode Quotes:The unseen impacts of legal innovation
36:32: Under our civil procedure rules, not everyone has access to the courts. Not everyone has the justiciable interest. Who does or who does not, who has standing in a court of law, determines already who can bring a case to court. So, there was this wonderful debate in the 1970s about the efficiency of the common law. So, if you litigate and relitigate, the best rules will come about. But even at that time, people pushed back and said, "But this is not randomly selected, which rules will be even litigated." There are other conditions that have to be in place. So, I think if we were able to completely reverse those or change those conditions to make sure that everyone has access to the courts; remember how long women couldn't litigate for their own rights or Black people couldn't litigate for their own rights. And now that has changed, but there's still certain interests that you can't bring. Typically, individual rights have a better chance than collective rights. And so, there are lots of "if we could change all this, you can make your own rules," and there's some umpires that sort of sometimes create a balance between this. Then, I think we would be in a different world, but that's not the world we have.
Is common law taking over the world?
31:47: When I say capital is coded in law, I named the law, and it's actually domestic private law. We don't have a global private law, and we don't have a global state that could enforce it. So the question could be, how can global capitalism exist without that global law? And what I'm basically saying: global capitalism can exist in theory with only one legal system, as long as all other legal systems are willing to respect the rules that are made and enforce them in their own courts. That's what the config of law rules do.
Lawyers and the art of asset coding
11:42 You can see that a lot of private wealth is held in different types of assets over time. And that's actually what fascinated me so much: the same legal institutions were first used to code ownership in rural land for the landlords. The same mechanisms can be used to create complex derivatives today. And the shift from asset to asset is something that the lawyers can maneuver because they know how to code different assets. It also allows, and this is important to recognize: it allows different types of groups to come forward. So it's not necessarily that you have only the aristocracy that wins all the time.
Looking at the cumulative power of capital
08:19: If you look at the cumulative power of capital and the agency that certainly corporations have, or also agents have through their patron rights over others, sometimes you really have the feeling that these are actors in their own rights that actually can exert power over others, in particular over humans, in a way that might not have been anticipated when we created these institutions, but that's the real effect that we feel and experience today.
Show Links:Recommended Resources:
- Amartya Sen
- Martha Nussbaum
- Lehman Brothers
- Thomas Piketty
- Hernando de Soto
- Kuznets curve
- Paul Carrington
- Pierson v. Post
Guest Profile:
- Faculty Profile at Columbia Law School
- Professional Profile at Institute for New Economic Thinking
- Profile on LinkedIn
Her Work:
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
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Podcast: Perspectives: A Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
Episode: Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
Pub date: 2024-04-19
This conversation with Nancy Fraser explores her work on the crises of capitalism, democracy, and participation. She is interviewed by Nick Vlahos, Deputy Director at the Center for Democracy Innovation, and Adrian Bua, Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ahead of their forthcoming co-edited special volume of the journal Democratic Theory on "How to Democratize the Economy" that seeks to establish a closer conversation between the fields of democratic theory and critical political economy.
Fraser has argued that much scholarship in political science and democratic theory on these issues is hampered by “politicism”: an inclination to view the political in separation from other social spheres, which fails to appreciate the structural nature of contemporary crises. Fraser argues that the political arena is important because it is here that collective regulatory powers are exercised, however it needs to be situated within a broader understanding of the social totality to understand how it is affected by crisis dynamics in other spheres and how it might contribute to attenuating, or resolving, these.
The conversation begins by exploring these arguments in relation to Fraser's recent work on the critique of capitalism, and then traces how this relates to her work on the public sphere, participatory parity, and utopian thought.
Works Cited
- Brown, Wendy. 2019. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. Columbia University Press.
- Crouch, Colin. 2017. Can Neoliberalism be Saved from Itself? Social Europe Edition
- Fraser, Nancy. 1995. “Recognition or redistribution? A critical reading of Iris Young’s justice and the politics of difference.” Journal of Political Philosophy 3 (2): 166-180
- Fraser, Nancy. 1997. “A Rejoinder to Iris Young.” New Left Review 1, 223, May-June
- Fraser, Nancy. 1997. Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the Post-Socialist Condition. Abingdon: Routledge
- Fraser, Nancy. 2012. “On Justice: lessons from Plato, Rawls and Ishiguro.” New Left Review 74.
- Fraser, Nancy. 2014. “Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode.” New Left Review 86, March-April.
- Fraser, N. 2022. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and The Planet. Verso
- Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Farrar & Reinhardt.
- Streeck, Wolfgang. 2014. “How Will Capitalism End?” New Left Review, 87, May-June.
- Streeck, Wolfgang. 2016. How will Capitalism End? London: Verso.
- Streeck, Wolfgang. 2017. Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. Verso.
- Young, Iris Marion. 1997. “Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory.” New Left Review 1, 223, March-April.
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Podcast: Emancipations Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Music (feat. Scribe Wolf)
Pub date: 2024-04-13
We are pleased to welcome longtime friend of the show Scribe Wolf, aka A. H. Ra. In this discussion we focus on the book Noise: The Political Economy of Music by theorist Jacques Attali, a highly influential work that crosses disciplinary borders from history, music, to critical theory and Marxism. This is a wide-ranging and improvisational conversation. Definitely not to be missed. Includes a surprise new song!
Scribe Wolf is an Appalachia-based alt-country musician who describes his project as a "folk-form residing in the punctuated stitching-through of classical technique in avant-garde substrates." Along with his musical work—which additionally spans industrial roles as a classically trained composer and an audio engineer—Ra comes to the program with a background in Marxist, psychoanalytic, and medievalist scholarship, as well as a history of Leninist organizing.
His new avant-metal band Lunafaction is a collaboration with Portland-based Jacob Schulte of black metal project Yfelsian; their debut single The Augury will be out on Bandcamp Friday, April 5, 2024: https://lunafaction.bandcamp.com/
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The 2000 CBC Massey Lectures: The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff
Pub date: 2024-04-12
In his 2000 Massey Lectures on The Rights Revolution, Michael Ignatieff confronted the conflicted rise of human rights language in Canadian and global politics. "Has the rights revolution brought us closer together as a nation, or driven us further apart?" he asks in his final Massey lecture. We revisit this talk, as part of our series marking the 60th anniversary of Massey College.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Short History of Burnout w/ Hannah Proctor
Pub date: 2024-04-17
This week on Macrodose Hannah Proctor leads us on an exploration of burnout. What are the origins of the term, and how can political movements and people on the frontline endure in the face of defeat.
Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. Find her new book “Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat” here: tinyurl.com/ye33zecw
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Podcast: Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sex in the Aztec Empire
Pub date: 2024-04-19
The Aztec Empire might conjure up images of human sacrifice.
And whilst religious violence was part of their society, theirs was also a very egalitarian society where pleasure was valued and sexuality was an unashamed part of every day life.
How was queerness perceived and represented in this period? What sexual freedoms did they enjoy? And what part did the Goddess of Filth play in their lives?!
Joining Kate today is Caroline Pennock, author of Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture. Her new book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe, is out now.
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Podcast: Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A History of the Gay Right with Neil J. Young
Pub date: 2024-04-17
This week Bryan talks to writer Neil J. Young about his new book Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right. They dig into some of the inherent contradictions of the Gay Right and the pillars of their political strategy and reveal how central whiteness and maleness is to their politic.
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Podcast: Crazy Town (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse
Pub date: 2024-04-10
Consult your inner tortoise to find novel ways of slowing down and living the good life. In a world haunted by just-in-time delivery, hyperactive business, accelerating environmental calamities, and metric tons of stress, Jason, Rob, and Asher work at a fast and furious pace to savor the moments, because there aren't many left.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- Top 10 most unrealistic car crashes in movies
- Clip from the movie The Blues Brothers
- Clip from the movie Speed
- Clip from the movie Live Free or Die Hard
- Clip from the movie Furious 7
- Definition of high frequency trading
- Graphical representation of the Great Acceleration
- Interview with Hartmut Rosa
- Bart Zantvoort's article about Harmut Rosa's work
- Article about social acceleration by Bettina Hollstein and Hartmut Rosa in the Journal of Business Ethics
- Podcast episode about shrinking attention spans (episode 225 of Speaking of Psychology)
- Article about technology and perception of time by Fiona MacDonald in ScienceAlert
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 1982: the debt crisis that could have destroyed Western banking
Pub date: 2024-04-10
Science Po professor Jérôme Sgard discusses his new book on the debt crisis of the 1980s on this episode of The Sound of Economics, with host Rebecca Christie and award-winning book author and journalist Paul Blustein. They explore the shockwaves that hit developing countries during this period, starting with the quasi-default of Mexico in 1982, as well as the Brady bond debt relief plan that followed. This podcast addresses the global impact of this this crisis and the subsequent recovery, along with what we can learn going forward.
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Podcast: Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Drag
Pub date: 2024-04-12
The word drag is synonymous with flamboyant, fun performances. But where does the term come from and what does it mean?
This more modern story of playing with gender identity’s dates back to the 1870s, and it’s a history that takes in the wars, censorship and fears. Heaven forbid!
Taking us through this fascinating history of drag as we know it today is Jacob Bloomfield, author of Drag: A British History.
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Podcast: Public lecture podcasts (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan: When science meets power
Pub date: 2024-04-08
Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied. In this IPR lecture, leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often challenges it. He dissects the complex history of states’ use of science for conquest, glory and economic growth and shows the challenges of governing risk – from nuclear weapons to genetic modification, artificial intelligence to synthetic biology. He shows why the governance of science has become one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century, ever more prominent in daily politics and policy.This IPR event took place on 26 March 2024.
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Podcast: The Culture Journalist (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the hipster economy went mainstream
Pub date: 2024-04-11
The problem with talking about hipsterism is that the term is almost impossible to define. Hipsters, whether they can still be said to exist as a subculture at all at this point, famously like denying that they are hipsters. And while you could say that the figure of the hipster has become a sort of nebulous catch-all for everything we love to hate about the 21st century, liberal-arts educated, neighborhood-gentrifying creative class (see: Brad Troemel’s excellent “Hipster Report” for more on that tip), you can’t really study a group that doesn’t identify as such.
That’s part of why Alessandro Gerosa, a researcher in cultural sociology at the University of Milan, wrote a book examining hipsterism from a different, potentially more use angle. It’s called The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism, and it’s a fascinating (and open source!) look at hipsterism as an economic phenomenon — one oriented around the consumption and production of cultural goods that stand out for their authenticity and distinctiveness, and in the process, sort of magically endow their owner with those same qualities.
Far from being “over,” he argues, the “hipster economy” has become dominant “aesthetic regime of consumption” in our time. But the book also goes deeper, drawing on Alessandro’s study of cocktail bar owners, food truck restaurateurs, and other neo-craft entrepreneurs to show how at bottom, the hipster economy is driven by a centuries-old impulse to carve out spaces of autonomy and self-determination within industrial capitalism.
He joins us from Milan to discuss the surprisingly long history of our cultural obsession with the idea of authenticity, and how hipster taste is a complex interplay between authenticity and kitsch. We also get into how the hipster economy grew out of the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, the impact of the hipster economy on cities, and how hipsterism isn’t just a reaction to the dominant culture, but also a reaction to the state of work.
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Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich
Pub date: 2024-04-08
Forbes' annual rich list reveals that 2,781 people in the world have fortunes in excess of $1 billion. 141 people joined the list in 2023, with a combined wealth of around $14 trillion - a $2 trillion collective increase on the previous year. There are now more billionaires than ever before. It is a grotesque state of affairs, when we reflect on the misery and hardship that have been wrought by the cost of living crisis, soaring inflation, and years of stagnating pay and decaying public services. Clearly, amidst such stark inequality, there is an urgent need to do things differently.
That’s the argument made by Luke Hildyard in his new book, Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich, which is out now from Pluto Press. Luke argues that far from being the hard-working and productive entrepreneurs that they claim to be, the super-rich are an extractive, parasitic force sucking up a vastly disproportionate share of society's resources – making the rest of us all poorer as a result.
Politicians make absurd promises about economic growth while ignoring the solution that's staring them in the face: a major programme of progressive taxation and economic reform that could be used to get the wealth of the one per cent flowing instead to the workers who actually create it.
Luke Hildyard is also the Director of the High Pay Centre, a UK think tank focused on pay, employment rights and responsible business.
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Podcast: Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
Pub date: 2024-04-12
Air Date 4/12/2024
The forces of capitalism and deregulation loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up with new focus brought to the issue by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and the series of dangerous and deadly failures from Boeing.
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Ch. 1: Horror in Baltimore: Awful New Info Emerges About Six Missing Workers - THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent - Air Date 3-28-24
Two full days after the disastrous collapse of a bridge in Baltimore, little is known about six construction workers who went missing—and are now presumed dead.
Ch. 2: Everything we know about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse - The Real News Podcast - Air Date 4-4-24
The Real News convened a panel of journalists working all sides of this story to get a sense of what we know about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, what key questions still need to be answered, and what happens next.
Ch. 3: Cars, Bridges, Ships and Planes - The Zero Hour - Air Date 04-06-24
Discussing the Baltimore disaster in the context of infrastructure investment more broadly
Ch. 4: Everything we know about the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse Part 2 - The Real News Podcast - Air Date 4-4-24
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FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the threat to society of runaway corporate executive pay
References:
The failure of Bill Clinton's CEO pay reform - Politico
The Executive Pay Cap That Backfired - ProPublica
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Podcast: Refuse Fascism (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fascism On Trial with Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux
Pub date: 2024-03-31
Sam welcomes back onto the show Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux to discuss their latest book Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy. Dr. Henry A. Giroux is a renowned educator and author of multiple books on fascism and pedagogy. He holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Follow Dr. Giroux on Twitter at @HenryGiroux and visit his website at henryagiroux.com.
Dr. Anthony R. DiMaggio is a Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, USA. He is the author of Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here. Read his writings at Counterpunch and Salon.
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The Nazification of American Education
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The Evidence of Rising Neo-Fascism
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 330. The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)
Pub date: 2024-03-30
We are joined by Erin McElroy — author of Silicon Valley Imperialism — to first discuss their work as a co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and the important work they are doing on landlord tech, both as an academic and activist. Then we get deeper into their new book that offers a rich, in-depth analysis of how the racial technocapitalism of Silicon Valley has set up imperial outposts in the postsocialist countries of Eastern Europe, specifically Romania. ••• Erin’s book – Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism ••• Erin’s website with their projects, publications, etc – https://www.erinmcelroy.net/ ••• Alex Horghidan’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cumsecade Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition
Pub date: 2024-03-25
This event was the launch Zoe Hurley's new book 'Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition'.Evaluating the cases of multiple influencers, from local to transnational content creators, Hurley reveals how residents, non-citizens and migrant workers survive as influencers in the city of ‘likes.’ Providing de-Westernising perspectives of Dubai’s social media influencing industry within the broader context of global platform capitalism, the book offers an important contribution to the field of social media through illustrating visible economies in a city circuited by social media influencing.Zoe Hurley is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Assistant Professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her research focuses on postdigital cultures, feminist-semiotics and social media in the Arabian Gulf. She has published articles in leading academic journals, including Feminist Media Studies, Visual Communication, New Media + Society, Social Media & Society, Information Communication & Society, Postdigital Science and Education. Her monograph, 'Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition', advances decolonial semiotic theorising.Sarah Hopkyns is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has previously worked in higher education in the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and Japan. Her research interests include world Englishes, language and identity, language policy, translingual practice, linguistic ethnography, linguistic landscapes and English-medium instruction (EMI).Polly Withers is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, where she leads the project “Neoliberal Visions: Gendering Consumer Culture and its Resistances in the Levant”. Polly’s interdisciplinary work questions and explores how gender, sexuality, race, and class intersect in popular culture and commercial media in the global south.
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Are You Free? How Work Relentlessly Eats Up Our Time
Pub date: 2024-04-03
In a world increasingly built around convenience, why do we often feel so short of free time? It’s a question that’s been on the minds of authors Nick Srnicek and Helen Hester. Srnicek is Lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London. Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of West London. Together they’ve written a book, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. For this episode, Srnicek joins Carl Miller, co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, to talk about it.
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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: #326 - Puerto Rico: A Natural History: A Dialogue with Jorell Meléndez Badillo
Pub date: 2024-04-01
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jorell Meléndez Badillo about the history of Puerto Rico. They talk about the origins of the island of Puerto Rico, Taino peoples, reasons for Columbus coming to Puerto Rico, and indigenous peoples fighting back. They talk about enslaved peoples in the mid 16th century, origins of the term “Puertorriqueños,” impact of race and colorism, and hardship in Puerto Rico in the 19th century. They discuss the Lares revolution, coming to New York, Spanish-American war and the United States acquiring Puerto Rico, cultural shifts from Spanish colony to American colony, the great migration in the mid 20th century, history of parties, status of Puerto Rico, and the future of Puerto Rico.
Jorell Meléndez Badillo is a historian of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America. He is currently Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before arriving at UW-Madison, he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His work focuses on the global circulation of radical ideas from the standpoint of working-class intellectual communities. He is the author of the book, Puerto Rico: A Natural History.
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Podcast: Forum for vitenskap og demokrati
Episode: Dieter Plehwe: Why do university professors join think tanks?
Pub date: 2024-03-26
Think tanks are situated at the interface of politics, media, business, and academia. The number of think tanks is growing, with increasing influence on the relationship between knowledge and politics. Academics from universities and research institutes sit on think tank boards and perform a variety of functions for think tanks. Is this why think tanks are considered more successful “knowledge advisors” than universities?
Academics at university continue to occupy a particular intellectual authority based on their distance to interest groups. Can such a claim to special positions of public intellectuals be maintained if university professors act both inside and outside the protected realm of the university?
Dieter Plehwe, senior research fellow at the Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin, is a co-editor of The Road to Mont Pelerin (2009), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (2020) and Market Civilizations (2022). His current project on the Atlas Network maps the scope and influence of neoliberal think tanks (like Civita) in five world regions.
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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, "Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-31
Co-edited by Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement (University of Georgia Press, 2024) introduces readers to PBPs and their decentralized organization. PBPs are a grassroots-level and nationwide activist movement challenging the largest prison industry in the world by refusing to let incarcerated people remain isolated and forgotten. Operating on shoestring budgets, will all-volunteer workforces and donated libraries, books to prisoner programs are examples of ordinary people acting to undermine the isolation and judgment of incarceration. Although there are currently fifty-three books to prisoners groups serving in all fifty states, these programs remain relatively unknown. The goal of this book is to bring awareness to this diffuse and long-standing social movement and offer readers a way to get involved. In addition to highlighting voices from PBPs throughout the United States, the volume also includes essays, images, and artwork from independent bookstore owners, formerly and currently incarcerated folks, activists, artists, journalists, volunteers, organizers, and scholars.
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Podcast: Architecture is Political (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Segregated By Design w/ Adam Paul Susaneck
Pub date: 2022-06-09
Segregated By Design is a personal project of Adam Paul Susaneck. His Instagram posts visually depicts the destruction of black and brown communities due to redlining, urban renewal and freeway construction with aerial photographs and maps. Through various social media channels, Adam is able to bring awareness to the erasure of local black and communities to the forefront.
Adam Paul Susaneck recently received his Masters of Architecture from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. His work focuses on addressing historic inequity and ongoing climate issues through urban planning, architecture, and transportation infrastructure. In his professional work he has been involved in the retrofitting and upgrading of New York City Subway, commuter rail, and Amtrak stations for ADA accessibility. Hailing from West Palm Beach, FL, originally, Adam received his B.A. in political science at UC Berkeley.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: On Zionist Feminism / Sophie Lewis
Pub date: 2024-03-20
We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism." This will be Sophie's fourth appearance on This is Hell! and her interviews have repeatedly been selected by listeners as their favorites of the year each time she has appeared. Following the interview, Jeffrey Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" live from Second Story Studios, aka the center of Hell.Check out Sophie's article here: https://salvage.zone/some-of-my-best-enemies-are-feminists-on-zionist-feminism/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: The Climate Pod (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet (w/ Brett Christophers)
Pub date: 2024-04-03
For decades, the biggest pushback against renewable energy was that it was more expensive to generate than electricity that came from the burning of fossil fuels. But all that changed in 2016 when both solar and wind-generated electricity became cheaper than electricity generated by coal and natural gas, at least when using the industry-standard metric, Levelized Cost of Energy. Despite the fact that renewable energy has overcome its biggest obstacle and can now be generated cheaper than fossil fuels, investments in fossil fuels continue to increase and new renewable generation development is not keeping pace with increases in demand. What happened?
Brett Christophers is a Professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. He joined the podcast this week to explain why price isn't the most important metric to look at when determining the prospects for the development of clean energy projects. His new book, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet", provides some answers to the question of why renewables aren't growing as quickly as we need them to, given that the price of renewables have fallen well below their fossil fuel counterparts. His critiques of capitalism, energy markets, and our fascination with the Levelized Cost of Energy are some of the most compelling arguments you're likely to hear on why we need transformative changes instead of incremental reforms to our existing economic system, especially when it comes to how electricity is bought and sold.
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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Pub date: 2024-03-27
Listen to the first installment of this four-episode series HERE
Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science, then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies - East Asia (1989), and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University. In 2007, Hammond was appointed director of the Confucius Institute, a cultural initiative funded in part by Hanban on the NMSU campus that is dedicated to studying and publicizing China and Chinese culture. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies.
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Podcast: The Inquiry (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Is climate change impacting chocolate production?
Pub date: 2024-03-28
For centuries chocolate has had a global appeal, the key ingredient of this confectionery is derived from the dried and fully fermented seed of the Theobroma cacao, whose origins began in northern Amazonia. From this tree, both cocoa solids and cocoa butter can be extracted to form the basis of chocolate.
Today, it’s the West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana that produce the bulk of the world’s supply of cocoa beans. But in recent years hotter temperatures and shifts in rainfall patterns have impacted cocoa harvests particularly in this region. And now the global price of this key ingredient has roughly doubled since the start of last year, fuelling concern that demand could outweigh supply. Cocoa farming itself is mainly small scale and these farmers are at the bottom end of the value chain when it comes to profits. But whilst many of the major chocolate manufacturers do invest in the industry, with support for improved planting and harvesting techniques, farming sustainably is just one of a number of challenges that these small farmers face.
So on this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Is climate change impacting chocolate production?’
Contributors: Dr Katie Sampeck, British Academy Global Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of Reading, EnglandPhilip Antwi-Agyei, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Steffany Bermúdez, Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), CanadaYunusa Abubakar, Project Manager, International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO), Côte d’Ivoire
Presenter: Charmaine CozierProducer: Jill Collins Researcher: Matt ToulsonEditor: Tara McDermott Technical Producer: Hal HainesProduction Co-ordinator: Liam Morrey
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Podcast: On Shifting Ground (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why is America Always in Cuba’s Business?
Pub date: 2024-03-21
The US has once again ignored the United Nations’ annual resolution calling for an end to its decades-long embargo on Cuba, even as Cubans took to the streets to protest the island nation’s worst economic crisis in decades, with shortages of food and fuel. And when the US Embassy urged the Communist-led regime to “attend to the legitimate needs” of its people, the Cuban government criticized the comment as “open interference in Cuba’s domestic affairs.” For Cuba, Washington's long standing role in the current crisis makes their complaints a “hypocrisy.”
In this episode, we revisit Ray’s conversation with Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Ada Ferrer on just how intertwined the histories of the US and Cuba are, and why we’re so inseparable.
Guest:
Ada Ferrer, Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American History
Host(s):
Ray Suarez
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 510: Cryptolombia? Digital currencies in Colombia and Latin America
Pub date: 2024-03-19
This week, Emily Hart is setting out into the Wild West of cryptocurrencies here in Colombia and beyond. Is cryptocurrency the future of finance in Latin America? Is it safe? Is it just another way for rich people to hide their wealth from the tax man? Or for criminals to launder income? Or could it be a way for people to take banking into their own hands, a way for all of us to take control from a global system of banking we have so little say in? To explain all of that, we have on the show today Mat Di Salvo, Colombia-based correspondent covering crypto since 2019 for Decrypt, and two experts from Global Financial Integrity, a Washington DC-based think tank focused on illicit financial flows, corruption, and money laundering. Claudia Helms is the Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Program at GFI, having worked at the Organization of American States; And formerly at the UN, Claudia Marcela Hernández works as Policy Analyst for Central America in Global Financial Integrity. By early 2020, the region had 15.8% of the total volume of bitcoins worldwide, and it has grown exponentially since then. Last year, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina were in the top 20 for global adoption – Colombia was 32nd in the world. Venezuela was 40th. Looking at crypto in any country requires a close look at the context, unique in every case: this region is turning to digital and virtual currencies for many different reasons, using it to send remittances, invest, and save – especially important in countries that have unstable governments, high inflation, or low levels of trust in institutions. Here in Latin America, levels of poverty and informal employment might create barriers to usage, while technological and educational gaps create unique challenges for users, especially when a new digital revolution of cryptocurrencies and virtual assets arrives without adequate regulation, government oversight, or consumer awareness – particularly around scams and security. This is why GFI started https://criptoabierto.com/ - a set of resources around crypto in Latin America designed for users and policy-makers alike. Basically, regulation of cryptocurrencies in the region does not adequately match its current usage and adoption. Colombia has yet to adopt legal framework, despite a growing number of users, but there is movement around this issue and various institutions have released commentary on it, and President Gustavo Petro has expressed interest in encouraging crypto usage - and mining - in the country. Thanks to the anonymous nature of this universe, it’s difficult to get accurate data on exactly who is using crypto and what for, and though it’s certainly not only criminals using these currencies and assets, they have high potential for money laundering and channelling illicit flows of money, from stolen funds and fraud to payments for illegal goods and funding of terrorist groups. We’ll be talking about the opportunities and risks associated with cryptocurrencies, how their form and use are evolving, plus how (and why) cryptocurrencies can and should be regulated. The Colombia Briefing is also reported by Emily Hart – to get it direct to your inbox or email, you can subscribe to the Colombia Briefing via her Substack substack.com/@ehart or subscribe to the podcast’s Patreon.
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Podcast: UnHerd with Freddie Sayers (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dinosaurs vs. God The Original Culture War
Pub date: 2024-03-28
UnHerd's Giles Fraser chats to author and historian Michael Taylor about his new book ‘Impossible Monsters’, and what the war between rationalism and religion have to tell us about our future...
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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Geopolitics of English
Pub date: 2024-03-28
Podcast guest Rosemary Salomone is the Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St John's University School of Law and author of the book "The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language." The book takes readers around the world to show the political, social and cultural implications of English having been firmly established as the Lingua Franca. We kick off discussing how English became the dominant global language. We then discuss how reactions against the dominance of English are shaping domestic and international politics in interesting and sometimes unusual ways.
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Podcast: On TAP: A Theatre and Performance Studies Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On TAP 071
Pub date: 2024-03-28
Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni discuss Alisa Zhulina's new book, Theater of Capital, the Wilma Theatre's production of My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion by Sasha Denisova, and the 10th anniversary convening of the Latinx Theatre Commons.
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Podcast: Michael and Us (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #509 - Kung Fu Bicycles
Pub date: 2024-03-23
For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Was this industry exploitative? Did it produce art? What even is "art" anyway? We tackle all these questions and more as we discuss the documentary OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (2003).Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/posts/100937391
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Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Mega Corporations That Control What Americans Eat
Pub date: 2024-03-28
Walk into a grocery store today and there are seemingly endless shelves of product to choose from. But behind all those different options are a handful of agricultural giants that have grown to dominate the food industry. Companies like Walmart and Cargill are well-known at this point, but there are also dominant players in everything from berries to dairy to pig farming. In this episode, we speak with Austin Frerick, an antitrust and agricultural expert. His new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry, details the behemoths behind American agriculture and how they got so big. He talks about the choices that went into our current agricultural system, the impact of all that concentration, and what can be done to change it.
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Podcast: Current Affairs (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How White Supremacist Ideology Made Its Way Into Music Theory (w/ Philip Ewell)
Pub date: 2024-03-27
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Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory and the author of the new book On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone(University of Michigan Press). Ewell is one of the most "controversial" music theorists in the country, having sparked a major controversy in his field by criticizing the "white racial frame" that dominates in music theory. Ewell argued that much of mainstream music theory has been build around unstated assumptions about which kinds of music are sophisticated/interesting/worthy of academic study. Today he joins to explain how the idea of white supremacy translated into normative conceptions about music, why it's a mistake to think he's trying to "cancel Bach," and how music theory can be made, in the words of his title, more welcoming for everyone, meaning that it will break free of its narrow focus on a tiny group of European composers.
A great YouTube video by Adam Neely featuring Ewell, discussing the themes of this conversation, is here. A comprehensive Current Affairs article on the controversy around race and music theory is here. Nathan's article on Charles Murray, including Murray's theories about music, is here.
The main problem I have noticed as music theory faces its racial past is in how we confront what we see in the mirror as we look at ourselves. Understanding the exclusionist nature of the field is not difficult, and it is also easy to add to the music theory mix a few composers of color and think that this represents a solution to our racial dilemma. However, as Baldwin says in the epigraph to this chapter, all we ever see in that mirror is lies, whether we acknowledge that or not. The lie we are told by music theory, the lie that awaits in the mirror to be seen by the field if it is strong enough to glance, is that the dark secrets of our past are exceptional to our field, and that, by and large, our history has been one of social justice and decency. Of course, this is largely untrue of American music theory, since this is largely untrue of the United States as a country. — Philip Ewell, On Music Theory
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
Pub date: 2024-03-22
Whilst water is the most important substance on earth, we take it for granted in our modern lives.
As an archaeologist, Jay Ingate looks at water in the development of urban centres in early Roman Britain. Whilst the Romans sought to channel water for human purposes they also had a respectful relationship to it because of its believed connection to spirits and deities. Their largest sewer was even blessed with the name of a Goddess. Sam Grinsell explores how that connection to nature was lost as European colonialism led to the grand history of dam making and British engineers sought to ensure a pipeline to Egyptian cotton. He explains how this mastery over water continues with the artificially constructed landscapes of the 19th and 20th century North Sea coasts.
How does out detachment from waters’ source diminish our ability to connect what comes out of our taps to the intensifying dangers of droughts and floods resulting from climate change? Might an understanding of its history illuminate and offer solutions to our current dilemmas?
Jay Ingate is Senior Lecturer in Roman and Classical Archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University and his research focuses on the complex role of water in the development of urban centres in early Roman Britain Sam Grinsell is a Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture and follows rivers, canals, seas and oceans in the way they shape the spaces in which we live. He is currently working on a three-year project titled ‘Making North Sea coasts in England, Flanders and the Netherlands, c.1800-1950’. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is a Lecturer in Environmental History at Bath Spa University She’s a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker on the scheme which promotes research on the radio.
This New Thinking episode of the Arts & Ideas podcast was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UKRI. You can find more collected on the Free Thinking programme website of BBC Radio 3 under New Research or if you sign up for the Arts & Ideas podcast you can hear discussions about a range of topics.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 198: How The Atlantic Magazine Helps Sell Austerity and War to Middlebrow Liberals
Pub date: 2024-03-13
“Teachers Unions: Still a Huge Obstacle to Reform.” “Countering Iran’s Menacing Persian Gulf Navy.” “Open Everything: The time to end pandemic restrictions is now.” “The Good Republicans’ Last Stand”
Each of these headlines comes from the same magazine: The Atlantic. For 167 years, the publication has enjoyed elite stature in the American literary and journalistic worlds, publishing such luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Barack Obama, and serving as a coveted professional destination for writers throughout the country. Founded by a number of esteemed 19th century authors, the magazine has long prided itself on its cultural and political depth.
But beneath all of its high-minded rhetoric about democracy, free expression, fearlessness, and American ideals is a vehicle of center-right pablum, designed to launder reactionary opinions for a liberal-leaning audience. As the employer of warmongers like Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne Applebaum, and David Frum, under the ownership of a Silicon Valley-tied investment firm hellbent on destroying teachers’ unions, The Atlantic, time and time again, proves a far cry from the truth-pursuing, consensus-disrupting outlet it claims to be. On this episode, we dive into the history and ideology of The Atlantic, examining the currents of middlebrow conservatism, left-punching, and deference to boring business owners that have run through the magazine throughout its nearly 17 decades of operation.
Our guest is Jon Schwarz.
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Podcast: 12 Rules For WHAT (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 95 Cable Street Beat w/ Alex Carter
Pub date: 2024-03-20
In the late 1980s millitant anti-fascists started a cultural project, Cable Street Beat, to counter the rise of a violent fascist music scene which was attacking left wing gigs and attempting to attract a disaffected youth. For this episode reseacher Alex Cater joins to show to discuss the effort. Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/12rulesforwhatIf you were involved in CSB or other cultural anti-fascist projects Alex would like to hear from you. Get in touch with the show or via his article in The Conversation.Conversation article: https://theconversation.com/through-cable-street-beat-music-became-a-potent-antifascist-weapon-against-the-far-right-221060
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A History of Sanctuary
Pub date: 2024-03-18
What was the modern Sanctuary Movement formed to do? What sorts of challenges has it faced, and how has the movement changed and evolved? Carl Lindskoog considers the history of the Sanctuary Movement, including its expansion into a far-reaching campaign for human rights, economic justice, and peace.
Maria Cristina Garcia & Maddalena Marinari, Whose America? U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 University of Illinois Press, 2023
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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-17
What is the status of art and culture in a world dominated by apps, algorithms, and influencers? Anna Kornbluh’s newest book Immediacy, Or the Style of Too Late Capitalism(Verso, 2023) analyzes a swath of cultural forms from auto-fiction to Netflix binges and immersive art installations. For Kornbluh, neoliberalism’s economic disintermediation manifests itself in a new dominant cultural style that renounces complex forms of representation, abstraction, and mediation in favor of instantaneity, memoir, and literalism. An ambitious and far-reaching intervention into politics and aesthetics, Immediacy is ultimately an impassioned defense of the power of art to reflect, critique, and transform the world.
Anna Kornbluh is Professor of English and a member of the United Faculty bargaining team at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where her research and teaching center on literature, film, and Marxist cultural theory. She is the author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, and Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club, and Realizing Capital.
David Maruzzella is a writer, editor, and translator specializing in philosophy and contemporary art currently based in Chicago. He received his PhD in philosophy from DePaul University.
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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power
Pub date: 2024-03-19
Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life.Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the English-speaking world through his translation of their key collaborative work A Thousand Plateaus (1987) and his book A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (1992).[2] His 1995 essay "The Autonomy of Affect",[3] later integrated into his most well-known work, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002), is credited with playing a central role in the development of the interdisciplinary field of affect studies.[4]Massumi received his B.A. in Comparative Literature at Brown University (1979) and his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University (1987). After a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in the Stanford University Department of French and Italian (1987-1988), he settled in Montréal, Canada, where he taught first at McGill University (Comparative Literature Program) and later at the Université de Montréal (Communication Department), retiring in 2018. Massumi has lectured widely around the world, and his writings have been translated into more than fifteen languages.Since 2004, he has collaborated with the SenseLab,[5] founded by Erin Manning[6] as an experimental "laboratory for thought in motion" operating at the intersection of philosophy, art, and activism. Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumihttps://recherche.umontreal.ca/english/our-researchers/professors-directory/researcher/is/in14429/Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushhInstagram: @unconscioushh
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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Antifascism Against Machismo with Tammy Kovich and El Jones
Pub date: 2024-03-21
In this episode we interview Tammy Kovich and El Jones to discuss the book Antifascism Against Machismo
Published by our good friends at Kersplebedeb, and described as
“An intergenerational dialogue on the meaning of feminist antifascism.
Anti-Fascism Against Machismo collects and continues a conversation begun by Tammy Kovich (as “Petronella Lee”) in 2019. Four feminist, antifascist revolutionaries jump off from each other’s reflections and bring the particularities of their varied contexts to bear on one central problem: What has and will a women’s war against fascism look like?”
We pick up this conversation with Tammy Kovich who wrote the original zine upon which the book is constructed as well as El Jones who wrote the introduction. The book itself also includes contributions from Veronica L and from the late great Butch Lee who became an ancestor in 2021, and who we all spend time honoring in this conversation.
Among other things we discuss different variants of fascist or far right patriarchy and misogyny, the problems of the politics of representation and neocolonialism, and histories of the resistance of women in antifascist movements including in Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, and Spain.
I will add that we recorded this conversation back in August, and I am sure that if we had recorded it after October 7th we would have talked about what an antifascist war against zionism might look like and the contributions of women and children in the Palestinian struggle against genocide.
We very much appreciated this book and encourage folks to pick it up from Kersplebedeb’s retail arm which is leftwingbooks.net/. It is currently 40% off for the month of March along with over 400 titles at their online bookstore.
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Podcast: Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Plastics for Profit
Pub date: 2021-12-07
In this episode we look at the criminal involvement in the plastic waste industry.
The lucrative global market in plastic waste is expected to be reach over $50 billion US Dollars by 2022. From Mafia groups to poly-crime networks, the temptation for organised criminal groups and bad actors to get a slice of this market is too hard to resist - and so corners are cut, laws are ignored, and irreversible damage is done.
Alongside this, some waste management companies are used as Fronts to conceal other illicit activities like human trafficking, drug trafficking, prostitution, and various financial crimes like money laundering, tax evasion, mis-invoicing.
Paper: Plastic for Profit: Tracing illicit plastic waste flows, supply chains and actors
Speakers
Virginia Comolli, Research Manager, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Yuyun Ismawati, Special Advisor at the Nexus3 Foundation
Willie Wilson, Vice Chair and Private Sector Engagement Lead, INTERPOL Pollution Crime Working Group
Sedat Gündoğdu, Marine Biologist at Cukurova University in Turkey
Reading
Plastic for Profit: Tracing illicit plastic waste flows, supply chains and actors, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC)
Money Laundering from Environmental Crime, Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
INTERPOL report alerts to sharp rise in plastic waste crime, INTERPOL
Plastic Waste Management and Burden in Indonesia, Nexus3 Foundation
Global Shell Game: Fate of re-exports of seized illegal imports of waste from the USA to Indonesia, Nexus3 Foundation
Why is UK recycling being dumped by Turkish roadsides?, BBC News
Biffa fined £1.5 million for 'reckless' export breach, gov.uk
UK waste firm fined £1.5m for exporting household waste, The Guardian
Three victims of trafficking and modern slavery to sue Biffa: The claimants were moved from Poland to the UK and placed in work with waste firm, The Guardian
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Podcast: Spark (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can we put a watermark on reality?
Pub date: 2024-03-15
In an age of misinformation and generative AI, how do we know if anything we read or hear is even real anymore? From the latest trends in internet search to watermarking images to (re)establishing trust in journalism, we examine the role of proof in a post-truth world.
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Podcast: Heroes & Humans of Football (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Kylian Mbappé: Made in Paris (and bound for Madrid)
Pub date: 2024-03-21
Tracing Kylian Mbappé’s path from the suburbs of Paris to the pinnacle of global football. With two decades of living in Paris, Simon brings an insider's perspective to Mbappé's early life, highlighting the city's rich football culture that has nurtured talents like Pogba, Kanté, and Mahrez.
The Paris region is the biggest talent pool in global football, ahead of Buenos Aires. To understand the essence of Mbappé, it is necessary to understand the role of Parisian banlieues and artificial fields, which produce an unprecedented number of football stars. Yet, understanding the household that shaped his path is perhaps even more crucial.
In the heart of Bondy, Mbappé's upbringing unfolds—a tale of ambition, community, and family. His parents, Wilfrid and Fayza, pillars of their community, guided their son with a blend of strict education and football mentorship. From his father's coaching at AS Bondy, to listening to dressing-room tactical talks from age four, Mbappé's childhood was steeped in football.
Mbappé encountered broader social and political challenges, growing up as a black-Arab kid in the suburbs, against a backdrop of rising far-right sentiment in France. His early awareness of race and identity issues, alongside his family's careful navigation of fame and society’s expectations, paints a portrait of resilience and conscious ambition.
As Mbappé's talent becomes undeniable, every club wants to sign the kid. The family makes the very canny choice that he’ll start his career at Monaco, where there’s a fast track to the first team, and the club also employs teachers who can school him for the Baccalauréat, the French equivalent of A-levels. Doing ‘le bac’ is non-negotiable for his parents.
From his developmental years at Monaco to his record-breaking move to PSG, calculated decisions shaped his journey. Insights into Mbappé's personal growth, interactions with football legends, and his impact at the World Cup provide a glimpse into his evolution from a promising talent to a global football icon.
Timestamps:
00:00 Paris suburbs & footballing legacy.
08:48 Mbappé's diverse family, community pillars.
15:24 Mbappé meets Ronaldo, Zidane, awestruck by car.
19:03 1998 World Cup, racism controversy, young player.
21:54 Far right leader criticised nonwhite French players.
28:15 Mbappé faces rigid hierarchy, navigates his place in the dressing room.
31:31 Skilled footballer with versatility and tactical acumen.
38:36 Mbappé surprised by World Cup success, humbled by celebration.
44:49 Mixed reception in France for wealthy black celebrities.
48:31 Connecting with a frustrated young French generation.
53:34 Messi competes and pushing each other's performance.
01:00:08 Mbappé's potential to surpass football legends discussed.
01:03:18 Tune in next week for Roman Abramovich.
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Podcast: Trillbilly Worker's Party (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: UNLOCKED Against the Godless Tyrants (w/ special guest Andrew Drummond)
Pub date: 2024-03-12
Unlocking this Patreon episode in light of the official book release For this episode we're joined by Andrew Drummond to learn about the early German revolutionary Thomas Muntzer: the world he inhabited, his political and theological visions, and his impact on history. We also talk a little bit about Friedrich Engels's book on the German Peasants War, which you should check out if you're looking for a good supplement to Drummond's book (both linked below).Order Andrew Drummond's book, The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Muntzer, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2993-the-dreadful-history-and-judgement-of-god-on-thomas-muntzerAnd read Engels's stab at it is here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htm
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Podcast: Samsara Audio
Episode: Nietzsche and the Politics of Leisure | with Daniel Tutt
Pub date: 2024-03-13
This week I’m excited to share a conversation I had with Daniel Tutt, a Marxist and psychoanalytic theorist, and also a professor of philosophy at George Washington University, about his recently published book How to Read like a Parasite: How the Left got High on Nietzsche.
His book provides a much needed intervention in Nietzsche studies by rigorously insisting on reading Nietzsche in his political context as an enemy of the socialist and Marxist movements for equality in his time. Daniel also helped me work through some questions I had related to Marxism and egalitarianism. What especially stood out to me was the way in which access to active leisure posed a key battleground for both Nietzsche and Marx.
You can purchase Tutt’s new book here (affiliate link), as well as check out how to support him and his work over at his Patreon. I’m personally a subscriber at Daniel’s Patreon, and I benefit from his interviews with prominent thinkers in Marxism, psychoanalysis, and more.
Books recommended by Daniel near the end of the podcast:
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Nietzsche's Political Economy by Dimitri Safronov
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Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault by Jan Rehmann (affiliate link)
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Time stamps:
00:00 Introduction and Overview
01:50 Introducing Daniel Tutt
02:10 Exploring Nietzsche's Relationship with the Left
03:23 Daniel Tutt's Personal Journey with Nietzsche
04:42 Nietzsche's Influence on Young Intellectuals
06:26 Nietzsche's Political Context and Opposition to Equality Movements
09:12 The Role of Nietzsche in Modern Society
12:49 The Problem with Rights Framework
15:01 The Struggle for Equality and Freedom in Nietzsche's Philosophy
18:35 The Role of Nietzsche in the Formation of Modern Society
34:45 The Problem of Egalitarianism and Excellence
45:57 Revisiting Aristotle and Marx: The Question of Leisure
46:26 The Role of Leisure in Socialism and Liberalism
47:09 The Impact of Capitalism on Social Class and Marriage
48:24 Nietzsche's Views on Tradition and Hierarchy
49:25 The Cultural Impact of Capitalism and the Importance of Leisure
50:24 Nietzsche's Opposition to the American Revolution's Promise of Happiness
52:04 The Practical Implications of Capitalism and the Need for Change
53:56 The Role of Nietzsche in Understanding Political Myths
55:02 The American Dream: A Myth or a Possibility?
56:37 The Struggle for Stability and Human Flourishing in a Capitalist Society
57:59 The Oppressive Norms of Capitalism and the Need for Change
01:01:34 The Role of Nietzsche in Understanding and Overcoming Resentment
01:06:18 The Influence of Nietzsche on Various Communities
01:09:06 The Importance of Active Leisure in a Communist Society
01:14:18 The Need for Rationality and Expression in Politics
01:17:51 Closing Remarks and Future Projects
01:19:18 The Intersection of Freud and Marx in Understanding Society
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Podcast: Struggles in the city
Episode: Episode 8: Urban apartheid in Jerusalem
Pub date: 2024-03-08
In this episode, I talk to Mori Ram, Lecturer in Politics of the Global South at Newcastle University about urban apartheid in Jerusalem. Our discussion draws for the most part on the chapter written by our guest, Mori Ram, and Professor Haim Yacobi and titled “Neo-Apartheid Jerusalem: Palestine/Israel and the Question of Urban Apartheid”.
Mori’s recommended resources:
• Clarno, A. (2019). Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994. University of Chicago Press.
• Jabareen, Y. (2017). The right to space production and the right to necessity: Insurgent versus legal rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem. Planning Theory, 16(1), 6-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095215591675
• Shtern, M., & Rokem, J. (2023). Towards urban geopolitics of encounter: Spatial mixing in contested jerusalem. Geopolitics, 28(5), 1710-1734. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1926992
• Yacobi, H., & Milner, E. (2022). Planning, Land Ownership, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine. Journal of Palestine studies, 51(2), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040321
Mori’s highlighted work:
• Ram, M., & Yacobi, H. (2023). Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 50(4), 825–844. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085
• Yacobi, H., & Ram, M. (2023). Neo-Apartheid Jerusalem. In M. Griffiths & M. Joronen (Eds.), Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence (pp. 149-175). University of Nebraska Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8180963
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Podcast: DEATH // SENTENCE (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Isaac Rose - The Rentier City
Pub date: 2024-03-12
We're 'mad for it' on this episode! And by 'mad for it' we mean mad about how Manchester, the city where capitalism and communism were invented, has turned into a nightmare of hotdesking 'spaces', dumb concept bars that last two weeks and towers to store insufferable yuppies. Isaac Rose is here to talk about his new book The Rentier City: Manchester And The Making Of The Neoliberal Metropolis and what has happened to this once-adequate city.Music by Genital Shame.Join our Patreon community and get an invite to our Discord, where you can ask us questions about things: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence
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Podcast: Critical Media Studies (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
Pub date: 2024-03-15
Barry and Mike discuss Siegfried Kracauer's 1926 essay "Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces." Written nearly 100 years ago, the essay is strangely relevant to our current political landscape. We pay special attention to Kracauer's unique notion of distraction, which contra Stiegler, Kracauer views as a stimulus to thought.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Matthew Longo, "The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain" (Norton, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-08
The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and The Collapse of the Iron Curtain (Norton, 2024) is a truly fascinating narrative—exploring a little-known event that happened in the border area between Hungary and Austria in August of 1989, and ultimately contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain. This Pan-European Picnic, attended by Hungarian pro-democracy advocates and East German vacationers on one side, and Austrians on the other, took place in the shadow of the Iron Curtain that had cut through Europe since the onset of the Cold War. This Iron Curtain between East and West was militarized, dangerous, and, as the title makes clear, iron in quality. The border, during the Cold War, between the Eastern Bloc and the West was one that operated more to keep citizens inside as opposed to trying to keep others out. Longo’s work here is distinct from his previous work on the U.S./Mexico border and the way that borders are distinct wherever we encounter them. The Picnic is still exploring borders, but it is an examination of a particular event at this hardened and ideological border, and how that event, in the planning for it, and the repercussions from it, led to the opening of many borders, both real and mythical. Longo also takes a different approach to his writing and narrative in The Picnic, providing the reader with an understanding of all of these events from the words and experiences of those who lived through the events and some who had a hand in them as well.
The thread that traces through the entire story in The Picnic is this more elusive and complex idea of freedom. Freedom was at the heart of the activities that were planned and took place in August 1989, since the Hungarians and the East Germans were hoping to push on the literal and figurative constraints under which they lived in these Eastern Bloc countries. The understanding of the Cold War, at least from many in the West, was the denial of individual freedom, liberty, and autonomy—to have one’s life circumscribed by the state. And as we consider what happened in 1989—in June in Tiananmen Square, at this picnic in the backwoods of Hungary in August, and in the streets of Berlin in November—we often consider these events as the human drive towards freedom and against confinement. Longo tells part of this story, but through the words of those who were advocating for these political and ideological changes. The narratives also reflect on what happened after the end of the Cold War in Europe, what freedom ushered in, some of which was just as had been imagined. But there is also the underbelly that came with these openings of borders—the inflow of predatory capital, the rocky shifts away from socialism that have led, in a variety of places including Hungary, to a different form of authoritarianism. The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain weaves together a variegated narrative telling a particular story from 1989 but also a longer, more complex consideration of the idea of freedom and liberty and the power of the state.
Lilly J. Goren is a professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. She is co-host of the New Books in Political Science channel at the New Books Network. She is co-editor of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (University Press of Kansas, 2022), as well as co-editor of the award winning book, Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012). She can be reached @gorenlj.bsky.social
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Podcast: People vs Algorithms (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Platform Shifts
Pub date: 2024-03-14
As Alex says, the ground is shifting more and faster than it has in some time in the tech world, which usually means gaping craters are opened to swallow up media companies. We discuss the Reddit IPO, X apparently pivoting to video – we recorded this prior to Don Lemmon announcing he wouldn’t be launching his show on X after an apparently disastrous interview with Elon Musk pissed off Musk, go figure – and the effort to ban TikTok.
We also have a guest this week. Tony Stubblebine joined us to discuss where Medium fits in the information space. We talked to Tony about how Medium aims to be the place for expert content, why journalism is apparently expensive to produce because journalists have to learn about the stuff they cover, and the frequent misalignment of incentives in the media business, particularly ones reliant on advertising.
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- 00:00 Introducing the Voicemail Feature: A New Way to Engage
- 01:44 Welcome to People vs. Algorithms: Unpacking Media and Tech Shifts
- 02:06 Deep Dive into Reddit's IPO and the Future of Social Platforms
- 02:44 Exploring Medium's Journey and Its Place in the Digital World
- 04:29 Listener Engagement and the Future of Podcasting
- 05:18 Analyzing Reddit's Strategy and Its Impact on the Digital Landscape
- 16:17 X Pivoting to Video
- 19:46 The Controversial Debate: The Potential TikTok Ban
- 25:20 Apple's Strategy and the Shifting Tech Landscape
- 32:21 Medium's New Direction Under CEO Tony Stubblebine
- 40:44 Evaluating Medium's Pivot to Subscription and Target Author Strategy
- 41:26 The Power of Expert Content in the Digital Age
- 43:03 The Debate Over Text vs. Video Content
- 44:05 The Importance of Writing in an Evolving Internet
- 44:55 Addressing Changing Consumer Habits and Content Consumption
- 48:56 The Future of Twitter and Social Media Platforms
- 50:36 Exploring Federation and Content Distribution Strategies
- 51:37 Navigating Negotiations with AI Companies
- 55:17 The Potential and Challenges of Reddit's IPO
- 58:13 The Role of Medium in Independent Expert Content Creation
- 59:39 Reflecting on the State of Professional Media
- 01:08:33 Closing Thoughts and Future Directions
- 01:11:12 The Impact of Advertising on Business and Culture
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Les Milei with Daniel Conceição
Pub date: 2024-03-02
** Reminder: You are invited to listen to and discuss this episode with friends from Real Progressives on Tuesday, March 5th. Find the Zoom link at https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/
“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.” — Victor Hugo
Daniel Conceição talks with Steve about Argentina’s economic immiseration under newly elected president Javier Milei.
Milei’s aggressive cuts to public spending don’t address the root cause of inflation in Argentina. Because of the country’s dependency on the US dollar, it is mired in a foreign debt trap. Daniel and Steve highlight austerity policies bolstered by the macroeconomic illiteracy propagated by media and politicians (shout out to RFK, Jr).
They discuss the current political landscape and touch upon topics such as genocide, neoliberalism, economic conditions, and the role of public spending in promoting prosperity.
Daniel Conceição is an associate professor at the Unicamp Institute of Economics, a professor at the Institute of Research and Urban and Regional Planning (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and one of the authors of the book “Modern Monetary Theory: The Key to an Economy at the Service of People”. He is formerly president of the executive board of Institute of Functional Finance for Development Brasil.
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Podcast: Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Muslim Social
Pub date: 2024-03-06
This episode features Gizem Zencirci, Associate Professor of Political Science and her new book: The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey published by Syracuse University Press. In this book, she explains how Turkey’s ruling party and other Turkish actors have melded modern neo-liberal reforms and traditional understandings of Islamic charity to create a form of public welfare provision that she calls the “Muslim social.” We discuss her new book and its intriguing argument.
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Podcast: Transformative Podcast
Episode: Sea, Sex and Tourism in Socialist Yugoslavia (Anita Buhin)
Pub date: 2024-02-14
Who were the Yugoslav Casanovas of mass tourism? What are the practices of othering and meanings behind romantic and sexual encounters of local young men and foreign female tourists in the Yugoslav Adriatic? In this episode, Anita Buhin tells Jelena Đureinović about so-called galebovi (seagulls) in socialist Yugoslavia and various economic, cultural and social aspects of this phenomenon, typical for the broader Mediterranean region and the development of mass tourism.
Dr. Anita Buhin is a cultural historian of socialist Yugoslavia in the Mediterranean context whose work focuses on the relations between popular culture and tourism. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the NOVA University of Lisbon and holds a PhD from the European University Institute. Her book Yugoslav Socialism ‘Flavoured with Sea, Flavoured with Salt’: Mediterranization of Yugoslav Popular Culture in the 1950s and 1960s under Italian Influences was published with Srednja Europa in Zagreb in 2022.
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Podcast: Varn Vlog (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unveiling Class Politics and Economic Policy with Nicolas D Villarreal
Pub date: 2024-03-04
Discover the forces behind the economic curtain as Nicolas D Villarreal and I tackle the pressing issues of class politics and economic policies in a riveting conversation. From the surprising bipartisan strategies spanning Trump to Biden's administrations to the intricacies of labor market shifts, we dissect how these elements interplay with the tech sector, antitrust actions, and the subtle AI resistance in today's job market. The episode takes you on a journey through the undercurrents of our economic landscape, shining a light on the surprising continuity of policies and their profound impact on entry-level wages and labor dynamics.
Venture with us into the precarious world of the Petit Bourgeoisie, where we draw historical parallels to dissect their modern capitalist role. We scrutinize small businesses' vulnerabilities, the see-saw of shifting interest rates, and the tightrope walk of rentier economies, all under the shadow of recent banking collapse like Silicon Valley Bank. Listen as we challenge state theories, evaluate economic planning, and examine the profitability hiccups of local media against the backdrop of a global audience. As we navigate through the complex maze of economic thought, we uncover how political crises lay bare the limitations of the bourgeois state, questioning both reactionary forces and the left's readiness for a looming crisis of profitability.
Concluding the discussion, we plunge into the intertwining fates of educational institutions and the banking sector, exploring their roles within the capitalist framework and the new challenges they face. We address the ongoing political crises, the constraints of bourgeois state mechanisms, and the struggles inherent in Marxist theory to craft a narrative that transcends seizing power. This episode promises not just an exploration of contemporary economics but a deep reflection on the philosophical underpinnings that shape our society's future. Join us for an episode that not only informs but provokes thought on the complex interdependencies of our economic system.
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Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War with Volodymyr Ishchenko
Pub date: 2024-03-04
Rudy joins Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, for a discussion on Ukraine and the broader post-Soviet sphere. We discuss the formation of the Ukranian identity under the USSR, the story of Ukraine after independence through the Orange Revolution, Euromaidan and up to the recent war, and the failures of its elites to enact a political project. We also talk about the role of the far-right, whether the war was preventable, Military Keynsianism in Ukraine and Russia, and compare Euromaidan to the Belarus protests of 2020.
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Podcast: UnHerd with Freddie Sayers (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why the American Right loves Viktor Orbán, with Gladden Pappin
Pub date: 2024-03-02
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers was joined in the studio by Gladden Pappin to discuss why the American Right seem so enamoured with Viktor Orbán's political philosophy.
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Podcast: Slate Money (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Musk vs. the AI Overlords
Pub date: 2024-03-02
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers ponder the future of computers, cars, and…fast food? They discuss why Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman and OpenAI and the altruistic origins of ChatGPT. Also: Wendy’s “surge pricing” gaff had customers crying foul and Apple’s electric car has been scrapped. In the Plus segment: The downfall of Macy’s and the American department store.
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After segment one: The Thinking Machine - MIT 1961
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Podcast: Theory Underground (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Alenka Zupančič on The Ljubljana School, Sex, Repression, and Freud / Lacan / psychoanalysis
Pub date: 2024-03-01
This is from an epic marathon livestream at Theory Underground in January, 2024.
ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Welcome to Theory Underground. Theory Underground is a theory lecture course-centered platform and publishing house with an app on the IoS and Android stores. If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history of philosophy and theory, then welcome. Theory Underground is by and for working class intellectuals, renegade academics, and adults who don’t belong or see a future in anything on offer. Think of Theory Underground like a Jiu Jitsu gym for your brain. Or like a post left theory church. It doesn’t matter. None of the analogies will do it justice. We’re post-identity anyway. Just see if the vibe is right for you. We hope you get something out of it! Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs, and critical feedback that will help you evolve your comprehension capacities and critical faculties, either via the app (available on Apple and Google Play app stores) or through the website here: https://theory-underground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiers/ Get the books at a discount: https://theory-underground.com/publications Want to support the YouTube channel, but don't have time or money for full-on courses, or prefer to support via a familiar platform? I started a new Patreon just for you! https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground If you want to help me get setup sooner/faster in a totally gratuitous way, or support me but you don’t care about the subscription or want to bother with the monthly stuff, here is a way to buy me something concrete and immediately useful, then you can buy me important equipment for my office on this list (these items will be automatically shipped to my address if you use the list here) https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58? Buy me some food or coffee: https://www.venmo.com/u/Theorypleeb https://paypal.me/theorypleeb Or become a monthly subscriber at https://theory-underground.com/donate/ OR become a monthly subscriber on the Apple or Android Theory Underground APP! Download today! Each subscriber tier unlocks special access to weekly events, ongoing or past courses, and so much more. Help beta trial this at https://theory-underground.com/ Check out the courses, patron tiers and books, as well as events listed at these links: https://theory-underground.com/support If Theory Underground has helped you see that text to speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one’s reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the below link and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI See Theory Underground memes here: https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground/ https://tiktok.com/@theory_underground Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand. https://theory-underground.com/courses MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 74: The Exhausted of the Earth
Pub date: 2024-03-01
In episode 74 of the Podcast for Social Research, BISR faculty Ajay Singh Chaudhary sits down with writer and artist Molly Crabapple to discuss his new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World (Repeater). Live-recorded at P&T Knitwear in New York City, the conversation encompasses, among other things: the ubiquity of exhaustion (and how feelings of exhaustion might form the basis for new international solidarities); right-wing approaches to climate mitigation (and why, in the realm of climate policy, the Right has a "leg up"); "growth," "degrowth," and how the status quo actually thwarts abundance; the limits (or, illusions) of climate technocracy (and the kinds of climate technologies that can work); and international social movement responses climate catastrophe—and the lessons they might provide for U.S. activists.
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Podcast: New Books in Diplomatic History
Episode: Eline van Ommen, "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" (U California Press, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-02
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War(University of California Press, 2023)tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of musicians, politicians, teachers, activists, priests, feminists, and journalists flocked to the country to experience the revolution firsthand. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Eline van Ommen reveals the role that Western Europe played in Nicaragua's revolutionary diplomacy. Blending grassroots organizing and formal foreign policy, pragmatic guerrillas, creative diplomats, and ambitious activists from Europe and the Americas were able to create an international environment in which the Sandinista Revolution could survive despite the odds. Nicaragua Must Survive argues that this diplomacy was remarkably effective, propelling Nicaragua into the global limelight and allowing the revolutionaries to successfully challenge the United States' role in Central America.
Eline van Ommen is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Leeds.
Katie Coldiron is the Outreach Program Manager for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and PhD student in History at Florida International University.
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Podcast: State of Power (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S4 Ep7: Building a Just Energy Transition in an Age of Corporate and Imperial Power (Nick Buxton in Conversation with Thea Riofrancos, Ozzi Warwick, and Timothy Mitchell)
Pub date: 2024-02-21
The fossil fuel based energy system has shaped capitalism and our geopolitical order. On the 50th year of TNI's existence, the State of Power report unveils the corporate and financial actors that underpin this order, the dangers of an unjust energy transition, lessons for movements of resistance, and the possibilities for transformative change.
How can we build a Just energy transition in the age of corporate and imperial power?
In today’s episode, a special accompaniment to the 12th Annual State of Power Report on energy, Nick Buxton speaks to three interesting people who have unique perspectives on this question.
Timothy Mitchell is a political theorist, historian and professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. In 2012, his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil retold the history of energy in the Middle East, showing how oil weakened democracy, fuelled militarism and empire and created a dangerous myth of infinite growth.
Thea Riofrancos is an associate professor of political science at Providence College and a member of the Climate and Community Project, a left-wing think tank. She works primarily on the politics of extraction, particularly in Latin America and the US. Her upcoming book is Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.
Ozzi Warwick is the chief education and research officer of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union of Trinidad and Tobago and the General Secretary of the national Joint Trade Union Movement. He is also a founding member of the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy South (TUED South), a new South-led trade union platform dedicated to a public approach to a just energy transition.
Nick Buxton is TNI’s Knowledge Hub Coordinator and founding editor of the State of Power report.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Dennis O. Flynn on The World that Silver Created
Pub date: 2024-02-24
Dennis O. Flynn is the Alexander R. Heron Professor of Economics at the University of the Pacific. He has published since 1978 dozens of essays on global monetary history, fifteen of which have been reproduced in World Silver and Monetary History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum, 1996). He has co-edited Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy (Variorum 1997), Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim (Routledge, 1998), Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History Since the 16th Century (Routledge, 1999), European Entry into the Pacific: Spain and the Acapulco-Manila Galleons (Variorum, 2001), Studies in Pacific History: Economics, Politics, and Migration (Ashgate, 2002), and Studies in Global Monetary History, 1470–1800 (Ashgate, 2002). He is co-General Editor of a 19-volume series, The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900 (Variorum/Ashgate, 2001–2004). His collaborative research with Arturo Giráldez has been featured in the New York Times (2 December 2000) and The Economist (25 August 2001).
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: The disruptive forces of an oil boom
Pub date: 2024-02-27
During the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled energy landscapes and imaginaries in the US. Settling the Boom, a volume of essays, studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains of Williston, North Dakota, are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. Here, the book’s coeditors Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun are joined in conversation.
Mary E. Thomas is associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University. She is coeditor of Settling the Boom, coauthor of Urban Geography, and author of Multicultural Girlhood.
Bruce Braun is professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is coeditor of Settling the Boom and Political Matter, and author of The Intemperate Rainforest.
Episode references:
Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant
Pollution Is Colonialism / Max Liboiron
White Earth (film)
Jessica Christy, Through the Window exhibition
Location of focus:
Western North Dakota, including Willison (Williston Basin) and Dickinson, within the Bakken Formation.
Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil, is available from University of Minnesota Press. This edited collection includes contributions from Morgan Adamson, Kai Bosworth, Thomas S. Davis, and Jessica Lehman.
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)
Pub date: 2024-02-26
The late René Girard, former Stanford professor of literature and mentor to Peter Thiel, is having something of a moment on the right these days—as Sam Kriss recently put it in a Harper's essay, Girard's name is being "dropped on podcasts and shoved into reading lists," and "Girardianism has become a secret doctrine of a strange new frontier in reactionary thought." Why might that be the case? To unpack this question, Matt and Sam welcomed back John Ganz, whose four-part series on Girard is one of the best primers available. What does Girard have to say about who we are as human beings, why we want what we want, the origins of both violence and social order (and what they have to do with each others), the uniqueness of Christianity, and the nature of secular modernity? What use is all this to the right? And to what uses do they put it?
Also: please pre-order John's book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — it's sure to be excellent.
Sources:
John Ganz's Unpopular Front series on Girard: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
René Girard, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure (1976)
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1987)
The Scapegoat (1989)
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (1999)
Sam Kriss, "Overwhelming and Collective Murder: The Grand, Gruesome Theories of René Girard," Harper's, Nov 2023
Scott Cowdell, René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis (2013)
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Organize the Unorganized: War
Pub date: 2024-02-27
The early period of the CIO arguably ended with the Little Steel strike in 1937. The strike's brutal repression and failure dramatically illustrated the limits of the New Deal order. But the CIO continued to grow through the 1940s during the war escalation. Episode seven of Organize the Unorganized is devoted to the CIO's role in and relation to the war effort, and what it meant for this labor upsurge.
Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO is a limited-run history podcast telling the story of the CIO through the voices of labor historians. Hosted by Benjamin Y. Fong and produced by the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University with Jacobin.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Radical Futurisms — with T.J. Demos
Pub date: 2024-02-27
This week on Below the Radar, we are joined by T.J. Demos, Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Together, they chat about TJ’s book, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come. They also discuss the question of climate justice in visual culture, green capitalism, and fossil fascism.Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/235-tj-demos.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/235-tj-demos.htmlResources:T. J.'s website: https://tjdemos.sites.ucsc.edu Center for Creative Ecologies: https://creativeecologies.ucsc.edu Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come: https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/radical-futurisms/ Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today: :https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/against-the-anthropocene-visual-culture-and-environment-today/ Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9783956790942/decolonizing-nature/ T.J. Demos Essays: https://ucsc.academia.edu/TjDemos Bio:T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013) – winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award – and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2013). He recently co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21). Demos was Chair and Chief Curator of the Climate Collective, providing public programming related to the 2021 Climate Emergency > Emergence program at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Maat) in Lisbon. His new book, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come, 2023, is now out from Sternberg Press.Cite this episode:Chicago StyleJohal, Am. “Radical Futurisms — with T.J. Demos.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 27, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/235-tj-demos.html.
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Podcast: Not Just the Tudors (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial
Pub date: 2024-02-26
Astronomer Johannes Kepler was an important and admired figure in the scientific revolution of the early 17th century. But when his widowed mother was accused of witchcraft, the scientist remarkably defended her, in a trial that lasted six years.
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to author Ulinka Rublack who has pieced together this extraordinary true story.
This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Martta Kaskinen - How are radical feminists in Kenya making their voices heard?
Pub date: 2024-02-23
This month we are overjoyed to be joined by fellow University of Helsinki Global Development Studies doctoral researcher, Martta Kaskien. Martta is currently working with the project Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Pursuit of Transformative Alternatives in Times of Civic Disillusionment. Her research is centred on feminist activist narratives in Kenya using ethnographic methods. She gives us insight into her research trajectory and how she got to this topic in this context, and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted her fieldwork. She gives us insight into how the social pressure from anti-feminist political and public spaces, especially on social media, impact feminist activism and activists. However, even in the face of this pressure she has noticed the prevalence of curated spaces on social media that are created by the feminist activists themselves. These spaces are focused on community building and represent safe spaces for radical feminists to express themselves in the way they wish. These spaces are a form of an everyday utopia and allows these feminists to live life as they would like to today and how they would like to live in the real world in the future.
If you would like to know more about Martta’s research work, please check out her University profile https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/martta-kaskinen
If you would like to read more about the Citizenship Utopias Project https://blogs.helsinki.fi/citizenshiputopias/
Want to check out Eija Ranta’s episode that we refer to? Here is a direct links for your convenience.
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How can novels help us think about money ... and maybe even save the planet? (Guest Lecture)
Pub date: 2024-02-26
Can novels and, by extension, other works of art help us to think about money and trust in new ways? Could embracing alternative perspectives on trust and money help us to avoid climate catastrophe? Rob Hawkes shares a new version of a talk previously presented at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art as part of the One Fifteen at MIMA series of public talks. Highlighting the financial barriers often assumed to stand in the way of local, national, and global efforts to advance ecological and social justice, Rob situates the trust inherent in the act of money creation as much closer than we usually think to the trust fostered and demanded by experimental fiction. If “storytelling” is another word for “accounting,” then maybe we can learn to tell the story of money in new ways, and perhaps this can help us to save the planet.
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Podcast: Years of Lead Pod (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fascist Hobbits? A conversation with Hari Kunzru
Pub date: 2024-02-29
Check out Hari Kunzru's latest article here: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/leggete-tolkien-stolti-hari-kunzru/
References I drew on for this episode include:
Piero A. Corsini, I terroristi della porta accanto. Storie del terrorismo nero: Valerio Fioravanti e Francesca Mambro, dalla militanza nei NAR all'ergastolo per la strage di Bologna. Roma: Newton Compton Editori, 2020.
Giampiero Mughini, Il Grande Disordine: I nostre indimenticabili anni Settanta. Milano: Mondadori, 1998.
Alessandro Orsini, Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-Set of Modern Terrorism, Trans. Sarah J. Nodes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Nicola Rao. Trilogia Della Celtica. Milano: Sperling & Kupfer, 2014.
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Podcast: Education Technology Society
Episode: The history of educational computing in Europe
Pub date: 2024-02-27
Michael Geiss (Zurich University of Teacher Education) talks about a new edited book looking at how computers came into European schools from the 1960s to 1990s.
We talk about the importance of ‘pioneer’ teachers in paving the way for EdTech markets to develop, why critical scholars need to ‘follow the money’ while also paying more attention to national political structures, and why the EdTech agendas of international organisations like OECD shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
Accompanying reference >> Carmen Flury and Michael Geiss (2023). How computers entered the classroom, 1960-2000: historical perspectives. Degruyter (free to download)
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Podcast: The AIAC Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Origins of the scam
Pub date: 2024-02-21
Africa is a Country is happy to announce our new collaboration with The Nigerian Scam podcast, which focuses on examining how episodic iterations of audacious fraud in Nigerian history and contemporary politics intertwine with the ongoing struggle for African independence in the intricate web of global capitalism.
In the first syndicated episode, Sa’eed Husaini, OAG, and Emeka Ugwu consider the uses and abuses of centering “the scam” as a tool for understanding the failures of independence and the emergence of capitalism in Nigeria. Why did Nigeria come to be associated with the classic internet scam, a.k.a. “yahoo-yahoo” (among other fraudulent activities)? To what extent can the phenomenon of fraud in Nigeria be neatly separated from “legitimate” forms of capital accumulation, such as in the oil sector, the music industry, or Nollywood? Is Nigeria’s case really unique, or is it a slight variation of the failures of petty bourgeois-led independence movements in Africa?
Sa’eed is a research fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, and a regional editor for Africa Is a Country. OAG is a food security management postgraduate with a passion for revolutionary politics and discourse who lives in Hull, UK, and Emeka is a Lagos-based book critic/co-founder of Wawa Book Review. He is also a data analyst.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: ROUNDTABLE: Anarcho-Capitalism and the Future of Money
Pub date: 2024-02-20
Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe who is joined by two thinkers whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and its discontents, cryptocurrency, conspiracy theories, and so much more have overlapping and fascinating insights for how we see the political world today.
Quinn Slobodian's most recent book is Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy published by Metropolitan Books in the US, Penguin in the UK and elsewhere. He is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, contributing writer to New Statesman, co-editor of Contemporary European History and co-director of the History and Political Economy Project.
Brett Scott is a journalist, campaigner, monetary anthropologist and former financial broker. He’s the author of Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets (Penguin: 2022), and The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance (Pluto Press: 2013). He writes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter at brettscott.substack.com.
Me: sarahljaffe.comWork Won't Love You Back
Brett Scott: Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets
Going cashlessThe War on Cash (review of Cloudmoney)
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance
Quinn Slobodian: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy
Book excerpt: Inside Silicon Valley’s dream of capitalism untethered from democracyMonster of the Mainstream (on Javier Milei)
Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol (With William Callison)
The Wonderful Death of a StateEverything You Thought About Free Trade Is WrongGlobalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Things We Mentioned:
Argentina's General Strike
Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social ConservatismThe Anarchists series
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Podcast: Talk Gnosis (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Mindfulness Trap w/Dr. Ashley Frawley
Pub date: 2024-02-19
Sociologist, author, podcaster, and writer Dr. Ashley Frawley comes on Talk Gnosis to talk mindfulness and challenge the prevailing narratives that frame it as a panacea for society’s ills. With a critical eye, she unpacks the journey of mindfulness from a simple practice to a widespread discourse touted as the solution to a vast array of social problems, from improving productivity to addressing mental health issues. The conversation navigates through the history of therapeutic discourses, revealing how mindfulness, much like the self-esteem movement before it, has been used by governments and corporations to place the onus of societal issues on the individual. By dissecting the rhetoric surrounding meditation and mindfulness, Dr. Frawley invites us to reconsider its role in society, questioning whether it truly serves as a force for change or merely perpetuates a cycle of deferral and blame-shifting. Get more Dr. Frawley at https://www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawleyWe mention her new book in the interview so check it out at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/significant-emotions-9781350026797/[https://archive.org/download/finalfinalFrawley/finalfinalFrawley.mp3]—————–
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Podcast: The Economic and Political History Podcast
Episode: A History of Wars | Michael Mann with Javier Mejia
Pub date: 2024-02-18
Interview with Michael Mann, author of 'On Wars'Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions—who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results.
Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe—from ancient Rome to Ukraine, imperial China to the Middle East, Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.
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Podcast: Unsung History (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: LSD, the CIA & the History of Psychedelic Science
Pub date: 2024-01-22
In 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally developed the potent psychedelic LSD, although it would be several years before Hofmann realized what he’d created. During the Cold War, the CIA launched a top-secret mind control project, code-named MKUltra, experimenting with LSD and other psychedelic substances, drugging military personnel, CIA employees, and civilians, often without their consent or even their knowledge. At the same time, the CIA was funding university research on psychedelics, involving scientists like Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson and counterculture luminaries like Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg. Although mid-20th Century scientists had seen therapeutic promise in psychedelics, Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, which classified LSD, along with psilocybin, MDMA, and peyote, as Schedule I drugs, defined by the DEA as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”
Joining me in this episode is Dr. Benjamin Breen, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science.
Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is Psychedelic Atmospheric Dream Guitar, by Sonican, available for use via the Pixabay Content License. The episode image is a photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash; free to use under the Unsplash License.
Additional Sources:
- “Your employer may be adding another health benefit to its roster: psychedelic drugs,” by Sonya Collins, Fortune, January 19, 2024.
- “Psychedelics gave terminal patients relief from their intense anxiety,” by By Meryl Davids Landau, The Washington Post, January 13, 2024.
- “People were using psychedelic drugs in Bronze Age Europe, study finds,” by Sheena Goodyear, CBC Radio, April 12, 2023.
- “Prehistoric peyote use: alkaloid analysis and radiocarbon dating of archaeological specimens of Lophophora from Texas,” by Hesham R El-Seedi, et al, Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2005, vol. 101,1-3: 238-42.
- “'Apparently Useless': The Accidental Discovery of LSD,” by Tom Shroder, The Atlantic, September 9, 2014.
- “The Evolutionary Origins of Psychedelics,” by Noah Whiteman, Time Magazine, November 29, 2023.
- “A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry,” by Mo Costandi, The Guardian, September 2, 2014.
- “Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture,” Library of Congress.
- “History of CIA,” Central Intelligence Agency.
- “What We Know About the CIA’s Midcentury Mind-Control Project,” by Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine, April 13, 2017.
- “The CIA’s Appalling Human Experiments with Mind Control,” by Brianna Nofil, History.com.
- American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century, by Ido Hartogsohn, 2020.
- “What to know about Colorado’s psychedelic law,” by Andrew Kenney, Colorado Public Radio News, June 21, 2023.
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Podcast: PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Pill Pod 156 - Christofascism
Pub date: 2024-02-14
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What if, instead of letting history end or disappear, we hit the rewind button and let the Church have another shot? We navigate through some stars in the Christofascist constellation and read Why Liberalism Failed (https://amzn.to/3waNh6l) to see what the world might look like if the Catholic intellectuals had their way.
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Podcast: The Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Could it be magic?
Pub date: 2024-02-21
Brian Cox and Robin Ince pull scientific explanations out of a hat and go down the rabbit hole to explore the science of magic with comedian Alan Davies, sleight of hand artist Laura London and two experts in the psychology of magic Richard Wiseman and Gustav Kuhn. They ask what our predilection to be bamboozled by sleight of hand can tell us about how our minds work. Alan has a card trick played on him and we learn how our choices aren’t always what we think they are.
Producer: Melanie Brown Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
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Podcast: Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Real History of Sex Dolls
Pub date: 2024-02-20
The origins of the modern sex doll are shrouded in myth.
Some say they came from crafty sailors in the 18th century, a long way from home and in need of, ahem, company.
In today's episode, Kate is joined by Bo Ruberg, author of Sex Dolls At Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies to uncover the truth.
How were early sex dolls used to smuggle booze into Paris? What do the sex doll myths reveal about ourselves? And why is there such stigma around them compared to other sex toys?
This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement / Amy Cooter
Pub date: 2024-02-22
Sociologist Amy Cooter joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Routledge, "Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement." After the interview, we announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell!Check out Amy's book here: https://www.routledge.com/Nostalgia-Nationalism-and-the-US-Militia-Movement/Cooter/p/book/9781032421971Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Deconstructing the Colonial Archetype with Fadhel Kaboub
Pub date: 2024-02-17
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This week Steve talks with our friend, economist Fadhel Kaboub. Followers of this podcast will recognize some of the themes we regularly focus on, including the debt trap facing countries of the global South, and the need for climate action and transformative economic development. Current plans under consideration are extractive and paternalistic, continuing the patterns of colonial exploitation.
At the root of the external debt problem are three major structural issues: food deficits, energy deficits, and manufacturing deficits. Fadhel breaks down each of these problems, tracing the origins and suggesting how solutions will benefit not just Africa and the global South, but the international working class.
“So, the type of thinking that we need to have today is one of two options. Do we work towards reforming this global economic architecture that was designed for these purposes? Or do we build a parallel, alternative economic architecture from the ground up? I'm of the opinion that the countries that dominate the current economic architecture will fight to death to keep their supremacy.”
Steve and Fadhel also discuss MMT, degrowth, and the job guarantee. They look at the role China could play in Africa.
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University (on leave), and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He is also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development and serves as senior advisor with Power Shift Africa.
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Podcast: culturalstudies (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Christina Scharff on digital feminism, language, affective labor, classical music, and neoliberalism
Pub date: 2024-02-16
Christina Scharff on digital feminism, care work, language, affective labor, classical music, and neoliberalism
You can read about Christina’s work here:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/christina-scharff
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Podcast: New Books in Communications (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)
Pub date: 2024-02-11
The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque (Yale UP, 2018) is a cutting–edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic that attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?
Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current–day digital drudges called servers? Markus Krajewski explores this question by going from the present back to the Baroque to study historical aspects of service through various perspectives, be it the servants’ relationship to architecture or their function in literary or scientific contexts. At the intersection of media studies, cultural history, and literature, this work recounts the gradual transition of agency from human to nonhuman actors to show how the concept of the digital server stems from the classic role of the servant.
Markus Krajewski is professor of media history at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548–1929 and World Projects: Global Information Before World War I, which was awarded the 2007 Prize of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology. He also works as a software developer and maintainer of his bibliography software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index (www.synapsen.ch). Ilinca Iurascu is assistant professor of German at the University of British Columbia, specializing in nineteenth-century cultural studies and media theory.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.
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Podcast: Short Cuts (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hereafter
Pub date: 2024-02-13
Chrononormativity, duppies and post-colonial thought. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring beyond the past, present and futures.
Language in the Land of Duppies: Exploring the origins of Jamaican folklore as a gateway to understanding the legacy of slavery on the island.Produced by Laura CartySpecial thanks to Alexander Powell, Carmen Johnson, Natalia Downer, Kandice Thompson and Jean Smart.
All my friends are turning into StarsWritten and performed by David Amber DevereuxWith Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow,Universidad Diego PortalesAdditional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa CatterallFeaturing quotes from De Profundus by Oscar Wilde, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and In A Queer Time And Place by Jack Halberstam
Interjections on the future: There is not currently any obvious path to reconstructing a popular faith in political, economic and even some social institutions but while it might not always feel like it today, the unwinding of colonial modernity is underway and accelerating. Produced by composer and researcher, Sara Rahman.Featuring psychiatrist Isabel Valli and writers and artists Fer Boyd and Maedeline Stack.
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Produced by Axel KacoutiéA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Podcast: Deep State Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: WAGD Radio - More Money, More Missiles: A Look at the Sentinel Program
Pub date: 2024-02-09
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a Pentagon program is over budget. The Sentinel ICBM program is envisioned as a keystone of the US nuclear triad, but why do we need 400 new missiles? Slate columnist Fred Kaplan and Mackenzie Knight from the Federation of American Scientists join Jon Wolfsthal and Heather Williams to shine a light on the program and why it may, or may not, be necessary.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Settler colonialism and doppelganger politics w/ Naomi Klein
Pub date: 2024-02-13
Naomi Klein joins PTO to talk about her book, 'Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World'. In the first part of our conversation we talked about why at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, parts of the anti-vaccine movement started to adopt the garb and the language of participants in struggles against racism and the historic crimes of settler colonialism. In the second part we talked about Israel and Palestine and how the notion of 'doppelganger politics' can be applied to the way Israel views the Palestinians. We also talked about how European fascism of the twentieth century is typically portrayed as being the diametric opposite of liberal democracy, in spite of the extent to which Nazism took direct inspiration from both European colonial practices and racial segregation in the United States.To rate PTO on Spotify go here. Or search for 'Politics Theory Other' in the Spotify app. If you don't ordinarily listen to the show on Spotify you may be asked to listen to some episodes first, but all you need to do in that case is to click on a couple of episodes and fast forward right to the end of each, and then you'll be able to rate the show. On the Spotify app you can give your rating by clicking on the three small dots (...) next to the gear wheel symbol on the PTO Spotify page. Thank you!
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 562: DEI, Venture Capital, and the University ft. Catherine Liu
Pub date: 2024-02-14
Follow Dr. Liu's work here: https://cliuanon.substack.com/ The gang talks to professor Catherine Liu about the neoliberalization of education and more! Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron nowhttps://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3egTwitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcastwww.twitch.tv/leftflankvetsFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/Twitter: @TIRShowOaklandInstagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazinehttps://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazinehttps://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/ Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report:https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert
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Podcast: Gresham College Lectures (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: LGBT Rights: Overcoming a Colonial Legacy - Leslie Thomas KC
Pub date: 2024-02-16
Historically lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have been persecuted under English law.
Homophobic and transphobic laws were exported from England to the Commonwealth Caribbean, and these colonial laws have had a long-term impact on Caribbean societies.
This lecture will make the case for the robust constitutional protection of LGBT rights.
This lecture was recorded by Leslie Thomas KC on 1st February 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/lgbt-law
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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: In Conversation with Richard Sennett
Pub date: 2024-02-11
The distinguished sociologist and cultural thinker Richard Sennett was once a professional cellist and his new book, The Performer, examines the links between artistic performance, politics and the public-sphere.
We were delighted to talk to him about his own experiences asa musician and about prominent figures from Leonard Bernstein and Roland Barthes to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.
'The Performer: Art, Life, Politics', by Richard Sennett
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: the Far Right and the City
Pub date: 2024-02-09
With the research network Territorialisations of the Radical Right (Terra-R).Tune in for our new episode on the far-right and the city! In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and outline the current and future challenges for academia and civil society alike.The aim of Terra-R is to analytically bring together two different forms of territorialisation: they understand the radical right both as an actor and as an object of territorialisation. Thus, they explore territorialisation on the part of the radical right, i.e. through everyday practices of appropriating, controlling or changing the attribution of meaning to spaces. Examples of this are the systematic acquisition of real estate and the practice of so-called settlement movements, as well as the creation of „spaces of fear“ and the associated displacement of democratic civil society in cities and municipalities. This also includes the construction of a right-wing „culture of memory“ and myth-making. On the other hand, we are concerned with territorialisation with regard to the radical right, i.e. with spaces of its successes and failures, especially with regard to social, discursive, political-economic and affective environments and contexts of emergence of right-wing movements. Examples are strongholds of the electorate of right-wing parties, as well as their demonstrations and campaigns, which once again become very clear in protests against Corona measures.
With :Valentin Domann is a researcher at the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a founding member of the Terra-R network. His PhD research critically analyzes the spatial dimensions of the far right, with a particular focus on rural and peri-urban spaces in Brandenburg, Germany. The study focuses on the scalar and spatio-temporal entanglements of local far-right politics not only to better understand the phenomenon but also to help develop effective counter-strategies.
Daniel Mullis is a human geographer and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) in Frankfurt am Main. There he heads the DFG-funded project "Everyday Political Subjectivisation and the Rise of Regressive Politics". He researches far right tendencies in the centre of society. He examines processes of neoliberalisation and the crisis of democracy and analyses urban and social movements. In March, his new book "Aufstieg der Rechten in Krisenzeiten. Die Regression der Mitte“ will be published.
Gala Nettelbladt is an interdisciplinary urban scholar with a dual background in Social Sciences and Urban Planning. Her current work on the urban politics of far-right contestations in planning and governance processes has recently been published in Territory, Politics, Governance (see here: [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21622671.2023.2209126] ). She is part of the editorial collective sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.
Dr. Antonie Schmiz is Professor of Human Geography at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on migration in urban contexts of arrival and is inspired by critical and feminist perspectives.[https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geog/fachrichtungen/anthrogeog/g-t-g/team/aschmiz/index.html]
Anke Schwarz is an interim associate professor of Human Geography at Heidelberg University, and a founding member of the Terra-R network. Her research focuses on political geography, urban futures, and geographies of speculative and science fiction. Her work has been published in several edited volumes as well as in Geographica Helvetica, ephemera, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Progress in Human Geography. [https://ankeschwarz.net/]
Felicitas Kübler is a PhD candidate at the University of Klagenfurt. Her work focusses on the public memorialization of National Socialism, the Frankfurt School, and antifascist counter geographies.
For more on Terra-R :[https://terra-r.net/english/] [https://terra-r.net/]
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Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund
Pub date: 2024-02-01
According to the latest industry statistics, the global influencer economy grew from $1.7 billion in 2016 to $21.1 billion in 2023 — and it's only expected to grow exponentially from here with advances in artificial intelligence. In 1988, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman investigated how mass media sways audiences to conform to social norms without coercion, or what they called “manufacturing consent.” In her new book, “The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media,” Dr. Emily Hund investigates how social media influencers have manufactured a new media economy to which we’ve unwittingly consented.
Hund, a research affiliate at the Center on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, joins Bethany and Luigi to unpack this new digital landscape where influence has become a powerful currency, shaping not only news consumption and consumer behavior but the very fabric of modern capitalism. Together, they discuss whether influencers are empowered entrepreneurs rewriting market rules or victims of a system that commodifies identity. What are the hidden incentives driving influencer messaging and, thus, the news and content we receive?
Read an excerpt from Hund's book (Princeton University Press, 2023) on ProMarket.
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Podcast: Behind the Money (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Baidu’s ‘do-or-die’ bet on AI
Pub date: 2024-02-07
Baidu made it big as China’s go-to search engine. But in the past decade the tech giant has struggled, while competitors such as Alibaba and Tencent have soared ahead. The FT’s China tech correspondent Ryan McMorrow looks at chief executive Robin Li’s latest venture, in artificial intelligence, and whether this will be enough to turn the company around.
For further reading:
Baidu’s bet on AI could make or break China’s fallen tech group
Tightened US rules throttle Alibaba and Baidu’s AI chip development
Baidu shares fall after Ernie AI chatbot demo disappoints
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: France’s Start-Up Nation Is a Neoliberal Hell w/ Nastasia Hadjadji
Pub date: 2024-02-08
Paris Marx is joined by Nastasia Hadjadji to discuss Emmanuel Macron’s plan to run France like a start-up, how that justified a further dismantling of France's welfare state, and how his desire to create national tech champions is having domestic consequences.
Nastasia Hadjadji is a French journalist looking at tech from the lens of political economy and the author of “No Crypto. Comment Bitcoin a envoûté la planète.”
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris will be speaking in Auckland on February 18 in an event hosted by Tohatoha.
- Emmanuel Macron aided Uber’s lobbying efforts as Economy Minister under the former Socialist government.
- France worked hard to attract the crypto industry. Macron even took a selfie with Binance’s Changpeng Zhao, who’s now pled guilty to felony charges.
- The group Technopolice documents police surveillance in France.
- La Quadrature du Net campaigns against algorithmic video surveillance.
- Louis Pouzin is considered to have almost created the internet.
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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media’s Softball Treatment of ‘Effective Altruism’
Pub date: 2024-01-31
"Join Wall Street. Save the world," The Washington Post urged in 2013. "How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good," The New York Times proclaimed in 2015. "I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too," Vox advised last November.
Each of these headlines tops a piece that extols the virtues of Effective Altruism, a philanthropic philosophy, for lack of a better term, ostensibly dedicated to the pursuit of the best ways to address large-scale, global ills like pandemics and factory farming, informed by “evidence and reason.” The school of thought, popularized by figures like the academic and author Peter Singer and disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been widely embraced – or at least uncritically boosted – in mainline media for years.
Superficially, this makes sense. Effective Altruism seems unimpeachably virtuous: It’s great if people want to solve the world’s problems, and so much the better if they’ve done their research. But beneath this surface lies a deeply reactionary movement, predicated on an age-old desire to characterize the wealthy as the solution to, rather than the cause of, the very problems they purport to want to solve.
On this episode, we parse the rise, motives, and influence of Effective Altruism. We look at how the doctrine gamifies wealth distribution, falsely portrays the rich as uniquely qualified to make decisions about public welfare, often provides cover for eugenics and racism, and masquerades as a groundbreaking ethos of data-driven compassion while it merely regurgitates a 100-year-old rich person ideology of supposedly benevolent control over the masses.
Our guest is Dr. Linsey McGoey.
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Puro Cubano: The Meaning of Tobacco in Cuba
Pub date: 2024-02-05
For many people around the world, Cuban cigars are a luxury. But for Cubans, they’ve symbolized the country’s rich history and culture. Now as an economic crisis is gripping the country and people are leaving, the cigar is a bellwether of Cuba's uncertain future.
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Resisting Predatory Finance w/ Raúl Carrillo (Recovered Audio!)
Pub date: 2024-02-02
Money on the Left is proud to present recovered and remastered audio from our interview with Raúl Carrillo, published previously solely as a written transcript. The recording also includes a new audio introduction in which Billy Saas reflects on the significance of our dialog with Carrillo for contemporary politics.
In our discussion, we explore the promise of the public money framework for advancing antiracist, anti-imperialist, and democratic politics across the world. We discuss how the public money or MMT perspective shapes his work as an attorney fighting against predatory finance and for an international, rights-based approach to full employment. A significant portion of the conversation is also devoted to Raúl’s ongoing critique of the “taxpayer money” trope in U.S. political culture. In both his recent article for the UCLA Criminal Law Review and a 2017 piece (coauthored with Jesse Myerson) for Splinter, Raúl persuasively shows that the myth of “taxpayer money” is not only incorrect in operational terms, but also a significant threat to marginalized communities and a major rhetorical obstacle for progressive politics.
Raúl Carrillo is an attorney, chair of the board of the Modern Money Network, Research Fellow with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and member of the advisory board at Our Money.
You can read his article for the UCLA Criminal Law Review here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rp8g89c.
See his article on “The Dangerous Myth of Taxpayer Money” here: https://splinternews.com/the-dangerous-myth-of-taxpayer-money-1819658902.
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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Enduring Obsession With Abstraction
Pub date: 2024-02-08
The term “abstraction” gets thrown around a lot in the art world, usually as a vague catchall to describe an otherwise inexpressible style of painting or sculpture. Just going by the dictionary’s definition, “abstract” is described as being disassociated from any specific instance, or having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content.
Today, abstract art is not in and of itself considered particularly revolutionary, it is just one of many approaches artists take in pursuit of their vision. But this wasn’t always the case, and the history and tradition of abstraction and abstract art is still rather new in comparison to the long stretch of art history. And there is a lot that can still be mined by looking back to the roots of the movement, to learn about what inspired artists' departure from traditional figurative and representational modes of art making—as well as by looking at how the reverberations of early abstraction can still be felt today.
To delve into what abstractionism is, and highlight some of the most important historical practitioners, Artnet's Gallery Editor Annikka Olsen spoke to Artnet’s Co-Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art Martina Batovic, and curator, collector and partner at Leslie Feely Gallery Dakota Sica.
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Podcast: Nordic Animism
Episode: Decolonial Metal
Pub date: 2024-02-08
Rune interviews Mark Andrew LeVine. Dr LeVine is a professor of history with the University of California, Irvine.
Find more of Dr LeVine's work at https://kakuma-sound.org/
Dr LeVine mentions the debt Blues owes to Muslim musical traditions, and discusses this more in his book: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam.
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Podcast: Drilled (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City
Pub date: 2024-01-31
The U.S. government's definition of what constitutes an "ecoterrorist" has long driven backlash against environmental activists and in recent years that definition has only broadened. Investigative reporter and Drilled senior editor Alleen Brown dug into this recently and found that the Department of Homeland Security had been warning officials in Atlanta about the threat posed by "Defend the Atlanta Forest" for months before police raided the forest, ultimately killing one protestor, and charging dozens more with domestic terrorism and racketeering. It was such an overreaction that even mainstream media covered it.
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Podcast: Listen and Be Heard
Episode: Imagine Earth Without Capitalism
Pub date: 2024-02-07
Exploring a Resilient Future with alternatives to capitalism that are aligned with Earth's best practices with author & expert on agricultural resilience, Laura Lengnick. An award-winning soil scientist with 30 years of experience working as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist and farmer to put sustainability values into action in U.S. food and farming.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2024-02-01
For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying information. And this can be done responsibly or incompetently. At least since Plato, a leading critique of democracy has focused on the ignorance of ordinary citizens. Historically, this kind of critique has supplied the basis for several nondemocratic proposals. Yet it has also worked in the background of a range of views within democratic theory. Among these are views that have relied on markets as mechanisms for sharing and distributing information.
But there are hazards to market-based thinking about democracy. In Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy (Oxford UP, 2023), Lisa Herzog explores three conceptually distinct sites where democracy interfaces with epistemology: markets, expert communities, and public deliberation. The result is an integrated political epistemology for democracy.
Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
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Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: We’re Living in ‘Filterworld,’ a Cookie Cutter Culture Created by Algorithms
Pub date: 2024-01-25
Millennial writer Kyle Chayka longs for the good old days of the Internet, when online forums and MP3 piracy helped him define his own personal sense of style and taste. You had to work at it: Wake up early to catch that anime you wanted to watch and record on a VHS tape, find the MySpace page devoted to your favorite show, search out the music magazine featuring cool bands. But today, he observes, the algorithm has flattened culture by constantly feeding us media that it thinks we will like because a lot of other people like it too. According to Chayka, we’re now living in “Filterworld,” which is the title of his new book. We talk to Chayka about how we can reclaim our technological and cultural autonomy and find ourselves.
Guests:
Kyle Chayka, author, "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture"; staff writer, The New Yorker
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 313. The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)
Pub date: 2024-01-27
We’re joined by Tamara Kneese — author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond — to discuss her work on how experiences of death and dying shape the internet, the afterlife promised by digital resurrection, the strange quest to solve death, the transhumanist urge to escape death, and the entropic decay of digital infrastructure.••• Follow Tamara | https://twitter.com/tamigraph ••• Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ ••• Memento Mori https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/memento-mori-kneese ••• Measuring Justice: Field Notes on Algorithmic Impact Assessments https://medium.com/datasociety-points/measuring-justice-field-notes-on-algorithmic-impact-assessments-c6cfeccc668d Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: For The Wild (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Othering and Belonging with Udi Raz, Yasmeen Daher, and Cecilie Surasky
Pub date: 2024-01-31
This week we are excited to continue our collaboration with UC Berkeley's Othering and Belonging Institute to bring you a conversation from The Othering and Belonging Conference in Berlin, Germany.
This conversation is introduced by Monica Jiang, is moderated by Cecilie Surasky and features the voices of Udi Raz and Yasmeen Daher.
Speaking on the theme “Turning Towards Each Other, Not Against Each Other: Bridging in Times of Crisis” the panelists address what it means to build towards co-liberation in difficult times – especially in the context of the war on Gaza. Since this conversation was recorded on November 14, 2023, the genocide in Gaza has continued and worsened, and the loss of so many lives is tragic and incomprehensible. The words offered here aim to make space to honor pain and simultaneously to explore generative forms of allyship in the face of such violence.
Music by Amo Amo and Ariana Saraha. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.
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Podcast: SystemShift
Episode: Renata Salecl: Capitalism, Apathy and the Rise of Authoritarianism
Pub date: 2024-02-01
Slovenian philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist, Renata Salecl, lays bare the fraying fabric of our communities, worn thin by corruption and apathy and she examines corporate exploitation, the unchecked dominance of technology behemoths, and the unsettling rise of new authoritarianism. Renata explores societal inertia, uncovering how feelings of helplessness and disenchantment often render individuals passive and how authoritarian forces capitalise on societal disconnection. She explains that the extreme individualism promoted by capitalism is exactly what needs to be overcome in order to tackle existential crises such as climate change. She confronts the stark realities of corruption, injustice, and the mental health toll perpetuated by capitalist structures—a relentless pursuit of productivity that often culminates in guilt, anxiety, and a dearth of empathy amidst cutthroat competition.
The SystemShift podcast returns for a second season where we look beyond the problems of our economic system and take you on a quest to piece together what a wellbeing economy could look like and how we can get there. As millions of ordinary people feel besieged by a multiplicity of crises, we delve into the shadows to reveal the myths and disinformation that shroud our understanding of the current failing economic and financial systems that drive the exploitation of people and the planet.
SystemShift comes from Greenpeace Nordic and is hosted by Greenpeace Sweden campaigner, Carl Schlyter, and produced by Alexia Fridén, with additional support from Zane Ford, Christian Aslund and Attila Kulcsár.
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Podcast: Local Futures Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Insights of an economic hitman “from a death to a life economy” - John Perkins
Pub date: 2024-01-29
Here's the first episode of Planet Local Voices – an interview series by Local Futures.
In this wide-ranging episode, economist, author and whistleblower John Perkins calls us to meet the defining challenge of our time – shifting from a "death economy" to a "life economy". He shares his own personal story of how he came to question the neoliberal worldview he'd been trained in, and discusses topics like empire and democracy, international relations, “free trade” treaties, redefining growth, embracing the local, and learning from indigenous cultures.
John spent many years working to advance the interests of American corporations in Global South countries, at a time when neoliberal policies were being rolled out. Upon realizing the destructive ramifications of the work he was doing, he became an important whistleblower. His best-known book is 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' (2004), which describes his role in a clandestine process of economic colonization at the behest of corporations, banks, and the United States government. The book spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
The music for this series is 'Pines and Violet', by Sky Toes.
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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Human Extinction w/ Dr. Émile P. Torres & Prof. Steve Fuller
Pub date: 2024-01-29
Philosopher Dr. Émile P. Torres & sociologist Prof. Steve Fuller share their thoughts on the history of human extinction, how apocalyptic narratives inform culture, and what it means to live in the end times.
Émile P. Torres is a philosopher whose research focuses on existential threats to civilization and humanity. They have published widely in the popular press and scholarly journals, with articles appearing in the Washington Post, Aeon, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Metaphilosophy, Inquiry, Erkenntnis, and Futures.
Prof. Steve Fuller is Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, UK. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is the author of more than twenty books. From 2011 to 2014 he published three books with Palgrave on 'Humanity 2.0'. His most recent book is Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of Transhuman Era (Schwabe Verlag, 2020).
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Luke Robert Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments.
He hosts documentaries for Futurism, and has contributed to BBC Radio, BBC One, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine.
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Podcast: Curious Objects (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Beatles as Painters
Pub date: 2024-01-24
In the summer of 1966 the Beatles were in Japan, whirling through the first leg of what would be their final world tour. Hoping to forestall the dangerous excesses of Beatlemania, Japanese authorities confined the Fab Four to their hotel suite at Tokyo’s Hilton Hotel for almost the duration of their one-hundred-hour stay. Casting about for things to do, the Beatles fell to painting: each took upon himself to design one quadrant of an acrylic-and-watercolor artwork known as Images of a Woman, currently on offer from Christie’s as part of the auction house’s annual Exceptional Sale. The painting offers a novel look inside the collaborative practice of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, a story that Casey Rogers, senior vice president at Christie’s, elaborates on in this week's episode.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
Pub date: 2024-01-25
Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.
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Podcast: Angry Planet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ore Is the New Oil
Pub date: 2024-01-30
Oil makes the world go ‘round, for now. But rare earth minerals such as lithium are increasingly in demand and, as a result, the source of conflict. With us on the show today is Reuters journalist Ernest Scheyder. His new book The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Livesexplores the new resource war that’s sucking in community activists, titans of industry, and global superpowers.
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Podcast: Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The long connection between politics and pubs
Pub date: 2024-01-22
The relationship between politics and pubs started very early in Australia's colonial history as the pub provided a rare and welcoming place for workers to meet. This continued over the years as people continued to meet in pubs to discuss ideas and strategies to move Australia forward, including during the years of the Sydney Push.
Guests: Alex Ettling, social historian and editor of Knocking the Top Off: A People's History of Alcohol in Australia (Interventions)
Wendy Bacon, journalist, academic and activist and contributor of the essay 'Critical Drinking with the Sydney Push'
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Podcast: Novara Media (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Novara FM: The Novels That Inspired Class War w/ Mark Steven
Pub date: 2024-01-19
What role does literature play in revolution? If the question seems bizarre to you and the answer obvious, you’re not alone. Yet some of the most important revolutionaries in history have turned to literature in times of crisis. Mao Zedong started writing poetry during the Chinese Red Army’s retreat, adopting traditional Chinese forms to do […]
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Podcast: Future Histories (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S03E04 - Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
Pub date: 2024-01-21
Tim Platenkamp fuses the socialist calculation debate with republican thought.
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Shownotes Tim Platenkamp
Tim Platenkamp (Website):
https://timplatenkamp.nl/
Platenkamp, Tim. The Constitution of Socialism. Forthcoming:
https://timplatenkamp.nl/research-projects/
Platenkamp, Tim. The Socialist Community of citizens: An Institutional Design of Republican Socialism. Nieuwegein 2020. (Master Thesis pdf):
https://scripties.uba.uva.nl/download?fid=c2736566
Further Shownotes
Reddebrek. Socialism, Cooperative and Republican: Bernard Moss. 2016. libcom.org:
https://libcom.org/article/socialism-cooperative-and-republican-bernard-moss
Market Socialism (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism
Nove, Alec. The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited. 1991. HarperCollinsAcademic. (pdf):
http://digamo.free.fr/nove91.pdf
Soviet economic planning (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet-type_economic_planning#Analysis_of_Soviet-type_planning
Calculation in-natura (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculation_in_kind
Khozraschet (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khozraschet
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia
Types of socialism (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism
Commoning (wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
Spanish Civil War (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
Popular Front (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_(Spain)
Geoff Bailey. Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. International Socialist Review, Issue 24. 2002. (pdf):
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/geoff-bailey-anarchists-in-the-spanish-civil-war.pdf
Estrin, Saul. Yugoslavia: The Case of Self-Managing Market Socialism. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 5, Number 4. 1991. (pdf):
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.5.4.187#:~:text=The%20Yugoslavs'%20brand%20of%20market,successful%20until%20the%20late%201970s.
Cybernetics (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Cybernetics
Republicanism (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
Civic Republicanism (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_republicanism
Noam Chomsky (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Council democracy (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy
Council Communism- an introduction. 2006. libcom.org:
https://libcom.org/article/council-communism-introduction
Diemer, Ulli. What is Libertarian Socialism?. 1997. The Red Menace. Volume 2, Number 1 (The Anarchist Library. pdf):
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ulli-diemer-what-is-libertarian-socialism.pdf
Rule of law (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
Daniel Loik (Website):
https://danielloick.net/
Daniel Loik publications:
https://danielloick.net/publikationen/
Menke, Christoph and Loik, Daniel in Dialogue. Law without violence. Manchester 2018: Manchester University Press:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526105097/9781526105097.00009.xml
Bernstein, David E., and Ilya Somin. “The mainstreaming of libertarian Constitutionalism.” Law and Contemporary Problems 77, no. 4 (2014): 43–70.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24244647
David Laibman (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Laibman
Science and Society Journal:
https://www.scienceandsociety.com/
Laibman, David. 2020. “Incentives, Optimization, and Democratic Planning: A Socialist Primer”. In Science & Society, Vol. 84, No. 4. New York: Guilford Publications:
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2020.84.4.510
Laibman, David and Campbell, Al. 2022. "(En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality". In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications:
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.137
Laibman, David. 2012. “Political Economy after Economics”. London/New York: Routledge:
https://www.routledge.com/Political-Economy-After-Economics-Scientific-Method-and-Radical-Imagination/Laibman/p/book/9781138803060
Laibman, David. 2002. "Democratic Coordination: Towards a Working Socialism For the New Century". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 116–129:
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.116.21016
Karl Marx (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Karl_Marx
Marxian economics (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxian_economics
Smith, Adam. Book I: On the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers. On Labour, and on the Order According to Which its' Produce is Naturally Distributed Among the Different Ranks of the People. On the Natural and Market Price of Commodities. 1776. London. W. Strahan and T. Cadell.:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book01/ch07.htm
Paul Cockshott (Wikipedia):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cockshott
Allin Cottel (Wikipedia):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allin_Cottrell
Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 2002. "The Relation Between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 50–64:
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.50.21014
Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 1993. Towards a New Socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. (Book as PDF):
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
Units of account (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_account
Fiat money (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Perfect competition (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
Michal Kalecki (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Kalecki
Laibman, David. Incentives, Optimization, and Democratic Planning: A Socialist Primer. Science and Society. Volume 84, Issue 4. 2020. New York. Guildford Press.:
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.2020.84.4.510
Universal basic services:
https://universalbasicservices.org/
Gourevitch, Alex and Pan, J. C..Socialism Won’t Get Rid of Work. But It Will Allow Us to Work Less Under Better Conditions. 2022. Jacobin Magazine.:
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/alex-gourevitch-shared-labor-socialism-postwork-critique
Input-output model (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model
Hard Budget Constraints (Encyclopedia):
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hard-budget-constraints
Pat Devine (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Devine
Devine, Pat. 1988. Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. New York: Routledge.:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devine
Value Form Theory (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-form
Blumenfeld, Jacob. What was socialization? A look back. 2023. Strukturwandel des Eigentums.:
https://sfb294-eigentum.de/de/blog/what-was-socialization-a-look-back/
Antonio Gramsci (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Antonio_Gramsci
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Podcast: The Road to Now (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The FBI w/ Stephen Underhill
Pub date: 2024-01-22
The FBI has been the subject of criticism and concern since it was founded in 1908, but it has nevertheless become one of the most powerful, stable, and mythologized branches of the Executive Branch of the US government. In this episode, Steve Underhill joins us to discuss the origins of the FBI, the role J. Edgar Hoover played in making the modern Brueau, and how that greater history of the FBI can help us understand how they’ve approached their seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago and the subsequent attack from Donald Trump.
Dr. Stephen M. Underhill is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Marshall University, where he studies the rhetoric of law enforcement. His book The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI was published in 2020.
This is a rebroadcast of RTN #247, which originally aired on September 19, 2022. The original episode was edited by Gary Fletcher. This reair was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Sugar, coal, oil: No more fossils.
Pub date: 2024-01-23
What is fossil civilization? In the book No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of how we came to rationalize fossil fuel use through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oil and plastics), showing what tethers us to petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place. What can we do to make electroculture a more just and sustainable alternative? In this episode, Boyer is joined in conversation about modern energy politics with Cara Daggett.
Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker, and environmental researcher who teaches at Rice University. His books include No More Fossils, Energopolitics, and Hyposubjects.
Cara Daggett is associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech and author of The Birth of Energy.
References:
The Birth of Energy / Cara Daggett
Anna Tsing
Carbon Democracy / Timothy Mitchell
Michel Foucault on biopower
Sweetness and Power / Sidney Mintz
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History / Susan Buck-Morss
Fossil Capital / Andreas Malm
15-Minute City
John Locke
Alexander Dunlap on Fossil Fuel+
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More / Alexei Yurchak
Staying with the Trouble / Donna Haraway
Ariella Azoulay
Kyle Powys Whyte
Geontologies / Elizabeth Povinelli
Low Carbon Pleasure / a collaborative experimental art and performance project by Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and others
Stacy Alaimo / ecophilia
No More Fossils is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Against Resilience / Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Pub date: 2024-01-23
Ajay Singh Chaudhary returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his Baffler Magazine article, "Sick and Tired: Against Resilience," an excerpt from, "The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World" (Repeater Books). An all-new Rotten History follows the interview.Check out the article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/sick-and-tired-chaudharyAnd the forthcoming book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736324/the-exhausted-of-the-earth-by-ajay-singh-chaudhary/Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires
Pub date: 2024-01-21
Today’s conversation with Álvaro Enrigue about his latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is set during the relatively undocumented first encounter between Moctezuma and Hernán Cortés. The novel dilates the knife’s edge moment when the Aztec emperor invites the conquistador, with his small band of Spanish soldiers, into the palaces of Tenochtitlan as guests. We talk about writing into the gaps of history, fiction’s influence on the “official” record, histories that are actually fictions, and how writing into erased or distorted histories can be a way to speak to the present moment. We talk of hornless deer, ritual cannibalism, psychedelic tomatoes, and a surprising influence of the indigenous cultures of the Americas on all of our lives today.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E132 - The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba w/ Stuart Reid
Pub date: 2024-01-23
Patrice Lumumba, the first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has become a mythic figure among the left, due in no small part to the CIA’s role in his ousting and assassination less than one year after the start of his premiership. Stuart Reid, editor at Foreign Affairs, joins Derek to discuss the full story of Lumumba’s downfall, as detailed in Reid’s recent book The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.
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Podcast: culturalstudies (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Robin Goodman on psychoanalysis and Juliet Mitchell, gender, debt, and neoliberalism
Pub date: 2024-01-20
Robin Goodman on psychoanalysis and Juliet Mitchell, literature, gender, debt, and neoliberalism. You can read about Robin's work here:
https://english.fsu.edu/faculty/robin-goodman
https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/m613mz330
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Podcast: EQUALS: Reimagining Our Economy (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: ECONOMICS FOR THE 99% - with Professor Ha-Joon Chang
Pub date: 2024-01-18
Max and Nafkote interview the world-famous economist Professor Ha Joon Chang to ask what is causing the inequality crisis and what governments can do to stop it.
How are traffic lights, neoliberalism, and the Catholic Church in medieval times linked? How can we create a new generation of developmental states that face down corporates and build equal societies? An EQUALS episode not to be missed, with a giant of economic thinking.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Very Important People w/ Ashley Mears
Pub date: 2024-01-13
Featuring Ashley Mears on her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Mears, a sociologist and former fashion model, explores the super-elite "models and bottles" party scene where beautiful young women and conspicuous consumption heighten the status of rich men.
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Podcast: Hegemonicon - An Investigation Into the Workings of Power
Episode: The State of Left Ideological Infrastructure, with Johanna Bozuwa, Corinne Blalock, and Daniel Denvir
Pub date: 2024-01-16
This episode continues the series on “What We’re Building” - the most relevant and necessary work happening on the US Left today. Immanuel Wallerstein, the sociologist behind World-Systems Theory, wrote: "The key problem for the Global Left is not its organization, however important that be. The key problem is lucidity."
William is joined this episode by three guests who are working to develop a more lucid understanding of reality and what to do about it. Together they explore the Left's own ideological infrastructure - the ideas we’re developing, and the means of disseminating them.
This episode's guests include:
- Johanna Bozuwa of the Climate and Community Project, a leading climate justice think tank doing the grunt work of building policy for a Green New Deal.
- Corinne Blalock of the Law & Political Economy Project, a network of progressive legal scholars seeking to transform our understanding of the law in order to change it.
- Daniel Denvir of The Dig podcast, whose famously vast archives contain many hours of content on just about any topic of relevance to the contemporary left.
In the discussion they engage the righ-wing economic foundation still leading the academic and policy-making world, the role of the law and courts in our current poly-crisis, and the strategic engagement needed for change. They explore how each guest navigates left terminology in the unique spaces and audiences they find themselves communicating with: When and where are we identifying as "the Left"? Or "Marxist"? Or "Progressive"? And why? The podcast also delves into the importance of good faith, "closed-door" conversations with comrades to develop political education and unity around challenging ideas as well as how respectful and balanced dialogues can be facilitated within those spaces.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Climate is a Justice Issue | Naomi Oreskes
Pub date: 2024-01-18
Neoliberalism is the disease which keeps on killing.
But did you know the neoliberal economic gospel we live under today is a deliberate misinterpretation of the original theory?
In her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, historian of science Naomi Oreskes shows how a group of American plutocrats distorted the the conservative teachings of Friedrich van Hayek’s theory of neoliberalism in order to plunder the world’s resource, unleash the markets, and undermine federal power.
Naomi joins me today to give an incisive and brutal summary of why our world is in crisis, detailing the criminal avarice of these plutocrats; how institutions, lobbyists and corporations continue to undermine democracy; and why a renewable world threatens the powers that be. This phenomenal explanation shows why the climate crisis is not a scientific problem, but a political, economic and social issue, with Naomi revealing tactics civilians used throughout history against the destructive elite.
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‘It’s Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate
Check out my latest episode on Mongabay’s Newscast in Hannah Ritchie and I go head-to-head about her book, It’s Not the End of the World, and the data omissions which paint a far rosier picture of the polycrisis than her backer, Bill Gates, would have us believe.
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Podcast: Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Spinozist Marxism? With Etienne Balibar
Pub date: 2024-01-13
In this session, we’re joined by none other than Etienne Balibar to discuss the history and present state of dialogue between Marxism and Spinozism.
This is part of our series ‘From Marx to Spinoza’. For more information see: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to-spinoza-affect-ideology-materiality/
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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: "Israel" and Its Role in Latin America w/ Alexander Aviña
Pub date: 2024-01-17
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back the official unofficial fourth member of the hosting panel, Alexander Aviña! Here we discuss Alex's freshly released article at Foreign Exchanges titled A Future of Walls or Liberation, which examines some of the role and relationships between "Israel" and the countries and governments in Latin America. This is a really interesting piece of the Zioimperialist story, and one which is frankly very under-discussed. Tune in, learn something, and share with others who you think would also benefit from hearing this history!
Alexander Aviña is associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside. Alex's website is available at alexanderavina.com, and he can be followed on twitter @Alexander_Avina
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
Pub date: 2024-01-17
When did the American conservative movement begin? Who were its chief protagonists? What were their main motivations? Is the conservative movement a social movement, like any other, or is it something different? Should scholars have "sympathy" for their conservative subjects in order to study them? And are there important distinctions to be drawn between "conservative," "the right," and "the far right?"
These are the sorts of questions historians ask each other and themselves. The changing ways they answer them — and the reasons their answers change — is the subject of today's episode. In other words: we're discussing the historiography of the American right. (Fun!)
In a highly influential 1994 essay, historian Alan Brinkley referred to conservatism as "something of an orphan in historical scholarship." By 2011, when our brilliant guest, Kim Phillips-Fein, surveyed the historical literature on conservatism, she found a dynamic, prolific, even "trendy" field, but one with many unsettled methodological debates. In 2017, friend of the pod Rick Perlstein wrote that historians, himself included, had made a mistake, privileging the more respectable and intellectual dimensions of conservatism over the more irrational, rank, and racist. "If Donald Trump is the latest chapter of conservatism’s story," Perlstein mused, "might historians have been telling that story wrong?" Since then, several studies and popular books have emerged which correct the record, and take up Perlstein's call to study "conservative history’s political surrealists and intellectual embarrassments, its con artists and tribunes of white rage."
To start off the year — an election year, no less — we're taking up these questions again. What is the state of the field of conservative studies now? Have historians, popular writers, and/or podcasters over-corrected, in the Trump era, for the mistakes Perlstein cites? What might we be missing this time? We're so very lucky to have long-time friend of the show Kim Phillips-Fein, the Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University, as our guide. Let's get big picture and take stock. 2024, here we go.
Further Reading:
Alan Brinkley, "The Problem of American Conservatism," The American Historical Review, Apr 1994.
Kim Phillips Fein, "Conservatism: A State of the Field," The Journal of American History, Dec 2011.
— Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (2010)
— Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics(2017)
Rick Perlstein, "I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong." New York Times, Apr 11, 2017.
Richard Hofstadter, "The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt," The American Scholar, Winter, 1954.
Willmoore Kendall, The Conservative Affirmation(Regnery Publishing, 1963)
John Huntington, Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (2021)
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Podcast: The Slavic Connexion (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: "Atomic Steppe": The Soviet Nuclear Legacy and the Global Arms Race
Pub date: 2024-01-14
On this episode, Dr. Togzhan Kassenova joined Taylor and Nick for a conversation about the destructive impact of Soviet nuclear testing in Kazakhstan and the figurative fallout of the dissolution of the USSR which resulted in Russia providing security guarantees to "divorced" states in exchange for the surrender of Soviet weapons of mass destruction. Check out Dr. Kassenova's book for more about Kazakhstan's complex nuclear history under the USSR and beyond: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33596 Use code KASSENOVA20 to receive a 20% discount in North and South America and code CSFS22AS for all other regions of the world. Thanks for listening!
ABOUT THE GUEST
Dr. Togzhan Kassenova is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany and a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an expert on nuclear politics, WMD nonproliferation, strategic trade controls, sanctions implementation, and financial crime prevention. She currently works on issues related to proliferation financing controls, exploring ways to minimize access of proliferators to the global financial system. Kassenova holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Leeds and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). From 2011 to 2015 Kassenova served on the UN secretary general’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 3, 2023 at the 2023 ASEEES Convention in Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dust, dirt and domesticity
Pub date: 2024-01-16
What is the composition dirt and dust? Is there a better place to hang the washing? And how can I make my home more comfortable? These are all questions which preoccupy our guests.
Jay Owens first became interested in the nature of dust around fifteen years ago. Her book entitled ‘Dust’ considers its global significance as a factor in both the dirt in our homes and major economic and political events from the dustbowls of the 1930s to the fallout from nuclear testing.
Architect Marianna Janowicz is thinking about what we do with our laundry, how buildings are not well designed to help dry it. The water vapor produced causes indoor mould and damp and yet in many places outside drying is banned. In an era where there’s great interest in finding low energy solutions to a range of humanity’s problems what can be done to alleviate the burden, the domestic drudgery of the washing cycle?More on Marianna's work here ; https://www.editcollective.uk/
And are you comfortable with gas central heating, maybe you’d prefer a wood burner? How we heat our homes and what this means for the way we live is a long term research theme for Sam Johnson Schlee, but with increasing cost of fossil fuels and their role as key drivers of climate change what is the future for home comfort?
Producer: Julian Siddle
You might also be interested in Free Thinking episodes (available as the Arts and Ideas podcast) looking at Mid Century Modern and changes in the home; sneezing, smells and noses; Housework (and Hannah Gavron's The Captive Wife); and an episode called Breathe brought together writer James Nestor, saxophonist Soweto Kinch, Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture and New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt Smith.
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Podcast: Justice Matters (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Just Hierarchy
Pub date: 2024-01-15
On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Daniel A. Bell, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. They discuss topics from Professor Bell’s most recent book, “Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World” which include: academic freedoms in mainland China vs. Hong Kong, what constitutes a morally justified hierarchy, what benefits might be found in a just hierarchy, perceptions of hierarchy and equality in the West and China, what can the rest of the world learn from China’s particular combination of intellectual histories, the role of international hierarchies, China and the US as global superpowers, censorship in China, as well as Professor Bell’s personal experiences serving as the Dean of Shandong.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2024-01-17
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, so far, they've failed to do so. The inability of platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon to govern their users has led to stolen elections, refused vaccines, counterfeit N95s in a pandemic, and even genocide. Such failures stem from these companies' inability to manage the complexity of their userbases, products, and their own incentives under the eyes of internal and external constituencies.
In The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms (Cambridge UP, 2023), Paul Gowder argues that countries should adapt the institutional tools developed in political science for platform governance to democratize major platforms. Democratic institutions allow knowledgeable actors to freely share and apply their understanding of the problems they face while leaders more readily recruit third parties to help manage their decision-making capacity.
This book is also available open access on Cambridge Core.
Paul Gowder is Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research and Intellectual Life at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law and a Founding Fellow of the Integrity Institute. He is the author of The Rule of Law in the Real World and The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation.
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Podcast: Social Science Bites (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Safiya Noble on Search Engines
Pub date: 2024-01-08
The work of human hands retains evidence of the humans who created the works. While this might seem obvious in the case of something like a painting, where the artist’s touch is the featured aspect, it’s much less obvious in things that aren’t supposed to betray their humanity. Take the algorithms that power search engines, which are expected to produce unvarnished and unbiased results, but which nonetheless reveal the thinking and implicit biases of their programmers.
While in an age where things like facial recognition or financial software algorithms are shown to uncannily reproduce the prejudices of their creators, this was much less obvious earlier in the century, when researchers like Safiya Umoja Noble were dissecting search engine results and revealing the sometimes appalling material they were highlighting.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Noble -- the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and professor of gender studies, African American studies, and information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles -- explains her findings, insights and recommendations for improvement with host David Edmonds.
And while we’ve presented this idea of residual digital bias as something somewhat intuitive, getting here was an uphill struggle, Noble reveals. “It was a bit like pushing a boulder up a mountain -- people really didn't believe that search engines could hold these kinds of really value-laden sensibilities that are programmed into the algorithm by the makers of these technologies. Even getting this idea that the search engine results hold values, and those values are biased or discriminatory or harmful, is probably the thrust of the contribution that I've made in a scholarly way.”
But through her academic work, such as directing the Center on Race & Digital Justice and co-directing of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and books like the 2018 title Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, the scale of the problem and the harm it leaves behind are becoming known. Noble’s own contributions have been recognized, too, such as being named a MacArthur Foundation fellow in 2021 and the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award winner in 2022.
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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alicia Kennedy's "No Meat Required"
Pub date: 2024-01-05
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with writer Alicia Kennedy about No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating. The book unpacks the ethical, spiritual, environmental, economic, and political dimensions of vegetarianism and veganism. It traces the emergence of meatless eating in the US, from 19th century religious groups to various subcultures—including commune-dwellers, Rastafarians, Buddhists, punks, ecofeminists and Black Nationalists—to the watershed moment of Frances Moore Lappé’s book, Diet for a Small Planet, published in 1971. Kennedy also interrogates more recent trends like wellness culture and meatless Big Macs, considering how the radical origins of not eating meat are becoming obscured as veganism hits the mainstream. A rejoinder to questions about the efficacy of personal choices in the fight against climate change and social injustice, No Meat Required argues for the critical importance of biodiversity, local agriculture, and local economies, and offers a holistic vision of food consumption and production for both the present and future.Also, Blake Butler, author of Molly, returns to recommend Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin.
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Podcast: Slate Money (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is Billionaire Charity a Sham?
Pub date: 2024-01-06
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, andElizabeth Spears debate the value of massive, tax-deductible donations that spend years in administrative limbo. Also: Biden is cranking up production in American factories, and private equity may be making healthcare sick. In the Plus segment: Should we be afraid of Trump in 2024? (Spoiler: Yes.)
We’re also excited to announce Money Talks, a new interview series from Slate Money. Every second Tuesday, Felix or Emily will sit down for one-on-one chats with authors, analysts, investors, entrepreneurs, and other movers and shakers of the business world. Tune in this Tuesday, January 9 for Felix’s conversation with Marisa Meltzer, author of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier.
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Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Pub date: 2024-01-08
In our first episode of 2024 we speak to Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism.
Awareness around and diagnoses of neurodiversity have exploded in recent years, but as Robert argues, we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. In today's episode we discuss the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, as well as how our understanding of mental and physical health and disability has been profoundly shaped by the development of capitalism. We also explore the origins of the pathology paradigm, the emergence of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s, and the limitations of a liberal rights-based approach to neurodiversity activism today.
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Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Polizzotti Makes the Case for Why Surrealism Matters
Pub date: 2024-01-09
The author’s new book offers insight into the Surrealism movement and why it continues to inspire.
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Podcast: New Work In Intellectual History
Episode: Hegel’s World Revolutions
Pub date: 2024-01-04
In this wide-ranging interview, Richard Bourke (King’s College Cambridge) discusses not only Hegel’s anatomy of the modern world, but how Hegel’s reputation changed over the twentieth century. In doing so, we discuss the significance of not only Hegel’s thought to contemporary society, but also the study of the history of political thought in general.
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 73: How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Extractive Capitalism, Political Violence, and Eco-Thriller Cinema
Pub date: 2024-01-03
In episode 73 of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live following a screening of Daniel Goldhaber’s cinematic adaptation of Andreas Malm’s polemic against pacifism How to Blow Up a Pipeline, BISR faculty Isi Litke, RH Lossin, and Ajay Singh Chaudhary explore the aesthetic, historical, and thorny practical terrain of violence as activist strategy and political tool in the face of climate crisis. With Goldhaber’s film as a jumping off point, they ask—and answer—questions like: how can cinema represent the complex harms wrought by climate devastation, in all their manifold temporalities, from freak accidents to slow disease to historical expropriations? How are solidarities built across ideological divides? What unites anti-colonial movements across the Global South with the struggles of subaltern groups in the Global North? And what underpins the belief in non-violence as the righteous mechanism for political change—and why is this wrong? Along the way, they touch on everything from the heist film (wherein the question is not whether one ought but whether one can pull it off), how comrades are not friends, workplace violence, radical flanks, Fanon’s “stretched Marxism,” and much else besides. Plus a sneak preview from Ajay’s new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World, out this February from Repeater Books!
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Podcast: Angry Planet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Throw of the Dice: Games the Pentagon Plays
Pub date: 2024-01-09
Welcome to the new year at Angry Planet.
For the last 100 years, American defense policy has been aided by elaborate war games. SIGMA, the Cold War Game, and the Millenium Challenge are just some of the most famous. Sometimes these games are played with dice and boards, other times they’re purely electronic. Why do we do this, when did we start, and what does it all mean? More importantly, how do we make sure the board games don’t play us?
Here to answer those questions is Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Jacquelyn Schneider.
What War Games Really Reveal
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Podcast: Start the Week (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: AI, states and corporations
Pub date: 2023-12-18
Artificial Intelligence will be the focus of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures by the Oxford Professor of Computer Science, Mike Wooldridge. In his series of lectures (broadcast on BBC Four in late December) he will attempt to disentangle the realities from the myths, but will also demonstrate the huge impact AI is already having in fields ranging from medicine to football to astrophysics, as well as on the creative arts.
The bestselling novelist Naomi Alderman has fun with AI and its tech trillionaire-creators in her latest thriller The Future. While the wealthy corporate heads are effectively decapitated by an end-of-the-world scenario, the story explores whether the technology that could presage the apocalypse can also be used for the good of society.
The Professor of Politics at Cambridge, David Runciman, wants to change the way people think about a future in which artificial intelligence has taken control. In The Handover he looks back to the formation of states and corporations, arguing that these are the precursors to AI: powerful artificial entities that have come to rule our world. While thy have made us richer and safer, he questions what will happen to human existence if these two machines – states and AI – join forces.
Producer: Katy Hickman
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Podcast: The Lazy Women Podcast
Episode: Facing the Uncertainty of Collapse Feminism: Interview with Alice Cappelle
Pub date: 2023-12-23
In this episode, Lazy Aizada and our community favourite online creator Alice Cappelle delve into Alice’s recently released debut book Collapse Feminism, while highlighting the need to make theories of gender and sexuality more accessible to the public. Alice talks neoliberal feminism, “natural” masculinity and divine femininity, as well as the effect of technology on our understanding of gender and relationships.
Be it a last-minute Christmas present or a new year treat for yourself, this book and interview was the cherry on top of the first 12 months of The Lazy Women Podcast. Thank you so much for listening to us this year - big things are coming in 2024, so stay tuned! Music Credits: Sophie M’ (Dorottya Ács and Pál Zwickl)Image Credits: Eszter Zwickl & Selen Sarikaya Eren
Episode notes:
- Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future is now OUT! You can find more information here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734146/collapse-feminism-by-alice-cappelle/
- Video recommendation on the topic of positive masculinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqJqovXeDg
- Book recommendation: A Decolonial Feminism by Francoise Verges https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341125/a-decolonial-feminism/
To learn more about Alice:
- Collapse Feminism: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734146/collapse-feminism-by-alice-cappelle/
- Alice's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle
- Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/alicecappelle_
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sarah Sarzynski, "Revolution in the Terra Do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Pub date: 2023-12-30
Sarah Sarzynski's Revolution in the Terra Do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil (Stanford UP, 2018) examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years. Rural social movements that unfolded in the Northeast beginning in the 1950s inspired Brazilian and international filmmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and journalists to envision a potential social revolution in Brazil. But in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the strength of rural social movements also raised fears about the threat of communism and hemispheric security.
Turning to sources including Cinema Novo films, biographies, chapbook literature, and materials from U.S. and Brazilian government archives, Sarzynski shows how representations of the Northeast depended on persistent stereotypes depicting the region as backward, impoverished, and violent. By late March 1964, Brazilian Armed Forces faced little resistance when overthrowing democratically elected leaders in part because of the widely held belief that the violence and chaos in the "backward" Northeast threatened the modern Brazilian nation. Sarzynski's cultural history recasts conventional narratives of the Cold War in Brazil, showing how local struggles over land reform and rural workers' rights were part of broader ideological debates over capitalism and communism, Third World independence, and modernization on a global scale.
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Podcast: Slate Money (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: America’s Boring Superweapon
Pub date: 2023-12-30
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers chat with Henry Farrell, author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. Henry explains how American hegemony shifted from guns and tanks to SWIFT codes and internet policies. Can China or Russia beat it at its own game?
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Podcast: culturalstudies (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dan Schiller on struggles against fascism and corporations in the US
Pub date: 2023-12-26
Dan Schiller on struggles against fascism and corporations in the US, political economy, archives, and the history of telecommunications. You can read more about his work here:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crossed-wires-9780197639238?cc=us⟨=en&
https://informationobservatory.info/
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)
Pub date: 2023-12-19
For our final main episode of 2023, we're dipping back into the Wills well to discuss Garry's under-appreciated 2010 book, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. Joining us is our great friend Erik Baker, lecturer in the History of Science Department at Harvard University and an editor at The Drift magazine.
In Bomb Power, Garry Wills elegantly demonstrates how the imperatives of secretly conceiving, building, and deploying the nuclear bomb fundamentally changed American democracy — massively empowering the presidency, disempowering Congress, and setting the nation on a permanent war footing. At the same time, secrecy and deception metastasized through the American system, enabling the rise of extra-judicial assassinations, coup plotting, domestic surveillance, torture, and clandestine war. "Secrecy emanated from the Manhattan Project like a giant radiation emission..." writes Wills, "Because the government was the keeper of the great secret, it began specializing in secret keeping.”
Also discussed: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), Henry Kissinger (RIP), Bush and Obama, Snowden, Ellsberg, and the ways in which Bomb Power is a profoundly Catholic book. Enjoy!
Sources:
Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (2010)
Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear Planner(2017)
Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State (2021)
Archbishop John Wester, "Living in the Light of Christ's Peace: A Conversation Toward Nuclear Disarmament," Jan 11, 2022
Erik Baker, "Daniel in the Lion's Den: On the Moral Courage of Daniel Ellsberg," The Baffler, June 17, 2023
John Schwenkler and Mark Souva, "False Choices: The Unjustifiable Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Commonweal, Oct 14, 2020
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Criticism LTD w/ Matt Seybold
Pub date: 2024-01-01
Matt Seybold joins Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson to discuss the political economy of literary criticism from past to present, amateur to professional. Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature at Elmira College and Resident Scholar at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. In addition to writing and teaching in the field of literature & economics, Seybold produces and hosts The American Vandal podcast, an ever-growing collection of conversations and presentations about literature, humor, and history in America that is inspired by Mark Twain's life and legacy.
Our conservation focuses, in particular, on The American Vandal’s magisterial eighth series titled, “Criticism LTD.” With 16 episodes totaling 24-hours of listening, “Criticism LTD” marshals a diverse cast of over 50 voices to provide fresh perspectives on the origins & trajectories of literary criticism and the so-called “crisis of humanities.” Episodes take on a wide range of topics, including: the marked contrast between today’s “golden age of criticism” (Ryan Ruby) in amateur and para-academic venues and the “Ponzi Austerity” (Yanis Varoufakis) and “Ed-Tech Griftopia” (Seybold) undermining contemporary academic research and instruction; the mid-20th-century trouncing of the neo-Aristotelian Chicago School Critics by the neoliberal Chicago School Economists; how the ugly politics of race, class, gender, and colonialism have both informed and met resist in practices of close reading; and the importance of the 19th-century feud over literary criticism between Matthew Arnold and Mark Twain for imaginatively contesting imperialism, then and now. “Criticism LTD” has much to offer teachers, researchers, organizers, and creators interested in building a more humane, collaborative, and democratic education system in the shell of the old.
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Podcast: The Antifada (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: &&& w/ De-McKinseyfication w/ Garrison Lovely
Pub date: 2023-12-18
Anders & Andy interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete. In the second Garrison takes our answers on being a leftist Effective Altruist.
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Original whisteblower article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willing-executioners
Recent Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/
Jacobin interview: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/mckinsey-garrison-lovely-whistleblower-consulting-firms
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Podcast: Our American Stories (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Thread Across the Ocean: The Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Pub date: 2024-01-01
On this episode of Our American Stories, Miles and miles of wire placed on ships and thrown into the ocean connected the world like never before and would help determine the outcomes of World Wars and beyond. John Steele Gordan tells the story of how the Transatlantic Cable came to be.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Caring for Digital Remains | Tamara Kneese and Tonia Sutherland | Network Book Forum
Pub date: 2023-11-21
When people die, they leave behind not only physical belongings, but digital ones. While they might have had specific wishes for what happens to their online profiles and accounts after their deaths, preserving these digital remains is complex and requires specialized forms of care. Because digital remains are attached to corporate platforms — which have control over what online legacies look like and how long they continue — people’s digital afterlives are not necessarily the ones they would have chosen for themselves.On November 16, Tamara Kneese and Tonia Sutherland came together for a conversation about their books, which both foreground death as a site for understanding the social values and power dynamics of our contemporary, platform-saturated world. The conversation between these two authors was moderated by Tamara K. Nopper, senior researcher with Data & Society’s Labor Futures program. Together, they explored death as a site of contestation and transformation.
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Podcast: ISC Presents
Episode: Science Fiction and the Future of Science: Cory Doctorow - Leveraging Digital Advancements for the Future
Pub date: 2023-12-11
In this last episode, we invite Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author, activist, and journalist from Canada. He is the author of many books, most recently The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. Our conversation touches on digital rights management, social justice and sustainability in the digital world.
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Podcast: Deep Dive with Shawn C. Fettig
Episode: Campfire Conversations: Understanding the Sociopolitical Implications of Camping with Dr. Phoebe Young
Pub date: 2023-12-09
Do you ever ponder over the evolution and multifaceted nature of camping, its sociopolitical significance, and how it mirrors societal inequalities? Join us and our esteemed guest, Dr. Phoebe Young, professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder and author of the book Camping Grounds: Public Nation in American Life from the Civil to the Occupy Movement, as we embark on an enlightening journey into the complex world of camping. From its origins as a family leisure activity post-Civil War to its transformation into a form of political protest, the subtle intricacies and unexpected controversies of camping are revealed.
This is an insightful, thought-provoking exploration of camping's evolution. It's a history lesson and societal commentary all rolled into one. The intersection of camping and politics is examined, tracing the trend back to the Civil War era. Can you believe camping has been used as a form of lobbying, too? We address the tension between recreational campers and political campers and investigate the role of camping as a platform for political expression. We also highlight the nuanced issues of diversity and inclusion in outdoor spaces.
Finally, we turn our attention to the changing social contract associated with camping and how it has shaped the camping experience. Public amenities, government involvement, and the emergence of alternative camping forms such as glamping are discussed. We even contemplate a new form of social contract that may be emerging in the camping world. So, tune in for an enlightening discussion that not only explores camping but also navigates its profound connection with politics, society, and the social contract.
Recommended:
Reservation Dogs
Anything by Rebecca Solnit
Merchants of Doubt: Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
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Podcast: The Antifada (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 233: Post-Soviet Space w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
Pub date: 2023-12-13
Sean and Andy are joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Marxist and sociologist, to discuss his upcoming collection of essays "Toward the Abyss" from Verso Books. (You can and should preorder here.)
How does a 'civilizational' or 'cultural' or 'decolonial' understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict obscure the underlying class conflict at its heart? What is the political economy of 'corruption' and anti-corruption? How has the delegitimization of the post-Soviet political capitalist ruling class led to stagnation and civil war? Why have their been a series of Occupys, EuroMaidans and Arab Springs that seem to change nothing?
This is part one of an extended discussion. In the bonus we pose the question, "What does the left look like in Ukraine at the moment and how can internationalists help build a working class movement adequate to social revolution in a global capitalist social order in steep decline?"
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Articles:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voices
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/russia-ukraine-war-explanation-class-conflict
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Podcast: Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the Visual Politics of Border Tunnels
Pub date: 2023-12-11
How do media representations of US–Mexico border tunnels shape immigration discourse, public policy, and anti-immigrant violence?
To help us think through how these tunnels are represented and often overrepresented in US media, in episode 158 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ideas on Fire author Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about his new book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US–Mexico Underground.
For all of their visual obscurity and inaccessibility, tunnels are hypervisible in media representations not only of the US–Mexico border region but also the bodies—both real and imagined—that are associated with the borderlands.
In the conversation, Juan shares his research into how border tunnels are represented in video games like first-person shooters, television news coverage like Anderson Cooper 360°, copaganda reality shows like Border Wars, and action films like Fast and Furious.
They also discuss why it is so important to think infrastructurally about media production and how designers and activists are using speculative design to reimagine what the US–Mexico borderlands are and the role of tunnels in that process.
Finally, they close out the conversation with Juan’s challenge to both media makers and media consumers alike to accept responsibility for the material consequences of representation and use it to create a world where the free movement of people across and beyond all borders is celebrated and realized.
Transcript, teaching guide, and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-12-10
Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologies, however, has been accomplished through the capture of various Indigenous Peoples' genetic material and a subsequent ongoing genetic servitude.
In Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples(McGill-Queen's UP, 2023), Mark Munsterhjelm explores how controversial studies of Indigenous Peoples have been used to develop racializing forensic technologies. Making moral and political claims about defending the public from criminals and terrorists, international networks of scientists, police, and security agencies have developed forensic genetic technologies firmly embedded in hierarchies that target and exploit many Indigenous Peoples without their consent. Collections began under the guise of the highly controversial Human Genome Diversity Project and related efforts, including the 1987 sampling of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples as they recovered from near genocide. After 9/11, War on Terror rhetoric began to be used to justify research on ancestry estimation and physical appearance (phenotyping) markers, and since 2019, international research cooperation networks' use of genetic data from thousands of Uyghurs and other Indigenous Peoples from Xinjiang and Tibet has contributed to a series of controversies.
Munsterhjelm concludes that technologies produced by forensic genetics advance the biopolitical security only of privileged populations, and that this depends on imposing race-based divisions between who lives and who dies. Meticulously researched, Forensic Colonialism adds to growing debates over racial categories, their roots in colonialism, and the political hierarchies inherent to forensic genetics.
Melek Firat Altay is a neuroscientist, biologist and musician. Her research focuses on deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Podcast: Working People (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Brazil's Radical Plan to Fight Slave-Like Working Conditions (w/ Marcos, John, & Vitor Filgueiras)
Pub date: 2023-12-11
Brazil's Radical Plan to Fight Slave-Like Working Conditions (w/ Marcos, John, & Vitor Filgueiras)
In this special international episode, we get the chance to talk to folks in Brazil about the farmworkers who are being trapped in slave-like conditions, and about a truly radical new government program that is trying to break the cycle of enslavement and exploitation. As Vitor Filgueiras, Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Bahia, writes, “Between 1995 and mid-2020, more than 55,000 workers were removed from conditions analogous to slavery by the Brazilian State, without any indication that there has been a reduction in this type of criminal exploitation of labour in the country. On the contrary, many workers are repeated victims of extreme exploitation.” As we discuss with Filgueiras himself in the second half of this episode, there have been numerous past efforts to liberate farmworkers from these slave-like conditions, but if workers don’t have other means or opportunities to economically sustain themselves, they are at high risk of falling right back into this exploitative system to make ends meet. And that is why the project “Vida Pós Resgate” (Life After Rescue) was created in 2017 through a partnership between the Federal University of Bahia’s Faculty of Economics and the Federal Labor Prosecution Office for the 23rd Region. The program is designed to take the fines that employers are forced to pay for violating workers rights and use that money to buy land, tools, seed, and other necessities for rescued farmworkers to develop self-sufficient farms that they own and operate themselves. While the program is still in its early stages, if it is successful, it could have wide-ranging implications for working people in Brazil and beyond.
In the first half of this episode, with Vitor Filgueiras translating, we speak with Marcos and John, two farmworkers who were rescued from slave-like conditions and are now among the Life After Rescue program’s first participants. In the second half, we speak with Filgueiras about where this policy came from, what it will take to make it work, and about the fight to return the land and the means of production to the people. Special thanks to Mike Fox for editing assistance.
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- Vitor's Twitter/X profile
Vitor Filgueiras, Delta 8.7, "Slave-Like Labour in Brazil and the Vida Pós Resgate Project"Reuters, "Brazil Rescues Hundreds Held in Modern-Day Slave Conditions"Dom Phillips, The Guardian, "'Fewer People Will Be Freed': Brazil Accused of Easing Anti-Slavery Rules"Matt Sandy, Al Jazeera, "Heartache and Suffering: Slavery in Brazil" Working People YouTube channel Permanent links below...
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Abundance: Sexuality’s History: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Anjali Arondekar
Pub date: 2023-12-11
Historian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Anjali Arondekar, Professor of Feminist Studies at California University of California, Santa Cruz and Founding Director of the Center for South Asian Studies about her recently published book, Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press, 2023).
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Podcast: Pop Apocalypse
Episode: Ecstatic Knowledge and the Study of Religion - featuring Jeffrey Kripal
Pub date: 2023-12-07
For episode five of the pod, we are honored to welcome Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Chair of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. In this career-spanning chat 10:36 we discuss Kripal’s Catholic upbringing, psychoanalysis, and the ecstatic experience in Calcutta that changed the direction of his career. From there, we touch on Jeff’s role at Esalen, historical mystics and paranormal powers, telepathic insects, and how the study of religion and popular culture come together in film, comedy, and music.
NOTESPeripheries No. 6 launch event
Jeffrey J. Kripal's personal website
Jeffrey Kripal, Mutants and Mystics
Kripal, The Superhumanities
Kripal, Authors of the Impossible
Kripal, Kali's Child
Kripal, How to Think Impossibly
The Archives of the Impossible
Hellier, season 1
Hellier, season 2
Esalen's Center for Theory and Research
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Podcast: 12 Rules For WHAT (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 92 Mircrofascism And Fascist Desire w/ Anthony Faramelli
Pub date: 2023-12-09
Today we are joined by writer and researcher Anthony Faramelli to discuss his work on the concept of microfascism and the nature of fascist desire.We discuss how algorithmic structures feed radicalisation, how we can intervene if someone is radicalised online, the anti-fascism of the Zapatistas and much more!
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Podcast: New Books in Performing Arts (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-11-30
How can researchers study magic without destroying its mystery? Drawing on a collaborative project between the playwright Dr. Poppy Corbett, the poet Anna Kisby Compton, and the historian Dr. William G. Pooley, Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) presents thirteen tools for creative-academic research into magic.
These are illustrated through case studies from France (1790–1940) and examples from creative outputs: write to discover; borrow forms; use the whole page; play with footnotes; erase the sources; write short; accumulate fragments; re-enact; improvise; use dialogue; change perspective; make methods of metaphors; use props. These tools are ways to 'untell' the dominant narratives that shape stereotypes of the 'witch' which frame belief in witchcraft as ignorant and outdated. Writing differently suggests ways to think and feel differently, to stay with the magic, rather than explaining it away. The Element includes practical creative exercises to try as well as research materials from French newspaper and trial sources from the period.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Podcast: The Taxcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The People vs Microsoft
Pub date: 2023-11-30
On the Taxcast this month, the story of what happened when the US tax authorities, the IRS, decided to crack down on Microsoft, one of the world's biggest tech companies. Worthy of a thriller movie with its twists and turns, there are many lessons for governments worldwide. And it's not over yet.
Featuring:
- Zorka Milin of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition
- Paul Kiel of ProPublica
- Samantha Jacoby of the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Andrew Leigh, MP and Australian Treasury
- Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network
- Hosted and produced by Naomi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network
Transcript (some is automated) https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Transcript_Taxcast_Nov_23.pdf
Further reading:
How a slick accounting maneuver led to a $29 billion tax bill for Microsoft https://fortune.com/2023/10/13/microsoft-back-taxes-irs-29-billion-propublica/
The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher
What the Microsoft Tax Case Shows Us About Tax Transparency https://thefactcoalition.org/what-the-microsoft-tax-case-shows-us-about-tax-transparency/#:~:text=They%20had%20negotiated%20a%2015,Puerto%20Rico%20and%20the%20US.
FT confirms OECD lobbied against Australian tax transparency https://taxjustice.net/press/ft-confirms-oecd-lobbied-against-australian-tax-transparency/#:~:text=The%20law%20requires%20multinationals%20operating,tool%20for%20accountability%20and%20deterrence.
Microsoft, Cisco Shareholder Votes Demonstrate Increasing Investor Demand for Tax and Offshore Transparency https://thefactcoalition.org/microsoft-cisco-shareholder-votes-demonstrate-increasing-investor-demand-for-tax-and-offshore-transparency/
KPMG's pitch to Microsoft: 'Planning Alternatives in Puerto Rico' https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6556275-KPMG-2004-Pitch-to-Microsoft.html and Microsoft 2003 Memo on Puerto Rico Factory https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6556274-Microsoft-2003-Memo-on-Puerto-Rico-Factory.html
Bipartisan Senate Action Passes Minimal Test for IRS Funding While Multiple House Republican Bills Fail https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/bipartisan-senate-action-passes-minimal-test-for-irs-funding-while-multiple
Revenue From BBB’s IRS Enforcement Funding Would Support Investments https://www.cbpp.org/blog/revenue-from-bbbs-irs-enforcement-funding-would-support-investments
UN adopts plans for historic tax reform https://taxjustice.net/press/un-adopts-plans-for-historic-tax-reform/
“No” voters on UN tax reform enable 75% of global tax abuse https://taxjustice.net/press/no-voters-on-un-tax-reform-enable-75-of-global-tax-abuse/
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The dangerous road to the Bastille
Pub date: 2023-12-01
The French Revolution of 1789 is one of the defining events of world history – but the decades preceding the revolution were also seismic, being marked by war, royal scandal, financial crisis and scientific wonder. In conversation with Rob Attar, Robert Darnton takes us on a journey through the streets of Paris in the 40 years that preceded the storming of the Bastille.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Human Side of the AI Underclass w/ Joanne McNeil
Pub date: 2023-11-30
Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss her new novel dealing with the human labor behind self-driving cars and the challenges of being a good tech critic.
Joanne McNeil is the author of Wrong Way and has written for Dissent Magazine, New York Magazine, and The Nation.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Joanne has written about the need for tech critics that aren’t insiders and tech media warming back up to Facebook.
- Paris wrote about the recent scandal around GM’s Cruise division.
- In 2014, Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and gave a speech that skewered capitalism.
- Joanne’s fictional tech founder was in part inspired by Holacracy and Dan Price.
- The fantasy of self-driving cars is highly reliant on remote drivers.
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Podcast: What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Moral War for A.I.
Pub date: 2023-12-01
Artificial intelligence seems predestined to become a bigger part of our lives. To what extent is the A.I. push being led by Sam Altman and the OpenAI team a cause for concern?
Guest: Karen Hao, journalist, data scientist and contributing writer for the Atlantic.
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Podcast: Ottoman History Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Egyptian Labor Corps and the Echoes of WWI
Pub date: 2023-12-03
with Kyle Anderson & Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | In the aftermath of the First World War, the Egyptian streets rose up against British rule during a period of global anti-imperialism, and the voices of the 1919 revolution have echoed throughout Egyptian history ever since. In this first installment of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," we consider how the First World War reshaped political consciousness in Egypt, as our guests Kyle Anderson and Alia Mossallam explore the experiences of the Egyptian Labor Corps and the sonic history of WWI. We examine the adventure, hardship, exile, and abuse Egyptian workers faced serving the British war effort, as well as how the war changed the society they returned to, in the words of one famous song from the period, "safe and sound." In discussing the popular songs of the war period that entered Egyptian national canon, our guests illuminate the ways in which shared songs can be modified and repurposed for new political contexts, drawing attention to the need for reconstructing the layers of context contained within some of history's earliest sound recordings. « Click for More »
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Cedric Robinson’s World
Pub date: 2023-12-04
How did the influential scholar Cedric Robinson understand black radicalism and global capitalism? Yousuf Al-Bulushi has written about what he sees as several constituent elements of the Robinsonian black radical tradition, including an appreciation of culture (which pushes back against Marxism’s materialism) and a critique of state-based models of self-determination. Al-Bulushi also considers Robinson’s engagement with world-systems analysis. (Encore presentation.)
Yousuf Al-Bulushi, “Thinking Racial Capitalism and Black Radicalism from Africa: An Intellectual Geography of Cedric Robinson’s World-System” Geoforum (pdf)
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Care is more than human—it's creaturely.
Pub date: 2023-12-05
Benjamin Meiches explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans (mine-clearance dogs, milk-producing cows and goats, disease-identifying rats) in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care in humanitarian practice—and opening up new ethical ways to think about being human in terms of how we interact with nonhuman animals. Meiches, author of Nonhuman Humanitarians, is joined here in conversation with Stefanie Fishel.
Benjamin Meiches is associate professor of politics at the Univeristy of Washington-Tacoma. He is author of Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics and The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide.
Stefanie Fishel is lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Fishel is author of The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic and contributor to the edited volume The Long 2020.
EPISODE REFERENCES:
-Emmanuel Levinas, “The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights,” in Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (trans. Sean Hand)
-Heifer International (organization)
-J. M. Coetzee / The Lives of Animals
-Brian Massumi / What Animals Teach Us about Politics
-Liisa Malkki / The Need to Help
-Timothy Morton / Dark Ecology
-Timothy Morton / Ecology without Nature
-David Shannon / Duck on a Bike
-Jack Halberstam / Wild Things
-Eugene Thacker / In the Dust of This Planet
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Parallels and contrasts - the Gaza crisis and the 1973 war w/ Leila Farsakh
Pub date: 2023-12-05
Palestinian writer and academic Leila Farsakh joins the show to talk about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the parallels Leila sees between the current situation and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. We also talked about the revival of the idea of the one state solution and why Leila believes a two-state resolution to the conflict is no longer feasible. In the interview we touch on Leila's article in The London Review of Books, ‘The Refugee Problem’ and on her book, 'Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-determination beyond Partition'.
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Podcast: The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part II – Further Analysis and Discussion)
Pub date: 2023-12-03
Two people can encounter the same state of affairs – a crime, a book, a building – and yet their attention, interests, and emotional responses can be radically different. The perspectives of others are closed off from us, and our perspectives are closed off from them … that is until we share our stories. In recent years, social and political movements have utilised the power of storytelling by encouraging the sharing of first-personal accounts. For example, the #MeToo movement and #ShoutYourAbortion campaign encouraged women to share their experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and abortion in order to challenge the ideologies that allow sexism and misogyny to exist. According to Dr Rachel Fraser, these narratives play an indispensable role that can never be performed by theory and statistics.
In this episode, we’ll be speaking to Dr Fraser, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, about how personal narratives allow us to challenge social scripts, refocus our attention, and alter the perspectives that, ultimately, shape our lives and institutions. For Fraser – who specialises in a range of fields, including epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and social and political philosophy – narratives offer a window into our lives and reveal moral truths that serve to critique dangerous ideologies and overcome injustice. Silencing ourselves and others is a surefire way to perpetuate inequality; if we want to bring about a better world, then we must learn to speak and listen.
This episode is produced in partnership with the Aesthetics and Political Epistemology Project at the University of Liverpool, led by Katherine Furman, Robin McKenna, and Vid Simoniti and funded by the British Society of Aesthetics.
Contents
Part I. Disrupting Ideology
Part II. Further Analysis and Discussion
Links
Rachel Fraser, Website
Rachel Fraser, Papers
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland
Pub date: 2023-11-30
Beata Siemieniako on the restitution of housing and tenants' strugglesUnregulated restitution of property to prewar owners (or rather their legal successors) remains a major source of conflict over housing in Poland, most notably in Warsaw. This episode features Beata Siemieniako, a Warsaw lawyer and urban activist who has been supporting tenants in their struggle against ruthless developers for years. In her book „Re-privatising Poland. The History of a Great Scam“ (Reprywatyzując Polskę. Historia wielkiego przekrętu, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej 2017), she tells the story of conflicting claims to urban property and reflects on the pitfalls of restituting past property orders while neglecting present-day social rights. Florian Peters has talked to her about law, grassroots activism, and the impossibility to achieve justice by trying to turn back time. _This episode is a co-production with the appropriate podcast of the collaborative research center SFB294 at the Universities Jena and Erfurt_
Host:Dr. Florian Peters is a historian specialising in the contemporary history of Poland and East Central Europe. His latest book „From Solidarność to Shock Therapy. How Capitalism came to Poland“ (Von Solidarność zur Schocktherapie. Wie der Kapitalismus nach Polen kam, Berlin: Ch. Links 2023) investigates the origins of the neoliberal breakthrough of 1989. At SFB 294/Friedrich Schiller University Jena, he is researching conflicts over privatisation and local self-governance in post-socialist Poland.
Guest:Beata Siemieniako is a lawyer and housing rights activists from Warsaw, Poland. Representing tenants and urban activists in the court for years, she has been repeatedly rewarded for her legal and public engagement. She is regularly publishing about issues of housing and the rule of law in notable Polish outlets, such as „Oko.press“, „Krytyka Polityczna“, or „Kultura Liberalna“.
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Podcast: Social Science for Public Good
Episode: Power: Contemporary & Neoliberal w/ Dr. Wendy Brown
Pub date: 2023-12-01
We continue to explore the concept of power by asking how neoliberalism might be both informing our understanding of power and changing how it manifests. Combining a number of insights from previous guests, we wade into the myriad ways power manifests in our neoliberal world and why we need to consider the many different kinds of power both distinctly and collectively. We were honored to be led in this conversation by Dr. Wendy Brown, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Wendy Brown is a political theorist who works across the history of political thought, political economy, Continental philosophy, cultural theory, and critical legal theory. Brown investigates the subterranean powers shaping contemporary Euroatlantic polities, with particular attention to the political identities, subjectivities, and expressions they spawn. She is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity; Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire; Walled States, Waning Sovereignty; Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution; and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. Across her work, Brown aims to illuminate powers unique to our era and the predicaments they generate for democratic thought and practice.
While it would be impossible to cite all of her influential work on power here, the publications below provide a useful starting point for her scholarship:
Brown, W. (2020). States of injury: Power and freedom in late modernity. Princeton University Press.
Brown, W. (2015). Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. Mit Press.
Brown, W. (2006). American nightmare: Neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and de-democratization. Political theory, 34(6), 690-714.
Brown, W. (2003). Neo-liberalism and the end of liberal democracy. Theory & event, 7(1).
The Social Science for Public Good Podcast is a project of the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance and VT Publishing intended to make social science theories accessible and available to individuals and organizations seeking to promote social change.
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Podcast: Spiritual Misfits Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sara M. Saleh on Palestine, liberation and poetry
Pub date: 2023-12-02
Sara M. Saleh is a human rights lawyer, community organiser, writer and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon. She has many very impressive achievements to her name including being the first poet to win both the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, which she did back to back in 2020 and 2021. Sara’s debut novel Songs for the Dead and the Living is out now (link below where you can buy).
Sara is one of the voices that has been a helpful guide for me in recent weeks as we’ve seen the Israeli government cause enormous levels of destruction and loss of human life in Gaza.
This conversation is really helpful for decoupling anti-zionism and anti-semitism and understanding why it’s so dangerous when these are conflated.
It’s so obvious, as you’ll hear throughout this conversation that Sara holds a fierce commitment to any group of oppressed and suffering people, while striving for solutions that do not simply flip who is oppressing who. The way she speaks about liberation is so generous and beautiful and just.
We talk about the limits of identity politics and the deep solidarity that can be found in shared values — and there’s just so much wisdom here.
Listen deeply, share widely, and take whatever actions you can — great or small — in the direction of justice.
Sara’s website:
https://www.saramsaleh.com/
Buy ‘Songs for the Dead and the Living’:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/songs-for-the-dead-and-the-living-sara-m-saleh/book/9781922848536.html
Follow Sara on Instagram: @instasaranade
‘A guide to Palestine for beginners’ (this is a fantastic doc):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgiFGdUKiPfzC-xo6LZQXvGNIXGHyMYsGCA035kKc80/mobilebasic
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Podcast: Tender Buttons (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 032 Nathalie Olah: The Politics of Ugliness
Pub date: 2023-11-26
In this episode, we speak to Nathalie Olah about her book Bad Taste: Or The Politics of Ugliness. We discuss notions of taste and the intersection with social class and cultural capital. We think about the ways in which a fear of judgement is intrinsic to working-class survival and the construction of working-class femininities within this. We chat about the ways in which ideas of social mobility force working-class people to assimilate to middle-class ideas of taste, and the loss and displacement caused by this. We highlight the importance of working-class writers amplifying the people, places, objects and events that are significant to them, from Pamela Anderson's hyper-feminized look in the film Barb Wire (1996) to Dolly Parton's embrace of 'trashy' aesthetics. We discuss the role of austerity and scarcity within contemporary notions of 'style' and 'class' and how this links to the wealth and power of dominant taste-makers. We explore the role of culture and beauty in upholding power hierarchies and the way this shapes our lives.
Nathalie Olah is a writer currently living and working in London. Her political awakening happened when she was living in the Netherlands in 2014, completing an MA (global political economy, University of Sussex / Utrecht University) and working for research organisations and grassroots protest groups challenging the biases of the international courts and witnessing the distant, passive cruelty of EU bureaucrats subjecting millions of people to misery during the Greek debt crisis. She came back to the UK in 2016 when electoral politics was just starting to get interesting; joined a few organisations, wrote a few things. This all led to the publication of her first book, Steal As Much As You Can in 2019.
Her background has always been aesthetics, philosophy and literature. She first studied English Language and Literature, but her professor, Christopher Butler, was a philosopher and art historian. Her main interest is media spectacle and propaganda, and the quaint exceptionalisms of the western psyche and that of the upper/middle class in particular. She is always trying to challenge the assumption — in a visually over-saturated world — that seeing is knowing, and ultimately prevent the slide into what academic Eva Illouz has termed ‘scopic capitalism’.
Her new book, Bad Taste: or the politics of ugliness is about the industries of taste (which prospered after 2008), how they aestheticise and valorise scarcity, which is an invention of capitalism, and create a false hierarchy of virtue centred on consumerism.
Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published widely in Five Dials, Dazed, AnOther, i-D, the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Independent and the Times Literary Supplement.
References
Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah
Look Again: Class by Nathalie Olah
Steal as Much as You Can by Nathalie Olah
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Podcast: Disintegrator (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 2. Free Labor, Hidden Labor (w/ Tiziana Terranova)
Pub date: 2023-11-22
Tiziana Terranova has provided all of us with one of the sharpest critical accounts of the modern internet. In this episode, Tiziana, Roberto, and Marek discuss the labor dynamics at play in the contemporary digital economy -- from changes in the social status of creative work, the hidden labor underpinning the mechanics of the virtual world, and the material means by which AI resists pushes for decentralization.
We reference a few of Tiziana’s texts in the interview, which build foundational scaffolding for theories of what it means to live within networks:
1. Free Labor: Producing Culture of the Digital Economy
2. Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age
3. After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common
We further recommend some background information about some of the theorists Tiziana references, including:
1. Tiziana speaks about the Autonomist Marxist tradition beginning in Italy in the 60s, with key exponents like Paolo Virno, Antonio Negri, and Franco “Bifo” Berardi. Virno’s recent The Idea of World: Public Intellect and Use of Life is a great primer for this conversation.
2. Since we speak about Marx’s Grundrisse, David Harvey has quite a good primer on this important but unusual text here.
3. Something that informed Marek’s thoughts in this conversation was an excellent recent episode of Aufhebunga Bunga (number 362 with Cory Doctorow).
4. Tiziana references the work of sociologist Antonio Casilli; we are looking forward to the English translation of Waiting for Robots: An Inquiry Into Digital Labor into English.
5. Denise Ferreira da Silva’sToward a Global Idea of Race comes up in the context of racialized capitalism.
6. Peter Galison’s War Against the Center is highly recommended as we speak about centralization.
7. In the conversation on reproductive labor, Tiziana references Amelia DeFalco’s work on posthuman care.
Enjoy this fast-paced, dynamic episode as it grapples with the question: will algorithm ever set us free?
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Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How War Complicates the Insurance Business
Pub date: 2023-11-24
Wars and climate change around the world have had a huge impact on the insurance industry and the way it assesses risk. Adam and Cameron break it down.
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Podcast: Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: What is Marxism Anyway? (re-edit)
Pub date: 2023-11-27
We slightly re-edited this recording after noticing a glitch in the episode that went out a couple of days ago. Sorry about that – just listen to this one instead!
With Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy Gilbert (with help from Charlie Clarke)
What do we actually mean by ‘Marxism’? What is historical and what is materialist about historical materialism? Does it matter what Marx himself thought about anything? Is Marxism a philosophical school or a political programme? What is all this going to have to do with Spinoza?
This is session 0 of our series ‘From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality’. For more information on the series see HERE.
NB: the recording seems to stop quite suddenly without any sign-off, but in fact that was the end of the substantial part of the seminar (the rest was just us messing about, deciding exactly how to end).
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dying for Capitalism with Charles Derber
Pub date: 2023-11-25
Charles Derber, author of "Dying for Capitalism", talks with Steve about the intersectionality between capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism. He argues that the capitalist system, particularly in its neoliberal form, is inherently connected to the threats of environmental catastrophe and war. He emphasizes the historical context of these connections, tracing the shift from water-powered capitalism to coal and then oil as a means to maintain control and avoid public opposition. He highlights the role of the military in perpetuating climate change and the destructive consequences of war on the environment.
Charles addresses the skepticism and cynicism often associated with the idea of changing capitalism but he believes change is possible through diverse strategies and alliances. He draws lessons from historical movements, such as the abolitionist movement, the Bolshevik revolution, and the reinvigorated labor movement. He touches on social media, which can be used to control and manipulate, but can also be a powerful tool for organizing and mobilizing activism.
Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and has written 26 books - on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, culture and conversation, and social change. His most recent books include Dying for Capitalism, Welcome to the Revolution, Moving Beyond Fear, Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States; Capitalism: Should You Buy It?
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Podcast: The Starfish Storytellers
Episode: Episode 13 - International Storytelling: Historical Fiction with Elena Ulanovsky
Pub date: 2023-11-28
In this episode, we welcomed Elena Ulanovsky, award-winning author, screenwriter, and independent movie producerfrom Ukraine, who emigrated to Israel and later moved to the US. Elena shared summaries about each book she penned, what she learned along the way, and how some of her fiction was a premonition of the war in Ukraine today. Elena has found that the storytelling in her books and screenplays was the best way for her to express her beliefs and not stay silent about the injustice happening in her country of origin.
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Podcast: Flying Smarter: Air Travel Explained (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 49 - Why Flying is Miserable with Ganesh Sitaraman
Pub date: 2023-11-20
Andrew starts this episode by talking about why we board and deplane from the left side of the aircraft. Afterwards, the main segment of this episode features law professor Ganesh Sitaraman, who joins Andrew to talk about why flying is miserable and what we can do about it from a regulatory perspective.
- In the last episode, we talked a lot about boarding. One question that came up is why we always board and disembark on the left side. Learn more in this episode.
- Did you know that there are some airlines that don’t fly on Christmas Day? The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for the air travel industry, but some airlines don’t fly on December 25th itself.
- In the main segment of this episode, law professor Ganesh Sitaraman shares his insights about airline regulation and deregulation in the United States. From delays and cancellations to poor service, there’s no shortage of reasons why flying isn’t always fun. Ganesh brings a regulatory perspective to the podcast, looking at the impacts of deregulation on the travel experience today, what potential changes in the regulatory regime could look like, and much more.
Ganesh Sitaraman is a law professor at Vanderbilt University and the director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation. He teaches and writes about constitutional law, the regulatory state, economic policy, democracy, and foreign affairs and is the author of numerous books. In addition, he is a member of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee. His latest book, Why Flying is Miserable and How to Fix It, offers insight into the state of air travel in the United States from a regulatory perspective. You can learn more about Ganesh and his work and books on his website and find him on X (Twitter) .
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Podcast: Angry Planet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What It's Like to Work in a Gazan Hospital
Pub date: 2023-11-15
This week on the show we talked with Canadian-Palestinian doctor Tarek Loubani about his work as an emergency room doctor in Gaza. Loubani helped pioneer the use of 3D printers in Gaza to produce low-cost medical equipment like stethoscopes. In 2018, he was shot in the legs by the IDF while delivering medical supplies.
In this wide ranging conversation, he talks about the importance of low cost medical supplies, the 3D printing revolution, and what it’s like to work in a hospital under siege.
The Glia Project
Makers of 3D-Printed Medical Equipment Struggle to Save Lives In Gaza Under Siege
Israel Bombs Emergency Medical Equipment 3D-Printing Facility in Gaza (Published 2021)
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Podcast: Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere
Episode: The Sculptor as Afro-Humanist: The Ed Wilson Art Exhibit
Pub date: 2023-11-17
Welcome to "Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere," an IASH sponsored podcast where we discuss various public humanities projects on Binghamton University's campus and elsewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Tom McDonough, adjunct curator and professor of art history, to discuss the ongoing exhibit at the Binghamton art museum titled Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-Humanist. McDonough walks us through the incredible 45 year career of Ed Wilson, and we explore the process of creating such an extensive exhibit as well as the ways in which the project is still ongoing through the collection of oral histories.
If you would like to contribute to the Ed Wilson oral history project, you can send an email to edwilsonproject@binghamton.edu
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Podcast: Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 111. The Medicalization of the Human Condition w/ Brett Deacon, PhD
Pub date: 2023-11-16
The biomedical model views mental disorders as brain diseases and emphasizes pharmacological treatments to address presumed biological abnormalities. This biologically focused approach has dominated the American healthcare system for decades, leading to an increase in psychiatric medication use and a perception of mental disorders as brain diseases caused by chemical imbalances.
Brett Deacon serves as an Associate Professor and Program Convener for Clinical Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His academic journey includes obtaining a PhD in clinical psychology from Northern Illinois University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Over the past 15 years, he has contributed to academia and dedicated five years to full-time private practice.
With expertise in two key areas, Brett is recognized for his proficiency in exposure therapy for anxiety. Notably, he co-authored the book "Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice" (2nd edition), published by Guilford Press in 2019. His second area of focus revolves around critiquing psychiatry's biomedical model of "mental illness." His research encompasses the efficacy of antidepressants, publication bias in antidepressant trials, the impact of perceiving depressive experiences through a biomedical lens, and the validity and societal implications of the biomedical model.
The biomedical model of mental disorder: A critical analysis of its validity, utility, and effects on psychotherapy research
Note: This podcast episode is designed solely for informational and educational purposes, without endorsing or promoting any specific medical treatments. We strongly advise consulting with a qualified healthcare professional before making any medical decisions or taking any actions.
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14:00 - Precipitating factors - Definition and Examples - Biology Online Dictionary
19:00 - Stanton Peele
22:30 - Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy
24:00 - Challenging Received Wisdom: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect - PMC
26:00 - Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration
30:00 - Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic
34:00 - Anatomy of an Epidemic - Wikipedia
36:00 - The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence | Molecular Psychiatry
37:30 - Changes in antidepressant use in Australia: A nationwide analysis (2015–2021) - Juliana de Oliveira Costa, Malcolm B. Gillies, Andrea L. Schaffer, David Peiris, Helga Zoega, Sallie-Anne Pearson, 2023
38:00 - Mental health prescriptions - Mental health - AIHW
44:30 - The STAR*D Scandal: Scientific Misconduct on a Grand Scale - Mad In America
56:00 - The Past, Present, and Future of the DSM
1:12:30 - 7.1 Types of research – Descriptive vs. Explanatory
1:18:00 - NationalHealthCareSpending In 2017: GrowthSlowsTo Post–GreatRecessionRates; ShareOfGDPStabilizes
1:19:00 - Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis - Medical Humanities
1:21:00 - 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Public Law 99-660)
1:28:00 - Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Sertraline, and Their Combination for Children and Adolescents With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Pediatric OCD Treatment Study (POTS) Randomized Controlled Trial
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Podcast: Let's Talk Palestine (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Early Colonization of Palestine ft. Dr Ilan Pappé
Pub date: 2023-11-18
Building on our last episode, here we aim to delve deeper into the early contemporary history of Palestine between the late 19th century up until the Nakba in 1948. With Dr Pappé, a veteran Israeli scholar, we discuss life under colonialism, how lobbying shaped Western support of Israel up until today, as well as the escalation into the Nakba from British colonial rule. Join us!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-palestine/message
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Podcast: The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy & Geopolitics”
Pub date: 2023-11-15
On this episode, political economist Helen Thompson and Nate discuss how energy and geopolitics have interconnected over the past century, building to the entangled political relationships we see around us today. The dynamics of power on a global scale are complex - stemming from access to energy, financial control, military strength, credibility/trust, and much more - yet we can understand these a bit better by learning the history that shaped them. How have geologic provinces of energy dense carbon created inherent hot spots on the geopolitical playing field? How has the global monetary system and debt evolved to strengthen the power of a select few countries and how difficult is it to break from this system? Do our leaders have the capability/knowledge to connect energy and geopolitical policy in order to guide us through a future of declining energy availability?
About Helen Thomspon:
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge since 1994. Her current research concentrates on the political economy of energy and the long history of the democratic, economic, and geopolitical disruptions of the twenty-first century. She is a regular panelist on Talking Politics and a columnist for the New Statesman. She is a co-presenter of UnHerd's podcast, These Times and recently published Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century.
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Podcast: Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez
Pub date: 2023-11-16
Basque is a language of Europe which is unrelated to the Indo-European languages around it or any other recorded language. As a minority language, Basque has faced considerable pressure from Spanish and French, leading to waves of language revitalization movements from the 1960s and 1980s to the present day. Which means that some of the kids who grew up among language revitalization activities are now adults, and the project of Basque language revival has taken on further dimensions. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic about new speakers and multiple generations of language revitalization in the Basque country with Dr. Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, who's an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach, USA, and a native speaker of Basque and Spanish. We talk about how Itxaso grew up learning Basque at school and from her parents, who'd learned it as adults as part of the Basque language revitalization movement, and how studying linguistics gave her names for her linguistic experiences and made her realize she wasn't alone. We also talk about a paper Itxaso wrote with several other multilingual linguists about how academia needs to stop searching for "unicorn language users", aka users of minoritized languages who perfectly match a monolingual majority control group. Plus: Basque language revitalization through punk rock, reggaeton, and more music recs! (Links to songs in shownotes.)Read the transcript here: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/734191628928106496/transcript-episode-86-itxaso-interviewAnnouncements:Thank you to everyone who helped share Lingthusiasm with a friend or on social media for our seventh anniversary! We appreciate your support so much, and it was great to see what you love about Lingthusiasm and which episodes you chose to share. If you'd like to share more of your thoughts on Lingthusiasm, take our 2023 Listener Survey! This is our chance to learn about your linguistic interests, and for you to have fun doing a new set of linguistic experiments. If you did the survey last year, the experiment questions are different this year, so feel free to take it again! You can hear about the results of last year’s survey in a bonus episode (https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-75-2022-82426500) and we’ll be sharing the results of the new experiments next year. Take the survey here until December 15th 2023: https://bit.ly/lingthusiasmsurvey23In this month’s bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about giving advice by answering your linguistics questions! Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 80 other bonus episodes, including our 2022 survey results episode, and an eventual future episode discussing the results of our 2023 survey. Listen to our latest bonus here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-81-advice-92128507For links to things mentioned in this episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/734191359532122112/episode-86-revival-reggaeton-and-rejecting
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Podcast: Novara Media (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Novara FM: New Cities, Old Scams w/ Quinn Slobodian
Pub date: 2023-11-23
Business is booming for architects and property investors right now, with masterplans being unveiled for dozens of new cities around the world. The hi-tech promise of NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s proposed new desert metropolis, is only the most discussed of these visions – others are being drawn up in Indonesia, China and Senegal. What sets these […]
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Podcast: SAGE Sociology (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Contexts - Machine Learning and the Reproduction of Inequality
Pub date: 2023-11-16
Authors Sharla Alegria and Catherine Yeh discuss the article, "Machine Learning and the Reproduction of Inequality" published in the Fall 2023 issue of Contexts.
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Podcast: Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video
Episode: How did Britain come to this? The accidental logics of Britain's neoliberal settlement
Pub date: 2023-11-01
Contributor(s): Ros Taylor, Dr Abby Innes, Professor Gwyn Bevan | The post-war political settlement established by Clement Attlee’s government developed systems to tackle what William Beveridge identified as five giant evils of Britain in 1942: Want, Disease, Ignorance, Idleness, and Squalor. By 1979, these systems were failing. In the UK, from 1979, successive governments led by Margaret Thatcher aimed to tackle those failures in a neoliberal settlement based on rolling back the state and empowering markets. This strategy was based on two fundamental neoliberal ideas. First, the social responsibility of private enterprises is to maximise profits within rules of the game. Second, effective systems of governance can harness the attractions of market forces for services that violate the requirements for markets to be effective.
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Podcast: Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Seminar Series
Episode: 'The EU as Regulator in Private Law: A Neo-Liberal Hegemon or a Civiliser of Capitalist Enterprises' - Hans Micklitz: CELS Seminar
Pub date: 2020-02-05
Professor Hans Micklitz of the European University Institute gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The EU as Regulator in Private Law: A Neo-Liberal Hegemon or a Civiliser of Capitalist Enterprises" on Wednesday 5 February 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies).For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant (11/09/23)
Pub date: 2023-11-10
Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contemporary US life, and how left organizers are fighting back against right wing attacks on public space. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/library-mariame-kaba-melissa-gira-grantJoin up with For the People: A Leftist Library Project here:https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/And find the latest updates here: https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/library-solidarity-with-palestineRead Melissa’s piece, “Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are” here:https://newrepublic.com/article/175567/librarians-new-queer-front-linesReferenced in this episode:“The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” directed by Brett Story (2016)https://www.prisonlandscapes.com/“The People and the Library: Reflections on Grass-Roots Efforts to Preserve and Expand the Library As a Commons” here: https://justseeds.org/the-people-and-the-library-reflections-on-grass-roots-efforts-to-preserve-and-expand-the-library-as-a-commons/Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communismPre-order Jules' new book here:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merchAs always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Priyamvada Gopal: Are the humanities in crisis?
Pub date: 2023-11-15
The future of the humanities has become a new frontier in the culture wars. But are they really in crisis? Priyamvada Gopal, who is a professor of English at Cambridge and a scholar at Princeton, joins Ellen Halliday to discuss the assault on the humanities, and why we should defend them.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-11-15
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure(Verso, 2023) seeks to demonstrate its continuing relevance in the 21st century. Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy. Rather than treating it with filial piety as a fortress to be defended, he takes seriously its anti-systematic impulse and sensitivity to changing historical circumstances.
Honoring the Frankfurt School's practice of immanent critique, he puts critical pressure on a number of its own ideas by probing their contradictory impulses. Among them are the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions are asked about other time-honored Marxist themes: the meaning of alienation, the alleged damages of abstraction, and the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth. Rather, however, than allowing these questions to snowball into an unwarranted repudiation of the Frankfurt School legacy as a whole, the essay collection also acknowledges a number of its still potent arguments. They explore its neglected, but now timely analysis of "racket society," Adorno's dialectical reading of aesthetic sublimation, and the unexpected implications of Benjamin's focus on the corpse for political theory. Jay shows that it is a still evolving theoretical tradition which offers resources for the understanding of–and perhaps even practical betterment–of our increasingly troubled world.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Anatomy of a Somali Drone Strike with Nick Turse
Pub date: 2023-11-13
In August, the U.S. Africa Command, aka AFRICOM, reported that it had killed 13 al-Shabaab fighters in southern Somalia. Though the U.S. government said that it did not kill any civilians this time around, several past airstrikes have claimed innocent lives. In one notable example from March 2018, U.S. drone operators killed a 22-year-old mother, Lul Dahir Mohamed, and her 4-year-old daughter, Mariam, as they hitched a ride in a pickup truck with suspected militants.
In a recently published article for The Intercept, Nick Turse offers an unprecedented account of the March 2018 strike, thanks to his reporting in Mogadishu and a secret Pentagon investigation he obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. As Nick writes, “This is a story about misconnections, flawed intelligence, and fatal blindness. It started with bad cell service and ended with an American missile obliterating civilians the U.S. didn't intend to kill, but didn't care enough to save.”
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Nick, contributing writer at The Intercept, to discuss his piece, a post mortem of that fatal drone strike, and the wider context of AFRICOM's drone war across the region from the Obama administration through the present day. They also discussed why this special operations strike cell “seemed like they did everything wrong,” according to one American drone pilot who worked in Somalia.
Please note that this episode contains content that some people may find disturbing, including graphic depictions of deadly drone strikes. Listener discretion is advised.
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Podcast: Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Tamara Kneese on Death in the Digital Platform Age
Pub date: 2023-11-14
In episode 157 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar and Ideas on Fire author Tamara Kneese about the complex relationship between Big Tech and mortality, specifically how digital media platforms mediate our experiences of death.
Tamara is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab, and her new book Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond was recently published by Yale University Press.
In their conversation, Tamara and Cathy chat about how platform economies built around planned obsolescence shape our experiences of life and death, as well as how gig workers, families, and community organizers are creatively harnessing these tools for progressive possibilities.
Tamara shares how in forms like cancer blogs, digital estate planning, online memorializations, and networked mutual aid in the context of COVID-19, communities are reimagining what collaborative online labor and worldbuilding look like.
They close out the episode with Tamara’s vision for more just afterlives as well as a more just present, where digital technologies are put to use ensuring labor rights, climate justice, and more expansive futures for us all.
Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/157-tamara-kneese
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Podcast: Radical Thoughts Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Backlog: Hartmut Rosa on Social Acceleration
Pub date: 2023-11-11
As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick
Following our discussion on Virilio, Patrick sits down with sociologist Hartmut Rosa to discuss social acceleration and modernity. The conversation touches on the types of acceleration we face in a modern world, classic and late modernity, and Rosa's concept of "resonance."
MORE BY ROSA
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of ModernityResonance
LSE Lecture: Do We Really Live in an Acceleration Society?
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Podcast: The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History. (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: FC St.Pauli: Rebellion and Commercialization, Punk and Social Work
Pub date: 2023-11-13
FC St. Pauli is a 2nd Bundesliga team from Hamburg. That’s one thing. It is also "Germany’s original cult club," an "antifascist pioneer," the "club of punk and techno, or a "swashbuckling left wing club." The history behind these labels begin in the late 1980s, when punks occupied houses around St. Pauli’s stadium and antiracists found out that football grounds didn't just belong to Neonazis. It continues today, in a club that has spoken out against the overcommercialization of football, or as an ally to refugees, and in a fan culture that defines and defends its antifascist ties between neighboring Bremen and faraway Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Fanladen St Pauli connects the then and now. It's a fan-run and, very uniquely, social-worker led project with deep ties of accountability and advocacy to the club, its fanculture and the public, and deep roots in the community.
Julian and Paul from the Fanladen offer the lens of activist fans and knowledgable social workers to discuss what works at FC St. Pauli, some history, but also the dangers of the internationalization and commercialization of St. Pauli’s rebellious image. This is also the first TAoF episode that dropped sociologist Benedict Anderson's name - and it wasn't me who dropped it!
HELPFUL LINKS:
Highlights, with English commentary, from GAK - Sturm (2-3) on 11/2
Fanladen/Fan Project St. Pauli, website in English
Charles Vinas and Natxo Parra, St. Pauli: Another Football is Possible (Pluto Press, 2020) - review by Jacobin Magazine
The Guardian (2018), "FC St Pauli: how it became the football team of punk and techno"
Die Sterne - Wenn Dir St. Pauli auf den Geist fällt (This music video was filmed at the Millerntor stadium, pre-renovation)
St. Pauli enters the field to AC/DC’s “Hells Bells” in the Hamburg derby
St. Pauli - goal and goal music
Nina Glick Schiller, "Long Distance Nationalism" (on Benedict Anderson’s term)
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Podcast: Unladylike (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Beauty (Pageant) Diplomacy
Pub date: 2023-11-14
What do Miss Universe, Miss World and international beauty pageants tell us about globalization and national identity, and why are pageants becoming MORE popular across the Global South? Feminist sociologist Dr. Oluwakemi Balogun embedded in Nigeria’s beauty pageant industry to find out. Kemi takes us beyond Western feminism’s tête-à-tête with pageant culture and to see what big international beauty pageants can tell us about gender, globalization, and the precarious power of being a beauty queen. Her book is Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying a Nation.
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Podcast: Conspirituality (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Brief: Neoliberal Psychedelics
Pub date: 2023-11-11
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What happens when psychedelic therapy is introduced into a society in which both the set and setting is capitalism? Derek navigates the hope and hype of psychedelics in a for-profit healthcare system with two leading researchers, Neşe Devenot, PhD and Brian Pace, PhD.
Show Notes
Beyond the psychedelic hype: Exploring the persistence of the neoliberal paradigm
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-11-07
Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be higher. It follows that grappling with Russia’s imperial history is inescapable. After all, “[s]elective, exaggerated or patently false reimaginings” of the past “have been central to Russia’s justification of its claims on its neighbor to the southwest,” write today’s guests in the introduction to his new edited volume. Picturing Russian Empire offers an rich, sweeping overview of the history of Russia from the tenth century to the present through the connections between empire and visuality. Using thought provoking images, Picturing Russian Empire presents readers with a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times in more than a millennium of history.
Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, Picturing Russian Empire consistently raises big historical questions to stimulate readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire. The authors challenge the reader to not only to see images as the creations of individuals, but as objects circulating among viewers in a variety of contexts, creating new impressions, meanings, and experiences.
Valerie A. Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Cartographies of Tsardom, Desperate Magic, and Autocracy in the Provinces.
Joan Neuberger Professor emerita of at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include: This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia (Cornell: 2019) and Hooliganism: Crime, Culture & Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914.
Sergei Kozlov is senior researcher at Tiumen State University in Siberia, Russia and a trained medievalist.
Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
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Podcast: Tank Magazine Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Faisal Devji on Palestine
Pub date: 2023-11-01
“The alignment of political actors has changed to a degree that it is now no longer possible to continue the liberal mode of Palestinian politics...”
In this week's TANK Podcast, recorded the day after Hamas launched their attack on Israel, Faisal Devji discusses the Palestine question in conjunction with wider geopolitical transformations.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
Pub date: 2023-11-03
Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.”
However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it’s been historically.
Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other.
In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss:
• Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern.
• Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy(Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian.
The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian’s perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more.
Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works.
Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism(Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation.
Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy | Matt Kennard
Pub date: 2023-11-02
Honduras is being sued for a third of its GDP by an American company—why?
Because the developing nation changed its mind about Prospera building a charter city on its territory. This case, which could bankrupt Honduras, will be judged in a back room of the World Bank by three people, none of whom are obliged to even have a law degree.
Matt Kennard, investigative journalist and author of Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, explains the origin of this shadowy legal system, and how it has infiltrated politics, skews policies, and traps developing nations into exploitative relationships with some of the world’s biggest corporations, definitively undermining the democratic process.
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Podcast: Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Representation, Public Debt, and the Ends of History (Dr Michael Sonenscher)
Pub date: 2023-11-07
What is the relationship between war and representation? Why can't we understand the French Revolution without thinking about the political management of public debt? And what does the future have to do with how we write history? These are some of the questions answered by Michael Sonenscher, Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge.
This episode's hosts: Michael Kretowicz & Charlotte Johann.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Global Food System Is a Recipe for Mass Death / George Monbiot
Pub date: 2023-11-01
George Monbiot returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent article, "The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People: The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death." Check out George's article here: https://www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/the-cruel-fantasies-of-well-fed-people/Jeff Dorchen plays the Jew card in his latest Moment of Truth.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
Episode: 1869, Ep. 140 with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State
Pub date: 2023-11-02
Learn more about the book:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766657/the-made-up-state/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/O18-V2EdVKo5Rz5eblyrDU9DTM0?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. Benjamin Hegarty is McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne and a Research Fellow at the HIV AIDS Research Center for Health Policy and Social Innovation, Atma Jaya Catholic University. He has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.We spoke to Benjamin about the complexity of transgender rights during this time of growing visibility in the United States, Indonesia, and globally, the historical relationship in Indonesia between race and gender and how they were governed through regulations on dress and appearance, and the culturally sanctioned areas of public life that Indonesian trans women have been allowed to participate in, both past and present.If you’d like to purchase Benjamin’s book, use the promo code 09POD to save 30 percent on our website which is cornellpress.cornell.edu. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.
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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The return of child labor (with Nina Mast and Jennifer Sherer)
Pub date: 2023-11-07
At a time when violations of child labor laws are on the rise nationally, state lawmakers around the country are successfully rolling back child labor protections. Jennifer Sherer and Nina Mast from the Economic Policy Institute have authored an article that insists lawmakers must act to strengthen standards, not erode the existing minimal standards designed to safeguard children from exploitation. They share insights into why weakening child labor protections could have detrimental effects on the middle class and the overall economy.
Nina Mast is an economic analyst for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) at EPI. She also worked on issue campaigns at The Hub Project and efforts to advance a progressive economic worldview at the Groundwork Collaborative.
Jennifer Sherer is the director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) State Worker Power Initiative. Her work focuses on expanding the ability of working people to achieve racial, gender, and economic justice through organizing, collective bargaining, and public policies that promote worker voice.
Twitter: @EconomicPolicy
Florida legislature proposes dangerous rollback of child labor protections https://www.epi.org/blog/florida-legislature-proposes-dangerous-roll-back-of-child-labor-protections-at-least-16-states-have-introduced-bills-putting-children-at-risk
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Imagining a new—human and nonhuman—grammar of urban life.
Pub date: 2023-11-07
“There is always some moment when other-than-human life bursts into presence amid the clamor of urban routine.” —Maan Barua, Lively Cities
One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. The book Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings, human and nonhuman, that make up the material politics of city making. From macaques and cattle in Delhi to invasive parakeet colonies in London, author Maan Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across the city. Barua is joined here in conversation with Sandra Jasper.
Maan Barua is a university lecturer in human geography at the University of Cambridge.
Sandra Jasper, a geographer and urbanist, is assistant professor of geography and gender at Humboldt University of Berlin.
References:
Matthew Gandy
Tom Fry
Garry Marvin
Vinciane Despret
Anindya Sinha
ARCH+ exhibit Cohabitation: A Manifesto for the Solidarity of Non-Humans and Humans in Urban Space (https://archplus.net/de/cohabitation-EN/)
Yi-Fu Tuan
Deleuze
Charles Elton
Marx
Laura Fortunato
Sylvia Federici
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology is available from University of Minnesota Press.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Abraham L. Newman on the Plumbing and Infrastructure of US Empire
Pub date: 2023-11-06
Abraham L. Newman is professor of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. His research focuses on the politics generated by globalization and is the co-author Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019), which was the winner of the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize, the 2020 International Studies Association ICOMM Best Book Award, and one of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2019, co-author of Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Finance and Power (Oxford University Press 2018), author of Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy (Cornell University Press 2008) and the co-editor of How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution (Stanford University Press 2006). His work has appeared in a range of journals including Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Security, Science, and World Politics.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: PROFESSOR BESHARA DOUMANI | Centuries of Social History in Palestine | Special Episode
Pub date: 2023-10-26
In conversation with Professor Beshara Doumani, the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies at Brown University. Professor Doumani gives us critical historical context for what's happening now in Palestine. Explaining why and how pre-colonial Palestinian history is relevant today, he draws a stark contrast between pre-WW1 Gaza and the besieged Gaza of the present-day.
This episode was recorded on October 24 at 20:44 Palestine time.
Please note, we are dedicating all the afikra podcast programming to special podcast episodes relevant to understanding historical context to what is happening in Palestine. Each episode will be recorded in real time and uploaded to YouTube and anywhere you get your podcasts.
About Beshara Doumani:
Beshara Doumani is the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, the first chair of its kind dedicated to this field of study. He is also the founding director (2012-2018) of Brown's Center for Middle East Studies (CMES), and founder of New Directions for Palestinian Studies, a CMES initiative since 2012. From 2012-2020 he was the Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History.
Doumani's research focuses on groups, places, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East, with a focus on the social, economic, and legal history of Eastern Mediterranean. He also writes on the topics of academic freedom, and the Palestinian condition.
His books include Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, and Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. He is currently working on the modern history of the Palestinians through the social life of stone. Doumani is the editor of a book series on Palestinian Studies published by the University of California Press, co-editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and editorial committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. From 2009-2011, Doumani led a team that produced a strategic plan for the establishment of the Palestinian Museum. In 2015, Doumani and received the Sawyer Seminar award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the proposal, Displacement and the Making of the Modern World: Histories, Ecologies, and Subjectivities.
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Podcast: Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 047 - The Great American Transit Disaster
Pub date: 2023-10-30
Professor and author Nicholas Dagen Bloom joins me to discuss his new book The Great American Transit Disaster: Austerity, Autocentric Planning, and White Flight (University of Chicago Press). You know transit is a mess in the United States but take my word for it: after reading this book you will understand how and why in a brand new way. If you think you already know the story, you don't!
Question Cathy is traveling the world, so Question Kyle and Question Jennie pinch-hit for her in a truly stellar Mailbag. Half of the Mailbag is included in this episode, and then the rest is available as bonus content on patreon, because capitalism.
Please support Mass for Shut-ins, an independent and ad-free podcast, via Patreon. Contact me via twitter (@edburmila), at least for now. I am on Bluesky at edburmila.bsky.social as well.
Thanks: Nicholas Dagen Bloom, QK & QJ, the bands that contribute music (IfIHadAHiFi, The Sump Pumps, Oscar Bait), Zachary Sielaff, Question Cathy, and all Patreon supporters, subscribers, and listeners.
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Podcast: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 121: Reagan's Evangelical Vision for America
Pub date: 2023-10-30
How did Ronald Reagan use the media to shape his evangelical vision for America, a vision rooted in political freedom, economic freedom, and religious freedom that is still with us today and continues to define the discourse of both of our political parties? In this episode we talk to Diane Winston, the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern California, about her new book Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision.
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Podcast: Bartholomewtown (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. Ana María Peredo Talks Reimagining Neoliberal Economic Structures
Pub date: 2023-10-31
Ana María Peredo is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and Full Professor of Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Ana María currently focuses on three inter-connected areas: (1) Alternative Organizations and Solidarity Economies: community-based entrepreneurship, co-operatives, community-based economies/ co-operative economies, common-property social enterprises, social justice, local currencies, small businesses networks; (2) Indigenous Economies and Decolonization: Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Indigenous social Innovation, critical entrepreneurship, impacts of development/business projects, Indigenous movements and ontologies; (3) Alternative Futures: Social movements, De-Growth-Post-Growth Movements. She welcomes opportunities to work with accomplished graduate students who have a specific focus in these areas. She joined Bill Bartholomew for a discussion ahead of her talk as part of the University of Rhode Island's Honors Colloquium ‘Not Business As Usual: Business for the Common Good’
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Podcast: Departures with Robert Amsterdam (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: What does the post-neoliberal world order look like?
Pub date: 2023-11-02
In an increasingly complex and fractured international system, the norms and expectations of how nations and markets interact is changing from one era into the next before our very eyes.
That is the main focus of inquiry for Gary Gerstle, whose new book, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era," chronicles the 50 years of primacy of neoliberal thought in American politics before crashing onto the rocks of new ideological movements with the emergence of Donald Trump-style authoritarianism and Bernie Sanders-style anti-capitalism.
In this conversation with Robert Amsterdam, Gerstle, who is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge and the winner of the "Book of the Year" by the Financial Times, explains that not everything that happens in politics can be understood in short election cycle periods, but instead we should be looking at the overall conceptions of political economy and the order these beliefs sustain.
Pointing to continuities of these orders, such as Eisenhower carrying on the New Deal system and Bill Clinton carrying forward with many core assumptions about trade inherited from Reagan, Gerstle argues we are in a moment of fragility and uncertainty, as once marginal voices in Sanders and Trump have now entered the mainstream. We are without a political order currently, and neither is democracy in a healthy state of competition, so what shall emerge next is unlikely to look similar to the past, as both left and right have lashed out against the free movement of capital, free movement of people, and both have different ideas of the role of the state in economic and social affairs.
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Podcast: The Brainy Business | Understanding the Psychology of Why People Buy | Behavioral Economics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 337. The Role of Critical Thinking in Resisting Misinformation - Sander van der Linden
Pub date: 2023-11-02
In this episode of The Brainy Business podcast, social psychologist and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, Sander van der Linden, joins host Melina Palmer to discuss the role of critical thinking and emotions in resisting misinformation. Sander's extensive research on the influence of repetition and the illusory truth effect make him a trusted authority on the subject. The conversation serves as a valuable resource for critical thinkers concerned about misinformation in today's digital landscape.
Van der Linden explains how repetition can lead people to question their own knowledge and accept false information as true, highlighting the illusory truth effect. He also discusses the conjunction fallacy and the self-sealing belief system of conspiracy theorists. The episode delves into the concept of inoculation as a strategy to combat misinformation, providing insights on how to build cognitive antibodies to resist manipulation. Overall, the conversation offers practical tips and insights for improving critical thinking skills and navigating the complex world of misinformation.
In this episode:
- Gain a deeper understanding of the pervasive impact of misinformation in today's society.
- Discover how the illusory truth effect influences belief formation and the way we perceive information.
- Explore the complexity of conspiracy theories and the conjunction fallacy, and how they can contribute to the spread of misinformation.
- Learn about the powerful strategy of inoculation as a means to combat misinformation and manipulation.
- Understand the crucial role that critical thinking and emotions play in resisting misinformation and making informed decisions.
Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Introduction, Sander is a professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He studies how people process misinformation and how to combat its spread. He shares his expertise with governments, public health authorities, and social media companies. 00:04:41 - The challenges of researching historical accounts Sander discusses the difficulties of researching historical accounts for his book. He had to navigate competing historical viewpoints and verify the accuracy of information. He shares the example of a disputed document regarding Mark Antony's will as an example of the challenges faced in historical research. 00:09:01 - Writing process and structure of the book Sander talks about his writing process and the structure of the book. He waited until he had enough data and case studies before starting. Once he had the general structure and outline, he began filling in the individual chapters. Sander emphasizes the importance of having a clear direction before starting to write. 00:12:40 - The impact of misinformation on decision-making Sander explains how misinformation can influence decision-making. He discusses the cognitive biases that help our minds accept false information. 00:15:47 - Illusory Truth Effect and Repetition, Repetition of false information can lead people to believe it, even if they have prior knowledge that contradicts it. This is known as the illusory truth effect. Examples include misattributing the ark to Moses instead of Noah, and the power of the "big lie" technique used by Hitler. 00:18:10 - Continued Influence of Misinformation, Misinformation can persist and strengthen over time, making it difficult to correct. The continued influence of misinformation is similar to how memories are connected in a social network. Once a false belief is established, it can be challenging to change it, as seen with the autism vaccination link myth. 00:19:49 - Conjunction Fallacy and Conspiracy Theories, The conjunction fallacy refers to the tendency to believe that multiple conspiracy theories are more likely to be true than a single one. People often endorse multiple conspiracy theories simultaneously, even if they are mutually exclusive. This is due to a self-sealing belief system where one theory serves as evidence for another. 00:25:46 - Visual Misinformation and Manipulated Images, Visual misinformation is prevalent and often underestimated. Manipulated images enhance fluency and make information seem more true. Examples include fake images of dolphins in the canals of Venice during the pandemic. It is challenging to correct false beliefs once they have been visualized. 00:31:28 - Introduction to Inoculation, Inoculation is about exposing people to a weakened dose of misinformation and refuting it in advance. It builds cognitive antibodies to help resist manipulation. The mind can be vaccinated against manipulation just as the body can be vaccinated against viruses. 00:32:22 - Building Resistance in the Brain, The brain needs exposure to deception and manipulation to understand their tactics and become resistant. Micro doses of misinformation help the brain develop cognitive antibodies. This research has been conducted for over a decade. 00:34:27 - Examples of Inoculation Techniques, Inoculation can be done on a single myth basis or by targeting specific tactics used in manipulation. For example, a weakened dose could be created by debunking a petition with false signatures. Inoculation helps protect people against misinformation and strengthens their perception of the scientific consensus. 00:37:48 - Scaling Inoculation, Inoculation can be scaled by targeting underlying tactics that are frequently used in a given domain or topic. Techniques like casting doubt on scientific consensus or using fear mongering can be weakened and exposed to help people resist manipulation. Short videos on platforms like YouTube can be used to reach a larger audience. 00:39:57 - Using Pop Culture as Weakened Doses, Popular culture references like Star Wars or South Park can be used as weakened doses to help people spot manipulation techniques. By using non-political examples, it becomes easier to get bipartisan agreement and educate people on logical fallacies. 00:47:31 - Tips for Spotting Misinformation, Sander recommends questioning what we see, not blindly sharing information, and not being fooled by pictures or social proof. His book, Foolproof, provides more tips and insights for spotting fake news. By applying the strategies and techniques outlined in the book, readers can become less vulnerable to misinformation. 00:48:48 - Conclusion, Melina's top insights from the conversation. What stuck with you while listening to the episode? What are you going to try? Come share it with Melina on social media -- you'll find her as @thebrainybiz everywhere and as Melina Palmer on LinkedIn.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Horror films: a chilling cultural history
Pub date: 2023-10-30
Ever since the shadow of Count Orlok crept up the staircase in 1922’s Nosferatu, and Fay Wray emitted her iconic scream in 1933’s King Kong, horror films have captivated and scandalised audiences in equal measure. Speaking to Matt Elton, Professor Roger Luckhurst explores how scary films have reflected changing social anxieties in the 20th and 21st centuries, and nominates the ten horror movies he thinks are most representative of their time.
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Podcast: The Week at Work
Episode: 151. Bernadette McAliskey on Nationalism & the Far Right
Pub date: 2023-10-31
Lifelong activist, socialist and feminist, Bernadette McAliskey, addresses the topic of Nationalism & the Far Right at An Scoil Chois Claí 2023.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Exposing UN Greenwashing | Jacob Goldberg
Pub date: 2023-10-26
“I don't think you want an organisation that is misleading the public about its achievements addressing the climate crisis, to necessarily be the one leading the global effort to do something about the climate crisis.”
The UN claims they're "climate neutral"—it couldn't be farther from the truth.
A recent investigation done by Mongabay and the New Humanitarian revealed many carbon credit projects the UN buys are linked to protest, rainforest destruction and dispossession of indigenous people. I'm joined by reporter Jacob Goldberg who investigated this story for over a year.
Shockingly, he reveals the UN performs no checks on the carbon credits they buy—and did not respond to the reporters once they raised the alarm. As he says during the episode—can we trust an institution that can’t even keep track of the harm it’s doing to really lead the world through the climate crisis?
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Podcast: The Road to Now (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #289 The Dead Bodies in Your Favorite Museum w/ Tanya Marsh
Pub date: 2023-10-30
Two things you probably don’t know: 1) your favorite museum probably holds human remains and 2) it’s completely legal to sell human bones on the internet. Not surprisingly, those two things have caused a lot of controversy. In this episode, Tanya Marsh joins Ben for a conversation about recent developments in the legal-social-political nexus of dead bodies; the controversy surrounding the acquisition and treatment of human remains in American museums and what we’ll simply call “the Harvard morgue case.”
Tanya Marsh is Professor of Law at Wake Forest University, where she specializes in the law of human remains. She is the author of The Law of Human Remains (2015) and co-author (with Daniel Gibson) of Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States (2015).
This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
Zachary Small, “Facing Scrutiny, a Museum That Holds 12,000 Human Remains Changes Course,” New York Times, Oct. 15, 2023.
Alyssa Shotwell, “Activists Took Over Museum After Victims’ Bodies of the 1985 Philadelphia Bombing Found,” The Mary Sue, Sept. 15, 2023.
Abby Patkin, ”Group indicted for allegedly stealing and selling body parts from Harvard morgue,” Boston.com, June 15, 2023.
Tanya Marsh, “Is it Illegal to Sell Human Remains,” The Conversation, June 30, 2023.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: [Databite 155] Democratizing AI: Principles for Meaningful Public Participation
Pub date: 2023-10-24
As AI presents technical and engineering innovations, the systems present fundamental risks to people, their families, and their communities. Public participation in AI will not be easy. But there are foundational lessons to apply from other domains. Author and legal scholar Michele Gilman’s latest policy brief, Democratizing AI: Principles for Meaningful Public Participation, builds on a comprehensive review of evidence from public participation efforts in anti-poverty programs and environmental policy that summarizes evidence-based recommendations for how to better structure public participation processes for AI.To discuss the policy brief, we invited Michele Gilman to be in conversation with Harini Suresh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and Richard Wingfield, Director of Technology and Human Rights at BSR. This conversation was moderated by D&S Participatory Methods Researcher, Meg Young, and D&S Policy Director, Brian Chen.
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Podcast: Books & Looks (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #42 - Colonial America Reimagined: A Journey Through Time with Brinda Charry and "The East Indian"
Pub date: 2023-10-24
Brace yourselves for a riveting conversation that bends the arc of history, as we explore Brinda Charry's groundbreaking novel, "The East Indian." Why does Tony, the first Indian immigrant in colonial America, matter today? It's a tale that navigates the convoluted terrains of marginalization, identity, and the blurred lines of servitude. With a past rooted in India and a PhD from Syracuse University, Charry brings a unique lens to the often oversimplified narratives of colonial America.
We dig into the compelling life of Tony—a young man torn between worlds, who challenges the stereotypical categories of his era. From his initial days as an apprentice to his struggle with cultural identity, this episode offers more than just a character study; it opens a door to the complex racial relationships of colonial times. We also get a glimpse into Charry's knack for marrying Shakespearean elements with historical fact, a combination that brings vibrant color to her storytelling.
Switching gears, we dive into the stark disparities in the penalties meted out to individuals based on race—a topic Charry handles deftly in her work. Ever wondered how indentured servitude and slavery were practiced side by side, but with contrasting implications for those involved? We shed light on this puzzling dichotomy. As a bonus, we also get a sneak peek into Charry's upcoming novel, set in early 1800s New England and focused on stage magicians. Get ready to stretch your understanding of history, identity, and the power of storytelling.
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Podcast: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Part Four: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country
Pub date: 2023-10-25
In the finale of this four-part episode, Margaret concludes her conversation with Mia about the 1920s Argentinian labor revolt that inspired Margaret to start this podcast in the first place.
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Podcast: Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Mystery that is Cuban History
Pub date: 2023-10-19
For over 60 years, North Americans have been kept in the dark about our neighbor Cuba. On this show Professor author Lisandro Perez talks about what his new book reveals. In The House on G Street traces generations of a family of well to do Cubans. He describes that history that hasn’t been told of the nation’s “Compromised Sovereignty.” Why are so may Cubans Republicans? Give a listen.
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Podcast: IHME Helsinki Podcast - Art, Science, Ecology
Episode: IHME Helsinki podcast: Contemporary Art, Neoliberalism and Environmental Crisis
Pub date: 2023-10-18
The collaboration between IHME Helsinki and Helsinki Open Waves continues with a podcast, in which Executive Director and Curator Paula Toppila and the Kurdish artist and musician Hiwa K discuss the connections between neoliberalism and the environmental crisis. Chicago Boys – While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming, initiated by Hiwa K in London in 2010, was IHME Helsinki Commission 2023.
In the podcast, Paula and Hiwa discuss the factors that influenced the creation of the work and its simultaneous enactment in Helsinki and Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Hiwa unpacks the impact of neoliberalism on the environmental crisis and how the 2003 Iraq war can be seen as a neoliberal project comparable to the 1973 Chilean coup d’état.
Hiwa K lives in Berlin and Sulaymaniyah, where he returned three years ago having lived in Germany for twenty years. Hiwa K’s artistic work reflects an ongoing critique of the art-education system, art practices defined as being professional, and the myth of the artist. As a result, many of his works are powerfully communal and participatory. They re-evaluate the processes underlying teaching and learning systems, and rely on ordinary life and people as the most important site for learning.
IHME Helsinki is a contemporary art commissioning agency that annually commissions a work by an international artist in public space and produces a series of events intended to give rise to vision and hope amid the environmental crisis. IHME Helsinki Commissions combine art, science and climate work. Through them and other events IHME Helsinki promotes the cultural change needed to tackle the environmental crisis.
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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: (Green) Gentrification and Touristification in Barcelona with Carlos Delclós
Pub date: 2023-10-20
Carlos Delclós is a Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He joins Alan to clarify what gentrification is and is not, what different types of gentrification there are and how they have had an effect on Spain's biggest city and tourist destination Barcelona.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Pub date: 2023-10-23
Ekow Eshun is curating an exhibition exploring the idea of Sankofa, taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present. Sarah Jilani teaches novels written by Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-2023) and Flora Nwapa (1931-1993). Sculptor Zak Ové is showing a work called The Mothership Connection as part of Frieze Sculpture display in London's Regents Park which brings together the form of a Pacific Northwest totem and a rocket with elements relating to African culture like tribal masks. They join Shahidha Bari for a conversation exploring African ideas about a better future.
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The Mothership Connection is on display in Regents Park as part of Frieze London's sculpture display and he has work on show in an exhibition opening at the Saatchi Gallery. He also in the past curated an exhibition called Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative PioneersPower to the People: Horace Ové’s Radical Vision is running at the BFI in London and Pressure, his film which was Britain’s first Black feature, has been newly restored by the BFI National Archive and is screening.Sarah Jilani teaches world literatures in English at City, University of London and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to showcase new research on radio.Ekow Eshun is a writer and curator. His most recent show In and Out of Time runs at Accra’s Gallery 157 until December 12th 2023. You can hear him discussing ideas about The Black Fantastic in a previous episode of Free Thinking.You can find a collection of episodes exploring Black History on the Free Thinking programme website and available to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Nature of Nonfiction: Robert Macfarlane
Pub date: 2023-10-25
Robert Macfarlane says his writing is about the relationship between the landscape and the human heart. He's a modern-day re-interpreter of the sublime — whether he's writing about following ancient foot trails or descending into the mysterious world beneath the Earth's surface. He spoke at a special event at the Royal Ontario Museum, where he accepted the inaugural Weston International Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to recognize excellence in nonfiction.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times
Pub date: 2023-10-21
Professors Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven are authors of a book calledThe Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity(Bloomsbury, 2014). Their book examines how social movements imagine (and build) radical new futures. Additionally, the book critically intervenes in broader social movement theory, and suggests new approaches for scholar-activists.
As part of a recent episode of Darts and Letters, “Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination,” we spoke to Alex and Max about how these ideas help us make sense of autonomous and anarchist-styled movement building. However, we had a much broader conversation about the book, its legacy, and how we should understand it today. That longer conversation is here.
We cover: the history of social movement theory, how it (mis)understands prefigurative politics, and how to make sense of the burgeoning far right. In a time where reactionary movements offer radical visions – space colonization, transhumanist enhancement, life extension, and more – how are we to make sense of the radical imagination? Do they have a kind of new reactionary radical imagination, or is it more of the same? We discuss.
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Podcast: Fixing the Future (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Your Life As A Digital Ghost
Pub date: 2023-10-18
Wendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and author of the just released book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. An excerpt from the book regarding the emerging prospect of digitally reanimating the departed is available on IEEE Spectrum's website. In this episode of Fixing The Future, Wong talks with senior editor Eliza Strickland about how the increasing datification of our lives could make this prospect possible—with or without our consent.
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Podcast: Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Money, status, power, and sex in nightclubs around the world (with Ashley Mears)
Pub date: 2023-10-18
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What interesting social phenomena can be observed at nightclubs? What are "whales" hoping to achieve by spending big at nightclubs? Trying too obviously to increase social status tends to backfire; so how can people buy status without appearing to do so? What do "promoters" gain from these social interactions? How does their work differ from or overlap with sex work? How can they make money without being seen as "gold-diggers"? What ethnicities tend to comprise these nightclub groups? How do wealthy people attempt to navigate the norms of the various elite substrata which expect them both to put their wealth on display and to do so without being ostentatious or gaudy?
Ashley Mears is a professor of sociology and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Boston University, and she's the co-founder of the Ethnographic Cafe and BU's Precarity Lab. She received her BA in sociology from the University of Georgia in 2002 and her PhD in sociology at New York University in 2009. Working primarily at the intersections of economic and cultural sociology and gender, she studies how societies value people and things; she researches value and exchange in the context of labor, beauty, free stuff, elites, consumption, and social media; and she has written on theory and qualitative methods. She has held visiting positions at the University of Amsterdam and the Central European University in Budapest. In 2021-2022, she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest. She currently serves on the editorial boards of American Sociological Review and Qualitative Sociology. Learn more about her at her website, ashleymears.com.
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- Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
- " The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief "
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Podcast: Cities 1.5 (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Is Ecological Economics the Answer?
Pub date: 2023-10-17
The traditional economic concepts that the Global North has been using since WWII assume that there is an infinite planet and that pollution has no economic consequences - assumptions that are wildly wrong. In contrast, ecological economics is a model designed to respect the fact that our economy exists on a finite planet and puts more emphasis on the quality of economic activity than its quantity. But a shift in mindset of this magnitude to embrace this new way of thinking requires guidance and a proper roadmap if it’s to be successfully integrated into urban policies. This episode sees Cities 1.5 looking to translate the theoretical into the practical by speaking to one of the world’s leading ecological economists, Tim Jackson, for a stand alone interview to help demonstrate what cities can do to deliver shared prosperity - not just an unsustainable goal of infinite growth.
Featured guests:Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity - a multi-disciplinary, international research consortium that aims to explore the economic, social, and political dimensions of sustainable prosperity. He is an award-winning economist and published author of several books, including his latest: Post Growth: Life After Capitalism.
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Post Growth: Life After Capitalismby Tim Jackson (Polity Press, 2021)
“Prosperity Beyond Growth: An Emerging Agenda for European Cities,” by Ben Rogers et al., Journal of City Climate Policy and EconomyProsperity without growth? The transition to a sustainable economy report by Professor Tim Jackson,Economics Commissioner, Sustainable Development Commission
Prosperity without Growth (book) by Tim Jackson
Transition Network website
Beyond GDP: A proposed new economic framework: Vancouver - C40 Knowledge Hub
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Crypto and The Silicon Valley Scam Economy / Hadas Thier
Pub date: 2023-10-12
Hadas Thier returns to talk about her Jacobin article, "The Rot of the Crypto Economy Goes Deeper Than Sam Bankman-Fried." Check out the article here: https://jacobin.com/2023/08/crypto-economy-sam-bankman-fried-bitcoin-ftx-scamAfter the interview, Jeff Dorchen returns with a new Moment of TruthHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict
Pub date: 2023-10-12
Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlantic festival, rattled off a list of positive developments in the Middle East which he argued had allowed the Biden administration to focus on issues elsewhere in the world. Referencing the truce in Yemen, a decline in hostility in the US's relationship with Iran and what he characterised as America's stable presence in Iraq - where around 2,500 US soldiers remain - he commented that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”On Saturday Sullivan's comments came back to haunt him as Hamas carried out an unprecedentedly large scale breakout from the Gaza strip and launched attacks on the Israeli military and Israeli civilians that have claimed over 1200 lives at the time of recording. Deaths on the Palestinian side from Israel's predictable assault on Gaza are heading towards parity, and undoubtedly those numbers will escalate dramatically as Israel continues its air campaign and prepares to launch a ground assault. The following interview with Richard Seymour was recorded earlier today - the 11th of October - and before it became apparent that a national unity government would be formed in Israel.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Interconnected Grid | Nafeez Ahmed
Pub date: 2023-10-12
“All of those sectors are rapidly changing and the incumbent industries in those sectors are going to collapse. This is being driven by economic dynamics. It's going to happen.”
What if the only viable future is a better one?
Whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: tomorrow’s world will not look like today’s. We could see fossil-fascism in which nations hoard their fossil reserves (coal and gas) for accelerated use at the expense of international collaboration. We could see eco-fascism after an unplanned recession which crashes the financial system and slashes demand. We could see a descent into madness in which we run out of fuel to heat, to eat, to survive.
We could also see degrowth, eco-socialism, renewable sharing and governance reimagined to meet human rights. No, this isn’t utopia—it’s laid out in the policy plans of many scholars around the world as one of the only paths to navigating the planetary crisis.
Systems theorist Nafeez Ahmed joins me to discuss the interconnected grid—a piece of renewable infrastructure which, by its design, would change our economic system, our geopolitics and our relationship with one another. Nafeez debated Simon Michaux a few months ago, and I highly recommend listening to these episodes as a trio: Nafeez, Simon, the debate.
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Podcast: The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Vermont embraced eugenics in the 20th century
Pub date: 2023-10-11
Several decades before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took the notion of "purifying" society to genocidal extremes in the Holocaust, the ideas behind it were enthusiastically embraced in Vermont.
Eugenics is the pseudoscience that humans can be improved through selective breeding. Many American states, including Vermont, used eugenics as the basis for public policies including family separation, institutionalization and sterilization. By 1936, over half of states practiced eugenical sterilization. In the 1920s and ’30s, vulnerable Vermonters were targeted, institutionalized and otherwise separated from their families, and many were sterilized.
Eugenics policies were “designed to break apart entire families and to basically get rid of them over several generations, whether that be segregating them in an institution, whether that be sterilizing them, whether that be inflicting so much trauma that the family no longer comes together,” said Mercedes de Guardiola, author of a new book published by the Vermont Historical Society, “Vermont for the Vermonters: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State.” De Guardiola originally wrote the book as an undergraduate thesis at Dartmouth College, where she graduated in 2017 with a degree in history and art history.
In 2021, the state of Vermont became one of the few states to formally apologize for the practice. De Guardiola testified about the eugenics movement before the Vermont Legislature in 2021.
The University of Vermont apologized in 2019 for its role in the eugenics movement and removed the name of former UVM President Guy Bailey from its library for his role in promoting eugenics.
Vermont’s eugenics program became national news earlier this year when former Gov. Jim Douglas sued Middlebury College, his alma mater, for changing the name of Mead Memorial Chapel, which was named for John Abner Mead, Vermont’s governor from 1910 to 1912. The college removed Mead’s name in 2021, citing his “central role in advancing eugenics policies that resulted in harm to hundreds of Vermonters.”
“In the cases of these unfortunates there is little or no hope of permanent recovery,” Mead said in his farewell speech in 1912. “And the great question that is now being considered by the lawmakers in many of our states is how best to restrain this defective class and how best to restrict the propagation of defective children.”
Douglas insisted that Mead was a victim of “cancel culture.”
De Guardiola said that Mead’s role is emblematic of “participation at the highest level of government across several decades and a number of state officials, as well as private citizens (who) also (threw) their support in for eugenics.”
De Guardiola declined to weigh in on whether Mead’s name should be removed from the Middlebury chapel, saying simply, “His words speak for themselves.”
“It's important to consider what their words were and what they resulted in,” de Guardiola said, adding that eugenics laws led to family separation and sterilization.
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Podcast: The Antifada (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: ARMED LOVE 8 - The subversive 70s w/ Michael Hardt
Pub date: 2023-10-18
Recording of a discussion last Saturday with Michael Hardt at Woodbine for a discussion of his new book The Subversive Seventies and our contemporary autonomist experiments in Queens, Atlanta, and elsewhere.
Michael Hardt is a philosopher and political theorist whose work focuses on autonomist social movements since the 1960s. In his books co-authored with Antonio Negri - Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth - Hardt theorized the changes in capitalism and struggle taking place at the turn of the 21st century. The frameworks Hardt and Negri developed together were among the most popular and influential political theories influencing the activism of the last 25 years, helping define the movement contexts that birthed spaces like Woodbine.
In his new book, The Subversive Seventies, Hardt focuses on dozens of movement predecessors, including Black autoworkers and militants in the US, intersectional radical feminists, gay liberation revolutionaries, the Italian autonomists, and antinuclear activists. While the radicalism of the 70s is often understood as responding to the defeat of the spirit of '68, Hardt argues that these movements, by pursuing their own agendas without claiming supremacy over other struggles, developed a model of contemporary intersectionality that solidified as an antithetical pole to neoliberal globalization.
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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Branding Diseases: Ray Moynihan on How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions
Pub date: 2023-10-18
Ray Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. He is also an academic at Bond University and a documentary filmmaker. Moynihan's research and writing focus on the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on how diseases are created, branded, and marketed to unsuspecting people.
He is known for his use of sharp humor, which can be seen in his mock documentary about a fictional illness called 'Motivational Deficiency Disorder.' He is also a founding member of the international conference Preventing Overdiagnosis and hosts the podcast The Recommended Dose.
Today, we will be discussing something that the speaker refers to as "an assault on being human" - the labeling of everyday life struggles as disorders and how patient advocacy groups, doctors, medical journalists, and respected academics are often manipulated by a powerful, corporatized healthcare system.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E118 - The Realists Were Right w/ Lily Lynch
Pub date: 2023-10-17
Danny and Derek sit down with journalist Lily Lynch to discuss her article for The New Statesman, “The Realists Were Right”, which assesses the state of the Ukraine War 18 months into the conflict. They discuss the shifting perspectives of the war within Ukraine, what exactly happened with the much-hyped Spring counteroffensive, the future of U.S. support, the response to Lily’s piece, the role of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on the international stage, what role the war might play in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and more.
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Podcast: La radio tiene ojos (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: La radio tiene ojos - Jonathan Hernández. Andando, dislocados y fuera de lugar - 08/10/23
Pub date: 2023-10-08
El trabajo del artista mexicano Jonathan Hernández, contiene el juego y la mirada necesaria para detectar esas imágenes que, en la inmensa producción mediática en la que vivimos, contengan esos momentos o situaciones que funcionen como un espejo. Una mirada aguda que nos invita a cuestionar la realidad. Collages y otros formatos donde Hernández registra un presente veloz que lleva dentro su pasado y su futuro. Así, este título, "Andando, dislocados y fuera de lugar" es exacto para definir este nuevo trabajo que presenta en la Galería Caja Negra de Madrid.
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Podcast: The Dissenter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: #845 Branko Milanović - Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
Pub date: 2023-10-09
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Dr. Branko Milanović is Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center and a senior fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at The City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Milanović’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, as well as historically, among pre-industrial societies (Roman Empire, Byzantium, and France before the Revolution), and even inequality in soccer. His latest book is Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War.
In this episode, we focus on Visions of Inequality. We start by talking about how long people have been thinking about economic inequality, and the elements of the best income distribution studies. We then go through the work of authors like François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets, and how there was a natural progression across them. We discuss how and why studies of income distribution went into retreat during the Cold War era; the rise of neoliberalism and its consequences; and what led to the revival of economic studies. We also talk about a recent expansion in our understanding of the dynamics of inequality, with race and gender inequality. Finally, we discuss Dr. Milanović’s goals with this book.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: If We Burn w/ Vincent Bevins
Pub date: 2023-10-09
Featuring Vincent Bevins on If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. The first of a two-part interview on this important new book.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Cities and the Big Business of Higher Education
Pub date: 2023-10-09
Universities are one of the most hallowed institutions in our society — but critics argue they’re closer to hedge funds that conduct classes. Higher education is largely tax-exempt, based on the idea that universities benefit the public at large, including the communities where they are located. Yet urbanist and historian Davarian Baldwin argues that cities pay a very high price for universities which, whether public or private, are engines of profit, encroaching on adjacent communities and exploiting low wage labor, while grossly subsidized by their host cities. (Encore presentation.)
Resources:
Davarian L. Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities Bold Type Books, 2021
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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Theories of Political Ecology with Max Ajl
Pub date: 2023-10-06
In this episode Max Ajl returns to the podcast.
Max Ajl is an educator and a researcher and the author of A People’s Green New Deal, which we highly recommend and had a previous discussion of back in 2021. He is also the associate editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.
We caught up with Max back in early August to talk about one of his recent pieces, from Agrarian South. The article is entitled “Theories of Political Ecology: Monopoly Capital Against People and the Planet.”
It’s a very interesting article that covers a range of ostensibly left-wing approaches to ecology and the ecological crisis through a critical lens. Recording this conversation in the middle of summer there were a number of events and conversations we reference that folks will recall. This will be a two-part release.
In this first portion we talk about the theory of ecologically unequal exchange, wheat and cereal grains as weapons of imperialism, bananas and fresh fruits in the first world, and get into some of Alj’s critiques of different strains of political ecology. In particular in this episode Max talks about Andreas Malm’s formulation of “Fossil Capitalism,” and also critically engages with the frameworks of eco-modernism and extractivism.
Ajl challenges the euro-centric variants of Marxism that dominate much of the first-world Marxist engagement with ecological questions, raising the importance of bringing anti-imperialist analysis, a world-system level understanding of capitalism and solidarity with national liberation movements into the theory and practice of ecological movements.
We will link the article we discuss in the show notes as well as some of the articles that Max mentions in the discussion.
In part two of this conversation which will come out in a few days, we will talk a little more about eco-modernism and get into degrowth as well.
This is our first episode of the month of October, we thankfully hit our goal of new patrons for the last month. And have set a goal once again to add 40 new patrons this month to keep up with nonrenewals and hopefully slowly increase our base of support for the show. Thanks to everyone who contributes. You can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism
Links/Citations:
“Theories of Political Ecology: Monopoly Capital Against People and the Planet.” by Max Ajl (the subject of the episode)
Patrick Higgins articles referenced
Charlotte Kates article referenced
Archana Prasad mentioned
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Podcast: Across from Jericho: An Activist History Podcast
Episode: Radicalized in Rochester
Pub date: 2023-01-25
After four anarchists are executed in Chicago for a crime they didn't do, Emma Goldman decides to make their cause her own
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Podcast: RiVAL Radio
Episode: Portrait of the Author as Amazon Worker - Heike Geissler on work and writing (WSS011)
Pub date: 2023-10-11
Heike Geissler is a prominent German novelist and writer who lives and works in Leipzig, once a major city in communist former "East Germany." Today, it is a major logistics hub for Amazon and site of the "reunified" country's first strike against the American corporation in 2013.In her 2014 memoir Saisonarbeit (published in English in 2018 as Seasonal Associate), Geissler meditates on the months she spent working at an Amazon fulfillment centre in 2010 and what it tells us about work under capitalism today. https://www.heikegeissler.de/ https://spectorbooks.com/de/buch/saisonarbeit https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635900439/seasonal-associate/The Workers' Speculative Society is a research podcast about the world Amazon is building and the workers, writers and communities that are demanding a different future. It is part of the Worker as Futurist Project, which supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction about "The World After Amazon. It is hosted by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola, and Graeme Webb and is an initiative of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, with support from the Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editing and theme music by Robert Steenkamer. soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/the-workers-speculative workersspeculativesociety.org reimaginingvalue.ca
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-10-11
Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles. Tangier and Algiers attracted Black American and Caribbean artists eager to escape American white supremacy; Tunis hosted African filmmakers for the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage; and young freedom fighters from across the African continent established military training camps in Morocco. North Africa became a haven for militant-artists, and the region reshaped postcolonial cultural discourse through the 1960s and 1970s.
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik's book Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future (Stanford UP, 2023) dives into the personal and political lives of these militant-artists, who collectively challenged the neo-colonialist structures and the authoritarianism of African states. Drawing on Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English sources, as well as interviews with the artists themselves, Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik expands our understanding of Pan-Africanism geographically, linguistically, and temporally. This network of militant-artists departed from the racial solidarity extolled by many of their nationalist forefathers, instead following in the footsteps of their intellectual mentor, Frantz Fanon. They argued for the creation of a new ideology of continued revolution—one that was transnational, trans-racial, and in defiance of the emerging nation-states. Maghreb Noir establishes the importance of North Africa in nurturing these global connections—and uncovers a lost history of grassroots collaboration among militant-artists from across the globe.
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik is Assistant Professor of History at Suffolk University.
Tugrul Mende holds an M.A in Arabic Studies. He is based in Berlin as a project coordinator and independent researcher.
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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers (with Elizabeth Anderson)
Pub date: 2023-10-10
The majority of U.S. workers aren’t compensated anywhere near the value that they actually create for society, while the few who make the most money often work the least and contribute very little. Decades of neoliberal thinking has twisted one of the foundational American beliefs—the idea that hard work eventually reaps great rewards—into a celebration of greed and a dismissal of those of us who work the hardest. Returning guest Elizabeth Anderson explains how we can reclaim the American work ethic in order to once again center workers as the true heroes of the American economy.
Professor Elizabeth Anderson specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. She is the author of several books including Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and, most recently, Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back.
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hijacked/E7E4A7D850C1E7289BA7AAF910455136#fndtn-information
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Podcast: Nightlife (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Eating the Earth - Fossil Fuelled Capitalism
Pub date: 2023-10-10
Fossil-fuelled capitalism has drastically altered our lives over the past two centuries, but have we been living under a planetary pyramid scheme?
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Podcast: Novara Media (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Downstream: Europe Is Over w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Pub date: 2023-10-09
In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are expanding their control over the planet. His analysis is that, whilst material resources certainly matter, the real battle ground is over digital real estate. Aaron sat down with Yanis to talk about how […]
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Podcast: Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Mihnea Tanasescu on the Need for 'Ecocene Politics'
Pub date: 2023-10-01
The best term for this era of geological history is not the Anthropocene, says Mihnea Tănăsescu, a research professor at the University of Mons in Belgium, but the Ecocene. "The increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life” requires us to shed our anthropocentric notions, and recognize our deep, entangled relationships with nature and other living beings. In this interview, Tănăsescu talks about his book 'Ecocene Politics' and explains what it means to unlearn the modern mindset and cultivate a relational ethics of reciprocity, cooperation, and care for living beings. We must learn to renovate our legacy forms of political economy and culture, and develop the infrastructures and practices to support mutualism. More on the commons at Bollier.org.
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Podcast: THE ONE'S CHANGING THE WORLD -PODCAST
Episode: UNVEILING INEQUALITIES ON DATA, TECH & SOCIAL JUSTICE -ALEX HANNA: DISTRIBUTED AI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Pub date: 2023-10-02
artificialintelligence #decentralization #aiforgood Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada.Dr. Hanna has published widely in top-tier venues across the social sciences, including the journals Mobilization, American Behavioral Scientist, and Big Data & Society, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW, FAccT, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna serves as a co-chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice, as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the Scholars Council for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. FastCompany included Dr. Hanna as part of their 2021 Queer 50, and she has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences New Science exhibit, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology from Purdue University, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-hanna-ph-dhttps://alex-hanna.com/https://twitter.com/alexhannahttps://www.dair-institute.org/
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Podcast: TogetherPDX Podcast
Episode: Gospel Gathering Bonus: Dr. Felicia Wu Song on Discipleship in a Digital Age, Q&A
Pub date: 2023-10-02
Bonus Content: Q&A time with Dr. Song from the pastors and leaders in the audience during the September 2023 Gospel Gathering.
Dr. Felicia Wu Song is a cultural sociologist who studies the place of digital technologies in contemporary life. Her research is oriented around the rapidly evolving digital technology industry and how the adoption of social media and digital devices fundamentally alters the landscapes of family, community, and organizational life.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Pub date: 2023-09-29
Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, boba or tapioca milk tea is a popular drink in Asia. Wherever there is Asian diaspora, such as in the USA, one can find bubble tea as well. Bubble tea is becoming increasingly visible even in European countries where there are relatively smaller Asian communities compared with the situation in the USA. One can find various versions of bubble tea in urban areas such as Helsinki, Vienna, and London.
In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen (University of Helsinki) talks to Stella Zhang about her doctoral research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Stella is interested in the globalisation of food, East-Asian migration and youth culture. Her work investigates how Asia-originated bubble tea, and the wider culture surrounding it, is developing in greater Helsinki, why is it taking off, which sorts of people are involved, how bubble tea is altered – practically and symbolically – as it is made to work in the Helsinki context, and what the implications may be for wider Finnish cultural life.
Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies’ website, Youtube, and her personal Twitter.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Land War w/ Jo Guldi
Pub date: 2023-09-29
Featuring Jo Guldi on the global history of the long land war—a war over everything from agrarian reform to tenant rights, from India and China to England and Ireland, from the late 19th century through the present—and into the future.
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
Pub date: 2023-09-29
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.We hear about the sinking of a migrant boat off Lampedusa in 2013 which was one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks. Also, we find out about Wally Hendrickson, the US physicist who volunteered to be dropped into the front line of the Vietnam War to remove fuel rods from a reactor.Plus, the opening of the world's first cat cafe in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998.
Contributors:Amnasager Araya who survived the Lampedusa tragedy after being rescued by Vito Fiorino.Annalisa Camilli, correspondent for Internazionale magazine. Wally Hendrickson who removed the fuel rods from the reactor in Vietnam. André Turcat, the French pilot of Concorde’s maiden flight. The star of the telenovela, Kassandra, Coraima Torres, and Tony Paez who distributed the show. Tracy Chang, founder of the first cat cafe in Taiwan.
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Podcast: The New Statesman Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who really controls Britain's right wing?
Pub date: 2023-09-28
The Conservatives have been in power for more than 13 years under five different prime ministers. We have experienced Cameroon austerity, Mayite statism, Johnsonite populism, and Trussite libertarianism. But who now wields the greatest influence among the Tories and on the British right?
George Eaton, senior editor, joins the podcast to discuss the publication of the New Statesman's inaugural Right Power List – a guide to the 50 most influential people in conservative politics.
This podcast is hosted by Anoosh Chakelilan, Britain editor at the New Statesman.
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: The New American War Film
Pub date: 2023-09-28
Unfolding amid an atmosphere of profound anxiety and disillusionment, the new American war film demonstrates a breakdown of the prevailing cultural narratives that had come to characterize conflict in the previous century. In the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic frameworks that surround it have been dramatically reshaped.
The New American War Filmcharts society’s shifting attitudes toward violent conflict and what is broadly considered to be its acceptable repercussions. Drawing attention to changes in gender dynamics and the focus on war’s lasting psychological effects within films such as The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Eye in the Sky, American Sniper, and others, author Robert Burgoyne analyzes how cinema both reflects and reveals the makeup of the national imaginary.
Robert Burgoyne taught film studies for several decades at Wayne State University and at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is author of seven books including The New American War Film and Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History.
Kim Nelson is the Director of the Humanities Research Group and an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Canada. Her films have been screened internationally at film festivals and by broadcasters in Canada and the US. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Imageand author of Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film.
FILM REFERENCES:
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Spanish–American War films of Thomas Edison’s 1898-99 series
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Restrepo (2010)
American Sniper (2014)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
A Private War (2018)
Platoon (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
DOCUMENTARY REFERENCES:
Restrepo (2010 film)
Infidel (2010 photo series)
Into the Korengal (2010 photo series)
Sleeping Soldiers—single screen (2009 short video, Tim Hetherington)
OTHER REFERENCES:
Fredric Jameson
Homer/The Iliad
Thomas Elsaesser on “productive pathology”
-Robert Burgoyne's The New American War Film and Film Nation are available from University of Minnesota Press.
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Podcast: The Roundtable by the Second Cold War Observatory
Episode: Africa and the Second Cold War: Infrastructure, corridors, and critical minerals with Dr. Tim Zajontz
Pub date: 2023-10-02
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Tim Zajontz to discuss growing geopolitical and geoeconomic competition across infrastructure, economic corridors, and resource extraction in Africa, specifically Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Dr. Zajontz is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research focuses on Africa’s international relations and political economy, particularly Africa-China and Africa-EU relations. Before joining academia, Tim worked in several advisory positions in German and EU politics. He is also the co-founder of a German not-for-profit that collaborates with partners in the social and health sectors in Uganda. Tim currently researches geopolitical developments on the African continent and the political economy of competing connectivity initiatives in Africa and has co-edited a book on Africa’s Railway Renaissance, which was recently published.
Recommended Resources:
- Zajontz, T. 2023. The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa Capital, State Agency, Debt.
- Zajontz, T, Pádraig Carmody, Mandira Bagwandeen, Anthony Leysens (editors). 2024. Africa’s Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China.
- Zajontz, T. 2022. ‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’. The Journal of Modern African Studies.
- Zajontz, T. 2022. Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency. Review of African Political Economy.
- Zajontz, T. 2022. Seamless imaginaries, territorialized realities: the regional politics of corridor governance in Southern Africa. Territory, Politics, Governance.
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Podcast: Uncommon Sense (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: BONUS EPISODE – Public Sociology, with Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis, Cecilia Menjívar & Michaela Benson
Pub date: 2023-09-29
What is public sociology and why does it matter more than ever? Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis and Cecilia Menjívar join Michaela Benson to reflect on its meaning, value and stakes.
In a time of perpetual crisis and gross inequality, how can sociologists best change minds and set agendas? Why are some voices valued over others? And who does being truly “public” involve more than simply being high profile?
Gary Younge reflects on what sociologists and journalists can teach each other – and the ongoing struggle in the UK for space in which work on race can be truly incubated and explored. Cecilia Menjívar describes her deep engagement with migration and gender-based violence – and how in Latin America, “public sociology” is simply “sociology”. And Chantelle Lewis describes the lack of value applied to black scholarship in UK academia – and urges us to embrace hope, honesty and solidarity.
An essential listening! Discussing thinkers ranging from E.H. Carr on history to Maria Marcela Lagarde on feminicide, plus Stuart Hall, Hazel Carby, bell hooks, Sheila Rowbotham and many more.
Guests: Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis, Cecilia Menjívar
Host: Michaela Benson
Executive Producer: Alice Bloch
Sound Engineer: David Crackles
Music: Joe Gardner
Artwork: Erin Aniker
Find more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.
Episode Resources
From The Sociological Review
- Strategies of public intellectual engagement – Mohamed Amine Brahimi, et al.
- An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism – Karim Murji
- Curating Sociology – Nirmal Puwar, Sanjay Sharma
By our guests
- Gary’s books Dispatches from the Diaspora & Another Day in the Death of America
- Chantelle’s co-produced podcast Surviving Society
- Cecilia’s work on migration and gender-based violence
Further reading
- “Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye” – Gary Younge
- “Women's Liberation & the New Politics” – Sheila Rowbotham
- “For Public Sociology” – Michael Burawoy
- “What is History?” – E.H. Carr
- “Beyond the blade” – investigation by The Guardian
Read more about the work of Hazel Carby, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall and bell hooks, the life and work of Marcela Lagarde and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the work of Jane Addams on public housing, as well as the poet, essayist and activist June Jordan.
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Podcast: Novara Media (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Novara FM: The Other Enlightenment w/ Kenan Malik
Pub date: 2023-09-28
For the second episode of our series on class, writer and broadcaster Kenan Malik takes us through three centuries of thought to explain the origins of identity politics. It all starts with Haitian Revolution and its contribution to the radical Enlightenment – a movement that sought to overcome the racism inherent in the other, liberal […]
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Podcast: Everyday Anarchism (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 100. The Pacific Edge (Three Californias) -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Pub date: 2023-09-27
In just over two years, Everyday Anarchism hits 100 episodes!
Kim Stanley Robinson returns to discuss The Pacific Edge, the third volume of his Three Californias triptych. We discuss how the beautiful ecosocialist utopia in The Pacific Edge keeps all of the mundanity, tedium, and tragedy of life, just without the horrors of neoliberal capitalism. Stan also explains why he's unsatisfied with the book - and how that led him to writing his Mars trilogy, which we'll discuss in depth in 2024!
This series of episodes is dedicated to Dr. Robert Corbin: teacher, mentor, friend, and, above all, rebel with a cause.
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Podcast: The Belt and Road Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How China is Reshaping International Technical Standards with Tim Rühlig
Pub date: 2023-09-27
Juliet, Erik, and guest Tim Ruhlig discuss technical standards, China’s growth in technical industries and its increasing influence in leading and setting standards, and the new geopolitics of technical standardization and interdependence.
Tim Ruhlig is a senior fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, where he researches Europe-China relations, German-China relations, Hong Kong politics, and Chinese foreign industrial policy, He is the founder of the Digital Power China (DPC) Research Consortium, which brings together European engineers and Chinese scholars to carry out policy-relevant research on the PRC’s growing digital technology footprint and its implications for Europe.
Recommendations:
Tim:
- The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century, Jonathan Hillman (2020)
- U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis? Bonnie Glaser, Ryan Hass, Richard Bush (2023)
- Film: “To Life” Zhang Yi Mou (1994)
- Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, Evan Osnos (2021)
Erik:
- "Barbie Heimer"—Barbie (2023) and Oppenheimer (2023) movies on the same day (recommendation is Barbie is the better movie)
Juliet:
- “Even China Isn’t Convinced It Can Replace the U.S.” Jessia Chen Weiss (2023)
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Podcast: Making Contact (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Shadow of Nuclear Colonialism
Pub date: 2023-09-20
The film Oppenheimer has reignited public interest in the Manhattan Project, the WWII-era secret program to develop the atomic bomb. But the movie leaves out important parts of the story. On today's show, we hear about the impact of nuclear colonialism and the Manhattan Project on the people and places of New Mexico with Myrriah Gómez, author of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos. And then we dig into how nuclear testing during the Cold War led to dangerous and lasting contamination in the Marshall Islands and San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
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Featuring:
Myrriah Gómez, associate professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico and author of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos
Making Contact Team:
- Host: Lucy Kang
- Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang
- Executive Director: Jina Chung
- Interim Senior Producer: Jessica Partnow
- Digital Marketing Manager: Taylor Rapalyea
- Engineer: Jeff Emtman
Music Credit: "Documentary Piano Ambient" by Bohdan Kuzmin via Pixabay The story from the second half of today’s episode was created and reported by Rebecca Bowe. It was originally commissioned and produced by the nonprofit news organization San Francisco Public Press as part of an upcoming audio and text series called “Exposed,” with editing by Michael Stoll; archival, audio and photographic research by Chris Roberts and Stacey Carter; engineering and sound design by Mel Baker; fact-checking by Ambika Kandasamy and support from the Fund for Environmental Journalism and the California Endowment. Today’s excerpted version, from the “Sandblasted at the Shipyard” audio series, had additional audio engineering and sound design by Jacob Nasim, with support from the Breathe Network for Racial, Environmental and Climate Justice.
Learn More:
- Making Contact homepage
- Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos
- San Francisco Public Press
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Terms of Exchange: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian Merkel
Pub date: 2023-09-25
In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian Merkel, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, about his first book, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).
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Podcast: Why Theory (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Surplus Enjoyment
Pub date: 2023-09-16
Ryan and Todd explore the idea of surplus enjoyment as the basis for a theory of capitalism. They consider the psychic hold that capitalism has in terms of the surplus enjoyment that it both promises and provides.
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Podcast: A is for Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Mónica Montserrat Degen and Gillian Rose: The New Urban Aesthetic.
Pub date: 2023-09-27
In A is for Architecture’s third episode of the series, Monica Degen and Gillian Rose speak about their 2022 book, The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change. The book ‘explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' [generating] ‘sensory bodily experiences [which] this book terms the new urban aesthetic.’ Documenting this shift through global examples, the book helps us understand the how and why of the experience of contemporary urban space. Gillian is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford, and Monica is Professor in Urban Cultural Sociology at Brunel University London. Gillian can be found on X, Monica is also on X and LinkedIn, as well as on the Timescapes of Urban Change website, where you can see her speak about other interests and research. The New Urban Aesthetic is on the Bloomsbury website, where you can – probably should – buy it.Listen, learn, share, go on now.Available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts and Amazon Music. Thanks for listening.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Music credits: Bruno Gillick+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +aisforarchitecture.orgApple: podcasts.apple.comSpotify: open.spotify.comGoogle: podcasts.google.comAmazon: music.amazon.co.uk
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Crypto Capitalism w/ Ramaa Vasudevan
Pub date: 2023-09-21
For its boosters, crypto finance is a modern-day version of the California gold rush, with fortunes to be made. And it seems to have attracted as many crooks and fraudsters as the original Wild West.
Ramaa Vasudevan, professor of economics at Colorado State University and the author of Things Fall Apart: From the Crash of 2008 to the Great Slump, discusses the world of crypto from its beginnings as a "libertarian pipe dream" to the volatile situation today.
Read her piece for Catalyst, "Silicon Valley Bank and Financial Turmoil," here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2023/06/silicon-valley-bank-and-financial-turmoil
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Chatter: Secret Intelligence and the British Royal Family with Rory Cormac
Pub date: 2023-09-21
The British royal family and UK intelligence operations have been linked since Queen Victoria's time, involving everything from personal protection to matters of international intrigue to concerns about blackmail. Professor and author Rory Cormac, who has conducted extensive research on the British intelligence services, has recently added to his corpus of writings in the field with a book about the modern royal-intelligence intersection: Crown, Cloak, and Dagger, co-authored with Richard Aldrich.
David Priess and Rory discussed the difference in US and UK education about the royal family; intelligence foundations during the reign of the first Elizabeth; why it fell apart under her successor; the seeds of modern intelligence under Victoria; the involvement of UK intelligence officers in the death of Grigori Rasputin; the challenges and advances involving intelligence and Edward VII, George V, and Edward VIII; the contributions of George VI to the Allies' massive D-Day deception operations; Elizabeth II's reading of intelligence reports; Soviet spy Anthony Blunt's close relationship with the royal family; Elizabeth's role as a diplomatic "helper;" the exposures of Charles III and Prince Willliam to intelligence; why Clement Attlee was an underappreciated prime minister; and more.
Among the works mentioned in this episode:
The book Crown, Cloak, and Dagger by Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac
The book How To Stage a Coup by Rory Cormac
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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Naveeda Khan, "In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-09-26
Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South(Fordham UP, 2023)offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement, anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it.
With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action, loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we understand the Global South’s pursuit of loss and damage not only as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure that future.
Deeply insightful and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it (for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique it—with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable alternatives.
In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.
Naveeda Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She sits on the board of the JHU Center for Islamic Studies, and serves as affiliate faculty for the JHU Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science and Studies. She is the author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan(Duke, 2012) andRiver Life and the Upspring of Nature (Duke, 2023) and editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan (Routledge, 2010).
Alize Arıcan is a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CUNY—City College, focusing on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican.
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Podcast: Ratio Podcast
Episode: EP446 - AI, Slavery and Space [w/ Maggie Lieu]
Pub date: 2023-09-15
The episode is in English – scroll down for the English description.В този епизод Любо и Д-р Маги Лю изследват Вселената и разговарят за ролята на Изкуствения Интелект в космическия сектор. Независимо, че все още човешкия фактор и ръчната работа в астрофизиката са изключителни важни, използването на AI в обработване и филтрирането на милиони гигабайта данни, значително подпомага дейността на учените. Оказва се обаче, че освен при обработката на огромно количество данни, AI може да бъде полезен и в по-хуманитарни области. Например при наблюдението на Земята от Космоса може да открива места, където все още се използва робски труд.Слушайте епизода за още любопитни теми, като:- Бъдещето на AI в науката- Работата на астронома през 2023 година- Моделирането на супер редки космически събития- Машинното самообучение и значението му в астрономиятаIn English:In this episode, Lubo and Dr. Maggie Liu explore the universe and discuss the role of Artificial Intelligence in the space sector. Although the human factor and manual work in astrophysics are still extremely important, the use of AI in processing and filtering millions of gigabytes of data supports most of the work of the scientists.However, it turns out that in addition to processing huge amounts of data, AI can also be useful in more humanitarian areas. For example, observing the Earth from space may reveal places where slave labor is still used.Listen to the episode for more interesting topics, such as:- The future of AI in science- Astronomer's work in 2023- The modelling of super rare cosmic events- Machine learning and its importance in astronomyЗа госта:Д-р Маги Лю е астрофизик и работи за разкриване на мистериите на тъмната материя, тъмната енергия, зараждането на Вселената и галактичните групи. Тя използва статистически модели и машинно самообучение, за да извлече ключова информация от големи обеми данни. Освен научната си дейност, тя се занимава активно и с комуникация на науката. Често участва в различни медийни формати, за да коментира научни теми от ракетни изстрелвания до открития на Марс. Преподава Машинно самообучение към Университета в Нотингам.About the guest:Dr. Maggie Lieu is an accomplished astrophysicist who's is working on unravelling the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy, and the origins of our universe using galaxy groups and clusters. Using advanced statistical methods and machine learning, she extracts groundbreaking insights from complex data sets plagued by noise. Beyond research, she is an avid public engagement enthusiast and has appeared in various media outlets to discuss topics including space launches and Mars. Dr. Lieu is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of scientific leaders. She currently lectures and supervises students on the Machine Learning in Science MSc program at the University of Nottingham.Допълнителни бележки към епизода: ratio.bg/podcast/446Ако това, което правим, ви харесва, подкрепете Ratio тук: ratio.bg/support
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Podcast: Future Histories (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S02E55 - Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism
Pub date: 2023-09-17
Kohei Saito on why degrowth communism is the most promising alternative to capitalism.
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Shownotes
Kohei Saito (University of Tokyo):
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_04217.html
Kohei Saito (Researchmap):
https://researchmap.jp/7000022985/?lang=english
Kohei on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/koheisaito0131
Saito, Kohei. 2023. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376
Saito, Kohei; Wakounig, Gregor. 2023. Systemsturz: Der Sieg der Natur über den Kapitalismus. DTV Verlag.:
https://www.dtv.de/buch/systemsturz-28369
Further Shownotes
Marx’s concept of the metabolic rift:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rift
Moore, Jason W. 2017. Metabolic rift or metabolic shift? Dialectics, nature, and the world-historical method. Theory and Society 46: 285-318. [PDF available]:
https://jasonwmoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Moore-Metabolic-Rift-or-Metabolic-Shift-as-published-2017.pdf
Bruno Latour (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
Latour, Bruno. 2011. Love your monsters: why we must care for our technologies as we do our children. Breakthrough Journal, 2(11), 21-28.:
https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-2/love-your-monsters
Saito, Kohei. 2017. Karl Marx’s ecosocialism: Capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy. NYU Press.:
https://nyupress.org/9781583676400/karl-marxs-ecosocialism/
Hirsch, Joachim. 2013. Radikaler Reformismus. Zur Rolle des Staates in gesellschaftlichen Emanzipationsprozessen, in: Zelik R. / Tauss A.: Andere mögliche Welten. S. 29-47, VSA-Verlag: Hamburg.:
https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/detail/artikel/andere-moegliche-welten/
Daly, Herman E. 1991. Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays. Island Press.:
https://islandpress.org/books/steady-state-economics
Otto Neurath (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Otto_Neurath
Extinction Rebellion:
https://rebellion.global/
Black Lives Matter:
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics
S02E27| Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/
S02E47 | Matt Huber on Building Socialism, Climate Change & Class War:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e47-matt-huber-on-building-socialism-climate-change-class-war/
S02E43 |Samia Mohammed zur Zukunft jenseits des Marktes:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e43-samia-mohammed-zur-zukunft-jenseits-des-marktes/
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Podcast: Musing Mind Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Psychedelic politics and humanities, with Oliver Davis
Pub date: 2023-09-20
What is the current arc of the psychedelic renaissance in Western society missing? How do psychedelic experiences affect politics? And what are the psychedelic humanities?
To guide us through these questions, I speak with Oliver Davis. He's a professor of French Studies and director of graduate studies at the University of Warwick in the UK, a co-editor of an ongoing series on the psychedelic humanities, is working on a book about the politics of psychedelics, and wrote of a recent paper on the French artist Henri Michaux’s writings on psychedelics, which serve as a guide for our conversation.
By tracing Michaux's writing on psychedelics, we explore how they impact everything from creativity to metaphysics. Using that lens, we get into:
- what is lost in the potential of psychedelic experience when it’s approached exclusively as a therapeutic tool to be used under highly regulated and controlled settings,
- threading the needle between science and mysticism when it comes to making sense of psychedelic experiences,
- psychedelics and politics, where one of the most important implications of psychedelic experience is not what it can teach us about consciousness or the nature of the universe, but how it might help us rethink our social and economic worlds, how psychedelic experiences might help foment a more democratic form of politics.
Enjoy!
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South
Pub date: 2023-09-18
Thomas Smallwood, a formerly enslaved shoemaker, helped hundreds of people to flee from slavery in the American South in the 1840s. Speaking to Elinor Evans, Scott Shane shares Smallwood’s remarkable story, and reveals how he was known for writing a cache of anonymous satirical letters that included the first use of the term ‘underground railroad’.
(Ad) Scott Shane is the author of Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland (Celadon, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flee-North-Forgotten-Slaverys-Borderland/dp/1250843219/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Gramsci at Sea
Pub date: 2023-09-19
In Gramsci at Sea, author Sharad Chari asks how the environmental crisis of the oceans is linked to legacies of capitalism and imperialism across and within the oceans. Chari reads Antonio Gramsci as a thinker of the oceanic crisis, drawing on the philosopher’s prison notes and questions concerning waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of his time. Here, Chari is joined in conversation with Charne Lavery, Melissa Marschke, and Philippe Le Billon.
Sharad Chari is associate professor of geography and critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Gramsci at Sea and Fraternal Capital.
Charne Lavery is senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She is author of Writing Ocean Worlds.
Melissa Marschke is professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is author of Life, Fish and Mangroves.
Philippe Le Billon is professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Wars of Plunder.
Persons and works referenced:
-Fernando Coronil
-The Many-Headed Hydra by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh
-Meg Samuelson, “Thinking with Sharks,” Australian Humanities Review
-Matthew Shutzer
-Gavin Capps
-Damien Hirst’s shark tanks
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville (character of Pip)
-Ellen Gallagher
-Katherine McKittrick
-Drexciya
-John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea
-Kamau Brathwaite’s “tidalectics”
More about the book:
Gramsci at Sea is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read for free online at manifold.umn.edu.
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Podcast: Drilled (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protestors
Pub date: 2023-09-19
It’s no coincidence that the backlash against climate protest looks the same from country to country. Not only is industry sharing tactics across borders, but also the Atlas Network—a global network of nearly 600 libertarian think tanks—has been swapping strategies and rhetoric for decades. This episode features reporting from Amy Westervelt, Lyndal Rowlands, and Julianna Merullo from Drilled, and Geoff Dembicki from DeSmog. You can see a print version of the story at The New Republic or an even longer print version on our site here.
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Podcast: Sur-Urbano
Episode: Socialist urban utopias in Mexico with Alfonso Fierro
Pub date: 2023-09-20
Welcome back everyone to our first episode in English of Sur-Urbano’s season 3. Today we ask, what is the role of architecture and planning in creating the future? And if you could design a city that was just, and equitable, and otherwise reflected your values, what would it look like? Do we even remember how to imagine better futures?
The city we are discussing today is one that was never built, but that was imagined in the hearts and minds of a group of Mexican socialist architects in the 1930s. We talk to Alfonso Fierro about his article on the Proyecto de Ciudad Obrera, a project designed in 1938 by the Unión de Arquitectos Socialistas – the Socialist Architecture Union, or UAS. We discuss the context and development of Ciudad Obrera, and how it imagined a different kind of collective life that was in turn linked to a national industrialization and development policy.
But beyond that, we talk about the importance of Urban Utopias – of why imagining different futures critiques the present by denaturalizing it as the only way to be. In doing so, utopias strengthen our ability to bring other kinds of reality into being.
Alfonso Fierro is Assistant Professor of Mexican and Latin American literature at Northwestern University. His work, as we will see, explore the place of utopian and speculative fabulation practices in Latin American urban landscapes.
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Podcast: KPFA - Behind the News (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Postliberalism; the meaning of the G20 and the BRICS
Pub date: 2023-09-14
Jodi Dean, author of this review, on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. • Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute on the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power
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Podcast: The New Abnormal (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Far-Right Anti-Science Conspiracies Are Literally Killing Us
Pub date: 2023-09-19
Dr. Peter Hotez joins The New Abnormal this week to discuss his new book, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”—and why anti-vaccine conspiracies are so dangerous. Plus! An interview with labor reporter and author Kim Kelly about the United Auto Workers strike.
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Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Global History of Wars
Pub date: 2023-09-20
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with award-winning sociologist Michael Mann about his new book, On Wars.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Containing Big Tech
Pub date: 2023-08-20
This episode features two segments. In the first, Rebecca Rand considers the social consequences of "machine allocation behavior" with Cornell researchers Houston Claure and Malte Jung, authors of a recent paper on the topic with coauthors Seyun Kim and René Kizilcec.
In the second segment, Justin Hendrix speaks with Tom Kemp, author of a new book out August 22 from Fast Company Press titled Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy.
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Podcast: The Watchdog (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Other 9/11 with Roberto Navarrete and John McEvoy
Pub date: 2023-09-11
9/11 is a date that will live in infamy. But for much of the world, September 11 conjures up images of another deadly assault against freedom and liberty. Exactly 50 years ago today, the democratically-elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a far-right military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
Today, “Watchdog” host Lowkey talks to two guests who know the story of “the First 9/11” better than almost anyone. Roberto Navarette was a 17-year-old medical student at the time of the coup, and was imprisoned – like tens of thousands of his countrymen – in open air stadiums. He survived being tortured and shot by the regime, and eventually escaped, settling in the United Kingdom.
Ironically, the U.K. government had actually been working very hard to ensure Allende’s downfall, and later to keep Pinochet in power, as John McEvoy’s work has revealed. Based on documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws, McEvoy has shown how the U.K.’s MI6 had been training Latin American police and militaries in torture tactics and other ways in which to suppress domestic dissent. Britain had long had strong economic interests in the region, considering it an unofficial part of its empire. McEvoy is an academic, historian and journalist specializing in uncovering Britain’s relationship with Latin America. He is currently producing a documentary film – “Britain and the Other 9/11” about the U.K. government’s covert campaign against Allende and its subsequent support for Pinochet.
Today, Lowkey speaks to Navarette and McEvoy about the coup and its legacy on the world.
Allende was a particular threat to the establishment in Washington and London. Not simply because he was a Marxist head of state, but because he was democratically elected and believed in coming to power through entirely legal means. This, for Navarette, terrified many in the West, as it undermined completely their claims about socialism being an anti-democratic ideology.
The 1973 coup reverberated around the world. Not only did it become the blueprint for further U.S.-backed operations in Latin America, but Chile became a laboratory for neoliberal economics. The country was flooded with economists from the University of Chicago, who promised to transform it into a modern utopia.
Instead, the nation was ruined, with economic crashes and total devastation for ordinary Chilean citizens. The rich, along with foreign corporations made out like bandits, and neoliberalism began to be adopted wholesale across the world, leading to the rampant inequality that plagues the planet today.
Support the showThe MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip-hop artist, academic and political campaigner. As a musician, he has collaborated with the Arctic Monkeys, Wretch 32, Immortal Technique and Akala. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album, Soundtrack To The Struggle 2, featured Noam Chomsky and Frankie Boyle and has been streamed millions of times.
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Podcast: Državljan D
Episode: 091 Paris Marx and the future of cars
Pub date: 2023-09-15
We caught up with Paris Marx, a technology writer. They have written frequently in, amongst others, NBC News, CBC News, Jacobin, Tribune, and OneZero, and speak internationally on the future of transport. They are also a PhD student at the University of Auckland and the host of the critical technology podcast ‘Tech Won’t Save Us‘. They are based in Newfoundland, Canada.
Their book, “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation” addresses the future of transportation and the questionable way Silicon Valley is “solving” this issue. We also talked about the quality tech journalism, the consumer’s optimism in the tech economy and the non-solution of e-cars.
Finally, we also address the issue of policy shaping, the need to change the discourse around technology and the role of the journalists in this field.
Transcript of the episode: Expand the transcript 00:00:06 Domen Savič / Citizen D
Welcome everybody. It’s the 28th of June 2023, but you’re listening to this episode of Citizen D podcast on the 15th of September same year. With us today is Paris Marx, tech critic and author of the book “Road to nowhere: What Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation”. He’s also the host of the podcast “Tech won’t save us”. Welcome, Paris.
00:00:32 Paris Marx
Thanks so much for having me.
00:00:34 Domen Savič / Citizen D
Let’s start with your book. You talk about transportation, you talk about Elon Musk, you talk about the way Silicon Valley is trying to reshape the future of transport. And I find it interesting or fascinating for two reasons. One is that in the book you go in depth not just about the current state of the transportation industry and the situation going on in Silicon Valley, but you also start with the, let’s call it the history of transport. When the first cars came into power, so to say.
And basically, you talk about the hijacking of the public sphere of the public streets that were back then divided between different, let’s call them interest groups like the pedestrians, salesman and so forth and I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the following question. Can history tell us something about the current state of the future in the area of transportation?
00:01:54 Paris Marx
Oh, absolutely. You know, there was one way to approach the book where, you know, all I did was look at what happened in the past 10 or 15 years. As the tech industry kind of, you know, founded Uber and released ideas for self-driving cars and hyper-loops and all these sorts of things and just assessed why they were not going to address the problems in our transportation system.
But I thought, you know, one of the things that Silicon Valley does really well is it makes sure that people don’t think about the history, that they only think about the present, and in particular the future and they don’t look back at what has happened in the past, but part of the reason that these tech billionaires and these tech companies are putting out ideas for transportation in the present is that there are a lot of problems in our transportation system that come of our over reliance on cars.
I would argue, you know, that is a big piece of this and so it felt wrong then to write a book about transportation and about what the tech industry is proposing for transportation and not to go back to, you know, the kind of moment when the car emerges to look at the ideas around the car then and how that played out, how the car became such a dominant part of the transportation system.
Because I think that that helps to kind of demystify the system that we have right now in terms of transportation. But also to question whether you know ideas for transportation that are really based around the car, as many of Silicon Valley’s ideas are, are really going to solve these fundamental problems like, you know, the amount of people who are injured or die because of cars. The amount of time that people spend stuck in traffic, the emissions that come from cars, you know, and all of these other questions that come along with it.
So those are real issues that we do need to address, but is it going to be addressed by, you know, some new technology released by some, some American tech companies, or do we need to look at a much deeper level and I think that going into the history tells us that, yes, like we need to, we need to look much deeper than just the technology that we’re flying on.
00:04:00 Domen Savič / Citizen D
And if you had to answer a question about where did things start to go wrong in, in the past for, let’s say the general area of of transportation, what was key moment or what were some of the key moments that got us where we are today with cars; not enough roads, not enough infrastructure to support the transportation system that is currently in place?
00:04:35 Paris Marx
Hmm, it’s a difficult question because I would say it happens over a long period of time, right? But and obviously I should also say that, I look in particular at the American context in particular because you know that you know Silicon Valley is rooted in the United States, the United States has this really long history of car dependency and kind of, you know, pushing the car as this object of of freedom and modernity and things like that.
So I look a bit less at the European context in the book, though, I know that obviously the car has been very influential in shaping European transportation as well. They’re probably not to the same degree as what happened in North America, where I am based.
And so I think that for me there are, you know, a number of moments that we could point to as very important moments in this kind of transformation of the transport system.
You know, we can go back to when the car starts to emerge in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and, you know, I think a lot of people forget that in that moment, it wasn’t obvious that the car we were going to use to get around was going to be one within internal combustion engine that was reliant on fossil fuels.
But at the time, you know, there were also electric cars in that moment and for a while it looked like they might actually be kind of, you know, the form of vehicle that became mass transportation instead of the internal combustion engine and there were even cars at the time that were powered by steam power, because that was, you know, a very common form of kind of, you know, mobility or creating energy or whatnot in that. So I think that that’s one important moment.
But then I think if you kind of fast forward a few decades as the car starts to become more common in you know North American cities, but European cities as well, what you really see is kind of a conflict, right? On one hand, you have cars that are becoming more common on the street, but you also have a street car that is designed around a different way of getting around the city, right?
It’s designed around people who are walking, who are taking bicycles, who are taking the streetcar, who are taking horse drawn carriages, all things that move relatively slowly within the streets of cities. And then you’re moving toward the car, which slowly kind of gets faster, can kind of maneuver more in a more agile way, I guess. And what happens is that more people start to die and be injured because of automobiles, right? In particular, children and young women.
And that creates a backlash in cities in the United States through the 1910s to about the 30S and so in that moment the question is really, you know, are we going to allow this car, this, this form of transportation, to become entrenched in the city or are we going to take regulatory measures to restrict how fast cars can go to restrict, you know, how much space they can take up to restrict, you know, how much they can actually use the roads when there’s all these other people who are trying to use them as well, and what we ultimately see as, as you said, is that there’s a kind of wide range of interest groups that see that they are going to profit from the car becoming a form of mass transportation.
And so they all kind of work together to make sure that regulations don’t stifle the growth of the automobile and that ultimately, in the decades that follow, whether it’s through the 1930s as the US government is trying to kind of, you know, take programs to recover from the Great Depression or in the post war period in particular.
After the late 1940s, into the 1950s and 60s, as there’s a big kind of infrastructure building program. And in that moment, you know, the push is really to build a lot of suburban housing, a lot of highway infrastructure or a lot of road infrastructure. And at the same time, there’s not the kind of investment put into the rail network or into public transportation or things like that. The focus is really to get people to drive cars, to use cars and to reshape the transportation system around that.
00:08:34 Domen Savič / Citizen D
And jumping ahead into, let’s say, today’s atmosphere, where are we regarding the current, let’s say state of the future of transportation, the self-driving cars, the electric cars… Things you described happening in the past I could draw some parallels with same or similar things happening in the present as well, right.
So you have self-driving cars driving over people and pedestrians, you have accidents, you have projects that are trying to overcome different different snags in the transportation system and failing horrifically in some examples. Would you say that it’s all just a little bit of history repeating or that we, the industry, the policymakers learned something from looking back or trying to address the current situation?
00:09:43 Paris Marx
It’s tough to say, and again I wouldn’t want to kind of generalize because I don’t know exactly what regulators across different European countries have done, but I would say that in general, while lessons were learned for a while and there were actions taken for a number of decades in order to kind of you know further restrict cars to make sure that environmental kind of expectations, you know, they’re less smog coming from cars and things like that were taken, I think that for a while we have not done enough to kind of keep up with the impact that cars have had on cities and to try to actually deal with the problems that we face.
And again, this is not a universal thing. Some cities and countries have been better than others, but especially in the kind of North American context, the car really kind of took over, right? And so what we’re seeing now and what we’ve I guess been seeing in the past about 15 years is the tech industry did recognize that there was a serious problem in our transportation system again.
With, you know, people dying on the roads with the amount of people stuck in traffic for long periods of time, with the emissions coming from cars with the high cost of car ownership, all these other sorts of problems, right, and they said instead of having a political conversation around how we address these problems that have arisen from kind of decades of making policy decisions to encourage people to drive.
Let’s not have that conversation and instead let’s just try to come up with a new technology that is going to solve these problems, right? So ride hailing services, electric cars, self driving cars, all this kind of stuff. And you know, obviously services like Uber are available, you know, ride hailing services, they have actually had an impact on cities. But what we see in that case is that the company promised that was going to kind of have these amazing beneficial effects on cities, but the studies that were done in North America find that they actually made traffic worse. They took people away from public transit systems, they didn’t have the beneficial effects that we expected to see or at least that the company led us to believe that we would see.
Again, the self driving cars they were supposed to arrive years ago, you know, all these companies kept saying that they were just a few years away in the 2010s and we still see they’re just being tested in some cities right now but they certainly haven’t taken over transportation, as the companies told us they were going to. Electric cars – I would say that is one that is really starting to take root right now and I think that that is an important piece of, you know, the transition toward reducing emissions from transportation, moving over to electric vehicles.
But my concern there is that we’re not reckoning with how the electric vehicle also still has a very significant environmental footprint and I feel like a lot of our governments are moving in the direction of saying, you know, if we want to address the emissions that come from transportation, all we need to do is adopt electric cars and not do anything else.
And I think that that is a real missed opportunity kind of going back to what you were saying, the comparisons to the past where there is a real push to get us to buy cars and to ensure that we’re driving a lot and that was very profitable for a number of commercial interests from automakers to oil company to developers who are building suburban infrastructure and road infrastructure and things like that.
And what we see now is very much a push to say, OK, there are different paths that we can take here. If we want to address these problems and in particular the issue of contributing to climate change. But you know, a lot of governments and a lot of industries, of course, seem to be pushing us toward the direction of electric car power, which means more automotive manufacturing, which means more mining in order to get the minerals that are needed for batteries and of course more battery production.
Instead of saying maybe instead of trying to just get everyone to buy an electric car, we should be investing a lot more in public transportation, in cycling infrastructure and things like that are not only, you know, more sustainable, but you know will help to address some of those other problems like traffic, like high cost of car ownership like vehicle deaths and things like.
00:13:57 Domen Savič / Citizen D
Are there in your opinion any particular reasons why the political discourse or the political conversation about you know, what do we do about cars isn’t happening on a scale that maybe you and I would want it to happen, right? So you just said, you know, electric cars aren’t built for scalability, so to say, so you have the industry on one side that’s very good with lobbying efforts with pushing against the decision makers proposals that don’t include them.
On the other hand, you have the problems you already mentioned about ecology, about batteries, about building parts for electric cars. So why do you think that political political discussion is still not happening despite everything that we’ve been through and despite everything that’s happening in the current moment?
00:15:03 Paris Marx
I think that there are a couple of reasons for that. I think one is that our governments over the past number of decades have really lost any kind of vision for the future and what a better future could look like. And you know, I think that’s in part because of, you know, the neoliberal turn that politics have taken and largely, you know, more concretely, the idea that the government and the public sector should be doing less in society and we should be leaving more of the kind of decisions and, you know, kind of handling important infrastructures and services to the private sector.
And I think that has meant that, you know, our governments have kind of taken a step back of thinking what a better life actually looks like for the people who live in our communities and our cities and our countries, and instead has has just been trying to kind of encourage private industry to come up with ways to kind of generate more economic activity.
And I don’t think that is always a positive thing are always going to generate kind of widespread benefits beyond, you know, benefits for those companies and the executives that at them, and I think that the other piece of that is that when you look at the potential paths forward for transportation, right, if we were to kind of put two general paths in front of us and say one is where you know a lot of us drive electric cars, we don’t really change the kind of dependence on cars that exist in our societies right now and so we basically need to replace all the fossil fuel vehicles with electric cars and then if we look at another future where we say, OK, instead of having so many people driving cars, we put a much greater focus on investing in public transportation, in rail infrastructure, in cycling infrastructure so that people don’t need to own as many cars just in society in general.
So if we look at those two different futures, we can very clearly see that the one where more people are driving electric cars is the one where there is a more obvious kind of economic activity taking place, right? You need to be building more cars which take more labor power in order to produce, you need to be mining a lot to build the big batteries that are gonna go into those vehicles.
And of course, you need to produce the batteries as well, and then you’ll need to keep charging those vehicles, you’ll need to keep paying insurance on those vehicles, you’ll need to get them maintained very frequently – you know there’s a whole load of other costs that come along with it.
And just because of the way that our economies are set up right now, that looks a lot more attractive kind of on the on the balance sheet or on the spreadsheet or in the GDP figures than something where we kind of reduce the amount of transactions that need to be taken for transportation and just invest in collective public solutions instead.
00:17:48 Domen Savič / Citizen D
So is there a difference between the, let’s say, the scalability of car infrastructure in the US in let’s say the developed countries and in countries that are that are, let’s say going the same way like I’ll give you an example.
In Slovenia the concept of the six lane motorway hasn’t really taken off yet. So we are now having these discussions in the public sphere about building and expanding the motorways. The people who are opposing this expansion are using the arguments that are also in your book, but that are also present in the global sector that is more mindful about the environment and about the ecology, while the people who are for the six lane expansions are saying “Yes, yes, we know you know all about the futility of wider roads in developed countries” and they’re naming US and yeah, I guess maybe even Germany, “But you know, our case will be different because… Something,” so how would you say or how would you counter that that narrative in in if you were engaged in let’s say the, the political discussion about 6 lane motorways in in Slovenia or countries that that are still, you know, deciding to take the first step towards the future that we already know is not effectively solving anything.
00:19:45 Paris Marx
Yeah, it’s a good question and I would want to preface my answer by saying that obviously I don’t know the specifics of the situation in Slovenia, so I can’t comment specifically, right, but I would say this obviously questions of infrastructure and investment in that way, public investment, they kind of do help to determine the way that people move and the way that they transport themselves and goods and things like that into the future.
One thing that I see in the example from where I am in in North America is that we used to have, you know, pretty decent train infrastructure in the province that I live you know, it wasn’t perfect or anything like that, but at least we had it and then when they built the Trans Canada Highway network, that encouraged a lot more people to start driving instead of taking the train and the train then kind of, you know, fell into disarray, into disrepair.
It didn’t get the investment and, you know, the ridership that it had previously and eventually the train in my province was actually ripped up and we don’t have a train anymore and the only option is the highway. Right?
And so I just give that example to say that I think that there’s an important concept in transportation that really shapes a lot of discussions around these things called induced demand, and this is the question that, you know, if you make investments in a particular form of transportation infrastructure, that is going to encourage more people to get around in that way.
So if you’re building more six lane motorways that’s going to encourage more people to drive because the infrastructure is getting better for that form of transportation and I think ultimately in this moment we have kind of a debate or a question around what should that future of transportation look like and should cities and countries be kind of doubling down on automotive infrastructure in this moment, or should they be making other decisions to, you know, invest in the rail network, invest in public transportation and things like that?
So I wouldn’t want to specifically, you know, make a direct comment on the Slovenian situation, because I don’t know it, but again, when I look at other countries that have been developing in recent years, like you know, say, say, China, for example, in the past number of decades, you know, they have built out a fantastic high speed rail network around their country, but a lot of their cities are also kind of flooded with cars and transportation infrastructure and they have these massive highways as well.
So they’ve kind of gone in both directions, but they’re still a very strong automotive dependence and I think part of that comes from how the automobile and the car were long kind of positioned as and kind of framed as in, in marketing and advertising and things like that as a symbol of modernity, right.
And if a country didn’t move in the direction of adopting cars and getting its people to buy automobiles then they weren’t actually kind of developing properly or kind of moving up the chain of element and I think that that’s really a flawed notion and something that, especially in the 21st century, that we really need to be challenging and reconsidering to think, you know, what is the form of transportation or what is kind of the network of transportation that will actually make life better for people instead of just kind of, you know, assuming that we need to go in a particular direction because, you know, kind of the United States did it first, then we’re all looking to them as an example and we need to follow along and blah, blah blah, right. And I don’t think that that has worked out particularly well for places that have followed that example.
00:23:30 Domen Savič / Citizen D
And I wanna hear your thoughts on another issue that is related to this.
So you already mentioned the difference or the complementary roles of the public and of the private sector in this regard and I’m assuming that the transportation or the area of transportation is mostly relying on the work done primarily by the public sector, by, you know, infrastructure building.
But then you have also mentioned in your book the case of Elon Musk’s the case of hyper-loop. Is this a strong enough signal that the private sector is, let’s say, capable of of, you know, building things from the ground up, almost literally in a way that you know the private sector can decide: “OK, we’ll build an alternate transportation system from the ground up, building new effective roads”, so to say and other things that are necessary for the development of this area or is this just like a like a media trick or something that that is there to sort of entertain people, but doesn’t have any real impact or even intent to sort of changed and influence the way we we move around.
00:25:03 Paris Marx
Yeah, it’s a complex question because I think if you look historically, you would certainly see that there can be a role for the private sector in transportation. You know if we look at the North American example, the building of railways, the building of streetcars and things like that were initially done by the private sector, but of course heavily subsidized by the public sector, of course, to make that happen.
If we look at kind of what is happening in this moment and if we look at the ideas that are coming from the tech industry, as you say, you know they are proposing or they are kind of making us believe that these private companies from Silicon Valley or you know at least kind of following the playbook or the mindset that comes from Silicon Valley are going to up in the transportation system and fix a lot of the problems, whether it’s with Hyperloop or self driving cars or what have you, but I think that what we see time and again is that these companies love to come out and make huge promises about what their ideas and their technologies are going to mean for society and then a few years later, once you actually look at what they’ve achieved, you can see that they very rarely are able to actually follow through on all the promises that are being made.
And for me, what that says is that they’re not actually solving problems in the transportation system they’re just distracting from real solutions that could address those problems and are ensuring that they stick around and that we remain kind of dependent on cars, or that our transportation system remains stagnant for much longer than it has to be and that ultimately, if we’re going to solve these problems, you know, we need the public sector to be making these investments in public transportation and cycling infrastructure, in rail infrastructure to ensure that people have other options that are not just the car in order to get around, and that those options are kind of, you know, safe, reliable, affordable, that people can actually imagine taking them.
I’m sure many of your listeners will know that this can be a serious problem in North America in particular where we’ve built so much for the automobile in the past number of decades, I guess that we haven’t really kept up and public transportation is not that great of an option for people.
So that is really what stands out when I think of what the tech industry has done, it’s not to revolutionize transportation, it’s not to solve real problems in transportation, it’s to distract from real solutions that we already have and that we could be implementing right now because instead they don’t really want to see the system change, but they think that if it is going to change, they would rather it be done by them so that they can start getting a cut of the profit.
You know, we were talking about how all these various corporate interests have a lot of, you know, benefit immensely from the dependence on automobiles, whether it’s because people buy cars or buy gas or pay for maintenance or what have you and the tech industry doesn’t really want to change that.
They just want to ensure that their business models are now integrated too, so that they can get a bunch of data from your car so that they can start putting subscription services in your car and things like that. It’s not really going to change very much.
00:28:28 Domen Savič / Citizen D
And you’ve just mentioned it, so another reason for the current situation is also the media representation of let’s say the tech industry, and since you you host the podcast, with the title “tech won’t save us” – why would you say the journalists, the tech journalists in in general, on the global scale are always quick to or are still quick to fall for the Silicon Valley trick in in parroting their reason for their revolutionary future.
We’re seeing it come time after time in many different examples and just recently, there’s been a bit of a push-back from particular tech journalists trying to be more critical about Silicon Valley’s vision of the future. So, why would you say it took the journalist sector so long to sort of gain this opposition stance towards the Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley tech industry.
00:29:49 Paris Marx
Yeah, it’s a really good question and I think I would say, you know, there has always been kind of critical reporting on the tech industry, the problem is that for a long time it didn’t get much attention right?
The mainstream publications and the tech publications were very overwhelmingly positive, and we have started to see that shift a little bit in the past few years, but it’s still just, you know, kind of overwhelmingly positive and repeating the types of stories and narratives that the tech industry would like.
So I think that when you look at why that is, I think there are a number of reasons for it. I think on one hand, you know the people who get into reporting on technology are usually people who are interested in and like technology, right? And so there’s a bit of a built-in bias that comes with that where they do really want to see those companies succeed to follow through on the promises that they’re making.
And so I think that helps to explain some of the reporting that was done on the tech industry in the past, but I think that the tech industry is also one that depends a lot on access, you know. So you know, if you think about getting access to like a Big Apple event where they’re going to unveil the new products and then you get to try them out or something like that, a lot of these companies do ensure that if you have written critically about them, you won’t get access to those opportunities, right? And so there is kind of an inbuilt incentive not to be too critical toward the companies or you’ll lose access to getting interviews with executives, getting access to those kinds of media events and product unveilings and things like that. So that is another reason for it.
And I think that we need to consider that the media industry has faced a lot of challenges over the past couple of decades as the revenue model and the advertising business model that they’ve been built on has been seriously threatened, and so we’ve seen a lot of cuts to media, you know, publications closing down, journalists being laid off and just an expectation that at least for some journalists, that they need to be kind of producing more stories, which means that they have less time to actually look into issues and deeply investigate them.
So it’s much easier than just to say, OK, this tech industry kind of put out a press release about, you know, these various new products that are that are coming out, so let’s kind of, you know, just write stories based on these press releases or product announcements or whatever and we can just release that, right. And there’s not a lot of knowledge about the history of these industries, the history of technology, and all these sorts of things to try to put in a bit more of a critical perspective.
And you know, as you say, I think that we are starting to see that change a bit, but unfortunately a lot of the stuff is still really positive, especially when there’s a lot of hype about something new like we see right now with AI or we saw in the past few years with crypto and again that I think that’s in part because the journalists who cover the, the, the industry are scared to be wrong, are scared to say that a certain new idea or new product isn’t gonna go anywhere because it’s ridiculous and you know shouldn’t be adopted and because if they get it wrong then it might look bad on them, right? But if they hype it up and say that it might be the future, and then it is not the future.
Well, I guess that doesn’t look so bad or they don’t think so at least.
00:33:11 Domen Savič / Citizen D
So another question related to your part is what are some I should say, editorial guidelines when you’re trying to decide on the topic or when you’re deciding on the coverage of a particular topic, what do you look for? What do you pay attention to?
00:33:29 Paris Marx
Yeah, it’s a good question and I always try to present people with a critical perspective that they might not get elsewhere and so on the show, what I do is every week I have a different kind of guest and an expert on the show in order to talk about a different aspect of the tech industry and the goal, of course, as we were talking about with kind of the general positive nature of tech coverage is to say, you know, you get that those positive stories from anywhere else.
But you know, the podcast is really where you come to for a critical perspective on this industry to maybe get you to think about the companies in it and the technologies in, in a bit of a different way. And so for me, when I think about what to cover on the show and what to talk about, you know, part of it is motivated by my own interests You know, the stories that I think are interesting, the topics I think are interesting and then I want to have a conversation about and then the other bit of it is is also you know just what is kind of popular at the moment, what are people talking about, what maybe needs a bit of a pushback?
So if there’s something happening in the news like recently with the Apple Vision Pro headset, we did an episode on that because it felt like it was something that was necessary to discuss, but also you know, we’re in this kind of broader hype cycle at the moment about generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and so I’ve done a number of episodes since the beginning of the year, kind of giving people a bit of a critical perspective on those technologies and on this kind of moment that we’re in with all the hype around AI, you know, to to try to ensure that people have a bit of a different perspective and idea on that and why it’s being driven right now rather than, you know, just kind of buying into what the CEO’s will want us to believe about AI.
So I guess those are a few of the different things that kind of shape how we think about it.
00:35:27 Domen Savič / Citizen D
It’s very interesting to compare notes or to try to think because we on this show try to do something similar for exactly the same reasons. Try to offer some type of counter narrative or maybe even open up a discussion on certain issues that are very streamlined, if you’re reading the local general press, but since we’re coming to the end of the episode, I just have one more topic to discuss with you.
So we usually give a few advice to the listeners in terms of what are some of the counter tactics on the personal, on political on, on regional, on yeah, family level, even when we’re talking or when we’re discussing, let’s say, the future of transport and the current developments in the field, is there something that that can be done from from a personal perspective or is everything based just on hopefully good political decision making that that won’t take too many pages out of the out of the Silicon Valley playbook?
00:36:36 Paris Marx
Yeah, I definitely think that there are things that people can do as individuals, you know, kind of, especially when that means kind of doing things collectively as well, right. So I think that as individuals, we need to be able to look at these technologies and what’s coming from the tech industry and to really question these narratives. Makes sense, right?
And I think ultimately that means when we see these stories about technology in the industry, we ask who really benefits if this is kind of the future that is being sold to us. If this is the future that actually arrives, and I think that very clearly, if we look below the PR and the marketing that comes from these things we can see that, you know, in many cases these futures are not actually going to be beneficial for the vast majority of regular people in society and are just going to keep kind of the wealth flowing up to these billionaires and whatnot, I also find it’s great to kind of just have conversations with people that I know about technology.
You know, if you say that your listeners are a bit more critical on these things and you know maybe have a bit of a different perspective than what would just be regularly in the media you know my family members and my friends are always asking me about technology.
When they see things and what my opinion is on it, because they know that I have a bit of a different opinion and so we always discuss those things and you know, I find that those conversations are really fruitful, right.
And I think that the final thing I would say on that point is that, you know, we can’t just rely on the political system in order to kind of make these changes while we would certainly want to see the political system get more critical, that does actually require the public to also be more critical as well, right?
And to have kind of an active power or collective voice to be able to push the government to do something like that. But I think as well we also have the power to push back against these technologies kind of on an individual level when we’re collectively criticizing them. And I think that, you know, I point to examples like the Metaverse for example, where this was supposed to be the big future of meta and Facebook and people just thought it was a joke, and now you don’t hear very much about it. Cryptocurrency was another one that was very huge for, you know, about a year and a half and while there was a lot of hype and excitement about it, there was also a lot of very critical people who were saying, you know, don’t buy into this fantasy that we’re being sold and then we can see what happened, where the prices of these crypto tokens really collapsed and a lot of people lost a lot of money as a result.
And even if you go back to the kind of early 2010s you can see Google Glass, you know, the last time Google tried to sell us a bunch of smart glasses and people immediately kind of revolted against that, and that product was shut down and just becomes, became something used in enterprise spaces but not available to the regular public.
So I think that there are many different ways that we can push back on the tech industry and its visions for the future.
00:39:39 Domen Savič / Citizen D
I just have one more question, I was half laughing when you were talking about your family asking you for advice. Do you ever give them advice from my own experience as well, is there a situation or was there a situation when you were positive about tech and the tech industry, or are you always, like me saying: “You don’t need that”, “This is crap,”… you know, you’re probably better off without it, no matter what the topic of the discussion really is?
00:40:22 Paris Marx
It’s an interesting question, right, because I would say I used to be very positive about tech and very excited about tech. You know, I used to be an Apple fanboy back in the day. I was the kind of person who always got really excited about new Apple products and, you know, especially in, you know, the first decade of the 2000s. In the early 2010s I kind of believed a lot of stuff that came out of the tech industry and was very excited about what it might mean.
And I think that a lot of that started to change in the early to mid 2010s when I really started to see on one hand the impact of the share economy and services like Uber and food delivery services and things like that and what they were doing to to workers by ensuring that they didn’t have labor rights and that their their pay was being pushed down and things like that, but the other piece of it was also, you know, your listeners might remember in the mid 2010s there was a big kind of hype around automation and AI and the idea that robots were going to take all our jobs and there were gonna be no more truck drivers or taxi drivers and robots, we’re going to make our coffees and all this kind of stuff, right? And people were wondering what jobs we were gonna do as humans and that really didn’t happen, right? We didn’t have that elimination of work that all these people in the tech industry were saying that we were gonna have and all these people in the media were saying we were going to have and what actually happened was once again, these technologies were implemented in such a way as to reduce the power of workers and to increase the power.
And so that was a really kind of eye opening moment for me because I did actually believe that, you know, a bunch of jobs were going to be automated and I was concerned about what that was going to mean for people and then when I saw that didn’t happen, that made me look at these technologies and the industry itself in a very different way and to really think a lot more critically about what they were proposing and why they constantly have these different cycles where they’re pushing new technologies at us.
And it’s not because they are really looking to transform society and are really looking to roll out these technologies to make everyone’s life better. It’s just because it benefits them from a financial perspective every few years, have a new, have a new technology that gets hyped up, which means a bunch of companies see their valuations rise which means that the venture capitalists who invested in them can cash out and make money back on their investments. And then it all collapses and then you know a new cycle starts again. And this is just how the industry works and so that was a really kind of eye opening moment for me.
00:43:06 Domen Savič / Citizen D
A perfect a perfect ending to to this episode. Thank you so much, Paris, for the book and for your work, but also for sitting down with us and having this discussion. This was Citizen D podcast, we’ll see each other next month. Best of luck going forward and talk to you soon.
00:43:28 Paris Marx
Thanks so much.
Citizen D advice:* Think of a car as a problem, not as a solution * Reevaluate the role of tech journalism in a society * Study the past to understand the future
More information:* Science for the People: Vehicles of Extraction – article * How Corporate America Created Car Culture—And What We Can Do To Change It – article * The Internet Is Broken. How Do We Fix It? – essay * You’ve Got Luddites All Wrong – article
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Podcast: The Blockchain Socialist (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: What is Left Accelerationism and Post-Work? Interview with Nick Srnicek
Pub date: 2023-09-10
I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism', 'Inventing the Future' and the 'MANIFESTO FOR AN ACCELERATIONIST POLITICS'. Together we dissect the roots of accelerationist politics of which Nick is known for his work on left accelerationism, its controversial implications, and its ongoing interpretation.
We discuss why he doesn't like the term accelerationist anymore, the trend of many people in crypto world identifying as accelerationists without knowing what it means, and the fight for freedom from work. We also talk about his latest book 'After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time' which he co-wrote with his partner Helen Hester.
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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: More than Don Quixote: different books on Spain with David from Secret Kingdoms
Pub date: 2023-09-10
Alan is joined by David from Secret Kingdoms English book shop in barrio de las Letras, Madrid. They talk about some unusual books in English about Spain.
Books discussed:
Miguel de Cervantes - The Banks of Algeas/ The Great Sultana
María de Zayas y Sotomayor - Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of DisillusionMaria Dueñas- a Vineyard in Andalusia
Salvador Dali, Marx brothers - Giraffes on Horseback Salad
Gerald Brenan - South of Granada/ Spanish Labyrinth / The Literature of the Spanish People
Almudena Grande - Ages of Lulu/ The Frozen Heart
Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station
Brett Hetherington- Slow Travels in Unsung Spain (20th Sept)Tim Parfitt - Barcelona connection/ A Load of Bull
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Podcast: Establish
Episode: Introduction to Queer and Trans Perspectives on Climate Justice
Pub date: 2023-09-13
In this episode, we are joined by Shake Up The Establishment researcher Alex Walker (they/them) in conversation with our Director of Research Angelique Dack (she/her), discussing what lies at the intersection between queer and trans perspectives and climate justice. From the vast diversity in gender and sexuality in the natural world, to how queer and trans people face discrimination in the aftermath of natural disasters, join us in exploring a range of insights and perspectives on the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience.
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How Brazil cooperated with the Pinochet regime in Chile with Mila Burns
Pub date: 2023-09-10
Mila Burns is an Associate Professor at the Department of Latin American & Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; Editora Cobogó, 2021) and Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (Editora Record, 2009). Mila has an interdisciplinary profile, with an emphasis on media, anthropology, and history. For over two decades, she has worked as a journalist in Brazil and New York, currently as a political commentator at ICL Notícias. She has served as editor-in-chief and anchor to shows dedicated to the Latino community broadcast at TV Globo International, and has worked at TV Globo, The Economist, O Globo, and others. Her current book manuscript investigates the Brazilian influence on the military coup d’état in Chile, in 1973. Her articles have been published in several newspapers, magazines, and academic publications.
Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-09-07
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of rooms, levels and topographies influence the decisions and behavior of the players? Is Brutalism the first genuine architectural style of computer games? What is the importance of landscape gardens and national parks in structuring game worlds? How is nature represented in times of climate change?
Particularly in the last 20 years, digital game worlds are adapting features of the physical real world more meticulously than ever before. Through elaborate production processes and complex visualization strategies, the adaptation to the rest of our everyday world is always created in dependence on game mechanics and worldliness. As can be seen at the latest in the example of open-world games, the adoption of certain worldviews and visual traditions leads to ideological implications that go far beyond the narrative conventions transferred from other media formats that have been the focus of research so far.
With his theory of architecture as a medial hinge, Marc Bonner reveals that digital game worlds exhibit media-specific properties that were previously out of reach and awaited exploration. By interweaving concepts from media studies, game studies, philosophy, architectural theory, human geography, landscape theory, and art history, among others, Bonner develops a transdisciplinary theoretical model and, using the analytical methods developed from it, makes it possible for the first time to understand and name the complex structure of today's computer games - from indie games to AAA open worlds.
Open World Structures (Offene-Welt-Strukturen (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)) makes the architectonics of digital game worlds comprehensively accessible.
Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design at the IU International University of Applied Science.
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Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Does ‘Utopia’ Mean to You?
Pub date: 2023-09-07
Amid the climate crisis, growing isolation and increasing economic disparities, many of us feel trapped in a doom loop — one where it feels more natural to imagine a dystopian future than a utopian one. But envisioning ways the world could be better can be an antidote to despair, say proponents of utopian thinking. “Depending on what is going on in the world, humanity has always looked to utopias for inspiration,” writes Kristen Ghodsee, author of “Everyday Utopia.” We’ll talk about how past utopian experiments can inspire future social change and hear about the benefits of using utopian thinking in our daily lives and communities.
Guests:
Kristen R. Ghodsee, professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania; author, "Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life"
William Paris, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto; author, the forthcoming book “Racial Justice and Forms of Life: Towards a Critical Theory of Utopia”
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Podcast: theAnalysis.news (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism
Pub date: 2023-08-21
Justin Joque is a visualization librarian at the University of Michigan and the author of the book Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism. His book examines the statistical models on which our algorithms, machine learning, and financial systems are built, highlighting the mechanisms of abstraction which lend these models an air of misleading objectivity. Can statistical models be used towards emancipatory aims?
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Podcast: Critical Theory in Context
Episode: Special Issue: New Revolutionary Subjects
Pub date: 2023-09-02
A roundtable in memoriam of Herbert MarcuseA multitude of social and political crises concerning, among others, public health, environmental justice, poverty, border struggles, and the rise of nationalist forces have brought the question of radical change – and its subject – back on the table. Herbert Marcuse, whose birthday was celebrated for the 125th time this July, prominently questioned the role of the proletariat as the sole and determined driving force of social revolutions. Not only did he analyze the fact that the proletariat had failed to fulfill its intended role in the 1930s, but he was also among the first of his peers to recognize a previously underappreciated candidate for the role of “catalyst” of revolutions to come: the groups and social movements formed by and around the socially marginalized. Much has changed since Marcuse’s famous “Essay on Liberation”, and thus the search for revolutionary subjects is, once again, on.In this special issue of “Critical Theory in Context”, we invited some of the most interesting contemporary theorists of revolution and social movements to discuss in Marcuse’s spirit the pressing questions raised by the persisting crises we face today: Who are the collective agents that have both the will and the ability to profoundly transform societies? Does it make sense to think about future revolutions as driven by a definable subject? And can the revolution be predicted?
We present the full recording of the public roundtable that took place at Vierte Welt Berlin and was part of our Critical Theory Summer School: Radical Social Change. You can find more information about our annual Summer School on criticaltheoryinberlin.de.
Participants of the debate, hosted by Robin Celikates, were Gianfranco Casuso, Alex Demirović, Verónica Gago, Sally Haslanger, Rahel Jaeggi, and Eva von Redecker.With special thanks to Vierte Welt BerlinAmin Wagner (Audio-Recording)Lane Hots (Mixing, Mastering and Audio-Restauration) Josefine Berkholz (Audio-Editing and Postproduction)
Speakers:
Gianfranco Casuso is a professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and director of the Research Group on Critical Theory at the same university. His teaching and research areas are political and social philosophy, the philosophy of economics, as well as theories of democracy, critical theory of society, and modern philosophy with special emphasis on the philosophy of German Idealism. He is currently working on the links between classical and contemporary critical theory and Latin American social and political thought.
Robin Celikates is a professor of Practical and Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and deputy director of the Centre for Social Critique. His current work mainly focuses on critical theory, civil disobedience, democracy, migration and citizenship.
Alex Demirović is a Senior Fellow at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and an associated member of the Centre for Social Critique. He was a professor of industrial and organizational Sociology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His research focuses on marxist state theory, democracy and critical theory.
Verónica Gago is Professor of social sciences at the Instituto de Altos Estudios at the Universidad Nacional de San Martìn (UNSAM) and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Buenos Aires. Her research focuses on international social movements, feminism and the critique of neoliberal reason.
Sally Haslanger is the Ford Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and teaches in MIT’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her main areas of research include metaphysics, epistemology, feminist theory, ancient philosophy, and social and political philosophy.
Rahel Jaeggi is a professor of Practical and Social Philosophy and director of the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main historical research is critical theory, and her main systematic research is social philosophy, social theory, social ontology and anthropology, political philosophy and ethics.
Eva von Redecker is a philosopher and author. Until 2019, she was the deputy director of the Centre for Social Critique. Her research focuses on theories of social change, feminist theory, and the modern notion of property.
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This Roundtable was part of the Center for Social Critique's annual Summer School. All information about past and future Summer School Programs can be found at www.criticaltheoryinberlin.de.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-09-03
During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods.
In The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain(Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Kimberly Mair looks at how government publicity campaigns communicated new instructions for care formally, while the circulation of wartime rumours negotiated these instructions informally. These rumours, she argues, explicitly repudiated the improper socialization of evacuees and also produced a salient, but contested, image of the host as a good wartime citizen who was impervious to the cultural invasion of the ostensibly 'animalistic', dirty, and destructive house guest. Mair also considers the explicit contestations over the value of the lives of pets, conceived as animals who do not work with animal caregivers whose use of limited provisions or personal sacrifice could then be judged in the context of wartime hardship.
Together, formal and informal instructions for caregiving reshaped everyday habits in the war years to an idealized template of the good citizen committed to the war and nation, with Mass-Observation enacting a watchful form of care by surveilling civilian feeling and habit in the process.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Podcast: Technically Optimistic (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Kyunghyun Cho on language, culture, and AI
Pub date: 2023-09-08
In episode 6 of our first season on AI, we heard from Kyunghyun Cho, a professor of computer science and data science at New York University, about how artificial intelligence research in academia so often resembles corporate product development.
But in his initial talk with host Raffi Krikorian, Kyunghyun had a lot of other interesting things to say — for instance, about how AI models affect marginalized languages, on whether generative AI could produce something of cultural significance, and about the connection between AI “hallucinations” and creativity.
Here's Kyunghyun’s blog post on AI and compression (which references this piece in the New Yorker by Ted Chiang); and here’s more info on the “AI and Marginalized Languages” panel at the 2023 ICML.
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Podcast: Anthropological Airwaves (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Season 05 - Episode 04: Dismantling the Ivory Tower (Open Mic Edition) - Part Two
Pub date: 2023-08-29
This episode is the second of a two-episode series on the production of archaeological knowledge in Lebanon produced by Nelly Abboud, contributing editor to the Archaeology Section at American Anthropologist. The series invokes the concept of an “open mic,” or a live show in which members of the audience–no matter their professional stature–take the stage to share their observations, critiques, and analysis. Nelly’s guests are early and mid-career archaeologists working in archaeology and museum worlds that remain elitist and exclusively reserved for members of a privileged and well-established social class. In each episode, she gives the metaphorical floor to a young voice in Lebanese archaeology and asks them to discuss their career within this system and the place of archaeology in contemporary Lebanese public life.
Today, we hear from Dr. Sarah Mady, lecturer in anthropology at Fordham University. Before moving to the United States in 2015, Sarah was a full-time field archaeologist and a research assistant at the University of Balamand, where she had been building a career since 2006. In this episode, Sarah connects the current state of the field of Lebanese archaeology to decades of colonialism, politics, sectarianism, and elitism.
Nelly Abboud is a freelance museum educator, founder, and director of Museolab, a cultural Lab that works on promoting cultural heritage through the use of experiential learning tools and methods. She is also a researcher interested in heritage and museum studies, cultural memory, public archaeology, and social collective impact.
Dr. Sarah Mady holds a Ph.D. from Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University. Her research studies healing shrines in North Lebanon and the ways in which women and mothers have produced and used these spaces as a part of their daily lives and lived religion.
NB: Since this episode was recorded, Sarah Mady has successfully completed her doctoral studies and now holds a PhD in Archaeology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Credits:
Writing, Production, & Editing: Nelly AbboudProduction Support: Anar ParikhThumbnail Image: Sarah MadyFeatured Music: ‘Hanging Moon’ by Le Trio JoubranExecutive Producer: Anar Parikh
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Podcast: Public Defenseless (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 157: The Racist History of the "Child Welfare" System w/Ieshaah Murphy
Pub date: 2023-09-05
Today, Hunter spoke with Professor Ieshaah Murphy to understand how the racist history of the “Child Welfare” should inform our understanding of that very systems today. When analyzing a system for any type of systemic bias, it is essential to understand bot the past and present of the system. If a system that claims to be race neutral, but started with a clear racial animus and continues to produce racially disparate outcomes, it is compelling evidence that its bias initial purpose may still be active to this day.
Guests:
Professor Ieshaah Murphy, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense and Racial Justice Clinic, University of DC David A. Clarke School of Law
Resources:
Follow Professor Murphy on Twitter
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Professor Murphy’s Faculty Page
https://law.udc.edu/ieshaah-murphy/
Fostering False Identities Book
https://www.amazon.com/Fostering-False-Identity-Welfare-Systems/dp/B08TQGG3FR
Torn Apart
https://www.amazon.com/Torn-Apart-Destroys-Families-Abolition/dp/1541675444
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Podcast: The Shrapnel Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 4. Human Rights Are Not Orange or Green
Pub date: 2023-09-08
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen's University Belfast School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. In this episode of Shrapnel the lads talk to John about his research on loyalism, encouraging self-discovery and organic intellectualism, agonism, Britishness in a new Ireland and generous majorities.Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tortoise-shack-live-tickets-698299581847?aff=erelexpmltWealth Tax Pod:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-88796012
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A History of Hacking
Pub date: 2023-09-05
Guest: Scott J. Shapiro is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School and the director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy and its CyberSecurity Lab. He is the author of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.
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Podcast: The Another Europe Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 94: Robert Oppenheimer, anti-fascism and the nuclear bomb
Pub date: 2023-09-01
It was a scientific discovery that changed the world forever. The nuclear bomb was largely a brainchild of left wing scientists who were determined Nazi Germany would not win the race to build this terrible weapon. The recent Hollywood biopic focuses on the role of Robert Oppenheimer in this fascinating period in history, the man who led the team working under the direction of the American government in this top secret project, who would become a prominent victim of the McCarthyite purges in the 1950s.
In this podcast, Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams talk to LSE professor and Another Europe Is Possible member, Mary Kaldor, about this fascinating history. While she never met Oppenheimer himself, Kaldor met a number of other figures in the film and others that didn't make it into the script, particularly at the Pugwash conferences on disarmament that created a unique space for dialogue between scientists on either side of the Cold War divide.
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Podcast: What a Hell of a Way to Die (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: ‘Green Card Soldiers’ in the Military Machine feat. Sofya Aptekar
Pub date: 2023-08-31
For this week’s episode, Nate speaks with sociologist Sofya Aptekar (@sofyaaptekar), a professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, about her book ‘Green Card Solider: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat.’ Many people don’t realize that you can enlist in the US military without citizenship—and that, at least for a time, the US military helped facilitate naturalization as a US citizen. But it turns out that it’s not always (or even often) the primary driver of green card holders being recruited. And the experience of thousands of deported veterans can also attest to the fact that veteran status does not guarantee any protection to non-citizens.
Check out Sofya’s book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047890/green-card-soldier/
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Podcast: The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Cycles, with Ana Valdivia
Pub date: 2023-08-28
Ana Valdivia walks me through her research on the connections between data centers, AI, and mining. We discuss what it means to be a researcher looking at controversial, problematic, and difficult to access sites, and what resistance to the AI industry — which gobbles up water, minerals, land, and electricity at incredible rates — can look like. Recorded Jul 28, 2023. Released Aug 28, 2023.
Rural Spain could end up hosting infrastructure hubs for AI – here’s what the environmental cost could be
https://theconversation.com/rural-spain-could-end-up-hosting-infrastructure-hubs-for-ai-heres-what-the-environmental-cost-could-be-205504
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Behind the News: A Social History of the Internet w/ Taylor Lorenz
Pub date: 2023-08-29
Lisa Corrigan, author of a recent Nation article, explains what the savage cuts at West Virginia University mean for higher ed. Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online, discusses the social history of the internet.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online.
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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan
Pub date: 2023-08-29
Henry Ford tried to build a Midwestern American town in the Amazon rainforest in the 1920s. It's true. And yes, Chuck will say this should be a movie.
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Podcast: American History Hit (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Pueblo Revolt
Pub date: 2023-08-10
On August 10 1680, the Pueblo people began the most successful uprising against colonial power in North America.
For 11 days, Spanish colonisers were driven out, taken prisoner or killed, their horses were stolen and Christian churches were burnt to the ground. They did not manage to return for the following 12 years. The Pueblo people rebuilt their society and ensured the survival of their traditions, languages and religions.
Matt Liebmann joins Don today to discuss the revolt and to share some of his findings from archaeological research in New Mexico.
Matt is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, he has conducted collaborative research with the Pueblo of Jemez since 2001.
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Podcast: High Theory (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Polyphony
Pub date: 2023-08-24
In this episode of High Theory, Brian Fairley tells us about Polyphony, a concept from music that describes multiple melodic lines sounding at once. The many voices of polyphony have an ancient and colonial history, which has reappeared in some key reverberations in twentieth century criticism and theory.
In the conversation, we discuss several texts, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929); James Clifford and George Marcus, Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (UC Press, 1986); Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Knopf, 1993); and one of Kim’s favorite scholarly books, Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (Princeton, 2021). Brian also discusses Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work “On Difference Without Separability.”
Brian Fairley received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University in 2023; he is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Amherst College.His manuscript in progress, Dissected Listening: Race, Nation, and Polyphony in the South Caucasus, excavates a series of experimental sound recordings from 1916 to 1966 to show how the concept of musical polyphony emerged in tandem with techniques of multichannel sound and imperial discourses of racial, national, and religious difference. His work has appeared in the journal Ethnomusicology and is forthcoming in Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory, as well as an edited volume titled Key Terms in Music Theory for Antiracist Scholars.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Salmon Wars: How the Industrialization of Atlantic Salmon is Endangering our Health and Environment
Pub date: 2023-08-17
Guests:
Douglas Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times. After his career in journalism, he was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, and deputy secretary-general at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He has written several nonfiction books with his wife, Catherine Collins, including Fallout and Celebration, U.S.A. His latest, co-authored with Catherine Collins is Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish.
Catherine Collins is a former private investigator with specialty in international financial fraud. Previously, Catherine Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She has written several nonfiction books with her husband, Douglas Frantz, including The Man from Pakistan and Death on the Black Sea. Her latest, co-authored with Douglas Frantz is Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish.
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Podcast: The Sociology Show (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why is football hooliganism back on the rise? (Prof Les back and Dr Isaac Hoff)
Pub date: 2023-08-28
In this episode, Matthew talks to Professor Les Back and Dr Isaac Hoff about the rise of hooliganism and anti social behaviour at football grounds post covid. Ideas around drug use, masculinity, cultural resistance, subcultures and moral panics are all discussed. Is the problem really as bad as the media make out it is?
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Podcast: The White-Collar Crimes Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Edwin Sutherland- The Man Behind the Term White-Collar Crime
Pub date: 2023-08-22
You may have wondered who coined the term "white-collar crime." The name was coined in 1939 by University of Indiana sociologist, Edwin Sutherland. His work has paved the way to what we now recognize as crimes of greed often committed by powerful elites. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryan-christopher-horn/support
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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Radical Politics of Madness-Micha Frazer-Carroll
Pub date: 2023-08-30
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a writer, editor, and advocate whose work ventures into the radical politics of madness and mental health. Our exploration will excavate the connections between mental health, power structures, societal norms, liberation, and disability justice.
A columnist at the Independent and previously an editor for publications such as the Guardian, gal-dem, and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded, Micha has consistently used her voice to challenge mainstream, decontextualized, and depoliticized discourses in psychology and psychiatry. As a result, Micha has positioned herself at the forefront of redefining how we approach and understand madness in our society.
Her book, "Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health," published by Pluto Press, is an insightful journey that unearths mental health as a political issue, extending beyond mere personal concern. It challenges our understanding of mental health by connecting it to capitalism, racism, disability justice, queer liberation, and other social frameworks.
In Mad World, she is breaking barriers and creating new ways to understand care, empathy, and mental health itself. It’s been hailed as a “radical antidote” to how we usually think about these subjects, a guide for anyone who wants to challenge the status quo in our fields.
As we discuss "The Radical Politics of Madness" today, we'll explore what it means to reframe mental health as an urgent political concern and how Micha's work serves as a testament to the transformative power of radical thinking in a world often confined by labels, diagnoses, and societal constraints.
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Podcast: Circular Metabolism Podcast
Episode: Pathways towards Post-Growth (Julia Steinberger, Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis)
Pub date: 2023-08-02
🍩 Numerous scholars propose post-growth or doughnut economics as a vision for a desirable, just and ecologically restorative future. Nevertheless, it is sometimes unclear, how to make this desirable future a reality.
🔍 To explore how to develop a Post-Growth Deal, I invited not one but 3 fantastic guests on the Circular Metabolism Podcast : Julia Steinberger professor of Ecological Economics at Université de Lausanne, Giorgos Kallis professor of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and finally Jason Hickel Professor at the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
🏆 Together, they were awarded a European Research Council (ERC) project entitled a “Post-Growth Deal” trying to answer this essential question : “how can dramatic reductions in energy and resource use be achieved, while at the same time ending poverty and ensuring decent lives for all” ?
🎤 In this episode we discuss about :
1️⃣ What lead them focus on Post-Growth ?
2️⃣ How and why they developed this project ?
3️⃣ What are the 5 pillars of post-growth they will focus on (1/ Planetary space of Possibilities, 2/ Post-growth Policy Packages, 3/ Provisioning Systems, 4/Political Movements, 5/Practical Implementation through Participation).
4️⃣ What would Post-Growth territories look like ?
5️⃣ Books and audio recommendations ?
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Podcast: Then & Now (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Case for Open Access: A Conversation with Peter Baldwin
Pub date: 2023-08-02
In this episode, historian Peter Baldwin makes the case for open access. He surveys the history of knowledge production and transmission from the Gutenberg Bible, which opened up access in unprecedented ways. Open access today, he argues, is not a novelty but continuous with earlier developments in which artists and thinkers were "workers for hire," who were compensated for their creative and scholarly labor. In the same vein, university professors are paid to produce scholarship which, Baldwin argues, should incline them to accept open access. The conversation takes up the fate of copyright, ownership of ideas, and the core notion of authorship, all the more important to consider in the age of AI.
Peter Baldwin is an Emeritus Professor of History at UCLA. His previous books have focused on comparative histories of Europe and America as well as the history of copyright law. Dr. Baldwin’s most recent book, Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should be Free for All, was published by MIT Press in March 2023 as an open-access volume.
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism with Jason Hickel
Pub date: 2023-08-05
The title of this week’s episode is taken from an article to be published in September’s Monthly Review. The author, Jason Hickel, talks to Steve about the topic in his third visit to the podcast.
Before we look at the double objective of ecosocialism we must analyze the double crisis we’re facing – ecological and social. Both are caused by the same underlying issue: the capitalist mode of production.
Capitalism creates an almost perfect circuit that begins and ends with commodification and enclosure. Well, actually, it ends with massive profits... and that double crisis we mentioned. With essential goods and services outside our control, we have no bargaining power when it comes to the cost of living. We are helpless in the face of artificial scarcity and price-gouging. Faced with the high price of necessities we are forced to work longer and harder in order to simply survive. And of course, the more we need to work, the less control we have over our wages. The capitalist class makes out at both ends.
There are at least two undeniable problems with this system. It wreaks havoc on the environment and is inconsistent with democracy, if you care about that sort of thing.
“This is where our analysis has to ultimately lead, and the underlying pathology is basically that capitalism is fundamentally not democratic.”
Even those of us who live in the US, Europe, or other countries with nominally democratic electoral systems have no illusions about their undemocratic nature.
“More importantly, when it comes to the system of production, which all of us are engaged in every day, on which our livelihoods and our existence depends, not even the shallowest illusion of democracy is allowed to enter.”
After identifying the quagmire, Jason and Steve talk about a solution. Jason lays out the necessary policies that ecosocialism should provide: universal public services, a public works program, and the job guarantee. Jason even suggests the possibility of post-capitalist firms and post-capitalist markets, and describes how they might operate in such a system.
We can’t have a Jason Hickel episode without a discussion of degrowth and whether that concept applies to the exploitation of the Global South. Nor is there a means of achieving our goals without domestic and international class solidarity.
“We can't underestimate the scale of the struggle that is really involved here. I think we have to take inspiration from successful social movements that have occurred in the past. There's this amazing line from Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso that goes 'we are the heirs of the world's revolutions'.
Pretty much every good thing that we have is the result of revolutionary forces that fought to bring that to be. Everything from literally the minimum wage, as pitiful as it is, to the weekends, to whatever admittedly meager forms of democracy we get to exercise. These are all the benefits of revolutionary movements that have at least won some concessions in the past, and in some cases against extraordinary odds.”
Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Health.
Jason's research focuses on global political economy, inequality, and ecological economics, which are the subjects of his two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020), which was listed by the Financial Times and New Scientist as a book of the year.
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Podcast: The Briefing Room (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is it Saudi's century?
Pub date: 2023-08-03
With vast financial resources and a new found desire to engage in regional and global diplomacy, Saudi Arabia has got the world's attention. But just how powerful can it become?
David Aaronovitch talks to:
Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent Quinn Slobodian, Professor of History at Wellesley College and author of Crack-Up Capitalism Simon Chadwick, Professor of sport and geopolitical economy at Skema Business School in Paris Cinzia Bianco, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations Safa al-Ahmad, Saudi journalist and documentary maker
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Inside Afghanistan's secret schools
Pub date: 2023-08-08
In March 2022, seven months after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, second level education was banned for girls, leaving around 1.1 million of them without access to formal schooling. Then in December that year, all female students were refused access to universities and colleges. But across the country, Afghan women and girls are fighting back, and defying the Taliban government by continuing their education in secret. Founded and, for the most part, staffed by women, secret schools have started to emerge from the shadows, offering online and in-person classes to those brave enough to attend. BBC Afghan broadcast journalist, Sana Safi, takes us inside two such secret schools, and into the hearts and minds of those who, despite the risks, refuse to be denied an education.
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Podcast: Behind the Bastards (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Part One: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas
Pub date: 2023-08-08
Robert sits down with Kat Abu to talk about Rafael Trujillo, the genocidal dictator and most prolific godfather in world history.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E109 - Power and Struggle in Modern Mexico w/ Dawn Marie Paley
Pub date: 2023-08-08
Danny and Derek speak with Dawn Marie Paley, investigative journalist and editor of Ojalá, a new online weekly dedicated to in-depth, independent coverage of Latin America in English and Spanish. They discuss a range of social challenges in modern Mexico, touching on the wave of disappearances dating back to Calderon’s so-called War on Drugs, how the drug war is a tool to assert social and territorial control, the role of global capital, US-Mexico security and migration policy, organized movements among marginialized groups in Mexico today, and more.
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Podcast: New Books in Genocide Studies (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Pub date: 2023-08-03
n this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world’s worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism–and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn’t concern them?
Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of the Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel’s past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel.
With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze’ev Jabotinksy‘s bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion…
Mentioned in this episode:
- Zionist and ethnonationalist Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1880-1940): "We must eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will eliminate us."
- Novalis (the German Romantic writer Georg Von Hardenberg) says somewhere "Every book must contain its counter-book."
- Slavoj Zizek makes the case that everything is political including the choice not to have a politics.
- Joshua wants readers to think about why celebrated postwar American fiction by Jewish authors like Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth (starting from his 1959 Goodbye Columbus) largely ignores both the Holocaust and Israel until the 1970s or 1980s. Joshua invokes Harold Bloom's 1973 Anxiety of Influence to explain his relationship to them. He is less interested in Hannah Arendt.
- "Shoah Religion" is the way in which the Holocaust came to not only function as a key element in post-war American Jewish identification but also to legitimate the state of Israel (cf Abba Eban's famous quip "There's no business like Shoah business")
- Yekke: a German-Jew in Israel or American characterized by an ethos of industrial self-restraint and German culture, satirized in Israeli culture as a man who wears a three piece suit in the middle of summer heat.
- Leon Feuchtwanger
- "There's hope but not for us" Joshua (subtly) quotes a line of Kafka's that Walter Benjamin (in "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death‟ from Illuminations) apparently lifted from Max Brod ("Oh Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.")
- Yitzhak La’or "you ever want a poem to become real"
- Netanyahu tells the story of the snowy drive to Ithaca (again) in an interview with Barry Weiss.
- Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 68: Critical Theory from Below—Race, Gender, and the Frankfurt School
Pub date: 2023-08-04
In episode 68 of the Podcast for Social Research, live-recorded at BISR’s recent symposium The Frankfurt School and the Now, panelists William Paris, Nathan Duford, Eduardo Mendieta, and Paul North tackle the question: What use does Frankfurt School critical theory, a thought movement composed largely of mid-20th-century white men, have for contemporary thinking about race, sex and gender? The conversation touches on, among other things, the Frankfurt School’s amalgam of Marx and Freud; the patriarch as racketeer (the threatening figure who protects the woman from himself); the pitfalls of moralism and the fetishization of suffering; Walter Benjamin’s paradoxical understanding of the “tradition of the oppressed”; and Frantz Fanon’s notion of race as a pathology of time (that is, the denial of our capacity to live, in the future, in a different sort of world). How can we understand the seemingly inextricable relationship between gender panic and normativity and authoritarianism? What will race come to mean in the context of a warming planet (which most threatens black and brown people in the global south)? Who are the thinkers who have taken up Frankfurt School critical theory and pushed it in feminist directions?
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Podcast: Knowing Animals (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 220: Categorizing (and Killing) Cats with Virginia Thomas
Pub date: 2023-08-07
The guest on this episode is Dr Virginia Thomas, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter in the UK. She has a background in literature, science communication, and sociology, and was previously a veterinary nurse. We talk about her paper ‘Categorisation of cats: managing boundary felids in Aotearoa New Zealand and Britain’. The paper was co-written with Dr Alexandra Palmer of the University of Auckland. The paper is due to be published OPEN ACCESS in the journal People and Nature on the same day this episode is released.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The For-Profit Catastrophe of Kidney Dialysis
Pub date: 2023-08-03
Guest: Tom Mueller is the author of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil; Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud; and his latest, How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine.
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Podcast: The Magnificast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: HINK
Pub date: 2023-07-29
It's Matt's last episode in the USA, and we're talking about one of its greatest critics among liberation theologians, Franz Hinkelammert! Tune in to hear why even leftists can have a little idolatry critique, as a treat.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Portugal's Revolution w/ Raquel Varela
Pub date: 2023-07-28
For almost fifty years, Portugal was ruled by a right-wing dictatorship. There was a military coup against Portuguese democracy in 1926. Antonio Salazar became the leader of the so-called Estado Novo in the same year Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House. His successor Marcelo Caetano was still in power when Richard Nixon was re-elected four decades later.
Then, in April 1974, a group of junior army officers made a plan to overthrow the dictatorship. The Carnation Revolution brought down the Estado Novo and kick started a period of intense political upheaval. Its legacy can still be felt in Europe half a century later.
Raquel Varela, professor of history at the New University in Lisbon and author of several books, including A People’s History of the Portuguese Revolution, joins Long Reads for a discussion about the upheaval and its legacy.
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Podcast: Democracy in Question? (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Alejandra Ballon Gutierrez on Body Politics in Peru
Pub date: 2023-07-25
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Glossary
USAID
(19:20 or p.4 in the transcript)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was developed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. He created the agency after signing an executive order to advance American interests abroad through development efforts and humanitarian aid. With the global economy still relatively fragile less than two decades after the end of World War II, it was essential for the U.S.'s own prosperity to promote growth in developing countries and to help nations maintain their independence and freedom.
USAID works in more than 100 developing countries spanning the globe in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Eurasia. The agency, which has field offices in the areas noted above, is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with organizational units that are called bureaus. Those working in each unit are responsible for programs and activities in a specific country.
The agency's mission and objectives remain the same today. USAID's mission is to boost democratic values across the world, helping nations become self-reliant as they progress in their own development. While promoting development and reducing poverty are among its aims, it also promotes democratic governance in recipient nations, and helps counteract the drivers of violence, instability, transnational crime, and other security threats. source
Truth Commission or Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(31:52 or p.7 in the transcript)
In 1980 the Shining Path, a Maoist opposition group, began an uprising against the Peruvian military dictatorship to protest pervasive social and economic inequalities. In 1982, the TúpacAmaru Revolutionary Movement began fighting against the military as well and also engaged in an internal conflict with the Shining Path. The war disproportionately affected the remote Ayacucho Region where forty percent of an estimated 70,000 deaths and disappearances occurred. Activity of the Shining Path significantly diminished after their leader Abimael Guzmán and other key members were captured in 1992. The government's engagement in the conflict ended after President Alberto Fujimori was forced from office in November 2000. In December 2000, the caretaker government of Valentin Paniagua approved the establishment of a truth commission, which was inaugurated on July 13, 2001, and began its work after President-elect Alejandro Toledo took office later that month.
Interim president Paniagua decided to establish the Commission with the approving vote of his Cabinet. Supreme Resolution from February 27, 2001 proposed the creation of a truth commission and established a working group to design its mandate. The commission was set up by a decree.Its mandate was to investigate assassinations, torture, disappearances, displacement, employment of terrorist methods and other violations attributable to the State, the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement between May 1980 and November 2000 during the administrations of former Presidents Fernando Belaunde (1980 - 1985), Alan Garcia (1985 - 1990) and Alberto Fujimori (1990 - 2000).
The TRC was comprised of twelve Peruvian commissioners, ten men and two women, chaired by Salomón Lerner Febres. The President appointed the members of the commission with the approval of the Council of Ministers. The commission opened five regional offices to carry out its work. On August 28, 2003, the commission released its 8,000-page final report to then President Alejandro Toledo and to other members of the government. source
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 67: What is Critical Theory?
Pub date: 2023-07-28
In episode 67 of the Podcast for Social Research, a live recording of the opening panel of two-day symposium Frankfurt School and the Now, BISR’s Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Rebecca Ariel Porte and guests Seyla Benhabib and Aaron Benanav answer the perennial question, What is Critical Theory? As they trace a line from Kant to Marx to the classic and latter-day Frankfurt School critical theorists, they grapple with a wide range of attending questions: How can we understand the concept of critique itself? How does philosophy relate to social theory? What are we to make of critical theory's fraught history as a practice of negativity (the source of many of its most piercing insights and also of its perceived troubles for praxis)? Must criticism provide a solution? Or is the critique of “progress” as urgent as ever? In the 21st century, what remains of critical theory—and what doesn’t?
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Podcast: Black Stories. Black Truths.
Episode: Eric André on pulling a prank in late stage capitalism
Pub date: 2023-07-31
The prince of pranks, Eric André, changed the comedy landscape with his long-running series on Adult Swim, The Eric André Show. After a 3-year hiatus, the show is back. Brittany Luse sits down with André to talk about the new season, his pranks on Amber Rose and Jaleel White, and why his humor seems to always flip the script of figures of authority and create heroes out of average Joes.
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Podcast: Talking Strategy (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S4E3: Shaka Zulu: Africa’s Greatest Commander? with Professor John Laband
Pub date: 2023-08-01
Shaka Zulu (c. 1787–1828) was the most powerful king in southern Africa during the pre-colonial period. He forged a polity that would become the largest in the region through the ruthless use of his reorganised and loyal army.
Initially regarded as an upstart, Shaka managed to impose himself as a regional ruler. Invaded by a powerful neighbouring tribe, he organised the collective defence of the Zulus and other tribes, reorganising the militia and drawing on indigenous traditions, without any European influences. He then turned to crushing the surrounding chiefdoms with the utmost brutality, leaving a trail of massacres and destruction in his wake. Operating with only 5,000 to 10,000 warriors at any given time, Shaka – like Napoleon – prevailed not through the introduction of new technologies, but through innovative ways of training and employing his army.
Professor John Laband is the world-leading expert on Zulu history. A graduate of the University of Natal and Cambridge, he is Professor Emeritus of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He joins Beatrice and Paul for this episode.
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Podcast: Sociotechs
Episode: Border Externalization and Surveillance: Unraveling EU's Techno Borders
Pub date: 2023-08-01
We delve into the world of border securitization and specifically, the involvement of AI in the EU's border externalization strategy. Our guest Antonella Napolitano sheds light on using surveillance technologies at the borders. From the concept of "border externalization" to the implications of the AI Act, we explore the consequences of outsourcing surveillance and the role of the EU as a funder. Join us as we discuss how these technologies shape migration policies and consider how researchers and activists could make an impact toward better outcomes. Finally, we explore ways to oppose the detrimental outcomes of surveillance technologies and curb the degenerative dynamics of EU-funded surveillance.
Antonella Napolitano is an independent advisor who works with a broad spectrum of organizations in the spaces of human rights and protection. She is the author of “Artificial Intelligence: The New Frontier of the EU’s Border Externalisation Strategy”, a report published by EuroMed Rights on the involvement of AI in EU’s border externalization and its surveillance implications.
Resources: Report: Artificial Intelligence: The New Frontier Of The EU's Border Externalisation Strategy Report: Europe's Techno Borders
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Podcast: The Surfing Historian (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2: E4: The American Surfer and Capitalism with Kristin Lawler
Pub date: 2023-07-30
For this episode, I interview sociologist Dr. Kristin Lawler about her book, The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism; we also chat about her essay on the Nietzschean connections between early twentieth century surfers and the hobos of the Industrial Workers of the World–an essay that will be published in the forthcoming book, Roll and Flow: The Political Ontology of Surfing and Skateboarding; and finally, I get her thoughts on the current state of critical surf studies as a field of academic inquiry.
Dr. Lawler is a professor of sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. Her first book, The American Surfer, was published by Routledge in 2011, and her new book, co-edited with Michael Roberts and David Cline, entitled Roll and Flow, is being published by San Diego State University Press and should be available this fall. The American Surfer, however, is featured on surfinghistorian.com.
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Podcast: dunc tank (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Andrew Walder - The Cultural Revolution
Pub date: 2023-07-31
Andrew Walder is a political sociologist at Stanford, and the author of several books on Mao and the Cultural Revolution. His latest book is Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery.
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Podcast: Reimagine Talks
Episode: Reimagine power with Manuel Castells
Pub date: 2023-07-20
Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He is as well University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, and Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is a fellow of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. Professor Castells hold the chair of Network Society, Collège d’Études Mondiales, Paris.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Special - The Coup in Niger w/ Alex Thurston
Pub date: 2023-07-28
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Derek welcomes back Alex Thurston, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, for a discussion of this week’s coup in Niger, led by General Abdourahamane Tiani and which ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.
Check out Alex’s piece in Responsible Statecraftto learn more!
Recorded Friday, July 28, 2023
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Podcast: BBC Inside Science (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The science of sound
Pub date: 2023-07-19
Scientists, conservationists and other researchers are using audio soundscapes in innovative ways to record the natural world in rich detail and help develop strategies to preserve it.
Gaia Vince visits the Dear Earth exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre where she interacts with the ‘Tell It To The Birds’ artwork by Jenny Kendler. This piece transforms spoken word into birdsong, which Jenny hopes will help raise awareness of threatened species. She is joined by Dr Patricia Brekke from the Zoological Society of London who reveals more about the threats faced by birds.
We then visit the Knepp Estate to meet ecologist Penny Green, who reveals more about the value of audio for her work.
Gaia then speaks to Dr Alice Eldridge, an acoustics expert from the University of Sussex, who has spearheaded the Wilding Radio project at the Knepp Estate in Sussex. She was curious to find out whether the sounds in the environment would change following the introduction of beavers to the estate. In collaboration with arts cooperative Soundcamp, she built high-quality, solar-powered equipment to continuously broadcast the soundscape from above and below the water.
While we can record animals which we currently share the world with, what about those that have been lost forever? Cheryl Tipp, the British Library’s curator of wildlife and environmental sounds, looks after the library’s audio collection of more than 250,000 species and habitat recordings. She shares the heartbreaking tale of a now-extinct bird and explains why sound is such a valuable resource.
Finally, Dr Tim Lamont, a marine biologist from Lancaster University, tells us why a degraded coral reef sounds different from a healthy one. He explains how broadcasting the sounds of a healthy reef can help attract more marine wildlife to an area.
Presenter: Gaia Vince Producer: Hannah Fisher Content Producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Editor: Richard Collings
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Algorithmic Intimacy – self-love, liability and babies as click bait
Pub date: 2023-07-30
Chatbots and other forms of interactive AI aren't just shaping our online preferences, they're gradually redefining the contours of what we mean by love, sexuality and intimacy. Sociologist Anthony Elliott warns the impacts will be society-wide, not just personal. Also, do we need a set of general principles for managing chatbot liability in the absence of regulation? And how the rights of children are being overlooked in the hyper-contructed world of the "momfluencer".
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Podcast: Slate Money (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Wal-Mart v. Amazon: The Battle for Retail’s Soul
Pub date: 2023-07-22
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by author Jason Del Rey to talk physical retail’s woes. They discuss Jason’s new book, Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets. Then they dig intowhat is going on with physical retail space and how looting can help Amazon and other resalers.And finally, why the IRS is investigating crypto bros in Puerto Rico.
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Podcast: Crime World (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 331: Daniel Kinahan and the cocaine billionaires
Pub date: 2023-07-22
US sanctions against the Kinahan mob have been extended to a number of key associates linked to the European Super Cartel.
But with all still finding shelter and safety in the United Arab Emirates can we trust Dubai to hand back the wanted?
Nicola is joined by Niall Donald and Italian journalist, mafia expert and author Floriana Bulfon about the international conglomerate of cocaine billionaires who are proving hard to break.
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Mexican Dirty War: From Cárdenas to Zapatismo with Adela Cedillo
Pub date: 2023-07-24
Rudy joins Adela Cedillo, co-editor of Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982, and author of several studies on the Mexican dirty war such as El Fuego y El Silencio, Historia de las Fuerzas de Liberación Nacional Mexicanas (1969-1974), for a conversation on this period of history. We discuss the mixed legacy of the Mexican revolution, the state of the left after the progressive presidency of Lazaro Cárdenas, the two periods in Mexican insurrectionism: before and after the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and how the left responded to this event. We continue by discussing the origins of the Frente de Liberación Nacional (FLN), how its strategy evolved, and how it laid the base for the Zapatistas. We finish by briefly discussing how the Zapatistas are different from their predecessors and how the dirty war slowly evolved into the drug war.
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Podcast: Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Social Reproduction in Theory and Practice: Socialist Feminism and the Politics of Care
Pub date: 2023-07-22
‘Social Reproduction’ has re-emerged as a central idea in left-feminist analyses of contemporary power relations and institutions. What light can it shed on our situation in the post-pandemic era and how does it relate to the politics of work, life and care?
Speakers:
Helen Hester, Professor of Media and Communication, University of West London. Author of Xenofeminism
Jo Littler, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City University London, editor of Left Feminisms and co-author of The Care Manifesto.
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Podcast: The New Statesman Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What does a think tank actually do?
Pub date: 2023-07-24
Shadowy forces, deep state actors in the pay of nefarious oligarchs... or an important part of the political ecosystem?
Rachel Cunliffe meets senior figures from three think tanks from across the political spectrum to find out how think tanks work, how they are funded, and the role they play in creating public policy.
Guests:
Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)
Carys Roberts, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
Matthew Lawrence, founder and director of Common Wealth
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Podcast: Democracy That Delivers (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 372: How can Public Banks in the Global South Strengthen Democracy and Governance, with Thomas Marois.
Pub date: 2023-07-19
How can Public Banks in the Global South strengthen democracy and governance? Thomas Marois, a global expert on public banks and a political economy specialist, draws from his background working with numerous public financial institutions around the globe. Marois, a recent Reader in Development Studies at SOAS University of London and a Professor in Political Science at McMaster University, where he is working towards creating a new global center for public banking, explains how public banks can and are already helping countries around the world, notably in Vietnam, achieve their sustainability goals. Jennifer Anderson, Program Director of CIPE's Asia and Pacific Team, hosts the podcast.
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Podcast: Accidental Gods (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Green New Deal that Works for People and Planet with Max Ajl
Pub date: 2023-07-19
Our guest this week is Max Ajl, who is an associate researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He has written for multiple journals and is an associate editor at Agrarian South & Journal of Labor and Society.
It was his 2021, his book, 'A People's Green New Deal', published by Pluto Press, that brought Max to my attention. If you've been listening to the podcast for any length of time, you'll know that one of our regular contributors, Simon Michaux, is adamant that the material flows for the various posited Green New Deals don't exist - that they are logistical impossibilities. But what Max argues strongly and with brilliant clarity in his book and elsewhere, is why these things should not happen even if they could: why they are better viewed as extensions of the Giant Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity (not his phrase) - and that there's a better, much more deeply green set of ideas and ideals based in actual earth connection, the restoration of what should be fundamental human rights across the world and the widespread implementation of agro-ecological principles.
His book seems to me an eco-socialist manifesto and while its values are closely aligned with the podcast, the nature of this as a political theoretical and practical concept is not something we'd previously explored on the podcast. So now we have. In the course of our early discussion, we touched on the Cochamamba Peoples' Agreement - and then never came back to it. So very briefly, I'd like to fill you in, because this agreement is both an internationally agreed document and, in itself, a statement of core ecosocialist principles. The conference from which it arose took place in April 2010, when more than 35,000 people from 140 countries gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and developed a consensus-based document reflecting substantive solutions to the climate crisis.
Two things arise immediately. First, thirteen years on, we would call it the climate, ecological and cultural crisis. Second, and more important than the semantics - much though they matter - was the ways this agreement came into being. There were 17 working groups, and a lot of effort was put into consensus building - working out what mattered and what worked, or could be imagined to work - not the failed COP process of deleting anything that offends a member state until you have a basically meaningless document. I've attached links in the show notes and I really recommend you follow them, because it is profoundly important.
It is, in fact, the framework we need to work towards. What's distressing is that it's over 13 years old and hardly anyone in the hegemonic nations of what Max Ajl calls the core - as opposed to the periphery - has heard about it and still fewer care. So we need to change that. If you do one thing after this podcast, as Max says, it'll be to join an organisation. If you do two things, the second will be to tell people about the Cochabamba People's Agreement. And Max's book.
The sound quality was not the best. but Alan has woven his production magic and I hope your ears will accept the result as a price worth paying for the ideas we explore here.
A People's Green New Deal https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/
Cochabamba People's Climate Agreement https://www.climateemergencyinstitute.com/uploads/Peoples_climate_agreement.pdf
and
https://archive.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/the-environment/climate-change/49253-need-for-recognition-of-cochabamba-peoples-agreement-in-un-climate-negotiations.html
Landworkers' Alliance https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/
La Via Campesina https://viacampesina.org/en/
Colin Duncan The Centrality of Agriculture https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-centrality-of-agriculture-between-humankind-and-the-rest-of-nature-colin-a-m-duncan/3518385?ean=9780773513631
Selimah Vaiani Rethinking Unequal Exchange: the global integration of nursing labour markets https://utorontopress.com/us/rethinking-unequal-exchange-4
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 3136 - Big Tech At The Border; Far-Right Wins In Finland w/ Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Kyle Bailey
Pub date: 2023-07-20
REST IN POWER MICHAEL JAMAL BROOKS
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It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks to Melissa Villa-Nicholas, associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island, to discuss her recent book Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building An Industry Around Immigrants. Then, she is joined by Kyle Bailey, Ph.D candidate at York University in Toronto, to discuss the recent right wing shift in Finland's government. First, Emma runs through updates on Trump’s various legal woes, Biden’s meeting with the president of the UAW, the absurd ongoings of the House, abortion legislation, and labor news, before reflecting on the 3rd anniversary of the passing of Michael Brooks, and his lasting legacy on the Left, and watching Biden’s recent statements on labor policy. Melissa Villa-Nicholas then dives right into her concept of “Data Borders,” looking at the core concept of “borderlands,” particularly those between the US and Mexico, and how data plays a massive role in the functioning of these areas – particularly when it comes to the interactions between individuals and federal agencies. Professor Villa-Nicholas then dives into the role of tech companies like Amazon and Palantir in constructing massive databases for law enforcement and predictive policing, that often rely on the data mining of immigrants, with border and immigration agencies like ICE and DHS tracking all sorts of biometric data from those crossing (both legally, and illegally). Expanding on the public-private partnership between federal agencies and big tech, Melissa parses through the history of tech involvement in the militarization of police, how private surveillance has permeated myriad legal industries, and what the future of fighting for information autonomy – especially for non-citizens – looks like. Kyle Bailey then steps back as he walks Emma through the results from April’s election in Finland, seeing the emergence of a far-right-neoliberal coalition ousting the left-wing Prime Minister Sanna Mirella Marin, and why this flip largely lies in the classic anxieties around the collapse of neoliberalism, the climate, and rising populism. After expanding on the rise of the far-right Finns Party, and the militant racists that stand at its forefront, Bailey and Emma wrap up the interview by looking at the major policy implications of the new coalition, how it might impact Finnish labor and welfare, and the role the invasion of Ukraine has played so far.
And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder as they watch Sam’s message from the SAG-AFTRA picket line, talk with Micah from Sacramento, and watch Ben Shapiro attempt to Twitter-lawyer Donald Trump out of legal troubles. Candace Owens blames “gay pedophilia” on “gay people” rather than “pedophiles,” and Brett Weinstein comes to the shocking realization that much of the IDW community is aligned with Nazis, plus, your calls and IMs!
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Podcast: The Scholars' Circle
Episode: Scholars’ Circle – History of California as a Slave State – July 16, 2023
Pub date: 2023-07-17
We interview the author of a new book CALIFORNIA, A SLAVE STATE (Yale University Press; June 27, 2023). Professor Jean Pfaelzer shows that, since the very first colonizers crossed the border, the Golden State was and still is powered by slavery – a piece of American history that many still try to bury.
- Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, (Random House; University of California Press) as well Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism and The Utopian Novel in America. She lives in Washington, DC.
This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Melissa Chiprin and Sudd Dongre.
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Podcast: Say More
Episode: How to Beat the Disinformers
Pub date: 2023-07-19
Joan Donovan first saw extremism up close more than 20 years ago as the vocalist of a punk band in the Boston underground scene — when she got punched in the face by a neo-Nazi. Today, Joan is a sociologist at Harvard who studies disinformation and how it colors American society, including the outsized influence that white supremacists and other fringe groups hold in online forums and social media. With the 2024 presidential cycle already begun, what can the public — and the media — do to combat disinformation and limit the reach of bad actors? Find us online at globe.com/opinion.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier
Pub date: 2023-07-19
Today's episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.
Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who immigrated to Brazil in the 1990s. He is a sociologist and geographer. He is also Brazil Correspondent for TeleSur English, co-host of Globalistas on TV 247, Brasilwire, FAIR, COHA, Truthdig, Geopolitical Economy Report, Carta Capital, Outras Palavras.
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The World System and The Beautiful Game ⚽ with Sam Parry
Pub date: 2023-07-17
Rudy and Djamil join Sam Parry, author of The Ugly Economics of the Beautiful Game for a discussion on how capitalism interacts with the sport most of the world knows as football. We talk about the many ways in which capitalism interacts with international football from a world-systems perspective including how the periphery ends up supplying talent to the economic core, the tendencies towards vertical integration, the stickiness of capital, the historic patterns of club ownership, and the recent irruption of oil-money clubs. We also briefly talk about the ways national teams, race and football interact.
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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Capitalism as Usual w/ Cecilia Rikap
Pub date: 2023-07-20
MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today at patreon.com/macrodose to hear the full version of this interview and many more.
Our guest today is Cecilia Rikap, who is lecturer in International Political Economy at City University in London.
Cecilia's research focuses on the political economy of technology, and her last book, Capitalism, Power and Innovation, describes the emergence of what she called “intellectual monopoly capitalism” as giant tech companies come to dominate our economic life.
She summarised some of her arguments in a recent piece for the New Left Review, “Capitalism as Usual?”, which challenges some recent accounts by economists like Cedric Durand and Yanis Varoufakis, who argue that we are moving out of capitalism altogether, and into something they call “techno-feudalism”.
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Podcast: The Verso Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Walter Rodney: Guerilla Intellectual | Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Pub date: 2023-06-15
In this fourth episode of the newly relaunched Verso Podcast, Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Robin D.G. Kelley join Eleanor Penny to discuss the radical life and groundbreaking work of Guyanese historian, revolutionary, and guerrilla intellectual, Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 43 years ago this week.
You can find a selection of Walter Rodney's books on our website at https://tinyurl.com/4xd5twt6
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Merchants of Virtue: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian
Pub date: 2023-07-21
In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University about her book, Merchants of Virtue. Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (University of California University Press, 2022).
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Podcast: Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jeff Goodell on The Heat Will Kill You First
Pub date: 2023-07-12
According to award-winning journalist Jeff Goodell, the world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open.
Join us when Jeff Goodell expounds on his provocative book, The Heat Will Kill You First mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
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Podcast: Ordinary Unhappiness (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 16: Fantasy, Fascism, and Technology: From the Frankfurt School to Silicon Valley feat. Moira Weigel
Pub date: 2023-07-12
Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome writer, critic, and scholar Moira Weigel, co-founder of Logic magazine and co-editor with Ben Tarnoff of Voices of the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do And How They Do It. Moira introduces listeners to the history and key insights of the Frankfurt School in advance of a (free!) symposium this weekend in New York examining its legacy a hundred years later. They discuss Theodor Adorno’s work on “the authoritarian personality” and talk about personality types and social categories as they are constructed everywhere from astrology columns to the speeches of demagogues to Facebook algorithms. The four then turn to Moira’s recent work on Silicon Valley, especially her recent collection of interviews with tech workers ranging from engineers to writers to cooks to masseuses to data scientists to the larger-than-life “Founders.” They talk about the surprising sincerity of techno-optimism; what failing upwards does to people; what Adorno would have thought of being called a “thought leader”; whether the Internet is a giant hate machine; and the labor politics and emerging forms of Silicon Valley, a realm that’s bigger than just a geographical area, and where we all live, one way or another, like it or not.
To register for the 100 Years of the Frankfurt School event in NYC (and also streaming live) on July 14th and 15th: https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events/the-frankfurt-school-and-the-now-a-symposium/
Moira’s co-edited book Voices of the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It
Her book Labor of Love
The Adorno book about astrology is The Stars Down to EarthAnna Weiner’s book Uncanny Valley
Logic magazine (now being relaunched as Logics) is here: https://logicmag.io/
The Collective Action in Tech site that Moira refers to is https://collectiveaction.tech/
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interregnum - The meaning of Prigozhin's rebellion
Pub date: 2023-07-10
On the 23rd of June, following months of increasing tension between the Wagner Group and the Russian Ministry of Defence, Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his rebellion. Prigozhin's forces quickly took control of the head quarter's of Russia's Southern Military District in the city of Rostov-on-Don, after which an armoured column of Wagner troops advanced towards Moscow.
In today's episode of Interregnum I asked Richard Seymour about Prighozin's background in crime and his early business ventures, the founding of the Wagner Group, the scope of its operations and its reputation for appalling violence. And we also talked about why Richard thinks Prighozin can accurately be described as a fascist. Finally, Richard addressed the claim, made by some analysts that the abortive rebellion actually leaves Putin in a stronger position.
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Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 28: Decolonization and Ukraine with Geo Maher and Volodymyr Ishchenko
Pub date: 2023-07-06
On this episode we discuss the ins and outs of decolonization - as a set of historical revolutionary politics, intellectual tradition, contemporary framework of analysis as well the limitations and misuses of "decolonization" in the context of Ukraine and Russia today.
To do this we have invited two distinct yet complimentary thinkers to put their ideas into conversation with one another.
Geo Maher is a teacher, political theorist and author of Anti-Colonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance and Decolonizing Dialectics.
Volodymyr Ishchenko is a sociologist and writes on contemporary Ukraine, civil society, revolution, nationalism and more. In December 2022 he wrote an article entitled "Ukrainian Voices?" in the New Left Review. Check out the article here:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voices
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Podcast: historicity
Episode: Tokyo - NEO-TOKYO 1: Seamy Dives and Corporate Towers
Pub date: 2023-07-07
In this walk, we’re exploring how Tokyo has allowed authorities, developers, and people around the world to reimagine what a city might be, in the last fifty years. In this episode, we discover how Shinjuku has distilled the swirling currents of postwar political economy from transport and towers to nightlife and riots.
We start at the entrance to Shinjuku Gyōen, a rural estate converted into a national garden, and near the post station, where sex workers gathered in the early modern period. On the other side of the street is Nichō, where the LGBT community has flourished once the sex workers left. It’s a fitting introduction to the nightlife that flourishes in East Shinjuku, which continues across the road, behind the shops and restaurants on the main drag, which started coming here after the earthquake in 1923. By the late 1960s, Shinjuku was a mecca for young Japanese, drawn here by cutting-edge art and political protest. They soon migrated south, but it wasn’t until the next century that the government started to clean things up, even Kabukichō, where the yakuza controlled the sin. At the heart of Shinjuku, though, is the station – the world’s busiest, currently undergoing a redevelopment, which will take 25 years. On its other side, in West Shinjuku, things are very different. A vast water purification plant has been replaced by corporate towers, capped and culminating in the new Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, which dominates a deserted people’s plaza. The walk ends in the garden on its far side, from where, once upon a time, you could see Fuji.
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WRITER AND PRESENTER: Angus Lockyer
PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic
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Podcast: Kourosh Khoylou Podcast
Episode: James Nieh on Bee City, pollinators, bee colonies, and ecology
Pub date: 2023-07-13
James Nieh is the Professor of Ecology, Behavior & Evolution, at the University of California, San Diego. In this episode, James and I talk about Bee City, the extinction problem, honey bees, nutritional imbalance in the environment, bee language of communication, learning pattern in bees, superorganism, bee colonies, pollinators, ecological education, and pesticides.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Pub date: 2023-07-07
Why and how has India’s Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, become so adept at appealing to and recruiting people from the lower castes? And what does this mean for Indian politics in the short to medium term? In this episode we are joined by Samantha Agarwal to discuss the rise of Hindu nationalism, focusing on the strategies it deploys to recruit people and voters from lower caste groups as it seeks to rework its image as a Brahminical and upper caste political organization.
Samantha Agarwal is currently at Johns Hopkins University and will soon join the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC., as a Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow.
Kenneth Bo Nielsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and one of the leaders of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies.
The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo.
We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia.
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Podcast: Kathy Sullivan Explores (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Inventiveness of Fiction with Linda Kass
Pub date: 2023-07-13
Linda Kass is the acclaimed author of Tasa’s Song (2016) and A Ritchie Boy (2020). Her latest book, Bessie—a fictional portrait of Miss America 1945, Bess Myerson—will be released in September 2023. She is also the founder and owner of Gramercy Books, an independent bookstore in Columbus, Ohio. Trained as a journalist, Linda began her career as a magazine reporter and correspondent for regional and national publications such as Columbus Monthly, TIME, and The Detroit Free Press. Linda is known for her advocacy in education, literacy, and the arts and has served in leadership roles on the boards of Bexley Schools, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and The Ohio State University among many others. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master’s in Journalism from The Ohio State University.
Today, you’ll hear Linda reveal her life's remarkable twists and turns through stints working in medicine, education, journalism, and freelance writing. She describes how a family history writing project and a chance meeting during an outing with her book club moved her to become a novelist. She explains what makes Columbus, Ohio a unique place to be in. You’ll also hear about the ultimate value of reading and writing and why Linda was compelled to write her most recent book about the first Jewish Miss America, Bess Myerson.
“Inhabit the character. Imagine what they would think, feel, and do in a scene—how they would relate to other circumstances. Walk in their shoes. That becomes the inventiveness on the page of fiction, but then it’s grounded in all of that authentic, true history underneath it.” - Linda Kass
This week on Kathy Sullivan Explores:
● The young Linda Kass and her life growing up in central Ohio
● Linda’s time at Eastmoor High School and how it led her to become a journalist
● Her work as a physical therapist while studying journalism in graduate school
● The genesis of Linda’s life as a writer, teacher, and freelancer
● What brought Linda back to Columbus after living and working in Detroit
● How Columbus has changed since the late 80s
● The creative writing project that began Linda’s career as a historical novelist
● What creative nonfiction is and how it helped Linda tell her parents’ stories
● Poland and modern-day Ukraine in the context of World War II
● How a Catholic family helped Linda’s mother and her family during World War II
● The research and writing process involved in creating Tasa’s Song
● The art of inhabiting a character while writing
● What led Linda to write her book on Bessy Myerson
● The value of reading and writing
Resources Mentioned:
● Book: The Bright Forever: A Novel by Lee Martin
Our Favorite Quotes:
● “Read, because when you enjoy that experience you want to read more. When you read, you learn more, and when you learn you can be an empathetic human being that understands yourself and the world better.” - Linda Kass
● “To tell a real human story is more treatful and effective than coming up with just a fact-by-fact biography.” - Linda Kass
Connect with Linda Kass:
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● Gramercy Books
● Book: Bessie
● Gramercy Books on Instagram
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● Gramercy Books on Twitter
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● Email: Linda@lindakass.com
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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Simone Ferracina, "Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet" (Routledge, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-07-08
Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Simone Ferracina's book Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet(Routledge, 2022) re-thinks potentiality―an object’s ability to change―in architecture and design.
The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text prompts―through a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplines―a collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practices, showing that they perpetuate the same biases and exclusions that generate waste in the first place.
As an alternative, the book introduces a nodal and exaptive paradigm for design: a conceptual and methodological toolset for engaging the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, and for radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care, and co-option. This approach, which is inspired by (and builds upon) evolutionary biology, technological disobedience, queer use, adaptive reuse, experimental preservation, and improvisational practices such as collage, adhocism, bricolage, and kit-bashing, refuses to reduce pre-existing material substrates to abstract lists of properties or featureless lumps, encountering them on their own terms―as situated individuals and co-authors.
Ecologies of Inception will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators, and professional architects and designers interested in sustainable design and seeking to develop conceptual and design tools commensurate with the magnitude and urgency of the climate emergency.
Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality.
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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Stalin: History & Critique of a Black Legend w/ Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro & David Peat
Pub date: 2023-07-10
Special, early access to an extended conversation about the imminent release of the new translation (by Henry and Salvatore) of Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend from Iskra Books. The release of the book is imminent, and is available from the Iskra Books website, where it is currently linked at https://www.iskrabooks.org/copy-of-the-dark.
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Professor at the Geography Department of SUNY New Paltz and is chief editor for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. His book Socialist States and the Environment is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340418/socialist-states-and-the-environment/. You can also find the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism for more invaluable anti-capitalist environmental perspectives: http://www.cnsjournal.org/.
David Peat is one of the editorial board members at the Center for Communist Studies and their imprint Iskra Books. You can follow him on twitter @dajveism.
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Podcast: theAnalysis.news (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Extraction, Destruction of Ecosystems, and Fires in North America – Éric Pineault
Pub date: 2023-07-12
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Éric Pineault, professor of ecological economics at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal, explains how the fires raging in Canada are a corollary of the paradigm termed Extreme Oil. He discusses various oil and gas projects across North America, as well as the Canadian government’s support for the Trans Mountain Pipeline project, and how terms such as “net zero” and “carbon neutral” are misleading and conveniently serve Big Oil’s aims.
His recent book A Social Ecology of Capital presents an empirical analysis of capitalist societies, which both builds on and enhances Marxist theories by accounting for the energy extraction and colonization of ecosystems, a characteristic of what he terms our “fossil-industrial” society. His conception of capitalist metabolism outlines extractivism, production, consumption, and waste dissipation, which leads to an absorption of surplus energy, capital accumulation, and profit maximization. Most importantly, how is this understanding of social ecology useful for furthering a project of emancipation?
Extraction, Destruction of Ecosystems, and Fires in North America – Éric Pineault
Fossil Fuel Industry Phase-Out: Three Critical Worker Guarantees for a Just Transition
Net Zero Commitments Dangerously Misleading – Peter Carter
The False Promise of Carbon Capture and Storage
Exposing Apocalyptic Economics with Steve Keen
Navy Puts Climate Change at Top of Threat List – Larry Wilkerson
State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling National & Global Digital Enclosures
Real Climate Solutions are No Mystery – Pollin
How to Fight Inflation Without Attacking Workers – Pollin
Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…
A Warning From Chomsky and Ellsberg
Biden’s Bill has Significant Funding for Climate but 10% of What’s Needed – Bob Pollin
Progressive Running Against a Corp Dem in Boeing Country
The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make it an Asset Class & Sell it
Daniel Ellsberg on Nuclear War and Ukraine
A Dire Warning About the End of Human Civilization
Nationalize Fossil Fuel to Fight Climate Change and Inflation – Bob Pollin
Fossil Fuel and Private Equity Love Trump – Thomas Ferguson Pt 3/4
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
Humanity will not be saved by promises
COP 26: End the Cynicism and Denial – pt 2/2
COP 26: End the Cynicism and Denial – pt 1/2
House Committee Chairwoman Maloney Nails Oil Executives
Stop Subsidizing Wall St., Start Subsidizing Workers for High Energy Costs – Bob Pollin
Biden Heads to COP 26 Throttled by Manchin and Trumpists – with Bob Pollin
A Conversation With Paul Jay – Pt 4
Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 – Lead IPCC Author
A Just Transition Now or Climate Disaster is Inevitable
Not Much Climate Plan in Biden Jobs Plan – Robert Pollin
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Talia Baroncelli Hi, I’m Talia Baroncelli, and you’re watching theAnalysis.news. I’ll shortly be joined by Professor Éric Pineault to speak about wildfires in Canada, big oil and gas in North America, and perspectives on the social ecology of capital. If you enjoy this content, please go to our website, theAnalysis.news, and donate to the show by clicking on the red button at the top right corner of the screen. Most importantly, please get on our mailing list. That way, you’re notified every time there’s a new episode. Go to our YouTube channel, theAnalysis-news. Like the channel, subscribe and hit the bell. See you in a bit with Éric Pineault for a very interesting discussion on social capital.
Joining me now is Professor Éric Pineault. He’s a professor of political economy at the Environmental Sciences Institute at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He’s also a contributor at the Corporate Mapping Project and has recently published a book called A Social Ecology of Capital. Thank you so much for joining me, Professor Pineault.
Éric Pineault Thank you.
Talia Baroncelli Well, it’s great to have you because I’d like to speak to you about your book today as well as what’s going on in Canada and the United States. There have been horrible forest fires, horrible wildfires, which have destroyed over five million hectares of land across Canada. At the moment, the air quality has been so terrible. I’m sure you’ve been affected by it where you are in Quebec. I was wondering if you could situate these forest fires within the context of a concept you speak about called extreme oil. We can view these forest fires as an isolated catastrophe, but I think your work really is able to show how they’re tied to other processes.
Éric Pineault Yeah, sure. Well, I think we have to acknowledge that these forest fires are created by climate change. I think that the boreal forest does have a fire cycle, usually to run 100 years. Every century, a patch of forest will burn. But these fires are usually not as deadly and not as widespread. I think this is a cycle that is anthropic in nature.
Once we’ve connected that dot, we say the forest fires are connected to climate change and to the way that we’re transforming the climate, then we have to say, well, what is climate change caused by? I think that is a question that we now know the answers. It’s caused by an economy and a mode of living that is tied to fossil fuels. There are other factors that contribute: land use, change, and the pervasive use of cement and concrete in our urban metabolism. Maybe we can come back to that later. I think the prime suspect here, the prime driver is hydrocarbons, be it coal, gas, or oil.
Extreme gas and oil is an expression that was invented by movements in the U.S. and in Canada that we’re on the ground, challenging fracking pipelines and mountaintop removal in the case of coal. Saying that this new wave of extractive activity in North America was in a dual context.
On the one hand, it was impacting marginalized communities mostly, and it was impacting landscapes and ecosystems that hadn’t been impacted yet. It felt like all of a sudden there was this huge grab of resources and spewing out of activity that was transforming the land and destroying the ecosystem. That was one part of it. It was extreme in that sense that it was not something that we had experienced in the past.
Then the second aspect was the fact that you’re burning or you’re extracting hydrocarbons that you can’t burn. That’s basically why it’s extreme. We know this. The science is very clear. There’s no way around the science that says this is just unburnable carbon. It’s way past the budget. We know that we have to burn some carbon to do this transition away from carbon. The amount that’s being extracted, the level of extraction, and also the reserves that are being discovered. We know they’re there, but the reserves that are being capitalized, let’s use more specific vocabulary, by these practices. These reserves that are being capitalized are unextractable. It’s in that context that I think we can…
There are maybe other factors that extreme oil is also about how you have to burn a lot of oil to get the oil, a lot more than in the past. When we started using oil, we would have to burn about one barrel to extract about 200. You basically put a pipe in the soil, and it would just start to gush out. Today, at best, we’re like 50 to 40 to 1. In the worst case scenarios, when we’re fracking and when we’re transforming sand into oil, which is what we do now with tar sands, then it’s horrible. You’re like at 5 to 1, 6 to 1, or sometimes 10 to 1, so you have to burn one barrel to get 10. You’re burning a lot of oil to get oil. You’re burning a lot of gas to get gas. Sometimes you’re burning gas to get oil if you’re fracking.
When you frack for oil, let’s say in North Dakota, then you put your pipe in, you frack, and then you’re not sure about the mix you’re going to get. You’re going to get some oil. You’re going to get some gas. You’re going to get some stuff in between. So what do you do? You want the oil, you don’t want the gas, so you flare it. The opposite happens in BC. You’re fracking for gas, but then you get these liquids that are coming out. What do you do? Is there a pipe or a truck that can haul it away, and there’s somebody that wants to buy it, or do you end up flaring it because there is no economic use for it?
These new hydrocarbons are much more carbon intensive, and that’s why they’re extreme. It’s not only that we can’t burn the carbon, it’s not only that the way we extract it is destroying ecosystems and impacting communities in novel ways, but it’s also that it’s so much more costly for the environment and for the climate to extract this carbon. So that’s why it’s extreme.
Talia Baroncelli Looking at these industries, so big oil and big gas, or even looking at the tar sands in Canada, for example, would you say that private investors are still heavily investing actively in these sectors? Is this more consolidated rather than a booming sector?
Éric Pineault Well, for Canada, it depends on what you’re looking at. If we are looking at the oil sector, it’s consolidating. In our research at Corporate Mapping that I did back with Ian Hussey and others about 5-6 years ago, we really saw a sector that was consolidated after the bust in 2014 when oil prices started to dip. It’s a sector. When you consolidate, well, then usually what happens is governments step in and help out. That’ll bring us to discuss other things.
We see this consolidation on the East Coast. If we look at Newfoundland, which had jumped into this oil boom through offshore oil projects, which really transformed Newfoundland’s economy after 2008-2009 the numbers are astounding. You have more than 50% of the private sector invested in Newfoundland, which is just one industry, oil. It’s a massive dependence on one sector. Also, in timing, it’s really weird because… well, not weird, but it’s very dramatic. The cod fish recollapses, and then, at the same time, the oil boom happens. So the economy basically transitioned to fossil dependence.
Well, now, today you see Equinor, this major extractor from Norway that suspended its project to extract offshore oil off the coast of Newfoundland, basically setting extraction costs. The oil is just too expensive, but prices are not there. So it’s a sector that’s consolidating more than it’s booming.
Gas is another story. Prices are low. Prices are desperately low, but still, it’s booming. Fracking is this self-perpetuating industry where money is being gushed into the sector, and you frack for four or five years, then it dries out, and you move 200 yards, 300 yards further, and you just go at it again and again and again. That sector is booming.
Canada’s problem with gas is that we have a scale of extraction that is too high for what we can consume domestically. We’re constrained to export. If we would bring down the volume of extraction to what we actually consume, it wouldn’t be financially viable. The industry costs too much. The question of scale, as a scale-up production, unit costs go down; it’s this economic thing. We’ve got an exportation constraint or imperative in Canada. We have to export the gas. Exporting it to the U.S. via pipes is what we did traditionally. In the U.S. gas is pissing out of all the pipes everywhere. They’ve got too much gas too because they’re fracking it also. The only economically or capitalistically viable way out of this conundrum is to export it as LNG somewhere. That’s why we’ve got this pressure to accept all these LNG projects because it’s the only way that this industry can survive. That industry is growing. It’s not consolidating.
Talia Baroncelli Is that why the Canadian government has essentially said that they would guarantee loans for the transnational pipeline project, something like three billion Canadian dollars?
Éric Pineault Yeah. Canada’s got this export constraint problem that we have to export it. Actually, I think we have to widen our lens a bit. I would say North America has surplus hydrocarbons. We have too much of it, so we have to export it. That’s when the Canadian government comes in as an important economic supporter of the hydrocarbon industry.
In the case of oil, what the government does is it has supported the consolidation process by buying up a pipeline that the private sector couldn’t economically build. It just wasn’t viable to build it anymore. So the government stepped in, bought it, and it is spending billions and billions. Costs are always going up trying to finish this pipeline. The purpose of this pipeline is to bring shipping costs down for the oil that is coming out of Alberta. So that’s going to help the consolidation process by bringing export costs down. So that’s on that front.
On the gas front, it’s a different story. Since the industry is expanding, we know that the economics of extraction is that often the extraction of a resource is limited by the capacity to export it, put it on world markets. You might be sitting on billions, but if you can’t send it anywhere, then it’s just not worth anything. We have to build up our export capacity. Gas, the only way to export it on the world market is as LNG because we don’t have pipes that are going from Vancouver to China, so you have to put it on a boat and then send it out on the world markets and hope somebody buys it up. That is one of the ways that the Canadian government is supporting the expansion of the industry.
The other way it’s supporting it, which is much more twisted, I would say, is through hydrogen. The government is a big fan of this hydrogen economy, which is a really weird concept because hydrogen is not a source of energy. Hydrogen is like a battery. It’s a really inefficient battery. At best, depending on what you’re converting into hydrogen, the losses go from 30% to 90% of the energy that is lost. But anyways, hydrogen, you can make it out of renewable energy; that’s one way to do it.
The easiest way to make hydrogen is you take natural gas, and I’ll do some chemistry for a second here. CH4: an atom of carbon with four atoms of hydrogen. So if you split that up somehow, you get big-time hydrogen. You get the H2 easily. The easiest way to do it is to transform natural gas methane into hydrogen. This hydrogen economy hype that the Canadian government is pushing as some renewable energy solution is actually a way to support the gas industry.
Talia Baroncelli It’s essentially green-washing hydrogen, isn’t it?
Éric Pineault Yeah, it’s green-washing. Exactly. Yeah, hydrogen is big.
Talia Baroncelli Back to green-washing in general, the Canadian government obviously has all the scientific reports in front of them. They’ve seen how global warming is not going away, and how these increases in global temperature will eventually lead to tipping points, which will then ensure that global warming will not be reversible in any way, shape, or form.
Maybe this is a naive question, but why is it that the Canadian government is really supporting these projects and characterizing the Trans Mountain Pipeline as part of its long-term economic strategy when it knows that in a few years, in a few decades, this is really not going to be sustainable and the profits they get from these projects will be meaningless if people can’t even live in the country anymore.
Éric Pineault Well, a state is a complicated thing. It’s not a unified entity. We often say that the state is a space of conflict. I think that the current Canadian government is an example of that. On the one hand, they do have climate policies in place and they do seem to want to be going towards their Paris Agreement engagements. On the other hand, the oil sector has prominent support inside the Canadian government.
The oil sector is oil and gas, I’d say more oil and gas, not coal. Coal is very marginal in Canada. Oil and gas is a structuring element of the Canadian capitalist economy. It’s not only about Calgary and Edmonton. It’s also about Toronto and Bay Street. The Canadian banks are really tied into the oil and gas sector. Our financial markets are tied to this sector. It’s a cluster of interests that is very important. I think that we haven’t been able to marginalize this cluster of interests as others.
Let’s zero into Quebec. In Quebec, because of the absence of a structuring hydrocarbon sector, we’ve been able to marginalize and basically pass a law saying there will be no extraction of hydrocarbons on Quebec’s territory. That’s the [inaudible 00:16:34] law that was passed last year. That is not something that could be possible in Canada, given the economic structure and given the class interests that are embedded in our state and in our economy. I think it’s just a question of class here.
You’ve got this financial class that is really dependent on assets that are locked into the hydrocarbon sector and these fossil assets. Again, we have to differentiate between gas and oil. It’s not the same dynamic. In the case of oil, we’re sitting on maybe 30 years of income. If you look at this life cycle of the different projects that exist, either the ones that scrape the sand and transform it or the ones that use these more complicated processes where we’re injecting steam and then we’re pumping out the tar in a more liquid form. These two basic ways of extracting the infrastructures and assets that are in place today have a life cycle that will last about 30 years. So the Canadian government basically wants to guarantee that that income will be there.
Their economic argument, I don’t agree with it, but I can understand it as an economist. The economic argument is basically, well, yeah, the world will need oil for the next 30 years. Of course, it will. So why not Canadian oil? Why should it be Russians or the Venezuelans or the Qatari or whatever? Why not Canadian oil? So we’re going to be in the race. We’ll be the ones that will extract, refine, and then sell the last drop of oil humanity will consume. That’s really the way they think.
Gas is another story. Gas is still being touted as a bridge fuel. It’s this thing that we’re going to need all through the next century. As we’re consolidating our oil sector, we’re expanding our gas sector. There, the logic is really to company this expansion. On the one hand part of the government and the state says, well, this is going to be horrible. Climate change will imply adaptation. We have to work hard to meet our targets. On the other hand, well, we’ll find solutions in the future. We can keep on pumping oil and fracking for gas.
Then there’s always been this unicorn or flying toaster, depending on your imagery, solutions that have been around for the last 20 years. Carbon capture and storage being the most important, which is really, I was going to say, stupid. I might as well say stupid solution because it brings down the CO2 intensity of what we extract. When you burn it, it’s still a barrel of oil you’re going to burn. The reasoning of the Canadian government is if we can bring down the CO2 or the GHG, the greenhouse gas intensity of our oil to the level that it is averagely worldwide. It won’t be dirty oil anymore. It’ll be normal oil. That’s their idea. So we’re going to pump all this public money supporting these projects that are really dubious to be able to have normal oil. That’s the strategy that is big. It’s not a net zero strategy. It’s not a climate-neutral strategy at all. It’s just, let’s normalize our oil.
Talia Baroncelli Well, sorry to interrupt you, but I remember a few years ago when the Canadian government was quite upset at the Europeans when the E.U. characterized or categorized the Canadian oil as essentially dirty because it’s from the tar sands. They didn’t like to be called that. They didn’t like their oil to be considered dirty. There’s this campaign to greenwash it and present it in a different way.
Éric Pineault Well, that campaign bore fruit in the sense that we hardly use tar sands anymore. We tend to sell oil sands, which is an invention of the industry because it is actually tar. It’s not oil in the sand. You get oil at the end of the process, but what you’re looking at is tar. If you’ve ever seen this stuff, it looks like pitch. The stuff you use to repair a driveway or that you put on your roof to tile it. It really looks like pitch.
Talia Baroncelli Why don’t we speak about the language? I think the language that’s used is very important, especially when looking at environmental activists, for example. I know a lot of your work has illustrated how there’s this symbolic side of the capitalist structure. There’s the discourse and the symbolism that is essentially characterized by capitalist relations and activists feeling like they have to be viewed as legitimate actors, and using the word oil sands as opposed to tar sands is maybe an example of how these power relations affect activist circles. I don’t know if you still see this trend among environmental activists, or has there been a shift there?
Éric Pineault Well, yes and no. I think hardly anybody uses tar sands anymore. I think that’s because people use oil sands, but I think oil sands have been dirtied anyway. The industry didn’t manage to pull it off. They managed to pull off the idea of, okay, let’s talk about oil sands, not tar sands anymore. On the other hand, oil sands are seen negatively.
Now, I would say the new vocabulary that is emerging in business circles or even by the Trudeau government is a lot about net zero, carbon neutral. These expressions are very ambiguous. On the one hand, net zero, well, it’s the idea of an addition. You can subtract what you added in, then the technologies of subtraction are presented as existing, as to scale, and as efficient. They are not. They exist as prototypes. The ones that are working today are very inefficient. We were promised 90% capture and we’re at 60% at the best in tar sands for this carbon capture and storage. Most of the stuff is being used to pump more oil out anyways. It’s not carbon capture and storage, it’s carbon capture, use, and storage. We’re actually using the CO2 as a way to frack or to push oil out.
Net zero can be a trap because then you’re brought into a conversation where, oh, we can continue extracting as long as we compensate. That’s one of the, I’d say, the new ways in which we’re being caught up in these debates.
Another emerging, I would say, linguistic frontier or linguistic struggle or narrative struggle is around growth. If you look at the way the Canadian government continuously presents its different climate policies, it’s always this idea of net zero or carbon neutrality or decarbonification. They always add the expression clean growth mechanism or growth for the middle class or growth that gives prosperity to the middle class. These words are always there. These are key words. Growth, prosperity, and middle class. There you see this ideological construct which is very strong and ties together middle class, prosperity, and economic growth.
This is becoming interesting because the climate science that is being presented in, let’s say, the last IPCC report, the Sixth Assessment by the IPCC is starting to debate growth. Voices are being more and more heard from natural scientists and from some heterodox economists saying that growth is just not something that is possible if you want to attain our goals, both for climate and for biodiversity. I think this is going to be a new train of struggle where the word growth itself is going to be politicized.
Talia Baroncelli Right. I think you also speak about degrowth as a concept and also as a movement to show that in order to live on this planet, if you’re pushing these planetary boundaries or these limits of ecology, then the economy isn’t sustainable. Growth for growth’s sake isn’t, as we’ve seen over the past few decades, is really not something that we should be pursuing.
Sorry, maybe that’s a good segue into your book, actually. The book that you’ve just published, The Social Ecology of Capital, is really a fantastic read. One thing you do, well, you do many things in the book, but one thing you do is you speak about capitalist metabolism, essentially. So you speak about two different forms of societies, namely, which fall under this capitalist metabolic structure, which would be agrarian societies and then fossil fuel industrialized societies, which is the current moment we’re living in right now. Maybe you can explain that concept of metabolism because if people are familiar with [Karl] Marx, he does speak about metabolism in terms of labor and means of production with regards to labor. I think the way you use it is slightly different. So maybe we can speak about that.
I’ll actually just read one part of your book because I think it’s really fascinating. In your introduction, you speak about how the materiality of capitalist metabolism appears in one of three guises:
“Social metabolism as flows of energy and materials passing through societies or throughput, social metabolism as an accumulation of material stocks, and social metabolism as a colonization of ecosystems by human activity.”
I think that sums up essentially what social metabolism is. Please elaborate on it because it’s a very fascinating concept.
Éric Pineault Yeah, sure. It’s a concept that is used by Marx in Capital. We can get back to that in a few seconds. It’s a concept that reemerged in the ’90s. It emerged in debates and discussions among ecological economists that were trying to move away from an understanding and representation of the economy uniquely through monetary flows. They wanted to have a representation or monetized assets. They wanted to have a representation of the materiality of the economy.
There was a really important paper published by colleagues in Vienna, and my debt to them is really huge, and I talk about it in the book. Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl published this paper in the ’90s called Tons, Joules, and Money, saying we can look at the economy through the lens of money, and that gives us GDP, but we could also look at the tons of matter that are going through, or we could look at the joules, which are energy units that we need to expand to. That’s really where the concept of metabolism was recast as a way to look at the material frame or the material structure of the economy and to have a language that could represent that materiality in and of itself, to move away from the necessity to always translate into monetary terms this material basis.
Metabolism is a concept that is pretty easy to understand. It’s the idea that a society, like a living entity, must extract, absorb, transform, and reject elements from its environment. In doing so, this is an entropic process where we take in energy, we take in complex matter, and we reject more simple degraded forms. They can be useful in an ecological cycle. What one rejects is another’s food, often, in these entropic cycles. This idea of metabolism was then brought up to analyze societies, basically saying, well, a society does this. A society must harvest or extract, and it then transforms. It’s a way of looking at the economy. What it does, and I think that’s where it’s powerful, is that the power of metabolism is to move us away from a dematerialized representation of the economy, which is really the one that was dominant throughout the whole cycle of political economy, bringing down the economy to two basic relations: production and consumption. What social metabolism does is says, actually, no, an economy rests on four structures or four relations, which are extraction. To produce, you have to extract in a material world. If you’re in a nonmaterial world that could exist in our imaginations, we wouldn’t have to extract anything. In the real world, we have to extract to produce. So extraction, production, consumption, and then when we consume, eventually, something that is used will be used up. Then it will be dissipated or wasted. We talk about dissipation as a technical term. The notion of used up is important because it’s a social notion. It’s not a biophysical notion. The decision that something is used up has often nothing to do with its physical use. It has more to do with the social decision that it’s not useful anymore for a bunch of reasons, which can be cultural, which can be economic, which can be capitalistic in nature.
We have this four-tier economy, and that’s the metabolic structure of an economy. Then you can say, well, okay, what’s the backbone on which a society thrives? Social ecologists and environmental historians have divided societies through different metabolic regimes. The two that are relevant for our discussion that you highlighted are the agrarian and the industrial fossil.
In the book, I do spend a lot of time delving into the implications of these two regimes. What is an agrarian regime? Well, it’s where the backbone of the material existence for societies through agriculture. What is agriculture? It’s putting plants to work. It’s basically transforming through colonization an ecosystem, transforming it and maximizing its capacity to capture solar energy and to store it in a form that is useful or that is desired. It’s not all from the question of use, it can be from the question of desire, of social desire; that is desired and useful or necessary to power relations in a given society.
Necessary to power relations because, and this is James Scott’s argument in Against the Grain. In certain societies, we could say that the decision to move towards grain instead of staying in other forms of agricultural relations was tied to power structures that were being built up, hierarchies around urban environments. The agrarian regime, its specificity is that it’s through ecological relations that human societies thrive and reproduce themselves. Ecological productivity, the capacity to transform solar energy through photosynthesis into forms, into biomass, basically, is the limit, is the ceiling in which our societies will develop and thrive. What we call technically net primary production, which is the capacity of plants to take solar energy and make biomass, is basically what will limit the development of a society. It’s inside those limits that societies will thrive. This has a bunch of implications that have been studied by a bunch of historians and political economists. Andreas Malm explored this, including others. Jason Moore has explored this. How do you temporally overcome that barrier? Well, you can do it by setting up slave based plantations. That’s one way to go around the problem. Another way is to pillage new environments or pillage societies or set up tributary relations. It’s always inside this ecological productivity.
Fossil societies are radically different. Whereas in an agrarian society, you must produce the surplus that you will then live off. An industrial fossil society finds the surplus under its feet. The energy is stored up in coal and oil and gas that is there. That society’s mode of production and of extraction is how can you absorb this massive surplus of energy and put it to work and in doing so accumulate capital and make profit. It also leads to a new representation of the surplus, which isn’t the same as in agrarian societies. In agrarian societies, the surplus appears as grain. It appears as the muscle power that can be harnessed and harvested or coerced into work. This muscle power can be human or it can be animal. There are a lot of animals that work in agrarian societies. It’s something we have forgotten. Half the biomass that we produce in agrarian societies goes to feeding animals that work for us.
In a fossil society, absorbing this surplus goes by new rules. You represent, symbolically, the surplus’s energy as this abstract capacity to work that then puts to work human bodies. It’s very different. This abstract capacity to work, and I’m thinking of Cara New Daggett’s work on The Birth of Energy, her beautiful book on The Birth of Energy. This abstract capacity, which is basically what physics thinks about back in the 18th and 19th century, means that the source of surplus that you’re extracting can become many things. It can become heat. It can become mechanical work. It can become chemical work. It can become kinetic energy. It’s much more plastic. It’s like abstract labor.
One could say if one would take an expression from [Max] Weber, there’s an elective affinity between fossil fuels and capital because of its plasticity, the fact that it’s plastic. That’s one of the important ideas that I don’t invent. It’s out there and has been discussed by other scholars in the past 20 years, but I try to bring it together in a synthesis that’s original. It also speaks to the way we will, if we remain in a capitalist system, that we can understand transition. We’re caught up in this idea that out there somewhere there’s abstract energy that can be harnessed and appropriated through private property relations and that can be articulated to assets that will generate income in the form of profits. Accumulation. This idea that there’s a stock of energy out there somewhere that is a basis for a new cycle of accumulation. We’re desperately searching for it. We’re trying to find it in hydrogen. We’re trying to find it in wind. We’re trying to find it in solar energy, but we’re trying to find it with this symbolic and ideological framework and also with the social property relations of capital, which depends on this idea that came out of coal, oil, and gas, but mostly coal. This imaginary that was built out of coal, which is this idea of it’s out there and it can be put to work in various forms. It’s plastic. It’s appropriable. We can appropriate it. Of course, we have to move people away. Of course, we have to violate and expropriate people to get to it. It can be somehow be captured by property relations. That’s the framework in which we’re looking at transition today because it’s a capitalist transition.
That’s one of the things the book tries to do. It tries to share this language of social metabolism and it tries to bring together this language of social metabolism with how we can understand a capitalist economy, an advanced capitalist economy based on large corporations that overproduce and depend on overconsumption of what is overproduced. That is basically what the book tries to do.
Talia Baroncelli Well, it does a really good job of doing so. I think another aspect that it speaks about is how it relies so much on monopoly capitalism and the consolidation of monopolistic industries. We see that in the oil and gas sector, but can you maybe speak about other sectors?
Éric Pineault Yeah, that’s where it came from, actually. I’ve been discussing the book a bit in various circles. In certain Marxist circles, people are like, oh, that’s such an old theory, monopoly capital. It’s like back in the ’60s. Why are you using that? There are much sexier theories today about cognitive capital and about the tendency of the rate to fall. Globalization implies a lot of competition. Yeah, you’re right. I do acknowledge that there are other ways of looking at capital, but when you’re working in the extractive sector, when you’re looking at extractive industries, it’s a monopolistic sector. There’s no way around explaining it. You can’t use other theories to explain what’s going on. It’s really a monopolistic sector.
Talia Baroncelli Yeah, it would also potentially explain inflation and explain why prices are so high in certain sectors.
Éric Pineault It does. When you’re working in the real world of prices and of materials and not in the, I would say, more abstract world of value and these more sophisticated theories of value. I tend to work in the real empirical world. If you look at Glencore, for example, Glencore extracts around 9% of the world’s copper, but it ships, transports, and sells 18% of the world’s copper. All the metals, take any metal that you want, except lithium. Lithium is an emerging material; it’s not consolidated yet, but even that is changing quickly. All the other metals, nickel, iron, aluminum, bauxite, whatever, you’ve got four or five big, huge global corporations that control the market. It’s the same thing with wood or cement. You’ve got three big players that control the world’s production of cement, and the rest is marginal.
China does mess up the picture because China has these state-led corporations that are huge. So you put them in. You’ve got one in China, so you end up with four monopolies. Then if you look at the waste sector, it is the same thing. In the waste sector, you’ve got four or five major corporations that control waste flows globally. So if you look at the materiality of our economy, you’re looking at a small number of huge corporations that have worldwide reach and that have sunk their capital into assets that are tied to the extraction and waste of these materials that make our world. Be it oil, be it cement, be it wood, be it whatever. For oil, I’m not thinking palm oil, soybeans, or corn.
When you study these material flows, you feel like who’s going to develop the next app that’s going to revolutionize the way we use our phones? Then you have competition. You’ve got these venture capitalists, and you’ve got this very dynamic system of heightened competition. When you look at the world of the materials out of which our phones are made, you’ve got four or five big players. That’s it.
Talia Baroncelli Also, historically, if you look at this transition which you speak about between moving from an agrarian society to a fossil fuel industrialized society, you speak about two different things. One is using coal to essentially get more coal as being a characterizing or decisive feature, but also the proliferation of means of transport and being able to ship different goods, grain, sand, or whatever it might be in order to industrialize. I’m pretty sure that even then, there were maybe only a few companies involved. I think this idea of monopoly capitalism and monopolies forming in specific sectors has always been historically relevant, at least in the past few centuries.
Éric Pineault Well, yeah. Well, there are two phases to this, which are interesting. The first phase, I didn’t really work on it in the book, and I’d say that Jason Moore is the appropriate person to discuss that. The first phase would be inside the huge commercial empires that we saw when the colonial system was being put in place by European capitalist powers, where you had these colonial companies. Canada is basically the fruit of that effort and that process. So you have these colonial monopolies that are set up, and they control the circulation of what you can extract in an agrarian setting through either growing it or pillaging it. It’s the two basic means. You either force people to grow it, and then you can grow it through settler colonialism, which is what happened in Canada, or you can grow it through a slave base system, which is what they did in the Caribbean and the southern U.S. The commercial interest that is putting into circulation this matter, which is essential to capitalism back then: wood, fibre, cotton, and sugar; these are monopolists.
There’s a second wave of monopolization. That’s the one that I work with more, which is tied to the corporate form. Corporation, as we know it today, emerges at the end of the 19th century. There are two basic areas which are strategic to the emergence of the modern corporation. Railroads. You go from a mess of thousands of small railroad companies that are competing against one another to a consolidation process of a small number. The corporate form and corporate law now emerge out of this context. Then you have the same legal, political, and economic process continued in the steel industry, which is tied to the coal and oil sector.
Corporate laws that exist today are tied to standard oil and to break up standard oil into smaller, less continental entities. Standard oil is basically, I would say, brings the process of the creation of the corporate form to its most advanced stage. It matures the process that emerges out of the railroad sector.
The transition towards a fossil industrial economy, at least if we take North America as an example, is intimately tied to the institutional transformations that bring about the modern corporation. The two are tied together. I don’t think I make that point enough in the book. Actually, I realized that it’s a story that I tell when I teach courses, and I should maybe eventually write it up better. But that’s really an important aspect.
Talia Baroncelli Well, we could probably do a whole episode just on that historical aspect. I know you have to go. One last very short question, which I think is important. How do you see your concept or this concept of the Social Ecology of Capital contributing to an emancipatory project of redistribution of wealth, of trying to undermine or dismantle these capitalist relations?
Éric Pineault Well, I’d say two things to answer that question. The first thing is the book tries to propose a language, a new language, or a language that’s out there. I don’t want to invent the words. The words are there. Synthesize. To translate this language, bring it together, and a language useful to our struggles against fossil metabolism, but also for. This language is about materiality, which is a language that is notably absent, I think, in a lot of our critical theories today. I’ll come back to that point in a second.
I think the book, on that issue, doesn’t fail but doesn’t live up to. The book is very scholarly. It’s short and dense. I am writing a book in French that is more geared toward activists, actually, because my struggles in Quebec are with… I work with francophones, so I’m writing a movement based version of this book, which eventually could be retranslated into English, I guess. I think this book is not a book that an activist can just grab and read through in a weekend.
Talia Baroncelli It’s very dense.
Éric Pineault A friend of mine says it is like cheesecake. But what does it do? T hat’s the last chapter. I have the book here, actually. The last chapter, the title is Emancipation Amid the Ruins of Fossil Capital. I think that’s important, this idea of ruins. The materiality of our society will not disappear the day after the revolution. I don’t see our current social transformation as being one of a quick revolution in which everything changes at once. I think it’s going to be a more protracted process of long and agonistic change in a context of having to adapt to a world that is going to be more and more hostile because of climate change.
In that long process, we will generate ruins. We will have to acknowledge that maybe a lot of the materiality that we even have gotten used to and appreciate, like the technology that is supporting our discussion today, might become part of these ruins. I think that’s where social ecology and social metabolism are useful. It’s like there’s no easy way out of this type of conclusion.
Socialism is not just the Soviets’ radical, workplace, democracy, and electricity. It’s going to be much more complicated. It’s also, I think, a criticism and an antidote to the easy solutions proposed by the people around, I would say, the Green New Deal approach, who are basically saying, just convert the grid to renewable energy, and everything’s going to be fine. The material change is very deep.
I think the vocabulary can be used as a planning instrument. I think that if we do democratically want to change the metabolism of our society, if we do want to learn to live within limits which we will discover and set for ourselves because nature will not give us limits. Nature will just change. There are no limits out there in nature; that’s not the way it works. What works is that we will discover the limits that we have to impose to ourselves because otherwise, we will create natures in which we will not be able to exist, but maybe other life forms will be able to exist. So if we don’t want to end up in a world in which we cannot exist, then we have to set limits to our activities. Social metabolism gives us the tools to debate these limits and to see the materiality of our society.
In the book, I propose some tools, but there’s so much more out there. I propose mostly a perspective. We have to look at the materiality and we have to look at it in a lucid manner. This lucidity comes through this very dry and I would say gray vocabulary of material stocks and flows. That if you have built up a city out of concrete that is very dense with buildings that are 40-50 stories high, then you need a lot of energy to keep that thing going. You’ve locked in flows. There is no other way around it. If you move away from that towards something that is different, that implies less density, that has got more nature in it, then you might need less of these flows, but you might need more human labor. Then we’re faced with choices.
We’ve moved away from human labor directly engaging with nature in ecological relations. We’ve built up our society and our notions of progress around human labor, interacting with the Earth through geological relations, extracting stuff, building it up, using the stuff we extract to labor less, us, the privileged, even though three-quarters of humanity is laboring a lot so that we can labor less. Three quarters implies people in our own societies: waste workers, people that are working in the fields to generate the food that we eat.
I think that one of the, I would say, important messages of the Social Ecology of Capital is that we have to reconsider this notion of progress, moving from the ecological to the geological and moving back into ecological relations with nature with what we call nature in our societies, other societies have other words. Nature is really modern and Western, but that’s what we have as a word, so let’s use it. These ecological relations will imply new imaginaries of activities. Let us maybe end it with that, and that’s something that I argue in the book.
I think there we have a lot to learn and draw from feminist work on reproductive activities and reproductivity as a concept and the care that goes into that and the way we understand labor in that context in a reproductive context, which is very different from labor understood as an extractive activity. I touch on this in the introduction. I use it a bit in certain chapters, but I think there we have to read feminist economists and feminist theorists that can really help us move into this new way of understanding our metabolism as we move into more ecological relations again.
Talia Baroncelli Right, and that approach would also problematize ideas of measuring economic growth in terms of GDP, growth domestic product, because that doesn’t really take into account reproductive labor, the value of childcare, care work, and that sort of thing. That is all missing.
Éric Pineault Yeah. Basically, what the GDP does is it calculates what we cut out of our social activities. It basically calculates the frontier or the border that we put between productive and reproductive. It calculates what we devalue as non-economic, which is all the care. It says, okay, once we’ve cut all that out, we take a cookie cutter, there’s the cookie; that’s value. The rest just doesn’t exist. That’s what GDP does. It’s horrible. It’s a horrible metric. I use it as the metric to understand the degree of commercialization in a society. The degree of penetration of capital in our social relations is brilliantly measured by GDP. That’s what it’s good for.
Talia Baroncelli Well, perhaps next time we could speak about other terms to use as opposed to GDP and also speak about this feminist approach that’s missing widely in the discourse and also how social metabolism and ecologies or economies of extraction are heavily built on hierarchies of gendered hierarchies, racialized hierarchies. So maybe another time we could speak about that.
Éric Pineault Yeah, and bring other voices, too. A lot of voices could speak to these questions a lot more than me. But I could also, yeah, it’s something that really interests me and I think it’s highly important. Then maybe one last word. This brings us to, and I conclude also with this in the book, to degrowth. Degrowth, not as a slogan or as an end of itself, but as the idea that we have to move out of the growth paradigm to think of emancipation. We have to think emancipation beyond growth. That’s really what I try to end with.
Talia Baroncelli Well, that’s a great way to end emancipation beyond growth. Thank you so much, Professor Pineault, for joining theAnalysis. It was really great to have you on and to speak about these, I think, dense issues but incredibly relevant to our time. So thank you so much.
Éric Pineault You’re welcome.
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“Eric Pineault is a professor at the University of Québec in Montréal, where he teaches political economy in the Department of Sociology and ecological economics in the Environmental Sciences Institute. His current research focuses on the political economy of the ecological transition in Canada and of the extractive sector in Canada and globally. He has recently published Le piège Énergie Est with Écosociété, a book that critically examines the proposed Energy East pipeline project. Eric is a core team member of the Corporate Mapping Project.”
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Podcast: Foreign Policy Live (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is AI Out of Control?
Pub date: 2023-06-02
The rise of artificial intelligence presents both challenges and opportunities for policymakers, prompting questions of how it should be regulated by governments. FP’s editor in chief Ravi Agrawal is joined by Alondra Nelson, a former White House official and the mind behind the Biden administration’s “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.”
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Podcast: The i Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Can Saudi Arabia be stopped from buying sport?
Pub date: 2023-07-05
In a few short years, Saudi Arabia has become one of the biggest players in world sports. Capitalising on the pandemic, it has unleashed its oil-backed financial power and made inroads in most of the world’s top sporting industries.
It’s growing dominance over golf, inroads into the Premier League and eye-wateringly expensive deals for some of football’s biggest stars are just a few indicators of the kingdom's takeover.
But this has been met with widespread criticism. Accusations of sport-washing and human rights abuses have followed, coming from industry insiders and fan groups alike.
In this episode of The i Podcast, we are unpacking why the Middle-Eastern country is making such a bold move and the major impact it is having on teams and communities,
Joining us is northern football correspondent Mark Douglas and chief football writer Daniel Storey to shed light on the events as they have unfolded and the consequences for “the beautiful game”.
We also have professor of sport and geopolitical economy at SKEMA business school in Paris, Simon Chadwick, to provide his expert insight on the Saudi expansion and what it means in geopolitical terms.
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Pub date: 2023-07-04
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Episode: Generational Politics and the Asset Economy
Pub date: 2023-07-05
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Episode: Rock and Role: How Assigning Gender to Inanimate Objects Influences Us
Pub date: 2023-06-27
Why is a boat a “she?” Why give names like Alexa or Siri to inanimate pieces of software? According to assistant professor of organizational behavior Ashley Martin, ascribing gender to everyday objects helps us to connect with them more deeply.
“Gender is this humanizing force that allows people to interact with non-human things as if they’re human,” says Martin, whose research focuses on gender equality, gender inclusion, and gender’s role within team and organizational dynamics. And while Martin is interested in how anthropomorphizing technology can benefit the humans who use it, she also notes how “problematic stereotypes” could be perpetuated as a result.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Martin joins host Matt Abrahams to discuss how our ideas about gender inform the way we relate to the world and how we can leverage the latest research to promote greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Pub date: 2023-07-07
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Episode: Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics
Pub date: 2023-07-01
Adam Auerbach and his critics As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country’s expanding cities.
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By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Toni Ruuska - Is utopian degrowth a silver bullet for dystopian capitalism?
Pub date: 2023-06-30
This month we were honored to be joined by Toni Ruuska, who is a University Researcher and Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Economy at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses generally on alternatives to capitalism, agrarian political economy, and the skills of self-provisioning. In this captivating conversation, Toni lays out some of the issues with the perpetual growth model that is part and parcel of capitalist systems. Endless growth and accumulation are a nightmare; however, degrowth is not a silver bullet to solve the wicked problems present within the capitalist system. This is not to say that degrowth is not useful or hopeful, rather it is too early to really judge.
Mentioned books and links:
Degrowth Movement - https://degrowth.info/en
The case for degrowth - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Case+for+Degrowth-p-9781509535620
Future is degrowth - https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2620-the-future-is-degrowth
Less is more - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441772/less-is-more-by-jason-hickel/9781786091215
Degrowth & Strategy - https://mayflybooks.org/degrowth-strategy/
9th International Degrowth Conference website - https://odrast.hr/
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Petromasculinity | Cara Daggett
Pub date: 2023-06-29
We need an energy transition—a feminist energy transition.
For years, Cara Daggett has been researching “petromasculinity” and how this patriarchal understanding of energy impacts our relationship to it, ourselves and the fabric with which we bind society. A political scientist at Virginia Tech, Cara’s investigations into the politics of work and feminist approaches to power reveal a new understanding about how global warming emerged—and how to navigate it.
In this thrilling episode, Cara lays out the genealogy of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today’s uses of energy. She explains how sexism manifests in our energy systems, how the concept of energy is weaponised by the oil industry, and the anxiety of entropy, exploring the emotional underpinnings of a linear society which is fearful of confronting its own impermanence. She explores feminist energy systems, introducing the three spheres of a feminist energy transition which would see historically feminised work finally valued.
Cara’s book, The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work was awarded the Clay Morgan Award for best book in environmental political theory. In it she argues that only by transforming the politics of work — most notably, the veneration of waged work — will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem.
“In the 19th century you did have people starting to warn about coal exhaustion or wonder what happens when fossil fuels are gone, but you still had this economy develop around the sense of limitless expansion. This idea that freedom could come through freeing the constraints that the earth posed to putting the world to work. Fossil fuels really help with this kind of astronomical sense of power, helped to make that fantasy seem possible; this dream, almost, of a free energy. And I think you can see that sometimes mapped onto solar and wind, that one day we will actually have free energy, energy that is somehow unbound from life and the earth and death and decay and all these things.
I think this is really connected to an understanding of freedom that's about this individual independence and liberation from having to depend upon other people and having to depend upon the earth, and as a very masculine understanding, that is not just undervaluing, but also wanting to transcend, care relations and work and all these things that are feminized.”
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Episode: Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-07-02
Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023).
It’s well known and almost taken for granted that we live in the midst of a “housing crisis”—soaring rent, persistently low vacancy rate, and deteriorating quality of existing housing stock plague renters throughout Canada. But if a crisis is defined by being sudden and often short-term, by being largely incidental and without malicious intent, and by a tendency to produce broad social solidarity, Ricardo Tranjan argues that the present housing situation is anything but a “crisis.” Instead, Tranjan persuasively shows that what the tenant class—those who must rent living space from those who own it—are facing are heightened conditions of exploitation. More than this, though, Tranjan also shows how tenants are organizing in solidarity with one another and against the landlords who profit off their very existence. Towards the end of the episode, Tranjan shines a spot light on two tenant organizing campaigns in Toronto, listeners can learn more and support these tenants by following these links: York South Weston Tenant Union at 33 King Street and Thorncliffe Park Tenants’ Rent Strike:
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Episode: Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Pub date: 2023-06-07
Is it ever okay to pass off someone else’s work as your own? What if it’s a computer programme faking it? And how are our perceptions of ownership and Identity influenced by the apparent power of digital technology?
These are some of the big questions Chris Harding discusses with :
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New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerny, who researches the impact of AI. Amongst other aspects she’s looking at how it can get things wrong, and its misuse in racial profiling. https://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/technology-gender-and-intersectionality-research-project/kerry-mackereth
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Episode: Kristin Ross' "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life"
Pub date: 2023-06-23
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak to the author Kristin Ross about her recent book, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life, a collection of essays that examine how everyday life emerges as a vantage point for understanding and transforming our social world. The book represents three decades of Ross's writing about the everyday in French political, social, and cultural theory and history, including the commune form and current autonomous zones in France, the romance and memory of the May 1968 protests, and the present predicaments both faced and created by the Macron government. Featuring a long interview with the pioneering philosopher Henri Lefebvre, the book also invokes the work of Frederic Jameson, Jacques Ranciere, Emile Zola, and many others, to explore the intersections of political transformation and cultural representation as resources for thinking opposition and liberation in the present. Plus, artist Martine Syms, whose new exhibition Loser Back Home is currently on view at Spruth Magers in Los Angeles, returns to recommend Steffani Jemison's novel A Rock, A River, A Street.
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Neoliberalism and Public Health w/ Adia Benton (Unlocked)
Pub date: 2023-06-23
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Bea and Abby speak with Adia Benton about how neoliberalism constrains what public health interventions are considered possible while simultaneously expanding what political issues can be depoliticized as simply a "public health issue." We also look at some of Adia's statements from early in the pandemic on the role of austerity in shaping the covid response, and discuss how development and NGO work shapes the political economy of health.
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Episode: Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
Pub date: 2023-06-25
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies and boutique studios; research laboratories and academic design programs. Together they form the interconnected network that is Silicon Valley. Apple products are famously “Designed in California,” but, as Barry Katz shows in this first-ever, extensively illustrated history, the role of design in Silicon Valley began decades before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak dreamed up Apple in a garage.
In Make it New, Katz tells how design helped transform Silicon Valley into the most powerful engine of innovation in the world. From Hewlett-Packard and Ampex in the 1950s to Google and Facebook today, design has provided the bridge between research and development, art and engineering, technical performance and human behavior. Katz traces the origins of all of the leading consultancies—including IDEO, frog, and Lunar—and shows the process by which some of the world's most influential companies came to place design at the center of their business strategies. At the same time, universities, foundations, and even governments have learned to apply “design thinking” to their missions. Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader—including Douglas Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Don Norman—Katz reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation.
Barry M. Katz is Professor of Industrial and Interaction Design at California College of the Arts, Consulting Professor in the Design Group at Stanford University, and Fellow at IDEO, Inc. He is coauthor of Change by Design, with Tim Brown, and NONOBJECT, with Branko Lukić (MIT Press).
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Episode: #238 - The Dark Side of Martin Heidegger: A Dialogue with Richard Wolin
Pub date: 2023-06-25
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Richard Wolin about the dark side of Martin Heidegger. They discuss the black notebooks of Heidegger and what are the nature and intentions of these black notebooks. They dialogue about reading the antisemitic and Nazi themes in these notebooks with Heidegger’s philosophy. They talk about Heidegger being a member of the Nazi party, editing and re-editing his works, his views on race, and the impact these views have on his philosophy. They also talk about the New Right, Dugin, reading Heidegger in the 21st century, and many more topics.
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Podcast: Getty Art + Ideas (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Art and Poetry: How to Witness the World
Pub date: 2023-06-28
“What I tell my students—and most of them are writers—is that the only way for them to get to a place where they’re making what they should be making, writing what they should be writing, is to work from a place of courage.”
Claudia Rankine is a skilled poet, playwright, essayist, and professor. She explores, across genres, how the act of witnessing is necessary in maintaining the social contract. During this period of immense global change, witnessing as an act is a powerful act for artists, who can incisively question the moral trajectory of a nation.
In this episode, hosted by Getty Research Institute associate curator Dr. LeRonn Brooks, Rankine shares her thoughts on the role art and artists play in determining the course of history, her approach to teaching a new generation of artists, and the importance of introspection and intention in shaping our collective future.
Rankine is professor of creative writing at New York University. She is the author of three plays and six collections, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; she has also edited several anthologies, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Her most recent book is Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf, 2020). She is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including MacArthur, Lannan Foundation, and Guggenheim fellowships.
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sebastian Edwards on the History of Neoliberalism in Chile
Pub date: 2023-06-27
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Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the former Chief Economist for Latin America at the World Bank where from 1993 until 1996. His most recent book is The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism.
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Episode: The Ordinary Elite - Episode 7 - With Professor Mark Blyth
Pub date: 2023-06-22
The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our seventh episode we talk with Mark Blyth, Professor of Political Economy at Brown University, a Ivy League university in Rhode Island, USA. Mark is author of many publications including ‘Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea’ and 'Angrynomics'. We discuss inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, the UK housing crisis, economics, Brexit and Scottish independence - and Oor Wullie and the Broons!
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Podcast: The Active Share (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Age of Oil
Pub date: 2023-06-26
We can’t understand current geopolitical events without understanding how fossil fuels shaped the 20th century. In this episode of The Active Share, Hugo sits down with Helen Thompson, a professor of political economy at Cambridge University and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, for a conversation about energy—how U.S. shale production created fault lines through the Middle East, Western Europe, and Russia; how decarbonization could drive further change; and how other industries (such as semiconductors) are having a similarly disruptive effect.
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Podcast: Business Diplomacy Today
Episode: The migration governance complex
Pub date: 2023-06-22
In this episode, Matthias Catón and Crystal Ennis discuss the migration governance complex, defined as how migration governance happens in practice and the various actors involved. Their discussion focuses on labor migration and examines its definitions, the fragmentation of migration governance, changing trends and geographical destinations of labor migration, and how we (individuals, organizations, and governments) can improve the socioeconomic conditions for labor migrants.
Matthias and Crystal apply these theories globally and discuss practices in Germany, Canada, South Asia, and the Gulf countries. From a business perspective, and with businesses playing a significant role as employers, Crystal provides her expertise on what businesses can do to improve conditions for labor migrants and how a lack of regulatory incentives hinders this.
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Podcast: Social Pros Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Jonah Berger on Magic Words
Pub date: 2023-06-23
We are delighted to welcome Jonah Berger, Marketing Professor at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, onto this episode of Social Pros.
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The more you understand the words you use, the more you can increase the impact of your social content. But how can you change up your language choices to resonate better with your audience?
Jonah Berger, Marketing Professor at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and repeat Social Pros guest, joins the show to share his thoughts.
He reveals the story behind his latest book, ‘Magic Words’, how words can build trust, community and influence and why anybody can become a better writer.
Plus, he tells us the hidden benefits of asking questions and why it’s essential to understand audience behaviors.
In This Episode:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 5:25 – Jonah describes his new book
- 7:11 – Why did he write this book?
- 9:56 – Understanding the impact of magic words
- 13:00 – What language does
- 15:03 – Identity and agency
- 20:58 – Defining ‘magic words’
- 23:49 – Jonah’s favorite category in his framework
- 30:21 – Asking the right questions
- 34:08 – Using magic words to approach challenging topics
- 37:36 – Jonah’s final two
- 39:56 – Outro
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Podcast: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Prof Natalie Koch explores the relationship between Arizona and Saudi Arabia in "Arid Empire"
Pub date: 2023-06-15
In recent months, Fondomonte Arizona, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia-based Almarai dairy Company has been getting renewed attention for growing alfalfa in drought-prone Arizona, and sending it to Saudi Arabia to feed the country’s cows.
Despite a worsening drought, several factors including Political influence and lack of regulations have allowed the company to draw an unlimited amount of groundwater from the wells it operates in the area.
According to the Associated Press, the two new wells would have pumped in just three minutes what a family of four uses in a month. Why did Saudi Arabia choose Arizona for its crop production?
In her new book Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona. University of Syracuse political geographer professor Natalie Koch explores the exchange of colonial technologies between the Arabian Peninsula and the United States over the last two centuries,
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Podcast: Transforming Society Podcast
Episode: Cybersecurity is political
Pub date: 2023-06-16
Cybersecurity is about identifying something you want to protect and exercising power in order to preserve it, Tim Stevens says in this, the last of three short conversations about his new book, 'What is Cybersecurity for?'.
In this episode, we focus on cybersecurity’s political dimensions, including interstate competition that could manifest as cyberwarfare, the reasons why the world has not (yet) seen major acts of cyberterrorism, and the ways in which citizens in democracies can get involved in mapping out our cybersecurity future.
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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution
Pub date: 2023-06-24
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to less than $100 million in 1990, and today come close to $100 billion. But, as Dinesh Sharma explains in The Outsourcer, Indian IT's success has a long prehistory; it did not begin with software support, or with American firms' eager recruitment of cheap and plentiful programming labor, or with India's economic liberalization of the 1990s. The foundations of India's IT revolution were laid long ago, even before the country's independence from British rule in 1947, as leading Indian scientists established research institutes that became centers for the development of computer science and technology. The “miracle” of Indian IT is actually a story about the long work of converting skills and knowledge into capital and wealth. With The Outsourcer, Sharma offers the first comprehensive history of the forces that drove India's IT success.
Sharma describes India's early development of computer technology, part of the country's efforts to achieve national self-sufficiency, and shows that excessive state control stifled IT industry growth before economic policy changed in 1991. He traces the rise and fall (and return) of IBM in India and the emergence of pioneering indigenous hardware and software firms. He describes the satellite communication links and state-sponsored, tax-free technology parks that made software-related outsourcing by foreign firms viable, and the tsunami of outsourcing operations at the beginning of the new millennium. It is the convergence of many factors, from the tradition of technical education to the rise of entrepreneurship to advances in communication technology, that have made the spectacular growth of India's IT industry possible.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
Pub date: 2023-06-19
What are the consequences when conspiracy theories, lies, and paranoia are combined with military might? Speaking with Danny Bird, Paul Preston discusses how General Franco and six other men staged an uprising in July 1936, inspired by hatred for the Spanish Republic’s social and economic reforms, and a delusional belief that a sweeping conspiracy threatened to destroy Spain’s Catholic identity.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: In Conversation with Norman Solomon
Pub date: 2023-06-14
Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
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Podcast: Art Smack (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 29 - Art Corporation Inc
Pub date: 2023-06-18
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Yo Quiero Dinero! Storytelling with Midwest Mujeres
Pub date: 2023-06-13
It takes the average Latina, 12 extra months to earn what the average White, non-Hispanic man earns. That is because Latinas are only paid .55 cents to the dollar of what white men make. The Madison based group, Midwest Mujeres, is hosting an event to change that narrative through storytelling! Joining Ali Muldrow to talk about it are storytellers and organizers Robbi Domiguez and Araceli Esparza.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Untold Stories of the Amazon | Heriberto Araujo
Pub date: 2023-06-15
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“Maria Joel was a normal housewife with four underage children whose husband was murdered. She held her husband in her arms while he was dying. She had two choices. Either she simply move from the region, from this small town, and try to turn the page because she suspected that she would have to confront the economic and the political elite of the town. In one of those momentous situations of her life, she decided to stay in that town no matter the risk. What I found incredibly interesting from my book was exploring the feelings and the doubts and the controversies of a woman who would have chosen another life.”
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Episode: Capital in the 2020s (with Thomas Piketty)
Pub date: 2023-06-15
Almost a decade ago, economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century changed the way many people understood capitalism and inequality.
In the years since, his research and ideas have helped jolt our politics out of autopilot and elevate solutions like a wealth tax into the mainstream.
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He talks about the possibility of a universal basic inheritance, the battle for progressive taxation, and what he sees as the key to prosperity: “much more investment in education, human capital, public infrastructure.”
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Episode: "This is an independent, sovereign country:" AMLO and the end of Neoliberalism in Mexico w/Alex Aviña
Pub date: 2023-06-09
Friend of the podcast Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss Mexico's populist-nationalist President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Episode: 089 Philip Di Salvo and the question of media in surveillance capitalism
Pub date: 2023-06-15
We sat down with Philip Di Salvo, a researcher in the field of whistle-blowing, investigative journalism, internet surveillance and the relationship between journalism and hacking to address the issues related to technology regulation, keeping the artificial intelligence under human control, media framing of these topics and the possible way forward.
He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
As a freelance journalist, Philip is a contributor to the Italian version of Wired where he writes about media, Internet, technology, and culture. His fields of interests include digital whistleblowing, media censorship, digital journalism, and the impact of new technologies on information.
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00:00:10 Domen Savič / Citizen DWelcome everybody. It’s the 17th of May 2023, but you’re listening to this episode of Citizen D podcast on the 15th of June 2023. With us today is Phillip Di Salvo, a researcher in the field of whistle-blowing, investigative journalism, Internet surveillance and the relationship between journalism and hacking. Welcome.
00:00:33 Philip Di SalvoThanks a lot for having me. It’s a pleasure to be with you today.
00:00:37 Domen Savič / Citizen DBefore we start with surveillance capitalism, mass media whistle-blowers, and all of the other topics we’ll address in this episode of Citizen D podcast, I’d like to hear your opening statement about the role of of journalism in the information. Society in surveillance capitalism and how do you see it differing from, let’s say the analogue offline societies we used to live in in the past?
00:01:10 Philip Di SalvoWell, I think the role of the media and the role of journalism at large in this discussion is about power. So the role of journalism in all these debates and in this overall context of digitization, datafication and the growing application of digital technologies in society is still the one of trying to re-balance power, and in this sense I don’t think it is particularly different than how it used to be before the Internet or before anything digital.
So in those regards I think the role is still the one of making those in power accountable and in shedding light on how power happens on how power is applied in society. And I think the digitalization paradoxically has made the role of power even more insidious, and sometimes even more invisible.
So in this sense, I believe that the role of journalism is so much more important now than it probably used to be before.
00:02:26 Domen Savič / Citizen DNow when you when you talk about power, I remember going back, let’s say twenty years in the early 2000s, we used to hear these, I’m gonna say fairy tales, about the democratic potential of technologies, about the participatory nature of the Internet, of I’ll go back and say web blogs, but other publishing platforms as well…
Who has the power in today’s information society, and why do we constantly fail to deliver this notion of democratic technology that will enable everybody to have the power or to be in power?
00:03:10 Philip Di SalvoWell, if we look at what the Internet is today, I’m afraid most of those things that we used to believe in the early 2000s and even before in the 90s didn’t materialize. They didn’t materialize because the technology is somehow bad or because the technology is used in in bad ways. They didn’t materialize because of a specific economical political asset that has become mostly hegemonic on how the Internet functions today, and I know we will discuss surveillance capitalism after this in our conversation, but what we have today is the precise outcome of a series of things that have been.And I would set aside it to be as such, so the Internet didn’t evolve naturally in being such a centralized, commercialized place because it follows some natural events or it followed some natural ways or directions that were inevitable.
It became this because the drivers of that asset have won, so the Internet wasn’t supposed to be necessarily a place of a deeply commercialization commercialization. It wasn’t supposed to be a place where surveillance is the dominant business model and the dominant power balance online, it did become this because commercial drivers, commercial companies and money maker players have exploited the Internet in a direction that was effective, and we cannot say that the Internet doesn’t work effectively today – it does, it definitely does, but with consequences that have become increasingly more visible and impactful on the lives of everyone who is on the Internet, and I think what we should do today in 2023 is trying to revitalize some of these discussions and trying to see what are the spaces and what are the potential alternatives to build something different. There are days where I’m particularly pessimistic, and I still think, and probably I think that this is no longer possible, so that it is almost totally utopian to imagine alternatives to the status quo we are into.
But I think actually this is one of the good days, so I am a bit optimistic and I think what we need to do before we start thinking about how to do that, we need really to start thinking about how to make space for, for different ideas and then how we build them. It is a different story, and it’s even more complicated, but what we need to do from the very beginning, from scratch, is trying to make space, which means getting out of the mindset that sometimes make our imagination very difficult to even, you know, proven.
Imagine something different and is a sort of realism, I would say, quoting Mark Fisher, that referred this to capitalism realism. We think there is a form of realism also when we think about how the Internet functions today, and that’s precisely what we should start to challenge, because once you open space for imagine an alternative. Then you make space for it and then you can really start a discussion which is technical, practical and political on how to build alternatives.
00:07:25 Domen Savič / Citizen D
And you, you’ve mentioned that we are constantly having these debates and that you know we are basically or almost like spinning spinning in a circle related or when we are discussing the democratic potential of technologies about the openness of space and so forth. But do you feel that or do you think that with every circle around the sun when we are debating these things the circles are getting smaller and more, let’s say inevitable or more without any possible alternative outcome that will or that could, as you said, open spaces and create these alternative realities?
00:08:12 Philip Di Salvo
I think we recently saw that something different is possible in Italy, my home country because, well, it has become an international case. So I’m pretty sure the listeners will be aware of it, but Italy has been the first country to try to regulate how artificial intelligence operate and that happened because the Italian Data Protection Authority opened an investigation into open AI and how ChatGPT is functioning.
How ChatGPT has been developed and how data about Italians has been gathered in order to build the machine so that has been really the first attempt by a political authority of any sort to intervene in how artificial intelligence is being developed today, and that’s interesting on many levels.
It’s interesting on the level of data justice because it opened a discussion about how data is being treated when it comes to the creation of artificial intelligence and at the same time, it has been a direct interval tension into how a technology and highly impactful technologies being developed today.
I have nothing against open AI, I think they’re building something great. I think they’re doing excellent work, but we cannot allow to happen something that has happened with the Internet at large 10 years ago, so we cannot allow companies to drive this discussion completely.
We cannot allow them to make their own rules live by them and force everybody else to adopt. Not because this is eminently wrong, but because this position doesn’t work and we have seen it with social media. We have seen it with other technologies and other actors in this discussion, so I think we have now a decade long experience in how not to drive these discussions and how not to drive these debates.
So the fact that the Italian Data protection authority in Italy is not one of the countries really at the core of this, I mean it’s not the US, it’s not the UK, it’s Italy.
But the fact that someone raised a hand and said well, wait a second, you’re building something interesting, no one is denying this. This is potentially great, but how are you doing it and how are you applying this to people?
So I think there was an absolutely good sign and this is potentially also a sign that it is possible to have a say in this discussion. It is possible to decide what we want to do and what we don’t want to do. And if I see this also in what has happened last week with the artificial intelligence act on the European level that is, trying at least to give some limitations and some, you know, clear rules to what cannot be done with artificial intelligence. If I see these two things together, I still think probably, and this is also because this is one of the good days where I’m optimistic, that something can be done.
So I think the important thing is not thinking that nothing can be done. Something can always be done, and I really think that what happened in Italy with with open AI is a sign of the way forward is a sign that States have a say in these discussions and like it or not, we have to rely on these systems. We have to rely on regulation and I think it’s it’s it’s healthy that this has happened at this moment when when ChatGPT is being developed, but it’s not dominant in a sense that you cannot live without it.
So it’s very interesting that the intervention has happened now because it will be applied by others and potentially this can be a new driver of this debate and a new driver of how artificial intelligence will be developed from now on so that I think is a direction for a different imagination around around these technologies.
00:13:17 Domen Savič / Citizen DAnd when you were talking about, let’s say state regulation or regulatory models that are addressing not just GPT, but artificial intelligence and let’s say global technology – how do you see the difference between regulatory attempts by let’s say states or countries within the European Union, or even more precisely, on the on the West side of the European Union and some same or similar attempts that are now being in place in in let’s say more the eastern part of the world like China and others.
So I have a I have an anecdote I usually bring up when when we’re discussing regulatory models and let’s say self regulation of of the industry Is that I was attending an international conference in Kotor and we were discussing this was back in 2016… And we were discussing this issue of Facebook and self-regulation versus regulation right and the members of the conference that were coming from, let’s say the more eastern part of of the Europe were absolutely shocked to suggest that the state should or could regulate this systems because back then, in those countries, Facebook was still a was still a platform of expression that wasn’t wasn’t controlled by the government, while the Members from let’s say, Italy, France, Germany, UK were absolutely, you know, focused on regulatory models, saying that you know, self regulation doesn’t work, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know what he’s doing, and you know the state should really put the put, put its foot down.
So I would like to hear your thoughts on these different perceptions of of regulatory models and maybe to maybe counterpoint the current state in which these big tech giants or big tech intermediaries found themselves in, where you can see that you know they’ve lost quite a lot of goodwill that was that was present with the people, with the regulators, with, with politicians, you know, 5-10 years ago and are now basically the bad guy or the baddest, the baddest of guys in in this debate.
00:15:52 Philip Di SalvoWell, I’m not a regulation expert, but I think we can tell that self regulation doesn’t work when it’s applied to technology and we we see it clearly if we look back to anything that happened with social media in the recent years. 2016 has been an interesting year for many reasons in in politics, in international affairs and also in technology and we have seen there more clearly than in other instances how leaving companies making the rules and deciding how to walk it’s not a good way of addressing these issues so I believe there is the need of having clear rules where companies can operate as we have rules for many other fields.
I mean, basically every other economic field that has rules set up has been decided by public bodies, so I think that should also be the same for technology of course, because otherwise we are simply relying on assumptions that companies are eminently good, they know what innovation is and they know how to deliver, which which I think it’s fundamentally wrong and it’s it’s visible, I would say.
So yes, we need, we need rules decided by public bodies and at the same time we need clear rules for avoiding problems and we also need to avoid that… I mean, I don’t like the term, but it works in in the context of the sentence, we need to also make sure that innovation can somehow be created.
So again, I think that what the European Parliament has as the leader so far when it comes to regulating artificial intelligence, it is good because it starts. From from a good principle, I mean the AI act is based on a risk scenarios approach and consequently also technologies are labeled on the basis of the risks which I think is a good way of putting on black and white what the dangers are when it comes to artificial intelligence and at the same time living space for other good things to be developed. So generally speaking, I think that’s a good that’s a good approach and I’m glad to see that Europe is going in that direction.
But of course we need to see how the draft of the regulation will be then discussed and what the final outcome of it will be, but I think that’s a good approach and we we are seeing for instance a clear position against facial recognition, a clear position against the most abusive uses of artificial intelligence in public spaces, which I think it’s brilliant so far.
Then we will see what the outcome is … so that will be my general comment on how regulation should be should be put in place, but at the same time, we shouldn’t forget that it’s really a case by case discussion here. And again, I’m not an expert, but I doubt that there are principles and ways of regulating technology that apply at the same time, for each and every technology we can discuss.
So I think when it comes to digital technologies that have impacts in society like AI this risk based approach is definitely a good a good idea, but I cannot answer your question when it comes to other contacts because I’m not completely familiar with them.
00:20:00 Domen Savič / Citizen DBut looking at looking at the role of of an individual user or of a citizen or of a consumer, right, if you take a step back and look at, let’s say the GDPR legal frame or the power or the importance of an individual user that takes care of its rights and data and yeah, other instances in in the information society.
So how would you, how would you interpret or how would you explain? You know the change that has apparently the AI act doesn’t pay particular attention to the to the individual, but turns its regulatory flashlight towards technology and towards these AI systems that are that are in place.
Do you see that as a learning moment for the regulators, did they realize that, you know, we cannot put too much emphasis on on the end user, but have to think more broadly, what what do you think was or how do you how do you see it those difference?
00:21:22 Philip Di Salvo
Generally speaking, I think that we had for too long these discussions based on on individual decisions like around the 2013 when when the Snowden revelations were published. I remember that one of the leading frames in which the discussion was constructed was kind of pointing fingers again the users and said like, well, you have given all this information to Facebook and the others, so you cannot complain etc etc etc.
We have been feeding the machine for years, but it’s an extremely limited way of of framing the discussions. I mean it’s public knowledge that while we willingly and explicitly tell social media about ourselves, it is just the tip of the iceberg of what this companies can know about us by simply getting data from data brokers or acquiring information from the offline world and merging it together with the online world.
The way in which the digital economy works is way more rhythmic than how it is usually described. So yes, I post stuff on Instagram about myself, but the information that Meta can have about me comes from so many sources… it has been documented how Facebook, for instance, is capable of profiling non users of Facebook on the basis of what the company can get from from, from its own users.
So I think what we came to learn about all these dynamics definitely is a sign that discussing this only on the individual level doesn’t work, and of course there are steps that each and every of us can do to mitigate the consequences of this state of things, but I think we cannot, and this goes beyond regulation.
We cannot look at this only on this way. Because I think all these arguments are based on an understanding of digital technology that it’s… I think stuck in time. It’s really about how we used to think about the digital at the beginning of it… now it is so difficult because it is so powerful. It is so interconnected with basically everything we do that we need to inevitably look at it in a more systemic way.
So again, I don’t know how to put this in regulatory frames, but when it comes to discussion and awareness about what is happening. I think it is important to constantly focus on these issues on a collective way and we see this clearly, for instance with, with privacy and privacy is definitely one of the most concerned issues in these discussions.
But to most people, I think privacy is something obscure, is something that really Is sought as regarding their inner selves and not as a collective justice issue. So that’s why, for instance, I really like the data justice concept, which is a good way of framing these problems in terms that are, I think, less obscure and more connected to the lives of people.
In practical terms, so we have social justice outside the Internet in the way in which we are treated. In a way in which we are framing the ways in which we are kind of playing a role in society or having a say in society, and that should be the same basis on the Internet as well. We should definitely look at these issues as justice issues.
So to go back to my initial example when when the Data Protection authority in Italy addressed open AI and ChatGPT, I think that was a quintessential data, just this discussion and of course, it was based on on on privacy. It was based on how personal data have been used, but it’s a justice issue at large, it is about deciding what others can do with ourselves. It is about putting a limit to what companies can do with our identities, with our expressions, with what we, what we have been putting on the Internet. So far, so it is a justice issue and in such is absolutely a collective issue and I think that the evolution of these debates in the last 10 years, if I look back again on on the Snowden revelation than we are and where we are now, it has definitely evolved in a positive way.
So I won’t be surprised if all we have just discussed also is implemented in our policies and regulations are now drafted.
00:27:06 Domen Savič / Citizen DSince you mentioned Snowden I’d like to move on to the next topic of the role or the journalistic, let’s say not sector, but the journalists in the surveillance capitalism and their their need to protect, their sources, their own person – identities and work, and so on.
There are some instances of, let’s say, journalists being hacked, being targeted by by spyware and other types of of malware. That are, you know, sort of questioning the whole personal responsibility angle like you already mentioned, Facebook, Meta, other tech giants are are gathering information about us from many different places and they’re they’re using it themselves or they’re selling it to the highest bidder.
And in that regard, this notion of, let’s say, personal responsibility of digital literacy, of digital skills, of everything that, let’s say, the European Union as well, is now pushing to the front line of this digitalization can be put under question in terms that – is this enough or are we by shifting the responsibility again to an individual user to a journalist?
Are we still prolonging or enacting this total avoidance of responsibility from the industry, from actors in this field that are actually doing these, yeah, spying activities?
00:29:09 Philip Di SalvoWell, I think what is crucial here is the notion of the black box and in most instances digital technologies are black boxes in terms that they are obscure and we know very little about them and about how they, how they work – and we see these with algorithms, we see this with artificial intelligence, again we seeing it with the with the surveillance market.
For instance, so when when you face something like that and this is why at the beginning I was mentioning power to be obscure in the digital digital area, you clearly see that there is a power issue there. So if something is allowed to operate without being accountable I think it’s an abuse of power in in general terms and in those regards, journalism is needed in order to shed light on on these systems and to open the black boxes, as is often said and whistle-blowers and other sources have been crucial for this, because when you don’t have access.
To these systems, when you don’t have ways of gaining access, you need to rely on others who have access and decide to share information with the journalist or with the public. So when it comes to investigating technology, I think that whistle-blowers have been playing a crucial part. Especially when it comes to big tech companies, one of my recent articles is about with the blowers coming from big tech companies and the kind of invisibility they help to shed light on.
But as you were mentioning—relying on whistle-blowers, if you are an investigative reporters in this context and in this digital scenario where surveillance is, is rampant, it’s it’s extremely dangerous. And because the surveillance practices that are out there for governments but increasingly also for other actors are numerous..
In 2021, the Pegasus investigation really shed light on the ultimate nightmare scenario in these discussions, because spyware and the most advanced instances of spyware technology really jeopardize any discussion around information security. Any discussion around around encryption, I don’t want to go into the technical side of things, but they basically make any effort, any technical effort in security, obsolete.
If a spyware is capable of being infected on my on my device without me making any mistake simply by a remote action. So this is where we are – We are in a situation where journalists can be put under surveillance with absolutely no scrutiny, with absolutely no way of being found out. And it is also part partly connected to how the Internet functions. The Internet is full of bugs, is full of vulnerabilities.
It’s full of loopholes that can be exploited by others, and the ways in which these can happen. Is frequently in the hands of those who are capable of using surveillance against actors like journalists, activists, human rights defenders, and the public, what journalists can do in this discussion is only mitigating the risks.
And, of course, not every journalist is exposed to the same risks as someone doing national security level investigation, but all people, including journalists, are exposed to some of these risks – it’s just that the threat modeling is different, but in principles of the risks are the same.
And this is really a scenario where the individual also really left really left alone because the surveillance market is even more insidious than other black boxes is absolutely not regulated in a proper way, and you can also shed light on one company as it happened with NSO and Pegasus. But it’s just one piece of a very broader puzzle.
I think regulation on surveillance is limited and it should really be systemic and it should really—I mean that’s my view and it should really state that certain technology shouldn’t be developed in the first place because there is no way of using them without creating them and spyware is definitely in this area, and most people will argue that we need them for conducting investigations, we need them for law enforcement.
And I can agree on on a certain level that this is true. I mean, they can make a difference in certain scenarios in certain investigations, but I’m inclined of being in favor of this use only if a clear regulation if a clear set of rules is there because otherwise we have seen way too much how that is a slippery slope and you start by allowing the use of these things for certain situations and then they become normalized.
Just because the technology is there, so if you want to go in that direction, we would we check and somehow agree we need a broad solid clear set of rules of what cannot be done. But again here it’s where I’m particularly pessimistic. Even if you have rules, then it’s very difficult to control the market and the producers of surveillance technologies have been very effective in avoiding regulations and in finding ways of making business anyway, so we are really in an open sea where journalists and others are left, are left alone and it’s an open battles.
Progress has been done, but we are still far away from a situation where we can feel we can feel safe and this cannot be solved with technology only. I mean, we cannot continue to say that journalists need to protect themselves with encryption, full stop, that that’s not enough.
00:36:13 Domen Savič / Citizen DAnd speaking of journalists and encryption and privacy in surveillance capitalism, there’s also one issue, and it pertains to Italy as well, So we might find some new connections – it the geopolitical debate between the Chinese tech making its way into Europe and into into the US, there’s been quite a few debates, arguments, even legal propositions on both sides of of the Atlantic Ocean.
Regarding the ban of Huawei of ZT, of Hikvision, of other Chinese giants and at the same time it was underlined by the realization that you know you, you literally cannot survive without the Chinese tech being present on on different levels in in the West and in the US so on one side you have the cold hard silicon of Chinese technology being installed in The West and on the other hand, you have these legal proposals, the regulation that you know, tries to ban it or tries to stave off its influence in our parts of the world. So how do you see that developing in the in the future? And do you think banning or limiting almost creating like this alternate splinter net is an effective solution to the problem?
00:37:59 Philip Di SalvoIt’s interesting question. Well, I think overall when you can refer to our technology by saying it’s Chinese or it’s Russian, and then that’s always an easy argument for pretending that the problem it’s only in China or in countries where democracy is not protected or not, or not existing and that’s a very limited
We’ve seen it with with TikTok as well – I mean with the US authority that is being very concerned with TikTok because TikTok is Chinese and they don’t have the same level of preoccupation when it comes to other companies which are either US based or Western that do pretty much the same business model.
One starting point of the discussion and then of course, buying surveillance technology from a surveillance state like China is concerning in double ways for the impacts that the technology can have outside of China and from the kind of economical political implications of that technology that is implemented in the systems themselves
Again, I’m not entirely sure that banning completely this technologies on the basis of where they are developed is the right way because you can buy surveillance cameras from China, but you can buy them from various other countries and buy them in in Western country, you can buy them in in Israel, you can buy them from all over the world, you can buy them from Italy – Italy is an excellent producer of surveillance technologies as we know.
So I don’t think we should frame the discussion only around geopolitical terms because that limits also the understanding of the implication of the world of the whole situation. I think we should really focus on the technologies themselves and the specifications that they carry and the uses that can be done.
I think that is that is definitely the way the way forward and then I agree that the geopolitical traits of certain producers are more concerning than others, but when it comes to the technology itself, I don’t see that huge difference, probably in a way in which than they are applied in my home city of Como.
In Italy, there has been an implementation of facial recognition systems – they were pushed by Huawei itself because they were producing the cameras and they were approaching the municipality in trying to get their attention and for the implications that facial recognition has on people.
I think that if the camera is Chinese or if the camera is Italian it doesn’t really make a difference in the end, although the geopolitical implications and the political, economical elements of a Chinese surveillance cameras are clear, I think.
When it comes to the adoption and the use and the harms you can create, there is not such a huge difference if the camera is Chinese or whether the camera is Italian in the end.
00:41:49 Domen Savič / Citizen DYes, I I would agree, although and this is sort of the final topic for today the, the issue of representing or getting the political response. In particular, let’s say instances or issues within the surveillance, capitalism might be in some cases, at least in my opinion, easier if there is an almost like a nationalistic, nationalistic approach added to the issue. Right?
Nobody worries about the surveillance capitalism. Everybody worries about surveillance, or politicians are usually worrying about surveillance capitalism coming from, let’s say, China or other tricky country, to say to say the least.
So how would you or how do you as as a journalist when when addressing these issues in in your articles, in your investigative pieces, how do you get about tagging the relevant the relevant parties in, in, in a, in a discussion or when addressing a certain problem is there? Is there a like a blueprint or is there something that sort of helps you with overcoming the current type of the issue and then really take a deep dive into into a problem without being too, I’m going to say sensationalistic, but also without being too cheap or too superficial.
00:43:26 Philip Di SalvoWell, I think what is crucial is to always frame these discussions as things that relate to the real world, because too frequently when we discuss digital technologies or artificial intelligence and the impacts they can have, the discussion is conducted as if all these things operate outside of the world.
So artificial intelligence is artificial, the Internet is digital. It doesn’t have an impact on on, on the reality it doesn’t have an impact on on society. It’s not walking among people, which is incredibly misleading, and it’s incredibly dangerous because for years it has obscured any potential critical discussion.
So the strategy, I think for journalists is to always connect struggles around digital issues, which struggles with with other social or political cases that are that are happening. That’s why again data justice is such a powerful framework, is such a powerful way of addressing privacy and surveillance and algorithmic discrimination, for instance.
So I think for way too long technology journalism, if you want to call it this way has been interpreted as as a technical as also our consumer electronics oriented field of reporting while it was political at the core.
So I think that’s the golden rule that we should live by, and that’s that’s the approach that journalists need to have even when they address the most abstract and the most you know, distant issues that we can think of – even quantum computing is a political issue to me, algorithm profiling is a political issue, surveillance, of course, is a political issue, social media regulation is a political issue and etc.
And we should also constantly look at the most direct ways in which humans are involved in this in these topics. That’s why, among all the great reporting that I’ve read about open AI, the Billy Perrigo story on the Kenyan workers employed as moderators for helping the machine to learn things and now they have been exploited and they’re horrible working conditions that have been forced. I think there was one of the most interesting and revealing pieces of reporting I’ve read about about ChatGPT because all these issues otherwise are left unreported. They’re left unnoticed and they’re easily forgotten.
So I think considering technologies as political, considering the real physical world as the place where technology happens is the starting point because if you move from there you can have a real social political discussions around around these things. And secondly, look at how humans are involved, because when we talk about facial recognition, yes, we are discussing computer vision, but we are discussing discrimination that is applied to certain humans.
And if we discuss artificial intelligence and how it works, we also need to take into account that humans are involved and moderators are of course, the most exposed groups out there and you can continue this way relating to every technology we are discussing. That’s also an environmental issue, for instance.
So we should always look and frame these topics in this way in order to make them more connected to the lives of people and more connected to social justice, political and profoundly also human stories that are involved.
00:47:46 Domen Savič / Citizen DPerfect time to end this episode of of Citizen D. Thank you Phillip for dropping by and best of luck with your future endeavors.
00:47:55 Philip Di SalvoThanks for all the invitation. It’s been a pleasure to talk with you today.
Citizen D advice: * Rethink technology through lenses of human rights * Media framing of issues matters * Surveillance capitalism surpasses east-west politics
More information: * “Leaking Black Boxes: Whistleblowing and Big Tech Invisibility” – paper * “AI Errors and the Profiling of Humans: Mapping the Debate in European News Media“ – report * “’We Have to act Like our Devices are Already Infected’: Investigative Journalists and Internet Surveillance” – paper * Recent interview with Meredith Whittaker at the Wired festival in Italy (video – in English) – interview
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Episode: Craig Seligman's "Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag"
Pub date: 2023-06-09
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with writer Craig Seligman about his recent book, Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag. The book follows the story of the groundbreaking drag queen, performer, and artist Doris Fish, who was born in Australia in the early 1950s as Philip Mills. Seligman initially wrote about Fish in the 1980s after they met through his boyfriend in San Francisco. He builds on his past interviews to recount Fish’s life, from her early days in Sydney when she was a member of the outre drag group Silvia and the Synthetics, to her time living in San Francisco, where she moved in the late 1970s. She formed the group Sluts A-Go-Go there, and went on to become one of the city’s most celebrated performers, writing and starring in the cult film Vegas in Space, and staging increasingly avant-garde and political performances until her death from AIDS in 1991. In addition to Fish’s story, Seligman looks at larger attitudes toward drag, both within the queer community and outside of it, elucidating the way drag has seeped into popular culture and why it still remains a radical act today. Also, Joanna Biggs, author of A Life of One's Own, returns to recommend Still Born, a novel by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey.
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Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Tech's New Trillionaire
Pub date: 2023-06-02
It's a great time to be in the AI business. Just ask Nvidia, the AI chip company that doubled in value this year. Cameron and Adam discuss whether it's overvalued... or worth every penny.
Also on the show: the economics of Mexico.
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The alliances and rivalries of Cold War-era journalists
Pub date: 2023-06-02
During the early years of the Cold War, the Washington press corps was quick to deliver the U.S. company line without much public skepticism. Kathryn J. McGarr is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the media after WWII often presented a monolithic view of the world while keeping their readers and listeners in the dark about the truth. Her book is “City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington.”
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Podcast: Vistas
Episode: The Construction of Post-Cold War Europe's Security Structure
Pub date: 2023-06-05
In this episode, Distinguished Professors of Historical Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Mary Sarotte, joined us to discuss the end of the Cold War, NATO expansion, the United States' relations with Europe and Russia in the 1990s,and its reverberations for today.
Professor Mary Elise Sarotte is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professorship of Historical Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. Her six books include Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2021), The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (2014), and 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe(2009), which were named Financial Times Books of the Year (2009 and 2014), Economist Book of the Year (2014), and Foreign Affairs Book of the Year (2021), among receiving other prizes and awards. Sarotte earned her AB in History and Science at Harvard University and her PhD in History at Yale University. After graduate school, she served as a White House Fellow and subsequently joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge. Sarotte received tenure at Cambridge in 2004 and returned to the United States to teach at University of Southern California as the Dean's Professor of History before moving to Hopkins. Sarotte is a former Humboldt Scholar, a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Podcast: Forward Vision with Matthew Taylor
Episode: Quinn Slobodian on the market radicals escaping democracy
Pub date: 2023-06-06
Democracy and capitalism are strange bedfellows, and the continuing growth of globalisation has often caused the intricacies of this relationship to be brought into question. But what happens when democracy itself is sidelined in favour of free-market libertarianism? In this episode Matthew is joined by author and historian, Quinn Slobodian, to discuss his new book Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. Here they explore the economic zones, tax-havens, free-ports and city states where ultra-capitalists thrive, and the implication this has for democracy when the model is replicated further throughout the world.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316685/crack-up-capitalism-by-slobodian-quinn/9780241460245
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Podcast: Analysis (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Do Boycotts Work?
Pub date: 2023-06-05
Boycotts are big at the moment. On a global scale, many countries are boycotting Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. There are campaigns to boycott products produced in Turkey, Israel or China. Sporting boycotts are used by countries across the world to express their displeasure with their international rivals. And there are plenty of boycotts going on against companies, over working practices, supply chains and political stances.
But international boycotts can be easily circumvented, and we can choose alternative products if we don't like a particular manufacturer. So is this low risk activism, or is it an effective way for ordinary people to hold businesses and nations to account? Do boycotts ever lead to permanent change?
Above all, do they work? Journalist and writer David Baker investigates.
Presenter: David Baker Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Engineer: Nicky Edwards Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Contributors: Caroline Heldman Associate Professor of politics at Occidental College, Los Angeles Stephen Chan Professor of World Politics at SOAS, University of London Mark Borkowski PR and Crisis Management agent Rob Harrison Director of Ethical Consumer Xinrong Zhu Assistant Professor in Marketing at Imperial College London Business School Richard Wilson Director and co-founder, Stop Funding Hate Professor Ellis Cashmore sociologist and cultural critic Ben Jamal Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Pinar Yildrim Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton (Business) School at the University of Pennsylvania
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Podcast: SAGE Sociology (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women
Pub date: 2023-06-06
In this episode of the Gender & Society podcast, Dr. Michael Halpin discusses his article, "Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women."
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Queer Communists
Pub date: 2023-06-06
To be queer and communist at a time when the Communist Party in the U.S. banned LGBT people was tricky and often perilous. In her new book Bettina Aptheker profiles Lorraine Hansberry (who famously penned the play “A Raisin in the Sun”), Harry Hay (best known for founding the Mattachine Society), and other figures with radical sensibilities and closeted sexualities.
Bettina Aptheker, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s Routledge, 2023
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Podcast: Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Is Non-Alignment Dead? The Case for Countries Not Picking a Side [S6, E11]
Pub date: 2023-06-02
In a rapidly changing geopolitical environment, alliances are changing fast. The US, Russia, and China are using their influence to rally support from previously neutral countries. Increasingly, nations -- especially developing nations -- are forced to pick a side. Is non-alignment possible in an increasingly polarized world? Who are the fence sitters, and how long can they hedge their bets?
The Altamar hosts are joined by Matias Spektor, founder and professor at the School of International Relations at Fundacao Getulio Vargas. Altamar’s ‘Téa’s Take’ by Téa Ivanovic examines the history of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: What's Wrong With Men?
Pub date: 2023-06-05
"Many men in this country are in crisis, and their ranks are swelling," Missouri Senator Josh Hawley said at the National Conservatism conference in 2021. "And that's not just a crisis for men. It's a crisis for the republic."
Some version of this sentiment — that men are in trouble, adrift, or falling behind — is shared by writers and thinkers across the political spectrum. It's nearly impossible to open a magazine without finding an article about the state of manhood in America. Brookings Institution scholar Richard Reeves' 2022 book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It is a best-seller. Figures like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate attract huge audiences, serving as reactionary self-help gurus for young people eager to be told what a man is and how he should behave. One doesn't have to accept the right's framing of the problem — nor any kind of gender essentialism — to acknowledge the statistics: boys and men are falling behind in education, in work-force participation, and succumbing to drugs, alcoholism, and suicide.
Hawley — apparently having stewed on the topic for two years — has just released a book on "manhood," which advises a revival of biblical virtues to guide the aimless young men of 21st century America. To pair with Hawley, we read Harvey Mansfield's 2006 book on "manliness." Putting Hawley's evangelical Christian preaching in conversation with Mansfield's Straussian philosophical playfulness proved very constructive. Along the way, we talk about our own relationship to manhood and try to decide which (if any) of the virtues associated with maleness are worth preserving, defending, or even advising young men to embrace.
Further reading:
Harvey C. Mansfield, Manliness, Yale University Press, 2006.
Joshua Hawley,Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, Regnery, 2023.
Joshua Hawley, "America's Epicurean Liberalism," National Affairs, Fall 2010.
Becca Rothfeld, "How to be a man? Josh Hawley has the (incoherent) answers," The Washington Post, May 18, 2023.
Phil Christman, "What Is It Like to Be a Man?" Hedgehog Review, Summer 2018.
Martin Amis, "Return of the Male," London Review of Books, Dec 5, 1991.
Martha Nussbaum, "Man Overboard," New Republic, June 22, 2006.
Idrees Kahloon, "What's the Matter With Men?" The New Yorker, Jan 23, 2023.
Zoë Heller, "How Toxic Is Masculinity?" The New Yorker, Aug 1, 2022.
Lisa Miller, "Tate-Pilled What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate’s extreme male gospel." New York Magazine, Mar 14, 2023.
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Podcast: Climate Justice Deal
Episode: 5 - Anthropocene, Ecofeminism and Pluriversality [Part 2] (w/ Ariel Salleh)
Pub date: 2023-06-02
We're back with season 2 of the CJ Deal Podcast!
The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies that translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.
In this episode, we're joined by Dr Ariel Salleh an Australian Sociologist and Ecofeminist writer who writes on humanity-nature relations, political ecology, social change movements, and ecofeminism. This episode is the first of 2 parts. In it, we touch on the concept of the Anthropocene, the necessity of the ecofeminist perspective and the conceptual roots of the pluriversal.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Pornography Wars
Pub date: 2023-06-01
Guest: Kelsy Burke is an award-winning sociologist of religion, gender, sexuality, and politics in the United States. Her research has examined a wide range of topics, including debates over pornography, religious freedom laws and LGBT rights, evangelical women’s ministries, and the Christian sex advice industry. She is the author of Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet, which won the American Sociological Association Section on Religion 2017 Distinguished Book Award. Her latest book is The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession. She is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
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Podcast: Snooze (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Special Feature: Los Angeles’ Koreatown
Pub date: 2023-06-04
K-Pop has put Koreatown on the map for a lot of people who might not have known about the neighborhood otherwise. Fans from around the country visit the area for concerts, special K-Pop events, and to find rare or one-of-a-kind merch. Learn what these establishments in K-town reveal about the history of the neighborhood and the music, and how those connections have shaped Korean Americans who have grown up in Los Angeles. Features Ryan Lee Wong, author of the novel, “Which Side Are You On”.
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Podcast: The Ballpark podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Ballpark | Extra Innings: Waning Globalisation with Professor Pinelopi Goldberg
Pub date: 2023-05-25
Contributor(s): Professor Pinelopi Goldberg, Chris Gilson, Mohid Rehman Malik | In March 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Pinelopi Goldberg, Elihu Professor of Economics and Global Affairs and Affiliate of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University about her new book, The Unequal Effects of Globalization, which will be published by MIT Press in August 2023. They also discussed the rise of scepticism towards globalisation, the role of international institutions like the WTO, hyper-globalisation, and whether globalisation can be fair. This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson, Mohid Malik, and Anderson Tan.
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Podcast: Gagarin, the Eurozine podcast
Episode: The myth of sudden death - John Keane on democracies
Pub date: 2023-05-26
Although it makes for a great dramatic effect, the theories of the sudden death of democracy disregard the gradual erosion and capture of institutions, and the role of the populace - argues political scientist John Keane.Keane, a key theoretician of media history joins from his home in Melbourne, Australia to discuss his article, 'How democracies die, fast and slow'. https://www.eurozine.com/how-democracies-die-fast-and-slow/A longer version of this conversation with bonus material is available to Eurozine's patrons. Support our work with as little as €5/month or more to access extra content and help sustain this publication that connects you with over 100 publications from across Europe. https://www.patreon.com/EurozineToday's topic is the keynote article Eurozine's new focal point, 'The writing on the wall'. In it, Keane and Co. discuss the challenges democracies fact worldwide. On a more practical note, analyses map the state of democratic governance in Serbia, Moldova, Croatia, Bulgaria and Ukraine, Iran, Turkey, Georgia, Brazil and Greece - and more are to come. https://www.eurozine.com/focal-points/writing-on-the-wall/Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review so more people can find us. You can also subscribe to our weekly newsletter, so you’ll always know what’s worth thinking about: www.eurozine.com/newsletter/
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Podcast: The Taxcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Monopolies and market power
Pub date: 2023-05-25
When dominant multinationals get to run the world, it's not a happy place. Or a very secure one. For a long time governments have failed to take the threat from monopolies and the corporate concentration of power seriously, and deal with it. But recent crises have demonstrated how the neoliberal era is crumbling around us and governments must take action. In this episode we look at the challenges and how to tackle this in the public interest.
And, in the US, Minnesota nearly took a historic step for tax justice this month that could have changed everything by bringing corporate profit shifting to heel. The lobbyists said it was the end of the world as we know it - and sadly, they won - for now. What was the big deal? And what are the possibilities for other states and other countries?
Featuring:
- Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now
- Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network
- Nick Shaxson, Balanced Economy Project
- Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, MEP and Competition lawyer
- Christopher Gopal of the Global Supply Chain Center, University of Southern California
- Produced and hosted by the Tax Justice Network's Naomi Fowler
Transcript of the show: (some is automated) https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Transcript_The_Taxcast_May_2023.pdf
Further reading:
- Monopoly capitalism: What is it and how do we fight it? https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Monopoly-capitalism-primer-WEB-FINAL.pdf
- The 5 'R's of tax: https://taxjustice.net/faq/what-are-the-four-rs-of-tax/ Actually the fifth one needs adding (Reparations, or Repair)
- Resisting Monopoly Capitalism (Global Justice Now event in London, March 2023) Opening plenary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszQ-aj_0a8
- Resisting Monopoly Capitalism - Closing plenary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXbOzYKGizA
- Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health (published October 2023) https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3036-pharmanomics
- How Monopoly Threatens Democracy and Security, an Open Markets Institute and Balanced Economy Project event
- Corporate taxation to curb monopoly power: a brief history and a proposal https://taxjustice.net/2022/11/02/corporate-taxation-to-curb-monopoly-power-a-brief-history-and-a-proposal/
- Tax havens meet monopoly power: why national competitiveness harms competition https://taxjustice.net/2021/08/12/tax-havens-meet-monopoly-power-why-national-competitiveness-harms-competition/
- If tax havens scare you, monopolies should too. And vice versa. https://taxjustice.net/2019/11/01/if-tax-havens-scare-you-monopolies-should-too-and-vice-versa/
- How local, state, and federal tax policies in the us undermine small business and fuel corporate concentration https://taxjustice.net/2022/11/01/us-tax-monopoly/
- Reframing tax policy to reset the rules of the monopoly game https://taxjustice.net/2022/10/27/reframing-tax-policy-to-reset-the-rules-of-the-monopoly-game/
- To tackle corruption, start with monopoly power https://thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/to-tackle-corruption-start-with-monopoly
- Nick Shaxson: Leaving the Tax Justice Network (setting up the Balanced Economy Project - the journey) https://taxjustice.net/2023/05/19/nick-shaxson-leaving-the-tax-justice-network/
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Podcast: The Gray Area with Sean Illing (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
Pub date: 2023-06-01
Sean Illing speaks with history professor Robert Zaretsky about Simone Weil, a 20th-century French writer and activist who dedicated her life to a radical philosophy of love and attention. They discuss how she inspired her contemporaries — like Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir — and how her revolutionary ideas have remained relevant and important.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area
Guest: Robert Zaretsky, history professor, The University of Houston
References:
- The Submersive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky (The University of Chicago Press, 2021)
- “The Philosophers: Resisting Despair” by Sean Illing (Vox, May 2022)
- The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (Routledge, 2022)
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Podcast: Sociology for Dark Times
Episode: Sociological imagination! Anna Branch, Rutgers University
Pub date: 2023-05-29
This month I spoke with Anna Branch, sociologist and senior Vice President of equity at Rutgers University. Of all the sociologists I’ve talked with so far, Anna was the first to question my starting point that these are especially dark times. She asked, dark compared to when, and for whom? We discussed this in the context of Anna and Catherine Hanley’s new book Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream, and also the looming rollback of affirmative action by the US Supreme Court later this summer. We also talked about the possibilities for solidarity between black and white workers in the U.S.
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Podcast: State of Power (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S4 Ep6: Ecofeminism 2: Towards an Ecofeminist Energy Future. (Lavinia Steinfort in Conversation with Shannon Bell, Cara Daggett, and Christine Labuski) )
Pub date: 2023-05-25
Energy is currently produced and consumed based on sexist, racist and classist power relations that favour the pursuit of private profits at the expense of the common good.
Extractivist oligopolies and corporatised politics have imposed humiliating austerity measures, privatisations of public services, and excessive and growing socio-economic inequality, displacement and dispossession, and environmental destruction. These processes drive skyrocketing levels of energy poverty and a worsening ecological crisis. The most exploited and discriminated people are hit the hardest: from women in low-income households, women of colour and women with disabilities, to transwomen, single mothers and undocumented women.
We need energy democracies and participatory politics in which a variety of ordinary women can influence tomorrow’s energy policies. Collective but diversified bottom-up power can ensure a new energy model is run by and services those who the current model exploits and discriminates against. But how do we get there? The growing call for the feminisation of politics – and energy politics for that matter – is about much more than merely increasing the representation of women in decision-making positions. We need to question the ways energy politics are shaped. We need to ask, energy for whom and energy for what?
An ecofeminist perspective on energy offers an important and underacknowledged framework for understanding what keeps us stuck in unsustainable energy cultures, as well as a paradigm for designing truly just energy systems.
In this episode of the State of power podcast, TNI researcher Lavinia Steinfort talks to Shannon Bell : professor of sociology, Cara Daggert : assistant professor in political science, and Christine Labaski, associate professor of women’s and gender studies in the field of Science Technology and society. They are all at virgina tech university in the United States, and are the co-authors of the brilliant article: Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough.They are also all members of the May apple energy transition collective.
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Episode Notes:
Ecofeminism: fueling the journey to energy democracy
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Brazilian foreign policy under Lula with Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida
Pub date: 2023-05-18
Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, P.H.D. in Political Science, is senior researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), retired Professor of Political Science and former dean of the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (2009-2013). Her books include Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil – Balancing Power in Emerging States, written with Gian Luca Gardini, and Os Anos de Ouro - Ensaios sobre a democracia no Brasil (The Gilded Years – Essays on Democracy in Brazil). She is former president of the Latin American Studies Association- LASA (2010-2012) and a member of the World Bank Chief Economist´s Council of Eminent Persons (2016-2018), as well as holding the National Order of Scientific Merit (2006). Presently, she is a member of the D. Paulo Evaristo Arns Commission for Protection of Human Rights – Arns Commission and of the Latin American Program Advisory Board at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Vegetarianism as Surveillance and Punishment in India / Sharanya Deepak
Pub date: 2023-05-15
Sharanya Deepak on The Baffler article, "India’s Beef with Beef: Vegetarianism as a tool for punishment and surveillance."Also, 'The Past Inside the Present with Seb Wüepper.
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Podcast: Unauthorized Disclosure (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Author Interview: New Book 'Palestine Laboratory' Details How Israel Makes A Killing From The Occupation Of Palestinians
Pub date: 2023-05-22
Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein joins the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.
The book from Verso Books will be published on May 23, and it comprehensively documents how Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for the development of weapons and surveillance technology.
In our interview, Antony describes the impact Israeli military support and weapons have had on populations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He specifically highlights the alliance Colombia formed with the Israeli military in a brutal war against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or the FARC.
Social media companies, as Antony details, do not like Palestinians. He tells us about some of the ways in which Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc, censor Palestinians.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: J. D. Vance Changes the Subject / Gabriel Winant
Pub date: 2023-05-17
Historian Gabriel Winant on the N + 1 article, “J. D. Vance Changes the Subject: A senator from the unconscious.” You can find Gabriel's article here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/
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Podcast: Angry Planet (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mega Prisons and Bitcoin in El Salvador
Pub date: 2023-05-22
It’s 2023. It’s time for authoritarian leaders to update their aesthetic. Sure a stuffy military uniform used to lend an air of authority, but today’s young leaders are looking more and more like silicon valley tech billionaires. A backwards baseball cap. Laser eyes on their Twitter profile. Plans to build a city powered by a volcano that mines bitcoin. Mega-prisons ripped from the pages of Judge Dredd. That kind of thing.
This week we’re talking about El Salvador and its millennial leader Nayib Bukele. With us here to do that is Tiziano Breda, an expert on the region who has covered it for the International Crisis Group and is now with IAI, the Italian international affairs institute.
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Podcast: jivetalking
Episode: Robert Fletcher on the failures of market based conservation
Pub date: 2023-05-22
Episode 234 (24 Apr 2023): Robert Fletcher is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, ecotourism, globalization, climate change, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict. We discuss his new book, Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservationhttps://www.wur.nl/en/persons/robert-r-robert-fletcher-phd.htmhttps://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390690/failing-forwardICCA ("territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities” or “territories of life”): https://www.iccaconsortium.orghttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/359992734_A_Global_Conservation_Basic_Income_to_Safeguard_Biodiversity
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Podcast: Diet Soap - a podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 474: What is Bonapartism? (ft. Spencer Leonard)
Pub date: 2023-05-18
Ashley Frawley interviews Spencer Leonard and discusses the meaning of Karl Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." Read Spencer Leonard's Book Marx and Engels on Imperialism: Selected Journalism, 1856–62 https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Engels-Imperialism-Selected-Journalism/dp/1498559239Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Podcast: Countersign (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: What is the Matter with New Materialism?
Pub date: 2023-05-23
Discussing Richard A. Lee's The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence (2016). Thought and matter are distinct, separate. The explosion of new materialisms emphasise the agency of things without a critical philosophy that can sustain ethical and normative commitments. How does philosophical materialism allow the otherness of thought to emerge?
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Podcast: How to Save a Country (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How Feminist Economics Brought Us the Care Agenda (with Nancy Folbre)
Pub date: 2023-05-25
What is feminist economics? How is the field changing what we want from policy? And what is the value of unpaid labor in our economy? In this episode, renowned economist Nancy Folbre answers those questions, and traces the much-needed rise of the care agenda.
Nancy is director of the program on gender and care work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She’s the editor of For Love and Mercy: Care Provision in the United States, and author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas, among other works.
As she tells Michael, feminist ideas once considered subversive are now common in the mainstream–and changing how policymakers think about the economy.
“I think we want to consider what the output of the care economy is, and the actual output is us. It's our capabilities,” says Nancy. “The care economy is about the production and the development and also the maintenance of human capabilities. This doesn't factor into GDP.”
And later, Michael and Felicia discuss how care can be a winning political message.
Presented by the Roosevelt Institute, The New Republic, and PRX. Generous funding for this podcast was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network. Views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of its funders.
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Podcast: SAGE Sociology (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: American Sociological Review - Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions
Pub date: 2023-05-15
Author Andrew K. Jorgenson discusses the article, "Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions," published in the June 2023 issue of American Sociological Review.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: TIR PRESENTS NAILING IT DOWN EP. 3: Eric Hobsbawm and the Invention of Tradition
Pub date: 2023-05-14
TIR and Varn Vlog discuss Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger's influential edited volume, "The Invention of Tradition".https://www.cambridge.org/.../B9973971357795DC86BE856F321... Support VarnVloghttps://www.youtube.com/c/CDerickVarnVloghttps://www.patreon.com/varnvlog About TIRThank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/ Also follow us on...https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcastwww.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcastwww.twitch.tv/leftflankvetshttps://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter:@TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MarcusHereMeow Read Jason's Column in Sublation here: https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
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Podcast: Future Hindsight (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: People Power and AI: Chris Wiggins & Matt Jones
Pub date: 2023-05-18
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones are co-authors of How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. Chris is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the New York Times’s chief data scientist and Matt is a professor of history at Columbia. Together, they taught a course called “Data: Past, Present, and Future," and their book is an extension thereof. We discuss the history of how data is made; the relationship between data and truth; and the unstable three-player game between corporate, state, and people power.
We are currently in an unstable and unpredictable three-player game between state power, corporate power, and people power. In fact, we have a lot of collective influence via the way we construct norms. Our constant human activity is the grist of the mill for machine learning. Corporations do not have all the power. Still, the mix between advertising and data has created a lot of the most pressing concerns in the world’s algorithmically mediated reality.
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Podcast: The Hive Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 113. On The Perils Of Decarbonisation, Digitisation & Financialisation / Camila Moreno
Pub date: 2023-05-13
In today’s conversation, I speak with Camila Moreno, an environmental researcher, author and activist, who has worked extensively on land reform, deforestation, GMOs, agribusiness, and biodiversity issues. A leading climate-policy expert and critical voice on neoliberal climate policies and “green capitalism”, Camila’s main area of study has been the interface between reasoning on climate change and the greening of capitalism. A researcher at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Camila has been following the climate negotiations since 2008, and in 2016 she authored a book titled Carbon Metrics and the New Colonial (2016), exploring these themes and more.The former coordinator of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, in the Brazil office, Camila has been accompanying the United Nation’s Convention on Biological Diversity since 2006, and the Climate Convention since 2008. She is a working group member of Political Ecology of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the International Council of Red for a Latin America Transgenic Free (RALLT), and she served with the organizations Terra de Direitos (Land’s Rights) and Amigos da Terra (Earth’s Friends) as a researcher and activist.Recorded on 29th April 2023.
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Podcast: In Perspective
Episode: The Mumbai Bar Dancer Ban, Rethinking Sex Work, and More With Dr. Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
Pub date: 2023-05-14
In this episode, sociologist Dr. Chaitanya Lakkimsetti discusses how the AIDS epidemic changed the Indian state's relationship with sex workers, and the problems with the moral panic around bar dancing in Maharashtra.
‘In Perspective’ is The Swaddle’s podcast series where academics reveal little-known facts about Indian history, society and culture.
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00;01;01;02- How does sexual labor act as a site for the pursuit of social mobility and well-being for women dancers?
00;09;47;29- What are some scenarios where we see the dichotomy in how we treat women’s sexual labor?
00;14;07;26- How did the AIDS epidemic impact the Indian state’s relationship with sex workers?
00;24;08;17- Before Section 377 was read down in 2018, legal judgments often presented very conflicting attitudes towards sexual minorities in India. What were some of these conflicting judgements, and what problems did they pose in people’s everyday lives?
00;37;26;21- What are some of the problems with the Indian state’s approach to legislation and protection of trans* rights post the NALSA judgment?
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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, "Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-05-13
On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today(Bloomsbury, 2022) examines the ways in which exhibitions organised after the fall of Mussolini's regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and political discourse around the Italian ventennio. It charts how shows on fascism have evolved since the postwar period in Italy, explores representations of Italian fascism in exhibitions across the world, and highlights blindspots in art and cultural history, as well as in exhibition practices.
Curating Fascism treats fascism as both a historical moment and a major paradigm through which critics, curators, and the public at large have defined the present moment. It interweaves historical perspectives, critical theory, and direct accounts of exhibitions from the people who conceived them or responded to them most significantly in order to examine the main curatorial strategies, cultural relevance, and political responsibility of art exhibitions focusing on the Fascist period.
Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida speak to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the role which post-war exhibitions played in shaping our understandings of Italian Modernist art's relationship with Fascism, their contested curatorial and art historical strategies, and the continuing difficulty of reading political signs in aesthetics.
- Post Zang Tumb Tuuum at Fondazione Prada
- Maaza Mengiste's Project 3541
On 'fascism' in contemporary art: Larne Abse Gogarty. ‘The Art Right’. Art Monthly, April 2017. Read and weep.
Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is the author of A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture, and co-editor of Postwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot and Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art . For her work on Italian art, Hecker has received fellowships from the Getty, Fulbright, and Mellon Foundations.
Raffaele Bedarida is Associate Professor of Art History at Cooper Union, USA. An art historian specializing in transnational modernism and politics, Bedarida focuses on cultural diplomacy, migration, and cultural exchange between Italy and the United States. He is the author of Corrado Cagli: La pittura, l’esilio, L’America and Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera. Bedarida has received fellowships from the Center for Italian Modern Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Pierre d’Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional.
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Podcast: Climate One (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Amy Westervelt on Drilling, Denial and Disinformation
Pub date: 2023-05-12
Amy Westervelt has made a career out of exploring the underbelly of the oil industry through complex and compelling storytelling. Through her investigative series Drilled, including her latest season Light Sweet Crude, focused on the new wave of oil colonialism, Westervelt dives deep into the true crimes of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest players, including their misinformation and PR campaigns about the climate emergency, their unfair dealing and record of environmental disasters. Her narrative podcasts shine a light on stories oil companies would rather keep in the dark, and on those individuals who try to hold them accountable.
Guest:
Amy Westervelt, Investigative Journalist; Executive Producer, Critical Frequency Podcast Network
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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Should we all be troublemakers at work?
Pub date: 2023-05-10
As the chancellor stood up in Parliament to present his spring budget in March, half a million people went on strike to demand better from their bosses. Teachers, junior doctors, Tube drivers, civil servants and more all walked out of work, in the biggest day of strike action in over a decade. As the strikes rumble on into another summer, how can workers keep up the momentum? Will new legislation make it harder to fight for better pay and working conditions? And should more of us be trying to unionise our workplaces?Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by workplace organiser Lydia Hughes and researcher Jamie Woodcock, authors of Troublemaking: why you should organise your workplace.Grab a copy of Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace – out now www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2889-troublemaking -----Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence.Produced by Becky Malone, Margaret Welsh and Katrina Gaffney.Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF!The New Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org
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Podcast: Our Professor Podcast
Episode: Graffiti, Bread, and 70s Punk: Professor Karen Stern
Pub date: 2023-05-11
Carter had an engaging talk with Professor Karen Stern and to be honest, Micah kind of dropped the ball here
Professor Karen Stern is an award-winning author who draws from fields of archaeology, anthropology, history and religion to research the daily lives and material cultures of Jews of the ancient Mediterranean, Arabia and Mesopotamia. She earned an A.B. in Classics at Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown University and has conducted field research in Greece, the Middle East and North Africa with grants, fellowships and residencies from National Endowment for the Humanities, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Getty Villa.
She is author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa, Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity which won a 2020 Schnitzer Book Award, and co-editor of With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal: Essays on Relationships in the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Saul M. Olyan. The Daily Beast, Atlas Obscura, NPR, and the Guardian have all featured her work and her current book project considers Jewish history through the senses.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on Regulating Spyware
Pub date: 2023-05-11
The term “spyware” refers to software that's designed to infiltrate, monitor, and extract sensitive information from a user's device without their knowledge or consent. Perhaps the most infamous example of the harm that spyware can do is the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi government operatives, who used spyware to track Khashoggi before luring him to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he was murdered. But spyware use is not just limited to repressive autocracies. It's frequently both developed and used by liberal democracies, a practice that has generated increasing concern over the past few years.
To talk about spyware and its potential regulation under international law, Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and Senior Editor at Lawfare, spoke with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, a Regents Professor and the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she also directs the Human Rights Center. Most importantly for this conversation, she's also the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, a position she's held since 2017. As part of that role, she recently published a report on the Global Regulation of the Counter-Terrorism Spyware Technology Trade. Alan spoke with Fionnuala about her findings and what, if anything, can be done to make spyware compliant with human rights.
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Podcast: Artificiality (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Harpreet Sareen: Cyborg Botany
Pub date: 2023-05-14
We are deeply interested in the intersection of the digital and material worlds, both living and not living. Most of our interviews are focused on the intersection of humans and machines—how does the digital world affect humans and how do humans affect the digital world. This interview, however, is about the intersection of plants and machines.
Harpreet Sareen works at the intersection of digital and material, plant and machine, and art and science. His work challenges people to consider the life of plants, what we can learn from them, what we can see and what we can’t see. His art and science projects challenge us to wonder if we can actually believe what we’re seeing.
We moved to the Cascade Mountains to be able to spend more time in the wilderness. We likely spend quite a bit more time in nature than most people. Despite our strong connections to nature, Sarpreet’s work accomplishes his goal of encouraging us to reconsider this relationship, to consider what an increased symbiosis might be.
Harpreet Sareen is a designer, researcher and artist creating mediated digital interactions through the living world, with growable electronics, organic robots and bionic materials. His work has been shown in museums, featured in media in 30+ countries, published in academic conferences, viewed on social media 5M+ times and used by thousands of people around the world. He has also worked professionally in museums, corporates and international research centers in five countries. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City and directs the Synthetic Ecosystems Lab that focuses on post-human and non-human design.
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Podcast: A is for Architecture
Episode: Gary Boyd: Coal, architecture and modernity.
Pub date: 2023-04-27
In Episode 29/2 of A is for Architecture, Professor Gary Boyd speaks on his book, Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain, published by Lund Humphries in December 2022. Gary is Professor of Architecture in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast.
Mining and the Face of Coal is one output of a Major Research Fellowship Gary got from the Leverhulme Trust in 2018, and it describes a powerful story of heavy industry and the life of coal and coal miners in the development of modern Britain, including the emancipation of working class communities through collective action, politics and representation, as well as via policy, public debate and corporate enterprise. Mining, as Gary says, occupied a pivotal position in society, which ‘meant that miners were treated seriously […] all industry was completely influenced by mining or completely dependent upon it, so mining became this thing [which had] leverage. And this leverage meant obviously that they demanded at times bigger wages, but it also meant they became recipients, sometimes after actively canvassing for it, of goods and services, and especially services to do with their lifestyle, and that includes ideas of hygiene, ideas, ultimately, of housing, and also caught cultural and social pursuits. This generates a series of architectural interventions.’
The story of the coal industry is a fascinating and, for all of us of a certain heritage, retained history, the decline of which marked a significant portion of our personal histories. Its architecture has vanished, more or less, so this is an important study, describing a recent archaeology, in a way, of an epoch-defining practice. Thus, this podcast and Gary’s book are worth a sticky, believe.
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Gary can be found on the QUB website here. You can get the book here.
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Podcast: Virtual Sentiments (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Eileen Hunt on Mary Shelley and the Ethics of AI
Pub date: 2023-04-26
On the last episode of Season 1 of Virtual Sentiments, Kristen Collins interviews Eileen Hunt, a Professor and Political Theorist at the University of Notre Dame, on Mary Shelley and the Ethics of AI. Hunt begins by providing historical context of Mary Shelley regarding her parents and Shelley as a child of the Enlightenment. Hunt explains the interdisciplinary nature of Mary Shelley’s work, rooted in a Grecian philosophical past and concerned with future-oriented questions about the rights of human beings, tying in Mary Shelley’s famous Gothic novel, Frankenstein, to modern considerations of the ethics and rights of artificial life. She encourages us to think of ourselves as artificial, technological creatures and to contemplate the rights of all artificial creatures, including humans and other forms of artificial intelligence. Additionally, Hunt discusses issues of genetic engineering, humanity as a built environment, Jeremy Bentham and reproductive justice.
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Podcast: Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. Johnson (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 62: Corporate Bullshit with Ian McCarthy
Pub date: 2023-05-02
Have you ever had to deal with corporate bullshit?
Had your projects “put on the back burner”?
Or had your job “right-sized”?
Also, what the hell is “disruption?”
Ian McCarthy is the Professor of Innovation and Operations Management at Simon Fraser University.
His paper Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit introduced the C.R.A.P Framework, a system for organisations to reduce the amount of bullshit in the workplace.
In this episode, I talk to Ian about how organisations deal with the problem of B.S. and what, if anything, workers can do to make their lives less difficult.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Pub date: 2023-05-01
The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) explores the origins of Arthur Laffer’s economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy. Utilizing interviews and archival material, Laffer’s life is traced from his early education through to his time working for the Nixon and Reagan administrations. Laffer’s influence on Reaganomics is discussed alongside the development of supply-side economics, the shift towards neoliberal policies, and the Laffer curve. This book aims to contextualize the work of Laffer within archival research and wider economic trends. It will be relevant researchers and policy makers interested in the history of economic thought and the political economy.
Brian Domitrovic is the Richard S. Strong Scholar at the Laffer Center.
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network.
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Podcast: Childhood Art
Episode: Dr. Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Pub date: 2023-04-26
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Silvia Rodriguez Vega, an interdisciplinary scholar and assistant professor at UCSB’s Department of Chicana/o Studies. She is a community-engaged writer, artist, and educational practitioner. Her research explores the ways anti-immigration policy impacts the lives of immigrant children through methodological tools centering participatory art and creative expression. Her first book, Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children (NYU Press, 2023) argues that immigrant children are not passive in the face of the challenges presented by U.S. anti-immigrant policies.If you have not yet had the pleasure of reviewing her earlier presentation, please take some time to visit our website at www.centerforthestudyofchildhoodart.com. There, on the Childhood Art Speaker Series page, you will find a recording of her presentation, which links to the CSCA YouTube Channel. We highly recommend you take the time to listen to and reflect on the ideas shared as part of this presentation, and to consider, too, the generative possibilities of Kortney's work.Hosts: Dr. Christopher M. Schulte and Dr. Hayon Park. Music by penguinmusic from Pixabay
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Podcast: Queer Lit
Episode: "Feminist Killjoys" with Sara Ahmed
Pub date: 2023-05-02
Dreams really do come true! In this episode, I get to chat to the legendary originator of the feminist killjoy herself: Sara Ahmed. We talk about who the killjoy is, what she can do for us and why it is important that you can both be her and have her as your companion. Sara talks about the people who inspired her in her work on complaint, happiness, and killjoy feminism: readers, students, poets and fellow theorists like bell hooks, Judith Butler and Audre Lorde. And of course we also talk about killjoy joy.
For some extra #killjoysolidarity, follow @saranahmed and @queerlitpodcast on Twitter or @saranoahmed and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram. Bonus: you’ll get to see Sara’s super sweet dogs Poppy and Bluebell!
CW: discussions of misogyny, homophobia, and racism
Referenced work by Sara Ahmed:
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023)
Complaint! (2021) What’s The Use (2019)
Living a Feminist Life (2017)
The Promise of Happiness (2010)
Queer Phenomenology (2006)
The Cultural Politics of Emotions (2004)
Feministkilljoys.com
Saranahmed.com
Other References:
Gay’s The Word
bell hooks
Audre Lorde
Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy
Judith Butler
Lauren Berlant
Heidi Safia Mirza
Audre Lorde’s “A Litany for Survival”
Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
1. Who or what is the feminist killjoy?
2. Why is it important that the killjoy is both within and outside of us?
3. What does Sara say about the role of poetry in her work? Which poet and thinker does she reference here?
4. What does Sara say about killjoy joy? Have you ever experienced killjoy joy?
5. Please read up on Sara’s work on happiness. How has happiness been instrumentalised against women and minoritised people?
6. Do you think you’re a feminist killjoy? Why or why not?
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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: #221 - The Earth Transformed: A Dialogue with Peter Frankopan
Pub date: 2023-04-27
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Peter Frankopan about a natural history of climate change on the earth. They discuss how the climate was different on earth for billions of years and the impact the past climate has on earth today. They discuss the evolution of Hominids in the Holocene, formation of early cities, trading, domestication of horses in the Steppe, industrial age and fossil fuels, Rachel Carson and the rise of environmentalists, and many more topics.
Peter Frankopan is a Historian and Professor of global history at Oxford University. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. His main areas of research are on the history and politics of the Mediterranean, Central Asia, climate, and natural resources. He has won numerous awards for his books which include, The Silk Roads, The New Silk Roads, and his most recent book, The Earth Transformed.
Website: https://www.peterfrankopan.com/
Twitter: @peterfrankopan
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Podcast: The International Risk Podcast (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 115: Rodger Burrows on Neo-Reactionalism (NRx), the Alt-right and Emerging Technology
Pub date: 2023-04-30
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.
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This week, Dominic talks with Rodger Burrows. Roger Burrows is Professor in Global Inequalities in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, UK and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His most recent research has been on the social impacts of the global superrich and, more recently, the role of digital risk profiling technologies in housing markets. His writings on NRx include Smith, H. and Burrows, R. (2021) ’Software, Sovereignty and the Post-neoliberal Politics of Exit', Theory, Culture & Society, 38, 6:143-166, which is Open Access.
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Podcast: The Next Page (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Re-imagining International Relations - a conversation with Professor Amitav Acharya
Pub date: 2023-04-28
Re-imagining International Relations - A conversation with Amitav Acharya
Taking as a starting point that today’s multilateralism is in urgent need of an upgrade, Library & Archives Director, Francesco Pisano talks with Professor Amitav Acharya about how Global International Relations could broaden the Eurocentric way concepts and ideas in international relations developed, so that the practice of international relations could transform to be better adapted to the pluralistic world in which we live.
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Previously he was a Professor at York University, Toronto and the University of Bristol, U.K. He is currently Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. He was the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, Fellow of Harvard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at Oxford.
Amitav Acharya is also the recipient of an International Studies Association (ISA) Distinguished Scholar Award 2023 for his “extraordinary impact” in globalizing the study of International Relations and “mentorship of emerging scholars”.
Resources
Website: https://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/aacharya.cfm
Amitav Acharya’s Blog, The Multiplex World: https://multiplexworld.com/
Twitter: @AmitavAcharya https://twitter.com/amitavacharya
Books:
Acharya, A. & Buzan, B. (2021). Re-imagining International Relations. World Orders in the Thought and Practice of Indian, Chinese, and Islamic Civilizations. Cambridge University Press.
Acharya, A. & Buzan, B. (2019). The Making of Global International Relations. Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary. Cambridge University Press.
Acharya, A. (2018). Constructing Global Order. Agency and Change in World Politics. Cambridge University Press.
Acharya, A. (2018). The End of American World Order, 2nd Edition. Wiley.
Acharya, A. (2013). Rethinking Power, Institutions and Ideas in World Politics. Whose IR? Routledge.
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Speaker: Professor Amitav Acharya
Host: Francesco Pisano
Producer: Amy Smith
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Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva
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Podcast: History Talk
Episode: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso
Pub date: 2023-04-27
On August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Almost immediately following the coup’s success, the small West African country—renamed Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic, cultural, and political development based on its people’s needs rather than external pressures and Cold War politics. Join James E. Genova as he recounts in detail the revolutionary government’s rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African history between the era of decolonization and the dawning of neoliberal capitalism. He will uncover one of the revolution’s most enduring and significant aspects: its promotion of film as a vehicle for raising the people’s consciousness, inspiring their efforts at social transformation, and articulating a new self-generated image of Africa and Africans. The talk is based on Genova’s new book Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 and spotlights the revolution’s lasting influence throughout Africa and the world.
Speaker: James E. Genova, Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Moderator: Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching
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Podcast: Everywhere Radio with Whitney Kimball Coe
Episode: Prisons, Coal and the Appalachian Economy with Judah Schept and Sylvia Ryerson
Pub date: 2023-04-27
The United States is the world's largest incarcerator. Many of the prisons built since the 1990s are in rural places, particularly in Central Appalachia as an economic development strategy to replace the coal industry. The prison economy of Central Appalachia figures strongly into the work of both our guests, multimedia artist and organizer Sylvia Ryerson and professor and author Jude Schept.
Ryerson is a multimedia artist, organizer and PhD candidate in American Studies at Yale University. For over a decade, her work rooted at the intersection of scholarship, activism and art, has probed the overlapping crises of racialized mass incarceration, rural economic abandonment, and environmental destruction. She is also the director of a new documentary Calls from Home, which documents WMMT.FM's longstanding radio show that sends familial messages of love over public airwaves to reach people incarcerated in Central Appalachia. Schept is a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. His most recent book is Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia. He has been active with numerous organizations and campaigns centered on decarceration, criminalization and abolition.
About our guests
Sylvia Ryerson is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Yale University, with a Master’s concentration in the public humanities. Prior to graduate school she worked as an independent radio producer, and at the Appalshop media arts and education center in Whitesburg, Kentucky. There she served as a reporter and the director of public affairs programming, and co-directed Appalshop/WMMT-FM’s Hip Hop from the Hilltop & Calls from Home radio show, a nationally recognized weekly radio program broadcasting music and toll-free phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated, and Making Connections News, a multimedia community storytelling project documenting efforts for a just transition from coal extraction. Her research questions build from this work, and are rooted at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and art.
Judah Schept is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (New York University Press, 2022) and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion (New York University Press, 2015. He is co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Verso Books, 2024). He holds a PhD from Indiana University and a BA from Vassar College.
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Everywhere Radio spotlight the good, scrappy and joyful ways rural people and their allies are building a more inclusive nation. Everywhere Radio is a production of the Rural Assembly. Get the Rural Assembly in your inbox: https://www.ruralassembly.org/newsletters
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Podcast: ReImagining Liberty (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Markets and Social Justice: A Conversation with Nick Cowen
Pub date: 2023-04-26
We can take the social and economic concerns of the left seriously while still embracing free markets. In fact, if we understand the nature and effects of markets correctly, it can become compelling to view them not as antagonistic to those concerns, but as the most powerful solution to them available.
I’m joined today by Nick Cowen. He’s a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln in the UK and author of the book Neoliberal Social Justice, which defends commercial society on progressive grounds.
ReImagining Liberty is a project of The UnPopulist, and is produced by Landry Ayres. Podcast art by Sergio R. M. Duarte. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-04-25
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets. The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World (Verso, 2023), Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society." Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
Brett Christophers is a professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. His previous books include The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (2019) and Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? (2020).
Brian Hamilton is chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy. Twitter. Website.
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Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #276: Listening to the Dead
Pub date: 2023-04-21
There are mass graves all over Latin America, but the concentration of dead and disappeared in Guatemala and Argentina is staggering: more than 200,000 killed by the state in Guatemala’s 36-year conflict, known simply as “La Violencia;” up to 30,000 disappeared by the Argentine military dictatorship over the course of its reign of terror in the 1970s and ’80s. How does a country reckon with crimes against humanity? How do the families of the missing find the truth? “Forensic exhumation is practiced at the crossroads of two ways of thinking about the body,” anthropologist Alexa Hagerty writes, “as a scientific object to be analyzed for evidence of crimes against humanity, and as a subject, an individual, someone loved and mourned.” In her new book, Still Life with Bones, Hagerty documents her training with forensic teams in Guatemala and Argentina, where members have devoted their lives to unearthing the bones of the disappeared, reconstructing not only their skeletons but the stories of their lives.
Go beyond the episode:
- Alexa Hagerty’s Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
- Her latest on human rights and surveillance: “In Ukraine, Identifying the Dead Comes at a Human Rights Cost”
- If in Buenos Aires, take a day to visit the Museum and Site of Memory ESMA
- Guatemala’s dictator Efraín Ríos Montt slithered out of an 80-year conviction for genocide; Jayro Bustamante’s incredible film La Lloronaimagines a different kind of justice for his fictional analogue
- In the experimental film Los Rubios, Albertina Carri investigates what happened to her parents during the Argentine dictatorship
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Podcast: The Dissenter (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: #770 Inês Hipólito: Enactive Cognition, Culture, Artificial Intelligence, and Diversity in Science
Pub date: 2023-04-17
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Dr. Inês Hipólito is a Lecturer at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she investigates the reciprocal relationship between the representational structures, basic cognition, and the nervous system. Additionally, as an Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Talent Grant Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, she studies the emergence of artificial intelligence as Augmented Cognition. Her research has earned her 19 awards and she has presented her findings at over 30 scientific events, 7 of which she was invited to speak as a keynote speaker. As a co-founder and vice-president of the International Society of the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind, she is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusivity in the field, serving as an electedmember of the Women in Philosophy Committee and the Committee in Diversity and Inclusivity at the Australasian Association of Philosophy.
In this episode, we start by talking about embodied and enactive cognitive science. We discuss an enactive-dynamic model of cognition, and how to think about psychological traits. We get into an enactive account of culture, and how psychological experiences are interpreted in particular cultural contexts. We also discuss social cognition from an enactivist perspective, and the role of theory of mind. We then talk about enactive artificial intelligence. We discuss why technology is not neutral, and feminist technoscience principles. We address a question from a patron regarding AI and human cognition. Finally, we talk about the need for cognitive and cultural diversity in science.--
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Podcast: A is for Architecture
Episode: Gordana Fontana-Giusti: Foucault and the language of architects.
Pub date: 2023-04-20
In Season 2, Episode 28 of A is for Architecture, Gordana Fontana Giusti discusses her 2013 book, Foucault for Architects, published by Routledge, as part of the Thinkers for Architects series. Gordana is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Kent School of Architecture & Planning, University of Kent, where she also serves as Deputy Head of School.
Foucault for Architects ‘concentrates on a number of historical and theoretical issues often addressed by Foucault […] in order to examine and demonstrate their relevancy for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice’. In an AA Files 26 essay from 1993, Paul Hirst suggested Foucualt’s relevance to architecture lay in his breaking down ‘the barrier between the common-sense category of objects and that of discourse: words, explanations, programmes, etc., which are held to be about objects. In architecture this yields the stubborn and conclusive distinction between buildings as objects, and architecturaltheories, programmes and teaching that are about buildings. This installs a split between architecture and architectural discourse. The building is an object or non-discursive entity around which float the words of discourse.’
Listen to Prof Gordana, and get some answers.
Available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts and Amazon Music.
Gordana is presenting her thinking on Foucault at an event titled Dialogue 1: Foucault/Merleau-Ponty/Latour as part of a Thinkers for Architecture programme run by the AHRA, on 24 to 27 April 2023 at Manchester, UK, alongside previous podcast guests Jonathan Hale and Albena Yaneva. You can get the book here(20% off in April, apparently), and find Gordana professionally here, on LinkedIn here, on Instagram here, and on Twitter here.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The hidden caste codes of Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2023-04-18
Sam, Harsha and Siddhant are tech workers of Indian descent, who all say they have experienced discrimination in corporate America. They are not being singled out on the basis of race, gender, religion or nationality, but by an invisible factor; one they were born into, and one that others like them come to the US to try to escape. They say they have faced discrimination because of their caste.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E93 - The International Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois w/ Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts
Pub date: 2023-04-18
Danny and Derek welcome Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago, and Jennifer Pitts, Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, to discuss their co-edited volume W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought, a collection of essays and speeches by Du Bois engaging in empire and internationalism. They touch on the book’s relation to the discipline of international relations, Du Bois’ encounters with the international as a young man, his notion of the color line, the recurring theme of democratic despotism in his work, his evolving relationship to liberalism, his views on Liberia, Japan, and Russia, and more.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Big Oil's Counterinsurgency after Standing Rock / Alleen Brown
Pub date: 2023-04-18
Returning to This is Hell! is the Intercept's Alleen Brown. Her work focuses on environmental justice issues. Her most recent article, co-written with Naveen Sadasivan is titled, "Oil and Water: After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest 'Counterinsurgency' to Other Oil Companies." The investigation is based on more than 50,000 pages of documents that were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret.You can find the article, "Oil and Water," here: https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/
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Podcast: Thinking Global
Episode: James Der Derian on Quantum International Relations
Pub date: 2023-04-13
Professor James Der Derian (University of Sydney - @Usyd_ssps) chats with the Thinking Global team about Quantum International Relations, revealing what this could mean for International Relations Theory and International Security. Thinking Globalis affiliated withE-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics.
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Podcast: Radboud Reflects, verdiepende lezingen (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Online Anger as Capital | philosopher Joseph Vogl and economist Ivan Boldyrev
Pub date: 2023-04-14
The growth of social media has provided ideal conditions for feelings of anger and frustration to be expressed and shared. Social media have become part of our economic and political system, they do not offer a product, but a platform for everyone’s opinions. As a result feelings of resentment are being used and exploited by populist and authoritarian leaders. Come and learn from philosopher Joseph Vogl how the capitalist system behind social media benefits from fueling resentment.Online Anger as Capital | Lecture and conversation by philosopher Joseph Vogl and economist Ivan Boldyrev | Wednesday 5 April 2023 | 20.00 – 21.30 hrs | LUX, Nijmegen | Radboud Reflects and Nijmegen School of Management Read the review: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2023/map-terugblik-2023/05-04-23-online-anger-as-capital-lecture-and/Or watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu2EwS8X0n0Never want to miss a podcast again? Subscribe to this channel! Also don't forget to like this podcast!Radboud Reflects organizes in-depth lectures about philosophy, religion, ethics, science and society, check our website for upcoming in-depth (English) lectures: www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/agenda/english-lectures/Do you want to stay up to date about our activities? Please sign in for the English newsletter: www.ru.nl/rr/newsletter
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Tim Simpson, "Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-04-11
A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet.
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution (U Minnesota Press, 2023) delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in Asia, returned to the People’s Republic of China in 1999 after nearly half a millennium of Portuguese rule. Examining the unprecedented scale of its development and its key role in China’s economic revolution, Tim Simpson follows Macau’s emergence from historical obscurity to become the most profitable casino gaming locale in the world.
Identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and renowned for its unique blend of Chinese and Portuguese colonial-era architecture, contemporary Macau has metamorphosed into a surreal, hypermodern urban landscape augmented by massive casino megaresorts, including two of the world’s largest buildings. Simpson situates Macau’s origins as a strategic trading port and its ensuing history alongside the emergence of the global capitalist system, charting the massive influx of foreign investment, construction, and tourism in the past two decades that helped generate the territory’s enormous wealth.
Presented through a cross section of postcolonial studies and social theory with extensive insight into the global gambling industry, Betting on Macau uncovers the various roots of the territory’s lucrative casino capitalism. In turn, its trenchant analysis provides a distinctive view into China’s broader project of urbanization, its post-Mao economic reforms, and the continued rise of its consumer culture.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Gran Chaco - Paraguay’s vanishing forest
Pub date: 2023-04-13
The Gran Chaco Forest is Latin America’s second largest ecosystem. It is a mix of hot and arid scrublands, forests and wetlands, part of the River Plata basin, so large it extends into Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. Large parts of the forests have already been cleared to make way for farms. Now a new highway being driven through it is heralding further change. The so called Bioceanic Corridor will transport the produce of cattle ranchers and soya-bean farmers in Brazil and Paraguay across to ports on the west coast. Members of some indigenous communities like the Ayoreo see it as a further threat to their way of life. The new road is being cautiously welcomed by some members of the Mennonite Community, a Christian religious group who came to the Gran Chaco 100 years ago via Prussia, Russia and Canada and bought land from the government to farm. Will the impact of the road on the indigenous and Mennonite communities - and the environment - be worth the economic benefits? Jane Chambers travels across the Gran Chaco for Assignment. Produced by Bob Howard. The Paraguay producer was Santi Carneri.
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Podcast: Free City Radio (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 157, Author Max Havien on Palm Oil The Grease of Empire
Pub date: 2023-04-12
On this edition of Free City Radio we speak with author and educator, Max Havien on the book "Palm Oil The Grease of Empire." The book is described this way: "It’s in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil, found in half of supermarket products, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir."Info on the project: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345826/palm-oil/Music clip on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains.Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays and broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !
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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Against Enshitification feat. Cory Doctorow
Pub date: 2023-04-12
This week, Riley, Hussein, and Alice speak with author, activist, and friend of the show Cory Doctorow about the ongoing lawsuit against the Internet Archive—a campaign by the mega-conglomerate publishers of America which all hate free digital book lending—and why public libraries are squarely in their money-squeezing targets. We also talk about some great developments in some of the dumbest crypto / lending fraud cases, where it seems the brightest minds of the 30 Under 30 list forgot that prosecutors can subpoena your emails. We hope you enjoy!
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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Jeremy Gilbert: The Sonic and Somatic Politics of the Dancefloor
Pub date: 2023-04-18
Jeremy Gilbert traces the politics of the body through the counterculture's experiments in music and medicine, comparing the affordances of control and liberation available in the clinic and on the dance-floor.
Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. He is the author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism, Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics and Twenty-First Century Socialism. He writes regularly in the British press, is the current editor of the journal New Formations, and hosts three regular podcasts: #ACFM (on Novara Media); Love is the Message; Culture, Power, Politics.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Behind the News: Living on Less w/ Kate Soper
Pub date: 2023-04-17
Philosopher Kate Soper talks about her book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, just out in paperback: living on less but without the hair-shirtism.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Vanuatu's Big Climate Win with Melissa Stewart
Pub date: 2023-04-17
The Republic of Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, just won a big victory in New York City. At the end of March, the UN General Assembly voted to adopt the request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of states with respect to climate change.
To talk through what Vanuatu's general counsel called, “a diplomatic feat of Herculean proportions,” Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Melissa Stewart, Assistant Professor of Law Designate at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and the author of a recent Lawfare article on the advisory opinion request and its potential risks and rewards. They discussed how an idea that began in an environmental law class in Fiji made it to the highest court in the world, what the ICJ might clarify or not, other efforts in international law to address climate change, and how territorial loss and other destructive effects from climate change could upend our traditional conception of statehood as we know it.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Human Cost of Rechargeable Batteries, with Siddharth Kara
Pub date: 2023-04-07
There’s a human cost to getting the materials that power your cell phone, laptop, and electric vehicle. Part of that human cost is the immense toll of mining cobalt, a mineral essential to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
75% of the world’s supply of cobalt is produced by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where Congolese miners work in often harsh and dangerous conditions.
Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has been investigating these brutal mining practices. His new book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (St. Martin’s Press, January 2023) exposes the human cost of cobalt mining and in turn, the cost of our device-driven lifestyle.
Kara joins Esty Dinur on this edition of A Public Affair to tell us the stories of the Congolese miners – some of whom are children – to mine hundreds of thousands of tons of cobalt a year.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
Pub date: 2023-04-06
Guest: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Her books include, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and her latest with historian of science and technology Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
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Podcast: Atmospheric Tales
Episode: Renewable Energy Colonialism
Pub date: 2023-04-07
In this episode we will discuss renewable energy colonialism, impact on local communities, and the NIMBY rhetoric.
- Renewable Energy Colonialism in the Global South and the Global North
- Impact of renewable energy projects on local communities
- The Not in my backyard (NIMBY) rhetoric
Our guest Dr Susana Batel is an assistant researcher at University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal. For over a decade her research has focused on adopting a critical approach to examine the relation between re-presentation, identities, power, discourse and communication, and social change, namely regarding public participation in environmental issues, and public responses to renewable energy and associated technologies. She has 80+ published works and is a Co-Editor of the journal Papers on Social Representations.
Our interviewer Nyasha Milanzi is an undergraduate student in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ashesi University, Ghana. Her research focuses on developing low cost sensors for use in air quality monitoring and dust soiling on solar PV measurements.
Episode notes and references:
- Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North
- The role of (de-)essentialisation within siting conflicts: An interdisciplinary approach
- Using NIMBY rhetoric as a political resource to negotiate responses to local energy infrastructure: a power line case study
- Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future
Music by: Ritesh Prasanna
Audio editing and transcripts by: Paras Singh and Raag Sethi
Podcast website:https://atmospherictales.com
Transcript:
SB: Susana Batel (Guest)
NM: Nyasha Milanzi (Interviewer)
SG: Shahzad Gani (Host)
SG: Welcome to Atmospheric Tales, a podcast that amplifies stories and experiences related to air pollution and climate change from around the world.
I’m your host, Shahzad Gani, and welcome to another episode of the Atmospheric Tales. Our guest today is an Assistant Researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon in Portugal. For over a decade, her research has focused on adopting a critical approach to examine the relation between representation, identities, power, discourse and communication, and social change, namely regarding public participation in environmental issues, and public responses to renewable energy and associated technologies. She has 80+ published works and is a co-editor of the journal Papers on Social Representations. I’m excited to welcome our guest, Dr Susana Batel.
Our interviewer today is Nyasha Milanzi. She’s an undergraduate student in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ashesi University, Ghana. Her research focuses on developing low-cost sensors for use in air quality monitoring and dust soiling on solar PV measurements. Welcome to the show, Susana and Nyasha!
NM: Thank you for your kind introduction, Shahzad. I’m excited to dive in our discussion. The shift to less carbon-intensive and more sustainable energy systems is centred around renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydro, biofuels and others. According to the International Energy Agency, over 2022-2027, renewables are forecasted to grow by almost 2,400 GW equal to the entire installed solar power capacity of China today. This rapid expansion of renewables has brought us here in discussing about renewable energy colonialism with Dr Susana Batel. Welcome to the show, Dr Susana! I’m going to jump right into our first question on renewable energy colonialism in the Global South. In the Global South, renewable energy colonialism perpetuates power dynamics that prioritise the energy needs of the Global North over the energy needs of the Global South. Despite the fact that many countries in the Global South lack access to electricity (for example, 597 million Africans did not have access to electricity) and rely on harmful forms of energy, such as biomass for cooking (approximately 600,000 lives are lost each year in sub-Saharan Africa due to exposure to biomass smoke), the focus of renewable energy production in these regions is often centered around export to the Global North. This is evident in the case of green hydrogen, where the potential for energy poverty alleviation in Africa is overshadowed by the emphasis on export to the European market. For example, I quote a statement from the European Investment Bank website—“Large-scale green hydrogen generation will enable Africa to supply 25 million tons of green hydrogen to global energy markets, equivalent to 15% of current gas used in the European Union.” Dr Susana, the followers of the podcast would like to know how colonialism mechanisms are at play here, and also, how can their governments and policymakers prioritize the energy needs in their respective countries before they can look into feeding the energy-rich countries, particularly in the Global North.
SB: Thank you, Nyasha, for your question, and also Shahzad, for the introduction and the invitation, to both of you, to be here. So, that’s a very good question and actually, this focus on green hydrogen is a very relevant one. And, actually, even here, in Portugal, from where I’m speaking, we’re also having a Valdez rush into this new gold, so say, of the green hydrogen as a key solution to resolve climate change. And actually, even if we are in the Global North, but still in the south of Europe, so a peripheral region as well, that is also shaped by correlations with other Northern countries. And so actually, we’re also having exactly the same debate. And also, green hydrogen, is it green, first off—and that’s what I will get to in a minute as well—so the way it is produced, can we really say it is green, and also for whom is this national strategy being proposed and enforced? So thinking about Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa specifically, and again, also this now run for green hydrogen, a lot of issues come to play here that make us think of it as this renewable energy colonialism. So one of them is precisely even starting, as I was saying, by this notion of renewable energy colonialism, allowing us to think for whom is this being produced, as I was saying, is also the case for Portugal. So if we look at the rhetoric behind these efforts and agendas to foster the production of green hydrogen, we see that, precisely, a lot of it is with a view towards economic growth and towards exporting it to the Global North. So local regions and communities where it will be produced, and also their local resources, based on which their livelihoods depend a lot, such as water, land, agricultural land, and so on and so forth, they will be damaged and taken for this purpose, but with most of the benefits then to be exported, as you said, to other countries and other regions of the world, specifically in the Global North. So that’s already a key aspect, obviously, of what makes it renewable energy colonialism. And, what that first aspect brings to the fore as well is precisely this issue that it is being sold as green, but actually, for instance, as you also highlighted, it uses water to produce this green hydrogen. And this means, in turn, that you should be in a region to produce it, that’s very, there’s very abundant water. And if not, you’re not only probably contributed to further desertify that area, but even to, there’s also uncertainty, what will be the consequences for water resources in the area as well, out of this process for hydrogen, green hydrogen production. The other key issue that is being debated as well also related then with this renewable energy colonialism, is precisely that then for it to be green, it implies that the electricity generated to part this water and make the green hydrogen, it needs to come from renewable energy sources. And what this often implies, is then that there will have to be built large scale energy infrastructures, such as big wind farms, or solar plants, and so on and so forth, that will then feed into this green hydrogen production, which in turn these plants as well, they also have often, they also come with a lot of local impacts and impacts for communities, and if they are not deployed in a way that involves everyone and the local communities, regional communities, national communities, etc., then those harms will for sure, be even more no, so, often what happens is precisely that is that there are no benefits for the local communities, and there are only detrimental effects. So it’s often done through this top-down, technocentric and extractivist perspective and approach. And that means precisely that who benefits then from green hydrogen and all its components, so to say, is mostly the big corporations that often are financing these infrastructures, and also sometimes, the national governments that allow for it for these to happen in their territories. So, in this sense, I think that if we think about how can governments and policymakers then prioritise the energy needs of local communities and citizens in their respective countries before they look into feeding energy-rich countries is precisely by contesting this type of rationale and process that leads to the deployment of these large energy infrastructures, and feed these big agendas for green hydrogen as it is being done. So I think, precisely, what needs to be done is thinking more in a decentralised way, in a way in which thinking about how can we give electricity to everyone and to all communities, is done involving those communities and involving people and therefore thinking about, and for the country and the region where these governments and these communities are located, instead of just thinking about economic growth at a national state level, let’s say no, so that is really for the state and not for its citizens.
NM: Wow, thank you, Dr Susana, for your answer, and I think you did a great job in analysing this question. And I would just like to highlight like some of the points that you brought up, which includes like for example, we don’t talk about, let’s say, if we deploy these huge amounts of energy infrastructures, which will require abundant water with them in the case of green hydrogen, is going to lead into water scarcity in many regions in Africa; there’s already water scarcity because of climate-induced drought in recent years. So, it’s important to look at also the after-effects and also talk about asking a critical question, like who are these infrastructures built for? Are they built for the local community, or for other people, and how ethical is that? And I think it also answers our second question that we were going to ask you on the Desertec project. For our podcast listeners, I’m just going to briefly read what it’s supposed to be: the Desertec project was originally designed for wind farms and solar plants to be deployed in the North of Africa and Middle East to feed the European grid, which is an unequivocal example of the renewable energy colonialism in the Global South. So with that, I think you also talked about how this is also at play even where you are from, in Portugal, where I didn’t even think that any renewable energy colonialism could also happen in the Global North. It is important to know that renewable energy colonialism extends beyond Global North-South relationships, and also operates through power dynamics between core and periphery regions. Dr Susana, can you provide an example of renewable energy colonialism that is not specific to Global North-South relations, and how do our core-periphery power dynamics come into play in these cases?
SB: Yes. So obviously, I think this renewable energy colonialism idea departs from Global North and Global South relations, and from historical colonialism. But, I think it is also very useful then to think about, if not equal, obviously, because colonialism as it is, it has, again, a specific history and is based on specific structural power relations. But I think it’s very helpful precisely to make us think as well, if again, if not equal, but similar processes are happening also in the Global North. And what we see more and more also today and also actually historically, so already for some centuries, is this continues and even increasingly exacerbated power dynamics between urban areas and rural areas, in which basically, rural areas are seen more and more as just a place for resource provision, and to provide to urban areas no, and urban areas as the consumers. And so, it creates these core-periphery dynamics that, again, are the basis as well of renewable energy colonialism between the Global North and Global South. And what we see for instance, again in Portugal, but also in other countries in the Global North, is that that is happening also in the relation between then urban and rural territories, in which basically, as I was discussing regarding green hydrogen, and the deployment of large scale, renewable energy generation infrastructures in these more rural areas, what happens is that, now is that rural areas are almost the sacrifice zones that get all the costs and all the negative impacts of the construction of these infrastructures, and they don’t get any benefits that, they’re not involved in deciding about those projects. They do not allow them, even for local communities, even sometimes to stay in their communities and to thrive in those communities in the long term. So it’s a similar type of dynamics that happens here as well. And for instance, here in Portugal, I’ve been accompanying it regarding wind, hydropower plants and how actually, throughout the last century, this has been the case now; these large, huge really, infrastructures with a lot of impacts have been constructed and deployed in rural areas, inland territories, with a lot of impacts for the local communities. And often even what happens is that they are deployed based on discourses and rhetoric or vocal socio-economic development. And they are even sold almost as these promises and bits of development that people then aren’t attracted to, because, precisely, they want to stay in the places where they live, and they like to live, and they want to be able for future generations to also be able to stay in those territories and to thrive there. And so, people tend often even to accept these infrastructures as a sign of hope almost to towards that future. But actually, then what we see is that often, that’s it, that’s just rhetoric from the developers, from the politicians and governments that support these infrastructures, and those promises then actually tend not to materialise then. So what happens is that these infrastructures even further contribute to the desertification and depletion of these areas, in terms of local socio-economic development, and then the people that managed to stay at and live there. So in that sense, I think that this idea of renewable energy colonialism also as an analytical lens, some say, so as some glasses to look at the renewable energy transition, and which inequalities is easy to create in as well, and which types of further discrimination and injustices is it reproducing and creating anew—I think it’s very important then, both in relations between the Global North and the Global South, but also within the Global North.
And I think for that also something very important, that is important as well for the case of the green hydrogen which you were bringing to the discussion earlier, is precisely also this idea that with globalisation and the new liberal capitalist system that we live in, what contributes also to this colonialism, and these power relations is precisely these big corporations, large corporations that are often foreign to the countries where they are exploring and extracting these resources, and exploring these communities, and therefore they really don’t have their interests at heart, no? So it’s often deployment of this infrastructure, and these extractive activities in a very, well, colonialist and extractivist way, with no connection and no concerns for local communities.
NM: Okay, thank you so much. So yeah, so I think in Portugal, it is all the hydro energy that is a great example of what you’re just describing, energy colonialism in Portugal. And with that, I think I’m going to ask you a question in relation to the USA. So given the significant amount of land that will be required for wind farms to meet energy or consumption needs, how do you think we can balance the need for renewable energy with concerns around the land use and ecological impacts?
SB: Yes, so that’s a very good question. And I think that also, again, it links to the first question that we were talking about, and, and I think it’s really going forward, what we need is also a more degrowth mindset and economy and perspective, no? So I think the even when we think about, you know, the right to have access to energy, and that everyone in the world can access that, that needs to be thought about through also considering that some people in the world and specifically in the Global North, really need as well to reduce their consumption of energy and the modern way of life or as some others put it, no, this imperial mode of living that is typical of the Global North. And, if you look even at some of the Sustainable Development Goals, and some of the policies that European Union is supporting towards the green and digital transitions, actually, they don’t want to change that that imperial mode of living. So they want to just continue with business as usual and renewable energy technologies within this format, within this logic will just be, you know, continuing this economic growth model no, and that for sure, it will, again, reproduce existing inequalities, it will reproduce energy poverty. So the ones that were previously poor in different dimensions will most probably continue in being poor, because precisely the modus operandi, so to say, exactly the same as our fossil societies that are anchored and based in structural colonialism and inequalities, racism, sexism, and all of these structural, again, inequalities that are constitutive of this model of our society. So therefore, I think the problem that needs to be tackled is precisely that is to always think about these issues in conjunction. And so, thinking that, we really need this degrowth perspective to allow us as well, for moving forward with the really renewable energy transition, but in a way that is more equal to all, and that also allows for more participation and engagement of everyone in that process. And for that, we need more decentralised models for the energy transition, we need to take decisions closer to communities that will be affected by that, we need to think precisely about energy transitions that can be done more at that community and regional level, because even that’s what allows us to prevent this Global North Global South renewable energy colonialism, right? Because the problem here is often that no, that we, in the models we use nowadays, we can be producing and extracting resources and energy from certain places that are very far away from the places where they will be consumed. And so obviously, that also helps with losing the trace of the negative impact, that even for instance, getting rare earth minerals that are needed for wind farms have for local communities that are far away from where those wind farms are going to be deployed. So again, I think the key might be precisely in thinking more about renewable energy transitions through this logic of degrowth on one hand, and decentralisation and these ethics of care for everyone at a global level and at the local level, all at the same time in an integrated way.
NM: Thank you so much. Portugal is at the front of the renewable energy transition. In 2021, 5066 GWh of electricity was generated in Portugal (of which 88.5% from renewable sources and including roughly 45% generated by hydropower, mostly large-scale dams). Can you give examples of community contestations against hydropower plants in Portugal, and also some examples of health-related harm, or psychological harm, provoked by hydropower infrastructures?
SB: So, as I was saying, with some colleagues, I was doing some research on hydropower plants, projects and how they were deployed throughout the last century, and so that means throughout the dictatorship that was imposed in Portugal for several decades, and then from there through to the democratic period that we that started in 1974, and still today. And what we see is precisely that something similar in the deployment of these infrastructures, throughout these different socio-political regimes, is that they are deployed in this logic of progress and all economic growth that is characteristic of capitalism. And it is that logic that also makes it obviously, the very big differences between the socio political-regimes or individual freedoms and practical ideals and rights, but that transversal aspect of capitalism makes it precisely then, that these infrastructures are similarly deployed in a way that these regards to the impacts they have for local communities for local socio-ecological systems as well, and therefore, they create obviously, a lot of psychosocial negative impacts as well in the communities living nearby them. It was interesting, for instance, because a lot of this research to look at psychosocial impacts in the beginning of last century for instance, we had to go to archival materials to see how these psychosocial impacts were documented. And it was interesting, for instance, to see that in the 1950s, or even 1960s, for instance, these dams now were completely non-existent idea for local communities, and so local communities have thought of them as a cut now in the river, which is quite interesting to think about that that’s precisely what it is, is having like this wild river that lives in harmony with the communities, nearby them, and that is being almost cut and slaughtered in a way by these large dams. And so in a lot of this work, we’ve documented precisely that type of psychosocial impact that happens a lot, obviously, when dams have large fields, villages, and that has happened also, even in Portugal’s recent history, that entire villages had to be relocated somewhere else, because of the construction of these dams. But dams affect also other local communities that even if they don’t have to relocate, or their houses are submerged that live nearby them, though, because they really affect the local environment, and the livelihoods therefore, that are dependent on it, all the surrounding local communities. And then what we managed to do with this archival research as well, which was very important too, was precisely to also then unearth almost, no, so bring to the fore, and give voice to actually, to these contestations to these hydropower plants, that somehow also happened during the dictatorship, so many decades ago, even if obviously, in a very different way, than what they could be or how they could happen in the democratic period. But again, through these almost oral history materials, we managed to identify that there were communities and people that were against these things now, and that would like to contest the construction of these dams then, and that has continued again, from then to nowadays, not only with hydropower projects still that are presented, often in public policies, and by the Portuguese government as renewable energy. But again, more and more activists and academics have contested that notion precisely because we know nowadays of the many socio-environmental impact, negative impact that large dams can create, and so more and more, they are less considered, at least in these contexts, as renewable, as renewable energy. And, but on top of that, also, more recently, we have witnessed the same type of impact by wind farms, and more recently now by solar power plants. So now, the push in Portugal is, as I said, also for this green hydrogen idea, but that hasn’t really started yet, at least in a more material way. But also what has been happening more in the last years, is the deployment of these large huge solar plants as well, and that has also been very contested by communities precisely because, for instance, we have this case in Alentejo in the south of Portugal, where a community started to develop and implement this idea of a renewable energy community and which you, so as a community, you try to make it self-sufficient from an energy point of view, by having solar panels say, that are at the community scale, or even at the household scale, that are enough to make that community self-sufficient. And, so they picked up on this idea of renewable energy communities that is also being, trying to be fostered in Portugal and at European Union level, through specific legislation and all that. And then, soon after, they started to try and develop and implement this renewable energy community, they just heard that a huge solar plant, precisely to feed into this green hydrogen idea or it will be one of the purposes of it, at least it could be, this huge solar plant would be built also very near where this renewable energy community was trying to be developed, and obviously dismayed, this community contested that solar plant, precisely because what often local communities want is the more smaller scale decentralised options, and not these large scale infrastructures that ruin the landscape, ruin the symbolic and cultural relations that they, and attachments that they establish in those places and those landscapes, and also sometimes even farming lands and other uses of the land that are significant to the local communities, and to local livelihoods.
NM: Thank you so much, Dr Susana. So another interesting dimension to the renewable energy acceptance is the concept of NIMBY. Can you briefly talk about the concept, Not In My Backyard (NIMBY)? How are developers, policymakers, the media and active protestors using the NIMBY rhetorically, and what are the consequences?
SB: A lot of the research that I’ve done has been precisely looking at how this NIMBY idea, no, is used by developers and politicians, the media as well sometimes, to basically accuse these local communities that oppose these infrastructures, of being just irrational and ignorant, and selfish. So it’s a way for them to delegitimize that opposition by saying, well, you’re only opposing that solar plant, for instance, or that hydropower plant, because you are a NIMBY now, because you are being selfish, because you live next to it. Now, if it was being built somewhere else, you wouldn’t care about it. And actually, what research has been showing more and more is that NIMBY doesn’t stand out, no, as an explanatory framework. So say, for local opposition, for local communities’ opposition to this renewable energy infrastructures, it actually doesn’t fit, no; it’s not it’s not a good explanation, precisely because what research has shown more and more is that what is at stake, is the fact that these processes are made in a very top-down, imposing and even dictatorial way, so to say, so they are not up for discussion, they don’t involve conveniently the local communities and all the other stakeholders that will be affected by these projects. As we’ve already discussed, a little bit here also, what happens is that even when there are some public consultation processes, those are very tokenistic. So they actually, you know, might then involve some slight little changes in the project, but not, for instance, a real discussion about if a project should go ahead or not, in that specific location, or somewhere else, and so on and so forth. And so in this way, that people in local communities, obviously they feel powerlessness, and they feel disempowered, even from, deciding about their own life, no, their own communities, sometimes even in the case of the submersion of villages from hydropower plants, as we’ve seen, even they lose the control and the autonomy of their own houses and households. So obviously, it’s all these dimensions of injustice that create local opposition and that’s what activists and researchers have been increasingly making more clear, no, and showing that it is not about NIMBY, it is not about people not knowing what can be the benefits of hydropower plants, or just reacting emotionally because it’s being built close to them, but it’s about them knowing what is important for them and for their local communities and for their culture.
So researchers are, all even more recently, no, being more aware also of the dangers of using NIMBY as an explanation and again, actually, even for researchers, as I’ve also highlighted in a lot of my work, that move is only now starting to happen. But for developers and even for, as I said, politicians, governments, local authorities, media, NIMBY is very often used to just dismiss when local communities oppose these infrastructures and obviously, it is very helpful for them to precisely dismiss and delegitimise local communities’ opposition. And so that’s why I think it is helpful to more and more not use the concept of NIMBY, or only use it to show how actually we are talking about issues of injustice when people oppose energy infrastructures, and trying to engage policymakers and local authorities and developers more and more through this lens of injustice and the inequalities these projects often create.
NM: Thank you, thank you, Dr Susana. It was really wonderful having you here, on this episode. I really enjoyed talking to you and discussing about energy colonialism in the global South and in Global North as well. I would really like to thank you for taking the time to come and share your over a decade of experience with us.
SB: Thank you so much, Nyasha; it was really great to discuss these issues with you. And yeah, thank you for all the very important questions that you brought to our conversation as well.
NM: And, thank you, Shahzad, for hosting us today.
SG: With that, I would like to thank our guest, Dr Susana Batel, and our interviewer, Nyasha Milanzi, for joining us on this episode of Atmospheric Tales. Thanks to all our listeners for tuning in; make sure to subscribe and share!
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Podcast: Trillbilly Worker's Party (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 285: Con Air Landlordism (w/ special guests Katy Slininger & Ben Mabie)
Pub date: 2023-04-06
This week we're talking about landlord self defense classes, tenant unions, and tenant organizing, with special guests Katy Slininger (Cargill Tenants Union) and Ben Mabie (Crown Heights Tenant Union, Tenant Union Flatbush). Make sure to stick around for the end, where we look at how landlords are arming themselves for the rev.Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-emergency-tenant-organizing-committee/Connecticut Tenants Union: https://www.cttenantsunion.org/Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty
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Podcast: UCLA Housing Voice (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 47: Geographies of Gentrification with Hyojung Lee
Pub date: 2023-04-05
Does gentrification lead to increased displacement of vulnerable low-income households? To date, research findings have been surprisingly mixed. One explanation may be that most gentrification studies focus on individual cities, which vary substantially from place to place, or the entire U.S., which may overlook local or regional differences. Hyojung Lee joins us to discuss his new study with coauthor Kristin Perkins which categorizes the country into eight unique geographies according to shared characteristics, searching for differences in how gentrification impacts displacement of low-income households. It persuasively finds that gentrification does lead to more household moves — and importantly, more downward moves — and can hopefully inform further research and more location-appropriate anti-displacement strategies.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Invisible Yellow School Bus
Pub date: 2023-04-10
What was the most powerful technology introduced into schools in the past century? You might answer the computer, or something like Zoom, or even, the slide projector. But scholar Antero Garcia argues that it was the humble yellow school bus. Buses have been central to the struggle to desegregate education. And school buses are a zone — and mainly an unnoticed one — in which many working class children and children of color spend a significant part of their day.
Resources:
Antero Garcia, All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology University of Minnesota Press, 2023
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Data colonialism and its discontents
Pub date: 2023-04-10
On this week’s episode of The Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata spoke to Paola Ricurate, an associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the co-founder of the Tierra Comun Network, and Sebastián Leheude, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights and a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University. They discussed Paola and Sebastian’s work on data colonialism, decoloniality and feminism and Latin America. What is the connection between historic forms of colonialism and what technology infrastructures are being built now? Why are tech companies building data centers (and swimming pools) in the desert? How are local communities resisting these infrastructures and what are alternative ways of imagining our future?
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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Erik Baker: Grief and Toxicity in the Shadow of Industrial Capitalism
Pub date: 2023-04-12
Erik Baker discusses two of his recent essays which cover the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and the history of bereavement leave. In reflecting on both of these pieces, Erik asks what it would mean to politicize experiences of grief and illness.
Erik Baker is a historian of science and labor at Harvard, and an associate editor at The Drift. He is currently writing a book for Harvard University Press titled Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern America.
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Podcast: American Indian Airwaves
Episode: Murder Inc. of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico & Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery: Land Back?
Pub date: 2023-04-06
On today’s program we report on the disappearance of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, the impunity of perpetrators committing crimes against Indigenous, how some self-defense groups are criminalized, and the response by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). In Mexico, and since the January, several Indigenous defenders of land, territory, and the environment are disappearing while the state and local authorities have demonstrated interest in conducting real investigations, including that of well-known, Santos de la Cruz Carrillo, Wixárika land defender an attorney. In addition, and simultaneously, the perpetrators of crimes against Indigenous are peoples are acting with impunity while Indigenous peoples are falsely being charged of criminal activities. In response, some self-defense groups such as In Pantelhó, in the highlands of Chiapas, a new armed group has emerged to confront Los Machetes, who began as an Indigenous self-defense group but have degenerated into a criminal band. When the government fails to provide security or actively collaborates with violent criminal organizations, it sometimes leads Indigenous communities to form their own armed groups out of desperation, but this rarely ends well. Lastly, we get an update on the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held a national assembly in Tehuacan, Puebla on 4-5 March 2023 and their responses to resisting several megaprojects adversely impacting Indigenous peoples and the increased violence directed against Indigenous defenders of land and territory.Thereafter, some preliminary analysis of the Vatican’s 3/30/2023 statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery. Support KPFK (www.kpfk.org) and pick the up the book, Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery for $100:00 and/or the DVD: The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code (2014) dir. Sheldon Wolfchild, for $100.00.Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Economics Overpowers Culture | Lisi Krall
Pub date: 2023-04-06
How can we change an economic system that has a life of its own?
10,000 years ago, homo sapiens began farming a grain surplus. This surplus led to the creation of societal and cultural hierarchies which divorced our species from our long relationship with the natural world.
This week’s guest, Lisi Krall, argues that our current economic system of fossil-fuelled capitalism is an interpretation of that same system—and we must repair our relationship to the more-than-human world if we are to change the system. But it is a momentous challenge. One, she argues, we must not think culture alone can overcome.
Lisi Krall is a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York Cortland where she researches political economy, human ecology, and the evolution of economic systems. She's also the author of Bitter Harvest: An Inquiry into the War Between Economy and Earth.
“Agriculture severs the ties of humans to the more-than-human world. We're no longer embedded in the rhythm and dynamic of the more-than-human world.
“But the development of capitalism is a particular institutional and energetic interpretation of what began with agriculture. You get this expansive, dynamic, interdependent system, growth system that functions unto itself as if it isn't connected to its biophysical roots.”
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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dark Satanic Data Mills feat. Dan McQuillan
Pub date: 2023-04-03
We speak to computing researcher Dan McQuillan, author of the recent book “Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence,” all about that open letter about how scary powerful AI is. Also, a startup that helps automate academic literature overproduction so not even the writers have to read it, and the TikTok hearings.
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Podcast: Abolition Science Radio (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Colonial Models of Science Education
Pub date: 2023-04-04
This episode explores how the coloniality of Western Science manifests in STEM education teaching, learning, reform, and research. I describe three models: the Assimilationist, the Capitalist, and the Imperialist model.
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Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Collecting Traces for Future Struggles: Archiving in Times of Revolts
Pub date: 2023-04-04
What is the relationship between archiving and collective visions for liberation? Where does the practice of archiving fit within contemporary subaltern struggles? This conversation, co-curated between historian Leyla Dakhli, Yasmine Kherfi (LSE Middle East Centre), and Mai Taha (LSE Human Rights), builds on the work of Dakhli, who joined us to reflect on archival projects from the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on those that emerged in the 2000s in Syria, Algeria and Lebanon. By exploring archival traces of imagined futures and the aesthetic forms they assume, Dakhli's work seeks to understand how archiving practices can be understood as gestures of a continued revolt.Leyla Dakhli is a full-time researcher in Modern History at the French Center for National Research (CNRS), and member of the Center of social history of Contemporary Worlds (CHS). Her work deals with the study of Arab intellectuals and social history of the South Mediterranean region, with a particular focus on the history of women and the question of exiled intellectuals and activists.Sara Salem is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, LSE. Her main research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and global histories of empire and imperialism.Mai Taha is an Assistant Professor in Human Rights at LSE. Previously she was a Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Assistant Professor in International Human Rights Law and Justice at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Mai has written on international law and empire, human rights, labour movements, class and gender relations, and care work and social reproduction.
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Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Episode: 373. Place Governance in a Fragmented World - Nate Storring
Pub date: 2023-04-02
Nate Storring (Co Executive Director at Project for Public Spaces, USA)
We are talking about Hyperlocal book. When it comes to uneven urban growth and investment, place-based governance structures in the United States and around the globe have been both part of the problem and part of the solution. Hyperlocal explore both the tensions and benefits associated with governing places in an increasingly fragmented—and inequitable—economic landscape. Read more about the book here.
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Podcast: On Being with Krista Tippett (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Ruth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.”
Pub date: 2023-03-30
To say that Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a geographer, which she is, is not to convey the vast and varied ways in which she is influencing the makings of the future. She's a mentor and teacher to a new generation of social activism and creativity. She's a visionary of “abolition,” and that has become a fraught and polarizing word in our fraught and polarized public discourse. But when Ruth Wilson Gilmore speaks of “abolition,” she is working with a long, long view towards making a whole world, starting now, in which prisons and policing as we do them now become unnecessary, unthinkable. In this sense, abolition is not primarily a matter of what to get rid of, but what to build and to orient around — being present, for example, to human vulnerability and to the ingredients that make for deep human flourishing.
Meeting Ruth Wilson Gilmore and drawing her out in this way is an exercise in muscular hope — and in understanding the passion of a new generation that is shaping what we will collectively become.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. Her paternal grandfather was a janitor at Yale who helped organize the first blue-collar union at that university. And as a tool and die maker for the firearm manufacturer Winchester, her father played a central role in organizing the machinists at that company in the mid-1950s. She has co-founded several organizations, including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. She has authored and co-edited several books, including Golden Gulag, Abolition Geography, and the forthcoming Change Everything.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Patience Mususa - Why did flourishing communities start to crumble in the Zambian Copper Belt?
Pub date: 2023-03-31
This month we are delighted to be joined by Patience Mususa from The Nordic Africa Institute. She is an anthropologist with a background in architecture working on mining and urbanization in Southern Africa. She is particularly interested in place and the ways in which people interact in the face of the large scale mining industry and the influence and ramifications of economic downturn and socio-economic transformation. In particular, she is interested in how space is produced, for example why we are so concerned with the idea of modernity and why we tend to use such energy intensive ways to produce place. She gave us insight into her research trajectory and how the different strands of her interests have come together. Part of her interest is rooted in the experience of growing up in a mining town in the Zambian Copperbelt in the height of corporate welfare industrialism and the ensuing changes stemming from the privatization of mining. Join us for this exciting conversation that gives insight into Zambian mining history, the changes that attend the modern era, and how sites of resource extraction are connected to areas of consumption through interlocking systems.
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Check out Patience’s book There Used to be Order: Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper MInes (University of Michigan Press) (https://www.press.umich.edu/9441587/there_used_to_be_order)
Some of the resources mentioned during the episode:
Expectations of Modernity by James Ferguson - Paperback - University of California Press (ucpress.edu)
UW Press - : Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture, Eugenia W. Herbert (wisc.edu)
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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Antoni Gaudí Turned Me into an Anarchist: Architecture and Class in Barcelona
Pub date: 2023-03-30
This week's guest is writer, historian and guide Catherine Howley. Catherine runs the Spanish Civil War Walking Museum tours with Nick Lloyd in Barcelona and has written extensively on Barcelona's architecture and working-class history. In this episode she talks to Eoghan about the historicial context in which Antoni Gaudí designed his iconic buildings in the city and how that context and the ideology of the Catalan ruling class is reflected in the work of this reactionary genius.
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Podcast: Leneșx Radio
Episode: Ep. 029 — Solar coops and why they (could) rule /w Ashley [EN]
Pub date: 2023-03-30
In today’s episode we talk with author, professor, and activist Ashley Dawson about the neoliberal city in the context of climate change and the liberatory potential inherent in community solar energy projects. The first half of the episode follows our guest’s book, Extreme Cities. The discussion starts from observations on the usual scale of reporting and perception of climate change – global or national, but not the urban scale. We talk about how large climate projects are often designed with planned obsolescence in mind, and first of all serve the interests of the elites; about the unequal impact of climate change and how communities often respond through what Ashely calls disaster communism; and about community solar energy as an example of such a collective (preventive in this case) response in the face of crisis. The second half of the ep. is based on Ashley’s book, People’s Power, and makes a case for community managed solar energy projects as a progressive tool through which to tackle the issue of energy poverty and the looming climate apocalypse. The topics that we cover include the solar commons as an analytical and discursive tool, issues of accessibility (financial, technological etc) surrounding solar projects, and reflections on how the state fits into the picture.=====Re(Sources)Vlad Zaha:yt: @vladzaha806fb: vlad.g.zahaig: zaha.vladAshley Dawsonhttps://ashleydawson.info/Ashley Dawson, Extreme Cities: Climate Chaos and the Urban Future, Verso Books (2016).https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28952797-extreme-citiesAshley Dawson, People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, OR Books (2020).https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52636876-people-powerPeople’s power discussion serieshttps://youtu.be/zIRen05iYSkhttps://youtu.be/r1T5rzf1ndchttps://youtu.be/8uFujxQ-PJ0https://youtu.be/tVwUw3H-6VEPublic Power New Yorkhttps://publicpowerny.org/Community Renewables Podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-528766714Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, Duke University Press (2020). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51897844-resource-radicals Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Commonwealth, Belknap Press (2009).https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6384328-commonwealthPierre Dardot & Christian Laval, Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century, Bloomsbury Academic Press (2019).https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44175765-commonAfter Oil Collective (AOC)https://afteroil.ca/AOC, Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice, Univ of Minnesota Press (2022)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60615208-solaritiesRob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Harvard University Press (2011).https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429440-slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poorChristoph Rupprecht (Ed.), Deborah Cleland (Ed.), Norie Tamura (Ed.), Rajat Chaudhuri (Ed.), Sarena Ulibarri (Ed.), Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, World Weaver Press (2021). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56906532-multispecies-cities Artwork by Alis BaloghMusic: The Sound by Adelaidehttps://open.spotify.com/artist/5JrWus8N8CfANNXBNDMAfK ig: @_adelaide_band_sotb podcast: https://www.seasonoftheb.com/
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Podcast: UVA Law (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: A Look at “The World Crisis and International Law”
Pub date: 2023-03-31
Scholars discuss Professor Paul B. Stephan’s new book, “The World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future,” which offers insights about the history and shaky future of the international order. Panelists include Professor Anne van Aaken of Universität Hamburg, Kathleen Claussen of Georgetown University and Thomas H. Lee of Fordham University. UVA Law professor Jay Butler moderated the event. (University of Virginia School of Law, March 28, 2023)
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Podcast: Techdirt (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sci-Fi & Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2023-03-28
Science fiction has always served as a source of inspiration for real technological progress. Sometimes that's great, but other times it enables abuse or leads people to make terrible assumptions that result in harmful decisions. This week we're joined by the hosts of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, authors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, who recently began tackling this very subject, to discuss the relationship between Silicon Valley and science fiction.Our Opinions Are Correct - https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/
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Podcast: The Oxford Comment (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Climate Emergency: Lessons from Classic Maya to Contemporary China – Episode 81 – The Oxford Comment
Pub date: 2023-03-28
The consequences of climate change are catastrophic. This real and present threat to our planet may seem insurmountable, but there are—and have been—lessons shared on how to mitigate the damage already wrought, and how to prevent future detriment.
On today’s episode, we explore two unique examples of societal adaptation to climate change: one from our past, and one from our present. First, we welcomed Kenneth E. Seligson, the author of The Maya and Climate Change: Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands, who shared insights into his work exploring the environmental resilience of the Classic Maya, the environmental challenges they faced and overcame, and the lessons we can learn from them. We then interviewed Scott M. Moore, the author of China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future, to speak about contemporary China’s meteoric and controversial rise to a global power, its leading role in sustainability and technology, and what this means for institutions around the world.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon
Pub date: 2023-03-25
Featuring Max Fox and Chris Nealon on the late Christopher Chitty’s book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System.
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libcom.org/article/after-fall-communiques-occupied-california
viewpointmag.com/2012/09/12/towards-a-socialist-art-of-government-michel-foucaults-the-mesh-of-power
thenewinquiry.com/blog/in-love-and-memory
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Podcast: Coffee with Comrades (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 188: "The Future is Black & Red" ft. Michael Löwy and David Campbell
Pub date: 2023-03-28
This week, I sat down with Michael Löwy and David Campbell to talk about the book Michael co-wrote and David recently translated into English, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity. The three of us got into a lovely dialogue about the recent uprisings in France against the neoliberal Macron regime, as well as the painstaking labor David undertook of translating this book into English by hand. Then, we dive into the book and talk about the principled points of solidarity and the potential areas of conflict between Anarchists and Marxists before contemplating what these struggles mean for today.
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Podcast: Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the FBI Disrupted Racial Justice Movements in Colorado w/ Journalist Trevor Aaronson (G&R 216)
Pub date: 2023-03-25
In the summer of 2020, an FBI informant posing as an antifa warrior in a silver hearse loaded with guns descended on protests to infiltrate and disrupt Denver's racial justice movement. In Colorado Springs, the FBI attempted similar efforts to undermine racial justice movements there. Investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson reveals secret undercover recordings exposing federal entrapment schemes targeting unsuspecting Americans in both Denver and Colorado Springs. Bob and Scott talk with Trevor Aaronson about his reporting in the podcast series "Alphabet Boys." They discuss FBI infiltration, disruption and attempts to entrap activists in Denver and Colorado Springs. They discuss parallels between the FBI's COINTELPRO of the 1960s and 1970s and the FBI's post-911 mission. And they talk about how politics in Washington DC don't allow for any real change on the state's war against the left. Bio//Trevor Aaronson is an award-winning investigative journalist and host of the podcast series "Alphabet Boys." He is the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism and a contributing writer for The Intercept. ----------------------------------------------------------------Outro "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by the Hollies Links// Podcast ‘Alphabet Boys’ Reveals FBI’s Sordid Use of Informants to Instigate Violence and Target Black Activists During 2020 Protests For Black Lives (http://bit.ly/3K0H4yk) Trevor Aaronson: https://trevoraaronson.com/ The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement (http://bit.ly/3ZeSvXr) The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes (http://bit.ly/3LMbdTy)Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: More than a Glitch, Technochauvanism, and Algorithmic Accountability with Meredith Broussard
Pub date: 2023-03-22
In this episode, we discuss Meredith Broussard's influential new book, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech – published by MIT Press.
Meredith is a data journalist, an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, a research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and the author of several books, including “More Than a Glitch” (which we cover in this episode) and “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.” Her academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting and ethical AI, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good.
Full show notes for this episode, including the link to buy Meredith's new book, can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The military and Democracy with João Roberto Martins Filho
Pub date: 2023-03-22
João Roberto Martins Filho is professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas. He is the author of many classical works, including an English translation of "The Student movement and the military dictatorship" (1987), "The Palace and the Barracks"(1995; 2nd edition, 2019), "The Brazilian Navy in the Age of Battleships - 1895-1910" (2010) and "State Secrets: the British Government and Torture in Brazil" (2018; 2nd edition 2020). He was the president of the Brazilian Defense Studies Association from 2006 to 2008 and has had postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) and the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford, among many other places. He has also held the Rio Branco chair of International Relations at King's College, London, and twice the Rui Barbosa chair in Brazilian Studies at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Brazil is going through challenging times.
There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. It is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Shoot the Messenger, Episode 2: Discovering the Power of Pegasus Spyware
Pub date: 2023-03-22
Hello, Prestigeheads! We had such a great response last week that we’re bringing you another episode of Shoot the Messenger! This week we continue with the story of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with friends of the pod Nando Vila & Rose Reid. We learn Khashoggi wasn't just targeted — he was hunted. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how Pegasus works, and how it was discovered (and found in Khashoggi's inner circle). This episode is part of Shoot the Messenger's 10-part series on "Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware."
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Podcast: The Lede (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How America Fell Out of Love with War — with Samuel Moyn and Faisal Al Yafai
Pub date: 2023-03-24
Samuel Moyn was working as an intern at the Clinton White House as the United States intervened in Bosnia and Kosovo.
“I was in my 20s. It was after 1989. And it seemed as if we’d lived through the end of history, as Francis Fukuyama told us,” he explains to New Lines Magazine’s Faisal Al Yafai. Post-Cold War triumphalism was at its apex, and in those heady days, it seemed that there was nothing left to stop the United States from spreading democracy and human rights around the world. “And that was incredibly appealing to lots of Americans, especially young people like me.”
But today, Moyn, now a professor of Law and History at Yale University and one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals, is a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a cross-partisan think-tank urging restraint in US foreign policy. It’s a significant shift from the politics of his youth. Like many Americans, he watched neoconservative American interventions turn repeatedly to catastrophe in Iraq, Afghanistan and, he contends, Libya. “And so I began to conclude that maybe great powers, using force for a good cause — allegedly — always made the world not better, but worse,” he says. “I think a lot of us made a big mistake in identifying America with humanity.”
The shift in Moyn’s views reflect a growing discontent within American politics on the use of force abroad — and not only among the left-of-center. As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump became the first major Republican politician to condemn the invasion of Iraq. In doing so, he paved the way for the rise of the ‘America First’ wing of the party — a far-right, illiberal faction that has risen to dominance in recent years.
“It's an incredibly interesting moment,” says Moyn. “I think the Republican party has completely given up neoconservatism and, and really no major force in the Republican Party anymore backs those sorts of ideas, which is why neocons for many years now have been reorienting to the Democratic Party.”
Though they share a deep suspicion of American power, Moyn sees himself as having little in common with the new ideals of the Republican right. “If you're on the left, like me,” he says, “You resist the idea that when you call for less war, that you're committed to isolationism. You might be committed to a better internationalism.”
“One of the attractions of the isolationist views that the Republicans are embracing is that they're simple,” he adds. “It's easier to sell that position to a fickle public, on Fox News.”
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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Camille Robcis - Uncovering Radical Psychiatry and Institutional Psychotherapy in Postwar France
Pub date: 2023-03-22
Camille Robcis is a Professor of History and French at Columbia University. She is the author of two books, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France, and her more recent book from 2021, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France. Her areas of interest and expertise include European Intellectual History, with a focus on 19th and 20th Century France.
In her latest book, Disalienation, Dr. Robcis explores the highly experimental mid to late 20th Century French psychiatric efforts that, while sharing some similarities with other anti-psychiatric movements of that time, offer many novel insights into forms of psychiatry and psychotherapy that prioritize community and liberation.
Dr. Robcis offers a comprehensive account of the distinct approach to radical psychiatry known as Institutional Psychotherapy. In this interview, I had the opportunity to delve deeper into Dr. Robcis's interest in this approach and gain insight into what sets Institutional Psychotherapy apart as a groundbreaking form of radical psychiatry within its broader European and French context.
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Podcast: Intercepted (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Bonus: The Bloody U.S. Legacy in Iraq
Pub date: 2023-03-24
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the launch of the War in Iraq. But the U.S. government’s involvement in the country tracks back decades prior. Jeremy Scahill retraces the U.S. government's long history of meddling, destabilizing, and bombing Iraq — and how major players have faced no accountability for their crimes.
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Podcast: Historical Materialism Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: HM6: Insurgent Universality
Pub date: 2023-03-24
How can we trace a continuity with the past to inspire a future of emancipation? What can we learn from the experiments of the 1793 sans-culottes, the 1871 Paris Communards, the 1918 Soviet constitution, and the Zapatistas? Is modernity inherently oppressive? In this episode, Lukas Slothuus and Ashok Kumar speak with Massimiliano Tomba, Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz about his article and book Insurgent University: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity. The article is in the 30.4 issue of the Historical Materialism journal.
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Podcast: Uncommon Sense
Episode: Taste, with Irmak Karademir Hazir
Pub date: 2023-03-24
What makes “good” taste? Who decides? And what’s it got to do with inequality? Sociologist Irmak Karademir Hazir grew up watching women in her parents’ clothing boutique. She explains how her fascination for taste emerged from that and why talking about things like fashion, film and music is far from trivial – it’s how we distinguish ourselves from others; how we’re recognised, or dismissed.
Irmak tells Rosie and Alexis how sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu have theorised “distinction”, showing how “highbrow” taste is decided by those with money and other kinds of capital. They also discuss the idea of the “cultural omnivore” and ask: Is what looks like broad consumption – of everything from opera to grime – just elitism in disguise?
Plus: Why are Marvel blockbusters Irmak’s “guilty pleasure”? Why is “symbolic violence” as scary as it sounds? And do we have a moral duty to be honest about our tastes?
Guest: Irmak Karademir Hazir
Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong
Executive Producer: Alice Bloch
Sound Engineer: David Crackles
Music: Joe Gardner
Artwork: Erin Aniker
Find more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.
Production Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the devastating earthquake in southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria.
Episode Resources
Irmak, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommended
- The movies of the “Marvel Cinematic Universe”
- John Waters’ film “Hairspray”
- Agnès Jaoui’s film “Le Goût des autres” (The Taste of Others)
- The BBC documentary series “Signs of the Times”
From The Sociological Review
- “Feminism After Bourdieu” – Lisa Adkins and Bev Skeggs [special issue editors]
- “Aesthetic labour, class and taste: Mobility aspirations of middle-class women working in luxury-retail” – Bryan Boyle and Kobe De Keere
- “Taste the Joy: Food, Family, Women and Social Media” – Smriti Singh
By Irmak Karademir Hazir
- “Cultural Omnivorousness”
- “How (not) to feed young children: A class-cultural analysis of food parenting practices”
- “Do Omnivores Perform Class Distinction? A Qualitative Inspection of Culinary Tastes, Boundaries and Cultural Tolerance” (co-author: Nihal Simay Yalvaç)
- “Exploring patterns of children’s cultural participation: parental cultural capitals and their transmission” (co-authors: Adrian Leguina and Francisco Azpitarte)
Further reading and viewing
- “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste” – Pierre Bourdieu
- “Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable” – Bev Skeggs
- “Reading ‘Race’ in Bourdieu? Examining Black Cultural Capital Among Black Caribbean Youth in South London” – Derron Wallace
- “Stuart Hall: Selected Writings” – Catherine Hall and Bill Schwarz [book series editors]
- “Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile” – Sam Friedman
- “‘Anything But Heavy Metal’: Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes” – Bethany Bryson
- “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- “Follow the algorithm: An exploratory investigation of music on YouTube” – Massimo Airoldi, Davide Beraldo and Alessandro Gandini
- “Pretty Woman” – Garry Marshall [film director]
- “Marvel's Defenders of The Status Quo” – Pop Culture Detective
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Podcast: PERC Podcasts
Episode: PERC podcast with Joseph Vogl on Capital & Ressentiment
Pub date: 2023-03-23
PERC Director, Will Davies, is joined by Prof Joseph Vogl, Humboldt University, Berlin, to discuss Vogl's new book, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present
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Podcast: No Easy Answers (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Californian Ideology - An Interview with Dr. Richard Barbrook
Pub date: 2023-03-21
Dr. Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Media Freedom (Pluto, 1995) and Imaginary Futures (Pluto, 2007). His other important writings include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism,The Regulation of Liberty and The Class of the New, and today with Jules he is discussing his prophetic 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology".
In the essay, Dr. Barbrook and Andy Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 90s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism. This new amalgamated ideology combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like WiredMagazine to promulgate their ideas. This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.
The original promise of the Californian Ideology was that computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destinies. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or change.
Additional Info/Links Below…
- The Californian Ideology pdf
- Dr. Richard Barbrook - Twitter, Website, GoodReads
- Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook
- The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
- The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook
- The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook
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Podcast: Distillations | Science History Institute (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bad Blood, Bad Science
Pub date: 2023-03-21
The word “Tuskegee” has come to symbolize the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. It has become American lore. However, most people don’t know what actually happened in Macon County, Alabama, from 1932 to 1972. This episode unravels the myths of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Syphilis Study (the correct name of the study) through conversations with descendants and historians.
Credits Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Associate Producer: Padmini Raghunath Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer
“Innate Theme” composed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Resource List Black Journal; 301; The Tuskegee Study: A Human Experiment
Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears, by David Montgomery
Examining Tuskegee: The infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Nova: The Deadly Deception
Susceptible to Kindness: Miss Evers’ Boys and the Tuskegee Syphis Study
Tuskegee Legacy Stories
Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care, by Vanessa Northington Gamble
Voices For Our Fathers Legacy Foundation
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Podcast: Matrix Podcast
Episode: Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
Pub date: 2023-03-21
Recorded on March 6, 2023 at UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix, this "Authors Meet Critics" panel focused on Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America, by Rebecca Herman, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. The recording also features a response by Julio Moreno, Professor of History at the University of San Francisco, and and José Juan Pérez Meléndez, Assistant Professor in Latin American and Caribbean History at UC Davis, and a Bridging the Divides Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies in Hunter College. Elena Schneider, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of History, moderated. This panel was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of History.
About the Book
During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it proved to be a fraught affair. Despite widespread acclaim for Pan-American unity with the Allied cause, defense construction incited local conflicts that belied the wartime rhetoric of fraternity and equality. "Cooperating with the Colossus" reconstructs the history of US basing in World War II Latin America, from the elegant chambers of the American foreign ministries to the cantinas, courtrooms, plazas, and brothels surrounding US defense sites.
Foregrounding the wartime experiences of Brazil, Cuba, and Panama, the book considers how Latin American leaders and diplomats used basing rights as bargaining chips to advance their nation-building agendas with US resources, while limiting overreach by the “Colossus of the North” as best they could. Yet conflicts on the ground over labor rights, discrimination, sex, and criminal jurisdiction routinely threatened the peace. Steeped in conflict, the story of wartime basing certainly departs from the celebratory triumphalism commonly associated with this period in US-Latin American relations, but this book does not wholly upend the conventional account of wartime cooperation. Rather, the history of basing distills a central tension that has infused regional affairs since a wave of independence movements first transformed the Americas into a society of nations: national sovereignty and international cooperation may seem like harmonious concepts in principle, but they are difficult to reconcile in practice.
Drawing on archival research in five countries, "Cooperating with the Colossus" is a revealing history told at the local, national, and international levels of how World War II transformed power and politics in the Americas in enduring ways.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York with Dylan Gottlieb
Pub date: 2023-03-20
Young urban professional (yuppies for short) emerged as an archetype close to the heart of transformations taking place in American society during the 1970s and 1980s. These highly-educated individuals were products and architects of a new American economy geared toward financial services and willing cannibalize much of the rest of the economy for short-term profit. While elite universities had once turned out managers for manufacturing firms in midsize cities, by the 1980s their graduates were flocking into banking in major urban centers such as Chicago where the term yuppy originated, but most markedly New York. In his book project, Dr. Dylan Gottlieb, assistant professor at Bentley University and former NEH-Hagley postdoctoral fellow, uncovers a social history of financialization through the lens of yuppies, their economic position, and their cultural proclivities. Among the markers of yuppiedom were an obsession with fitness, an interest in fine dining, and a drive to command cultural symbols as means of establishing their right to sit atop of an unequal and ultimately unjust hierarchy. Using a variety of source material, including marketing studies housed in the Hagley Library collections, Gottlieb tells a compelling story of social aspiration and dislocating change. In support of his work, Gottlieb received the 2021-2022 NEH-Hagley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business, Culture, & Society from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library. For more information, and more Hagley History Hangouts, please visit us online at hagley.org.
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Podcast: Diet Soap - a podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 465: The Neoliberal Subject
Pub date: 2023-03-23
In this week's Diet Soap, Ashley Frawley talks to David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at the Univerity of Westminster. They talk about one of Ashley's favourite books of his, The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability, co-authored with Julian Reid. Is it really progressive when international organisations talk about building resilience and emphasise, small-scale and bottom-up interventions? Or is this just a cover for keeping things as they are?
Chandler and Reid's book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoliberal-Subject-Resilience-Adaptation-Vulnerability-ebook/dp/B086R8FPY5
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The accidental journalist who covered the war in Iraq
Pub date: 2023-03-20
Twenty years on from the invasion of Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and James Meek describe their chance first meeting and their time reporting on the war together. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: /327/ Capitalism on Edge ft. Albena Azmanova
Pub date: 2023-03-14
On the crisis of crisis. Bulgarian critical theorist Albena Azmanova joins us to discuss her widely-discussed 2020 book, Capitalism on Edge. We talk critical theory, the paradox of emancipation, her criticisms of Thomas Piketty and why we should be thinking in terms of precarity capitalism, not neoliberalism. Albena also discusses her concept of the ‘crisis of the crisis of capitalism’ - how the current crisis of capitalism fails to augur a new type of society. Albena makes the case that concepts like neoliberalism obscure more than they clarify. We also discuss how far critical theorists can be drawn into providing practical political advice to leaders and governing institutions. Plus, what was it like coming of age in communist Bulgaria at the End of History? Links: It’s the Economic Precarity, Stupid, Albena Azmanova & Marshall Auerback, The Nation * Uber’s dangerous drive to serfdom, Albena Azmanova, Unherd * Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia*, Albena Azmanova, Columbia UP
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Iva Vukušić, "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia" (Routledge, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-03-13
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence(Routledge, 2022) examines the nature and functions of paramilitary units throughout the 1990s and their ties to the state. The study draws on the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, which conducted dozens of trials relating to paramilitary violence, as well as the records from judicial proceedings in the region. In discussing how and why certain important paramilitary units emerged, the author argues that coordinated action by a number of state institutions gave rise to paramilitaries tasked with altering borders while maintaining plausible deniability for the sponsoring regime. In addition, the outsourcing of violence by the state to paramilitaries led to a significant weakening of the very state these units and their sponsors swore to protect.
Iva Vukušić is an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She is a historian and a genocide scholar, and her research focuses on irregular armed groups, genocide and mass violence, along with transitional justice and criminal accountability.
Iva Glisic is a historian and art historian specialising in modern Russia and the Balkans.
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Podcast: Clauses & Controversies (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 102 ft. David Gill
Pub date: 2023-03-13
The Long Shadow of Default The sovereign debt literature has somehow managed to overlook one of the biggest, most enduring debt defaults on record, involving one of the world’s richest democracies. We’re talking about the United Kingdom’s failure to pay its First World War debts owed to the United States. We talk with David Gill (University of Nottingham) about his wonderful new book, The Long Shadow of Default (Yale University Press), which focuses on the origins and consequences of this largely overlooked episode. We talk about the consequences of default for the U.K. in financial markets (basically none), the consequences for diplomatic relations between the U.K. and U.S. (much more significant), and on how this episode shapes national policies regarding sovereign debt to this day. Producer: Leanna Doty
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Podcast: FEMPOEM
Episode: On becoming a painting
Pub date: 2023-03-06
Romina Achatz is in conversation with Luca Mussnig- aka. "Freakygreenfish" or simply "Fish"- an inter- and transdisciplinary artist- a video artist, painter, performer and actionist. He aims to experience life as a living painting by destructing and redefining the traditional concept of a painting.
In the beginning Luca Mussning reads a personal and poetic text about his relationship with the textures frames and linen. Linen sometimes served as a healing cocoon and the frames allegorically stand for social structures and limitations that he would rather break and reconstruct.
In the first part of the interview, he talks about his path and when he made his first mask or sculpture out of frames and linen.
Fish disorganizes and deconstructs the existing forms and structures until they become new forms and structures. By deconstructing the traditional painting, Fish wants to free it from the corset of the institutional framework and to transfer it into an environment that is accessible for everyone.
Romina Achatz and Luca Mussing talk about class, the role of art/ artists and education within society, the definition of politics, Antonio Gramsci, activism and the accessibility of art from a sociological perspective. What role play social media (Tik Tok/ Instagram ecc.) in the presentation of art and why is Luca invested in researching about an addressing the "holy algorithm"? What are the benefits and downsides of it?
In his performances, the face, from which individuality subjectivity aims to be read, is mostly covered in frames and linen. But the mask is still a representation and a brand. Is to disguise and obscure the identity an effective practice of political resistance to the neoliberal call for transparency? They discuss his work in the framework of the hegemony of facility- and if it refers to the art of disappearing that Jean Baudrillard was writing about.
In the last part of the interview Romina Achatz and Luca Mussing talk about Audre Lorde and her quote: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Thinking with the book "Pleasure activism" by Adrienne Maree Brown they discuss the difference between self care in the framework of an neoliberal self optimisation pressure versus true relaxation and pleasure.
The show ends with question to Fish: What is your mission for the future regarding our society?
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Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Vatican Diplomacy
Pub date: 2023-03-08
The pope sends diplomats to 117 countries and hosts around 88 embassies in or near Vatican City. In this episode, we explore how Vatican diplomacy works and why diplomacy matters to the Holy See, the entity with jurisdiction over the Catholic Church and Vatican City. We also discuss the pope’s unique role as a mediator on the international stage. From Rome, Philip Pullella, Senior Correspondent on the Vatican for Reuters, joins us to discuss Vatican diplomacy.
Vatican Diplomacy
Episode Credits:
Editor: Leo Kamer
Hosts: Leo Kamer and Nicole Rivas
Music: Zee Yuen
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Négritude: The birth of Black humanism
Pub date: 2023-03-08
Négritude was a Francophone movement to rethink what it meant to be Black and African. Scholar Merve Fejzula explores the dynamic debates happening in the early-to mid-20th century among Négritude thinkers, how they disseminated their ideas, and how all this changed what it meant to be part of a public.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Peter Pomerantzev on Tech, Media and Democracy
Pub date: 2023-03-12
In the spring, Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix teaches a course called Tech, Media and Democracy that is a partnership of faculty at NYU, Cornell Tech, CUNY’s Queens College, The New School and Columbia Journalism School. The course hosts a range of expert speakers on issues at the intersection of those topics, and graduate students in journalism, information science, computer science, media studies and design collaborate to produce prototypes and investigations of key issues.
A recent guest speaker was Peter Pomerantzev, an author and researcher who is concerned with propaganda, polarization and how we come to understand the world around us. Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center at Columbia and one of the faculty on the course, led the discussion, which ranges from topics including the information component of the war in Ukraine to the tension between democracy and authoritarianism to the role of journalism and technology in shaping public discourse.
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Podcast: verdurin
Episode: David Houston Jones: Visual Culture and the Forensic
Pub date: 2023-03-17
Visual Culture and the Forensic bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects.
- Angela Strassheim’s Evidence
- Melanie Pullen’s Crime Scenes, Hugo’s Camera
- The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei’s restaging of the scene
- Kathryn Smith’s Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles’ Shroeder, 1949-2012
- Luc Delahaye
- Horace Vernet
- Trevor Paglen’s Autonomy Cube
- Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour
- Julian Charrière’s Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013
- Simon Norkfolk’s When I am Laid in Earth
- Cory Arcangel’s Data Diaries, 2003
- My interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture
- Josef Mengele’s bones used in forensic identification
- Forensic Architecture‘s investigations
- My interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus.
David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.
Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, EthicsDavid Houston Jones9780367420932
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Podcast: Conservation Unfiltered (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 149: Who was Rachel Carson?
Pub date: 2023-03-17
In this episode, Jason talks with Dr. Patricia Demarco. Patty received a doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh, She has spent a fifty -year career in energy and environmental policy in both private and public sector positions. She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association (2006-2011) and as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University where she holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty.(2011-present) She sits on the Board of Trustees for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and for The Allegheny Land Trust. Author: Pathways to Our Sustainable Future – A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh & In the Footsteps of Rachel Carson: Harnessing earth’s healing power
During the conversation, Patty gives us an idea of what Rachel’s early years were like, who and what had the biggest impact on her interests, and how she developed her environmental ethic. The discussion also includes how Rachel’s legacy has persisted, why her words still carry weight today, and how ecologists and conservationist can help move the needle forward on living with the natural world.
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Podcast: LitHouse podcast
Episode: Red Lies. Lea Ypi and Marianne Marthinsen
Pub date: 2023-03-12
As a little girl, Lea Ypi regarded Stalin and Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha as dependable father figures, she liked how her teacher Nora har simple answers to everything, and what she wanted most of all, was to be named a pioneer. But when the communist regime falls in 1991, the young Lea suddenly realizes that nothing is truly like she thought. Has her whole life been a lie?
In her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Ypi depicts an unusual childhood: Before she came of age, she had lived trough a communist regime and its fall, the neoliberal society that succeeded it, as well as a ghastly civil war. With acute awareness, attention to detail and no small amount of wit, Ypi offers her reader a unique insight into Albania’s recent history and contention between ideologies and political and economic interests.
With her childhood in Albania, Lea Ypi is today a professor of political theory at London School of Economics, where she, among other things, teaches Marxism. Her memoir Free was awarded the Ondaatje prize and named one of the best books of 2022 by both The New Yorker and Fincancial Times.
At the House of Literature, Ypi will be joined in conversation by Marianne Marthinsen. Marthinsen is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her background is from Norway’s Worker’s Youth League and the Labour Party, which she represented in parliament between 2005 and 2021. Today, she works for Finance Norway.
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Podcast: Critical Conversations for Social Work
Episode: Episode 2 (Part A): Critical Pedagogies for Social Change.
Pub date: 2023-03-08
This episode features QUT Social Work professor and discipline lead Christine Morley and QUT course coordinator Dr Phillip Ablett (QUT). During this episode, Phillip and Christine speak about their experiences as critical practitioners working with critical pedagogy in social work education. Christine breaks down the dominant discourse of neoliberalism and how critical pedagogy works against it to combat social change. Phillip shares his views on the significance of democratic education as a crucial element of socially just practice. Both offer examples from their own experience as educators in contemporary practice.
Episode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJHK_c7goxp8YGjTshIMnfouTbV-15_xmcR7r1RBLF0/edit?usp=sharing
Key Definitions:
Neoliberalism: Neoliberalism asserts that markets are efficient and effective (marketisation); individuals should be responsible for themselves and run their own lives (consumerisation); and the private sector can supply management knowledge and techniques to the public and voluntary sectors (managerialisation) (Harris, 2014).
A decent Society: [Avishai Margalit] builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilised society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another.
Key Readings:
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work
Edited By Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett, Carolyn Noble, Stephen Cowden
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351002042/routledge-handbook-critical-pedagogies-social-work-christine-morley-phillip-ablett-carolyn-noble-stephen-cowden
Harris, J. (2014) (Against) neoliberal social work. Critical and radical social work, 2 (1), 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986014X13912564145528
The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit
Keywords: critical pedagogy, democratic pedagogy, social justice, power structures, power relations, dominant discourse, neoliberalism, capitalism, activist practice, the decent society.
Music by Boe Toweh
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Podcast: Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S8E4 - Comrades
Pub date: 2023-03-07
Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed. We have a really special episode for you today, which we hope will highlight International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8th!
Joining us is Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly. Charrise is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology. Charisse’s work focuses on the transnational entanglements of U.S. racial capitalism, anticommunism, and antiblack structural racism. Charisse is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the co-editor of the recent book Organise, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s political writings, with Jodi Dean.
Listen in as we discuss what it is to be a comrade, and how to push back on liberal notions that might equate it with allyship. We learn more about Black Communist Women in the U.S. and unpack tensions around political education and organizing.
Thanks to Dr. CBS for spending time with us!
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Further information:
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
Dr. CBS webpage
Our guests:
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (@blackleftaf)
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Podcast: Hotel Bar Sessions (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Fascism (with Alberto Toscano)
Pub date: 2023-03-03
The HBS hosts chat with Alberto Toscano about the long shadow of racial fascism.
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the word "fascism" has moved from the historian’s archives to the editorial pages of newspapers. The point of comparison has generally been drawn from European history, but drawing our analogies and checklists from the trajectory of fascism in Europe obscures both the connection between what is happening now in American politics with the history of racism and racial capitalism in this country, and the manner in which we might be seeing an entirely new form of fascism emerge. Alberto Toscano argues that to understand the contemporary form of fascism in the US, we are better served by looking at the history of black radicalism, from Black Panthers to the contemporary prison abolitionist movement.
How does studying that history change our understanding of fascism?
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Podcast: The Chinese History Podcast
Episode: Professor Pamela Crossley on History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology
Pub date: 2023-03-04
The Qing Empire (1636-1912) ruled over one of the largest land empires in the world. Its territories encompassed not only what is considered today to be China proper and Manchuria, but also Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia. Its subjects were composed of people belonging to different identities, of which Manchu, Han, Mongol, Tibetan, and later Uighur became the most important groups. As an empire that was composed of a small conquering elite, how did the Qing manage these different identities as its empire expanded and stabilized? What changes occurred over time? What legacy did the Qing leave on the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China in terms of how they dealt with ethnic minorities? To help answer these question, we invite Professor Pamela Crossley to talk to us about how history and identity were constructed and weaved into Qing imperial ideology.
Contributors
Pamela Crossley
Professor Pamela Crossley is the Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth University. She specializes in the history of the Qing Empire and modern China, although her research interests also span Inner Asian history, global history, history of horsemanship in Eurasia, and imperial sources of modern identities. She is the author of eight books and numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, and her book A Translucent Mirror is the winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association of Asian Studies. Additionally, she has also written commentaries for major newspapers and magazines.
Yiming Ha
Yiming Ha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research is on military mobilization and state-building in China between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on how military institutions changed over time, how the state responded to these changes, the disconnect between the center and localities, and the broader implications that the military had on the state. His project highlights in particular the role of the Mongol Yuan in introducing an alternative form of military mobilization that radically transformed the Chinese state. He is also interested in military history, nomadic history, comparative Eurasian state-building, and the history of maritime interactions in early modern East Asia. He received his BA from UCLA and his MPhil from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Credits
Episode no. 17
Release date: March 3, 2023
Recording location: Hanover, NH/Los Angeles, CA
Transcript (by Yiming Ha and Greg Sattler)
Bibliography courtesy of Prof. Crossley
Images
Cover Image: A page of the Pentaglot Dictionary (Yuzhi wuti qing wenjian 御製五體清文鑑), a dictionary of the major languages of the Qing compiled towards the later reign of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century. The five languages are Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Chagatai (now known as Uighur). (Image Source)
The Stele Commemorating the Victory over the Dzungars, erected by the Qianlong emperor either in the 1750s or 1760s to commemorate the Qing victory over the Dzungars in the Xinjiang region. The stele featured four languages. On the front side are inscriptions written in Classical Chinese (by the Qianlong emperor himself) and Manchu, while the reverse side features inscriptions in Mongolian and Tibetan. (Image Source)
The Capture of Tucheng, a painting commemorating a Qing victory during the Panthay Rebellion in Yunnan (1856-1873). Note the five colored banner that were flown by the Qing troops. The alternate version of this flag (with the colors rearranged) later became one of the early flags of the Republic of China, with each color representing an ethnic group. Red for the Han, yellow for the Manchus, blue for the Mongols, white for the Hui (Muslims), and black for the Tibetans. (Image Source)
References
Bovington, Goardner, "The History of the History of Xinjiang" in Twentieth-Century China, 26:.2 (April, 2001): 95-139.
Bulag, Uradyn The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity (2002, Rowman & Littlefield)
Crossley, "The Cycle of Inevitability in Imperial and Republican Identities in China" in Aviel Roshwald, ed, The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism: Volume One: Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée (2022, Cambridge), 301-328.
Crossley, Helen F. Siu, Donald S., Sutton, ed., Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ehtnicity and Frontier in the Early Modern China (California, 2006)
Crossley, A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imeprial Ideology (1999, California).
Elliott, Mark, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China (2002, Californai)
Perdue, Peter. C, ."Empire and Nation in Comparative Perspective: Frontier Administration in Eighteenth-Century China" in Journal of Early Modern History, 5:4 (2001, 282-304.
Jonathan D. Spence, Treason by the Book (2002, Viking).
Wu, Hung, "Emperor's Masquerade: 'Costume portraits' of Yongzheng and Qianlong" in Smithsonian Libraries, 1995, p. 25-41.
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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Eugene Holland - Multiplicities, Axiomatics, Politics
Pub date: 2023-03-05
Eugene Holland, joined us to discuss his work on Deleuze and Guattari notion of axiomatics. We discuss the potential for a new axiomatic, and analyze how capitalist axiomatics operate.Eugene is professor Emeritus of the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, and whose books include Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism; Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis; Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike; Reader’s Guide to A Thousand Plateaus.Eugene's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland?si=cfc0259092fa42d7b61e9002ced48d95&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh
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Podcast: Empire Files (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method w/ Vincent Bevins
Pub date: 2023-03-06
Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA genocide in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against communists in 22 countries during the Cold War. WATCH this episode // https://youtu.be/up3-lOiO9L8BUY The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins here: https://vincentbevins.com/book/FOLLOW https://twitter.com/Vinncent // https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin // https://twitter.com/EmpireFilesKeep Empire Files independent & ad-free (and get exclusive bonus content) at https://www.Patreon.com/EmpireFilesMERCH // https://empirefiles.store
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61: Narrating Black Life—Joseph Earl Thomas's "Sink"
Pub date: 2023-03-03
In episode 61 of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at BISR Central, BISR faculty Joseph Earl Thomas and Paige Sweet sit down for an intimate conversation about the peculiar and often unsparing perceptions children have of adult worlds and the writerly innovations at play in the endeavor of representing their experience of it. Their wide-ranging talk touches on everything from strategies of self-narration to means of soliciting a reader’s agency, how to tell a life-story out of order, whether animals can understand us, flat versus hyperbolic language (and their differential effects when narrating Black life in particular), comprehending things in bits (as opposed to the epiphanic moment), whether the norms to which adults acquiescence are in fact inevitable, plus an extremely capacious (materially and emotionally) kitchen sink. Before the discussion, Joseph reads an excerpt from his aptly and provocatively titled coming-of-age memoir Sink, a much-lauded and vividly told story of need, desire, imagination, and the manifold objects of adolescent attachment.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Pub date: 2023-03-05
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: KPFA Special – Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World
Pub date: 2023-03-02
Guest: Margaret Cerullo is a professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College and a member of the Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective which put together the book Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos.
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Podcast: Resources Radio (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: An Environmental and Economic History of the Bering Strait, with Bathsheba Demuth
Pub date: 2023-03-06
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Bathsheba Demuth, an associate professor at Brown University, about the history of the Bering Strait, which separates Alaska and northeastern Russia. Demuth discusses the ecosystems, peoples, and economic systems in the region and how interactions between Indigenous peoples and colonial settlers affected the local environment and social and political life around the Bering Strait.References and recommendations:“Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait” by Bathsheba Demuth; https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635164“Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear” by Erica Berry; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250821621/wolfish
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Slow Death, Industrial Pollution, and East Palestine w/ Kim Garrett (03/02/23)
Pub date: 2023-03-03
Bea and Abby speak with Kim Garrett about the train derailment in East Palestine as part of the ongoing disaster of industrial capitalism, the environmental impacts of not just industrial accidents but everyday industry, and how our healthcare system fails to address the needs of those put in harm's way.Kim Garrett is an environmental health researcher working at the intersection of environmental toxicology, public health, and environmental justice.As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodFind our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communismDeath Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch
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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hito Steyerl on Why the Metaverse Has Already Failed
Pub date: 2023-03-02
Given the manifold political, climate, and technological crises unfolding just two months into 2023, one wonders if that ominous future our species so fears is much closer than we anticipated. It is a tense and dramatic time, but it does further underscore the importance of the cultural figure Hito Steyerl.
The German filmmaker’s bold artworks investigate emerging technologies and media, and she often sites these inquiries within society and politics, globalization, and capitalism. Yet despite the complexity of the subject matter and her research-intensive process, Steyerl’s works are readily enthralling, often manifesting as highly ambitious, immersive architectural environments.
It is no small wonder that her work has reached a global stage. Last year, her largest-ever retrospective, called “I Will Survive,” wrapped its European tour at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And just last month, her exhibition called “This is the Future” opened at the Portland Art Museum, where it is on view until mid-June.
On this week’s episode, European editor Kate Brown spoke to Steyerl to tackle some of the questions about what artificial intelligence, the metaverse, crypto, and an increasingly imperiled natural world might mean for us.
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Podcast: Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
Pub date: 2023-02-24
Tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future - Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for the understanding, creation and use of color. We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk Road merchants competing for the best ceramics, and textile artists cracking the centuries-old mystery of how colors mix, before shooting to the modern era for high-stakes corporate espionage and the digital revolution that’s rewriting the rules of color forever. This journey has required millennia of remarkable innovation and a fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that’s allowed for the most luminous manifestations of our built and adorned world.Adam Rogers is the author of Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern and Proof: The Science of Booze. He is a deputy editor at Wired, and was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and a writer covering science and technology for Newsweek.
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Podcast: Taboo Trades
Episode: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation with Hagai Boas
Pub date: 2023-02-27
Today’s guest is the Israeli sociologist, Hagai Boas, a four-time organ transplant recipient and the author of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation, published by Routledge. Hagai is the second transplant recipient on the podcast (Sally Satel, an earlier guest, has received two kidney transplants), but I’ve never met anyone before who has been transplanted four times, or who has purchased an organ on the black market, as Hagai did with his third transplant. Boas is the director of the Science, Technology, and Society unit at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University.
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Podcast: Visions of Education (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 191: Necropolitics in Social Studies w/ B.Varga, C.van Kessel, & R.Christ
Pub date: 2023-02-23
In episode 191, Dan and Michael chat with Bretton Varga, Cathryn van Kessel, & Rebecca Christ about their article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Theorizing necropolitics in social studies education.”
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Podcast: The Antifada (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep205: The Politics of Global Turbulence w/ Dylan Riley
Pub date: 2023-02-22
Sean welcomes Dylan Riley, Marxian sociologist and scholar of interwar fascism, to discuss his book Microverses about life and society in the pandemic and his recent article in New Left Review about American class structure, why US party politics has a materialist core with no class struggle, and what the pandemic revealed about the fractures in society.
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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: Contesting Colonial Affects in Brazilian Politics
Pub date: 2023-02-27
On January 8, 2023, after Jair Bolsonaro had lost Brazil’s presidential election, hundreds of his supporters stormed the capital to oust the new president, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. This dramatic event manifested fierce conflicts over the country’s political future. Today, we talk with journalist and communication studies scholar Débora Medeiros about contesting colonial affects in Brazilian politics.
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Podcast: Journalism History (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 121: The Colonial Press
Pub date: 2023-02-26
Author Andie Tucher discusses the early history of U.S. newspapers and her new book, Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
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Podcast: The Harper’s Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Books! The Podcast
Pub date: 2023-02-28
Christian Lorentzen sat through the entirety of United States v. Bertelsmann, et al., an antitrust case taken up by the Department of Justice to block Penguin Random House’s purchase of Simon & Schuster. In this episode, he discusses the industry—born in the 1920s as part of a middlebrow revolution, and consolidating in the 1970s to ultimately become today’s Big Five publishing houses. “This corporate agglomeration seems almost inevitable,” Lorentzen explains. “If we lived under a different intellectual property regime and a different system that wasn’t capitalism, maybe things would be different.”But does lack of competition between publishing houses really harm authors? This is the question at the heart of the trial and Lorentzen’s argument. Though the government ultimately blocked the merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, the trial made public some questionable practices of the Big Five, such as how publishers can prevent their imprints from upping bids against one another. For better or worse, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, and HarperCollins are here to stay, influencing all parts of the world of books—what readers read, and what writers create for the mass market.Read Lorentzen’s piece: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/at-random-simon-and-schuster-bertelsmann-merger-trial-penguin-random-house/Subscribe to Harper’s for only $16.97: harpers.org/save
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Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 24: Socialist Yugoslavia and Non-Alignment with Gal Kirn and Paul Stubbs
Pub date: 2023-02-24
In this episode we discuss the histories, complexities and legacies of socialist Yugoslavia and non-alignment with contributor Gal Kirn and editor Paul Stubbs of the recently released book Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political and Economic Imaginaries.
This discussion is a fascinating deep-dive into socialist Yugoslavia's system of self-management, its unique relationship with the Third World, nationhood, post-communist memory politics and more!
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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 60: Tangled Legacies—Jünger's Marble Cliffs
Pub date: 2023-02-17
In episode 60 of the podcast, recorded live at Goethe-Institut New York, BISR's Ajay Singh Chaudhary joins translator Tess Lewis, political theorist Corey Robin, and novelist Jessi Jezewska Stevens for a wide-ranging discussion of Ernst Jünger’s 1939 novel On the Marble Cliffs, now out from NYRB in a new translation by Lewis. Prompted by the question, “Why read Jünger today?,” their talk explores the various “tangled” scenes of Jünger reception—from his contemporaries (excoriated by Thomas Mann and Walter Benjamin) to his apologists (defended for his denunciation of the Nazis—if only for their vulgarity) to patent aesthetic and thematic parallels in contemporary anime and manga. Is it possible, or worthwhile, to read Jünger in the context of the contemporary right and its concern with its own worldview losing traction in a changing world? Is Jünger literary aristocracy—or, rather, a kind of literary adolescent? And, what is it like to translate something that you feel at odds with?
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Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 102 - Application of Ada
Pub date: 2023-02-20
This episode picks up where we left off last time. We are looking at Ada and its applications. How does Ada handle tasking? What's the deal with objects? And, most importantly, what are some neat uses of the language? Selected Sources: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/956653.956654 - Rationale for the Design of Ada https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/45345/08-2590_A1b.pdf - Cassini's AACS computer and software http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/iAPX_432/171821-001_Introduction_to_the_iAPX_432_Architecture_Aug81.pdf - Behold the iAPX 432
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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
Pub date: 2023-02-24
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two fantastic guests, Prof. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Prof. Jodi Dean. We discuss their co-edited collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, which is an absolutely indispensable resource for those of us serious about achieving liberation! This collection includes writings focused on the period from 1919-1956, which argue that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism. Pick up the book! Dr. CBS is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is an organizer with Black Alliance for Peace and a Co-Author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History alongside our mutual friend Gerald Horne. She can be followed on twitter @blackleftaf or on her website https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/. Dr. Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of numerous books including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging, Crowds and Party, and The Communist Horizon. She can be followed on twitter @jodi7768. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The man who killed Gandhi w/ Dhirendra K. Jha
Pub date: 2023-02-18
Dhirendra K. Jha joins PTO to talk about his book, Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India. We talked about Godse's childhood and how is belonging to the elite Brahmin class facilitated his shift from an anti-imperialist position in the decades before independence, to a visceral hatred of Muslims and of Gandhi, who the Hindu nationalists blamed for partition and the creation of Pakistan.We also discussed Godse's relationship with Vinayak Sawarkar - the ideological founder of Hindu nationalism and the chief early propagator of the idea of Hindu Rashtra - the concept of India as a fundamentally Hindu nation - as opposed to a secular state of all its people.We went on to talk about how Italian fascism and German Nazism inspired the RSS, and finally we discussed the increasing rehabilitation of the reputation of Godse amongst Hindu nationalists, including BJP members of the Indian parliament.
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
Pub date: 2023-02-21
I think voters right now, remember the circus of the convention over the substance of what it did. I think there is a bit of an amnesia over the mandate for change that existed in 2019 and 2020 that the Constitution delivered on, that voters had moved away from that mandate to change by the time the Constitution went for approval.
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Jennifer Piscopo is an associate professor of politics at Occidental College. Recently, she coauthored a paper with Peter Siavelis in the Journal of Democracy called “Chile’s Constitutional Chaos.”
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- Why Voters Rejected it - 36:53
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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: US-China Semiconductor Competition
Pub date: 2023-02-22
In this episode of All Things Policy, Anushka Saxena discusses with Amit Kumar the recent developments in the semiconductor supply chain as a result of the U.S.-China rivalry and its implications.
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Podcast: Professor Buzzkill History Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The “Free Market” as the Big Myth in Modern America
Pub date: 2023-02-21
Professors Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway explain how and why Americans came to believe that the “free market” was not only natural, but also moral, and the highest form of human interaction. Their deep archival research shows how the rise of free market fundamentalism was artificially created by business elites, trade associations, and allies in the media over the 20th century. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve, not stifle, democracy. Episode 500.
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Podcast: Critical Theory: The Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 6: Critical Theoretic Foundations of Concrete Utopias with Étienne Balibar
Pub date: 2023-02-20
Professor Étienne Balibar joins Charles Smith and Giselle Williams of Columbia's WKCR for a conversation on the critical theoretic foundations for concrete utopias.This conversation is part of the Utopia 13/13 seminars at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Professor Balibar joined us for Utopia 1/13 at the Maison Française on September 28, 2022. You can find the full recording from the seminar and additional resources on the Utopia 1/13 page here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/1-13/At the seminar, Professor Balibar presented a new paper, “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes." You can read the full paper in English here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/etienne-balibar-uncovering-lines-of-escape-towards-a-concept-of-concrete-utopia-in-the-age-of-catastrophes/In his lecture, “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” the philosopher Étienne Balibar develops three dimensions of the urgency of rethinking concrete utopias in these times of crises: first, Balibar discusses the dilemmas surrounding the concept of utopia and utopian thinking, without which there could be no “radical” politics, but at a time and in an age of at least three major catastrophes (the climate, the nuclear, and the digital); second, Balibar explores “real” or “concrete” utopias in light of the Foucauldian distinction between “utopias” and “heterotopias,” which could also be interpreted as a conversion of utopia into heterotopias; third, Balibar concludes on the transcendental problems of the different modalities of the “possible,” the “impossible,” the “necessary,” the “inevitable,” in their relationship to a concept of time (e.g. Bloch’s time of “not-yet”), as displaced by the questioning of “utopia” in today’s catastrophic circumstances.At the seminar, Professors Balibar and Harcourt discussed Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918); Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” (1967/1984); Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (2005); Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847; Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013; Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (Verso 2010); and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia (2005).
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Podcast: Science for the People (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #619 Breathless
Pub date: 2023-02-16
In January 2020 a race began to identify, control, and understand a novel coronavirus that quickly spread around the world creating a global pandemic. In his most recent book "Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus", writer David Quammen takes us back to those first days, weeks, months and years, putting us behind the shoulders of some of those first scientists as they try to reckon with the new Covid-19 virus. This week, we learn more about his experiencing of writing about the pandemic during the pandemic, how information about the virus spread through the scientific community, how the virus first mutated, and dig into the sometimes controversial search for Covid's origins during the first few years of the pandemic.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Pub date: 2023-02-12
Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, “‘The Least Safe Day’: Rollout of Gun-Detecting AI Scanners Has Been a ‘Cluster,’ Emails Show,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. They also discuss Gordon’s career trajectory, going from a sports reporter to a writer focused on infrastructure, maintenance, bureaucracy, and related topics. Additionally, the two chat about systematic bottlenecks around electric vehicles, a promising technology too-often cast as a cure-all.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionary Palestinian Futures / Noura Erakat
Pub date: 2023-02-09
We welcome human rights attorney Noura Erakat who wrote the Boston Review article, "Designing the Future in Palestine: Palestinian women and feminist organizations are reimagining what liberation can look like beyond national independence."Noura is Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice, and author of, "Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine."
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Myth of Venture Capital with Julia Ott
Pub date: 2023-02-11
We revere venture capitalists, don’t we? Without their brave acts of derring-do — AKA investing in uncertain ventures — how would society achieve progress? Just kidding.
If you are a regular listener to this podcast, you’ve heard guests speak about the horizontal contradictions within the ruling class. Industrial capital and finance capital can each be affected differently by foreign, domestic, fiscal, and monetary policies. They may sing from the same hymn book but sometimes their interests diverge.
Steve’s guest, Dr. Julia Ott, teaches the history of capitalism at the New School. She and Steve focus their discussion on venture capitalism and its implications on policy changes, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. They explore how venture capitalists have been heavily involved in lobbying for capital gains tax breaks, leaving them more to invest and pass on to their children, exacerbating the extremes of generational wealth and generational poverty, especially for people of color.
They also observe how venture capital is assumed to create a virtuous cycle by reinvesting in multiple new companies. Historically, however, the state has been more consequential to economic growth and job creation than venture capital. For all the anti-government rhetoric flying around, especially during conservative or laissez faire periods (hello, Mr. Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher), the federal government is heavily involved in capital markets and infrastructure. Far from interfering, the state is a willing and consistent facilitator in the amassing of private wealth.
Dr. Julia Ott is Associate Professor of the History of Capitalism and Co-Director of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research.
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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
Pub date: 2023-02-14
Nadia Abu El Haj describes the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and what it reveals about psychiatry, American imperialism and anti-war politics. She tracks PTSD’s shifting status in medical discourse from Vietnam war veteran 'rap groups' through to its depoliticized iteration in the 21st century.
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and a recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America
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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Heather Davis and Mark Simpson deconstruct the toxic and unknown properties of plastics
Pub date: 2023-02-10
Heather Davis is an assistant professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York whose work draws on feminist and queer theory to examine ecology, materiality, and contemporary art in the context of settler colonialism. Her new book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022), explores the transformation of geology, media, and bodies in light of plastic’s saturation. Davis is a member of the extraordinary Synthetic Collective, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, humanities scholars, and artists, who investigate and expose plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Mark Simpson is a settler scholar and professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he investigates US culture, energy humanities, and mobility studies. He is Principal Investigator for “Transition in Energy, Culture and Society,” a multi-year research project with Future Energy Systems at the U of A. His work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Postmodern Culture, and English Studies in Canada, among other venues. In this conversation Heather and Mark talk about how we are, in general, “so saturated by” an animated, often willfully hopeful communication style when it comes to environmental threats that it becomes easy to “turn off” and ignore the direness of present and future ecocide. We focus on figuring out what it could mean to adopt different communication strategies that are organized around conveying a sense of “vulnerability,” “embodiedness,” and “kinship.” If plastics are, in Davis’ words, a “much more intimate manifestation of oil,” and represent a major gap between, to quote Simpson, the experience of the “unseen” and the experience of the “invisible,” then it might be necessary to approach the problem using methods that aren’t familiar, but that are actively “defamiliarizing.”Keeping in mind that their focus is on inquiring about what is not known about plastics, Heather points out that the “timeline for plastics is actually incredibly undetermined” and that “we really don’t know what we’re doing,” fundamentally, when it comes to the whole life cycle of plastics, from feedstock extraction to chemical processing to material production and distribution, to dematerialization. The way Heather puts it is that “we’re fumbling around in the dark,” and in “our hubris” think we are in control.Part of Mark’s research focuses on how this hubris cannot be divorced from the unstable sense of mastery bred by petroculture. He’s written on the simulated sense of smoothness that the energy regime of fossil fuels tries to maintain, even as it becomes more and more of a struggle to maintain it, as the obviousness of the truth of climate breakdown becomes apparent. There is a sort of circularity or stuckness that, they say, we’re still, reluctantly, mired in. And plastics are a primary aspect of that: plastic forms a barrier, a “barricade” that lets us preserve a false sense that we are invulnerable, impermeable, protected. What recourse do we have when the thing we use to control contamination is exposed as a major source of contamination? If people now increasingly understand that plastics fail to protect us from infection and contamination, and that they actively endanger our health, it is because a faith in plastics as a way of living in a bubble has been replaced by a sobering ecological knowledge of this petroleum product’s toxic effects. And that knowledge is spread through networked acts of activist organizing, by artists and theorists who “allow us to sit with the world,” to see it in a new way and shift our “patterns of thinking.”
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Podcast: The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The politics of food with Dr. Marion Nestle
Pub date: 2023-02-11
In this episode I’m starting my series of interviews on the science of nutrition at the top with an interview with a leading authority on the politics of food and nutrition, Dr. Marion Nestle. In 2011 author Michael Pollan ranked her as the #2 most powerful foodie in America (after Michelle Obama), and American food journalist Mark Bittman ranked her #1 in his list of foodies to be thankful for.
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. She was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fifteen books focusing on the politics and science of food. Her most recent book is a memoir, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (2022). She has won numerous awards for her public outreach, and has been recognized as one of the most influential foodies in America. The University of California School of Public Health at Berkeley named her as Public Health Hero.
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Peripheralisation
Pub date: 2023-02-09
A discussion on the production of ex-centric places as an ordinary process of extended urbanisationHow do “peripheries” form? And how does urbanization generate processes of peripheralization? Today, urban research is increasingly confronted with processes of extended urbanization that unfold far beyond cities and agglomerations: novel patterns of urbanization are crystallizing in agricultural areas and in remote landscapes, challenging inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded and dense settlement type. While certain territories of extended urbanisation experience growth, others are affected by peripheralisation, experiencing deep socio-economic and ecological restructuring, marginalisation and inequality, and the re-articulation of power and privilege. These observations advocate for a radical reconceptualization of the experience of periphery at various spatial scales.
In this podcast, we discuss peripheralization not as a static spatial condition, but as a dynamic process that is shaped by uneven urbanization and complex multi-scalar relations, strongly put forward through moments of “crisis”. We debate on perpheralisation processes which manifest in different scales and geographies and discuss both their socioeconomic and ecological implications, as well as the emancipatory potential in ex-centric territories in times of exception.
The podcast follows the intense discussions that took place this August in Athens, during the RC21 conference, in the context of Panel 26 entitled ‘Peripheralization. The production of ex-centric places as an ordinary process of extended urbanisation’ conveyed by Christian Schmid and Metaxia Markaki, hosting twenty-six international contributions. Warm thanks and extended credits to all participants of Panel 26.
Shubhra Gururani is the Director of York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Canada. Her research lies at the intersection of urban anthropology, cultural and feminist geography, and political ecology and focuses on peripheral urbanization, agrarian-urban transformation, property-making, and caste politics. She is currently conducting an anthropological study of disappearing water bodies and flooding amid real-estate led urbanization in India. Her essays have appeared inUrban Geography, Gender, Place, and Culture, Urbanisation, SAMAJ – South Asian Multidisciplinary Academic Journal and Economic and Political Weekly. Twitter handle: @gggrrrurani @GurgaonNature
Christian Schmid is a geographer, sociologist and urban researcher, Professor of Sociology at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous publications on theories of the urban and of space, on Henri Lefebvre, on territorial urban development, and on the comparative analysis of urbanisation. Together with architects Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili and Pierre de Meuron he co-authored the book Switzerland: an urban portrait, a pioneering analysis of extended urbanisation. Together with Neil Brenner he worked on the theorisation and investigation of emergent formations of planetary urbanisation. He is cofounder of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA). Currently, he also leads a project on Territories of Extended Urbanisation and one on Agrarian Questions under Planetary Urbanisation, which is based at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory Singapore.
Michael Lukas is an Assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Chile. His research focuses on the intersections of international political economy, urban political geography, and power relations in planning and governance in Latin American urbanization processes. Recently, he has been working on the role of corporate power and the extractive industries in urban development and governance in Chile and beyond. He is member of the international Contested Territories network, Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Investigaciones Geograficas and, together with Nadine Reis, the editor of the book Beyond the Megacity. New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America, part of the series Suburbanisms. Twitter handle: @Global_suburbs
Giulia Torino is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography and Teaching Associate at the Department of Politics, University of Cambridge. With a focus on Latin America and, more recently, the Mediterranean, her work centers around the changing politics of dwelling under global displacement and racial capitalism, at the intersection of urban and political geography, anthropology and sociology. Her current project “Extending Urbanisation: Migration, Labour and the Struggle for Place in the Black Mediterranean,” co-funded by the British Academy, explores the making of precarious forms of inhabitation at the nexus of transnational human movement, agro-industrial labor, and extended forms of urban life. Twitter handle: @GiuliaTMqz
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Metaxia Markaki is an architect, educator and urban researcher, currently completing her PhD at ETH LUS Institute on processes of peripheralisation unfolding in mountainous Greece. She has recently contributed to the edited volume Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles (eds. Schmid, Topalovic) with the chapter “Contesting the Expropriation of Land and Nature: The Peripheralisation of Arcadia.” Together with Christian Schmid, she co-chaired in August 2022, the RC21 Athens Panel 26, “Peripheralisation: An ordinary process of extended urbanisation in times of exception.”Twitter handle: @MarkakiMetaxia
Faiq Mari فائق مرعي is an architect working in the field of architectural research, education, and design, with a focus on architecture's potential as a tool for social and political investigation and action. He is currently a doctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich on the topic of “Commons of Palestine.” Twitter handle: @faiqmari @araburbanism
Introduction Voice: Dr. Nicolò Molinari, discussing his paper “Peripheralization processes and the emerging of new landscapes of conflict: between the Yellow Vests movement and the George Floyd rebellion.”
Podcast editing: Metaxia Markaki
LINKSRC21 Athens, Abstract Book, pp.149 -163: [https://az659834.vo.msecnd.net/eventsairwesteuprod/production-pcoconvin-public/c8fe34fbd5e8430b8a304b35ffb6a5bc ]
Shubhra Gururani : Engaging the Urban from the Periphery [https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7131]
Michael Lukas :[https://utorontopress.com/9781487509101/beyond-the-megacity/https://www.contested-territories.net/]
Christian Schmid : [https://www.versobooks.com/books/4089-henri-lefebvre-and-the-theory-of-the-production-of-space]
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Podcast: Harvard Divinity School (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Religion, Race, and the Double Helix of White Supremacy
Pub date: 2023-02-10
It has long been a historical truism that, in the early modern West, pseudoscientific racial hierarchies replaced religious hierarchies as the dominant framework for understanding human difference and justifying oppressive colonialist practices, including slavery. Recent research has challenged this axiom to suggest how important religious conceptions of difference remained to the racist imagination into the modern period—and, indeed, into our present day. The convergence of racialist and religious orderings of humanity converged in American institutions like Harvard University, persisting in ways with which we have not sufficiently reckoned. This conversation is part of the Religion and the Legacies of Slavery series at HDS. The featured speakers are David F. Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at HDS, and Kathryn Gin Lum, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Stanford University. This event took place on February 6, 2023Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/2/14/video-religion-race-and-double-helix-white-supremacy
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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: American Spying Trends After World War II: Transparency to Opacity to Total Secrecy
Pub date: 2023-02-15
Before the Second World War, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. After the war, the power to decide what could be kept secret proved too tempting to give up. Since then, we have radically departed from that open tradition, allowing intelligence agencies, black sites, and secret laboratories to grow unchecked. Officials insist that only secrecy can keep us safe, but its true costs have gone unacknowledged for too long.
Using the latest techniques in data science, Matthew Connelly analyzes a vast trove of state secrets to unearth not only what the government really does not want us to know, but why. Culling this research and carefully studying a series of pivotal moments in recent history from Pearl Harbor to drone warfare, Connelly sheds light on the drivers of state secrecy—especially incompetence and criminality—and how the relentless accumulation of secrets makes it impossible to protect truly vital information.
Connelly elucidates the power of secrecy, the greed it enables, the negligence it protects, and the losses we sustain as citizens when our leaders cannot be held to account. His crucial examination of the self-defeating nature of secrecy and the dire state of our nation’s archives is a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving the past so that we may secure our future.
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George Hammond
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Matthew Connelly
Professor of International and Global History, Columbia University; Author, The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
In Conversation with George Hammond
Author, Conversations With Socrates
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on February 9th, 2023 by the Commonwealth Club of California.
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Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Subversive Power of LGBTQ Comic Books
Pub date: 2023-02-03
In 1954, the Comics Code Authority was formed to censor newsstand comic books by banning depictions of violence, negative portrayals of law enforcement and any mention of homosexuality. The ban created the flourishing world of so-called ‘underground comix,’ which approached banned items as a checklist and inspired a generation of LGBTQ cartoonists to draw themselves and their community on the page. A new PBS documentary, “No Straight Lines,” maps the history of LGBTQ comics frame by frame, from Rupert Kinnard’s “Brown Bomber,” to Alison Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For,” to their influence on the next generation of queer comic artists today. We’ll talk about that history and hear from next generation artists Lawrence Lindell and Maia Kobabe, whose graphic memoir “Gender Queer” is now one of the most-banned books in the U.S.
Guests:
Maia Kobabe, cartoonist; author, “Gender Queer”
Lawrence Lindell, cartoonist; author, “Blackward” and “From Truth with Truth”
Vivian Kleiman, director, “No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics”
Rupert Kinnard, activist; cartoonist; author, “B.B. and the Diva,” and “Cathartic Comics”
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Podcast: The Take (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The human cost of ChatGPT
Pub date: 2023-02-01
ChatGPT is taking the world by storm with AI-generated text that rivals actual literature – but there’s a price. For its parent company, OpenAI, to get this quality product, human beings are paid to help teach it to identify the bad stuff: hate speech and violence of all kinds. We hear about the good, the bad, and the ugly of ChatGPT, including from one person who did the job and has real questions about whether it’s worth the price.
Note: This episode contains elements that were generated using ChatGPT.
In this episode:
- Nanjala Nyabola (@Nanjala1), author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Politics in Kenya
- Michael Kearns (@mkearnsupenn), author of "The Ethical Algorithm"
- Muphat Ochieng,former AI content moderator
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Amy Walterswith our host, Malika Bilal. Ashish Malhotra, Chloe K. Li, Miranda Lin and Alexandra Locke fact-checked this episode.
Our production team includes Chloe K. Li, Miranda Lin, Ashish Malhotra, Negin Owliaei, and Amy Walters.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Activism in Fourth Wave Feminism - Part 1
Pub date: 2023-01-30
Following the rise of social media and digital platforms, digital activism has become a cornerstone of the most recent social movements, especially the fourth wave of feminism characterized by online movements such as Me too and Times Up. Organizing digitally has enabled these feminist movements to reach much wider audiences and led to large-scale participation the world over. This week's episode dives into what fourth wave feminism is and how digital media has contributed to its performance.
In our first segment, Dr. Zeinab Farokhi provides an overview of fourth-wave feminism. Topics discussed include: Whether digital platforms have made the fourth-wave more inclusive than past feminist movements, whether the fourth wave has been reduced to performative messaging and branding by companies, the evolving role of men in feminist movements, concerns that digitization has also lended legitimacy to anti-feminist movements, and whether measuring success ought to depend upon legislative progress.
In the second segment, we are joined by Professor Sara Liao from Penn State University for a conversation about the impacts and significance of fourth-wave feminism for China, including: The origins of the #MeToo movement in China, techniques used by the Chinese state to silence feminist activists online, the impacts of transnational networks, whether there has been meaningful progress in terms of legislative victories and public opinion, and much more.
Guests:
Dr. Zeinab Farokhi earned her PhD in Women and Gender Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University (2022-24) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her dissertation, "Digital Islamophobia: A Comparison of Right-Wing Extremist Groups in Canada, the United States, and India," investigated and tracked the gendered, affective, and transnational digital strategies, rhetoric, and affinities of anti-Muslim extremist actors on Twitter via qualitative discourse analysis. Building on her dissertation, Dr. Farokhi's postdoctoral research will conduct a mix-methods comparison of Hindu nationalist and white supremacist discourses on Youtube in order to further assess the affective and affinitive alignments among extremist groups and their exploitation of audio-visual affordances. Dr. Farokhi's work emphasizes feminist approaches to extremism, digital media, and transnational and diaspora studies and highlights the urgent need to better understand how national and transnational extremist rhetoric manifests, spreads, and persuades across digital ecologies.
Professor Sara Liao is a media scholar and feminist based out of Penn State University. Her research interests intersect digital labor, feminist studies, globalization, and East Asian popular culture. Her book Fashioning China (Pluto, 2020) investigates gendered digital labor in China’s maker culture and fashion industry, highlighting how social media commerce has transformed creative industries, and produced new forms of creativity, identity, and precarity in work and life. She has published in renowned academic journals such as Journal of Communication, Signs: Journal of women in Culture and Society, Communication, Culture & Critique, and Convergence. She currently works on researching and writing about the tangled relationship between digital culture of misogyny and popular nationalism in China.
Producers:
Yashree Sharma
Raagini Singh Panwar
Ayesha Ali
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Podcast: Alborada
Episode: The Americas Uncovered: Mexico's Spectres of Revolution w/ Alex Aviña
Pub date: 2023-02-05
You can now listen to episode three of our podcast, The Americas Uncovered, hosted by Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK. In this episode, Peter speaks to Alex Aviña, Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA, about his book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Produced by Pablo Navarrete
Music by Peter Watt
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Podcast: The Week at Work
Episode: 124. Far Right Protests and Structural Racism in Ireland
Pub date: 2023-02-05
This week Clare and Conor are in conversation with Dr. Stiofán Ó Nualláin on the ongoing far right attacks on migrants, the structural nature of racism in the Irish state, and the way the media frames the issue.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Is deglobalisation already happening?
Pub date: 2023-02-01
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Uri Dadush to discuss whether deglobalisation is happening worldwide. They discuss the impacts of this on the global economy and what it may mean for internal relations. In his recent research, Uri detailed how, despite the current bleak rhetoric surrounding deglobalisation, most countries have seen increased international integration across nearly all goods, services and factor markets. He acknowledges, however, that geopolitics could prevail over economics in the future of globalisation.
Relevant publication:
Dadush, U. (2022) ‘Deglobalisation and protectionism’ Working Paper 18/2022, Bruegel
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Chatter: M. Todd Bennett on the Secretive Story of the Glomar Explorer
Pub date: 2023-02-05
A sunken Soviet submarine. A secret CIA plan to lift it from the bottom of the ocean with a giant claw. And reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. It sounds like the makings of a Netflix series—and it should be. But the story of the Glomar Explorer is the stuff of fact, even if it has long been shrouded in secrecy.
In his new book, intelligence historian M. Todd Bennett pierces the veil surrounding this most improbable of intelligence operations and surfaces a riveting tale of underwater espionage and high-stakes foreign policy. The sub-salvage mission, which the CIA codenamed AZORIAN, was green-lit at a time of remarkable daring and ingenuity by the spy agency, which enjoyed only minimal oversight from Congress. But journalists brought the Glomar operation to light in another era, when scandals and excesses led lawmakers to rein in the intelligence community.
Shane Harris talks with Bennett about his book, “Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency,”which shows how the exposure of the secret program led to a public backlash against disclosures of classified information and helped reinforce the culture of secrecy that envelops the CIA’s work. The phrase “neither confirm nor deny,” which Bennett tells Harris has become a kind of coy cliche, originates from attempts to uncover the facts of the Glomar mission.
Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce
Pub date: 2023-02-04
The launch of the first black music station in Europe - the Dread Broadcasting Corporation in London in 1981 - and why Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.Plus the assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye, the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the bombing of the Palestine Post.Contributors:Michael Williams - former DBC station managerCarmella Jervier - DJDr Caroline Mitchell - Professor of Radio at the University of SunderlandJean-Marie Ngendahayo - former minister in BurundiVáclav Klaus - former prime minister of the Czech RepublicVladimír Mečiar - former prime minister of SlovakiaMordechai Chertoff - former foreign editor of the Palestine PostAdmiral Hal Gehman - Chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board(Photo: Radio Caroline Pirate Radio ship. Credit: Getty Images)
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Podcast: Unreserved (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Calling back the salmon
Pub date: 2023-02-03
Three Indigenous nations along the Pacific coast of Turtle Island are working tirelessly to save the salmon because salmon is an integral part of who they are - spiritually, culturally, socially and economically.Brook Thompson is a member of the Yurok and Kurok tribes in Northern California. She is a restoration engineer working to restore the Klamath River. In November 2022, her people successfully won a legal battle to have four dams removed from the Klamath River to help restore decimated salmon populations. hiwus (Chief) Warren Paull helped to successfully negotiate the complete removal of commercial fish farms from shíshálh First Nation territory off the coast of the Salish Sea in British Columbia.Kerrie Charnley was part of a habitat restoration project for salmon in the Upper Pitt River on mainland BC. The river is the home of her ancestors, the Katzie people, whose creation story involves the marriage of a Katzie man and a sockeye woman. The restoration project was a profound experience that deepened her sense of connection with her ancestors.
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Podcast: War Machine (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Joerg Rieger /// Theology in the Capitalocene
Pub date: 2023-02-05
In this episode Matt Baker speaks with German Theologian Joerg Rieger about his new book "Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity". Joerg is a German professor of Christian theology whose work emphasizes economic justice and political movements. Rieger is also an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church. Rieger is Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Distinguished Professor of Theology at the Divinity School and the Graduate Program of Religion at Vanderbilt University. Previously he was the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Rieger is the author and editor of more than 20 books and over 135 academic articles, which have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Korean, and Chinese.Wendland-Cook Religion and Justice Program: https://religionandjustice.squarespace.com/discoverJoerg Rieger: https://www.joergrieger.com/
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Podcast: RevDem Podcast
Episode: Taming the Anthropocene: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Lars Deile on a New Era of Historical Understanding
Pub date: 2023-02-03
In this conversation, our guest contributor Alexandra Medzibrodszky talks with Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Lars Deile, the co-editors of the recently published volume Historical Understanding: Past, Present, and Future (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). The conversation focuses on the theory of history, reflecting on our changing perceptions of historical time; the relationship between the past, present, and future; the concept of the Anthropocene and its importance for historians; as well as on the legacy of Reinhart Koselleck and the extent to which he remains significant to contemporary debates on the theory of history.
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Podcast: Jearlyn Steele
Episode: Highlight: The Cultural Problems with Cars
Pub date: 2023-01-30
Cars have become the necessary mode of transportation for many people. But could the need of that vehicle cause more pain than it's worth? NYU professor and cultural analyst Dr. Julie Livingston explores this in the new book she has co-authored, "Cars and Jails: Freedom, Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality”.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: An Indigenous Perspective on Generative AI
Pub date: 2023-01-29
Earlier this month, Getty Images, one of the world’s most prominent suppliers of editorial photography, stock images, and other forms of media, announced that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Stability AI, a British startup firm that says it builds AI solutions using "collective intelligence," claiming Stability AI infringed on Getty’s intellectual property rights by including content owned or represented by Getty Images in its training data. Getty says Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images without a license, which the company says is to the detriment of the content’s creators. The notion at the heart of Getty’s assertion- that generative AI tools like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALLE-2 are in fact exploiting the creators of the images their models are trained on- could have significant implications for the field.
Earlier this month I attended a symposium on Existing Law and Extended Reality, hosted at Stanford Law School. There, I met today’s guest, Michael Running Wolf, who brings a unique perspective to questions related to AI and ownership, as a former Amazon software engineer, a PhD student in computer science at McGill University, and as a Northern Cheyenne man intent on preserving the language and culture of native people.
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Podcast: Jouissance Vampires (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Adorno On Ideology feat. Jacob Bard-Rosenberg
Pub date: 2023-01-29
In 1954 Adorno wrote, "if one were to condense what the ideology of mass culture comes down to into a single sentence, one would have to represent it with the parodic statement: “become what you are.” Adorno offered a series of important lectures on the concept of ideology with Max Horkheimer in the wake of the Second World War. They argued against the liberal sociologists such as Mannheim and Weber's conceptions of ideology, and they also called for a new Marxist understanding of ideology.
In this episode, we discuss the history of the concept of ideology up to Adorno's important intervention. This conversation is based on a newly translated article "Contribution to the Theory of Ideology" by Adorno and translated by our guest Jacob Bard-Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg has recently completed a Ph.D. on Adorno and Benjamin on memory, forgetting and dreams. You can download his dissertation here. To read Rosenberg's review of Adorno's article on ideology, please go here.
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Podcast: The Archive Project (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Better Worlds: A Panel on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Legacy
Pub date: 2023-01-23
In this episode of The Archive Project, we feature a discussion on late writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s legacy of pacifism and environmentalism. Our moderator is Theo Downes-Le Guin, Ursula’s son and literary executor. Theo is in conversation with Oregon-based writers Juhea Kim, author of the novel Beasts of a Little Land, a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Michelle Ruiz Keil, author most recently of the young adult novel Summer in the City of Roses, which was a finalist for the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
In her speech at the 2014 National Book Awards, accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Ursula said: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.”
Juhea Kim and Michelle Ruiz Keil are two of those voices that we need now. In this conversation, Juhea and Michelle discuss how they came—and returned—to Le Guin’s work, her influence on their writing, and how they are carrying her legacy forward, including the responsibility of the artist as a humanitarian.
This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at Literary Arts on July 15, 2022.
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
Michelle Ruiz Keil is an author, playwright, and tarot reader with an eye for the enchanted and way with animals. She is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels All of Us With Wings and Summer In The City of Roses. Her writing for adults can be found most recently in Bitch, Cosmonauts Avenue, and the anthology Dispatches From Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. She is a 2021 Tin House Scholar and the recipient of residencies from Hedgebrook, The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Bloedel Reserve. Born in San Francisco, Michelle has lived in Portland, Oregon for many years where she curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.
Juhea Kim is a writer, artist, and advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Her bestselling debut novel Beasts of a Little Land was named a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and a Best Book of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar, Real Simple, Ms., and Portland Monthly. Her writing has been published in Granta, Slice, The Massachusetts Review, Zyzzyva, Guernica, Catapult, Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, Sierra Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the founder and editor ofPeaceful Dumpling, an online magazine at the intersection of sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. She has received fellowship support from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She earned her BA in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University.
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The code of omertà: how a mafia kingpin evaded police for 30 years
Pub date: 2023-01-30
Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested after decades on the run, found hiding in plain sight in Sicily. Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg report on what it means for the once mighty Cosa Nostra. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: The Taxcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Making of Tax Haven Mauritius
Pub date: 2023-01-31
In this extended special episode of the Taxcast, we look at the 'Desai Leaks' - the story you probably never heard of: it goes back decades and looks at a key player in the making of tax haven Mauritius that's been hurting Indians and Africans ever since.
We speak with a whistleblower and the journalist who broke the story. Is the Indian government investigating? What does the story tell us about the global economy?
Transcript available here (some is automated) https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Taxcast-Transcript-Jan-2023.pdf
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Environmentalism of the Fossil Fuel Industry
Pub date: 2023-01-31
Fossil fuels lie at the center of contemporary life — powering, despoiling, and altering everything around us. And that includes environmentalism itself, according to anthropologist David Bond. He discusses how concepts like toxic thresholds and environmental impact assessments are an accommodation to the continued existence of the oil and petro-chemical industries, rather than ways to address their inherent harms.
Resources:
David Bond, Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment UC Press, 2022
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
Pub date: 2023-01-23
So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too much thought into it, but Edward Tufte has done an enormous amount to change that. Beginning with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte’s works have shaped how we think about charts, graphs, and other forms of presenting data. We talk about information, design, and how thinking about data reflects how we think about the world.
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Edward Tufte received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been a professor of public affairs at Princeton and of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale, where he is currently emeritus professor. He is the founder and owner of Graphics Press, and his books have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. He is an active artist and sculptor, as well as a touring lecturer.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Kristin Surak on Japan's Lost Generation
Pub date: 2023-01-26
During the 1980s, Japan seemed like it might overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy. But since a property bubble burst in the early 90s, Japan has become a by-word for economic stagnation. That hasn’t prevented the ruling Liberal Democratic Party from maintaining its status as the most successful political party in the rich capitalist world.
Kristin Surak joins Long Reads to discuss modern Japan. Kristin teaches sociology at the London School of Economics and is the author of Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice.
Find her work for Jacobin, including the essay "Japan’s Shinzō Abe Was an Uninspiring Leader Who Prospered by Default," here: https://jacobin.com/author/kristin-surak
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Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.
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Podcast: Finance & History (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Leverage
Pub date: 2023-01-25
Broken promises?
This episode is about the world's growing dependence on debt financing and current challenges to the world economy. The promise once made that deeper and larger financial markets would make our economies more stable did not hold true. What happened instead? What is meant by the paradox of stabilisation policies and central bank safety nets? What can history teach us about risks and structural matters in the financial system? Do we need a re-assessment of the Great Financial Crisis? And if so, should we look towards psychology for answers rather than maths?
Moritz Schularick (Bonn, Paris) & Carmen Hofmann (eabh)
discuss financial leverage, fragility, central banks' balance sheets and new economic thinking.
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Podcast: The Modern Scholar Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Knowledge and National Security: The Final Frontier
Pub date: 2023-01-24
Mario Daniels is the DAAD Fachlektor at the Duitsland Instituut at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the history of the political economy of sharing (and denying) knowledge in the field of high technology in the international relations since World War I. Specifically, Daniels works on a political history of economic espionage in the United States and Germany in the 20th century. Moreover, he is an expert for the history of the U.S. export control systems that regulates high technology trade since 1945. Daniels has recently published articles on U.S. national security controls over foreign direct investment, the interplay of export controls with visa denials for scientists in the Cold War, and the role of secrecy and export controls in U.S. basic and applied science.
John Krige is the Kranzburg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection between science, technology and foreign policy. Since being at Georgia Tech he has expanded his interest beyond the study of intergovernmental organizations in Western Europe to include an analysis of American and European relations during the cold war. His first monograph to develop that interest was American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. He is the author of several additional books, including Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe, and the editor of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach.
Together Dr. Daniels and Dr. Krige are the co-authors of the book Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America, which is the subject of our conversation today.
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Podcast: SpyCast (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: “Code Name Blue Wren: Cuban Spy Ana Montes” - with Jim Popkin
Pub date: 2023-01-24
SummaryJim Popkin (Twitter, LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss America’s most damaging female spy, Ana Montes. Jim is a four-time recipient of the national Emmy Award for outstanding journalism.
What You’ll LearnIntelligence* How Ana Montes was recruited * Her espionage at the heart of the Department of Defense * Cuban intelligence tactics * The molehunt to capture Montes
Reflections* The “City of Spies” Washington D.C. * Betrayal and familial loss
And much, much more …
Episode NotesShe’s “the most famous spy no one’s ever heard of” – Why? Clouded by the tragedy of 9/11, Ana Montes was arrested on suspicion of espionage on September 21, 2001, as the Twin Towers smoldered. She had been spying for Cuba for almost two decades, sending secrets from the heart of American intelligence to Fidel Castro’s regime.
This week, author and investigative journalist Jim Popkin joins Andrew to discuss Ana Montes’ story framed by his new book, Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed. Jim debriefs us on how Ana was recruited, how she gathered and sent secrets, and how she ultimately the net closed in on her.
And…
The timing couldn’t be better to discuss Ana Montes’ story. Ana was released from prison two weeks ago on January 6th after serving 21 of her 25-year prison sentence. Why has Ana been released while fellow spies who caused tremendous damage, Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, remain incarcerated? Tune into this week’s episode to find out!
Quotes of the Week“There's a haunting message that the FBI found on her laptop from the Cubans that said, ‘Thank you so much for revealing [Redacted.] We are waiting for him here with open arms.’ So, she revealed the real name of someone who was headed to Cuba, the Cubans were aware of it, and, and they were, ‘waiting for him with open arms.’” – Jim Popkin.
Resources Headline Resource Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed*, J. Popkin (Hanover, 2023)
SpyCasts* “SPY@20: Spy of the Century Kim Philby” - With Curators Alexis and Andrew (2022) * America's Most Damaging Russian Spy: FBI Agent Robert Hanssen – with Lis Wiehl (2022) * Leningrad, Molehunts, and Life After the CIA – with Christopher Burgess (2021) * FBI Special Agent Pete Lapp (2019)
Beginner Resources Ana Montes: Cuban Spy, FBI History (n.d.) [Short Article] * A Timeline of US-Cuba Relations, I. Roman, HISTORY (2021) [Timeline] * The Evolving Motives of American Spies, N. Hunt, Washingtonian* (2013) [Article]
Books Castro’s Nemesis: True Stories of a Master Spy-Catcher, C. Simmons (Independently Published, 2022) * American Spies, M. Sulick (GUP, 2013) * True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, S. Carmichael (Naval Institute, 2009) * United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History*, E. M. Dominguez (Lexington, 2008)
Articles ”Ana Montes released from prison” C. Yilek, CBS News (2023) * “A DC Resident Spied for Cuba for Years. How Did She Get Away With It?” S. McNamara, Washingtonian (2023) * “Ana Montes: How Cuban spy used incredible memory to betray US” C. Bailey, BBC (2023) * “How Spy Agencies Use American Universities to Secretly Recruit Students” D. Golden, Town & Country* (2017)
Video Traitors Within - Spies Who Sold Out America, YouTube (2018) * The Two Faces of Ana: Model Employee/Cuban Spy, YouTube* (2017)
Primary Sources * The Ana Montes Press Reports (various) * Prisoner of Conscience: Ana Belen Montes is free! (2023) * Scholars or Spies? House of Representatives Hearing (2018) * Inspector General Review of Ana Montes Investigation (2005) * Ana Montes Statement During Trial (2001) * FBI Arrests DIA Employee (2001)
Wildcard Resource* “Lasso of Truth!” * Wonder Woman’s secret power has a connection to the polygraph...
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Keenan A Life Between World
Pub date: 2023-01-23
The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904–2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy―and one of its most complex. His idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia.
Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.
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Podcast: FreshEd (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: FreshEd #137 – Public Science, Social Injustice, and Resistance (Michelle Fine)
Pub date: 2023-01-22
FreshEd is on break! While we are away, we'll re-play some of our favourite episodes. Two quick notes: First, please consider donating to FreshEd to keep us open access and ad-free. https://paypal.me/FreshEdPodcastSecond, applications are open for Season 3 of FreshEd Flux. Apply now! https://freshedpodcast.com/flux/apply/--Today we look at the power of Participatory Action Research in public science. My guest is Michelle Fine. In the 1990s, she worked on a study called Changing Minds, which looked at the impact of college in a maximum-security prison. The research team comprised of women in and outside of prison.For Michelle, participatory action research plays an important role in the struggle for social justice. It not only can change legislation, impact critical social theory, and mobilize popular opinion for educational justice; but seemingly small issues can also have deep and lasting implications.Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York where she is a founding member of the Public Science Project.www.freshedpodcast.com/michellefine--Get in touch!Twitter: @FreshEdpodcastFacebook: FreshEdEmail: info@freshedpodcast.comSupport FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate
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Podcast: Nostalgia Trap (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 347: Fit Nation w/ Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Pub date: 2023-01-24
How do shifting ideas about physical fitness, health, and the body reflect larger ideological structures like nation, race, gender, and capitalism? Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is a historian of American culture and politics and associate professor of history at the New School. In this conversation, we discuss her latest book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, which tracks the evolution of fitness culture from the strongman exhibitions at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to the Peloton/home gym movement of the COVID-19 era.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 390: Eugenics and Racial Uplift w/Bridgette Robinson
Pub date: 2023-01-23
TIR speaks with historian Bridgette Robinson about eugenics and the politics of racial uplift. Bridgette Robinson is an intellectual historian who is a proud 3x HBCU graduate. She Bachelor’s in History and Master’s in European and American history from the ILLUSTRIOUS North Carolina Central University. She then went on to receive her doctorate degree from Morgan State University in African American History. She has held faculty positions at James Madison University, Towson University, Howard Community Community College, and Anne Arundel Community College. Currently, she serves as an Associate Professor of History in the Social Sciences Department at Prince George’s Community College. Her research interests are eugenics, sexual health and reproduction issues, and race uplift politics. About TIRThank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/ Also follow us on...https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcastwww.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcastwww.twitch.tv/leftflankvetshttps://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter:@TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MadamToussaint @MarcusHereMeow
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Podcast: Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can Psychoanalysis be Identical Everywhere? with Jorge Bruce (Lima)
Pub date: 2023-01-22
"Psychoanalysis is a translation of what I call in Spanish, Psicoanalisis Criollo, which means that we are hybrid cultures in Latin America, and that is something that we should never forget. We have been acting in the Psychoanalytical Society for so long as if we were living in some big modern city of the first world, like London, Paris, San Francisco, New York. I think that this ignoring or even denial of the fact that we are not there, we live in societies which are in many ways different than societies from the first world and we have to take that into account."
Episode Description: We begin with a description of ‘Psicoanalisis Criollo - hybrid psychoanalysis,’ "psychoanalysis by and for Latin Americans." We discuss the ways that the analyst’s awareness of cultural factors impacts the clinical approach to deepening the patient’s self-awareness. Jorge presents vignettes where the appearance of socially defined similarities and differences were important elements to address in the treatment. He highlights the delicacy of our culturally colored countertransferences. He shares with us details about his 28-year weekly newspaper column as well as his 330,000 Twitter followers (@jotabruce). We close with his recounting his early history and its contribution to his current interests.
Our Guest: Jorge Bruce, Licensed in Humanities and Psychology by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. DEA (Master’s degree) by the University of Paris. Member of the Peruvian Society of Psychoanalysis – SPP. Author of several books - the most recent was the new edition of Nos Habíamos Choleado Tanto: Psicoanálisis y Racismo, (2019). Weekly columnist of the national newspaper La República. Former member of the IPA Board (2 periods). Former member of the IPA Executive Committee. Former chair of CAPSA. Former chair of the scientific committee for the IPA Congress on The Infantile. Currant chair of the liaison committee of a Mexican provisional society (ING).
Jorge Bruce will be a Keynote Speaker at the July 2023 IPA Meetings in Cartagena. Further details at www.ipa.world/cartagena
Recommended Readings:
Las Partes en Conflicto: Psicoanálisis, Conflicto y Alteridad. (2015)USMP. Lima, Bruce, Jorge.
Penser/rêver 21 (2012). Le substitut de Dieu. Pp. 171 – 184. Editions de l’Olivier. Paris.
Nos habíamos choleado tanto. Psicoanálisis y Racismo, Bruce Jorge. Penguin Random House (Taurus).(2019). Lima.
Delirio Americano: Una historia cultural y política de América Latina.Granés, C. (2022). Penguin Random House (Taurus).
Psychoanalytic views from afar. Lemlij, M. (2022). Cauces.
Aires de familia: Cultura y sociedad en América Latina. Monsiváis, C. (2002).ANAGRAMA.
Freud and the Non-European. Said, E. (2003). Verso. London.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-01-14
Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect with the medieval past, we understand very little about what these digital objects really are. We rarely consider how they are made or who makes them. Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor(Stanford UP, 2022) demystifies digitization, revealing what it's like to remake medieval books online and connecting modern digital manuscripts to their much longer media history, from print, to photography, to the rise of the internet.
Examining classic late-1990s projects like Digital Scriptorium 1.0 alongside late-2010s initiatives like Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis, and world-famous projects created by the British Library, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Stanford University, and the Walters Art Museum against in-house digitizations performed in lesser-studied libraries, Bridget Whearty tells never-before-published narratives about globally important digital manuscript archives. Drawing together medieval literature, manuscript studies, digital humanities, and imaging sciences, Whearty shines a spotlight on the hidden expert labor responsible for today's revolutionary digital access to medieval culture. Ultimately, this book argues that centering the modern labor and laborers at the heart of digital cultural heritage fosters a more just and more rigorous future for medieval, manuscript, and media studies.
Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and a volunteer at Interference Archive. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive.
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Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 224: FBI and J. Edgar Hoover
Pub date: 2023-01-18
Jeremi and Zachary sit down with Beverly Gage to discuss the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and their role in American democracy.
Zachary sets the scene with his poem, "The Secret to Believing".
Beverly Gage is a professor of history at Yale University. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, a biography of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, was named a best book of 2022 by the Washington Post (Ten Best Books), The Atlantic (Ten Best Books), Publishers Weekly (Ten Best Books), The New Yorker (24 Essential Reads), The New York Times (100 Notable Books), Smithsonian (Ten Best History Books), and Barnes & Noble (Ten Best History Books). She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the 1920 Wall Street bombing.
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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Tanner Mirrlees wrestles with American militarism and the cultural projection of imperial power
Pub date: 2023-01-13
Tanner Mirrlees (https://twitter.com/tmirrlees_) is the Director of the Communication and Digital Media Studies program at Ontario Tech University. His current research focuses on topics in the political economy of communications such as war and media, work and labour in the creative and digital industries, and the links between far-right hate groups and social media platforms. He’s the author of Hearts and Mines: The US Empire's Cultural Industry, Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization, co-author of EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age, and the co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change and The Television Reader.He’s also heavily involved in efforts to spread the knowledge practices of academia beyond the university. So, he has appeared in documentaries like Theatres of War (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theatersofwar) and Myths on Screen, and contributed to putting together podcasts like Darts & Letters’ Dangers of Techno-utopianism series.Our conversation is an attempt to wrestle with American militarism, especially but not exclusively as it finds form through popular cultural representation. There is a very long history, Tanner points out, of the US Department of Defence investing in media products that project American military power in precisely the way the DoD wants. While this collusion is now loosely understood, Mirrlees’ insights point us to specific aspects of the ongoing partnership. We talk about the massive popularity of films like Captain Marvel and Top Gun: Maverick—spending a lot of time unpacking the dizzying spectacle of Maverick, one of 2022’s biggest movies: truly a dizzying spectacle, in terms of the gap between dramatized surreality and the actual logistics of military operations. Even though the DoD’s stated policy is that it will support films that give a “realistic” and “authentic” representation of the military, the reality of the representational choices in Maverick expose how tenuous that grip on reality needs to be, and in fact how films benefit financially and technology from the Pentagon when they fudge the facts firmly in their favour. There are long standing fears that drive this sort of forceful fabulation: one is the fear of a decline in the United States’ imperial power, relative to other influential states like China and Russia. Another is the threat of nuclear annihilation. The Pentagon’s particular investment in how Hollywood represents this threat has shifted over time, with Tom Cruise’s last two big action films, Mission Impossible: Fallout and Maverick, centring on this threat as a chief way to threaten the integrity and hegemony of American empire. Mirrlees offers some valuable commentary on how Maverick was written out of a time in the recent past where the threat of Iran enriching uranium was front of mind in US security planning.The United States has waged wars without end for a very long time. The country dominates in virtually every corporate sector. And yet the US empire functions in ways that are distinct from past modes of colonial imperial command. Multiple spheres interlock and interoperate in sometimes subtle ways, and while force is fundamental, cultural impact is also critical. As Tanner puts it, “no corporation sees itself as an emissary” of the US national security state, and yet they are incentivized or compelled to serve its ambitions. What are the foundations of that sort of power? How can we examine its constitutive elements?
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Podcast: LawPod (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Surviving the Climate Crisis with Professor John Barry
Pub date: 2023-01-19
In a frank and open conversation, lawpodders Zoe and Charlotte talk to Professor John Barry about climate change and climate activism in this era of climate crisis.
From advocating for combining street activism with legal activism as a means to challenge governments, corporations and institutions to criticising the neoliberal framing of the climate crisis, the wide-ranging conversation calls for fundamental change in all parts of our society. It is a clarion call to action for academics, students and the wider community.
Professor John Barry - https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/john-barry
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Zoe Cleland
Charlotte Gourley
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Podcast: Philosophy in the Real
Episode: The Idea of the University (w/ David McKerracher, Ann Snelgrove of Theory Underground)
Pub date: 2023-01-13
In this discussion, David, Ann and I discuss the importance of thinking The Idea of the University in the contemporary neoliberal and digitised political-economic landscape. The Idea of the University is a book by existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers, and written to serve an educational reconstruction project in post-World War II Germany. Now we discuss this book in our historical context, but with the aim the same: to think the Idea of the University as such.
Theory Underground's new course "The Idea of the University" starts January 14th 2023, learn more and sign up here!: https://theory-underground.com/courses/tiotu
*Bonus: if you are signed up for the Science of Logic course and/or if you want to sign up for the Science of Logic course (starting January 16th 2023) you will get a Tier upgrade if you also attend The Idea of the University (I will be taking the course as well).
Bryan, Ann, and David talking about the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNHemcJnLOU&t=3089s
The Idea of the University audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysRXTmE5FsU
The post about critique, theory, and ideology: https://theory-underground.com/critique-theory-and-ideology/
New Philosophy Portal course focused on Hegel's Science of Logic starts January 16th 2023: https://philosophyportal.online/science-of-logic
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Podcast: Historias Podcast
Episode: Kevin Young on resource nationalism in Bolivia
Pub date: 2023-01-15
Kevin Young traces the history of Bolivian struggles over mineral and hydrocarbon resources, highlighting the complex legacies of Bolivia’s 1952 revolution.His work also revolves around the various economic projects that party officials, political party leaders, activists, urban factory workers, university students, and mine workers proposed to address a key question for Bolivians: How to overcome economic dependency and underdevelopment?To make sense of these debates, Young uses the term resource nationalism, which he will explain in detail in this interview.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
Pub date: 2023-01-18
Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
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Podcast: In Common (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 112: Reimagining narratives of death and extinction with Dr. Sarah Bezan
Pub date: 2023-01-16
In this episode, Hita speaks with Dr. Sarah Bezan who is a scholar of environmental humanities currently employed as a Lecturer in Literature and the Environment at the Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork in Ireland. Previously she was a post-doctoral Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity in The University of York in the United Kingdom. In this conversation, they chat about how participating in a paleo dig and uncovering a Mosasaur skeleton sparked in her a curiosity that led to her current engagement with making sense of extinction. They speak about artistic representations of extinct animals such as Harri Kallio’s representations of the dodo bird on an island in Mauritius or Mark Dion’s Ichthyosaur installation, and how they manipulate imaginaries surrounding the temporal and spatial boundaries of the extinct species. In describing these imaginaries, they discuss the idea of animal atopias, a term she coined to refer to those placeless places surrounding extinction, where the animal exists not on a spatially defined space but a constructed one, evoking a nostalgia for what once was. They discuss about Sarah’s experiences on the Galapagos Islands where she studied the taxidermic specimen of Lonesome George, the last representative of the Pinta island tortoises and her observation that the extinct body is essentially an exploded one raising questions about what it means to be the last representative of a species and the responsibility that death places upon such individuals. They reflect upon how practices of taxidermy and museum curatorship are essentially performative, designed to evoke a specific emotion or knowledge, rendering them hyper visible, while subsuming others. They discuss de-extinction projects such as the Jurassic World like attempts at reviving the woolly mammoth or even theoretical ideas of re-creating Neanderthals as proposed by George Church are all ways in which we attempt to revive prehistoric fantasies of the human – a fantasy nevertheless that is separate from the idea of the modern human. The conversation concludes with some reflections on interdisciplinary research and the responsibility that early career scholars are placed with when attempting to straddle multiple schools of thought.
Sarah’s personal website: https://www.sarahbezan.com/
Some of the references we cite during the conversation are listed below:
- “Dodo Birds and the Anthropogenic Wonderlands of Harri Kallio.” Parallax, 25, no. 4, 2019: 427-445. (To be reprinted as a foreword to Harri Kallio, The Dodo and Mauritius Island: Imaginary Encounters*, 2nd Edition. Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2023).
- “The Endling Taxidermy of Lonesome George: Iconographies of Extinction at the End of the Line.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, vol. 27, no. 2, 2019, pp. 211-238. Co-Edited by Sarah Bezan and Susan McHugh.
- “A Darwinism of the Muck and Mire: Decomposing Eco- and Zoopoetics in Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott’s decomp.” In Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics. Ed. Roland Borgards, Catrin Gersdof, Frederike Middelhoff, and Sebastian Schönbeck. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag “Cultural Animal Studies Series,” 2019, 241-253.
- Animal Remains. Co-edited by Sarah Bezan and Robert McKay. Routledge Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Series. London: Routledge, 2022.
- “Taxidermic Forms and Fictions.” A special issue of Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, 27, no. 2, 2019, pp. 131-138. Co-Edited by Sarah Bezan and Susan McHugh, Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Heise, Ursula K. Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Jørgensen, Dolly. “Endling, the Power of the Last in an Extinction-Prone World.” Environmental Philosophy 14, no. 1 (2017): 119–38.
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Podcast: Serpentine Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: REWORLDING: Reimagining
Pub date: 2023-01-18
Can fiction remake reality? In the first episode of REWORLDING, we hear from artists, musicians and writers who use dreaming and imagination to remake worlds.
This episode features Tai Shani, Irenosen Okojie reading 'Black Planetarium', Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, the Holorama soundscape by Perez & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster from Alienarium 5, Kostas Stasinopoulos (Associate Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine), and The Whole Earth Chanting by Libby Heaney & Nabihah Iqbal.
You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.
Series Credits
Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.
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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Proud Boys on trial
Pub date: 2023-01-17
This week, five leaders of the violent far-right group Proud Boys are on trial in Washington D.C., charged with seditious conspiracy for conspiring to overthrow the government, in the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Andy Campbell is the author of We Are Proud Boys and reports on extremism as a Senior Editor at HuffPost. He’s been covering this story from the courtroom. And he’s with us today to explain how the case could reveal the inner-workings of the group, their connections with Republicans, and how the American government has responded to the threat extremist groups pose to democracy.
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Podcast: Hotel Bar Sessions (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionary Mathematics (with Justin Joque)
Pub date: 2023-01-06
The HBS hosts chat with Justin Joque about how we might get Thomas Bayes' robot boot off our necks.
Why does Netflix ask you to pick what movies you like when you first sign on in order to recommend other movies and shows to you? How does Google know what search results are most relevant? Why does it seem as if every tech company wants to collect as much data as they can get from you? It turns out that all of this is because of a shift in the theoretical and mathematical approach to probability.
Bayesian statistics, the primary model used by machine learning systems, currently dominates almost everything about our lives: investing, sales at stores, political predictions, and, increasingly, what we think we know about the world. How did the "Bayesian revolution" come about? And how did come to dominate? And, perhaps more importantly, is this the best mathematical/statistical model available to us? Or is there another, more "revolutionary," mathematics out there?
This week we are joined by Justin Joque, visualization librarian at University of Michigan who writes at the intersection of philosophy and technology. He is the author Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar and, most recently, Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Shedding Light on Google's Dark Side
Pub date: 2023-01-08
Imagine a company that hides who it works with and where billions of dollars flow around the world. That earns its profits financing a global network containing piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation, even doing business with figures sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, including Russian companies that may access and store data about people browsing websites and apps in Ukraine, potentially opening a mechanism for Russian intelligence to target individuals there. A company that tells the public that it doesn’t make money from guns that nevertheless does business with the maker of the AR-15, the weapon used in so many horrific mass killings, including the recent massacre of teachers and students in Uvalde, Texas.
Is this some organized crime syndicate or shady offshore shell company? No, it’s Google, one of the biggest and most prominent technology companies on the planet.
This episode features a conversation with Craig Silverman, a journalist who has spent years uncovering fraud in the opaque world of digital advertising and media manipulation. With his colleagues at ProPublica, in a recent series of articles Silverman employed a unique investigative approach to uncover just exactly how Google operates in a shadowy realm of deceit and disinformation.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: China's Dream of a Red Railway: Technicians & Industrial Power, 1945-1976 with Benjamin Kletzer
Pub date: 2023-01-09
Railroads unite. Across time and space the railroad has tied together diverse peoples and places with literal and figurative bonds. An outstanding example of this historical process is the transfer and elaboration of a railroad technocracy from origins in the United States to efflorescence in the People’s Republic of China. In his dissertation project, Benjamin Kletzer, PhD candidate in modern Chinese history at the University of California at San Diego, explores the post-WWII history of the China national railway, its embrace of technocratic management, it relationship to the Chinese Communist Party, and its technical and organizational roots in the Pennsylvania Railroad. Using Hagley Library collections, Kletzer traces the story of a cohort of Chinese engineers who studied in the United States, funded in part by the U.S. military, and transferred their newly acquired expertise to the developing railway system in China. This cohort had a unique historical opportunity to shape Chinese railways due to the destruction of rails, rolling stock, and other railroad infrastructure during recurrent periods of instability: WWII, civil war, Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. Over generations, the Chinese railway technocracy has gained momentum, and lead the development of heavy industrial capacity in the country. Today, the Chinese are world leaders in railroad technology and construction, and no longer need to borrow from international peers. This twenty-first century success builds upon deeper twentieth-century foundations.In support of his research, Kletzer received funding from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library. For more information and more Hagley History Hangouts, please visit hagley.org.
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Podcast: In Common (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Science and Practice #5: Radical Alternatives to Development with Ashish Kothari
Pub date: 2023-01-11
In this episode, Hita and Michael speak with noted Indian environmentalist Ashish Kothari, who works at the interface between development and environment and focuses particularly on radical alternatives to development discourses. Ashish is a familiar name to people working in the Indian environmental context as well as those who engage with degrowth, not least because of his strong involvement in grassroots environmental movements such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan in the country. He is one of founders of Kalpavriksh, a Non-Profit Organisation in India which deals with environmental and development issues. In addition, he wears many other hats – as an academic and teacher, as a member of international steering committees such as those of the World Commission on Protected Areas or the Convention on Biodiversity Alliance. He has also worked as a member of several Government of India committees including those responsible for assessing India’s Forest Rights Act and drafting the country’s National Wildlife Action Plan and Biodiversity Act. He is also the coordinator of Vikalp Sangam, a platform that brings together organisations and individuals who work on development alternatives across India. He is also one of the editors of the book Pluriverse: a post development dictionary.
In our conversation Ashish reflects upon the influence of his early childhood experiences with environmental activism – particularly protests against the shooting of the Great Indian Bustard by Saudi Arabian Princes and against tree felling in the Delhi Ridge Forest upon his engagement with environmental conservation. He asks the pertinent question: can wildlife conservation happen at the cost of human rights? We speak about the eternal debate of development vs the environment, and his conviction that the idea of development per se itself is deeply flawed. Instead, he says, what we need are different notions of well-being emerging from different parts of the world serving to replace the idea of development. We spoke about the dangers of viewing community led action as yet another panacea but also recognising the inherent strength present within them. We discuss moving beyond dichotomies of community vs government instead looking towards alternatives where we can enable communities to regain their balance in different ways. We reflect upon the importance of building and being part of networks that both keep you going but also stand ready to continue in your place, and how that very act of working together poses further challenges if one were to consider identity building, branding or even issues of satisfying personal egos. We end with some reflection on Ashish’s conceptualization of the term Eco Swarajya and the challenges associated with misappropriation of culturally or spiritually loaded terms.
Some of the initiatives that Ashish mentions during this interview are:
Vikalp Sangam: https://vikalpsangam.org/
Kalpavriksh: https://kalpavriksh.org/
Radical Ecological Democracy: https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/
Global Tapestry of Alternatives: https://www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org/
Pluriverse: a post development dictionary: https://www.ehu.eus/documents/6902252/12061123/Ashish+Kothari+et+al-Pluriverse+A+Post-Development+Dictionary-2019.pdf/c9f05ea0-d2e7-8874-d91c-09d11a4578a2
Ashish’s website and blog: https://ashishkothari.in/ ; https://ashishkothari51.blogspot.com/
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Podcast: People Fixing the World (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bringing dead languages back to life
Pub date: 2023-01-10
Australia used to be one of the most linguistically diverse places, with over 200 languages. Today, many of Australia’s indigenous languages are considered “highly endangered”. Inspired by his native language, Hebrew, Ghil’ad Zuckermann is a linguistics professor who is on a mission to revive Australia’s dead and endangered languages, painstakingly piecing them back together from historical documents. We speak to Ghil’ad and Shania Richards from the Barngarla community, whose language is being brought back from the brink. Presenter: Myra AnubiReporter/producer: Josephine CasserlyProducers: Claire Bates & Craig LangranSeries producer: Tom CollsSound mix: Annie GardinerEditor: Penny MurphyEmail: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.ukImage: Shania Richards from the Barngarla community
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Podcast: The Technically Human Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Diversity Challenge: Race, gender, and how the histories of medicine and technology got made
Pub date: 2023-01-13
In this week's “22 Lessons on Ethics and Technology" special series, I sit down with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds to talk about how race and gender have shaped the histories of science, medicine, and technological development. We explore the divisions between investigations of gender within scientific and technological inquiry, and race within these same fields. How can an intersectional approach challenge our science and technologies to better serve, and include, a broader diversity of people? How have our concepts of science and technology, and our assumptions about what they can and should do, been shaped by exclusions? How can those trained and working in the Humanities can learn from those trained in and working in the Sciences and Technology fields, and vice-versa? How does an understanding of the history of ideas, and the people and forces that have shaped them, inform our ability to build, innovate, and create work cultures that are more ethical and equitable?
Professor Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. She was the first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University (2005-2008). From 2008-2013 she served as Dean of Harvard College and Chair of the Department of History of Science (2017-2022). Professor Hammonds’ areas of research include the histories of science, medicine and public health in the United States; race, gender and sexuality in science studies; feminist theory and African American history. She has published articles on the history of disease, race and science, African American feminism, African-American women and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS; analyses of gender and race in science, medicine and public health and the history of health disparities in the U.S.. Professor Hammonds’ current work focuses on the history of the intersection of scientific, medical and socio-political concepts of race in the United States. She is currently director of the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard.
Prof. Hammonds holds a B.S. in physics from Spelman College, a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from Ga. Tech and an SM in Physics from MIT. She earned the PhD in the history of science from Harvard University. She served as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2003-2005), a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, a Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Visiting Professor at UCLA and at Hampshire College. Professor Hammonds was named a Fellow of the Association of Women in Science (AWIS) in 2008. She served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman and Bennett Colleges and currently on the Board of the Arcus Foundation, and the Board of Trustees of Bates College.
In 2010, she was appointed to President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and in 2014 to the President’s Advisory Committee on Excellence in Higher Education for African Americans. She served two terms as a member of the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), the congressionally mandated oversight committee of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Advisory Committee of the EHR directorate of the NSF, and the Advisory Committee on the Merit Review Process of the NSF. Professor Hammonds is the current vice president/president-elect of the History of Science Society.
At Harvard, she served on the President’s Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery; the Faculty Executive Committee of the Peabody Museum and she chaired the University-wide Steering Committee on Human Remains in the Harvard Museum Collections. She also works on projects to increase the participation of men and women of color in STEM fields. Prof. Hammonds is the co-author of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released report (December 9, 2021) Transforming Technologies: Women of Color in Tech. She is a member of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) of the NAS and the NAS Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds honorary degrees from Spelman College and Bates College. For the academic year 2022-2023, Prof. Hammonds is the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at Spelman College.
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Martha Nussbaum: Why Justice for Animals Means Eliminating the Word “Pet” and Perhaps Even Giving Citizenship to Other Species
Pub date: 2023-01-04
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Martha Nussbaum, author of Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.
Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She gave the 2016 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities and won the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The 2018 Berggruen Prize in Philosophy and Culture, and the 2020 Holberg Prize. These three prizes are regarded as the most prestigious awards available in fields not eligible for a Nobel. She has written more than twenty-two books, including Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions; Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice; Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities; and The Monarchy of Fear.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Amílcar Cabral
Pub date: 2023-01-06
The anti-colonial leader killed 50 years ago (20th January) was a poet, influenced by Marxism and led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. António Tomás, José Lingna Nafafé and New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza join Rana Mitter to explore his life, thinking and legacy.José Lingna Nafafé is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the University of Bristol. His work concentrates on the Black Atlantic abolitionist movement in the 17th Century and the Lusophone Atlantic African diaspora.Alex Reza is a writer and lecturer in comparative literatures and cultures working in French, Portuguese and English at the University of Bristol. She is also a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker.António Tomás is the author of several publications in Portuguese and English, namely Amílcar Cabral, the Life of a Reluctant Nationalist (2021) and In the skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (2022). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, at the University of Johannesburg.Producer: Ruth WattsYou might be interested in other Free Thinking discussions exploring Black History gathered into a collection on the programme website and all available to listen on BBC Sounds and to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbpThey include a conversation about the writing of Aimé Césaire and the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nmxfA discussion of Frantz Fanon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tdtn
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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Climate or Corruption? - Spencer Roberts, The Intercept
Pub date: 2023-01-05
What happens when corrupt incentive structures and incorrect ecological assumptions crash into each other? A billion crabs vanish, and everyone blames it on the nebulous effects of a changing climate. Everyone, that is, except for Spencer Roberts - freelance journalist with bylines at the Intercept, Jacobin, Nautlius, and The New Republic. Roberts started looking into the hyperbolic headlines and discovered a predictable mess of corrupt incentive structures, questionable ecological practices, and a bottomless appetite for exploiting ever-deeper, colder waters. We talk greenwashing, corrupt incentives, government as corporation, nuclear power, and what to do about everything that's wrong.
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Podcast: Conter Radio (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Conter International: Degrowth - A Middle Class Revolt? w/Matt Huber
Pub date: 2023-01-05
On this edition of Conter International, Alice and Ben talk to Matt Huber professor of geography at Syracuse University and author of 'Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet'.They discuss the professional and managerial basis for much 'degrowth' rhetoric, and query what a working class and socialist environmental politics might look like.
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Podcast: KPFA - Behind the News (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Rumbles on the right, AI hype
Pub date: 2022-12-22
Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles and Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Jenny L. Davis, "How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things" (MIT Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-12-20
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things(MIT Press, 2020), offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies—but, Jenny L. Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, which offers both a vocabulary and necessary critical perspective for affordance analyses.
The mechanisms and conditions framework shifts the question from what objects afford to how objects afford, for whom, and under what circumstances. Davis shows that through this framework, analyses can account for the power and politics of technological artifacts. She situates the framework within a critical approach that views technology as materialized action. She explains how request, demand, encourage, discourage, refuse, and allow are mechanisms of affordance, and shows how these mechanisms take shape through variable conditions—perception, dexterity, and cultural and institutional legitimacy.
Putting the framework into action, Davis identifies existing methodological approaches that complement it, including critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA), app feature analysis, and adversarial design. In today's rapidly changing sociotechnical landscape, the stakes of affordance analyses are high. Davis's mechanisms and conditions framework offers a timely theoretical reboot, providing tools for the crucial tasks of both analysis and design.
Jenny L. Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology at Australian National University.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu.
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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Transcending Capitalism: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism
Pub date: 2023-01-03
Professor of Philosophy and author, Graham Priest, joins Breht to discuss his latest book Capitalism - it's Nature and Replacement: Buddhist and Marxist Insights.
Together, they discuss the problems of capitalism, the utter necessity of its transcendence, what Marxism can offer Buddhism, what Buddhism can offer Marxism, and how insights from both traditions can compliment and strengthen one another in the fight against instutionalized greed, hate, and delusion (aka capitalism, imperialism, and ideology)!
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage)
Pub date: 2022-12-19
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI. In her authoritative new biography, G-Man, Yale historian Beverly Gage brings Hoover to life, uncovering the all-too-human man who played such an outsized role in twentieth-century U.S. political history. Gage's decade of research provides fascinating insights into the troubles that impinged on Hoover's childhood; his formative time in a white supremacist, Southern fraternity at George Washington University, Kappa Alpha; his early years in what was then the Bureau of Investigation and eventual rise to running it; Hoover's personal life and sexuality, including his longterm relationship with Clyde Tolson; and the transformation of the FBI across the 1930s and 1940s, and the ways it drew Hoover into a number of controversies that followed, from the Kennedy assassination to COINTELPRO and the FBI's attacks on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sources:
Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century(Viking, 2022)
Michael Kazin, "J. Edgar Hoover’s Long Shadow," New Republic, Dec 9, 2022
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (1835, 2002)
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Podcast: Nostalgia Trap (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 346: Uncomfortable Television w/ Hunter Hargraves
Pub date: 2022-12-20
What makes disturbing, graphic shows like CSI and Intervention so morbidly appealing? How does our desire for uncomfortable entertainment reflect a larger normalization of fear, precarity, and violence in our everyday reality? Hunter Hargraves is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. His new book, Uncomfortable Television (Duke University Press, 2023), examines how 21st century television invites viewers to find pleasure in discomfort, training us to survive in a neoliberal world that’s just one cringe experience after another.
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Podcast: RadicalxChange Replayed (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Communicating Democratic Ideals Through Art | Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner
Pub date: 2022-12-19
In this exciting and inspiring talk, Professors Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner discuss the great potential art holds in creating shifts in the public consciousness through examples of historical art movements, art’s impact on technology and society at large, and its effective way of communicating democratic ideals.
They also cover the background and process behind Fred's latest book "Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America", a collaboration with notable photographer Mary Beth Meehan.
This episode was originally produced for the 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.
Speakers
Charlotte Kent
Charlotte Kent, PhD (@Lucy2Scribbles) is the Assistant Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University and an arts writer. Her work theorizes how visual and linguistic rhetorical devices constrain what we see by exploring their historical and political context. Her current research investigates the absurd in contemporary art and speculative design. She writes for academic journals (Word and Image, Leonardo, Journal of Visual Culture, etc) and general audience magazines (Art Review, BOMB, Wired, among others), with a monthly panel and column on Art and Technology for The Brooklyn Rail, where she is also an Editor-at-Large. Prior to academia, she developed education for the eyecare industry and managed an art school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center, St. John’s College, and Philips Academy Andover. She currently lives in New York City.
Fred Turner
Fred Turner (@fturner) is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of five books: Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (with Mary Beth Meehan); L’Usage de L’Art dans la Silicon Valley; The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties; From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism; and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Before coming to Stanford, he taught Communication at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He also worked for ten years as a journalist. He has written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Harper’s.
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Podcast: Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ian Smith on Black Shakespeare
Pub date: 2023-01-03
In his new book, Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race, Dr. Ian Smith of Lafayette College argues that Shakespeare’s plays engage with questions of race and early modern encounters between Africans and Europeans in ways that the discipline of Shakespeare studies have been hesitant to acknowledge. Ian Smith returns to the podcast and talks with Barbara Bogaev about how we can develop our “racial literacy” and read race in plays like Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet. Ian Smith's Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race is out now from Cambridge University Press.From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published December 20, 2022. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode was produced by Matt Frassica. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits a transcript of every episode, available at folger.edu. We had technical help from Jimmy Dixon at 64 Sound in Los Angeles, and Jenna McClellan at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California. Final mixing services provided by Clean Cuts at Three Seas, Inc.
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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #188 - The Supreme Value of Literary Criticism: A Dialogue with Merve Emre
Pub date: 2022-12-19
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Merve Emre about literary criticism and how to engage with literature. They discuss what literary criticism is and why it is important. They talk about different ways of reading, author’s intent, and the contours of literary genre. They also discuss various forms of interpretation, themes of “becoming” in the philosophy of Nietzsche and writing of Mieko Kawakami, and many more topics.
Merve Emre is a professor of literature at Oxford University, Critic at The New Yorker, and the Shaprio-Silverberg Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. She has her BA from Harvard University and her PhD from Yale University. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. She is the author of numerous books including Paraliterary and The Personality Brokers. You can find her work at her website. Twitter: @mervatim
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Podcast: Writers Festival Radio (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S5 E14: The Pursuit of Urban Utopias with John Lorinc
Pub date: 2022-12-15
Steven W, Beattie sits down with renowned author and journalist John Lorinc to discuss his Balsillie Prize-winning book Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias.Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year.But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities ? one defined by utopian ideologies, architectural visions, and technological fantasies.Smart streetlights, water and air quality tracking, autonomous vehicles: with examples from all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, and Chicago, Dream States unpacks the world of smart city tech, but also situates this important shift in city-building into a broader story about why we still dream about perfect places.The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children’s literacy initiatives.SUBSCRIBE:https://writersfestival.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8c60faf808d54738144cc85de&id=d2443cdbd3DONATIONS:https://writersfestival.org/about/donations
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Referendums and Teletubbies
Pub date: 2022-12-10
Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.We go to Quebec in 1995 when voters went to the polls to decide whether the province should declare independence from Canada.Tim Marshall, the author of The Power of Geography and presenter of the World Service podcast, The Compass, explores other referendums which have taken place in recent history.Plus the creation of children's TV series Teletubbies in 1994. It became a global hit.(Photo: Voters gather in the streets of Barcelona. Credit: Marco Panzetti/NurPhoto Getty Images)Contributors: Jean-François Lisée and Stephane Dion - on the Quebec referendumPaul Kelly - Australian political correspondent Praveen Jain - Indian photojournalistPatricia da Silva - Jean Charles de Menezes' cousin Anne Wood- creator of Teletubbies
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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
Pub date: 2022-12-08
When billionaires want to make a positive difference in the world, many of them turn to philanthropy. Which is fine in principle, but this week we're asking if giving away money via huge global philanthropic foundations is really an unalloyed good.
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Podcast: Trade Talks (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 173: Did Britain’s slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?
Pub date: 2022-12-08
New research reveals how Britain’s economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-12-08
Autumn Womack is a professor of English and of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her new book, The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2022), addresses scholars and readers interested in literary studies, visual culture, and transformative justice in modern America. The book also transcends these areas to speak to readers in science & technology studies, in history of technology, or broadly interested in science justice.
The premise of the book is that America was living through two collective experiments as it suffered the aftermath of the failed Reconstruction following the US Civil War. The first was the experiment of Black freedom and the second was the experiment of new technologies to document (Black) life at a time when standards for how to use and to read their outputs were excitingly wide-open. In the hands of Black cultural producers, the yield of these technologies was “undisciplined data,” which pointed to the possibility of true freedom not mere social reform as defined by White progressives.
Readers follow writer Zora Neale Hurston working with anthropological film, WEB Dubois working with the social survey as a foundation for his urban sociology as well as for his literary novels, and other historical actors who were using documentary technologies to demonstrate the impossibility of capturing the fullness of Black sociality with those very technologies. Producing “undisciplined data,” Womack suggests, is not only a practice of the past, but the hope for greater justice in the present day.
This interview was a collaborative effort among Professor Laura Stark and graduate students at Vanderbilt University in the seminar “Science & Technology Studies.” Please email Laura with any feedback on the interview or questions about how to design collaborative interview projects for the classroom. Email: laura.stark@vanderbilt.edu.
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Episode: Crafting with Ursula: Neil Gaiman on Word Magic & The Power of Telling Stories
Pub date: 2022-12-10
Who better to talk about the unique power of telling stories than one of our great contemporary storytellers, Neil Gaiman? One deep way Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin are kindred spirits is how they both share an abiding interest in the strange, uncanny relationship between truth and fiction, truth and myth, the imagination and the real, the fantastic and reality, and the ways we seem hardwired, from childhood onward, to be adept at finding the enduring truths within stories that others have “made up.” Today’s conversation, as the final one in the Crafting with Ursula series, serves a double purpose. Yes, we do a deep dive into word magic, into the power and purpose of creating and telling stories, into the spells they weave and why. But we also celebrate Le Guin, the intelligence and music of her words, her spells, by having Neil Gaiman, one of the most mellifluous and recognizable narrative voices today, read excerpts of Le Guin’s work for us, from A Wizard of Earthsea to The Lathe of Heaven to Always Coming Home.
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Podcast: PUSHBACK Talks (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Architects for Public Good
Pub date: 2022-12-08
The neoliberal prioritization of profit in the development of cities is drastically impacting the appearance and function of cities worldwide. Social and government housing providers are told to follow the lead of private housing providers, taking away the government's ability to innovate and push the envelope in the housing space. At the same time, in some countries, private developers rely on commercial and retail space in apartment buildings being rented out to stable, high-earning tenants like banks and corporations, limiting cities' potential for growth and space optimization.
For decades, more than 50% of architects worked for the public sector, but today that's down to just 0.2%. Where did all the architects go? How can we balance the urgent need for more housing with the need for more intentionally designed, community-oriented spaces? How can architects help us create the future we want to see?
Fredrik & Leilani sit down with architect, strategic and philosophical designer at Dark Matter Labs, and author of REopening of a city, Jenny Grettve, and Finn Williams, city architect of Malmö and co-founder of Public Practice to discuss the role of architects in designing cities that improve our quality of life.
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Podcast: Climate Change and Happiness (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Season 2, Episode 8: Climate Feelings in East and West Africa with Charles Ogunbode
Pub date: 2022-12-09
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Season 2, Episode 8: Climate Feelings in East and West Africa with Charles OgunbodePanu and Thomas were joined by Charles Ogunbode, a psychology researcher at the University of Nottingham in the UK, in a dialogue about anxiety and other eco-emotions around the world. Charles shared insights from his widely reported paper “Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries.” His study found that while climate anxiety is hurting people’s mental health around the world, from Brazil to Uganda, Portugal to the Philippines, people’s ability to speak out and take action is curtailed by lack of free speech and ability to demonstrate in many countries. Charles described his early interest in wildlife protection in Nigeria and his formative discoveries of research on conservation psychology and unconscious aspects of emotions like the melancholy that we can feel in relation to widespread destruction of the natural world. He described how his current projects create nuanced portraits of how Africans perceive the harms posed by climate change that move beyond simplistic stereotypes. Thomas, Panu and Charles reflected on unique environmental emotions and coping responses of citizens of East and West Africa that, given their shared colonial histories, feature both resignation about climate threats and also a deep resilience. Listen in and join us!
Links* Charles Ogunbode * Media on Charles’ research: Study: Climate anxiety is spreading all over the planet * Charles Ogunbode, et al. 2022 “Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries.” * The MECCA project: Targeting Mental Models of Climate Change Risk to facilitate Climate Action * Psychological Adaptation to Climate Change Risks among Adolescents and Young Adults in the Pacific Small Island Developing States * Charles reports he is an Associate Editor of the new journal, Global Environmental Psychology and is co-editing a special issue of the journal on “Living with Environmental Change” with Susan Clayton. (Hear from Susan in Season 1, Episode 6: “Environmental Identity and “Climate Flow”).
TranscriptTranscript edited for clarity and brevity.
Thomas Doherty: Please support the Climate Change and Happiness Podcast. See the donate page at climatechangeandhappiness.com.
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Introduction voice: Welcome to Climate Change and Happiness, an international podcast that explores the personal side of climate change. Your feelings, what the crisis means to you, and how to cope and thrive. And now, your hosts, Thomas Doherty and Panu Pihkala.
Thomas Doherty: Well, hello, I'm Thomas Doherty.
Panu Pihkala: And I am Panu Pihkala.
Doherty: And welcome to Climate Change and Happiness. Our podcast. This is a show for people around the globe who are thinking and feeling deeply about the personal side of climate change and other environmental issues. We focus on our personal emotions, our feelings, our private lives. And today, we're really happy to have a guest with us.
Charles Ogunbode: Hello, I'm Charles Ogunbode. I'm an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Nottingham, in the UK. And it's really nice to join you today on the podcast.
Doherty: And we're so happy to have Charles. Charles has been very active as a researcher, really expanding our understanding of climate emotions around the world. And I know Charles, you've been focused also on your own family and your own life. Panu, do you want to get us started today on our global conversation?
Pihkala: Definitely. And warmly welcome Charles also, on my behalf. We have met online talking about young people and climate anxiety. But it's really great to have a more relaxed and free flowing opportunity for discussions. And there [are] also links. I'm from Finland, as many listeners know. And Charles has been leading really international research where one of the countries has been Finland. Not me, but my colleagues have been involved in that.
I know, Charles, a bit about your history. That you've been in many places. So would you like to get us started by telling a bit about your personal and professional journey?
Ogunbode: Yes, thank you. Thank you, Panu. So basically, my background didn't really begin in psychology. I did a degree in wildlife management. Because when I was younger, I got interested in conservation. And I actually wanted to become a conservationist. So in the course of my degree, I went and did a whole bunch of sub practical training things and different nature reserves and national parks and things like that in Nigeria. And in the process of doing this experience, gaining activities, I soon figured out that a lot of the issues were not to do with the actual sub scientific or ecological aspects of the problem. A lot of the issues were to do with people. So it was, you know, conflicts between park rangers and local communities. You know, a lot of it was mistrust between the different parties involved. People not being very clear about what the purpose of conservation activities were, and things like that.
So I thought, okay, I'm really interested in doing something around the human side. And incidentally, just towards the end of my undergrad degree, I just happened to stumble on a book, titled Conservation Psychology. Which was written by Susan Clayton and Gene Meyers. It was given to me as a present, just random. And I read this book. And I thought this is exactly what I want to be doing. So that was the sort of start on this. I signed up to do a master's program in psychology. And carried on sort of looking into things that probe environmental behavior. And things like that. And that's basically developed into what I do now.
But the more sort of recent history of what's brought me to sort of emotions and well being and things. Which has become quite a big focus on my work now. That kind of happened a few years ago. [The] last three, four years. Maybe three years. When we had our first child, my wife had eco anxiety. Climate anxiety. We lived in Norway at the time. And I was already working on climate change at this point. And I was doing work mainly around trying to encourage people to be more concerned about climate change. Trying to get people more engaged. And basically, my outlook at the time was very much focused on risk perception models. Trying to be like, you know, if people really understood the risks posed by climate change, then they will be a motivator to act. That was, you know, in summary, my driving motivation.
But then when I saw my wife go through this phase where, you know, she was consuming lots of information about climate changes on social media and getting involved in loads of things. And she was just in a really sort of anxious state about this. And we had this child. And, you know, I think it's a combination of that particular phase in our lives. And also, you know, this big lumination thing. We just brought a child into this world. And, you know, there are all these things. And it was just really stressful. And that made me start to think a bit differently about what it means to be emotionally engaged with, you know, climate change and the ecological crisis in general. And it was around this time as well that, you know, the Friday's for Future and, you know, Extinction Rebellion. All that stuff really take[s] off. And, of course, climate anxiety as a concept kind of entered the public sort of mainstream consciousness.
So I would say, actually I really value that period in my life, because I think it made me move from a more, in hindsight, a mechanistic understanding of what emotions are in relation to the climate crisis. To where I am now where I like to think, well, one of the things I'm advocating at the minute is how we need to have this ethic of care around how we communicate about climate change. And try to motivate people. And things like that. It's not enough to just be well, let's just find a button that's going to make people engaged and act. We also have to think. We've got to have some responsibility as well. For these forces, and these reactions that we're trying to generate with people. So that's, in short.
Pihkala: Yeah, thanks so much, Charles. That's very rich. And I really value this openness with which you are describing that journey. And this already connects to a huge number of issues we have been touching on [in] this podcast. There's the so-called ecological identity or environmental identity. And very interesting to hear about this early history of yours. And I guess for many people, it goes like this. That there's a place and an ecosystem. And that's happening. And also the sort of better paradigm than “we need more information”.
Ogunbode: Yes.
Pihkala: That happened for me, also. It was really eye-opening to then start looking at another way. And the works of Renée Lertzman and Ro Randall and some others were very influential for me in that regard. So there's some points that I can also personally connect with here.
Ogunbode: And actually to add to that someone else whose work was also very critical in that transition for me was Renée Lertzman. The first sort outside of my social cognition paradigm and where I am normally. The first piece of work I read that took me. Kind of started to develop an understanding of emotions was her book, Environmental Melancholia. I think it was. That was a really good book for me to kind of get started on this new direction.
Doherty: This is great. Yeah. I'm really enjoying our conversation. And there are so many commonalities. Panu and I both have done outdoor work in the past. And my background doing outdoor therapy and river guiding. And I also considered going into wildlife conservation. And then actually had a turning point where there was study environmental studies or psychology. So I think that's common for a lot of the therapists that I've worked with. That they've had these backgrounds.
And just the listeners. I think the listeners can identify with all of this process that we're talking about. Going from the intellectual to the emotional. And psychologists in particular are very intellectual type species. And so really moving to the emotional and the depth. More depth psychology. And more the psychoanalytic archetypal directions like Renee and other thinkers. And yeah, the insight of we need to take care of people, not just push levers and buttons in a behaviorist kind of way to get people to act. But there is this compassion for us all. As I say climate hostages because we're all kind of stuck in many ways in this area.
Do we want to go into more of the international and what we're? It seems like one of the many things you're doing, Charles, is really illustrating that eco anxiety and feelings about — even to step back and say everyone has feelings about nature. And the environment. And their connections. And their identity. And you've been studying this in different countries outside of the countries that are often listed in the studies. The Finlands and the US and the UK and Canada. Would you want to talk a bit about what you've been learning in your research the last few years?
Ogunbode: Yes. That's been a really interesting journey as well. And I think one of the reasons why kind of, it's got this resonance for me. I'm very driven to bring in, you know, the voices of the people we hear less about in this area. Especially to do with emotions and things. So there are a couple of things that have kind of dovetailed in that work to make me feel really invested in it. So the first part is before I started to think about emotions, in this way, I've always had this pet peeve about the concept of climate literacy. So there's been a lot of work out there where they rank countries around the world talking about, you know, what proportion of the population understand what climate change is. So usually, it's you know, they're familiar with the term as a technical term. Do they understand that it's caused by humans? Do they understand it? Very much that's the sort of technoscientific construct of climate change. And it's like, you know, how many people around the world share that understanding.
And I've always found that to be quite problematic, because when we look at places like Africa. When we look at parts of Asia. And when we look at, you know, people don't necessarily have access to the language. And that would be English or French. Or whatever, that dominant language of science is. But it doesn't mean that they don't have an understanding of climate change. They interact with climate change on a daily basis. they're affected by climate change. Their lives are shaped by climate change. And to say these people are not aware of, they're climate illiterate. It just feels very arrogant. And I found it quite problematic.
And more importantly, than that, the proposed solution was usually oh, we need to educate people. We need to give them more information so they really understand, you know, what the scope of the issue is and things like that. And while I'm sure a lot of the motivations behind this are completely benign, I just feel if we kind of thought about it, it'd be more critical. Especially in Africa. And I can mainly speak for Africa because I'm from Nigeria. And I've had that African experience. And I can say, you know, the English language, this sort of Western understanding of science approach to science came to us through colonization. So basically, saying that you want to educate people to bring them up to speed with your western understanding is essentially saying you want to reinforce those colonial processes. You know, the part and parcel of education is not neutral. In that sense.
So I feel the climate change research community hasn't necessarily been that critical, or adequately critical around that topic. And then the way it connects with eco anxiety work is also that in a lot of the work that has been done, again, in Africa, looking at, you know, the human side of climate change, and how it's experienced where the impacts are. The questions have been very basic. You know, the emphasis has been on, particularly sort of agrarian communities. And things like that. And, you know, are people able to feed themselves? Do they have access to water? You know, that kind of thing. And not that those aren't important questions. They are important questions. But the problem is, the research never really progressed beyond that. It's almost like, you know, as long as they're alive, it's fine. And none of the other things that are necessary to have a full meaningful life. Dignified life. Ever seems to be considered.
So that was why when the eco anxiety started to pick up as well, I thought, well, why are we not seeing anything really, outside of, you know, North America and Western Europe about this. Again, it's that same thing about how, you know, it's really important here. We have all these complex emotions. And all the things that are important, but other people around the world, we don't really bother to ask how they're feeling. So I thought that was something that needed to be set right. So that's been a big motivation to do the work that I've been involved in over the last couple of years. Trying to collect data on this from all over the world. And that work has been really rewarding because I then kind of connect it to other people. And it's become something even more than what I started out thinking about initially.
So initially, it was just about, look, we need to get a sense or get a measure of how people feel about climate change. It's not just about, you know, what they understand. Just how do they feel, at whatever level of understanding they are. Because I think emotions actually can tell us a lot about what people think. Beyond just asking someone, you know, how do you understand climate change? What does it mean to you, etc. I think we're quicker to be able to get a sense of how we feel about something before we're actually able to put it together cognitively to say, this is my attitude. And this is my belief. Or whatever. We just have that. You know, like intuition and things like that. I thought, you know, this is such a good way to bypass the poor climate literacy thing and just focus on how people feel.
Yes, so that's kind of been a big part of it. And then what's kind of also developed out of it more recently, that's become also quite exciting for me is, of course, we then had the projects. Invited loads of people. And work together. Gathered all this data. But then it goes thinking about the way we actually do the research. So it's not just about the questions we're asking and what issues we're tackling. But it's also, how did we get here? You know, we started with a very small group. It was myself and a bunch of colleagues from many European countries who started up the project. Essentially we came to it with an understanding of what climate anxiety was and invited people to help us figure out if that applied in a whole range of countries.
We never really asked our collaborators, you know, what's it like, from your side? You know, how do you think we should measure this? Does this even make sense to you? You know, so we've now more recently been spending a bit more time just kind of reflecting on the process. And also thinking about how potentially this could not only inform what's happening around climate, emotions research, but also become a template for psychological research on sustainability and climate change in general. To really, you know, properly embrace this global outlook and understanding. This idea is one way of seeing the world. One, society. One group is not more important than another one where we have a collective problem. And we need all, you know, perspectives. All hands on deck, basically, to make sense of it and navigate our way out of it.
Pihkala: Yeah, thanks for sharing all that. And I think there's hugely important things related to the colonial history. And how it links with climate science. And giving [an] emphasis on the lived experience of people. Often in the complexity. And also listening to other kinds of information than just, you know, the rational, cognitive, put into word type of thing. And sometimes folks in environmental education have also got very interesting results when they ask kids to make drawings, for example. And then people are very surprised at what actually comes out of that. Have you gotten feedback, for example, from Nigeria, or other countries?
Ogunbode: Yes. So, there's some work, which. We've gathered all this data. And we're going through it now. So the project I was involved in, which looks at people's understanding of climate change in eastern West Africa. So the West African side of the project focuses on Lagos, in Nigeria. It's a coastal city. It's the biggest economic center in the city. And it's got a very interesting sort of dynamic around climate change, because the government had invested a lot of money in climate change adaptation because essentially, the city is threatened by rising sea levels. And things like that. But in the process of delivering these climate adaptation projects, there's also been a lot of forced evacuations of some of the traditional communities that lived on the coast. And they're essentially making this development that also doubles as luxury housing for rich residents. So it's quite a complicated scenario there. So it's been really interesting to get all the data in from there. Talking to people in Lagos about their feelings about climate change. And what they understand climate change to be. What kinds of actions they're taking, etc. And we're just working our way through that data right now.
And then in East Africa, we also are working with communities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Countries on the what's called on the coast of Lake Victoria Who sp depend on the lake for fishing. And we're talking to them about their experiences of climate change as well. And their feelings about it. How it impacts them, etc. And basically, when we started this project, at its core, it's a natural sciences project. So we've got this sort of modeler. We're doing all kinds of hydrological modeling in Lake Victoria to see what the scientific objective, you know, climate change trends are there. Same as with Lagos as well. And then the idea of the project was for our social sciences to come in. So there's myself and Caroline Van Den Berg, who is also an environmental psychologist at Utrecht. And colleagues in the University of Bergen as well. So a bunch of psychologists anyway constitute the social science side of the project. And we're supposed to come in basically and speak to people. Get their impression of what's going on with climate change. And then essentially bring this data to the objective natural sciences data. And see the degree to which there is agreement or not, in what people think compared with the measurements that have been taken by the scientists.
But it's been a really good opportunity, as I said, to kind of get a feel for how people think about it. And one of the interesting things actually I've been doing, which was how that photo came about. As the slide where I misspelled your name Panu. It was basically me applying your taxonomy of climate emotions to the reports that we got from people in Nigeria to see how much of those emotions you identified in your paper represented in the spontaneous accounts that people give. So all we've asked them is, how do you feel about climate change? That's it. There's no pre question. There's nothing. It's just their spontaneous reactions. And it's been really interesting to see what kinds of things we will come up with. It's raised a lot of questions actually about not just the emotions that people feel, but also the language that's available to them to describe the emotions that they have.
So it's been really interesting. So a lot of people the dominant emotion, strangely, seem to be indifferent. So it's been really interesting to try to delve into what that means. Because normally, when we think about indifference in the Western context, it's, you know, I think you described it actually, it is categorized in among these of hostile emotions. It's a rejection. It's, you know, of whatever the issue is. Whereas in Nigeria, it seems to be something closer to resignation. Where it's not coming from a place of not caring. But it's coming from a place of either, well, they're just so many other things. So many other pressing concerns. Or this just seems to be beyond my ability to do anything. So I'm just not. I'm not even going to be worried about it. Because that takes too much energy, you know. So that's a big one. And then in East Africa, the dominant feeling is sadness. You know, when you ask people they just say, oh, I'm really sad this is happening. I'm really sad about what the implications are going to be. I'm really sad because, you know, in the future we'll have less food. Or children will be, you know, negatively affected, etc. And, again, it's a negative emotion, but it's not one that really speaks of activation or action, if you know what I mean.
So yeah, it's really interesting, kind of looking through that data. And the plan is to try to feed it back to some of the local organizations working in these areas. And trying to think well, how can we, you know, what do we do to kind of support people and make sure that, you know, these feelings get channeled into some kind of action that will be beneficial for, you know, sort of just resolving the issues. The challenges that people are facing. Because to be realistic, for a lot of these people, they genuinely do not have a lot of means to have an impact. You know, so we're talking about people who are kind of disenfranchised as far as political systems are concerned. They're, you know, relative to someone like me or you, they're quite far away from the centers of power. If you know what I mean. They're not in a position to put pressure on leaders to do anything like that. So yeah, it's a very interesting scenario, where it's been really informative. Really helpful to be able to learn about it. And just bring that into, you know, my understanding. And my colleagues' understanding of just the global landscape of, you know, climate change. the human experience of climate change. Anyway.
Pihkala: That's very interesting. Just some brief comments from me. And then I'll drop the ball to Thomas. This issue of different words for emotions and feelings in different languages and cultures, is something me and Thomas have been very interested about. And, of course, the Finnish language plays a big role in that for me. And there's some things we have a word for, in affective phenomena in Finnish that don't exist in English. And the other way around. And what you are saying about indifference, for example, is highly interesting. Because I see many variations in sort of, kind of calm acceptance, totally calm. And it's difficult to find a word. But if you just can't do anything about it [the climate crisis], then you may have in a way engaged with it, but then just made the estimation that, you know, it's totally beyond me.
Ogunbode: Yeah.
Pihkala: That's something that I wonder if some language has a good word for that, which would bring the connotation instantly.
Ogunbode: Yeah.
Pihkala: What's on your mind, Thomas, when listening to this very rich conversation?
Doherty: Oh, yeah, I'm really, you know, to bring the listeners in particularly, I'm thinking of you listeners in the US. You know, I've been looking at the map just to orient myself. And I do recommend people pull out a map and just, you know, locate Lagos and Lake Victoria. And just to get a sense of the part of the world near the equator that we're talking about. And, you know, it's such a different context with colonialism, as you say. Just the political situation and cultures in Africa.
It makes sense once we look at this, why the findings would be that, you know, the sense of being able to take action. You know, it is more prominent in European countries and US countries. You know, wealthier countries. There's a lot I mean, for us, and for the listeners thinking about our emotions. So this idea of indifference and sadness. Which I think people feel in the US, too. I think actually parts of the US people feel very much similar. That's partly why we have political issues in the US. People are very much disenfranchised. We have a very unequal country. And so when we think about this calm acceptance, I wonder, is it, to get more nuanced again about the feelings, is it fatalism? Or is it also a kind of resilience? Right? So is it sort of like, we will endure. That's just, not having ever been to Africa, my sense of a lot of African cultures is there as a sense of resilience in the sense of endurance. This sense of humor. You know, the sense of teaching stories and things like that.
So I wonder about fatalism versus resilience. So that's one direction to go. And then just to acknowledge, and Charles, you might have thoughts about this too. You know, I feel like in places like the US and Finland, there is more of the sense of guilt and shame. As someone privileged. Whereas there's, probably in Africa, people feel guilty and shameful of their privilege. But the privileges are different.
Ogunbode: Yeah.
Doherty: Less evenly distributed through the countries. But I don't think people in Africa are immune to shame and guilt either. So just staying a little more with all these nuanced feelings would be interesting.
Ogunbode: Yeah. No, absolutely. I think those emotions are certainly relevant in that context, as well. And there was one person who explicitly used the term guilt. And they were talking about it in terms of. I mean, presently there's still a lot of people who don't quite realize that climate change is something that's driven by processes beyond their local context. So a lot of people would say, oh, it's because of the trees that are cut down, you know, somewhere down the road. Or it's because of those factories or some. So there's that sense of local responsibility. And there is some guilt around people. So most people wouldn't necessarily use the word guilt. There was that one person who did. But from the description of where they think these problems have come from, there is a sense of, we're doing a disservice to future generations and our kids and things like that.
So those emotions are perfectly relevant in that context. And that's part of the reason why I think there's emphasis on the technical understanding of climate change. And who has it? And who doesn't. It's the wrong direction to be looking at. Because the people arrive at the same kinds of outcomes. And have the same kinds of reactions. And they make logical judgments. And it's not so much the specific kinds of information that they're working with that really matter in that process. But it's how they come to make those judgments. How those feelings come to arise. And what the consequences of those feelings are. Those are the sorts of things that I think are probably more important. And so I think, to a large extent, there's sorts of drives to make restitution or restoration and things like that. I think they are present as well.
And these are the sorts of things that I'm really hoping that the more we can generate this kind of information. And get them in the hands of, you know, active campaigners and educators in this context, then they can really begin to channel those drives into more constructive channels. Because the other thing I find a bit frustrating sometimes is I've really appreciated the emergence of a focus on sub-climate justice, for example. Basically justice framings of the climate discourse. But I also see that within that, our role as African or people in the Global South in general, is to be the soft victim of the problem. And I think it's quite disempowering, in a way. And so I think we also need to not just, you know, while we're recognizing and engaging the structural issues, we also need to not lose sight of self worth. And, you know, people's individual and collective agency to make change within those systems as well
Pihkala: Yeah, that sounds like a hugely important point both that you're sharing. And I don't know how this is for you, because you are known now in many places as an eco-anxiety researcher. Do people come to you and ask how we should cope with eco-anxiety? And if they did, what would you say?
Ogunbode: I always refer them to people who I know are much more qualified than myself. So I've been really lucky to. For a while I was quite actively engaged with the Climate Psychology Alliance in the UK. Unfortunately, because I just work fresh and stuff going on, family life hasn't really been able to keep me involved as much as I would like. But they've been brilliant. And usually I just say, get in touch with the CPA. Okay, there's lots of really great people there.
Doherty: Yeah. I mean listeners should know that there's so many people working on all these issues all around the world. Charles, I mean, that people in every country you've done that are understanding climate change in their own way and working. And so people don't understand that piece. But then there is a lot, what I call the, you know, the climate elephant or the blind man and the elephant parable. Where everybody has different pieces of climate. And I feel for you, Charles being the human feelings researcher in a room full of climate adaptation people that are all focused on, you know, hydrology. Because human feelings are still disenfranchised in the climate discourse. You know, the emotions are less present in all the reports. And so there is this intellectual bias. And so that stuff.
But then even among the people that cares, there's like, well, who can help? Well, you can help, you know. And so the therapists are trying to come in, but then they feel like they don't understand hydrology. And they don't understand the climate. So it is a work in progress for all of us. So if people feel like an impostor, or they don't know enough, that's just quite normal for anyone engaging in this area. Yeah, we have time for maybe one more point. We can go a little over our time because it's such a rich discussion. Well how do we want to close off our discussion? Charles, is there something else that you want to bring in or that we didn't talk about? Or directions for the future?
Pihkala: Yeah. Thanks once more for dwelling on that. And as you sort of hinted before, that also helps the researchers. So that's my experience, both personally and with my colleagues. So that's the good side of it. And it's advancing a paradigm change, I think, I think you've been in many ways involved in this. And that's something for the listeners also. So no matter where you are, everybody can do something for this Great Turning. That would be Joanna Macy's word for it and other terms. So just being open to these issues, that's already a great step. So not going into that “I can't take this I want to stay away all the time”. [Instead:] “I want to stay.” Very grateful, Charles that you found the time to come and discuss. I've learned a lot today. And it's been a great pleasure.
Ogunbode: Yeah. Well, I mean, this is very much to do with what's been on my mind recently. But I think I'm gonna stay with this for a while, because I think there is a lot of value to working on this. And it ties into what you were saying just now about, you know, there. Suddenly, among psychology, there's a growing proportion of people who are really beginning to take emotions more seriously. Really, I've been really glad, since climate anxiety came around. You know, there are lots of ways we can critique the concept. And there are lots of, you know, issues with it. But it's done one thing, which I think is really important, which has given us this term to talk about emotions that most people can relate to. They know what you're talking about, when you say climate anxiety. They have some sense of it. So we can now talk about that. And what it means. And also it's helped us move away from why people are not worried enough. If only they were worried, then maybe we'll see more action. It's helped us move away from that to a more nuanced understanding of emotions. And that's really important.
And the other half of the equation that now needs to happen is how we then work together to really move this forward. And this is where it connects to what you were saying, Thomas, about, you've got a therapist. You've got people like myself who are just sort of like, you know, psychology researchers and things like that. And I think sometimes it's easy to lose sight of the greater goal. Just because of the incentives within academia. And how it works. And things like that. And it's almost like, you know, you're solving competition, one another, and things like that. But I think it's a really important sort of challenge for all of us to be able to in whatever way, whatever skills we've got on whatever, you know, capacities, we've got to read to, you know, keep in focus that all of these different things complement one another. You know, I've been in some meetings with other psychologists where there'll be some really searing critiques of, I don't know, more some like cognition oriented psychology. And I've been in meetings, I feel like, oh, well, I don't understand this psychosocial stuff or. You know, it very quickly descends into the sort of disciplinary tensions.
And I just don't think we can really afford that right now. I think we need to maybe put in a bit more effort in getting the different disciplines within psychology to kind of speak with one another and figure out how to kind of work together to achieve the bigger goals. You know, there's been a lot of work by people I really respect. You know, over the last few years. Lots of commentaries. Lots of opinion pieces. Lots of things trying to forge this vision for psychology around emotions research. And it would be great to see more work like that. More people coming together and trying to really push, you know, self drive that collective effort forward. Thank you so much for inviting me. I do feel like I'm in the company of really great people, because I've read so much. I read your work. I read Thomas's work from very early on in my PhD. So your papers with Susan sort of lay out, you know, I love those things. You know, actually do research on them and things. So I really appreciate it. It's great to actually be talking to you in person. And Panu, obviously, you've done tons of stuff. I can only aspire to, you know. So it's really good. So I hope that we will, you know, be able to carry on this conversation in another space at some point in the future.
Doherty: Yeah, me too. And Charles, thanks for carrying the fire and moving it forward and bringing it more worldwide attention. The idea of the ethic of care, I think, is a great takeaway. You know, responsibility for our emotions. And also for holding other people's emotions, even if they're different. Even if they're different. Underlying some of these academics, you know, debates are people's different emotions, too. And so like, you know, really caring for different kinds of climate emotions than our own is good for all of us. Well, thank you. And to the listeners, thanks for joining us again. If you like our content, please think about supporting our podcast. We're a self funded volunteer effort. You can find us at climatechangeandhappiness.com, or on our Patreon page. And otherwise, Panu and Charles, you have a good evening. And I'm going to get on with the rest of my rainy day here in Oregon.
Ogunbode: Have a nice day, Thomas. Thank you, take care, Panu.
Doherty: Take care.
Pihkala: Take Thomas, Charles and all the listeners.
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Pub date: 2022-12-13
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Episode: Brush, Floss, and Smile: A history of dental care, oral health, and social inequality
Pub date: 2022-12-02
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Catherine Carstairs about her newest book The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality. Carstairs presents the first cultural and social history of oral health in Canada and explores the ways in which society places high value on good teeth. For those Canadians without access to good, or any, dental care, there is a gap as they struggle with their general physical health and their self-image. Consequently, people without an “attractive smile” may be at a disadvantage professionally and socially. Carstairs further elaborates on the history of dental care, examining the improvements in the field over the past 100 years, in particular the use of fluoride, the focus on children’s dental care, and the rise of cosmetic dentistry. Catherine Carstairs is Professor of History at the University of Guelph, where she specializes in the history of health and medicine, as well as gender history.This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
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Podcast: The Slavic Connexion (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Soviet Football in the 1950s and 60s
Pub date: 2022-11-28
On this episode, Sergio talks with Yacov Zohn, football historian and former semi-professional footballer in Russia, France, and the US. Yacov's research into the development of Soviet football sheds light on the immense political pressure placed on the primary USSR team, the Sbornaya, to win each and every game--but ultimately the unrealistic aim to earn gold at the Olympics in 1952 and 1956 is never realized, and football remains one of only two gold medal categories that eluded the USSR. Yacov also discusses how Lavrentiy Beria himself was involved in the politics of the sport. The USSR furthermore declined the invitation to compete in the FIFA World Cup, undoubtedly due to concerns from Beria and others about the Soviet team's inability to perform with top teams internationally.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Yacov Zohn is a semi-professional footballer and a PhD candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation traces the history of the national Soviet soccer team from its official recognition by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in 1946 to its tortuous disintegration in the early 1990s. His aim is to elucidate how the narrative of Soviet sports history intersects with the kaleidoscope of competing narratives from nation-states and global sport governing institutions to form a complex mosaic of transnational sports history.
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 10th, 2022 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.
If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch!
CREDITS
Host/Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar
Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion)
Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana)
Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham
Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy)
Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher
Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch
Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel
Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Comfort Fit, Ketsa, Mr. Smith, Eddie Aich, Lame Drivers)
Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@M_S_Daniel) www.msdaniel.com
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Special Guest: Yacov Zohn.
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Podcast: Faculty Futures Lab
Episode: FFL 3.4 WRITING
Pub date: 2022-12-04
This episode is about WRITING: why we write, and the social justice work that can be done with and in writing. With Dr. Patrick Anderson (UC San Diego) and Dr. Patricia Ybarra (Brown University). ACT I: Writing to Survive (15 minutes)—Finding ourselves in writing, writing as a tool for BIPOC and queer activism and advocacy. ACT II: Coming Together (17 minutes)—Collaborative writing, the future of the academic conference, and the radical idea of modeling care for each other…BIOS Dr. Patrick Anderson is Professor of Communication and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research has explored the politics of hunger striking (and other forms of self-starvation), the experience of illness within contemporary medical institutions, and the strange history of empathy. He is currently writing a book on police violence, based on his four years serving on San Diego’s Commission on Police Practices, and a book on queer suicide.Website: patrick.ucsd.eduDr. Patricia Ybarra (she/her) is Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Ybarra’s most recent book is Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism. She is currently working on a digital humanities project on Reza Abdoh’s Father Was a Peculiar Man and a monograph on Abdoh and the development of queer theory. Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/pybarraDr. D.J. Hopkins (he/him) is a professor at San Diego State University. His publications focus on Shakespeare in performance and theatre in urban contexts. His current research includes immersive theatre and virtual reality.Website: https://ttf.sdsu.edu/faculty/theatre_faculty_profiles/d.j-hopkinsHere’s the citation for the article discussed in this episode:Patrick Anderson and Patricia Ybarra. “Is this Ballroom a Bathhouse?: The Promise and Peril of Coming Together.” Theatre Journal 74.4 (December 2022).This is not a practical how-to-write kinda episode. If you’re interested in writing productivity, visit the website for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. I read the NCFDD’s Monday Motivator every week. I’m no longer on Twitter — find me on Mastodon…? D.J.H.
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Podcast: The Empty Chair by PEN SA (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S6E2: Climate Crisis & Compassion in the Digital Age
Pub date: 2022-12-01
Akil Kumarasamy and Alistair Mackay talk to Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana about their novels Meet Us by the Roaring Sea and It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, respectively. They explore ways of writing about the future and imagination as resistance. Their expansive conversation refers to climate collapse, Artificial Intelligence and technology, popular culture, care and hope.
Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana is a writer of short fiction, essays and children’s books and is currently working on his debut novel. Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), and the linked story collection, Half Gods, (FSG, 2018). She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program. Alistair Mackay is the author of It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, published by Kwela in 2022. He lives in Cape Town.
In this episode we stand in solidarity with Egyptian poet and activist, Ahmed Douma. You can read more about his case here: https://pen-international.org/news/prison-writing-by-ahmed-douma
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Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Divided Dial: Episode 4 - From The Extreme to The Mainstream
Pub date: 2022-12-07
In the 1970s, talk radio was hitting its stride, with hosts and listeners from all political persuasions. But the radio dial was about to change forever. Community needs assessments, requirements to offer public service programs and multiple perspectives, and limits on how many stations a single company could own were all eradicated. Technological and legal changes would consolidate the radio industry exponentially, allowing conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh to take over the airwaves. In this episode, we look at radio’s last four decades to understand how we got to where we are today, and how conservative talk radio came to dominate a medium that once thrived on varied viewpoints.The Divided Dial is hosted by journalist and Fulbright Fellow Katie Thornton. Her written articles and audio stories have appeared in The Atlantic, 99% Invisible, The Washington Post, BBC, NPR, WNYC, Minnesota Public Radio, The Guardian, Bloomberg’s CityLab, National Geographic, and others. She is a lifelong radio nerd who got her start in media as a teenager, volunteering and working behind the scenes at radio stations for many years. You can follow her work on Instagram or on her website.The Divided Dial was edited by On the Media's executive producer, Katya Rogers. With production support from Max Balton and fact-checking by Tom Colligan, Sona Avakian, and Graham Hacia. Music and sound design by Jared Paul. Jennifer Munson is our technical director. Art by Michael Brennan. With support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
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Podcast: New Books in Law (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Francesca Lessa, "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" (Yale UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-06-24
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Studies podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Dr Francesca Lessa about her interesting new book The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America published in 2022 by the Yale University Press.
Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights. Through the voices of survivors and witnesses, human rights activists, judicial actors, journalists, and historians, Francesca Lessa unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, their violent and oppressive regimes kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of exiles, or forcibly returned them to the countries from which they had fled. South America became a zone of terror for those who were targeted, and of impunity for those who perpetuated the violence. Lessa shows how networks of justice seekers gradually materialized and effectively transcended national borders to achieve justice for the victims of these horrors. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over one-hundred interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America's past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.
Dr Francesca Lessa is a lecturer in Latin American studies and development at the University of Oxford. She is also the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay and is an honorary president of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay), a network of human rights NGOs devoted to the fight against impunity in that country.
Kenneth Sanchez is a Peruvian journalist and a multi-platform content curator for the Peruvian media outlet Comité de Lectura. He is a host of the New Books in Latin American Studies podcast and the movies & entertainment podcast Segundo Plano. He holds a master’s degree in Latin American Politics from University College London (UCL), is a Centre for Investigative Journalism masterclass alumni and is part of the 6th generation of Young Journalists of #LaRedLatam of Distintas Latitudes. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Amnesty Media Award given out by Amnesty International UK.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Sounds, Sights, Smells, and Senses: Let’s Talk Data with Jordan Wirfs-Brock
Pub date: 2022-11-30
What can our senses teach us about data? What can data teach us about our senses?
In this episode, we interview Jordan Wirfs-Brock about how we can explore data through all of our senses, especially through the sense of sound.
Jordan Wirfs-Brock recently completed a PhD in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and will be joining Whitman College as an assistant professor in Computer Science in January. Her research explores how to bring data into our everyday lives as a creative material by developing data representations that are participatory and engage all of our senses, especially sound. In the past, she has worked as a data journalist covering the energy industry and as a civic technologist helping non-profit organizations understand their communities through data.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gail Newman & Mari Ruti - Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott
Pub date: 2022-11-27
Gail Newman and Mari Ruti joined Coop and Taylor to discuss their upcoming co-authored text, Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott.Gail is the Chair for the Center of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and is the Harold J. Henry Professor of German at Williams College; her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, German literature and culture and she has published on Goethe, Kleist, Hoffman, and Novalis (among others), including a book titled Locating the Romantic Subject: Novalis with Winnicott.https://german.williams.edu/profile/gnewman/Mari is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. Her books include The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within; The Ethics of Opting Out: Defiance and Affect in Queer Theory; and Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_RutiSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushhInstagram: @unconscioushh
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Podcast: Lexis
Episode: Episode 34 - Arran Stibbe and ecolinguistics
Pub date: 2022-11-26
Show notes for Episode 34
Here are the show notes for Episode 34, in which Dan and Jill talk to Arran Stibbe, professor of Ecological Linguistics, and teacher on the BA English course at the University of Gloucestershire (https://www.glos.ac.uk/enl) about:
- Ecolinguistics - what it is and why we need it
- The power of storytelling and the environment
- Critical language awareness and its role in fighting back against climate catastrophe
- Challenging ecologically damaging narratives, ‘greenwashing’, economic ‘growth’ metaphors and more…
Arran’s university page: Arran Stibbe - Staff Profiles
Taylor & Francis author interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTiktxHF_pY
The book: Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By - 2nd Edi
The Stories We Live By site: Stories We Live By
And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about how language is used to represent the environment, how it is used in discussions and political campaigns around green issues and how some metaphors for the economy might not be the best ones to use…
Just Stop Oil: research shows how activists and politicians talk differently about climate change
Economists question 'black hole' in UK finances - BBC News
Economists urge BBC to rethink 'inappropriate' reporting of UK economy | IPPR
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Jill Lavender
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillLavs
Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Xabier Irujo and Queralt Solé, "Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia" (Center for Basque Studies, 2019)
Pub date: 2022-11-28
Today I talked to Xabier Irujo about his book (co-authored with Queralt Solé) Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia (Center for Basque Studies, 2019)
Hitler and Mussolini's decision to help General Franco with war materiel and troops brought war to the Basque Country and Catalonia. Between 1936 and 1939, the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria carried out a brutal campaign of terror bombings that resulted in thousands of air strikes against open cities. This caused innumerable casualties among the civilian population. Franco's victory in 1939 caused the exile of hundreds of thousands of Basque and Catalan civilians, but the beginning of World War Two and the subsequent occupation of the Northern Basque Country and Northern Catalonia by German troops gave rise to new forms of repression: concentration camps, forced labor, executions and imprisonment. As a consequence, the period from 1936 to 1945 is one of the bloodiest episodes in the contemporary history of Catalonia and the Basque Country.
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Podcast: The Pulse (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Leona Godin: Cultural History of Blindness
Pub date: 2022-11-24
Joeita talks with author and NYU professor Leona Godin about her new book "There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness". This is the November 24, 2022 episode.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Meat Merchants Feeding Climate Catastrophe / Spencer Roberts and Jan Dutkiewicz
Pub date: 2022-11-29
Chuck Mertz speaks with science writer Spencer Roberts and political economist Jan Dutkiewicz about their New Republic Article, "How the Meat Industry Undermines Effective Climate Policy".https://newrepublic.com/article/168766/meat-industry-lobbying-climateThis week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell!Spencer Roberts is a science writer, ecologist, musician, and engineer from Colorado. His writing focuses on corporate greenwashing and science corruption. It is featured in places like Jacobin, Wired, and Current Affairs. @Unpop_ScienceJan Dutkiewicz is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and comes to Harvard after Postdoctoral Fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and with the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is a political economist whose research focuses on large-scale conventional meat production and the emergent world of alternative protein. His work examines how business interests, ethical and environmental debates, and consumer behavior both shape and are shaped by the law, policy, and politics, and how this all influences what Americans eat. @jan_dutkiewicz
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: American psychiatry: a tortured history
Pub date: 2022-11-25
From the earliest asylums that sold themselves as restorative “retreats”, to the damaging vogue for lobotomies and electric shock therapy, psychiatry in America has gone through many iterations since its origins in the 18th century. Andrew Scull, author of Desperate Remedies, speaks to Rhiannon Davies about the discipline’s complex history.
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Intellectual History of Racialized Emotions: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
Pub date: 2022-11-30
In Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, Professor in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, about her book, She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World(Cambridge University Press, 2021).
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Climate Imaginary: The Petroleum Papers — with Geoff Dembicki
Pub date: 2022-11-29
On the fifth episode of our Below the Radar series: The Climate Imaginary, our host Am Johal is joined by investigative climate reporter and author, Geoff Dembicki. In this conversation, they discuss Geoff’s upbringing around the tar sands in Alberta, Canada and how that led to his journalistic focus on climate. Geoff talks about his books, Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change (2017) and The Petroleum Papers (2022), and shares some of his research around the climate disinformation campaigns conducted by Big Oil companies.They also talk about the shift of climate denial from traditional news outlets to digital channels, as well as the work of youth activists to combat these narratives. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/the-climate-imaginary/196-geoff-dembicki.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/196-geoff-dembicki.htmlResources:The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change: https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-petroleum-papers Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/are-we-screwed-9781632864819/ Geoff’s work in The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Bios/Geoff_Dembicki/ Geoff’s work in VICE: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/geoff-dembicki Bio:Geoff Dembicki is an author and journalist whose work appears in VICE, The Tyee, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and the Guardian. He is the author of The Petroleum Papers: Inside The Far Right Conspiracy To Cover Up Climate Change, published with Greystone Books. His book, Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change, won the 2017 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award and the 2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. His magazine feature for Foreign Policy titled “The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China,” won the 2018 Energy of Words Media Contest. Dembicki lives in Brooklyn, New York. Cite this episode:Dembicki, Geoff. “The Climate Imaginary: The Petroleum Papers — with Geoff Dembicki.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 29, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/the-climate-imaginary/196-geoff-dembicki.html.
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Podcast: Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots
Episode: Episode 2_Cyber-Feminist Urbanism, a conversation with Maja-Lee Voigt
Pub date: 2022-11-20
Maja-Lee Voigt: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/isco/members/maja-lee-voigt.htmlHer Master-Thesis:Cyber_Feminist_City. Stadtschaffende Praktiken zwischen Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmen und Asphalt (With limited access via HafenCity University Library: https://katalog.hcu-hamburg.de/vufind/Record/1783546794)The Manifest of Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russel:https://www.legacyrussell.com/GLITCHFEMINISMhttps://www.amazon.de/Glitch-Feminism-Manifesto-Legacy-Russell/dp/1786632667Cyber- Feminist collectives:Baumschiff(treeshuttle) as former home of the Heart of Code:http://heartofcode.orgDie Haecksen:https://www.haecksen.org/english/MzBaltazar’s Laboratoryhttps://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.orgThe first international Cyberfeminist alliancehttps://obn.org/obn/faq/fs_faq.htmlHer paper under publication:We build this City on Rocks and (Feminist) code: Hacking Corporate Computation Design of CitiesThe cover-image of this episode has been drawn by Maja-Lee Voigt.Resources:-BigBlueButton (2022): BigBlueButton | Open Source Virtual Classroom Software. BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing. https://bigbluebutton.org/ [letzter Zugriff 28.09.2022].-Buolamwini, Joy (2021): Tweet vom 09.04.21. https://twitter.com/jovialjoy/status/1380539105675710465.-Buolamwini, Joy / Gebru, Timnit (2018): Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification. In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 81, 1–15.-f.u.c.k. cologne (2022): Fuck Cologne - Feministisches Tech Kollektiv in Köln. https://fuckcologne.de/ [letzter Zugriff 03.11.2022].-Genzmer, Jenny (2020a): F.U.C.K.001 Wir haben uns nen Hackspace gemakert. Feminismus und Computerkram.-Haecksen (2021): Wer sind die Haecksen? – Haecksen. https://www.haecksen.org/wer-sind-die-haecksen/ [letzter Zugriff 14.03.2021].-Heart of Code e.V. (2021): kalender. http://heartofcode.org/kalender [letzter Zugriff 04.08.2021].-Jurgenson, Nathan (2012): The IRL Fetish. The New Inquiry. https://thenewinquiry.com/the-irl-fetish/ [letzter Zugriff 27.09.2022].Kitchin, Rob / Dodge, Martin (2011): Code/space: software and everyday life. Software studiesCambridge, Mass: MIT Press.-Mattern, Shannon (2017): A City Is Not a Computer. In: Places Journal.-netzforma e.V. (2020): Wenn KI, dann feministisch. Impulse aus Wissenschaft und Aktivismus. Berlin: netzforma* e.V. — Verein für feministische Netzpolitik.-Marx, Paris (2021a): Embracing Glitch Feminism with Legacy Russell. Tech Won’t Save Us.Podcastkollektiv der Haecksen (o. J.): Technik kreativ nutzen. Haecksenwerk.-Russell, Legacy (2020): Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. London/ New York: Verso Books.-Shaw, Joe / Graham, Mark (2018): Ein informationelles Recht auf Stadt? Code, Content, Kontrolle und die Urbanisierung von Information. In: Bauriedl, Sybille, Strüver, Anke (Hg.), Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. London: transcript Verlag, 177–204.-Wark, McKenzie (2004): A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge/ London: Harvard University Press.-Zook, Matthew / Graham, Mark (2018): Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43/3, 390–404.
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Podcast: The Good Robot (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Lorraine Daston on the Exorcism of Emotion in Rational Science (and AI)
Pub date: 2022-11-15
In this episode, the historian of science Lorraine Daston explains why science has long been allergic to emotion, which is seen to be the enemy of truth. Instead, objective reason is science’s virtue. She explores moments where it’s very difficult for scientists not to get personally involved, like when you’re working on your pet hypothesis or theory, which might lead you to select data that confirms your hypothesis, or when you’re confronted with some anomalies in your dataset that threaten a beautiful and otherwise perfect theory. But Lorraine also reminds us that the desire for objectivity can itself be an emotion, as it was when Victorian scientists expressed their heroic masculine self-restraint. She also explains why we should only be using AI for the parts of our world which are actually predictable, and how it’s not just engineers who debug algorithms, now that task is being outsourced to us - the consumers - as we’re the ones who are now forced to flag downstream effects when things go wrong.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-11-22
In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics(Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Pieter Hugo's photography of electronic waste recycling in Ghana and Idrissou Mora-Kpai's documentary on the deleterious consequences of uranium mining in Niger. These works highlight not only the exploitation of African workers and the vast scope of environmental degradation but also the resourcefulness and creativity of African media makers. They point to the unsustainability of current practices while acknowledging our planet's finite natural resources. In foregrounding Africa's centrality to the production and disposal of media technology, Iheka shows the important place visual media has in raising awareness of and documenting ecological disaster even as it remains complicit in it.
Dr. Cajetan Iheka is a Professor in the English Department at Yale University. Before African Ecomedia he published Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature in 2018, which won two prizes - the Ecocriticism Book Award of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and the African Literature Association First Book Prize. Dr. Iheka has also edited the volume, Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media, and co-edited another titled African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space.
Sara Katz is a Postdoctoral Associate in the History Department at Duke University.
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Podcast: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Episode: Carbon Critique Podcast #3 FRENCH – Entretien avec le philosophe Maurizio Lazzarato
Pub date: 2022-11-18
Maurizio Lazzarato est sociologue et philosophe, chercheur au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et à l'Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Université Paris I). Il est également membre du Collège international de philosophie (CIPh). Lazzarato a mené une réflexion critique et écrit sur le capitalisme, la dette, le néolibéralisme, toujours attentif aux questions de subjectivité, de communication et de médias.Dans cet épisode, nous parlerons du néolibéralisme, du populisme, du fascisme, de l'autoritarisme et des liens entre l'usage de la force, les inégalités et la crise écologique. Dans son récent livre "Le capital déteste tout le monde : Fascisme ou révolution", Lazzarato soutient que le capital fonctionne dans une logique de guerre, dominant toujours plus d'aspects de la vie sociale et rendant les sociétés libérales de moins en moins démocratiques. 📲 http://www.editionsamsterdam.fr/le-capital-deteste-tout-le-monde/ Nous lui demandons comment la crise climatique s'inscrit dans son cadre analytique. Le travail de Lazzarato apporte des concepts et des perspectives cruciaux qui peuvent nous aider à réfléchir à la relation entre ce qui est possible et ce qui est impossible face à l'urgence climatique.La transcription de cet épisode, peut être trouvée ici📲 www.iass-potsdam.de/sites/default/files/2022-11/Episode03_Maurizio%20Lazzarato%20-%20interview%20transcription%20FRENCH.pdfLa musique est de Mateus Alves📲www.mateusalves.bandcamp.com/ Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur les travaux du groupe de recherche Ecopol, veuillez consulter notre page :📲 www.iass-potsdam.de/en/research-group/ecopolitical-transformationsVous pouvez également nous suivre sur Twitter📲 twitter.com/DemocracyIass
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Podcast: What a Hell of a Way to Die (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Printing a Revolution
Pub date: 2022-11-17
This week Francis talks with investigative journalist James Stout about the prevelance of 3D printed guns in the hands of revolutinaties fighting against the oppressive and genocidal military government of Myanmar. James met with the many of the young people who have been fighting this war for the last eighteen months. Check out the five part series featuring interviews with the fighters here
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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Political Uses of the Prado
Pub date: 2022-11-20
In the wake of the recent climate protest at the Prado museum in Madrid, as well as the use of the museum for a dinner during this summer's NATO summit, Eoghan sit down with art historian Almudena Cros to discuss the relationship between the iconic gallery and politics. Cros argues that the Prado itself needs to become much more open to critical approaches to art history and explore the complex relationship between power, patronage and its collection, which represents one of the greatest in the tradition of European oil painting.
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Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episode: Felisa Vergara Reynolds on The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995)
Pub date: 2022-11-07
This discussion is with Dr. Felisa Vergara Reynold, an Associate Professor of French for the Department of French and Italian at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Her focus is on literature in French from the Antilles, West Africa, and North Africa. She primarily works on the legacy and impact of colonialism on literature in French, from the former colonies, and is particularly concerned with the continued influence of colonialism in the post-colonial era, and how it is represented in cultural production. In this discussion, we discuss her book The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995) where Dr. Reynolds presents textual revisions of Francophone authors as figurative acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibalizations critique colonialism and its legacy in each author’s homeland.
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 381) Stacy Alaimo: Our bodies are the Anthropocene
Pub date: 2022-11-16
“All of these imaginings visually, as if we were in a spaceship and looking down on the Earth—whoever that we is, which is super problematic with the notion of the Anthropocene—safely above, looking at the mess we’ve created... And no. With Trans-corporeality, our bodies are already the Anthropocene.”
In this episode, we welcome Professor Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English and Core Faculty Member in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (2010); and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (2016).
Alaimo is currently writing a book entitled Deep Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss. Her work explores the intersections between literary, artistic, political, and philosophical approaches to environmentalism along with the practices and experiences of everyday life. She loves diving and snorkeling, hiking, paddling, and creating habitat gardens with native plants.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change to Social Media: A Modern History of Disinformation. Then, Conversations with Birds
Pub date: 2022-11-16
Part I. A Modern History of Disinformation: From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change.
Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action. She is the author of many books including the best-selling, Merchants of Doubt, The Collapse of Western Civilization, Why Trust Science?, Science on a Mission, and her upcoming, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market, which will be published in February 2023.
Part II. Conversations with Birds
Guest: Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds. She is a recipient of the Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, an Ontario Arts Council Literary Award, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
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Podcast: Radio Atlantic (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Short History of Brazilian Soccer
Pub date: 2022-11-17
The Atlantic staff writers Franklin Foer and Clint Smith talk about who they're rooting for and why in World Cup 2022. And Franklin Foer takes us on a journey through the history the beautiful and ugly side of his beloved Brazilian team.
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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Matthew Flisfeder - Algorithmic Desire
Pub date: 2022-11-12
This week, Matthew Flisfeder joins Coop and Taylor to discuss his latest book, Algorithmic Desire:Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media.
Matthew is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media.
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Podcast: The Making of Modern Ukraine (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing
Pub date: 2022-11-16
Why the 1940s was such a terrible time for Ukraine is the subject of Class 16.
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages.
Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist? Is this a matter of structures, actions, or both? Why has the existence of Ukraine occasioned such controversy? In what ways are Polish, Russian, and Jewish self-understanding dependent upon experiences in Ukraine? Just how and when did a modern Ukrainian nation emerge? For that matter, how does any modern nation emerge? Why some and not others? Can nations be chosen, and can choices be decisive? If so, whose, and how? Ukraine was the country most touched by Soviet and Nazi terror: what can we learn about those systems, then, from Ukraine? Is the post-colonial, multilingual Ukrainian nation a holdover from the past, or does it hold some promise for the future?
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Podcast: Ear to Asia (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The rise and rise of halal consumerism in Indonesia
Pub date: 2022-11-16
Muslims in Indonesia are increasingly seeking to align their consumption with their religious beliefs. The push comes from a growing urban middle class who have greater access to global products and services. At the same time, Indonesia’s halal product assurance law, which came into effect in 2019, is being phased in across a wide range of goods and services. In a world awash with consumerism, what does halal certification mean for Muslims? And how do these economic choices play into the political landscape? Indonesia watchers Professor Julian Millie and Dr Inaya Rakhmani examine the trajectory of Indonesia’s halal consumerism with presenter Ali Moore.
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Podcast: Postcapitalism Podcast
Episode: Onur Acaroğlu on utopianism, self-care, and escaping "Groundhog Day"
Pub date: 2022-11-14
In this episode, we’ll be talking about history, temporality, and what the movie Groundhog Day can teach us about escaping capitalism. Our guest is Onur Acaroğlu, a lecturer in sociology at the University of Northampton in the UK, and author of the recent book chapter “The Challenge of Postcapitalism: Non-Capitalist Temporalities and Social Pathology”. We'll discuss time loops, utopianism, and self-preservation as an act of political warfare.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 359: Capitalism and Spotify w/ Pascual Romero
Pub date: 2022-11-11
How have platforms such as Spotify impacted music and musicians? Have they democratized the industry or is it just a new form of exploitation? TIR is joined by musician Pascual Romero to discuss.
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Podcast: New Models (public) (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Model Shock w/ Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen (NM48)
Pub date: 2022-11-09
By the end of the 19th century, cascading developments in science, theory, and philosophy were radically challenging the way Western society understood what it means “to think” — and how, in turn, this contemporary sentient human could be depicted. EMMELYN BUTTERFIELD-ROSEN, a scholar of late-19th and early-20th century art, and associate director of the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the esteemed Clark Art Institute joins us to discuss her new book, “Modern Art & The Remaking of the Human Disposition” (U. Chicago Press, 2021), which brilliantly and with astonishing depth explores not just the shifts in artistic conventions during this time, but also the emergent cybernetic processes that catalyzed it.
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Podcast: Imaginary Worlds (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Indigenous Futurisms
Pub date: 2022-11-10
From TV and film to novels and video games, the artistic movement of Indigenous Futurisms has been gaining momentum and breaking cultural barriers. I talk with professor and author Grace Dillon, filmmaker Danis Goulet, fiction writer Stephen Graham Jones, and visual artist Virgil Ortiz about what defines a work of indigenous futurism and why telling stories about werewolves, spirits, A.I., and time travelers can be an act of resistance.
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Press and the Prison w/ Jessica Phoenix Sylvia (11/10/22)
Pub date: 2022-11-11
Beatrice speaks with Jessica Phoenix Sylvia about prison book bans, how simple it is for prison officials to administratively withhold basic needs, and the necessity of publishing incarcerated writers.
Jessica Phoenix Sylvia is an Empowerment Avenue social justice writer, abolition theorist, and community organizer. She is one of the contributors to the recently published book “The Press In Prison,” (Haymarket Books & Scalawag Media). She is currently working with the Study and Struggle program, and she is the author of a recent piece in PEN America called “Prison Book Bans, Protect Mass Incarceration.”
Mentioned in this episode: https://www.empowermentave.com https://pen.org/prison-book-bans-protect-mass-incarceration https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1993-the-press-in-prison https://www.studyandstruggle.com
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Podcast: NYUAD Institute
Episode: Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis
Pub date: 2022-11-15
We live in a world in which extremism is said to be on the rise. The 20th century was scarred by extremist movements and ideologies, and extremism continues to be a problem in the 21st century. But what exactly is extremism, and what is wrong with it? Martin Luther King Jr. famously asked whether we will be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice. Is there such a thing as "good" extremism or is extremism always a bad thing?
Speaker Quassim Cassam, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: MoMa and Cultural Imperialism in Latin America
Pub date: 2022-11-09
Modern art has always been a battleground — and the highly influential Museum of Modern Art has been partisan since its inception. Architectural historian Patricio Del Real discusses two differing political visions of modernism and modern architecture: one rooted in the left, and associated with figures such as Communist muralist Diego Rivera, and the other on the right, represented by the architect and fascist sympathizer Philip Johnson. He weighs in on the role of MoMa in promoting a view of modernism in Latin America, stripped of its radical politics and racial fusions, and radiating American power and hegemony.
Resources:
Patricio del Real, Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art Yale University Press, 2022
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Podcast: Total Liberation (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 91. Love & Sex in a Capitalist Hellscape: Decommodifying our Relationships w. Dr. Kristen Ghodsee
Pub date: 2022-11-09
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In this episode, Mexie speaks with Dr. Kristen Ghodsee about the commodification of relationships under capitalism and how we can work towards a liberated future. Dr. Ghodsee is the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women. We dive into the history of the institutionalization of bourgeois monogamous marriage, sexual economics theory, the differences in self-reported sexual satisfaction between capitalist and socialist societies, and, drawing from the insights of Alexandra Kollontai, how we can work to decommodify our relationships as we struggle against the broader forces of capital.
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/kristen-r-ghodsee/why-women-have-better-sex-under-socialism/9781568588896/
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Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3999-red-valkyries
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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Peter Brooks' "Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative"
Pub date: 2022-11-11
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by literary critic and scholar Peter Brooks. Brooks is the Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale. He is the author of many books but perhaps most notably of Reading for the Plot, originally published in 1984, which initiated the narrative turn in literary criticism. In it, Brooks focused on the story, how it was told and how it moved forward. His latest book Suduced by Story returns to narrative as its main subject, 30 years later. Brooks now finds narrative everywhere — from President Bush invoking the “stories” of all of his cabinet members to corporate websites touting the company “story”. What does this narrative takeover mean? Why have we started to privilege storytelling over any other form of expression? Brooks writes “This…suggests something in our culture has gone astray.” Peter Brooks joins us today to discuss, as he puts it, “the misuses, and mindless uses, of narrative.” Also, Darryl Pinckney, author of Come Back in September, returns to recommend three books: Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal; Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System; and Marina Warner's Esmond and Ilia.
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Podcast: Latino Rebels Radio (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Messi's Final Shot
Pub date: 2022-11-10
Just days before the start of the 2022 World Cup, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Jasmine Garsd, host of the new podcast The Last Cup, to discuss how the journey of Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi runs parallel to the issues of migration, neoliberalism, and hanging on to your roots.
The Last Cup is a joint production from NPR and Futuro Studios.
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Podcast: Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
Pub date: 2022-11-10
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In this very special episode of Marooned on Mars, we discuss the recently released anthology Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, edited by Jonathan Strahan and published by MIT Press.
We manage to touch on every story in the collection, at least in passing! And in this episode we try our best to minimize spoilers, considering the format of the texts we’re reading and their recent publication. Featuring stories by Meg Elison, Tade Thompson, Daryl Gregory, Greg Egan, Sarah Gailey, Justina Robson, Chen Quifan, Malka Older, Saad Z. Hossain, and James Bradley, artwork by Sean Bodley, and an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Tomorrow's Parties touches on many themes that that should be familiar to our listeners: political economy and ecology, trying to make history while living with the legacies of the past, the weirdness of being burdened with a body, capitalism and wage labor. Described by Strahan in the introduction as neither hopepunk nor material for doomscrolling, the stories here are imaginative and engaging, and well worth checking out (if you're into that kind of thing).
Next up we'll be doing a deep-ish dive into Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, published by Common Notions. There will be spoilers, so buy it and read it! (You won't be sorry!)
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Podcast: Crisis and Critique
Episode: Étienne Balibar on philosophy, Althusser, Ukraine, internationalism, and many other things
Pub date: 2022-11-10
Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with the philosopher Étienne Balibar, to discuss his philosophical project, current events in the world and other related matters.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 356: The Qatar World Cup and Sportswashing the Autocracy f/ Adnan Hussain
Pub date: 2022-11-04
It is World Cup season and in 2022 Qatar is hosting! However, is the gulf monarchy using the World Cup to launder its image? Is this a case of Sportswashing? TIR speak with Adnan Husain of Queen's University in Canada.
https://www.thenation.com/.../fifa-qatar-world-cup.../ https://www.amnesty.org/.../03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/
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Podcast: The Commonweal Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 91 - Care, Commodified
Pub date: 2022-11-04
Women who cross the border to perform care work for American families—cleaning their homes, running their errands, and raising their kids—number among the most hidden and undervalued laborers in our society. Too often, their voices go unheard.
On this episode, Commonweal associate editor Regina Munch speaks with Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz, a lecturer at Rice University and author of Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies.
Cummins Muñoz points out that while these workers don't see themselves as “victims,” the conflict between providing care and being paid to do it—sometimes at the expense of one's own family—can be devastating.
For further reading:
- “The Empowerment Trap,” Emma McDonald
- “Putting Ourselves Together Again,” Rebecca Bratten Weiss
- “The Feminist Wife,” Kate Lucky
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-11-01
Dr.Ashley Sweetman works in cyber security for a London-based global bank and holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. While studying for his PhD he spent a short time as Researcher-in-Residence at No. 10 Downing Street while working for The Strand Group in the Policy Institute at King's. Before this, Ashley studied History at Queen Mary, University of London. Ashley is a proud Welshman and was brought up in Neath, South Wales. He currently lives in North London.
In his first book Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age(Springer, 2022), Sweetman provides evidence that cyber security is a long-lived phenomenon. Banks started to worry about it early in the adoption of computers in the late 1950s. The UK has a particular feature where banks rapidly agree on the measures to be taken, making the overall system more resilient.
Sweetman uses a wealth of archival material and introduces de concepts of proportionality and the confidentiality-integrity-availability triumvirate to explain and interconnect the evolution and articulation of security in bank networks.
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Conflict Minerals and the Western Gaze, with Christoph N. Vogel
Pub date: 2022-10-30
In this episode, we hear from Chrstoph N. Vogel, the author of Conflict Minerals, Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo.
Known as ‘digital minerals’ for their use in high-end technology, their exploitation and trade has been singled out in numerous media and United Nations reports as a key driver of violence, provoking an unprecedented popular outcry and prompting transnational efforts to promote ‘conflict-free’, ethical mining. Focusing on the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Conflict Minerals, Inc. is the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon.
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Podcast: The Deal (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Drinks With The Deal: Jeremy Greene Discusses the History of Telemedicine
Pub date: 2022-10-27
Jeremy Greene, a doctor and a professor of history at Johns Hopkins, talks about his new book The Doctor Who Wasn’t There, on the use of communications technologies in American medicine.
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Podcast: High Theory (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Red Cat
Pub date: 2022-10-31
In this episode of High Theory, Leigh Claire La Berge talks about red cats: communist cats, revolutionary tigers, radical felines of all stripes. The red cat is a provocation, and an invitation to think differently about economic history. Leigh Claire continues our spooky theory of cat concepts for Halloween 2022.
Her book Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary will be published by Duke University Press this coming summer. It takes seriously the premise that you can tell the history of capitalism through the figure of the cat. As a bestiary, it has a hundred pictures of cats, from a vast archive that spans the ninth century to the present. It began as a series of filmed conversations with cats on Marxist theory. You can watch them at marxforcats.com
In the episode she references The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Each of the two cover images from the initial publication depict cats. One of them forms the cover image for this episode. In the longer conversation, she referenced Kate Evans’s Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso 2015) and Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese’s Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022).
Leigh Claire La Berge is an Associate Professor of English at BMCC CUNY, where she studies the intersection of contemporary cultural production and economic forms. Her prior books include Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Oxford, 2014) and Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (Duke, 2019).
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: MENNA AGHA | Nubian Architecture | Conversations
Pub date: 2022-10-30
Menna Agha talked about Nubian Architecture, its evolution, purpose, history, and more.
Dr. Menna Agha is an architect and researcher who has recently been coordinating the spatial justice agenda at the Flanders Architecture Institute in Belgium. She joins the Azrieli School to promote pedagogy and research in the newly established area of Design and Spatial Justice. Menna holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Antwerp, and a Master of Arts in Gender and Design from Köln International School of Design. In 2019/2020, she was the Spatial Justice Fellow and a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. She is a third-generation displaced Fadicha Nubian, a legacy that infuses her research interests in race, gender, space, and territory. Among her publications are: Nubia still exists: The Utility of the Nostalgic Space; The Non-work of the Unimportant: The shadow economy of Nubian women in displacement villages; and Liminal Publics, Marginal Resistance.
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Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
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Podcast: Cities@Tufts Lectures
Episode: Planetary Gentrification: Impacts and Futures with Loretta Lees
Pub date: 2022-10-27
This week on Cities@Tufts, Loretta Lees presents "Planetary Gentrification: Impacts and Futures". In this presentation, we explore the phenomenon of planetary gentrification. What is it? Where in the world has it occurred geography and spatially? When did it occur? What have the impacts been? And critically — what might its future look like?
In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of their conversation on Shareable.net – while you’re there get caught up on past lectures.
Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn.
Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from The Kresge Foundation, Barr Foundation and SHIFT Foundation.
Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Perri Sheinbaum and Caitlin McLennon. Robert Raymond is our audio editor, Zanetta Jones manages communications, Alison Huff manages operations, and the series is produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.
“Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song and Caitlin McLennon created this episode's graphic.
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Podcast: EU Scream (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Decolonisers
Pub date: 2022-10-26
Decolonisation is a new way of confronting racism. It means rooting out colonial-era attitudes of white superiority that linger in our societies and institutions. The push for decolonisation in the US and parts of Europe took wings with the Black Lives Matter movement. But the EU still is nowhere near starting the process of decolonisation. Its reticence was underlined this month when top EU diplomat Josep Borrell branded most of the world a jungle and then got away with making only a grudging apology. In this episode: a look back at Borrell's offensive comments at the College of Europe; and a look ahead at how to decolonise EU foreign aid, with Shada Islam and Dylan Mathews of Peace Direct.
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Podcast: The Sociology Show (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interview with Chris Waugh on the topic of masculinity
Pub date: 2022-10-31
In this episode, Matthew talks to Chris Waugh. Chris is a final year PhD student in Sociology at the University of Manchester. His research explores masculinity, anti-sexism and activist culture in radical left wing movements in the UK. His research has been published by Palgrave Macmillan, and he lectures in Sociology and Criminology, at the University of Manchester and the University of Law. He tweets on @classwaugh and is contactable on Chris.Waugh-2@manchester.ac.uk
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mae Ngai on The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race
Pub date: 2022-10-27
Hosted by Andrew Keen,Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Mae Ngai, co-author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
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Podcast: Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Resource War
Pub date: 2022-11-03
With its glut of resources and natural gas, cheap Russian energy has long been a lifeline for nations across the globe looking to give their citizens access to affordable fuel. But with the war in Ukraine breaking down relationships between Russia and the West, what will happen when the taps are turned off? And with simultaneous issues arising with disruptions to Ukraine’s agricultural centres, the global situation has become even more fraught. So how can Ukraine, and indeed the world, overcome these challenges?
In this episode, we speak to Helen Thompson, professor of political economy at the University of Cambridge, to explore the wide-reaching implications of the war in Ukraine on energy, food security and more. Nastya also speaks with her colleague at the Kyiv Independent, Alexander Query, about the recent alleged sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and their implications on the global energy crisis.
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Podcast: This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
Episode: Black Music Past and Present: A Conversation with Guthrie Ramsey
Pub date: 2022-10-30
In this episode, Hettie V. Williams discusses Black music, culture, and criticism with Dr. Guthrie Ramsey. Williams is Associate Professor of African American History at Monmouth University and Ramsey is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present published by the University of California Press in 2022. Ramsey is a noted pianist, composer, and Professor of African American music, history, and culture. He is also a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ramsey has authored several books on African American music history and culture. He is one of the nation’s foremost scholars of Black music culture.
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Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 21: Building Socialism in the Third World with Jeremy Friedman
Pub date: 2022-10-27
This episode explores how, through the process of developing a model of socialism applicable in the Third World, local actors interacted with the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact countries, China and the West. These political and economic interactions shaped not only the trajectory of these specific countries but of socialism globally. Our guest is Jeremy Friedman to discuss all of this and more with his new and excellent book Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World (2022).
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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-10-24
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (University of California Press, 2022) is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men--known in local parlance as sasso--residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the "heart of homophobic darkness" in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
Kwame Edwin Otu is a Visiting Associate Professor of African Studies at Georgetown University and an Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia. He wrote and starred in the award-winning short film Reluctantly Queer.
Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Southern California.
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Podcast: SAGE Psychology & Psychiatry (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: JBP - Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction
Pub date: 2022-10-21
In this episode of the Journal of Black Psychology podcast series, Editor's Assistant Alexis Malone talks with Dr. Marcus Watson about his recently published study, "Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction."
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #86 - How Social Scientists Reshaped US Foreign Policy-Making - w/ Daniel Bessner
Pub date: 2022-10-24
In this episode, Prof. Daniel Bessner of the University of Washington discusses his 2018 book "Democracy in Exile", describing the crucial impact that social scientists had in reshaping political institutions during the early Cold War period. This is a fascinating history of the creation of the US think tank ecosystem, the sidelining of majoritarian institutions in an era of crisis, and the origin of foundational ideas in a variety of academic fields.
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Podcast: You Don't Have to Yell (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How the Rich World has Shut Out the World's Poor | Reece Jones
Pub date: 2022-10-20
Reece Jones, political geographer from the University of Hawaii Manoa, discusses how borders across the developed world have become more militarized as the economy has become more interconnected, and how the US has inadvertently created a nationalized police force whose powers extend further into the country than most Americans realize.
Reece's most recent book, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Border Wall, can be purchased here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676268/white-borders-by-reece-jones/ For additional commentary on this episode and other issues of the day, sign up for YDHTY's email newsletter at www.ydhty.com/news
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Podcast: Past Present (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 348: Halloween Panics
Pub date: 2022-10-25
In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the history of panics over contaminated Halloween candy.
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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:
- Panics over “Halloween sadism” have resurged yearly for decades. Niki referred to historian Paul M. Renfro’s book Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State and Natalia cited this Wall Street Journal article about fentanyl abuse. All of us drew on the research of Joel Best.
In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:
- Natalia shared Geoffrey Mak’s essay for The Nation, “I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity.”
- Neil commented on the Netflix show, “UNTOLD: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.”
- Niki discussed Kaarima Moyer-Nocchi and Adrien Miller’s Epicurious article, “Who Invented Mac and Cheese? This American Favorite Has Ancient Roman Roots.”
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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: A New History of Catalonia with Andrew Dowling
Pub date: 2022-10-24
Andrew Dowling joins Alan to discuss his latest book A New History Of Catalonia (2022, Routledge)
Andrew Dowling is Reader in Spanish History at Cardiff University and researches the history and politics of Catalonia. He has previously published The Rise of Catalan Independence: Spain’s Territorial Crisis with Routledge in 2018 and Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation (Sussex Academic Press, 2012).
Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality.
This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.
Get it here from the publisher's website.
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Podcast: Baobab, Redwood and Neem
Episode: The Economics of Hate with Prof Prabhat Patnaik
Pub date: 2022-10-06
Neo Fascism and Economics - Prof Prabhat Patnaik on Baobab Redwood and Neem
Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-10-17
How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration?
As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster reach unprecedented levels worldwide, states also step up their mechanisms of border control. In this, they rely on digital technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and institutional journalism to manage not only the flow of people at crossing-points, but also the flow of stories and images of human mobility that circulate among their publics. What is the role of digital technologies is shaping migration today? How do digital infrastructures, platforms, and institutions control the flow of people at the border? And how do they also control the public narratives of migration as a “crisis”? Finally, how do migrants themselves use these same platforms to speak back and make themselves heard in the face of hardship and hostility?
Taking their case studies from the biggest migration event of the twenty-first century in the West, the 2015 European migration “crisis” and its aftermath up to 2020, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou offer a holistic account of the digital border as an expansive assemblage of technological infrastructures (from surveillance cameras to smartphones) and media imaginaries (stories, images, social media posts) to tell the story of migration as it unfolds in Europe’s outer islands as much as its most vibrant cities.
The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power(NYU Press, 2022) is a story of exclusion, marginalization, and violence, but also of care, conviviality, and solidarity. Through it, the border emerges neither as strictly digital nor as totally controlling. Rather, the authors argue, the digital border is both digital and pre-digital; datafied and embodied; automated and self-reflexive; undercut by competing emotions, desires, and judgments; and traversed by fluid and fragile social relationships—relationships that entail both the despair of inhumanity and the promise of a better future.
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, where she also serves as the department’s Doctoral Program Director. She is the author of several books, including The Spectatorship of Suffering and The Ironic Spectator, Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
Myria Georgiou is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, where she also serves as Research Director. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of five books, including Diaspora, Identity and the Media; Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference; and the Sage Handbook of Media and Migration.
Padmapriya Vidhya-Govindarajan is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environmental justice, digital and film cultures, and community media-use practices.
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Podcast: Undead Matter
Episode: Resurfacing lives | Bo Choy and Sayana Namsaraev
Pub date: 2022-10-16
Undead Matter is an unfolding conversation about where life lies in the ever-turning matter of our universe, as it rhythmically resurfaces over millennia.
In this fifth episode of the series, we delve into animated landscapes that surround Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest freshwater lake on the planet. Artist, Bo Choy speaks with Sayana Namsaraeva, an anthropologist from Buryatia, a republic of Eastern Siberia bordering Mongolia, who’s work focuses on the indigenous cosmologies of the people from her region.
Their conversation considers the intimate connection between these largely untouched landscapes and the rich fabric of belief systems, indigenous cosmologies, oral traditions and mythologies that emerge from them. From shared and diverging influences from pre-Buddhism shamanisms, Chinese and Mongolian Buddhisms, Feng Shui and ancient eastern philosophies, Choy and Namsaraeva discuss the spirit-life of these lands as they rub up against planetary climate urgencies and contemplate how ancient wisdoms can have a vital role in the local and global relational ecologies we must form for the future.
Undead Matter, initiated and convened by curator Sophie J Williamson, is an ongoing collective project, materialising slowly and organically in exhibitions, events, podcasts, publishing and the intangible. The Undead Matter programme has emerged through intersecting collaborations with artists, poets, dancers and musicians, as well cryomicrobiologists, shamen, paleontologists, mineralogists, archaeoastronomers, woodworkers, quantum physicists, bondage masters, cryonics speculators and others encountered along the way. Each offers a perspective on our place within the infinite impermanence of life: past, present and possible.
Curated by Sophie J Williamson. Produced by Undead Matter. Sound by Either/Or Recordings.
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Podcast: Chinese Whispers (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Censorship and sexuality: being gay in China
Pub date: 2022-10-17
I recently caught a rare viewing of a 2001 Chinese film, Lan Yu. It tells the story of two gay men falling in love and finding domestic life throughout the reform and opening years of China. The filmmakers never bothered to apply for approval from the censors, knowing that its homosexual storyline would never make it past the moralistic Communist censors.
On this episode, I take a look at the place of homosexuality in the traditional Chinese mindset and under these years of Communism. My guests are Zhang Yongning, the producer of Lan Yu, and Liu Yiling, a a writer covering Chinese society, technology and internet culture who has written about the the dating apps that millennial gay men now use. We discuss the homosexuality rooted in traditional Chinese literature, like Dreams of the Red Chamber, balanced against the Confucian need to procreate and pass on lineage. It turns out that, much like ancient Greece, the problem wasn’t so much the gay sex so long as you still set up families and had children, Yongning says.
With the influx of Christianity through missionaries, there took on a ‘pathological’ view of homosexuality, more akin to the western homophobia, says Yiling.
When it comes to political attitudes, Yiling makes the astute point that ‘Chinese history has always moved in patterns of fang shou (open and close)’. Under Communism, you might expect the kind of restrictive attitudes towards divergent lifestyles, but much of this had moved in more liberal ways since reform and opening, forming the backdrop to Lan Yu’s story. Yet the sticking point is always whether these minority groups ask for political or civil rights. Unlike feminists under the MeToo movement which has been shut down by the government, gays haven’t united politically. ‘If they start asking for rights, then they will be in huge trouble’, Yongning says.
We don’t get much time to talk about other LGBT communities, but I’ll certainly come back to those in future episodes.
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Podcast: Talking Indonesia (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Usman Hamid & Yogi Setya Permana: The Kanjuruhan Football Disaster
Pub date: 2022-10-13
Indonesian football experienced its darkest day on 1 October, when more than 130 spectators were killed – including 35 children – after police fired tear gas into the crowd at the conclusion of a match between local rivals Arema Malang and Persebaya Surabaya at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang. Fans fleeing the tear gas, which police fired after some fans entered the playing field, were killed in the crush in stairwells and at exits that in some cases were locked or partially closed.
Other football leagues around the world held a moment’s silence in the wake of the tragedy as a mark of respect to the victims, in what was one of the worst football disasters globally in the history of the game. Within Indonesia, vigils have been held around the country for the fans who died at Kanjuruhan. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has asked a fact-finding team to deliver a report into the disaster within a month, and the country’s professional leagues have been suspended. The police’s decision to use tear gas has been almost universally criticised.
How we can account for the police decision to use tear gas in a sold-out Kanjuruhan Stadium, and what investigations and accountability are likely after the death of so many fans? What has the game-day experience been like for football fans in Indonesia, and what will be required to ensure that the events of Kanjuruhan are never repeated?
In the wake of this national tragedy, in this week’s Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Dave McRae discusses these issues with Usman Hamid , executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia, and Yogi Setya Permana , a PhD candidate at KITLV in the Netherlands and the author of a 2017 study into football fan groups and local politics in Malang .
In 2022, the Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Jemma Purdey from Monash University, Dr Dave McRae from the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the University of Melbourne, Dr Jacqui Baker from Murdoch University, and Tito Ambyo. Look out for a new Talking Indonesia podcast every fortnight.
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Podcast: ArtCurious Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Author Interview: Hugh Eakin's "Picasso's War"
Pub date: 2022-10-17
We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. Today’s episode features a conversation about Picasso’s War, a recent book by journalist Hugh Eakin. Today we think of New York as the center of the twentieth century art world, but it took three determined men, two world wars, and one singular artist to secure the city’s cultural prominence. Pablo Picasso was the most influential and perplexing artist of his age, and the turning points of his career and salient facets of his private life have intrigued the world for decades. However, the tremendous feat of winning support for his art in the U.S. has long been overlooked—until now.
In PICASSO’S WAR: How Modern Art Came to America, Eakin details the never-before-told story of how a single exhibition, years in the making, finally brought the 20th century’s most notorious artist U.S. acclaim, irrevocably changed American culture, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis.
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 377) Heather Davis: Living in 'Petrotime' and seeing plastic as grand-kin
Pub date: 2022-10-18
“What [the plastiglomerate] really highlights is the fact that plastic is now so incredibly ubiquitous that it can’t be taken out or removed. It is, in fact, a part of geology at this point in time.”
In this episode, we welcome Heather Davis, an assistant professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York whose work draws on feminist and queer theory to examine ecology, materiality, and contemporary art in the context of settler colonialism. Her most recent book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022), explores the transformation of geology, media, and bodies in light of plastic’s saturation.
(The musical offering featured in this episode The Witness by Rowan Rain. The episode-inspired artwork is by Sophie Le Grelle.)
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Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: RIC in-haus: Against Borders
Pub date: 2022-10-18
Radicals in Conversation in-haus is a new podcast series collaboration between Pluto Press and Bookhaus, an independent bookshop in Bristol. RIC in-haus is recorded on location at Bookhaus. The bookshop’s ‘in-haus’ events programme features authors of some of the most exciting radical nonfiction being published today.
In episode 4, Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha are in conversation with Nayya Raza from Bookhaus, about their new co-authored book, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition. They discuss the history and impact of border regimes, 'non-reformist reforms', and offer a utopian vision of the future in which borders - and the logic that underpins them - have been abolished.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Art of Making Unfinished — with Leela Gandhi
Pub date: 2022-10-18
Leela Gandhi is a professor and writer of the book, Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. This episode goes into different forms of friendship in the contexts of democracy, post-colonialism, and climate change; and how friendship can change depending on different circumstances. It is fitting that this episode is hosted by Am Johal and Matt Hern, two close friends writing a book together about friendship and community.
Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/190-leela-gandhi.html
Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/190-leela-gandhi.html
Resources: Leela Gandhi: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/lgandhi Towards Democracy by Edward Carpenter: https://www.routledge.com/Towards-Democracy/Carpenter/p/book/9781138184121 The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955 by Leela Gandhi: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo15220206.html Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1024/Affective-CommunitiesAnticolonial-Thought-Fin-de Martin Heidegger: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/
Bio: Leela Gandhi is a literary and cultural theorist whose research focuses on transnational literatures and postcolonial theory and ethics. Leela is a professor of Humanities and English and Director of Pembroke Centre at Brown University. She is also a Senior Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. Leela received her B.A. from the University of Delhi, her M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford University and authored the books, Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship and Postcolonial Theory: A critical introduction.
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Podcast: Coffee with Comrades (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 178: "Tierra y Libertad" ft. Jim Yeoman
Pub date: 2022-10-18
James Yeoman, author of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915 joins me to talk about propaganda by the deed, violence, terror, education, and the anarchist printing press in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Podcast: The Conversation Weekly (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Inside Brazil’s divisive gun debate
Pub date: 2022-10-13
Soon after Jair Bolsonaro’s election as president of Brazil in 2018, he began making it a lot easier for people in the country to buy guns. In this episode, we speak to two experts about Brazil’s boom in private gun ownership and why it’s exacerbating fears about political violence ahead of a run-off presidential election on October 30.
Featuring Erika Robb Larkins, associate professor of anthropology and director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University in the US and Juliano Cortinhas, professor of international relations at the University of Brasilia in Brazil.
This episode was produced by Gemma Ware and Mend Mariwany, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Gemma Ware is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. A transcript will be available soon. Sign up here for a free daily newsletter from The Conversation.
Further reading and listening:
- Brazil: inside Jair Bolsonaro’s militarised democracy – podcast
- Bolsonaro’s first-round election bounce back reminds us why populist leaders are so popular
- Another stress test for democracy: The imminent election crisis in Brazil
- Brazil election: how the political violence of the country’s history has re-emerged
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Podcast: In Common (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: IJC#9: Magical realism, water and power with Valentina Fonseca Cepeda
Pub date: 2022-10-10
Listen to a conversation that Frank van Laerhoven had with Valentina Fonseca Cepeda .
Together with Daniel Castillo-Brieva, Luis Baquero-Bernal, Luz Angela Rodríguez, Eliane Steiner, and John Garcia-Ulloa, Valentina co-authored a recent IJC publication entitled Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia, an article on wetlands, water and conflict in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta wetland complex in Colombia.
As many wetlands worldwide, this system is characterized by its high biodiversity and various livelihoods that are closely linked to water. Unfortunately, also as many wetlands worldwide, this system is vulnerable to and affected by many threats and conflict. Valentina and her colleagues unravel and examine this case employing a mix of methods that include a hydrological analysis, semi-structured interviews, and role-playing.
With a background in ecology, Valentina’s work focuses on local communities, more in particular the use of traditional ecological knowledge for the governance of natural resources. Valentina is affiliated with The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, teaching on the governance of socio-ecological systems, among other thing. At the same time, she works with the NGO ONF Andina where she helps designing and implementing participatory methods with institutional actors and community members to analyze ecosystem services and value chains with the purpose of co-creating alternative scenarios.
In case you want to learn more about topics akin to the topic discussed in this episode, we suggest you check out some of the other titles in the International Journal of the Commons that look at water, power and conflict:
- Chomba, M. J., Hill, T., Nkhata, B., & Nel, A. (2019). A social exchange analysis of adaptive governance in water allocation processes, the Kafue Flats, Zambia. International Journal of the Commons, 13(2).
- Leder, S., Sugden, F., Raut, M., Ray, D., & Saikia, P. (2019). Ambivalences of collective farming: Feminist political ecologies from the Eastern Gangetic Plains. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1).
- Olivier, T. (2021). Mechanism Design in Regional Arrangements for Water Governance. International Journal of the Commons, 15(1).
- Verzijl, A., & Dominguez, C. (2015). The powers of water-user associations: on multiplicity, fluidity, and durability in the Peruvian Andes. International Journal of the Commons, 9(1).
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Podcast: Berkeley Talks (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: U.S. military bases in World War II Latin America
Pub date: 2022-10-10
UC Berkeley history professor Rebecca Herman discusses her new book, Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of U.S. Military Bases in World War II Latin America. She’s joined by Margaret Chowning, professor and Sonne Chair in Latin American History at Berkeley, and Kyle Jackson, a transnational historian of the Americas and a Berkeley Ph.D. candidate in history.
"Typically, when the war comes up, the remarkable thing is that it was this moment where almost every country in the Americas banded together, united around the war effort," says Herman.
"So, when I talk about cooperating with the colossus, I'm thinking in this sort of critical way about how people in the region during the Second World War tried to make the most of the United States' sudden attention to the region and willingness to share resources with the region and willingness to send weapons to the region, while also trying to mitigate U.S. overreach and to grapple with the real significant asymmetries of power that structured that cooperative relationship."
Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.
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Podcast: Discovery & Inspiration
Episode: Elizabeth S. Manley, “Imagining the Tropics: Women and Tourism in the Caribbean”
Pub date: 2022-10-12
Widely understood as a destination for leisure and pleasure, the Caribbean has drawn visitors from the global north for over a century. Women have played a central role in establishing this image of the islands, from the proliferation of women's travel writing beginning in the late nineteenth century to their active roles in shaping the tourism and hospitality industry.
In this podcast, Elizabeth S. Manley (NHC Fellow, 2021–22), associate professor of history at Xavier University of Louisiana, analyzes the contradictions that have fueled narratives of the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present. By examining the ways that notions of gender, commerce, global mobility, and discourses of exoticism have changed in the region over time, we can better understand how the Caribbean has been culturally constructed as a site for escape and rejuvenation.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Europe w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik Leusder
Pub date: 2022-10-10
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sanctions As Siege Warfare w/ Manu Karuka
Pub date: 2022-10-07
This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries (check out our earlier episodes from the series if you've not already!). In this episode, we lay out some very interesting historical and analytical parallels between sieges throughout history and modern sanctions regimes. A fascinating conversation with a great scholar and committed anti-imperialist, you don't want to miss this! Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!
Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies affiliated faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. He is author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019).
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Podcast: Democracy in Question? (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Nadia Urbinati on the Resurgence of Populism, its History, and its Various Forms
Pub date: 2022-10-12
Guests featured in this episode:
Nadia Urbinati, the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is also a permanent visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (Italy), and has taught at Bocconi University Milan (Italy), Sciences Po Paris (France) and the UNICAMP University (Brazil). Her main fields of expertise are modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic, as well as anti-democratic traditions.
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What is the People’s Party?
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The People's Party: (also known as the Populist Party) was an important political party in the United States of America during the late nineteenth century. The People's Party originated in the early 1890s. It was organized in Kansas, but the party quickly spread across the United States. It drew its members from Farmers' Alliances, the Grange, and the Knights of Labor. Originally, the Populists did not form a national organization, preferring to gain political influence within individual states. The Populist Party consisted primarily of farmers unhappy with the Democratic and Republican Parties. The Populists believed that the federal government needed to play a more active role in the American economy by regulating various businesses, especially the railroads. In particular, the Populists supported women's suffrage the direct election of United States Senators. They hoped that the enactment women's suffrage and the direct election of senators would enable them to elect some of their members to political office. Populists also supported a graduated income tax, government ownership of the railroads, improved working conditions in factories, immigration restrictions, an eight-hour workday, the recognition of unions, and easier access to credit. source
What is the Reconstruction?
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Reconstruction: in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. Long portrayed by many historians as a time when vindictiveRadical Republicans fastened Black supremacy upon the defeated Confederacy, Reconstruction has since the late 20th century been viewed more sympathetically as a laudable experiment in interracial democracy. Reconstruction witnessed far-reaching changes in America’s political life. At the national level, new laws and constitutionalamendments permanently altered the federal system and the definition of American citizenship. In the South, a politically mobilized Black community joined with white allies to bring the Republican Party to power, and with it a redefinition of the responsibilities of government. source
What is austerity?
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Austerity: (also called austerity measures) is a set of economic policies, usually consisting of tax increases, spending cuts, or a combination of the two, used by governments to reduce budget deficits. Austerity measures can in principle be used at any time when there is concern about government expenditures exceeding government revenues. Often, however, governments delay resorting to such measures because they are usually politically unpopular. Instead, governments tend to rely on other means—for example, deficit financing, which involves borrowing from financial markets—to mitigate budget deficits in the short run, a decision that usually necessitates the adoption of harsher austerity measures in the long run. source
What is universal suffrage?
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Universal suffrage: generally understood as the right to vote for political representatives conferred to almost all adult citizens or residents, regardless of their social status, property, knowledge, religion, race, gender, or other similar qualifications. The principle of universal suffrage, together with principles of equal, free, secret, and direct suffrage, present fundamental principles of elections common to all democracies around the world. Universal suffrage is one of two historically developed concepts of the suffrage—consisting of the right to vote and the right to stand for election. The other one, a concept contrary to universal suffrage, can be denominated as so-called limited suffrage. The concept of limited suffrage, preferred until the nineteenth century, was based on the exclusion of a large number of people from the suffrage. It was done based on social status, property, knowledge, religion, race, or gender. source
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Podcast: A is for Architecture
Episode: Christian Parreño: Boredom, capitalism and architecture.
Pub date: 2022-10-12
In Episode 4 of 2022/23 A is for Architecture, I speak with Christian Parreno, writer, academic and architect, about his book Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience, published by Bloomsbury this year. Christian is assistant professor of history and theory of architecture at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and part of the International Society of Boredom Studies research network.
Christian and I speak about some of the themes of his book, not least the condition of boredom as a inherent characteristic of modern urban life, and the ways that modern architecture and cities have established ennui and tedium as characteristics of everyday life.
The book, Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience, can be found here. Christian’s professional profile can be found here and his Instagram profile here. Christian’s talk, Boredom, Suicide and the Architecture of 1 Poultry Street, London can be watched on YouTube here.
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Podcast: Infectious Historians (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 98 - Anti-Vaccination movements with Paula Larsson
Pub date: 2022-10-08
Paula Larsson (University of Oxford) comes on the new Infectious Historians episode to talk about her work on anti-vaccination movements. The conversation begins with an overview of vaccines before moving into vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination. Paula explores the similarities in anti-vaccination movements and their arguments over the past two centuries, while drawing parallels to famous recent cases such as the MMR vaccine and its false links to autism and the Covid vaccine. Near the end, Paula discusses her public engagement work, which she has pursued through multiple pathways.
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Podcast: On Geopolitics
Episode: Episode 17: What is going to happen next?
Pub date: 2022-10-12
After an eventful summer, Suzanne and Ali discuss the role and limitations of predictions and forecasting in geopolitics.
The hosts:
Suzanne Raine is an Affiliate Lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University. She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She specialised in counter-terrorism and was a senior member of the UK government assessment community. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
Ali Ansari is Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews in the UK. He is also Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
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Podcast: Accidental Gods (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Planet, not Profit: Envisioning a genuinely sustainable future in a not-for-profit world with Jennifer Hinton
Pub date: 2022-09-28
Dr. Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. Her work focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global sustainability challenges. Her relationship-to-profit theory uses systems thinking and institutional economics to explain how key aspects of business and markets drive social and ecological sustainability outcomes. She started developing this theory in the book How on Earth, which outlines a conceptual model of a not-for-profit market economy – the Not-for-Profit World model. She holds a double PhD in Economics and Sustainability Science. As an activist, she collaborates with civil society organizations, businesses, and policy makers to transform the economy so that it can work for everyone within the ecological limits of the planet. She is a researcher at Lund University and a senior research fellow at the Schumacher Institute.
In this episode, we explore the natuer of the various Growth vs Degrowth/postgrowth paradigms and how the shift to not-for-profit businesses worldwide could signal a shift to the end of profiteering and a change in the focus of humanity. If we're not simply driving for more profit for shareholders and bigger bonuses for the C-suite, then what can we be for? Can businesses pivot to a world where they actually exist to further the welfare of people and planet? What would that look like and how would it work?
This is one of the keys to a flourishing future. If businesses continue to push for sales growth/profits growth at all costs, then we're finished. If they can begin to turn the extraordinary creativity that has seen their profits soar, to something worthwhile…then anything is possible.
Envisioning a not for profit future: Paper https://nonprofitquarterly.org/envisioning-a-not-for-profit-world-for-a-sustainable-future/
Jennifer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-hinton-758a544/
Paper: Fit for Purpose: https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2231/
Paper: A Not for Profit Economy for a Regenerative Sustainable World: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359043036_A_Not-For-Profit_Economy_for_a_Regenerative_Sustainable_World
Paper: Five Key Dimensions of Post Growth Business: Putting the Pieces Together: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351610225_Five_Key_Dimensions_of_Post-Growth_Business_Putting_the_Pieces_Together
Paper: Relationship to Profit A Theory of Business Markets and Profit for Social Ecological Economics https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348742711_Relationship-to-Profit_A_Theory_of_Business_Markets_and_Profit_for_Social_Ecological_Economics
Glas Cymru: https://corporate.dwrcymru.com/en/about-us/company-structure/glas-cymru
BRAC: http://www.brac.net
Myuma: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-myuma-group/about/
Book: How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not for Profit World: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01398
Jennifer on Twitter: @Hintojen
Tim Jackson Prosperity without Growth: https://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/pwg/
Patagonia going Not For Profit: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/14/patagonias-billionaire-owner-gives-away-company-to-fight-climate-crisis-yvon-chouinard
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Podcast: Thinking Allowed (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Futilitarianism - Extreme Pessimists
Pub date: 2022-10-05
Futilitarianism & Extreme Pessimists: Laurie Taylor talks to Neil Vallelly, Researcher at Economic and Social Research Aotearoa (ESRA) at the University of Otago, New Zealand about a new study which argues that the current moment is characterised by feelings of futility and uselessness. If maximising utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximise our utility—by working endlessly, undertaking further education and relentlessly marketing ourselves—we are met with the steady worsening of collective social and economic conditions? They're joined by Monika Mühlböck, Visiting Professor in Political Science at the University of Vienna whose research finds that expected downward mobility is impacting the political attitudes & voting behaviour of young people. Drawing on data from a survey among young adults aged 18–35 in eleven European countries, she asks to what extent that young adults who expect to do worse than their parents in the future are more likely to locate themselves at the extreme ends of the ideological scale.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Podcast: Deconstructed (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Is Crypto a Big Scam?
Pub date: 2022-09-23
Last week, the White House released a proposed framework for the regulation of cryptocurrency. The document gives the green light to regulators to continue crafting rules around the industry, and even explores the creation of a “CBDC”: a central bank digital currency. Actor, writer, and crypto skeptic Ben McKenzie joins Ryan Grim to discuss the framework and the future (or lack thereof) of the crypto industry.
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Podcast: Bad Gays (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Magnus Hirschfeld (with Laurie Marhoefer)
Pub date: 2022-10-05
It's the Magnus Hirschfeld episode. We invited Laurie Marhoefer – Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, and one of our most-cited historians ever – to discuss their new book on Hirschfeld, called Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. On the episode, we touch on Hirschfeld's life story as a pioneering doctor who helped invent modern homosexual identities and worked on some forms of trans-affirming health care –– while also discussing the ways he integrated racism into the homosexual identities he was creating, collaborated with eugenicists, and was often willing to accept more rights for some at the expense of others.
Our intro and outro music are, respectively, a tune written for us by DJ Michael Oswell Graphic Designer and Arpeggia Colorix, by Yann Terrien
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Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Episode: 331. 15 minute city & placemaking - Carlos Moreno
Pub date: 2022-09-28
Carlos Moreno is a Senior University Professor French-Colombian specialized in the intelligent control of complex systems.
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Podcast: The History of Literature (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
Pub date: 2022-09-26
As the author of what is generally considered the first and perhaps greatest novel of the modern era, Miguel de Cervantes and his masterpiece Don Quixote belongs on every shelf. But as two scholars point out in their new book, What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature the lessons to be learned from Cervantes go beyond issues of plot and character. In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor David Castillo and Professor William Egginton about using the example of Cervantes to better understand the role that the humanities can play in dissecting and combatting the forces of disinformation.
Additional listening suggestions:
- 329 Miguel de Cervantes
- Jorge Luis Borges
- 314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Anjali Vats on Critical Race Theory & Intellectual Property
Pub date: 2022-10-04
In this episode, Anjali Vats, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses her book "The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans," which is published by Stanford University Press. She explains how critical race theory can and should inform our understanding of the history of intellectual property. Vats is on Twitter at @raceip.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China
Pub date: 2022-09-29
Henrietta Harrison discusses her Cundill Prize-shortlisted book on the interpreters who took on the dangerous task of communicating between the British empire and Qing China. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, she explores the extraordinary life stories of two key translators, and reveals how their work shaped the course of British-Chinese relations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Imperial Mecca, Protests in Iran & Local Politics (S. 12, Ep. 3)
Pub date: 2022-09-29
Michael Christopher Low of the University of Utah joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. The book analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. (Starts at 1:07) Mohammad Ali Kadivar of Boston College discusses the current waves of protests in Iran. (Starts at 32:23) Sarah El-Kazaz of the University of London and Lana Salman of Harvard University discuss their chapter in The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings, which focuses on a relational approach to local politics and the lack of subnational literature that engages with the MENA region. (co-authored with Mona Harb and Janine Clark). (Starts at 47:13)
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Podcast: Metaphysical Milkshake with Rainn & Reza (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ruha Benjamin: How Do You Build A Movement?
Pub date: 2022-10-04
Rainn and Reza sit down with Sociologist and Professor, Ruha Benjamin, to ponder, "How Do You Build A Movement?"
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 551: Digital borders
Pub date: 2022-09-16
Digital technologies are changing how migration happens: from the way artificial intelligence is used for policing borders, to how a person's journey is documented via social media. Journalist Sally Hayden speaks about how migrants and refugees use tech during their journeys. Lawyer and York University's Refugee Lab associate director Petra Molnar talks about how AI and surveillance tech are used in policing borders. Author and London School of Economics professor Myria Georgiou discusses the idea of a "digital border."
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Podcast: Failed Architecture (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Architectural Workers Organising in Europe w/Marisa Cortright, Part 1
Pub date: 2022-09-15
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Empire of Steel: Bethlehem in Latin America with Cory Fischer Hoffman
Pub date: 2022-09-19
The Empire of Bethlehem Steel stretched from a small eastern-Pennsylvania city across the United States and down to Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, and Brazil. It encompassed dozens of plants, concerns, and subsidiary firms, and touched the lives of millions of people across multiple continents. During a century (1880s-1980s) of involvement in Latin America, Bethlehem Steel Company imported cheap materials (iron, manganese) while exporting technical, corporate, and social practices developed in the United States.
Telling this story is Dr. Cory Fischer Hoffman, visiting assistant professor at Lafayette College, whose research into the Bethlehem Steel Company uncovers the global connections that underpinned company success over the twentieth century. Company interests in the mineral economy of Latin America persisted from wholly-owned iron mines in Cuba Chile, through their loss during the period of “resource nationalism” in the region, to minority-stake ownership of manganese mines in Mexico and Brazil. Using the Bethlehem Steel collections held by the Hagley Library, Fischer Hoffman reveals that the company as a chief architect and major beneficiary of globalization.
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Podcast: Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode Sixty
Pub date: 2022-09-15
Çınla, Jenn, and Scott are joined by Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, Professor of Economics at Université Lumière Lyon 2 and current President of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE). Discussion topics include the history of feminist economics, the "missionary" work of economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer, and Professor Gomez Betancourt's work with ALAHPE and the History of Economics Diversity Caucus.
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Podcast: The East is a Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: "Know your enemy": Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature (1967) w/ Louis Allday
Pub date: 2022-09-20
Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com
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Podcast: Narrative Now
Episode: Episode 9: Indigenous Narratives in Colonial Archives with Rose Barrowcliffe
Pub date: 2022-09-15
In this episode we speak to Rose Barrowcliffe about changes to how First Nations narratives are collected and archived in settler-colonial countries like Australia. Rose is a Butchulla doctoral researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia and the inaugural First Nations Archives Advisor to the Queensland State Archives. In this role, she has initiated work on new metadata practices, outreach, and self-determination. Rose's doctoral research focuses on the Kgari (Fraser Island) Research Archive and uses both visual and audio narratives and family stories. The episode offers a fascinating conversation about silences, visibility, surveillance, and what comes to count as ‘valuable’ records in a nation’s story about its past.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Epidemiology and the Poultry Industry / Boyce Upholt
Pub date: 2022-09-21
Investigative journalist Boyce Upholt wrote The New Republic article, "Will the Next Pandemic Start With Chickens?: This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses."
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Podcast: Public Anthropologist Podcast
Episode: Are we in the age of Anthropocene?
Pub date: 2022-09-15
In the 6th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews environmental historian and historical geographer, Jason W. Moore. Moore's work radically upsets the Nature-Society dualism of capitalism both materially and symbolically manifested in the logic of Anthropocene. We discuss the periodization of history, its framing and the kind of role it played in shaping our interpretation of climate change and the inanimate world.
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Neferti X. M. Tadiar, "Remaindered Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-09-15
In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.
Shraddha Chatterjee is a doctoral candidate at York University, Toronto, and author of Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects (Routledge, 2018).
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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Power vs People | Robbie Watt
Pub date: 2022-09-15
Robbie Watt is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, researching climate change politics, carbon markets, global governance, and critical theory. His article, The Fantasy of Carbon Offsetting, was runner-up for Environmental Politics journal's best article award 2021.
Robbie joins me to discuss the moral economy of offsetting schemes, the politics of climate change, and how power depoliticises spaces to maintain control. This is an episode all about power dynamics—where they hide and how to reveal them.
Join us as we blast through psychoanalysis, postmodernism and Marx to find the right words to describe the greatest problem humankind faces: Critical Climate Theory (you heard it here first).
Planet: Critical investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Special - The Chilean Constitutional Plebiscite w/ René Rojas
Pub date: 2022-09-09
In lieu of a News Roundup this week, Danny and Derek welcome René Rojas—assistant professor of human development at SUNY Binghamton, member of the editorial board of Catalyst, and contributor to Jacobin—to discuss the September 4 Chilean constitutional plebiscite and what it means for Chilean politics.
Check out René’s latest essay in Catalyst, “Chile’s Resurgent Left”. Also, keep an eye out for his piece on the plebiscite in Jacobin this coming weekend, as well as an upcoming book on 21st Century leftist movements for Verso.
Recorded Friday, September 9, 2022
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: We Make the Road by Walking: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Pub date: 2022-09-09
Geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore pioneered the study of how mass incarceration has shaped the American landscape. In this wide-ranging interview with IDEAS, Gilmore talks about her latest book, Abolition Geography, in which she brings together more than three decades of essays and lectures about how America — and Americans — have come to be.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Financialization & Student Anxiety
Pub date: 2022-09-12
Various explanations have been offered for what’s been called an anxiety epidemic among university students, but Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou believes a crucial causal factor is financialization, the way the financial sector and its logic has permeated our social, economic, and individual lives. He sees signs of optimism in the proliferation of student mobilizations around the issue of anxiety. Max Haiven and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, “An ‘Anxiety Epidemic’ in the Financialized University: Critical Questions and Unexpected Resistance” Cultural Politics Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World University of Chicago Press, 2022 The post Financialization & Student Anxiety appeared first on KPFA.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Anders Anderson on the Economics of E-Bikes
Pub date: 2022-09-14
Anders Anderson is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Swedish House of Finance. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2004 at the Stockholm School of Economics. He held post-doctoral positions at the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) and the University of Mannheim before being appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm University in 2006. In 2009, he returned to SIFR as Deputy Director. He was Director of the Swedish House of Finance between 2014 and 2021, and has been teaching the course Behavioral Finance at the SSE Master program since 2011. Andersons’s research is mainly focused on behavioral and consumer finance, but also include the trading behavior of individual and institutional investors. His research has been published in some of the world’s leading finance journals that has rendered him the 2016 AFBC Black Rock Best Paper Award and the 2018 GFLEC Financial Literacy Research Award.
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Podcast: Progressing Planning
Episode: Using urban theory to understand land-financialisation
Pub date: 2022-09-09
In this episode we are joined by Dr. Callum Ward, LSE fellow in Urban Planning and Geography. In his research, Callum uses urban political theory to help better understand contemporary economic and political processes that affect cities and citizens. In the podcast, Callum discusses his recently published article on Antwerp's planning policy in a context of neoliberal urban governance and aggressive land-financialisation.
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Podcast: City Road Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 69. Visions of Nature
Pub date: 2022-09-13
Dallas talks with Jarrod Hore about Visions of Nature, which revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.
Author Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian of settler colonial landscapes, nature writing, and geology, and is currently postdoctoral fellow with the New Earth Histories Research Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney. His work on wilderness photography, early environmentalism, and the Romantic tradition in the antipodes has been published in Australian Historical Studies and History Australia. His first book, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism is published by University of California Press.
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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-09-13
Science plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have experienced completed or attempted rape” are central for raising awareness. Yet such scientific facts often become points of controversy, particularly as conservative scholars and public figures attempt to discredit feminist activists.
Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence (Rutgers University Press, 2021) by Dr. Ethan Czuy Levine explores scientists’ approaches to studying rape over more than forty years in the United States and Canada. In addition to investigating how scientists come to know the scope, causes, and consequences of rape, this book delves into the politics of rape research. Scholars who study rape often face a range of social pressures and resource constraints, including some that are unique to feminized and politicized fields of inquiry. Collectively, these matters have far-reaching consequences. Scientific projects may determine who counts as a potential victim/survivor or aggressor in a range of contexts, shaping research agendas as well as state policy, anti-violence programming and services, and public perceptions. Social processes within the study of rape determine which knowledges count as credible science, and thus who may count as an expert in academic and public contexts.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Podcast: Not Just the Tudors (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Musicians Who Went to Sea
Pub date: 2022-09-08
Hardly anything has been written about the musicians who carried out many important tasks in England’s maritime ventures during the Elizabethan age. That is until now. Pioneering research has revealed that performers played a vital role, including using music to build relationships with the inhabitants of new found lands.
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. James Seth about his discoveries, which shows musicians transcending and breaching boundaries of language, rank, race, religion and nationality to ensure the success of a voyage.
The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was researched by Esther Arnott, and edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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Podcast: Historic Royal Palaces Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The history of food writing
Pub date: 2022-09-08
In this two-part series compiled from our archives we explore the history of food and dining across our palaces.
In this second episode, food historian Pen Vogler explains the art of describing culinary delights and disasters, and discusses the origins of food writing.
For more information on the history and stories of our palaces visit: www.hrp.org.uk/history-and-stories
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Podcast: Democratize Work!
Episode: #20.2 Migrant Labour and Organizing in the Platform Economy
Pub date: 2022-09-09
DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG ZUM NACHLESEN Die deutsche Übersetzung dieses zweiten Teils der zweiteiligen Folge zu migrantischer Arbeit und der Plattformökonomie kannst du in Kürze hier nachlesen.
In part two of this two-part episode with Gabriella (Gorillas Workers’ Collective) and sociologist Dr. Moritz Altenried (Humbolt University Berlin) we address the challenges and chances of organizing migrant workers in the platform economy.
(ADDITIONAL) SOURCES Gorillas Workers’ Collective is active on Twitter: @GorillasWorkers You can find Moritz' article on the relationship between migration and the gig economy here (open access). In his recently published book “The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation” Moritz reveals the hidden human labor behind today’s digital tools, plattforms and services.
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Podcast: Brazil on Fire (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 3: God Above Everyone
Pub date: 2022-09-06
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Jair Bolsonaro could not have won the presidency without the support of one very important group: Evangelical Christians. There is, perhaps, no other group that Bolsonaro has so vocally courted, or that has been so loyal to the president—And they remain key for Bolsonaro’s hopes of recapturing the presidency this year.
In this episode, we visit those spreading the gospel for Bolsonaro and look at how Bolsonaro and his allies are pushing a religious war of good versus evil, with dangerous repercussions.
This is Brazil on Fire, a podcast about Brazil’s descent toward fascism under President Jair Bolsonaro. Over these six episodes we look at Bolsonaro’s far-right government that has set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it. We’ll visit the birthplace of Brazilian Nazism, evangelical churches, and Indigenous villages in the Amazon.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: Algorithmic Asylum
Pub date: 2022-09-04
With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism.
This week’s Burning Platforms digs deep into a new report ‘Digital Futures in the Mind’ which looks at how algorithmic solutions can have both a positive and negative impact on mental health.
Our special guest is report co-authorDr. Piers Gooding from Melbourne University Law School.
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Podcast: SRB Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Soviet Aid to West Africa
Pub date: 2022-09-06
Guests:
Alessandro Iandolo is a historian of the Soviet Union and the world School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. His research focuses on the USSR’s engagement with Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the Cold War. He’s the author of Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968 published by Cornell University Press.
Natalia Telepneva is a lecturer in International History at the University of Strathclyde. Her research focuses on the Soviet Union’s engagement with African anticolonial movements during the Cold War and the history of socialism, especially in Africa. She’s the author of Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 published by the University of North Carolina Press.
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Podcast: The Week at Work
Episode: 109. Fullstoppers & Semicolonials: Climate Action and Irish Comprador Capitalism
Pub date: 2022-09-04
Special edition with Sinéad Mercier and Conor McCabe where they discuss the dynamics of the Irish comprador/Middleman sector, its deep roots in the institutions of the state, and how that plays out in terms of climate action. They discuss agriculture, housing, energy, and mining, and reflect on ideas for a genuine decolonial Irish climate action energy strategy.
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Podcast: Bungacast (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: /286/ What Was Communism? ft. Branko Milanovic
Pub date: 2022-09-06
On Communism's historic role.
We talk to renowned Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic about growing up in Yugoslavia and how, in much of the world, History never ended. We then dedicate much of the episode to discussing Branko's claim that communism was essentially an engine of economic convergence, allowing developing countries to haul themselves into the industrial age.
We also talk about Branko's work on inequality and why growth still matters.
Readings:
- Capitalism, Alone, Branko Milanovic, Harvard UP
- The Aloofness of Pax Sinica, Branko Milanovic, Global Policy Journal
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Protective Practices: A History of the Condom Business with Jessica Borge
Pub date: 2022-09-06
From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. A first-mover and innovator, the company's continuous product development and strong brands (including Durex) allowed it to dominate supply to the retail trade and family planning clinics, leading it to intercede in the burgeoning women's market.
When oral contraceptives came along, however, the company was caught in a bind between defending condoms against the pill and claiming a segment of the new birth control market for itself. In this first major study on the company, Jessica Borge shows how, despite the "unmentionable" status of condoms that inhibited advertising in the early twentieth century, aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopoly and squash competition. Through close, evidence-based examination of LRC's first fifty years, encompassing its most challenging decades, the 1950s and 1960s, as well as an overview of later years including the AIDS crisis, Borge argues that the story of the modern disposable condom in Britain is really the story of the London Rubber Company, the circumstances that befell it, the struggles that beset it, the causes that opposed it, and the opportunities it created for itself.
LRC's historic intervention in and contribution to female contraceptive practices sits uneasily with existing narratives centered on women's control of reproduction, but the time has come, Borge argues, for the condom to find its way back to the center of these debates. Protective Practices thereby re-examines a key transitional moment in social and cultural history through the lens of this unusual case study.
Dr. Jessica Borge is a research associate , at Archives and Research Collections, King's College, London and a researcher in the private sector.
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Podcast: Sociologists Talking Real Sht (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Two Sociologists Walk Into a Bar...
Pub date*: 2022-09-05
Raul Perez drops by to talk about this new book, The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy. Raúl Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of La Verne, and was previously an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. His scholarship has been awarded and supported by the American Sociological Association, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the Working Class Studies Association, and the American Humor Studies Association. His research has been published in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Discourse and Society, Ethnicities, and Sociological Perspectives. His first book, The Souls of White Joke: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy has been recently published by Stanford University Press. His work has also been featured in various media, including The Washington Post, TIME, NBC, AXIOS, The Grio, Remezcla, Latino Rebels, and Zócalo Public Square.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 230. Portugal: Football, Fado, and Fascism?
Pub date: 2022-09-08
In the final chapter of this series on the history of Portugal, Tom and Dominic explore Portugal in the 20th century, the two World Wars, the Miracle of Fatima and dictator Antonio Salazar.
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of War Photography, with Julian Stallabrass
Pub date: 2022-08-17
This week we hear from Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Julian has written a new book, Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2020.
We discuss the role of photography in war reporting, the weaponization of photographers and the press more broadly by the U.S. government during the war in Iraq, and how technological change has bought new ways of covering and seeing conflict.
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Podcast: Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank) (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 337. Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson on Eating While Black
Pub date: 2022-08-18
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani speaks to Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, a Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. Williams-Forson is also the author of the new book Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America. She and Dani discuss the policing and shaming of Black eaters' dietary choices, the effects of these conversations on Black women and girls, and what happens in the "meantime" before substantive change takes place. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 63 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 2908 - How Capitalism Ruined Architecture w/ Matthew Soules
Pub date: 2022-08-22
Emma makes her triumphant return to MR! She is joined by Matthew Soules, associate professor of architecture at the University of British Columbia, to discuss his recent book Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century.
First, Emma walks updates us on her week in quarantine, before diving into the GOP’s ongoing fight to release the affidavit for the raid on Mar-a-Lago as Dan Crenshaw pleads with Jake Tapper that Donald Trump was actually super nice and cooperative with the DOJ. Then Emma is joined by Matthew Soules as he gets right into what makes the 21st Century brand of capitalism different from that of the 1900s, that difference being neoliberalism’s mode of finance capitalism becoming hegemonic in the world of wealth accumulation. Expanding on this, Matthew walks through the social role of architecture and how that changed with neoliberalism’s hyper-financialization, going from primarily practical structures of shelter with some cultural and wealth signifiers to becoming largely a unit of investment capital and speculation thus practically a financial asset, not a shelter. Next, Soule and Vigeland take on the role of the financialization of architecture in the 2008 financial crisis, central in the creation of Irish ghost estates, Spanish housing vacancies, and the housing crises in the South West United States. This brings Matthew to the integral and identifiable features of finance capitalism’s architecture, first looking at how it creates spaces of crisis, with housing – acting as assets – more tied to the rise and fall of the economy as representations of wealth speculation, and therefore not focused on actually housing people, but rather creating MORE investments for MORE speculation, resulting in spaces across the globe becoming grounds for huge construction projects with simultaneous mass vacancies – and their antithesis of mass-populated slums across urban spaces. After a brief discussion on the more practical effects of this shift in architecture – from the crippling of public spaces to the mass construction of condominiums that actively seek to distance themselves from the locales they look down upon, Matthew and Emma parse through the specifics of how these elites employ housing as a form of speculative wealth storage, with the “great wall of money” (aka elite wealth) building up in the wake of the 1980s, infecting the sector of real estate and physically mutating how it manifests itself over the next four decades, seeing the construction of “iceberg,” ultra-thin, and other standardized but architecturally “unique” (aka utilizing iconography) to create a facade of liquidity, detached from the ground below them, able to change with the economy. To wrap up, Emma and Matthew look at the development of Property Technology (such as Zillow and AirBnB) in bolstering these systems, providing direct evaluations of liquid assets AND a way to ensure passive income from these investments, bolstering the constant housing crises prevalent in today’s capitalism. And in the Fun Half: Emma talks with Kory from Indianapolis on fundamentalist Christianity infiltrating the US courts, Matt dives into the conservative exterminationist perspective versus the liberal “cultural genocide” one, Ron Johnson proclaims that he HARDLY had anything to do with 1/6, and Andy Barr complains to Chuck Todd about the “politicization of the finance of oil,” – you know, that one massive profiteering scheme that’s driving inflation. Kenny from Berkeley touches on the PMC and academic exploitation, Bolsonairo loses his temper, and Ben Shaprio salivates at the thought of licking billionaire boots. Plus, your calls and IMs!
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Podcast: historicly (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Critical Academic World War with Gabrielle Rockhill
Pub date: 2022-08-24
Critical theory as it's been canonized within the Western Academy, is a tradition that comes out of a group of thinkers affiliated with what's called the Frankfurt School. It purported to offer a kind of radical critique of capitalism, consumer society and issues of contemporary society and how they are controlled. However, once again proving Gramsci true, instead, the Frankfurt School has been blunted by its funding sources, used by the CIA and in the end, while prevasive in Western academia, offers no real study on “how the world works” and of course, it critiques Actually Existing Socialism (AES) more than it critiques capitalist or even fascist regimes. On top of it, it has a very reactionary bend to it. Today, Gabrielle Rockhill, philosopher and critique of critical Theory joins us to talk to us about what’s wrong with Western Academia.
Gabrielle’s Writings
The CIA & The Frankfurt's School of Anti-Communism
CIA reads French Theory: Intellectual Disarming of the Left
Foucault - Faux Radical
Foucault, the Anti-Communism, the Global Theory Industry
Show Notes
1:38 - What is critical theory?
3:55 - Critical and revolutionary for the reinvention of the critique in the age of idealogical realignment
4:15 - Theory in the Marxist Sense vs Theory in the Liberal Sense
7:45 - Divorcing Critical Theory from Political Action
9:49 - Tiktok
11:42 - Political Science for Imperialism
13:51 - The Parcelization of Academia in the West
15:00 - Common sense assumptions without Proofs
22:13 - Frankfurt School at Inception
27:44 - The Foundations, Corporations and the Institute for Social Research
34:55 - Infiltration of Unions
41:47: Anything But Socialism
43:00 - Esha uses the opening to rail on Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum
54:23 - The War Propaganda and Academia
1:02:00 - Marxism in the West
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The racial constitution of neoliberalism w/ Arun Kudnani
Pub date: 2022-08-31
Arun Kudnani joins PTO to talk about his article, The Racial Constitution of Neoliberalism which appeared in the Race & Class journal. We talked about how neoliberalism has generated novel forms of racism that cannot be understood simply as residual phenomena from the pre-neoliberal era, why it was that the key neoliberal thinkers were as fixated on defeating leftist movements in the global south during the Cold War as they were on defeating the European and American Labour movements, and finally we talked about whether it is possible to imagine a form of capitalism that is able to dispense with racialisation.
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Podcast: Future Histories (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism
Pub date: 2022-08-21
Nick Dyer-Witheford on biocommunism, "a communism emerging from the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the realm of life itself".
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Shownotes
Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario):
https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/nick_dyer-witheford.html
Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2022. Biocommie: Power and Catastrophe.:
https://projectpppr.org/populisms/biocommie-power-and-catastrophe
PPPR - Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (Research Project):
https://projectpppr.org/
Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2013. Red plenty platforms. Culture Machine 14 (PDF).:
http://svr91.edns1.com/~culturem/index.php/cm/article/view/511/526
Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2007. Commonism. Turbulence 1:
http://www.turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/commonism/index.html
Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 1999. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism. University of Illinois Press.:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p067952
Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2015. Cyber-proletariat: Global labour in the digital vortex. London: Pluto Press. (PDF available):
http://digamo.free.fr/dyerwith.pdf
Dyer-Witheford, Nick, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, and James Steinhoff. 2019. Inhuman power. Artificial intelligence and the future of capitalism. London: Pluto Press.:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/
Further Shownotes
Bastani, Aaron. 2019. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury-communism
Helen Hester:
https://www.uwl.ac.uk/staff/helen-hester
Laboria Cuboniks Collective. 2018. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation. London: Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2887-the-xenofeminist-manifesto
Srnicek, Nick und Alex Williams. 2016. Inventing the Future. London: Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2315-inventing-the-future
Tooze, Adam. 2021. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy. New York: Viking.:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669575/shutdown-by-adam-tooze/
The New Age of Catastrophe - Alex Callinicos's Farewell Lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-DTifOGfM4
Negri, Antonio. 2005. Crisis of the Crisis State. Libcom:
https://libcom.org/library/crisis-state-antonio-negri
Terranova, Tiziana. 2009. Another Life: The Nature of Political Economy in Foucault’s Genealogy of Biopolitics., Theory, Culture & Society, 26(6), 234–65.:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276409352193
Fraser, Nancy. 2016. Contradictions of Capital and Care. New Left Review 100, 99-117.:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care
Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Picador.:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55595/the-shock-doctrine-by-naomi-klein/9780141024530
Buck, Holly Jean. 2021. Ending fossil fuels: Why net zero is not enough. Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3879-ending-fossil-fuels
Cox, Stan. 2013. Any way you slice it: the past, present, and future of rationing. The New Press.:
https://thenewpress.com/books/any-way-you-slice-it
Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/4029-automation-and-the-future-of-work
Jameson, Fredric. 2016. An American utopia. Dual Power and the Universal Army. London: Verso, 1-96.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2118-an-american-utopia
Doctorow, Cory. 2020. Full Employment. Locus Magazine:
https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
Out of the Woods. 2018. The Uses of Disaster. Commune Magazine: https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/
Out of the Woods. 2020. Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis. New York: Common Notions.:
https://libcom.org/article/hope-against-hope-out-woods-book-coming-soon
Foucault, Michel, & Michel Senellart (transl.). 2008. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-79. Palgrave Macmillan:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312203412/thebirthofbiopolitics
[German] Sutterlütti, Simon & Meretz, Stefan. 2018. Kapitalismus aufheben. Hamburg: VSA Verlag. (PDF verfügbar):
https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/VSA_Sutterluetti_Meretz.pdf
Malm, Andreas. 2020. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century. London: Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3704-corona-climate-chronic-emergency
Nunes, Rodrigo. 2021. Neither vertical nor horizontal: A theory of political organization. London: Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Excerpt from Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (Verso 2021):
https://projectpppr.org/platforms/the-traumas-of-organization
Interview by Nick Dyer-Witheford with Rodrigo Nunes:
https://projectpppr.org/platforms/neither-vertical-nor-horizontal-interview-with-rodrigo-nunes
Diane DiPrima:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_DiPrima
Regarding scarcity in liberalism see the Future Histories Episode with Ute Tellman as well as:
Tellmann, Ute. 2017. Life and money: The genealogy of the liberal economy and the displacement of politics. Columbia University Press.:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/life-and-money/9780231182263
Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics
S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/
[German] S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/
S01E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/
(German) Episoden zum Thema alternative Regierungskünste
S02E25 | Bini Adamczak zu Beziehungsweisen:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e25-bini-adamczak-zu-beziehungsweisen/
S02E24 | Gabriel Kuhn zu anarchistischer Regierungskunst:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e24-gabriel-kuhn-zu-anarchistischer-regierungskunst/
S02E08 | Thomas Biebricher zu neoliberaler Regierungskunst:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e08-thomas-biebricher-zu-neoliberaler-regierungskunst/
S02E06 | Alexander Kluge zu Zukünften der Kooperation:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e06-alexander-kluge-zu-zukuenften-der-kooperation/
S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/
S01E53 | Kalle Kunkel zu Herrschaftstechnologien in der Krise:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e53-kalle-kunkel-zu-herrschaftstechnologien-in-der-krise/
S01E25 | Joseph Vogl zur Krise des Regierens:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e25-joseph-vogl-zur-krise-des-regierens/
S01E11 | Frieder Vogelmann zu alternativen Regierungskünsten:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e11-frieder-vogelmann-zu-alternativen-regierungskuensten/
Find a collection of Future Histories episodes related to democratic economic planning here:
https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/zeitgen%C3%B6ssische-planwirtschaft-in-future-S9jTkXfb-gp/episodes/
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Podcast: Conjuncture (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Conjuncture: Against Pessimism | S2 Ep 1
Pub date: 2022-08-22
Jordan T. Camp speaks with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the history of racial capitalism, the roots of fascism, and the freedom dreams of social movements to open season 2 of Conjuncture.
Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.
Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of History at UCLA.
Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 186. Refusing the Everyday Fascism of Artificial Intelligence (ft. Dan McQuillan)
Pub date: 2022-08-26
We are joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss his great new book Resisting AI. As Jathan wrote in a blurb for the book: “With analytical and moral clarity, McQuillan makes the case for recognising the radical politics of AI and meeting its goose step march head-on.” We get deep into an excellent discussion spanning the political economy and political epistemology of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Ed is trapped in Pittsburgh where he is now forced to live as a worker in a defunct steel factory.
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Podcast: High Theory (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Normalization
Pub date: 2022-08-17
In this episode of High Theory, Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert tell us about normalization in international relations. Their research applies Foucault’s social theories of the normal and abnormal to the objects of political science: states, international organizations, and practices of intervention.
In the episode (and in their book) Gëzim and Nicolas reference Foucault’s Lectures at the College de France on the Abnormal (printed in English by Verso and Macmillan). They discuss three exemplary figures from Foucault’s work on the abnormal: the monster, the incorrigible, and the onanist. Each one has a corresponding figure in international politics.
Their new book Normalization in World Politics is available as an open access text from Michigan University Press. That means you can read it for free! Check it out, and learn all about the ways we produce, impose, and maintain normal and abnormal affairs in the international order.
Gëzim Visoka is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Dublin City University, whose research focuses on peacebuilding and statebuilding, transitional justice, global governance, foreign policy, and diplomatic recognition. Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. He works on interventions: local resistance to political interventions, the political economy of interventions, and mapping political interventions.
This week’s image is a 1689 world map, Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula Amstelodami, ex officina G. a Schagen (1682), t'Amsterdam Gedruckt by G. van Schagen, by de Nieuwe Haerlemmer Sluys. It was originally made in using copper engraving, then much later digitized and made available to the public on Wikimedia Commons.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Progressive Economy Forum - Digital Futures
Pub date: 2022-07-31
Covid-19 accelerated the digitisation of our economy, as more and more activity has moved online. But the technologies we have threaten an uncertain future at best: unemployment, huge inequalities of wealth and power, and a lack of democratic oversight. What might we expect, and what are the alternatives? In this panel discussion Dalia Gebrial, Aaron Benanav and Ursula Huws grapple with these questions about our digital future.
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Podcast: Asian American History 101 (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: A Conversation with Daryl Joji Maeda
Pub date: 2022-08-01
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 39! We love reading and learning, so it was a treat to get a chance to have a conversation with Daryl Joji Maeda, the Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. His latest book is Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee. It was a fascinating, well-researched book that takes a deeper look into Bruce Lee, his life, and the social conditions he faced on his way to becoming a global superstar. In our conversation, Daryl shares the importance of Asian Pacific Islander representation in leadership positions, why Bruce Lee continues to be a popular icon, how colonialist mindsets create challenges for acceptance of Asian Pacific Americans in media, and so much more. We highly recommend getting a copy of his latest book or either of his two previous books! For prior episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.
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Podcast: Turkey Book Talk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Pub date: 2022-08-01
Gönül Bozoğlu on “Museums, Emotion and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey” (Routledge). The book examines Istanbul's Panorama 1453 Museum and Ankara's Atatürk and War of Independence Museum to show how history in Turkey is often a battleground where contemporary identities clash for supremacy.
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Podcast: SRB Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg
Pub date: 2022-08-02
Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Environmental Crime in the Brazilian Amazon
Pub date: 2022-07-29
The recent disappearance and murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest is part of a longer history of violence and criminality in the region.
Today, we learn more about the murders and put this history in context with Laura Waisbich, co-author of a new report on environmental crime in the Brazilian Amazon, and Maria Luisa Mendonça, who has recently written about land grabs in Brazil and increasing environmental destruction under president Jair Bolsonaro.
Laura Waisbich is a senior researcher at the Igarapé Institute, an independent think-and-do tank focused on the areas of public, climate, and digital security and their consequences for democracy. She holds a PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge.
Maria Luisa Mendonça is a research scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in human geography from the Universidade de São Paulo.
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Podcast: Irregular Warfare Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: US Intelligence in a Changing World
Pub date: 2022-07-29
This episode focuses on the US intelligence community and its role in supporting the spectrum of national security missions, from the heavy counterterrorism focus of the post-9/11 era to today's environment of strategic competition. Dr. Amy Zegart, author of the book Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, and Ms. Susan Gordan, former principal deputy director of national intelligence, join the podcast to explore the evolution of the intelligence community, particularly since 9/11. They explain the increasing influence of technology and cyberspace and reflect on ways in which the intelligence community might continue to adapt and retain its competitive advantage while the United States continues to face a multitude of threats and missions across all domains of warfare.
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Podcast: Jouissance Vampires (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Pleasure: A Political Issue with Anna Kornbluh
Pub date: 2022-07-25
Fredric Jameson is one of the most important Marxist literary critics. We are joined by Anna Kornbluh to discuss his theory of postmodernism and particularly his work on psychoanalysis and Marxism. We analyze Jameson's incredible essay "Pleasure: A Political Issue" which looks at the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism. This conversation gets at the heart of the Marxism-psychoanalysis relationship, what the stakes are, what psychoanalysis offers to Marxist analysis and more. Anna Kornbluh's research and teaching interests center on Victorian literature and Critical Theory, with a special emphasis in formalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and theory of the novel. She is the author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space (University of Chicago 2019), Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club (Bloomsbury "Film Theory in Practice” series, 2019), and Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (Fordham UP 2014).
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2891 - The Radicalizing Wormhole Of Right Wing Comedy w/ Nick Marx & Odessa Kelly
Pub date: 2022-07-28
Emma hosts Nick Marx, associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University, to discuss his recent book That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them that he co-authored with Matt Sienkiewicz. Then, Emma is joined by Odessa Kelly, candidate for Congress in Tennessee's 7th District, to give us an update from the campaign trail. First, Emma dives into the impotent Inflation Reduction Act, the GOP’s block of healthcare for vets exposed to agent orange, and the Right in Congress complaining about the Democrats trying to do two things at once! Nick Marx then joins as he dives right into what inspired his studies of the world of conservative comedy, from the belief that it was an oxymoron with the success of the Daily Show without a right-wing counterpart, to the emergency of Trump and the “is he funny (yes)” arguments. Then, he and Emma walk through the various levels of comedy discussed in the book, from the more basic reactionary comedy of Dave Chapelle that isn’t inherently right-wing to the more obvious institutional conservatism of Fox’s Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, the latter of which has his own (surprisingly successful) late night show, and discuss how the hatred of ambivalence that can be found in their reactionary backlash plays in pushing this humor further and further to the extreme. Taking a step back, Professor Marx then paints a picture of the institutional similarities between the late-night comedy of the right and left, from the actual formats of the show to the tactics of creating an “in-group” unified around laughing at the “out-group,” before wrapping up with a conversation on the endpoint of this wormhole to the right and the genuine fascists and neonazis that largely act as sources for this reactionary commentary. Then, Odessa Kelly and Emma get right into Kelly’s fight for TN-7, the failure of the right’s attempt to engage in racist gerrymandering, and the beauty of fighting for a base of Black folks and progressives. Next, she walks through her experiences working in unions and fighting gentrification, how they built her knowledge of the role of solidarity in achieving progress, and what we need from positions of power to get stuff done.
And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt and Brandon, with Binder previewing a massive Web3 story he’ll be breaking this evening on Scam Economy, Emma takes on the absurdity of Jim Harbaugh’s “give me your children” policy and the messiah complex of College Football coaches. Noah from Tampa dives into the psychology of conservatives, Andrew Yang finally brews the first truly third party, and Q takes on Right Wingers dominating the discourse around comedy. Matt Gaetz gets absolutely “mothered” by a Pence advisor, the Newsmax goes back to the 2010s backlash to twerking, and the crew explores the US’ response to the monkeypox epidemic, plus, your calls and IMs!
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Podcast: IndigenousX Presents:
Episode: Blak Bias: More than Media - Indigenous journalism in times of crisis
Pub date: 2022-07-29
From keeping students connected to their schooling during the pandemic to helping coordinate clean up efforts after floods, Indigenous media does more than just report on what’s happening.
The Guardian Australia’s Indigenous Affairs editor, Lorena Allam, explains the work of Indigenous media during times of crisis. She explains how The Guardian’s approach to reporting the outbreak of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities in western New South Wales put the government on notice about vaccination rates. But at the same time, mainstream news too often fell into victim-blaming.
Blak Bias is a collaboration between IndigenousX, the University Technology Sydney (UTS) and 2SER Radio. It has been made possible with the support of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI).
Co-hosts: Rhianna Patrick and Madeline Hayman-Reber. Produced, edited and mixed by Marlene Even at 2SER Radio.
More Information: Above and Beyond: A study of First Nations media and the COVID-19 pandemic - https://apo.org.au/node/316152
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Megafires and Floods in the Age of Climate Change
Pub date: 2022-07-28
Back in April, the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fires merged to become a massive “megafire” that blazed across 534 square miles of New Mexico’s Southern Rocky Mountain front.
Today on the show, Thursday host Allen Ruff probes into what this fire tells us about where the Southwest, the nation, and the planet are headed as the climate crisis intensifies with guest William deBuys, who recently wrote an article titled “New Mexico’s Megafires Mark a Turning Point.”
William deBuys is a writer, environmentalist, and conservationist. His most recent book is The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss (Seven Stories Press, 2021).
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 366) Daniel Heath Justice: Indigenous literature and decolonial libraries
Pub date: 2022-07-26
“English embeds certain things just by virtue of its structure. It’s a very thing-ifying language; it’s very noun-heavy. Most of the Indigenous languages that I know of are very relational and verb-heavy. It’s a fundamentally different way of relating to the world and to community. If [the] Indigenous literature [you see] is all in English, then you’re missing a significant reality in terms of Indigenous forms of expression.”
In this episode, we welcome Daniel Heath Justice, a Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He works on Musqueam territory at the University of British Columbia, where he is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English and holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture. A literary scholar, fantasy novelist, and cultural historian, his critical and creative work considers Indigenous kinship, sexuality, speculative fiction, and other-than-human relations.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include the role of storytelling in shaping culture, the politics of what gets validated as literature, the power of speculative fiction in seeding imaginations for other ways of being, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Tear Down The Wall by Forest Veil. The episode-inspired artwork is by Subin Yang.)
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Podcast: The French History Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dangerous Ideas: Transatlantic Political Groups in the Age of Revolution with Dr. Micah Alpaugh
Pub date: 2022-07-08
Gary: Today’s special episode is an interview with Dr. Micah Alpaugh. Micah received his Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine. He completed a Postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania before becoming a professor at the University of Central Missouri. Today we are discussing his book, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in […]
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Podcast: Trade Talks (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 164. Why a notorious banana company spared workers in Costa Rica
Pub date: 2022-07-27
For decades, United Fruit Company exploited banana workers across its Latin American plantations, except in Costa Rica. Why?
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Podcast: Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Robben Island Shakespeare, with David Schalkwyk
Pub date: 2022-07-20
While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa's Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners, Sonny Venkatrathnam, managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare's complete works. Venkatrathnam secretly circulated the book to many of his fellow prisoners—including Mandela—asking them to sign their names next to their favorite passages. As South African Shakespeare scholar David Schalkwyk explains to interviewer Rebecca Sheir, there is something special about "a book that had passed through the hands of the people who had saved my country." Schalkwyk shares some personal history and reveals what Shakespeare might have meant to the men who signed the Robben Island Shakespeare. David Schalkwyk is a Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He previously served as director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library and editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. He is the author of Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets; Plays, Literature and the Touch of the Real; and Shakespeare, Love and Service. His book about the Robben Island Shakespeare is titled Hamlet’s Dreams. It was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Originally published in 2013, and rebroadcast July 19, 2022. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, "Cowards Die Many Times before Their Deaths; The Valiant Never Taste of Death but Once," was produced under the supervision of Garland Scott, and is presented with permission of rlpaulproductions, LLC, which created it for the Folger. Esther French and Ben Lauer are the web producers.
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Podcast: From Here Forward (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Gig Economy: Friend or Foe?
Pub date: 2022-07-18
Carol and Rumneek speak with Shannon Walsh, an associate professor in the Department of Film and Theater at UBC, and also a filmmaker. Her fifth and latest film is The Gig is Up. Hear about the ways the global gig economy is impacting not only the future of work, but society as a whole.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: KPFA Special – Gerald Horne on The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Pub date: 2022-07-25
Guest: Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Jazz and Justice, and his latest, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.
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Podcast: Visions of Education (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 182: Third-grade Students’ Sensemaking about Enslavement with Ryan Hughes
Pub date: 2022-07-21
In episode 182, Dan and Michael chat with Ryan Hughescal about his study published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “‘What is slavery?’: Third-grade students’ sensemaking about enslavement through historical inquiry.”
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Podcast: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Episode: Carbon Critique Podcast #2: Timothy Mitchell – Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Pub date: 2022-07-22
Timothy Mitchell is a political science Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of interest include colonialism, political economy, the politics of energy, and the making of expert knowledge. Much of his work blends the study of the built world, technical devices, ecological processes, and the history of economic and political concepts. In this episode, we will talk to Mitchell about his book “Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil,” which came out over 10 years ago.
📲 https://www.versobooks.com/books/1445-carbon-democracy
The book traces a revisionist history of 20th century by centering the analysis on the material basis of political power. He focuses on how political systems and political action are constrained and determined by the carbon energy that emerged since the 19th century, first with coal and then as it transitioned to oil. By emphasizing how carbon’s “socio-technical worlds” manifest themselves, Mitchell sheds light on where actual sites of power lie and what “political agency” is possible. This, in turn, helps us think on historically grounded modes of energy transition, resistance against the ubiquitous carbon rationality, and ways to re-imagine a post-carbon society.
The transcript of this episode, can be found here (English and German)
📲 https://www.iass-potsdam.de/en/carbon-critique-episode-2
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: E54 - States of Liberation, Ep. 1 w/ Samuel Huneke
Pub date: 2022-07-19
Danny and Derek welcome back Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss his book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. In this first episode, they begin in the era of German unification in the 19th century, discussing the contemporary scholarship on sexuality, German liberalism and the rights available to homosexuals in Germanic states, the influence of the Enlightenment and French Revolution on proto-German laws, conservative ennobling of homoerotic bonding, and more until the WWI.
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Podcast: New Books in National Security (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Sergei Zhuk, "KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991" (Routledge, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-07-18
Oriented for a general reading audience, Sergei Zhuk's book KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991 (Routledge, 2022) gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB special operations in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s.
Concentrating on the period of the Cold War after Stalin and combining the counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, with the official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine, this book offers an experimental view of the political and cultural history of relations between Soviet Ukraine and capitalist America through the prism of KGB operations against the US and Canada. Written from a hidden perspective of KGB operations from 1953 to the end of the 1980s, this book covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations and the active measures of the KGB, but also various problems of anti-American cultural campaigns in Soviet Ukraine, sponsored by the KGB, involving the issues of cultural consumption, knowledge production, youth culture and national identity.
Using carefully researched archive materials, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of KGB operations, the Cold War, counterintelligence and political and cultural history of the relations between Soviet Ukraine and the United States and Canada, and a role of cultural consumption in this history.
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Superstructure: Bitcoin in El Salvador
Pub date: 2022-07-16
Ricardo Valencia joins co-hosts Andrés Bernal and Scott Ferguson to discuss recent protests against Bitcoin in El Salvador. Adopted as legal tender by the authoritarian President Nayib Bukele in September 2021, Bitcoin has become an emblem in El Salvador for U.S. corporate imperialism, public mismanagement, and anti-democratic rule. Whereas mainstream accounts of cryptocurrency tend to flatten stories in Latin America to matters of success and failure, Ricardo draws upon rich critical approaches in Cultural Studies developed by the likes of Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy to situate current events in El Salvador within histories of global governance, political conflict, and cultural identity. During the conversation, Ricardo weighs the fraught legacy of left politics in and beyond El Salvador. He analyses the conspicuous convergence of “tech-bro” boosterism coming from the U.S. with right-wing regimes in vulnerable countries across the Global South. He considers tensions between imperial domination and quotidian safety that attend El Salvador’s dollarization in 2001, including the large role that remittances play in the everyday lives of the Salvadoran people. Finally, Ricardo contemplates the future promise of left politics in El Salvador. This promise, he explains, hinges upon feminist, queer and environmental movements, which are now demanding democratic and just uses of public money.
Dr. Ricardo Valencia is an assistant professor of public relations in the Department of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. Between 2010 and 2014, Dr. Valencia was the head of the communication section at the Embassy of El Salvador to the United States. He has also worked as a reporter covering international and domestic politics for Salvadoran and global media outlets such as La Prensa Gráfica, German Press Agency (DPA), and El Faro. Follow Ricardo on Twitter @ricardovalp.
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Podcast: IT'S GOING DOWN (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Cracks in the Racial Order?: A Discussion on Race, Class and the Ongoing Impact of Noel Ignatiev
Pub date: 2022-07-14
On this episode of It’s Going Down, we speak with former comrades of radical organizer and author Noel Ignatiev, who passed away in 2019 and is most well known for his involvement in the radical journal, Race Traitor. Before his passing, Ignatiev was also involved with Hard Crackers, which chronicles working-class life, struggle and revolt while continuing the political project that began with Race Traitor. A collection of Ignatiev’s written works, Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity, which includes selections from How the Irish Became White and the Race Traitor journal, has also now been published on Verso press.
In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we spoke with Noel Ignatiev, a former steel worker who helped shape a critique of white supremacy in the US + worked on the journal 'Race Traitor' + the book, 'How the Irish Became White.' A thread. https://t.co/FNmoJ064Wh
— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) October 11, 2019
During our conversation, we discuss the ongoing impact and importance of Ignatiev’s ideas, which built upon and continued the work of anti-capitalist Black revolutionaries like W. E. B. Du Bois and CLR James. Along with contemporaries like Ted Allen, Ignatiev, who was also deeply involved in radical, anti-capitalist organizing – began to ask how racism affected class struggle in the United States and why white workers were often hesitant to stand in solidarity with workers and poor people of color. Ignatiev argued that white supremacy, a cross-class relationship between lower and working-class whites and those in power, was the mechanism which hindered wider class struggle from breaking out across society. If whites could crack the racial caste system that put whiteness at its top, then maybe they could begin to struggle alongside those already attacking it.
On Friday July 22 at 7pm, HC editors Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan will join our friends at @PilsenCommBooks to discuss Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity, a collection of essays by the late Noel Ignatiev out now on Verso. We hope to see you there! pic.twitter.com/DsDgzGUZDX
— Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life (@Hard_Crackers) July 13, 2022
Throughout our discussion, we also touch on the George Floyd rebellion, Trumpism, and the current Supreme Court decision to roll back bodily autonomy. We discuss if January 6th marked an attempt to re-solidify whiteness within society, lessons from the Civil War and reconstruction, and what people can – and should do to topple the racial order of American capitalism.
More Info: Noel Ignatiev interview with It’s Going Down and Hard Crackers home page.
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Podcast: SRB Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Limonov and the National Bolsheviks
Pub date: 2022-07-14
Podcast: Nine To Noon
Episode: Alex Duff: Le Fric - the Business of the Tour de France
Pub date: 2022-07-20
A multi-millionaire octogenarian widow and her two children who have kept tight control of the Tour de France despite numerous hostile takeover bids, are the focus of a new book. The world's most famous cycling event generates an estimated $160 million New Zealand dollars a year, with a fifth being paid out in dividends for the Amaury family. Business journalist Alex Duff investigates the family in his book Le Fric or The Money: Family, Power and Money: The Business of the Tour de France. In it he argues that various cycling teams over the years have considered rebellions and breakaways to wrest some control and more of the money. But ultimately, they need the race more than the Amaury family needs them. Kathryn discusses with Alex Duff.
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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Coups, Oil, and Oil Nationalization: Supplement w/ Alexander Aviña & Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
Pub date: 2022-07-15
This supplemental episode is the recording of a Twitter Space we just recorded with our friends, Professors Alexander Aviña and Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt. What was originally supposed to be a pretty informal meeting became a nearly 1 hour and 40 minute discussion of coups, oil, and oil nationalization! Enjoy!
Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ). Listen to the episode we did with him on Cold War Latin America here: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/alex-avia
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt is a historian at California State University, Stanislas. You can (and should!) get The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq from Stanford University Press https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26330 . Listen to the episode we did with him on Coups, Oil, the CIA, and Arab Nationalism here: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/coups-oil-the-cia-and-arab-nationalism-in-iraq-w-brandon-wolfe-hunnicutt
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Separating Children as Counterinsurgency
Pub date: 2022-07-13
While the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border drew intense condemnation, the practice has been going on in this country for centuries. Historian Laura Briggs argues that it has been part of strategy of counterinsurgency, as during the anti-communist wars in Latin America, in which rebellious populations are terrorized by having their children taken. (Encore presentation.)
Resources:
Laura Briggs, Taking Children: A History of American Terror UC Press, 2021
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jacobin Radio: The End of Boris w/ Tariq Ali
Pub date: 2022-07-11
Suzi talks to Dean of Berkeley School of Law Erwin Chemerinsky about the just completed Supreme Court term, handing down decisions that overturned vast areas of law. The Court’s decisions ignored settled law and took away a Constitutional right in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade. Chemerinsky argues that this court did not follow a judicial methodology, legal principles, or precedents: instead, a conservative majority on the court is making the Republican Party platform Constitutional law. We get Erwin’s analysis and ask what can be done.
Turning to the UK, Suzi talks to Tariq Ali about the saga of PM Boris Johnson’s resignation—brought down by Tory ministers who decided Johnson’s personality and unethical conduct had gotten in the way of his politics, which they mostly support. Tariq Ali says that the Tories have been ruthless in dumping Prime Ministers who might lose them the next election, like Thatcher, May, and now Johnson – but Labour is only ruthless in removing a Leader who poses a threat to the extreme center. Under Keir Starmer, Labour has not challenged Johnson’s political record, or presented an attractive alternative to the Tories, so Boris Johnson is going, but Britain is still stuck with the same rightwing politics. We get Tariq’s view.
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Podcast: Time to Eat the Dogs (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Abominable Snowman
Pub date: 2022-07-10
Dr. Carolin Roeder talks about the Soviet search for the abominable snowman and its parallels to other "wildman" legends in the United States and elsewhere. Roeder facilitates research collaboration between the Freie Universität in Berlin and other European universities as part of the Una Europa project. She is the author of “Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman”
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Podcast: The Final Straw Radio (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Abortion, Family, Queerness and Private Property with Sophie Lewis
Pub date: 2022-07-10
This week, Scott and William talk to Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and the soon-to-be-released Abolish The Family A Manifest for Care and Liberation (out in October, 2022) about the current political moment that is characterized by attacks on trans people and peoples reproductive abilites. They also talk through what creates this moment, where trans people come into the target of State power being weaponized by the far right, as well as the connections among these attacks against LGBT education, access to transition, access to abortion and critical race theory. Also discussed are some limitations of a legalization framework around abortion, as opposed to a decriminalization, the limits of liberalism (paritcularly liberal feminism), and also the ways that certain strains of feminism contribute to an anti-trans discourse. Finally, there is chat about how to approach people needing support people who need access to healthcare, whether it be transition or abortion, outside of the hands of the state.
You can find Sophie on twitter at @ReproUtopoia and support her on Patreon at Patreon.com/ReproUtopia. You can find a children's book Sophie co-authored called Communism For Kids or a compilation she contributed to on the ecological crisis called Hope Against Hope.
Opposing Torture [01:11:19 - 01:17:44]
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Landscapes of Care and Control
Pub date: 2022-07-13
A comparative conversation on the urban impasse of state interventions and everyday logics under COVID19 This episode looks at urban landscapes of care and control that emerged during the pandemic in Santiago de Chile (Chile), Bogotá (Colombia) and Berlin (Germany). It is a comparative conversation on the urban impasse of state interventions and everyday logics under COVID19 in each of these cities and discusses the following questions:
- How, if at all, has the pandemic affected state interventions in health in these cities? What new discourses and routines have been announced?
- How, if at all, has the pandemic worked as a set of interventions in the social infrastructure of these cities? What, now almost 2 years down the road, has changed in the social realities of institutional agents and ordinary citizens that we observe?
- What lessons can be learnt from the care and control contradictions in cities of today?
Host: Talja Blokland is an urban sociologist who has worked at Yale University, the University of Manchester and various Dutch universities. Since 2009, she has held the chair of Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her publications include Urban Bonds (Polity 2003), Creating the Unequal City (edited with C. Giustozzi, D. Krüger and H. Schilling, Ashgate 2016), Community as Urban Practice (Polity 2017), and various articles on race and ethnicity in the city, poor neighbourhoods, urban violence, gentrification, urban middle classes and neighbourhood relations and everyday interactions.
Guests:
Felipe Link is Associate Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is also associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES) and at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS). He is the editor in chief of the EURE Journal (www.eure.cl). His publications include various articles on neighbourhood, social cohesion, housing and urban density. In 2020-2021, he co-directed the research project on «Vivienda, barrio y ciudad en el control de epidemias. Consideraciones sociales y urbanas para la formulación de políticas públicas de aislamiento y de distanciamiento social en Chile» (Housing, neighbourhood and the city in the control of epidemics. Social and urban considerations for the formulation of public policies of isolation and social distancing in Chile).
Hannah Schilling is an urban sociologist who has worked at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. Her publications include Creating the Unequal City (edited with T. Blokland, C. Giustozzi, and D. Krüger, Ashgate 2016), and various articles on urban youth, global precarity and work relations in the city. Since 2021 she is program director for socio-political youth education at the Protestant Academy of Berlin, where she develops workshops and seminars for a young audience on diversity, social inequalities, digitalisation and the socio-ecological transformation.
María José Álvarez-Rivadulla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de los Andes. She is concerned and interested in social inequalities, particularly urban socioeconomic ones, and her approach to it combines statistics with qualitative work. She is the author of the book Squatters and the Politics of Marginality (Palgrave, 2017), on the political history of the informal city in Montevideo. She has also worked and published on residential segregation, popular neighbourhoods and urban interventions, social housing, tolerance of inequality in diverse contexts, middle classes, wealth ghettos in gated communities and, more recently, on inter-class relations through the entry of working-class students into higher education, their experiences of social mobility, and the visible and invisible barriers they face in trying to achieve it.
Nina Margies is lecturer and post-doctoral researcher in urban sociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research interest is in the sociology of emotion and its link to questions of social change and urban inequalities. She has published on emotions in the city, urban youth and (digital) work relations. She is co-founder of The Urban Transcripts Journal, an open access journal on urban research and activism, and board member of the ESA Research Network RN11 – Sociology of Emotions since 2019.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Mary Kathryn Nagle on Tribal Sovereignty
Pub date: 2022-07-08
After a series of controversial rulings, last Wednesday the Supreme Court issued a decision in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta that dealt a huge blow to tribal sovereignty.
Breaking with nearly two hundred years of precedent, the 5–4 majority opinion authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh ruled that the state of Oklahoma can now prosecute crimes committed by non-Indian people against Indian victims on tribal lands. In most states, criminal jurisdiction is shared between tribal and federal governments with little interference from the state.
This ruling has been characterized as an assault on the foundation of Indian law and a threat to the integrity of tribal self-governance across the country. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the dissenting opinion that “a more ahistorical and mistaken statement of Indian law would be hard to fathom.”
For today’s show, guest host Kristen Billings is joined by Mary Kathryn Nagle, a self-described sovereignty hobbyist, to discuss the Supreme Court ruling and how the performing arts can play a role in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
Mary Kathryn Nagle is a lawyer, acclaimed playwright, and enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently practices law in Washington, DC.
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Podcast: Challenging Climate
Episode: Nils Gilman on avocado politics and climate security
Pub date: 2022-07-12
Dr. Nils Gilman is the Senior Vice President of Programs at the Berggruen Institute and the deputy editor of Noema Magazine. We speak with Nils about two of his popular articles, "The Coming Avocado Politics" and "The Guns of Warming". We first discuss avocado politics, what it is and how it manifests in the United States and Europe. The second half of the episode takes a look at climate change and security on global and national scales, and what it really means to prioritize climate change on the political agenda.
Links:
- Nils Gilman’s profile
- Check out Noema Magazine and Nils' article (with Jonathan Blake) on "Governing in the Planetary Age"
- Article by Nils on “The Coming Avocado Politics”
- The other article by Nils on “The Guns of Warming”
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 116/ Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
Pub date: 2022-07-08
This is a conversation with Andrew Dana Hudson, a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, editor and futurist and the author of "Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures."
It's also his second time on The Fire These Times.
Andrew also has a newsletter called solarshades.club which publishes every other Sunday with updates on his work, process, and material reality.
Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes
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Twitter: twitter.com/fireTheseTimes
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Recommended Books:
- The Ministry Of The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Maln
- Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures edited by Matthew Chrulew
Kim Stanley Robinson's review of Our Shared Storm: "Hudson has found a way to strike together the various facets of our climate future, sparking stories that are by turns ingenious, energetic, provicative, and soulful"
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Podcast: Bureau of Lost Culture (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Birth, Death - and Frestonia
Pub date: 2022-07-04
The People's Republic of Frestonia, a countercultural micronation, was formed in three streets in North Kensington in the heady years of late seventies London.
*Long before the Occupy movement, a group of squatters, radicals, artists and activists decided to fight back against a local authority bent on evicting them from their homes and declared the area independent of the UK. Drawing huge media interest, some derision and lot of goodwill, they had their own passports, stamps and theatre and even applied to join the United Nations.
One of them, the psychotherapist Josefine Speyer, Frestonia's minister of Culture, comes to visit the Bureau for an hour or so to tell us what it was all about - and all about the countercultural journey she made to live there from her youth in Germany. We hear of communes in Berlin and Scotland, travelling in a gypsy caravan in Wales, home births and hash cookies in a cow shed and of some of the many alternative projects initiated by her radical activist husband Nicholas Albery.
*And we learn how they came to found the Natural Death Centre, blowing the lid on the secretive cabal that controlled the funeral industry and returning death and dying back to where it belongs - with the people..
For more about Frestonia: http://www.frestonia.org A list of Micronations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations
For the Natural Death Centre: http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk More on Josefine: https://deathcafe.com/profile/25/
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Podcast: Historical Materialism Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Political Economy of Tar Sands
Pub date: 2022-07-06
What is the future of the tar sands in Canada and how does this industry fit in the larger global political economy of fossil fuels? What is the rentier's dilemma and how does it affect the tar sand economy? In this episode, Lukas Slothuus and Ashok Kumar talk with Tyler McCreary, author of Crisis in the Tar Sands: Fossil Capitalism and the Future of the Alberta Hydrocarbon Economy from the most recent journal issue 30.1 of Historical Materialism. The article is open-access and free for all to download and read.
Contributors:
Tyler McCreary
Lukas Slothuus
Ashok Kumar
Music by Thijs Keulen
Artwork by David Mabb
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Writing about money
Pub date: 2022-07-06
How does money shape history and how do we write about it? Anne McElvoy discusses those questions with a finalist in the political writing category of the 2022 Orwell Prize. In Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire, Kojo Koram traces the some of the economic problems faced across the world today with wealth inequality, with sovereign debt, austerity, and precarious employment and how they are bound up in decolonisation. She also talks to leading UK economist Richard Davies about how Covid has had an impact on our understanding of economics. And John Ramsden is concerned with restoring the forgotten place of economics in poetry from Coleridge's interest in cycles of boom and bust to Jonathan Swift's fascination with trade sanctions. Dhruti Shah is a journalist and the author of Bear Markets and Beyond: A bestiary of business terms.
Kojo Koram teaches at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, and writes on issues of law, race and empire. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire.
Richard Davies is the author of Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future Limits for the World’s Economies. A former adviser at the Bank of England and HM Treasury, he now runs the UK’s Economics Observatory.
John Ramsden is a former career diplomat and ambassador. He is the author of The Poets’ Guide to Economics
Dhruti Shah is a journalist and the author of Bear Markets and Beyond: A bestiary of business terms.
The Orwell Festival of Political Writing, held across Bloomsbury and online from 22nd June to 14th July, when the winners are announced: https://www.orwellfestival.co.uk/
Producer: Ruth Watts
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Podcast: Not Just the Tudors (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Surviving Plague in Florence
Pub date: 2022-07-04
Between 1630 and 1631, the city of Florence suffered its last epidemic of plague. Some 12% of the city's population of 75,000 perished.
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor John Henderson, historian of epidemics, about how Florence suffered, fought and survived the impact of plague - and what we might have learned from the approach of the Florentine authorities during our own recent pandemic.
The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Money on the Left: The Journal featuring "Food, Money & Democracy"
Pub date: 2022-07-01
Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid, and Max Sussman join the podcast to discuss their forthcoming co-written essay, “Food, Money, and Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient and Equitable Communities of Work.” Inaugurating our new journal, Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice, the article politicizes what Sanjukta Paul and Nathan Tankus term “coordination rights” across monetary and production sectors and focuses on the coordination of food systems, in particular. Coordination rights are fundamental to the process of building resilient communities, our guests argue, determining whether social provisioning systems are “collective” or “concentrated.”
In our conversation, Wilson, Reid, and Sussman consider several promising cases of collective provisioning, which prioritize democratic participation and ecosocial stewardship over the austerity and profit-maximization associated with concentrated industry. Such examples include La Via Campesina movement for Food Sovereignty, the Black Cooperative Movement in the U.S., and restaurant reactions to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lamenting the failures of such models when faced with systemic illiquidity, our co-authors also importantly extend collective coordination principles to monetary systems, exploring small and medium-scale monetary experiments that use food systems as a way to build community capacity.
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Podcast: Sinica Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
Pub date: 2022-06-30
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, about her wonderful new book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern. Jing talks about her role as culture commentator for NBC during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, about how the written Chinese language has helped shape China, and about the fascinating individuals who worked to bring a writing system so deeply rooted in history and tradition into the modern world.
Link to Jing and Kaiser interviewed for the Radio Opensource Podcast here.
4:59 – Jing's role as cultural commentator for NBC during the Winter Games
10:43 – The impetus for writing Kingdom of Characters
16:09 – Why the critics of the Chinese writing system called for its destruction
18:57 – What the defenders of the Chinese writing system love so much about it
25:51 – The challenge of writing about the technology of Chinese writing
29:05 – The Chinese writing system as a metaphor for China
32:46 – The next technological frontiers for Chinese
35:48 – Language and how it shapes thinking in China
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at SupChina.com.
Recommendations:
Jing: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Kaiser: The Pattern of the Chinese Past by Mark Elvin; and Closure/Continuation, a new album by the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #81 - Finance and Clean Energy - w/ Brett Christophers
Pub date: 2022-06-30
In this episode, Prof. Brett Christophers of Uppsala University speaks to host Nicolas Wittstock about the difficulties of obtaining financing for clean energy projects despite recent cost reductions of renewables.
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Podcast: Assembly (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S4 E8 – Religion after the Outrage
Pub date: 2022-06-30
The advent of new digital technologies has made surveillance ubiquitous and inconspicuous. From facial recognition software designed to detect your mood to social media apps that track your daily shopping habits, we are now constantly surveilled in the absence of a guard watching over us. Indeed, a peculiar feature of digital media is that its turned over the burden of surveillance from state-sponsored policing agencies onto civilians.
How might digital technologies both destabilize the power of authoritative figures ranging from the President to the Pope while simultaneously buttress wide spread institutional corruption and lack of accountability by transforming civic society into a motley of mobs policing each other over words typed on social media accounts? Furthermore, what is the role of religion in shaping these novel challenges and promises of exercising power as computer users? Are digital surveillance technologies akin to a religion of control? Alternatively, how might religion help us develop bonds over the web that are not sealed by feelings of outrage?
Join us today as we debate these questions on “Religion after the Outrage”. Dr. Jeremy Weissman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nova Southeastern University and author of the recently released monograph “The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media," joins today’s show to discuss new surveillance technologies and the complex ethical and moral challenges these new technologies pose for religion scholars, theologians, and religious leaders.
To learn more about Dr. Weissman’s work please visit the following link.
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Podcast: The Brand Called You
Episode: The role of colonization in altering historical facts | Emmanuel Kulu, Founder, Ancient African Antiquities Research Institute of America (AAARIA)
Pub date: 2022-06-25
History is such an important subject and plays a very vital role when it comes to shaping our society. History is the study of past events. We refer to the past when comparing it with the present times and deduce the changes that have taken place. These actions of the past also shape our future actions. Therefore, history plays a vital role in preparing us for the future. Emmanuel Kulu, Founder, Ancient African Antiquities Research Institute of America (AAARIA) talks to us about the same.
About Emmanuel Kulu
- Emmanuel Kulu, Jr. is an African Historian and the Creator/Author of “I Black Pharaoh Universe”.
- Kulu spent several years researching Ancient Africa and spreading awareness of the miseducating of African history.
- Kulu is of Bantu/Zulu descent through his father Emmanuel Kulu Sr. As a career Community Peer Advocate/Social Worker, he also had a deep passion for music production, writing, history, and creative arts.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Envisioning a Decolonial Digital Mental Health with Sachin Pendse, Munmun De Choudhury, and Neha Kumar
Pub date: 2022-06-29
In this episode we have a panel discussion about decolonial digital mental health with three leading experts on the topic: Sachin Pendse, Munmun De Choudhury, and Neha Kumar
Sachin is a PhD student in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech, researching the role that technology plays in addressing barriers that prevent people from receiving consistent mental health care.
Munmun is the Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She founded and directs the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab that seeks to develop technologies for improving our mental well-being.
Neha is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech and leads the Technology and Design for Empowerment lab with a focus on the intersection of human-centered computing and global development.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities
Pub date: 2022-06-28
Matt Cook and Alison Oram discuss their new book Queer Beyond London, which uncovers the LGBTQ experience in four English cities – Brighton, Manchester, Plymouth and Leeds – from the sixties to the noughties. Speaking with Rachel Dinning, they consider how local people, places and politics shaped LGBTQ lives in each city, establishing individual cultures often very distinct from the national narrative.
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Podcast: Chinese Whispers (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The radical age of Chinese cinema
Pub date: 2022-06-27
You probably wouldn’t expect to see the Cultural Revolution in Chinese films, or the Great Leap Forward, or the Tiananmen Square protests. But for a certain generation and a certain corner of the Chinese film industry, these were actually common themes to deal with. Their films weren’t always welcome to the censors, but they weren’t always banned, either.
I recently wrote a column for The Spectator on Chinese cinema, and the golden age it experienced just after the end of the Cultural Revolution. You’d be surprised at the amazing political – and social – subversiveness of directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. This episode is all about that golden age and what has come after, where, depressingly, it’s now films like Wolf Warrior 2 that dominate the box office.
Joining me is Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies at Kings College London who specialises in Chinese cinema. We talk about how their trauma of living through the Cultural Revolution drove the so-called 'Fifth Generation' directors; the bold portrayal of queer characters which got them into trouble with the censors; and how commercialisation has changed the landscape for Chinese directors who are now dictated by the box office. Pictured here is Leslie Cheung in Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, where Cheung portrays a queer Beijing opera singer.
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Podcast: Knowing Animals (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 195: Animal critical theory with Alice Crary and Lori Gruen
Pub date: 2022-06-27
On this very special episode of Knowing Animals, we have two guests!
Our first guest is Professor Alice Crary. Alice is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy, Liberal Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the New School for Social Research, and she’s currently a visiting fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She’s authored or edited 8 books, including 2016’s Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought.
Our second guest is Professor Lori Gruen, who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. Her many books include the textbook Ethics and Animals: An Introduction, the collection Critical Terms for Animal Studies, and the monograph Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals.
We talk about about Alice and Lori’s new book Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory which was published this year by Polity
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 362) Catriona Sandilands: Botanical colonialism and biocultural histories
Pub date: 2022-06-28
"We sometimes forget that the knowledge systems we use to conceptualize the world are not necessarily exactly the same thing as the world that we're conceptualizing. We mistake the model of the model for the thing that is being modeled. We mistake the map for the territory. We mistake the word for the thing."
In this episode, we welcome Catriona Sandilands, a professor of environmental arts and justice at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University. Having written, edited, or co-edited four books and close to 100 essays and articles, her research areas include queer and feminist posthumanities, critical plant studies, biocultural histories, ecocriticism, and public environmental engagement through literature and storytelling.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include cultivating plurality within the stories we tell, remembering histories of reciprocity coming from Western traditions, the connection between how we relate to the more-than-human world and our views of and experiences with sexuality, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Everyday Magic by Luna Bec. The episode-inspired artwork is by Ellie Yanagisawa.)
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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Has Chile defeated neoliberalism? (with Marcelo Casals)
Pub date: 2022-06-28
Chile has a proud tradition of protests, but the unrest of 2019 was different. More than a million people took to the streets to protest their nation’s vast inequality. The uprising made international news, unseated a neoliberal dictatorship, and led to the election of a new president—but did it also create lasting change? Chilean historian Marcelo Casals catches us up on the latest developments in Chile’s battle against neoliberalism.
Marcelo Casals is an independent scholar based in Santiago. He holds a PhD in Latin American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recently wrote an article for Dissent Magazine titled, ‘The End of Neoliberalism in Chile?’
Twitter: @Palquelea
The End of Neoliberalism in Chile? https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-end-of-neoliberalism-in-chile
Gabriel Boric: From student protest leader to Chile’s president: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-59694056
‘Chile Woke Up’: Dictatorship’s Legacy of Inequality Triggers Mass Protests: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/americas/chile-protests.html
The texture piece is from 2019 and is courtesy of Gustavo de la Piedra, a listener from Santiago, Chile. The news clips are sourced from the news station France 24.
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hacking the Middle East, with Ahmed Al-Rawi
Pub date: 2022-06-27
This week we are joined by Ahmed Al-Rawi who has written a book called Cyberwars in the Middle East, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021.
The book looks at how different actors in the Middle East, from states to activists, use hacking as a form of political disruption.
Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at Simon Fraser University.
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Podcast: Race and Democracy (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 78 – Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military, A Conversation with Tom Guglielmo
Pub date: 2022-06-16
Thomas A. Guglielmo is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. He has a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. His first book, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago (Oxford, 2003), won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Society of American Historians' Allan Nevins Prize. His second book, Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military (Oxford University Press, 2021), won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award. His articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and other publications. His work has been supported by Harvard University's Charles Warren Center and Stanford University's Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Time, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and Temporality
Pub date: 2022-06-20
Alina Utrata chats with Nanna Saeten, a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge about her research on time, temporality and technology. They discuss how technologies of time have been used as tools of nation-building, why high-frequency trading and blockchain depend on human understandings of time as well as algorithms, whether technology is really “speeding up” or changing our experience of time and how social media has changed the way we experience political events across time and space.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Global Warming in India / Kamala Thiagarajan
Pub date: 2022-06-22
Chuck talks to freelance writer, journalist, and Wire contributor Kamala Thiagarajan about her Wired.com article "India is Not Prepared for the Combination of Heat and Humidity." Jeff Dorchen reveals the Super Truth(R), and we announce this week's winning answer to the Question from Hell!.
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Podcast: SAGE Sociology (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Contexts: Behind Gentrification’s Gloss
Pub date: 2022-06-21
Authors Sara Duvisac and Gianpaolo Baiocchi discuss their article, "Behind Gentrification’s Gloss," published in the Spring 2022 issue of Contexts.
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Podcast: Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Episode: Historian Fredrik Logevall: Embers of War
Pub date: 2022-06-19
Marcia Franklin talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Fredrik Logevall, Ph.D. about the antecedents to the Vietnam War.
Logevall, the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and a professor of history at Harvard College, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book, "Embers of War." It examined France's colonial involvement in Vietnam, and how and why U.S. support of the French led to the Vietnam War.
In its citation, the Pulitzer committee called the work a "balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war." The book also won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians.
Franklin talks with Logevall about why he felt it was important for people to know about the pre-history of the Vietnam War, whether the war could have been avoided, and how the decisions made before and during the Vietnam War have affected our country's foreign policy since then.
The author or editor of nine books, Professor Logevall previously taught at Cornell, where he was the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. He is the past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Franklin spoke with him in Idaho Falls, where he gave the keynote speech at the Idaho Humanities Council's 2016 Eastern Idaho Distinguished Humanities Lecture.
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Podcast: Sein und Streit - Deutschlandfunk Kultur (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Elizabeth Duval on Transgender - Gender in movement
Pub date: 2022-06-19
The spanish philosopher and trans activist Elizabeth Duval on the philosophical meaning of trans existence and on toxic debates.
Elizabeth Duval in conversation with Catherine Newmark
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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Pub date: 2022-06-22
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.
To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose. Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres and their European imitators, or unlocking the homoerotic encoding in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable study models an ethics of crosscultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today.
A contribution to studies in visual culture as well as literary and social history, The Homoerotics of Orientalism (Columbia UP, 2014) draws on primary sources ranging from untranslated Middle Eastern manuscripts and European belles-lettres to miniature paintings and photographic erotica that are presented here for the first time.
Joseph Allen Boone is a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California and the author of Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism and Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Huntington, the Stanford Humanity Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies and has been in residency at the Liguria Center at Bogliasco, the Rockefeller-Bellagio Center, and the Valparaiso Foundation.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube Channel. Twitter.
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Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Board Games and Settler Colonialism
Pub date: 2022-06-16
We talk with Kyle Flannery from Strange Matters about the implicit and sometimes explicit politics hidden in board games like Settlers of Catan.
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 126. Moving Beyond the Post-Colonial and the Mythological West with Martino Stierli
Pub date: 2022-06-16
This week, we talk with Martino Stierli, MOMA’s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, about MOMA’s current exhibition entitled The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985.
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Podcast: Coffee with Comrades (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 168: "Turf Wars" ft. Kristian Williams
Pub date: 2022-06-21
In this edition of Coffee with Comrades, we sit down with Kristian Williams, author of the new book Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime. Kristian and I explore the long history of counterinsurgency, the emergence of gang-style political formations in the imperial core, the efficacy of community armed self-defense, and so much more.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Accidental Gods w/ Anna Della Subin
Pub date: 2022-06-15
Anna Della Subin joins PTO to talk about her book Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. The book tells the stories of men who have inadvertently been turned into living Gods - from Gandhi and Haile Selassie to Prince Philip and Narendra Modi. In the book Anna shows how deification and violence were intertwined in the colonial enterprise and in the present day cult of the political strong man, yet - she argues - it's also a process that's been central to struggles of liberation. In our conversation we focussed on the chapters of the book on Haile Selassie and the emergence of the Rastafari in Jamaica in the 1930s, and on the history of deification in the British Raj - regarding both the colonial authorities and the iconic leaders of the independence movement.
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Podcast: Anthropologist On The Street (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: E27 Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton
Pub date: 2022-06-08
Dr. David Sutton returns to explore the politics of food and commensality, or eating together, on the Greek island of Kalymnos, both as a way of connecting the past and present and as a form of resistance against external cultural pressures.
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Podcast: CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Science, Policy & Climate Resilience: Accelerating Actions
Pub date: 2022-06-10
How can people and businesses learn to adapt and live with climate change? What behaviours should be adopted, what conversations should be had and actions taken at a global, national and local level? In the third episode of our mini-series - Science, Policy & Climate Resilience - Host Emily So, Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Cambridge, is joined by Professor Dame Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, member of the House of Lords, Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the Committee on Climate Change and Chair of the Carbon Trust. Plus Emily Farnworth, Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Engagement at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
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Further reading on this episode:
- The Climate Change Committee's website: https://www.theccc.org.uk/
- Article on supply chain risks stemming from climate change.
- Second UK Climate Change Risk Assessment report (2017).
- Third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment report (2022).
- Government announcement regarding their planned phase-out of petrol and diesel cars.
- Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures website.
- The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review.
- Natural England blog: Biodiversity Net Gain - more than just a number.
- 9 things you can do about climate change - The Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment.
- The National Digital Twin programme’s Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo): https://digitaltwinhub.co.uk/credo/
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Podcast: Law and the Future of War (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: War Algorithms - Dustin Lewis
Pub date: 2022-06-15
In this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Dustin Lewis, of Harvard Law School's Project on International Law and Armed Conflict about war algorithms and his recent project on pathways for using AI, and how to ensure greater respect for international law when states use these algorithmic capabilities.
Dustin is the Research Director at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC). With a focus on public international law sources and methods, Dustin leads research into several wide-ranging contemporary challenges related to securing peace, protecting civilians, regulating hostilities, safeguarding the environment, and ending armed conflicts.
Additional Resources:
PILAC - Three Pathways to Secure Greater Respect for International Law Concerning War Algorithms
SIPRI - Emerging Military and Security Technologies Project
ASSER Institute - Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA)
Geneva Institute - Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes Project
AutoNorms - Weaponised AI, Norms and Order
ICRC Background Papers on LAWS: ICRC Position on Autonomous Weapons
Suchman - Human-Machine Reconfigurations (CUP, 2012)
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Podcast: Richardson Institute
Episode: SEPADPod With Somdeep Sen
Pub date: 2022-06-09
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University. Somdeep is the author of the fabulous Decolonizing Palestine (Cornell University Press 2020). He is on twitter @ssen03.
On this episode Simon and Somdeep speak about Som's wonderful new book, the journey from India to Denmark via the US, the process of doing research in Gaza, settler colonialism, the broader intellectual environment and much more.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Born in the USA/Made in the GDR: Western Popular Music & a Communist Record Market with Sven Kube
Pub date: 2022-06-13
What did the Cold War sound like? How did political ideologies shape the differing experiences of musicians and consumers in the capitalist versus the communist world? Did the Iron Curtain muffle the raucous sounds of western popular music? Or were consumers in communist countries able to access capitalist pop? All these questions and more find answers in the work of cultural historian, and 2022 Hagley-NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Sven Kube.
Blending archival research with oral history and personal experiences, Kube uncovers the fascinating story of a worldwide youth culture of popular music bisected by the geopolitical divisions of the Cold War period. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the grassroots innovation taking place in western popular music could not be replicated in the centrally-planned economies of the east. Nevertheless, eastern consumers, especially in the German Democratic Republic, got their hands (and ears) on novel music and sonic forms emanating from the west. Kube traces these connection through the mechanisms of technology transfer, cultural transmission, and economic policy.
In support of his scholarship, Sven Kube received the Hagley-NEH postdoctoral fellowship from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library. For more information, and more Hagley History Hangouts, visit hagley.org.
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Podcast: Transforming Society Podcast
Episode: Chasing the Mafia
Pub date: 2022-06-14
In this episode, Anna Sergi, author of 'Chasing the Mafia: 'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys', speaks with Richard Kemp about the book and her background and proximity to the subject.
They discuss her childhood growing up on the Aspromonte mountain, the long reach of the 'Ndrangheta and the delicate balance of emotional distance when it comes to analysing such an emotive topic.
Find out more about the book at https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/chasing-the-mafia
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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: We Have Always Been Cyborgs w/ Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Pub date: 2022-06-13
Metahumanist philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner shares his thoughts on the debates surrounding contemporary transhumanism, the possibility of immortality achieved through mind-uploading, and the ethical issues associated with gene editing, digital data collection, and life extension.
Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner teaches philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, whereby he particularly promotes the emerging field of posthuman studies. He is also Director and Co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, and Visting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, where he was also Visiting Prof. during the summer of 2016. He studied philosophy at King's College/University of London (BA), the University of Durham (MA by thesis; examiners: David E. Cooper, Durham ; David Owen, Southampton), the University of Giessen and the University of Jena (Dr. phil.; examiners: Wolfgang Welsch, Jena; Gianni Vattimo, Turin). In recent years, he taught at the Universities of Jena (Germany), Erfurt (Germany), Klagenfurt (Austria) Ewha Womans University in Seoul (South Korea) and Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). His main fields of research are Nietzsche, the philosophy of music, bioethics and meta-, post- and transhumanism.
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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hegel, nature and the Anthropocene
Pub date: 2022-06-12
Modernity has us in a terrible bind. We know that our Western habits of growth and consumption are destroying the planet, and that we need to stop exploiting the natural world for our benefit. But at the same time, our very identity as modern humans is grounded in the notion of endless growth, self-determination and the domination of nature. The work of the 18th century German philosopher GWF Hegel provides a fascinating diagnosis of our condition. Can it also offer a cure?
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Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episode: Lindsey B. Green-Simms on African Queer Cinemas
Pub date: 2022-06-13
This discussion is with Dr. Lindsey B. Green-Simms, a Professor of Literature at American University, Washington D.C. where she teaches classes on film and fiction from Africa and the global South. In this conversation, we discuss her most recent book, Queer African Cinemas, published by Duke University Press in March 2022. Our conversation here examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the 21st century.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Left & War: A Critical History
Pub date: 2022-06-06
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Guest: Marcello Musto [1] is Associate Professor of of Sociological Theory at York University in Toronto, Canada where he is the founding director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories. He is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. He is the author of The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography and author of a piece in Jacobin called The Left Has a Long, Proud Tradition of Opposing War that can be found here [2].
[1] https://marcellomusto.org/ [2] https://jacobin.com/2022/04/socialists-wwi-marx-lenin-luxemburg-spd-russia-ukraine
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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 267: African Founders
Pub date: 2022-06-06
In 1609 a free man of African and European ancestry, Juan Rodriguez, left the Dutch ship Jonge Tobias anchored off Manhattan Island with “eighty hatchets and some knives” to set himself up in trading with the local Indians. Ashore in coming years he fought off Dutch rivals, married an Indian woman, and started a family, all the while prospering by trading in bear and beaver pelts.
His is one of the many stories presented by David Hackett Fischer in his new book African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, which examines nine Afro-European regional cultures in North America. Following in the footsteps of his previous books Albion’s Seed, Liberty and Freedom, and Champlain’s Dream, African Founders, Fischer seeks to determine in this case how individuals both free and enslaved within these cultures “acted with purpose and resolve to change the ways that free and open systems worked in what is now the United States.”
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Warren Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Author of numerous books in addition to those already mentioned, his Washington’s Crossing won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in History.
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Podcast: NüVoices (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Writing as Cultural Revenge: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou on her novel 'Disorientation'
Pub date: 2022-06-02
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We welcome Elaine Hsieh Chou to the podcast to talk about her debut novel, Disorientation, which came out earlier this year. Her book is a hilarious satire on modern day college campus free speech wars, orientalism in academia, "yellow fever", the phenomenon of white scholars and translators devoting their entire lives to East Asian studies, and more. We talked to Elaine about a frequent topic of conversation in the NüVoices community: who has the right to tell whose stories?
Disorientation follows 29-year-old Ingrid Yang, a Taiwanese American PhD student who is on the struggle bus to finishing her dissertation on Xiaowen Chou, a deceased, renowned Chinese American poet. After uncovering the dark truth of Chou's past, Ingrid's relationships with everyone she knows changes forever. From her academic advisor Michael, who specializes in Chinese art and poetry, to her fiancée Stephen, who is a translator of Japanese literature, Ingrid must confront "her sticky relationship to white men and white institutions—and, most of all, herself." (Source: https://www.elainehsiehchou.com/novel)
Megan Cattel (our steadfast pod editor) hosts this episode.
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-06-06
In Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization (Columbia University Press, 2021), film scholar Rosalind Galt offers a cinematic exploration of the pontianak, a female vampire ghost whose origins stem back to pre-Islamic animist tradition but who is continues to be feared and revered in Malay cultures to this day. In the 1950s, the pontianak haunted the screens of late colonial Singapore in a series of popular films that combined appeals to indigenous animism with the affective force of the horror genre. Although the pontianak would disappear from view following the breakdown of the studio system, she would once again wreak havoc in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society from the early 2000s onwards. In this book, Galt explores the enduring appeal of the Pontianak, framing her as an ambivalent agent of gender subversion, a precolonial figure of disturbance within postcolonial cultures, and a haunting presence that sheds light on a range of questions—surrounding race, religion, nationalism, and modernity—in Malaysia and Singapore. As Alluring Monsters demonstrates, the Pontianak has much to tell us about intersecting issues of decolonisation: femininity and modernity; globalisation and indigeneity; racial identities and nation; Islam and animism; and heritage and environmental destruction.
Jules O’Dwyer is Research Fellow in Film Studies and French at the University of Cambridge.
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Podcast: Primary Sources (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Lauren Redniss on the Art of Dance
Pub date: 2022-06-06
Lauren Redniss is the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and the author of four remarkable works of visual nonfiction. These genre-defying books combine oral history, visual art, reportage, and archival research to create volumes that look a bit like graphic novels but read like nothing else you’ve ever experienced. Among them is Radioactive, a biography of the scientists Marie and Pierre Curie; Thunder and Lightning, a sprawling exploration of the weather; and Oak Flat, a work of original reportage about an Apache family trying to protect sacred land from a mining company in modern-day Arizona. Her newest project, a children’s book called Time Capsule, has just been released.
When invited to talk about one of her deepest influences, Lauren might have discussed an oral historian she admires, such as Studs Terkel, or a painter to whom she has been compared, such as Paul Klee. Instead, she proposed talking about an entire artistic medium, which she considers to be her greatest source of inspiration: that of dance.
In today’s episode, you’ll hear Lauren discuss the ways in which the multimedia nature of a dance performance has inspired her to create books that readers can experience as events unto themselves. She also talks about how the elements of discipline, pacing, and improvisation—which are all crucial to dance—inform her approach to her own work. And she tells us about how the New York City Ballet became the location of one of the most memorable—and politically transgressive—projects of her career.
Primary Sources is a co-production of Public Books and Type Media Center. Our show’s executive producer is Caitlin Zaloom, the founding editor of Public Books. Our producer is DJ Cashmere. Our engineer is Jess Engebretson. Special thanks to Kelley Deane McKinney, the publisher and managing editor of Public Books and Taya Grobow, executive director of Type Media Center. Our theme music is “Kitty in the Window,” composed by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License).
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 125. Architecture in the Symbolic Realm: Troubling the Remaking of New Delhi's Central Vista with Aneesha Dharwadker
Pub date: 2022-06-03
This week, we talk with Aneesha Dharwadker, assistant professor in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of the recently published article Dystopia’s Ghost. In this episode, we revisit the remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista project, its design, politics, and history.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Empire of blood
Pub date: 2022-06-03
Professor Caroline Elkins explains how the British empire was sustained by violence for more than 200 years. Speaking with Rob Attar, she reveals how liberal imperialism was able to coexist with regular acts of brutality in Britain’s colonies.
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Podcast: Upstream (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Decolonizing Conservation with Prakash Kashwan (In Conversation)
Pub date: 2022-06-07
What if what we thought we knew about environmental conservation is wrong and it’s not the ethical and regenerative movement we thought it was? Turns out the philosophy and practices of conservation — pioneered by the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir — are intimately intertwined with colonialism, imperialism, and racialized capitalism. And, unfortunately, this isn’t just a historical analysis — it’s a legacy that has continued well into the movement’s modern day configurations. In fact, things may have even gotten worse.
This is according to a recent paper in the journal Environment titled "From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation." In the paper, the authors outline the problems with mainstream conservation methods and policies — policies that impose artificial binaries between Indigenous communities and the lands they have stewarded, perpetuating patterns of extractivism and greenwashing and leading to countless harms inflicted onto these communities all in the name of 'wildlife preservation.'
In this Conversation we’ve brought on the paper’s lead author, Prakash Kashwan, an Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Research Program on Economic and Social Rights at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. Prakash is the author of the widely reviewed and acclaimed book "Democracy in the Woods" and a Co-Editor of the journal Environmental Politics. He also serves on the editorial advisory boards of Earth Systems Governance, Progress in Development Studies, Sage Open, and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
How is much of the modern conservation movement still steeped in its racist, colonial, imperial past? And what might an inclusive and regenerative conservation look like? Join us to explore these questions and more.
You can request a full-text version of the paper From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation at Research Gate (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352971729_From_Racialized_Neocolonial_Global_Conservation_to_an_Inclusive_and_Regenerative_Conservation). You can also write to Prakash to request a pdf copy of the paper at kashwan@gmail.com.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The birth of insulin: a scientific drama
Pub date: 2022-05-31
One hundred years on from Fred Banting and Charles Best’s discovery, Dr Kersten Hall tells the tale of insulin and its vital role in helping people with diabetes. Speaking with Emily Briffett, he explores the other unsung heroes involved in the drama that saw insulin develop from “thick brown muck” to wall street gold.
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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How did the British Empire write the rules of today’s economy?
Pub date: 2022-05-30
Outside of the frenzied headlines about woke warriors cancelling Jane Austen and stately homes, we’re living in a period of renewed consideration of Britain’s colonial history.
The British Empire began before the English Civil War, and shaped our country for 400 years. At its height, it covered almost a quarter of the entire world’s population. Beyond statues and street names, how is the empire still shaping our lives today?
Ayeisha is joined by Dr Kojo Koram, lecturer in law at Birkbeck and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire.
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- More from Kojo here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342047/empires-endgame/
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Podcast: 5x15 (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Brian Eno And James Bridle On Ways Of Being
Pub date: 2022-05-30
A special online event with musician and visual artist Brian Eno and writer and artist James Bridle on AI, non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing, more-than-human relations, and much more.
James Bridle's new ground-breaking book is Ways of Being, which considers the fascinating, uncanny and multiple ways of existing on earth. What can we learn from these other forms of intelligence and personhood, and how can we change our societies to live more equitably with one another and the non-human world?
Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognised. These other beings are the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.
From Greek oracles to octopuses, forests to satellites, Bridle tells a radical new story about ecology, technology and intelligence. How can we expand our definition of these terms to build a meaningful and free relationship with the non-human, one based on solidarity and cognitive diversity? We have so much to learn, and many worlds to gain.
Praise for Ways of Being
'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno
'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being' Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
'Wonderful ... will make you feel and think the power of knowing how like all other lifeforms we are. There is nothing more important' Timothy Morton
'Brilliant ... Bridle shows the importance of listening to one another and our surroundings, and of creating new forms of community' Hans Ulrich Obrist
James Bridle is author of the acclaimed New Dark Age, about technology, knowledge and the end of the future. They wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series New Ways of Seeing, about how technology is changing visual culture; their writing on art, politics, culture and technology has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the Guardian, Wired, New Statesman, Frieze and ICON. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions, including the V&A, Whitechapel, Barbican, Hayward and Serpentine, and exhibited worldwide and on the internet.
Brian Eno is a composer, producer and visual artist. He is widely identified with the appearance of 'Ambient Music' in the 1970s and of ‘Generative Music’ in the 1990s. He has worked extensively with David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads and others. His visual and installation work has been presented in nearly 200 venues over the last 5 decades. Eno is a trustee of Client Earth, director of Earth Percent and co-founder of The Long Now Foundation- a society dedicated to the promotion of long-term thinking.
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Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
Pub date: 2022-05-27
This month's episode centers Samoa, including the Pacific islands comprising the present-day independent country of Samoa and American Samoa, examining capitalism, globalization, and coconut colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. In doing so, it pays close attention to the lives of workers, including plantation laborers, ethnographic edutainers, and service workers, revealing how Samoans navigated colonialism and capitalism, contesting exploitative labor conditions, while, at the same time, articulating their own forms of Oceanian globality.
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Social Murder w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
Pub date: 2022-05-27
We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be portrayed as if nothing more could be done.
Read Nate's piece "Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/
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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Architecture: the infrastructure of society
Pub date: 2022-05-26
Contributor(s): Yvonne Farrell, Francis Kéré, Anne Lacaton, Shelley McNamara, Jeanne-Philippe Vassal, Professor Ricky Burdett | From innovative uses of local resources and participatory design methods in Africa, to the exploration of generosity of space and economic use of materials in educational and residential buildings in cities of the global North, the speakers will argue that architecture plays an increasingly critical role in constructing more open, resilient and healthy places for people.
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: How (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)
Pub date: 2022-05-23
On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Jennifer Cobbe, a senior research associate in the computer science department at Cambridge University. They discuss everything that’s wrong with surveillance capitalism, what the Tesco club card has to do with the surveillance state, the incoherent approach of the EU to regulating tech, how Brexit affected the UK’s ability of to control technology corporations, and how the law got us to where we are now.
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Articles Mentioned in this Podcast:
Jennifer Cobbe, Algorithmic Censorship by Social Platforms: Power and Resistance
Julie Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism
Evgeny Morozov, Capitalism’s New Clothes (critique of Shoshana Zuboff)
Vice, Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Kim Kelly on the Queer, BIPOC, and Disabled Heroes of Labor History
Pub date: 2022-05-23
Continuing our celebration of Labor History Month here on the show, today guest host Karma Chávez is in conversation with labor journalist Kim Kelly about her new book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.
Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in many outlets.
Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at “Noisey,” VICE’s music vertical, and was an original member of the VICE Union. A third-generation union member, she is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalists Union as well as a member and elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Edward Yong: The Art of Science Journalism
Pub date: 2022-05-20
Early on in his coverage of COVID, journalist Ed Yong realized it was more than just a science story — it was an omni-crisis. His journalism focuses on exposing the cracks in society exacerbated by the pandemic. He delivered this lecture as part of the Lind Initiative Future of the Media series at the University of British Columbia in April 2022.
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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Want to Wear a Basquiat? Inside the Big Business of Artist Merch
Pub date: 2022-05-19
Today, Jean-Michel Basquiat is unquestionably one of the most recognizable and beloved artists on the planet. A native New Yorker of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, Basquiat first attracted attention as a teenage graffiti writer in the late 1970s, before rapidly transitioning into the role of international sensation in the newly glamorous, increasingly global gallery world of the 1980s. Although the main draw was his inimitable artistic practice, which merged cryptic poetry and symbology with antic, Expressionistic figures, Basquiat quickly became a downtown celebrity of the first order, walking the runway, collaborating with musicians, and famously dating Madonna.
Tragically, Basquiat died from an overdose at the age of 27. His short artistic career makes it all the more remarkable that his work and his visage seem to be everywhere in the 21st century. Of course, I’m not just talking about his actual paintings, which reliably sell for tens of millions of dollars at auction. Licensed reproductions of Basquiat’s work now fuel a wide range of products and branding opportunities, from affordable t-shirts and keychains, to an unprecedented collaboration with the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets resulting in a Basquiat-inspired home court design and team uniform.
But as licensing has become a lucrative revenue stream for contemporary artists and estates, it has also intensified age-old criticisms about the corrosive powers of commercialization on creative integrity. The Basquiat estate’s approach has made Jean-Michel’s work one of the focal points of this tension, especially after the opening of “King Pleasure,” a major exhibition about the artist’s life and work now on view in Manhattan. To sort through this tangled web, Artnet News art business editor Tim Schneider spoke to market guru Katya Kazakina about her look into Basquiat and the increasingly big business of artwork licensing.
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Podcast: The Classical Ideas Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. John Modern & Alison Renna discuss "Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain (EP 241)
Pub date: 2022-05-23
John Lardas Modernis professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs and Secularism in Antebellum America, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Alison Renna is a PhD candidate studying the history of ideas. In her dissertation, “The Symbiotic Mind: A History of Religion, Ecology, and the Microbial World,” she writes about the ways that religion, social theory, philosophy, ecology, neuroscience, and psychology shaped one another through the twentieth century, beginning with the birth of information theory in the 1940s and ending with research into the human microbiome-brain connection in the 2010s. Buy "Neuromatic" from Class 200 at the University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo105080439.html
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Arthur Grace: Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe
Pub date: 2022-05-24
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Arthur Grace, photojournalist and author of Communism(s): A Cold War Album.
Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning career in photojournalism spanning three decades, he covered stories around the globe as a contract photographer for Time magazine and a staff photographer for Newsweek magazine. His photographs have appeared in leading publications worldwide, including on the covers of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match, and Stern. Over the past twenty-five years, Mr. Grace has published five critically-acclaimed photographic books: Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race, Comedians, State Fair, America 101, and Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including a solo show at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in the fall of 2012. Mr. Grace’s photographs are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the High Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the National Museum of American History. His color photojournalism archives are housed at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin.
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Podcast: Scratching the Surface (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 215. Carl DiSalvo
Pub date: 2022-05-25
Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he holds dual appointments in the School of Interactive Computing and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. His new book, Design as Democratic Inquiry is an exploration of ‘doing design otherwise’. In this conversation, Jarrett and Carl talk about the overlap of critical design and social design, what it means to design for democracy, and the role of writing in his work. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/215-carl-disalvo. — If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon and get bonus content, transcripts, and our monthly newsletter! www.patreon.com/surfacepodcast
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Podcast: The Palestine Pod (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Guerrilla Diplomacy with Noura Erakat
Pub date: 2022-05-20
This week Lara and Michael sit down with famed Palestinian human rights lawyer, scholar, and professor of law, Dr Noura Erakat. We discuss how international law was formed by colonial powers in order to facilitate imperial expansion. How international law has favored the settler-colonial project far more than Palestinians. We chat about a time when Palestinians used "guerilla diplomacy" to their advantage to champion the cause of Palestinian liberation. Dr. Erakat tells us that there is no silver bullet for what will bring down the occupation, but we all ought to be kinder to each other in our various pursuits whether our strategy is armed resistance, legal, political, or cultural. She posits its the combination of all these things will provide Palestinians the ability to claim freedom when an opportunity presents itself.
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Podcast: The Hated and the Dead (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: EP32: Richard Nixon
Pub date: 2022-05-22
Richard Nixon served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. Elected to America’s highest office in the tumultuous 1968 presidential election, Nixon’s presidency is one of the most contradictory in the country’s history. Progressive reformer or reactionary racist? Peace frog or warmonger? Fiery populist or isolated introvert? In short, you can make a case for him being all of these things at once.
Nixon’s life is a lesson in resilience and perseverance; Nixon was no quitter, and had a public life spanning from the 1950s until his death in 1994. Remarkably, Donald Trump and Mike Pence’s 2016 presidential ticket was the first successful Republican ticket not to include either Richard Nixon or a member of the Bush family since 1928, which tells you something about Nixon’s staying power.
My guest for this conversation is Lilly Goren (@gorenlj on Twitter), professor of political science at Carroll University in Wisconsin. Lilly’s next book, about the politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is coming out later this year.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-05-15
Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform(MIT Press, 2022) is the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle explores the platform's technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing.
Dr. Simon Peter Rowberry recounts how Amazon built the infrastructure for a new generation of digital publications, then considers the consequences of having a single company control the direction of the publishing industry. Exploring the platform from the perspectives of technology, texts, and uses, he shows how the Kindle challenges traditional notions of platforms as discrete entities. Dr. Rowberry argues that Amazon's influence extends beyond “disruptive technology” to embed itself in all aspects of the publishing trade; yet despite industry pushback, he says, the Kindle has had a positive influence on publishing.
Dr. Rowberry documents the first decade of the Kindle with case studies of Kindle Popular Highlights, an account of the digitization of books published after 1922, and a discussion of how Amazon's patent filings reflect a shift in priorities. Rowberry argues that while it was initially convenient for the book trade to outsource ebook development to Amazon, doing so has had adverse consequences for publishers in the mid- and long term, limiting opportunities for developing an inclusive and forward-thinking digital platform. While it has forced publishers to embrace digital forms, the Kindle has also empowered some previously marginalized readerships. Although it is still too early to judge the long-term impact of ebooks compared with that of the older technologies of clay tablets, the printing press, and offset printing, the shockwaves of the Kindle continue to shape publishing.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cannibal Capitalism
Pub date: 2022-05-11
Contributor(s): Professor Nancy Fraser | In the wake of the perfect storm that is COVID, how can we stop it from cannibalising our whole world?
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The radicalisation of Russian nationalism w/ Oleksiy Radynski
Pub date: 2022-05-17
Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski joins PTO from Kyiv. We talked about the current situation in the city and the popular mood in Ukraine. We went on to talk about Oleksiy's article 'The Case Against the Russian Federation' which appeared in E-Flux magazine. Oleksiy described the key features and history of Russian nationalism and why it is that Vladimir Putin, and the clique around him, repeatedly misunderstand the political realities of Ukraine.
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Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 99: Transforming the fascist past. The case of Bolzano’s bas-relief
Pub date: 2022-05-12
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Episode 99 of the podcast explores how the research and local community from Bolzano in northern Italy managed to successfully reframe the post-fascist historical site located in this South Tyrolean, multi-ethnic city. The story gives an opportunity to reflect on how collective memory can be dealt with. It also allows us to ponder to what extent the experience of totalitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe shares similarities with Western European cases.
Our guest is Hannes Obermair, a Senior researcher from Eurac Research, an independent and interdisciplinary research center, based in Bolzano in SouthTyrol.
This podcast is a joint effort of Talk Eastern Europe, the Memory Studies Association and EuroClio: the European Association of History Educators within the framework of the project titled “Contested Histories Onsite”, a project which aims to place Europeans in discussions and debates on multiple historical perspectives and to activate citizens in public involvement of memory-constructions. As part of the EU’s Europe for Citizens programme, the project’s aspiration is rooted in a shared conviction that raising critical questions about the past is fundamental for citizens to develop a critical attitude towards the narratives that are competing with each other in contemporary politics.
For more information on the project visit:
-Contested Histories Onsite: https://contestedhistories.org/onsite/
-Memory Studies Association: https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/contested-histories-onsite/
-EuroClio: https://www.euroclio.eu/project/contested-histories/
Sources:
Mussolini bas-relief, Bolzano, Italy. Case Study #84, Contested Histories
https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/Italy_-Mussolini-Bas-Relief-in-Bolzano.pdf
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-are-so-many-fascist-monuments-still-standing-in-italy
Hannes Obermair, Monuments and the City – an almost inextricable entanglement
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324834568_Monuments_and_the_City_-_an_almost_inextricable_entanglement
Andrea Carlà, Johanna Mitterhofer, Transforming a Controversial Heritage: The Case of the Fascist Victory Monument in South Tyrol
https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=708645
- Previous episodes under the Contested Histories Onsite project:
Episode 77: Inside memory sites - The Warsaw Rising Museum
https://talkeasterneurope.eu/episode/episode-77-inside-memory-sites-the-warsaw-rising-museum-699 - Episode 85: Estonia grapples with its Soviet past
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing with Cody Patton
Pub date: 2022-05-16
How many species had a hand in making that glass of beer? From the perspective of environmental history, human artefacts like beer result from more-than-human collaboration across time. Barley plants, hop vines, single-cell organisms, and a multiplicity of humans work together to bring beer into existence, and react to changes in the meteorological and economic climates. Taking these interactions seriously allows us to better understand the history of American brewing, and its implications for the future of business in an era of climate change.
Environmental historian Cody Patton, PhD candidate at Ohio State University, is uncovering this history in his dissertation project. Using multiple Hagley Library collections, including our unrivaled collection of trade journals and an oral history of craft brewing, Patton traces the many connections between environmental and economic factors in American history, as mediated by the brewing and consumption of beer. Scientific knowledge, industrial practice, professionalization, standardization, and cultural evolution entangled with and informed the story of American beer from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War
Pub date: 2022-05-17
Journalist Philip Oltermann explores the unusual story of the poetry group run by the East German Ministry for State Security. Speaking to Rob Attar, he explains why the Stasi decided to employ rhyme and verse in their battle against capitalism.
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Podcast: Culinary Historians of Chicago
Episode: Feeding Fascists The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Pub date: 2022-05-15
Feeding Fascists The Politics of Women’s Food Work Diana Garvin, PhD
Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime (1922-1943) in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. Darvin looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive research in Italian museums, libraries, and archives. Feeding Fascism includes illustrations of rare cookbooks, kitchen utensils, cafeteria plans, and culinary propaganda to connect women’s political beliefs with the places that they lived and worked and the objects that they owned and borrowed. Garvin draws on first-hand accounts, such as diaries, work songs, and drawings, that demonstrate how women and the Fascist state vied for control over national diet across many manifestations – cooking, feeding, and eating – to assert and negotiate their authority. Revealing the national stakes of daily choices, and the fine line between resistance and consent, Feeding Fascism attests to the power of food.
Diana Garvin is an Assistant Professor of Italian with a specialty in Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the American Academy in Rome as the 2017-2018 Rome Prize winner for Modern Italian Studies. She received her PhD from Cornell University and her AB from Harvard University.
Recorded via Zoom on May 13, 2022
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Marcos’ myths: the dictator’s son rewriting history in the Philippines
Pub date: 2022-05-16
Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is on course for a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election. For those who grew up under the martial law of his father, the result brings up the horrors of the past. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: Stuff To Blow Your Mind (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Facsimile, Part 1
Pub date: 2022-05-10
It’s easy to take document duplication for granted in our modern age, but our digital ease follows centuries of mechanical innovation and millennia of human specialization in the form of the scribe. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the history and invention of the facsimile.
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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: The affective lives of colonial economies
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Our global economy is fundamentally governed by colonial logics. The resulting power inequalities, ecological destructions, and social corrosions severely impact the daily lives of people. They transform the way they feel about themselves, about others and about the world around them. Today, we talk with artist and writer Bassem Saad about the affective lives of colonial economies.
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Podcast: Poliko
Episode: The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics with Nicolas Pons-Vignon (Part 1): Neoliberal Restructuring in South Africa
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Today’s episode is the first part of a conversation with Nicolas Pons-Vignon who played an instrumental role in setting up Aporde, the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, a unique training programme teaching heterodox development economics in South Africa. In this episode, we explore Nicolas’ personal research background and his outlook on South Africa’s post-apartheid developmental trajectory. We talk about some of the root causes of South African deindustrialization, the reception of neoliberal ideas by policymakers, the policy impact of neoclassical orthodoxy in economics departments, and the need for alternative, heterodox educational programs to broaden the horizons of policymakers in developing countries. After contextualising the reception of neoliberal ideas and policy templates in South Africa, we will continue this conversation with Nicolas in the subsequent episode by exploring how Aporde sought to offer an alternative educational model. To dig deeper, check out the texts included in the shared folder below!
Aporde's website:
http://www.aporde.co.za/
Nicolas' institutional website: https://www.supsi.ch/home_en/strumenti/rubrica/dettaglio.29083.backLink.79718207-24d5-44ab-8cec-be3898389703.html
Readings on Industrial Restructuring and Developmental Policy in South Africa:
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Podcast: e-flux podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan: We Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Andreas Petrossiants discussesWe Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (Pluto Press/Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, 2021) with authors Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan. An excerpt from the book was published in e-flux journal issue 124.
“Since 2004, through the work of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, we have questioned how to radically transform and entangle art, activism, and everyday life amidst the horrors of the Capitalocene. A decade ago, we deserted our metropolitan London lives, rooting our art activism in a place that French politicians had declared “lost to the republic,” known by those who inhabited it as la ZAD (the “zone to defend”). On these four thousand acres of wetlands, turned into a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, an international airport project was defeated through disobedience and occupation. This is an extract from our latest book, where an art of life is populated by rebel farmers and salamanders, barricades and bakeries, riots and rituals.”
—Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan
Isabelle Fremeaux is an educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London.
Jay Jordan is an art activist and author, cofounder of Reclaim the Streets and the Clandestine Insurgent Clown Army.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. Jonathan Pugh on Islands, the Anthropocene and Why There Will Still be Islands At the End of the World
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Dr. Jonathan Pugh is Reader in Island Studies, Department of Geography, Newcastle University, UK. He has more than 70 publications and is particularly noted for his work on the ‘relational’ and ‘archipelagic’ turns in island studies, disrupting the figure of the insular island. He has held a number of visiting fellowships, given international keynote addresses, and/or invited lectures, including at Princeton, Harvard, Virginia Tech, London, Cornell, Vienna, Zurich, Trinity College Dublin, Rutgers, California, University of West Indies and National Taiwan Normal University.
Jonathan's present work examines how work with islands is playing an increasingly prominent role in the generation of wider approaches to critical thinking, knowledge and policy practices associated with the Anthropocene (particularly in the prolific development of relational ontologies and epistemologies in opposition to modern reasoning). Establishing a platform for discussion and debate, in 2021 he launched the 'Anthropocene Islands' initiative (https://www.anthropoceneislands.online/). This includes a monthly reading group, dedicated section of Island Studies Journal, early career study spaces, workshops, agenda-setting publications and talks. The initiative gains its initial impetus from the book Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (Pugh and Chandler, 2021) free to download here https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/m/10.16997/book52/ and the Dialogues in Human Geography paper Anthropocene Islands: there are only islands after the end of the world (Chandler and Pugh, 2021).
Publications: https://newcastle.academia.edu/JonathanPugh
Twitter: @jonnypugh1974
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Podcast: KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 77. Frederik Obermaier on the Suisse Secrets
Pub date: 2022-05-09
Today, we welcome investigative journalist Frederik Obermaier (@f_obermaier).
In the interview, we cover the Suisse Secrets (https://www.occrp.org/en/suisse-secrets/). Frederik also mentions the China Cables uncovering surveillance and mass internment without charge or trial of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, China (https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/). We also discuss the Swiss Bank Secrecy Law and its infamous article 47 undermining Media Freedom in Switzerland): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/may/02/swiss-consider-amending-banking-secrecy-laws-amid-un-pressure
Pop-culture references in the interview: The Laundromat(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBRcfe4bSo)
Frederik's pick of the podcast: Money Men (Dan McCrum) about the Wirecard Scandal: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/144/1444756/money-men/9781787635043.html
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Podcast: Primary Sources (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt
Pub date: 2022-04-21
Ta-Nehisi Coates is best known for his writing about racism in America – in particular, his 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations,” and his 2015 book, Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi's readers know that the toll racism has inflicted on the bodies of Black people, and the enduring power of white supremacy, have long preoccupied him. On this show, however, he’ll be talking about a subject—or rather an influence—that few people associate with his work.
That influence is the late Tony Judt, a British historian. In 2005, Judt published his magnum opus, Postwar, a sweeping, 933-page history of modern Europe.
In this conversation, which was recorded last fall, Ta-Nehisi talks about why Postwar had such a profound impact on him. He explores the preface he wrote to Ill Fares the Land, another of Judt's books, which has just been reissued by Penguin. He also talks about the power of language to help us imagine a better world, whether he identifies as an Afro-pessimist, and what it’s like to grow up in a nationalist household.
Primary Sources is a co-production of Public Books and Type Media Center. Our show’s executive producer is Caitlin Zaloom, the founding editor of Public Books. Our producer is DJ Cashmere. Our engineer is Jess Engebretson. Special thanks to Kelley Deane McKinney, the publisher and managing editor of Public Books and Taya Grobow, executive director of Type Media Center. Our theme music is “Kitty in the Window,” composed by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License).
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Podcast: Appearance Matters: The Podcast! (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 70: Racism, Colourism, and Constructing Whiteness in Indonesia
Pub date: 2022-05-10
Having light-coloured skin has been a key feature of societal appearance ideals for women in many parts of the globe, including Indonesia - the world's fourth most populated country.
On this episode, we hear from CAR-collaborator Dr Ayu Saraswati, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaii to learn more about the light skin appearance ideal in Indonesia. We discover that the preference for lighter skin predates European(specifically Dutch) colonialism and that, lighter skin is not always considered better if the racialized group is not also positioned as desirable. Ayu also explains why the promotion of skin lightening products and the promotion of skin tanning products are not two sides of the same coin, though both are rooted anti-blackness.
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Podcast: LIVE! From City Lights
Episode: D. S. Marriott in Conversation with Frank B. Wilderson III
Pub date: 2022-05-06
D. S. Marriott in conversation with Frank B. Wilderson III, celebrating the publication of D. S. Marriott’s "Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21," published by City Lights Books. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and was hosted by Peter Maravelis with an opening statement by Garrett Caples.
Poet and scholar D.S. Marriott was born in Nottingham and educated at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of the poetry collections "Incognegro"(Salt, 2006), "Hoodoo Voodoo" (Shearsman, 2008), "The Bloods" (Shearsman, 2011), and "Duppies" (Commune Editions, 2019). His chapbooks include "In Neuter" (Equipage, 2012) and "Lative" (Equipage, 1992). His work is sometimes associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. In his critical and creative work, Marriott, of Jamaican heritage, draws on postcolonial thought and thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and is a leading theorist of Afro-pessimism. His critical books include "On Black Men" (Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, 2000), "Haunted Life" (Rutgers University Press, 2007), and "Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being" (Stanford University Press, 2018). He has taught at many universities and is currently based in Oakland, CA.
Frank B. Wilderson III is a writer, dramatist, filmmaker and critic. He is a full professor of drama and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of "Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms" (Duke University Press, 2010), "Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid" (South End Press, 2008), "Gramsci’s black marx: Whither the slave in civil society?" (Social Identities 9.2 , 2003) and "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020). He has received numerous honors for his work including The Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, The Maya Angelou Award for Best Fiction Portraying the Black Experience in America, an American book Award, amongst others. Wilderson has been described as one of the first writers in the tradition of Afro-pessimism.
This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Bolsonarismo Has Changed Brazil with Andre Pagliarini
Pub date: 2022-05-02
In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Andre Pagliarini professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and the co-editor of the Washington Brazil Office's weekly "Brazilian Election Bulletin." In addition to writing widely for general audiences in the United States and Brazil in outlets like The Guardian, New Republic, Folha de S. Paulo, and Piauí, Andre is preparing a book manuscript on the contested politics of nationalism in twentieth-century Brazil.
Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.
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Podcast: historicly (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Market Fetish - Part 3
Pub date: 2022-04-29
Today Jeffrey Epstein talks with Asad Zaman about the 2001 edition of Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation. Professor Zaman is a PhD economist based in Pakistan, with many lectures, papers, and posts on the topic.
The Great Transformation reveals, essentially, that what we think to be a foundation of our economy and society is, in fact, an illusion. Specifically, Polanyi calls capitalism and its free or "self-regulating" market "a stark Utopia". By definition, a Utopia (an imagined place where everything is perfect) is impossible to achieve. However, the attempt to achieve it – to eliminate literally all market regulation – can result only in the complete destruction of all human life and the land they live on. This is evidenced by our increasingly likely extinction at the hands of a human-created ecological crisis, caused largely by unprecedented and still-growing levels of inequality and the mass exploitation of all natural resources, including most human beings.
Here's Polanyi, on the first page of the first chapter:
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.
Unfortunately, the only way to maintain the fiction of the self-regulating market, is to continue the mass exploitation of the poor. Instead of treating human beings as the infinitely precious and unique beings they are, they are rather treated as mere interchangeable and disposable cogs to run the Unending Greed Machines; most often under terrible conditions. Polanyi calls this grave maltreatment the commodification of labor.
The only way to get human beings to submit to these terrible conditions, is to threaten them with an even more terrible condition: starvation and death. As quoted in the book, starvation "can tame even the wildest beast". Not even the strongest man can overcome it.
How is this starvation made possible? By eliminating the possibility of self sufficiency. A major tool to do this was the invention of the concept of the private ownership of land. This justified the ejection of all former occupants, who must now, for example, in modern society, purchase our food at a distant store. We have to drive to that store, and the food, plus the car and its gas, must all be paid for with money, which in turn can only be obtained by laboring at the Greed Machines. What this all means is that the commodification of labor also requires the commodification of the land.
Those being potentially annihilated by the destruction of the self-regulating market resist that destruction. This results in what Polanyi calls the double movement. This is the ideological battle that has raged for centuries, where one side tries to eliminate all market regulation, while the other tries to protect itself by imposing some. When the amount of regulations are only enough to moderately reduce that destruction, as is unfortunately most often the case, then the resistance can only perpetuate and further enable the pursuit of that stark Utopia.
What underlies and justifies this horror is the most dominant religion in the world, which is greed. Without Polanyi's book and his work, this religion, and its byproducts of inequality and mass exploitation, are made to appear normal, inevitable, and unstoppable – in other words, natural. The truth that Polanyi's history reveals (and as is reinforced by my recent interview with Wesley Wiles)is that inequality, exploitation, and greed are not "unfortunate, but necessary", they're deliberate choices. Those who benefit most from the self-regulating market have incentive to deceive the rest of us into thinking that these terrible things are indeed natural. This is the role played by neoclassical economics: to provide that official, neutral, and natural-sounding justification.
The core problem in our society is not "capitalism" or "the free market", per se, but rather the mass exploitation of the poor. Therefore, the core solution is to empower the poor. The nature of this empowerment is simple: provide them with what they desperately need: like healthcare, education, a job, un-poisoned water, and a world that doesn't threaten to collapse around them. These things all serve to empower the poor which ultimately reduces inequality – of both wealth and income.
We will annihilate the fiction of the self-regulating market or it will annihilate us. There is no gray area. We will provide for those on the bottom or we will go extinct. The first step is to emancipate ourselves from the chains of false history and false economics, and from the idea that everything horrible is "unfortunate, but necessary". Only then can we take a step back and start thinking of alternatives.
As a final note, you'll hear some of Professor Zaman's thoughts on the potential form a sustainable future society might take. These are not ideas from the book but his own, in an attempt to start a discussion on one of the greatest questions of our time: how do we resist and annihilate the self-regulating market, and what can and will society be like when we do? Perhaps you have some ideas of your own. Let's start that discussion.
Chapters
9:27 - Hellos
10:35 - The commodification of labor - what it really means
14:41 - The fantasy of power, to vent the frustration of being powerless
17:01 - The self-regulating market is a fiction and a stark Utopia. The double movement
19:41 - Movies- Don't Look Up and Encanto
22:45 - How do you resist the self-regulating market and beat it, instead of perpetuate it?
26:30 - Whatever the answer, it starts with you
29:33 - Peace is a balance of power, but only in a belligerent world
38:20 - Peace is controlled violence - violence by, not against, the powerful
40:19 - Individual imbalance of power, fiction of nation states
44:38 - Corporations are more powerful than nation states
46:56 - The gold standard was the glue that held the world together but for a terrible reason (and mercantilism)
54:48 - Fascism is not something in and of itself, rather it's something to fill in the vacuum left by the wreckage of the self-regulating market
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Podcast: Fascism in Cinema
Episode: Nomadland and the Desolation of Capitalism
Pub date: 2022-04-30
In this episode we are joined by James Dennis LoRusso (again!) to discuss NOMADLAND (2021) and its depiction of the desolation of American capitalism. We start off discussing the formation of the Amazon Labour Union (ALU) in Staten Island last month and then connect this massive labour victory with Frances McDormand's journey across the American landscape in Nomadland. Along the way, Dennis lets us know about his secret history with Starbucks and I call Michael J. Fox a fascist (jk).
About our guest: James Dennis LoRusso is the author of Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business: The Neoliberal Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capital (2017) and has published on a wide range of subjects, including spirituality in the workplace, corporate chaplaincy, and the state of academic labor.
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2828 - The American Myth Of White Colonialism w/ Alicia Puglionesi
Pub date: 2022-04-28
Emma hosts writer and historian Alicia Puglionesi to discuss her recent book In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire, on the US imperialist claims over land, resource, and history. Alicia begins by situating her work within prior research on parapsychology and the story of a white tourist’s psychic experience while visiting an indigenous burial mound, which led her to look to the colonization of the past as a practice to legitimize the colonization of the present. Starting from these earthworks, Alicia and Emma then dive into the various tactics of 19th Century America in manipulating the history of the land, with perspectives from the sciences, antiquarians, and even archeology to produce myths such as that of the “Lost Race” that was really responsible for indigenous wonders, that served to support their contemporary politics. Next, Alicia dives into the story of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a failing businessman who went to work for the Office of Indian Affairs in Michigan, where he marries into an Ojibwe family and begins collecting their stories and traditions, publishing them under his own name for the express purpose of creating a connection to the place for white Americans. Moving away from land as the primary resource for the accumulation of wealth, Alicia and Emma get into the stories of the early oil barons in western Pennsylvania and how they painted their role as a divine benediction, the culmination of the purpose of the land being this mass industrialization of the region, before Alicia dives into the completely ignored historical use of oil in indigenous communities as a representation of how the destructive capacity we associate with it, is not necessarily inherent in oil. They then look to the early 20th Century and the waterways projects as the US began building dams across America, as they get into the concept of non-military claims to land, with capitalism as an extension of power just like the military is, exploring the flooding of countless vital indigenous lands for the purpose of, once again, building up industrialization in the region. Alicia dives into the final resource explored in the book, looking at the Manhattan Project’s relationship to the New Mexican indigenous communities and histories, and exploring nuclear power as a representation of the US’s building of hegemony to the point of apocalypse – alongside what we’ve seen with oil and climate change – before they wrap up the interview with a conversation on the role of the land back movement and how the land of national parks may serve as a starting point. Emma also touches on Russia’s developing tactics in their imperialist invasion of Ukraine, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s looking to the church as the savior of woke charitable giving, and Chuck Schumer’s push for student debt relief.
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Podcast: The AIAC Podcast
Episode: New World Disorder
Pub date: 2022-05-03
Will is joined by Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, to discuss her latest book, Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century (OUP, 2022). Since the 2008 financial crisis, many analysts have scratched their heads to make sense of the crisis of liberal democracies, the decline of neoliberal hegemony, and the emerging multipolar world where the West’s dominance is challenged by China and Russia. Professor Thompson argues that a key factor driving these interlocking geopolitical, economic and political crises, are the predicaments around energy - how it is produced, distributed, and consumed. As the climate crisis makes structural change an existential necessity, how much of the coming world will change - and how much of it, will stay the same? Especially, for the global South, which is rich in clean earth metals - the energy resource of a green future?
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Podcast: Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 68: Tinakrit Sireerat, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Pub date: 2022-04-28
In this latest episode, Michael and Tinakrit Sireerat, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, discuss his dissertation on the history of livestock farming in Hokkaido and forestry in Lanna as a backdrop for the interconnections between colonial administration and environmental governance.
Research and lecture summary: 01:40
Advice for researchers and recommendations: 28:23
Tinakrit Sireerat's Top Recommendation:
- Colonizing Animals by Jonathan Saha (link)
- Petch Pra Uma by Phanom Thian (link)
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Harsha Walia on Border Imperialism
Pub date: 2022-04-28
“Borders are intended to kill,” says migrant rights activist Harsha Walia. “They are intended to maintain the power relationships of race, class, caste, gender, and more.”
Today, Harsha Walia joins Thursday host Allen Ruff to talk about the history, politics, and ideology of borders and bordering through the lens of her latest book, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.
Harsha Walia is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice and anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (AK Press, 2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Haymarket Books, 2021).
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Bharat Venkat - At the Limits of Cure
Pub date: 2022-05-05
In the 26th episode, I speak to Bharat Venkat, Assistant Professor at Institute for Society and Genetics in the Department of History, UCLA, on his new book At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, 2021). The book’s an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India that asks fundamental questions about what it means to be cured of a disease and what happens when cures don’t pan out. The conversation begins by asking Venkat what he means by cures and how we, as a society, determine when a cure is a cure or what conditions and factors influence and inform that determination. Next, I cover the puzzle that’s at the heart of the book: why individuals die of TB from other conditions like HIV after being treated. The book’s focus on India brings up the issue of why Indian cities became vulnerable to TB, sifting and weighing how different conditions, political, historical and structural, influenced TB patterns in the country. The conversation moves to understand how geography or ‘place’ interacts with these contextual factors to shape cures. Venkat also unpacks whether and how political economy considerations, that increasingly center around the discourse of chronic diseases which require sustained care and treatment, shape current notions of cure and being cured. Before ending, the conversation covers how Venkat sees or places the book from a disciplinary perspective, the impact of COVID-19 on our understanding of cures, the hardest parts of writing the book, and what he’s working on now.
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Podcast: Hierarchies of Development
Episode: Ep. 1 Environmental hierarchies
Pub date: 2022-05-03
We speak to Tejal Kanitkar (National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India) and Leon Sealey-Huggins (University of Warwick, UK) about climate change and environmental hierarchies. Join us to learn more about the COP26, the racialised dimension of climate change, the issues around the concept of sustainability, and much more.
The Hierarchies of Development podcast offers long format interviews focusing on enduring global inequalities. Conversations focus on contemporary research projects by critical scholars from across the world that help us understand how and why structural hierarchies persist. Join hosts Ingrid Kvangraven (King’s College, London) and Basile Boulay (EADI) for this series of engaging discussions on pressing issues in the social sciences.
This podcast is a joint production between King’s College, London, the European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Developing Economics blog, with special editing support from Jonas Bauhof.
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Podcast: Overdue Conversations
Episode: A People’s History of Computing in the United States: An Overdue Conversation with Joy Lisi Rankin
Pub date: 2022-04-25
In this episode, Columbia literature curator Lina Moe sits down with historian and curator of NYU’s AI Now Institute and author of A People’s History of Computing in the United States, Joy Lisi Rankin. Lina and Joy discuss urgent questions about the social history of computing; the ethical dilemmas posed by the power of tech…
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: ANDREW SIMON | Media of the Masses | Outline
Pub date: 2022-04-24
Andrew Simon talked about his latest book "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt." Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology—the cassette tape—to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores.
Andrew Simon is a historian of media, popular culture, and the modern Middle East. He holds a B.A. in Arabic, Middle East, and Islamic Studies from Duke University and was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently serving as a lecturer at Dartmouth. Andrew's interdisciplinary research has received generous support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Center in Egypt, and his work has been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studiesand cited in the Washington Post. Andrew's first book, Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (2022), is forthcoming with Stanford University Press and shares the extraordinary story of an ordinary object.
Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra
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Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/
About Outline:
Outline is a process-focused conversation that looks at guests’ individual projects rather than their full bodies of work. The conversation sketches the journey of the project; the spark of curiosity that led to the project, the process of implementing the idea, the struggles that emerged throughout the implementation, and the aftermath of the project that includes new questions and new ideas. The name “Outline” stems from the idea of creating a retroactive project outline which is part of a broader emphasis on the process of curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking from a nuts and bolts perspective. Outline is not discipline-specific; the series will be held with artists, academics, writers, filmmakers, among others. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
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afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity.
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Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Cordones Industriales and the Chilean Revolution Part 1
Pub date: 2022-04-26
In part 1 of Chris' interview with Nicolas Scott about the Cordones Industriales, Chilean radical workers organizations during the revolution, we discuss the political and economic history that led to them.
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Podcast: The Radio 3 Documentary (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sunday Feature: The Ancient Algorithm
Pub date: 2022-04-24
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough delves into the history of runes, the ancient alphabet of Northern Europe. Travelling to Orkney, she learns how and why these spiky letters were used.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Earworm and Event — with Eldritch Priest
Pub date: 2022-04-26
SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts Assistant Professor Eldritch Priest joins this episode Below the Radarl to discuss the potential in nonsense and failure, the phenomenon of the earworm, and his journey from musicianship to employing theory.
In this episode, Eldritch explores his beginnings as a jazz guitarist, the practices that guide his work and his teachings, and the path that led him to composition and beyond. He dives into the legitimacy and aesthetic possibilities of failure and nonsense, and the potentials of daydreaming and a resting mind — in defiance of prevailing positivist neoliberal discourse.
Eldritch also talks about the phenomenon of the earworm, which is a focus in his new book, Earworm and Event. The earworm, to him, is a prime example of studying music less as an artform, but more as a technology, using the imagination to shape not just one's feelings, but one’s thoughts as well.
Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/170-eldritch-priest.html
Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/170-eldritch-priest.html
Resources: Eldritch’s new book, Earworm and Event: https://www.dukeupress.edu/earworm-and-event Eldritch’s Website: https://www.strangemonk.com/ Eldritch’s previous book, Ludic Dreaming: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ludic-dreaming-9781501320804/ Eldritch’s other previous book, Boring Formless Nonsense: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/boring-formless-nonsense-9781441122131/ The Logic of Sense, by Gilles Deleuze: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-logic-of-sense/9780231059831
Bio: Eldritch Priest writes on sonic culture, experimental aesthetics, and the philosophy of experience from a ’pataphysical perspective. He is Associate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Eldritch is also a composer and improviser as well as a member of the experimental theory group “The Occulture.” He is the author of several essays and books including Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (Bloomsbury 2013) and most recently, Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and other Imaginary Refrains (Duke University Press 2022).
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Podcast: History of Education Society UK Podcast
Episode: 2.6 - Networks of Empire with Brianna Lafoon
Pub date: 2022-04-25
Today’s conversation picks up on the discussion of American imperial education from our last episode. I speak with Brianna Lafoon, who researches the education networks that formed within and between the mainland United States and its colonial holdings. We discuss how these networks operated, the practices and ideas they spread, and how an imperial perspective informs the history of mass schooling in the United States.
Brianna Lafoon is a historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and she is a PhD candidate in the History Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her experience as a researcher, she has ten years of educational experience in New York City - seven years classroom experience as a secondary school teacher and three years as an instructional coach.
A transcript of the episode is available at the History of Education Society website, along with more information about our events, publications and conferences. You can follow the History of Education Society UK on Twitter and keep up-to-date with the latest research in The History of Education journal.
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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 261: The Long Land War
Pub date: 2022-04-25
For most of human history, the wealthy of any given society have been those who owned land. Therefore to change concepts of property ownership has been to change concepts of society itself.
In her new book The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights, Jo Guldi focus on land and its distribution as an overlooked engine driving politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Of course, the history of land reform is far older "strategies for turning the land over to the poor date as far back as ancient Canaan or the Roman empire; and yet, modern proposals for state-engineered 'land reform' appeared for the first time in nineteenth-century Britain, and the first “rent control” law dates from Ireland in 1881." From land reform policies in nineteenth century Ireland and India, to post-colonial Africa, Guldi's study ranges the globe. She argues that land redistribution is crucial to understanding the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, and internationalism, as well as the spread of information technology and free-market economics.
Jo Guldi is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches courses on the history of Britain, the British Empire, modern development policy, and property law. She describes herself as a "historian of capitalism [whose] interests have ranged widely over problems of the past and methods for knowing the truth."
For Further Investigation
You might be interested in reading some of Jo's many essays. They can be found here, on her excellent website. I learned about Jo's book from Scott Nelson, who was on to talk about grain and history. You can listen to that conversation here, if you haven't already heard it. In our conversation about his book Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context, Bill Caferro offered some criticisms of "the long view" and some reasons why focusing on the "short view" is a good thing.
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Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics
Episode: Nathan Olmstead, We Are All Ghosts: Sidewalk Toronto
Pub date: 2022-04-13
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Orbanism - Europe's post-neoliberal future? w/ Dorit Geva
Pub date: 2022-04-21
Dorit Geva joins PTO to talk about the recent re-election victory of Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Dorit's article, 'Orban’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony' which is published in the journal Theory, Culture and Society. We discussed why Orban secured such a convincing electoral victory in spite of the opposition's highlighting of government corruption and Orban's friendly relations with Vladimir Putin. We went on to talk about the innovative character of Orban's post-neoliberal rule which involves not merely erosion of democratic norms but also the combining of certain elements of a neoliberal marketisation agenda with efforts to promote national capital at the expense of foreign corporations and the radical centralisation of state power.
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Podcast: The Way Podcast/Radio (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 77) Machine Gun Politics (Correct Upload)
Pub date: 2022-04-19
Today, I welcome Jessie Bullock, PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University, to introduce the concept of corruption. More specifically, explore the reasons as to why politicians are actively and willingly engaging with criminal organizations in Southern and Central America.
Bio: I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, studying Comparative Politics and Political Economy. My broad research interests include conflict, organized crime, inequality, distributive politics, corruption, and rule of law.
My dissertation book project, Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups, explains what politicians can gain from partnering with criminal actors. I leverage a quasi-experimental study of voting, an original database on criminal governance, and 18 months of extensive fieldwork in this mixed-methods study of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A working paper drawing from my dissertation, Organized Crime and Voter Mobilization, recently won the 2020 Best Paper Award from the Subnational Politics and Society section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
My other research focuses on the implications of public security on inequality and violence. My working paper Why Limiting Police Raids Decreased Criminal Violence in Rio de Janeiro was referenced in Brazilian Supreme Court testimony regarding the legality of police raids.
I am the recipient of a 2019 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Dissertation Writing Fellowship and the 2018 recipient of the Jorge Paulo Lemann Traveling Fellowship to Brazil. My field work has generously been supported by the Corporación Andino de Fomiento (CAF), David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the Harvard Brazil Cities Initiative, and the Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative (FHB). I am a current graduate student affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.
Website: https://www.jessiebullock.com/
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Podcast: Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 41 - Love in the Time of Big Data ft. Alfie Bown
Pub date: 2022-04-18
Big tech companies tell us they’re our servants, existing to fulfill our desires more cheaply and conveniently than ever. Alfie Bown doesn’t think so. He thinks Deliveroo, Tinder, Pornhub etc. aren’t just giving us what we want, they’re shaping what we want. He reckons our tech overlords are secretly remaking humankind on the level of desire.
We chat about Chinese cars that know what you want to eat and why time travellers don’t get horny.
Bown is the author of a new book called Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships
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Podcast: Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: From Palestine to North Africa and Back: Transnational Solidarity in the Arts in the 1970s
Pub date: 2022-04-14
Episode 139: From Palestine to North Africa and Back: Transnational Solidarity in the Arts in the 1970s
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine opened in Beirut in 1978 with nearly 200 artists from 30 countries. For over a decade, Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri led a research project to uncover the history of this and other art collections/museums built in solidarity with political causes, and map networks of artists, intellectuals and activists that extended from these projects. The Moroccan chapter revealed links and practices from publications like Souffles, to proximity of the PLO’s office to writers and artists, and the work and interventions by artists bringing work to public space and out of the galleries.
Kristine Khouri is a researcher whose background is in Arab cultural history and art history. Her interests began in the history of arts circulation, exhibition and infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa as well as archives, practices in and with them, and knowledge dissemination. In the past few years, she has been focused on critical engagement with digital archives, and issues that emerge from them including rights, access, and language. She co-led, with Rasha Salti, the Past Disquiet research project unearthing the histories of exhibitions and museums in exile, and transnational solidarity in the arts in the 1970s. Kristine is currently a board member of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut.
This episode is part of the Modern Art in the Maghrib series, and was recorded on March 3, 2022, via Zoom. This is part of a larger Council of American Overseas Research Centers program organized by the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) and financed by the Andrew Mellon Foundation that seeks to collaborate with local institutions for a greater awareness of art historical research in North Africa.
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Podcast: The Business Samurai
Episode: Christopher Ali: Deconstructing the Broadband Crisis
Pub date: 2022-04-19
Dr. Christopher Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include communication policy and regulation, rural broadband, critical political economy, critical geography, media localism, and local news.
Christopher’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Hill, and Realtor Magazine is a frequent commentator on the subjects of broadband, media policy, and local news, with interviews in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNET, CBC, Bloomberg, and other major national and international news outlets.
Christopher’s current research focuses on broadband policy and deployment in the US, specifically in rural areas. His recently released book, Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity examines the complicated terrain of rural broadband policy in the US. Farm Fresh unpacks the politics of broadband policy, asking why millions of rural Americans lack broadband access and why the federal government, and large providers, are not doing more to connect the unconnected.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-04-15
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression-language, image, music, communication-into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather than ameliorating global crises, and financialize every expressive act, converting each utterance into a wager. Repairing this ecology of exploitation, Beller contends, requires decolonizing information and money, and the scripting of futures wagered by the cultural legacies and claims of those in struggle.
Marci Mazzarotto is an Assistant Professor of Digital Communication at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. Her research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersection of academic theory and artistic practice with a focus on film and television studies.
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Podcast: Museum Confidential (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Surrealists at War
Pub date: 2022-04-15
What role can artists and creatives play in wartime? On this episode we chat with acclaimed author Lesley M.M. Blume about her recent Town & Country article, “The Art of War: How the Surrealists Helped Upend Camouflage and Redefine Modern Battle.” In a globe-spanning investigation filled with big art world names like Gorky and Dalí, the story proves once and for all that truth is stranger than fiction.
Read the article at https://www.townandcountrymag.com/
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Podcast: Turkey Book Talk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy
Pub date: 2022-04-11
Birol Başkan on “The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy” (SUNY Press), co-written with Ömer Taşpınar. The book examines Turkey's foreign policy during the Arab Spring era, when Ankara threw its weight behind protest movements seeking to overthrow established regimes around the Middle East.
Become a member to support Turkey Book Talk. Members get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, and over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history and politics.
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Podcast: Greenhouse Sass
Episode: The Chile California Connection ft. Juan Silva
Pub date: 2022-04-06
In this episode, we talk about coastal planning with Juan Andrés Silva, a Chilean environmentalist and sociologist. He shares his thoughts on oceanfront development, fishing rights, indigenous knowledge, and what can be done to keep the Chilean coastline from becoming the next Orange County.
Check out Juan's recently published paper on takeaways from implementing the Marine and Coastal Areas for Indigenous Peoples (MCAIP) policy in Chile: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105233
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Podcast: Fascism in Cinema
Episode: The Batman and the Cinematic Political Imaginary
Pub date: 2022-04-10
In this episode we are joined by Dennis LoRusso to discuss THE BATMAN (2022) and the legacy of Batman reboots in general. Nathan tells us about his childhood Batcave, we discuss cop movies, and consider what these constant Batman reboots tell us about our cinematic and political imaginary.
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 352) Jessica Hernandez
Pub date: 2022-04-12
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Podcast: The Climate Question (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Is space travel a problem for the climate?
Pub date: 2022-04-10
As more countries launch more rockets into orbit for commercial and scientific reasons, the space industry is experiencing rapid growth.
It’s on the verge of an even greater increase as space tourism takes off. The International Space Station is now open to tourists and private companies have developed rockets that can be reused – all meaning more launches into space.
But rocket exhausts contain particles that can affect the climate. What are the potential impacts and is it time to apply the brakes to the new space race?
Presenters Jordan Dunbar and Phoebe Keane are joined by:
D Raghunanadan, director at the Delhi Science eForum Eloise Marais, associate professor of physical geography at University College London Stephen Freeland, emeritus professor of international law at Western Sydney University.
Producer: Darin Graham Researcher: Lizzie Frisby Reporter: Mike Killian Series producer: Alex Lewis Sound engineer: Neil Churchill Editor: Emma Rippon
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Podcast: A is for Architecture
Episode: Albena Yaneva: Bruno Latour, ANT and Architects
Pub date: 2022-04-13
In episode 25 of A is for Architecture, I speak with Albena Yaneva, Professor of Architectural Theory at the Manchester School of Architecture, University of Manchester, about her new book, Latour for Architects, published by Routledge at the end of March. In it, we discuss Albena’s reading and application of the work of the great sociologist, Bruno Latour’s and in turn, his reading of society, particularly his important concept of Actor-Network Theory, and his work’s application to the practice and production of architectural thinking. Latour’s work has great influence on contemporary practice, even if often under-played, particularly as practice life waxes networked and complex. Albena’s elegant and enlightening exposition is a timely interjection, then, perhaps helping architects understand themselves a wee bit better.
I was introduced to Albena by Fran Ford, Senior Editor and Publisher (Architecture) for Routledge, who also sent me the book hot off the press. All thanks for that.
Albena’s research/ academic profile can be seen here, and she is also available via Twitter. Latour for Architects can be purchased here, and Albena’s great lecture for McGill University - The New Ecology of Architectural Practice: An ANT Perspective on the Effects of Covid-19 – is definitely worth a butcher’s.
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Podcast: Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Muro: The geography of the tech sector
Pub date: 2022-04-06
Since the early days of the digital revolution, the San Francisco Bay area has played a key role from the rise of the microchip to today's software giants like Facebook and Google. But why has the tech sector remained so geographically concentrated for so long — and is that something government needs to fix? To answer that question and delve into the recent changes in the geography of the tech sector during the pandemic, I've brought on Mark Muro.
Mark is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, DC, and the policy director of Brookings Metro. He and Yang You recently authored “Superstars, rising stars, and the rest: Pandemic trends and shifts in the geography of tech.”
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: JILL JARVIS | Aesthetics and Politics of North Africa | Conversations
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Jill Jarvis talked about the aesthetics and politics of North Africa and her book “Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony.”
Jill Jarvis specializes in the aesthetics and politics of North Africa. Her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Memory : Algeria and the Politics of Testimony, brings together close readings of fiction with analyses of juridical, theoretical, and activist texts to illuminate both the nature of violence and the stakes of literary study in a time of unfinished decolonization. She is also at work on a second book project, Signs in the Desert: An Aesthetic Cartography of the Sahara, which envisions the Sahara as a site of material, intellectual, and linguistic exchanges that challenge both disciplinary boundaries and received notions of African studies. Other work appears in New Literary History, PMLA, The Journal of North African Studies, and Expressions maghébrines.
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Weimar Futurities with Engelbert Stockhammer
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Engelbert Stockhammer joins Money on the Left to discuss the political and economic debates that shaped and ultimately devastated Weimar-era Germany. Professor Stockhammer is professor of political economy in the department of European and International Studies at King’s College London and has published widely on financial instability and Post-Keynesian economics. In this episode, we focus specifically on Stockhammer’s recent working paper, “Hilferding, Woytinsky, and the Fiscal Orthodoxy of Interwar Social Democracy,” published by the Post-Keynesian Economics Society in Fall 2021.
In the essay, Stockhammer reconsiders the so-called “WTB Plan,” a union-backed public works program, which was tragically rejected by the Social Democratic Party (or “SPD”) on seemingly Marxist grounds. During our conversation, we explore the biographies and arguments of two key players in this historical drama: Vladmir Woytinksy, the Russian-born socialist economist responsible for drafting the WTB plan and Rudolf Hilferding, the Austrian-Marxist theorist and politician who turned the SPD against it. Along the way, we consider the stakes and fate of Weimar-era fiscal politics in light of a hegemonic gold standard that ruled across Europe and the United States, growing unemployment and suffering, and the German fascist movement that rose to answer such problems in violent and genocidal ways. Finally, we ponder how unrealized Weimar futurities in the past can help inform the struggle for public full employment today.
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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Black Science as Black Power: Dr. Quito Swan on the Life of Pauulu Kamarakafego
Pub date: 2022-04-03
I spoke to Dr. Quito Swan of Indiana University on revolutionary scientist Pauulu Kamarakafego and his journey through the Black Pacific, Black Atlantic & Africa to decolonize science.
We discuss the differences between the Black Pacific & Black Atlantic, how colonizers used their hold over science to cower the colonized, and how revolutionaries like Paulu (Known as ROOSE in his native Bermuda) sought to turn science against the colonizers and decolonize science.
For more w. Dr. Swan please see his new book ' Pasifika Black' coming out this April 2022 on NYU Press about the Black Pacific: https://nyupress.org/9781479885084/pasifika-black/
And for more on Dr. Swan's work on the life of Pauulu Kamarakafego you can find his text 'Pauulu's Diaspora' on University of Florida Press: https://www.google.com/search?q=pauulu%27s+diaspora&oq=pauulu%27s+diaspora&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2.3939j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Podcast: The Social Breakdown (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: SOC513 - Visual Sociology (Guest Edition)
Pub date: 2022-03-30
In a world with rapid changes to technology from the advent of photography to camera phones to social media and the Mark Zuckerberg’s “metaverse,” there has also been an emergence of other ways of revealing aspects of our world. One is Visual Sociology. Please join us for our conversation with the media scholar and sociologist Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco, whose work uses photography and visual analysis to find meaning among diasporas and migrant communities and families. How can sociologists use images they find and create to learn more about our social world? Tune in for this fun conversation!
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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: The colonial affects of environmental racism
Pub date: 2022-04-01
It is more and more evident that the world faces an urgent environmental crisis. Global economies, based on colonial imaginaries of progress through resource extraction, have severely damaged the planet. But not everybody is equally affected. The ecological catastrophe further marginalizes people along racial lines. Today, we talk with anthropologist Tamar Blickstein about the colonial affects of environmental racism.
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Podcast: Yale Religion
Episode: A conversation with Yale’s Abdul-Rehman Malik: Ramadan, Islamophobia, and the Islamic Roots of Coffee
Pub date: 2022-04-04
Yale Lecturer Abdul-Rehman Malik discusses the significance of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, the Islamic origins of coffee, and combating Islamophobia.
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Podcast: Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: S6E7 - Anti-Oppressive Theory
Pub date: 2022-04-04
Today we are so pleased to share our conversation with Dr. Maíra Irigaray, who is a human rights and environmental lawyer currently working at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as the Latin America Policy and Research Analyst. She shares about her anti-oppressive approach to research and how it is central to her advocacy for indigenous people’s rights in the Amazon.
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Podcast: Whetstone Audio Dispatch
Episode: The Tunisian Baguette Revolt
Pub date: 2022-03-25
The most consumed food product in Tunisia is a white bread flute, a baguette, sold at the price of 7 or 9 cents, depending on the size. At its best, it is like a cloud on the inside and crispy on the outside.
This inaugural episode of Whetstone Audio Dispatch reporter Layli Foroudi tells the story of how this breadstick came to dominate Tunisian diets and how it relates to the country’s fragile food security. And yet, while this bread could be seen as a symbol of oppression— the Tunisian baguette has also fueled revolutions and has become a symbol of resistance in the country.
Today, shipments of wheat have been sitting outside the port pending payment, flour is rationed in supermarkets (when it is available) and prices are set to rise again due to the war in Ukraine.
The impending social explosion combines the baguette's dual nature: it is rooted in a history of oppression and it is a source of protest and resistance, which is about more than bread, as we are told by Ahmed Ben Massoud: "It means don't touch my very low level of living."
Contributors:
Ahmed Ben Massoud, audiologist and bread revolutionary from Douz Halima, baker of traditional bread from Jbel Lahmar, Tunis Max Ajl, researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands; author A People’s Green New Deal Taoufik Khedhri, baker of industrial subsidized bread in Jbel Lahmar, Tunis Fatma Jegham, teacher and activist in Ettadhaman, Tunis
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Podcast: American Prestige (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: E38 - Venezuela and Chavismo w/ Alejandro Velasco
Pub date: 2022-04-04
Danny and Derek speak about potential Russia-Ukraine peace talks (0:51), Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s facing a no-confidence vote (9:36), Ansar Allah/Houthi and Saudi ceasefires (14:28), and the DPRK’s most recent ballistic missile test (17:39). They are then joined by Alejandro Velasco, associate professor of history at NYU, to discuss Venezuela and Chavismo. They talk Venezuelan history since the 1950’s, Chavez’s early life, ideologies informing his approach to state power, and much more.
Check out Alejandro's book Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela: https://bit.ly/3DqgMki
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Podcast: Crypto Critics' Corner (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: We Need to talk about El Salvador (Feat. Mario Gómez and Oscar Salguero)
Pub date: 2022-03-28
Today Bennett and Cas are joined by two Salvadoran natives - Mario Gómez, a developer who was arrested in El Salvador for voicing criticism about the Bitcoin bill, and Oscar Salguero, a senior software engineer who has been traveling to and from El Salvador, testing the limits of the cryptocurrency remittance services.
Para nuestros oyentes en español, hay una transcripción disponible aquí: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/03/29/episode-63-we-need-to-talk-about-el-salvador-feat-mario-gomez-and-oscar-salguero/#spanish-transcript
This is an incredible episode.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vk5x/nayib-bukele-ms13-murder-rate
https://camarasal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SondeoEmpresarial35422_FINAL10032022.pdf
https://diario.elmundo.sv/economia/solo-el-14-de-las-empresas-reporta-ventas-en-bitcoin-segun-encuesta
This episode was recorded on Thursday, March 24th, 2022
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Natali Valdez, "Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era" (U California Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-03-30
In Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era (University of California Press, 2022), Natali Valdez examines research trials that enroll pregnant people in the United States and England. These research trials aim to lower the health risks to future generations by intervening in and studying the diet and exercise of pregnant people. As an ethnographer, Valdez enrolled pregnant participants into the studies, met with them to administer the intervention, and observed the processes of the trials. Valdez argues that these studies focus on the pregnant individual without accounting for the social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that present risk factors to their pregnancies. Structural factors such as racism, pollution, and poverty are not acknowledged, studied, or tracked. And this focus on the individual forecloses addressing issues, such as unstable housing, childcare, immigration, and racism. In the book, Valdez discusses how pregnancy trials have changed very little since the 1950s, the politics of recruiting participants to the trials, and how they handle racial diversity. Valdez asserts that these trials use race as an unstable and inconsistent marker of identifying participants, but they do not address racism, which is an underlying cause of health disparities. In the episode we discuss Valdez’s arguments, ethnographic work, and experience of writing the book. Weighing the Future would be of interest to those in medical anthropology, science and technology studies, as well as women and gender studies. Weighing the Future is the first book of its kind, and it contributes much to our understandings of the increasingly salient issues of maternal health, research, and race.
Natali Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.
Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
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Podcast: New Books in Mathematics (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-30
In A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 2021), Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace changes leading to the computer becoming a ubiquitous technology. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific super tool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music, and movies, communicate, and count their steps. A comprehensive reimagining of Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing, this new volume uses each chapter to recount one such transformation, describing how a particular community of users and producers remade the computer into something new. Haigh and Ceruzzi ground their accounts of these computing revolutions in the longer and deeper history of computing technology. They begin with the story of the 1945 ENIAC computer, which introduced the vocabulary of "programs" and "programming," and proceed through email, pocket calculators, personal computers, the World Wide Web, videogames, smartphones, and our current world of computers everywhere--in phones, cars, appliances, watches, and more. Finally, they consider the Tesla Model S as an object that simultaneously embodies many strands of computing.
Dr. Thomas Haigh is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Comenius Visiting Professor at Siegen University. He has been researching the history of computing for more than twenty years and is a past chair of SIGCIS, the group for historians of information technology. He is the lead author, with Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope, of ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer, about the design, construction, and use of the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer, the ENIAC. His new book, with Paul Ceruzzi, is New History of Modern Computing: a comprehensive history of computing from ENIAC to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Dark Side of Art with Tobias Timm and Stefan Koldehoff
Pub date: 2022-03-28
“These crime stories came to us. There were fake paintings hanging in galleries or being sold in auctions. There were robberies and looting. Somebody has to write about these stories about the dark side of the art world…” Tobias Timm tells us on today’s show. Tobias and his colleague Stefan Koldehoff are art journalists who found themselves experts in the world of art crime because Stefan says “once you start with it, you can’t let it go again.”
Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm are the authors of a new book called Art & Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World, released in a translated copy this year from Seven Stories Press.
Stefan Koldehoff is culture editor at Deutschlandfunk radio and writer for Die Zeit, the German newspaper of record. In 2008 he received the Puk journalist prize for his investigative research.
Tobias Timm is a writer for Die Zeit’s feature pages from Berlin on architecture, art, and crime. The two are co-authors of a previous book, released in 2012, called False Pictures, Real Money.
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Podcast: Cities After... podcast
Episode: Oligarchy and the Dark Side of Urbanization - Pt. 1
Pub date: 2022-03-22
In this episode of Cities After…, Prof. Robles-Durán discusses how the western oligarchy has been intrinsically interconnected with its Russian counterpart through massive urbanization projects around the world. Oligarch Business Districts have been developed in major cities at the command of dark money in the search for legal loopholes, fiscal gymnastics, and money laundering. By looking closely at two of these development districts, New York’s Hudson Yards and Russia's Moscow International Business District, Robles-Durán reveals how they render the invisible web of dark money visible and enable an immense service industry of lawyers, accountants, architects, creatives and financiers dedicated to supplying the wants and needs of the global neoliberal oligarchy.
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Podcast: The Philosopher & The News (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Samuel Moyn & The Legal Constraints on War
Pub date: 2022-03-26
On March 16th the UN’s International Court of Justice asked Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine. It had found no evidence to support Russia’s claim that Ukraine was conducting genocide against Russia Speakers in the East of the country, which has been Russia’s justification for the war. A day later Russia rejected the ruling.
So, is international law completely impotent in preventing countries from going to war? And why has the law been more effective in constraining the way that countries fight even illegal wars?
Has the way that the US and other great powers defied international law undermined its effectiveness, and allowed countries like Russia to ignore it? And was Leo Tolstoy right in thinking that making war less brutal, and more humane, would in fact end up in causing more suffering and destruction, by perpetuating war into the future?
Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School and a Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books on European intellectual history and human rights history, including Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018). His latest book is Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.Pease leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 167. Oil: The Making of the Modern World
Pub date: 2022-03-24
Tom and Dominic are joined by Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, to talk about the incredible influence of oil over the last couple of centuries.
Discussion covers the first oil well ever drilled, how it's hard to overestimate Hitler's obsession with oil, and the formation of OPEC in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.
Helen's new book 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century' is out now.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-21
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence(Yale University Press, 2021), Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fuelling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial, gender, and economic inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us.
Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: IKEA’s Vampire Capitalism in Romania’s Old-Growth Forest
Pub date: 2022-03-22
About a month ago, WORT producer Richelle Wilson started receiving tweets and emails saying “You have to read this!” and linking to an article in the New Republic. The piece, called “Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest,” tells the story of illegal logging in Romania—and reveals just how deep the problem goes, with environmentalists, journalists, and forest rangers being physically attacked and even murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We talk a lot on this show about both environmental issues and critiques of capitalism and major corporations. This story about IKEA and Romania’s old-growth forest links the two and brings to light the serious issues with what’s called “fast furniture” and, of course, illegal deforestation.
Today, Richelle guests hosts the show and spends the hour with journalist Alex Sammon, who reported this story. They talk about the economic and political histories that shaped how this old-growth forest came to be and why it’s under threat now, the challenges of regulating illegal logging in Europe, Alex’s own dangerous trip to Romania, and how IKEA and “fast furniture” are manifestations of the housing crisis.
Alex Sammon is a staff writer at The American Prospect.
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Podcast: Architectural History
Episode: Architecture and Energy
Pub date: 2022-03-11
In this episode we talk about the relationship between architecture and energy and how architectural history can reveal new perspectives on buildings, energy use and the climate disaster.
Our contributors were:
Barnabas Calder is a historian of architecture specialising in the relationship between architecture and energy throughout human history. He is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Architecture: from prehistory to climate emergency (2021). Find Barnabas on Twitter and Instagram @BarnabasCalder
Rihab Khalid is an interdisciplinary researcher in sustainable energy consumption. In particular, she is interested in the intersections of gender, energy infrastructure and space use in the Global South. Her work takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding energy demand
Mary Shepperson is an archaeologist specialising in architecture and urbanism of the ancient Near East. She is lecturer in architectural and urban heritage at the University of Liverpool. Mary's research interests encompass the emergence of urbanism in Mesopotamia and climatic adaptation in early cities.
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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Moveable Type Series 1 - LGBTQ+ History Month Part 2: queer histories of contestation
Pub date: 2022-03-21
In the second of a two-part feature recorded for LGBTQ+ History Month, presenter Roxie talks to Juliet Jacques, writer, journalist and author of Trans: A Memoir about her 2021 short-story collection Variations and the politics of representing trans history. She also speaks to Ben Miller, historian, writer and co-host of the Bad Gays podcast about complicating conventional queer histories as well as his research into the colonial legacy of queer representation.
For more information on UCL’s recent decision to cut ties with Stonewall: https://thetab.com/uk/london/2022/01/21/vindictive-and-insensitive-students-and-staff-slam-ucl-decision-to-cut-ties-with-stonewall-44148
Petition calling for UCL to rejoin the scheme: https://www.change.org/p/ucl-ucl-staff-students-alumni-ask-ucl-to-rejoin-stonewall-schemes
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Date of episode recording: 2022-02-16 Duration: 01:10:50 Language of episode: English Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon Guests: Juliet Jacques; Ben Miller Producer: Anna De Vivo; Damian Walsh; Editor: Daniel Lewis
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Podcast: Democracy in Danger (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S4 E6. Body Politics
Pub date: 2022-03-23
Last December, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Mississippi case that could hurt women across the country. At issue is a near-total ban on abortion that flies in the face of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision a half-century ago. Conservative justices could overturn abortion rights in America by the end of the court’s term. This week, journalist Rebecca Traister argues that establishment Democrats have failed to protect the healthcare needs of poor and marginalized people — and to defend democracy.
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Podcast: HKW Podcast
Episode: Episode 14: Paola Bacchetta | The White West: Whose Universal?
Pub date: 2022-03-21
The legacies of colonialism tend to find expression in a language that contemporary audiences find familiar and compelling, and hence remain largely unquestioned. As part of The White West IV: Whose Universal?, the podcast invites participants of the conferences and other experts to discuss the overlaps between metaphysical predicates and colonial formations.
Paola Bacchetta in conversation with Kader Attia
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Podcast: Resources Radio (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fitting Behavior and Politics into Climate Models, with Fran Moore
Pub date: 2022-03-21
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Fran Moore, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. Moore discusses a paper she recently coauthored that expands the way we model the future of the climate system. The model examines how human behavior, political decisionmaking, and technological progress can interact with one another to speed or stall efforts to limit climate change. Moore and Raimi discuss the range and likelihood of outcomes the model has produced, and how these possible pathways are impacted by the complex systems that have been taken into account.
References and recommendations:
“Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate-social system” by Frances C. Moore, Katherine Lacasse, Katharine J. Mach, Yoon Ah Shin, Louis J. Gross, and Brian Beckage; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04423-8
“Why Trust Science?” by Naomi Oreskes; https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179001/why-trust-science
“The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science” by Michael Strevens; https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631491375
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Podcast: The Economy, Land & Climate Podcast
Episode: Is climate modelling undermined by economics and ideology?
Pub date: 2022-03-18
Alasdair MacEwen talks to Associate Professor Wim Carton of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies about offset markets, carbon removal technologies, and IPCC modelling.
They wade into some tricky questions: are scientists watering down recommendations to make them politically palateable? How are neoclassical economics affecting the world's approach to climate mitigation? Why do the IPCC working groups have contradictory messages on saviour tech?
Further reading
- Carbon Unicorns and Fossil Futures: Whose Emission Reduction Pathways Is the IPCC Performing?
- Seize the Means of Carbon Removal: The Political Economy of Direct Air Capture
- Undoing Equivalence: Rethinking Carbon Accounting for Just Carbon Removal
- The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
- Social Science Sequestered
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung
Pub date: 2022-03-18
Part one of a two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008: why capitalism took off in England and then elsewhere but not in China; and then, how Maoist policy laid the groundwork for China’s ultimate capitalist takeoff and boom. Episode two will focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the deepening imbalances and heightened geopolitical conflict that resulted, and the current situation—including the impact of the crises surrounding Russia’s invasion.
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Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Collapse of China's Zero-COVID Policy
Pub date: 2022-03-18
More than 50 million people are living under lockdown restrictions in China amid a dramatic surge of COVID cases. Adam and Cameron discuss the potential economic impact for countries around the world.
Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rock Star, Freak, Agitator
Pub date: 2022-03-17
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic Nelly Kaprièlian and the TLS’s French editor Russell Williams to discuss ‘Anéantir’, the latest novel by France’s best-known and maybe most controversial writer, Michel Houellebecq; the TLS’s Toby Lichtig talks us through a new memoir by the ‘pre-eminent author of British Jewish novels’, Howard Jacobson, and we consider a masterclass in sympathy from Anne Tyler, a tale of revenge by Japan’s ‘Queen of mysteries’, and a wartime reckoning in Finland.
‘Anéantir’ by Michel Houellebecq
‘Mother’s Boy: A writer’s beginnings’ by Howard Jacobson
‘French Braid’ by Anne Tyler
‘Lady Joker: Volume one’ by Kaoru Takamura, translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell
‘Land of Snow & Ashes’ by Petra Rautiainen, translated by David Hackston
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Podcast: The Korea Now Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Korea Now Podcast #120 – Meredith Shaw – ‘Antagonisms in South Korean Politics - Anti-Japanism vs. Anti-Communism’
Pub date: 2022-03-15
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Meredith Shaw. They speak about Meredith’s new article Godzilla vs Pulgasari: Anti-Japanism and Anti-Communism as Dueling Antagonisms in South Korean Politics Godzilla vs Pulgasari: Anti-Japanism and Anti-Communism as Dueling Antagonisms in South Korean Politics | Journal of East Asian Studies | Cambridge Core.
Meredith Shaw is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo and the managing editor of Social Science Japan Journal. Meredith has worked as a research associate and translator at the Korean Institute of National Unification, and her current research focuses on the analysis of North Korean literature. Her ongoing blog on North Korean literature is available at http://dprklit.blogspot.com/
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Beyond Son Nica: Revolutionary Popular Music in Sandinista Nicaragua with T.M. Scruggs
Pub date: 2022-03-14
Jackson joins ethnomusicologist and anthropologist T.M. Scruggs to discuss Nicaraguan popular music in the decades leading up to the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, as well as during the first Sandinista government from 1979 to 1990. With a focus on the work of FSLN-affiliated musician Carlos Mejía Godoy, we dive into the history of the Nicaraguan political song movement that emerged in the late-60s and early 70s and discuss how, especially after the 1972 earthquake that devastated Nicaragua’s capital of Managua, this musical movement merged with the FSLN to form a part of its artist-intellectual cadre. We also take a look at the FSLN’s post-revolutionary musico-cultural policy in the 1980s, exploring the work of the Empresa Nicaragüense de Grabaciones Artisticas y Culturales (ENIGRAC), the state-owned record company established as a part of the FSLN’s Ministry of Culture. Tracklist: Carlos & Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy - 'Que Es El FAL?' (0:00) Elías Palacios - 'Aquila Indita' (12:45) Carlos Zapata - 'Flor de mi Colina' (17:10) Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Vivirás Monimbo' (21:18) Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Pancho Escombros' (26:10) Jorge Issac Carvalho - 'Campesino' (29:02) Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Los Explosivos' (32:07) Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Canto de Entrada' (41:20) Carlos Mejía Godoy - 'Miskitu Lawana' (44:32) Grupo Pancasan - 'Pancasan' (47:08) Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy - 'Pan con Dignidad' (49:40) Grupo Pancasan - 'Juventud Sandinista' (52:49) Mario Montenegro - 'El Gallo Ennavajado (1:10:31) Duo Guardabarranco -'Ya Era Santo De Nombre' (1:13:35) Grupo Pancasan - 'El Yankee se Va a Joder' (1:20:43)
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Vikrant Pande, "The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking" (Westland, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-15
From princes to peasants, musicians to masons, cement plant owners to casual labourers—the State Bank of India (SBI) has been the go-to bank for the people of India. Widely trusted and near-ubiquitous, the SBI has come to symbolise banking across the length and breadth of the Indian nation.
This book traces the SBI’s deep connection to India’s economic progress, and the bank’s proactive approach to change and to reinventing itself to meet the evolving needs of a growing nation. In its journey from ‘banking for the classes’ to ‘banking for the masses’, it has continuously striven to blend business goals with social obligations.
The SBI of today had its origins in the Presidency banks of the 1800s; the Bank of Bengal, the Bank of Madras and the Bank of Bombay, set up by the British to facilitate trade and the repatriation of remittances to England, were its forebears. In The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking (Westland, 2021), Vikrant Pande narrates the compelling circumstances that prompted the founding of the Presidency banks, how they fared back in the day and why they coalesced to emerge as the Imperial Bank in 1921, which in turn was nationalised to form the State Bank of India in 1955.
Vikrant Pande spent two decades in the corporate sector, culminating in him being appointed as the provost of India’s first ever vocational education university (TeamLease Skills University) at Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He is now a full-time author and translator, and has published twelve English translations of Marathi bestsellers. His first book, 'In the Footsteps of Rama, Travels with the Ramayana' was released in April 2021.
Utsav Saksena is a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He can be reached at utsavsaksena@protonmail.com. Note: opinions expressed in this podcast are personal and do not reflect the official position of the NIPFP or the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 256: Racecraft in Healthcare w/ Dr. Dean Robinson
Pub date: 2022-03-11
Jason and Pascal speak with Dean Robinson about race and healthcare in the United States and the questions raised by racialized statistics.
Dean Robinson is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Podcast: SRB Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Letters to Perestroika
Pub date: 2022-03-15
Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Casey Michel on Money Laundering in America
Pub date: 2022-03-14
Casey Michel, an investigative reporter based in New York City, is the author of American Kleptocracy. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Politico, and The Washington Post, among others.
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed Asif
Pub date: 2022-03-07
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and co-executive editor of the JHI, about his book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020).
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Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Myanmar: Printing the Revolution, Part 1
Pub date: 2022-03-07
Robert Evans and James Stout start their four part series on the Gen Z Militias of Myanmar.
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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Lynne Layton - The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture
Pub date: 2022-03-09
Lynne Layton is a psychoanalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part-time assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Holding a Ph.D. in clinical psychology as well as comparative literature, she has taught courses on gender, popular culture, and psychoanalysis for Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies and Social Studies. Currently, she teaches and supervises at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.
She recently published a book called Towards a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes and is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory(2004). She was also the co-editor of the books Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self, Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. Her involvement in editing peer-reviewed journals includes being the associate editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the former co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.
She is the past president of Section IX, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, and co-founder of the Boston Psychosocial Work Group and Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston, a group of psychodynamic therapists committed to community mental health and social justice. She is also on the organizing committee for Grassroots Reparations Campaign, an organization working towards building a culture of repair.
In this interview, Layton discusses social psychoanalysis. She explores how her construct of "normative unconscious processes" can illuminate how oppressive systems are continually internalized and reproduced, both inside and outside the clinic.
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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: On Liberalism
Pub date: 2022-03-13
I spoke to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins of The Nation on Liberalism, a subject that despite its omnipresence, I find perplexing and mysterious.
Daniel unpacks the history of liberalism, the many different strands and threads of this ideology, engages with left wing critique of liberalism and addresses if liberalism will soon (or already has) give way to fascism.
It's a fascinating discussion, and while it did not (and never will) turn me from an anarchist to a liberal, it did help me better understand how pluralism and complexity of the liberal tradition.
Daniel's work can be found in Dissent, The Baffler and he hosts a regular interview series for The Nation Magazine. His website can be found here: http://danieljenkins.me/
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Industrial Semiotics: United States Visual Culture, 1880s to the 1950s with Derek Vouri-Richard
Pub date: 2022-03-07
Twenty-first-century Americans are saturated with visual imagery and punchy messages authored by large organizations. This was not always so. Techniques for standardized mass communication developed in the late nineteenth century, such as photography, inexpensive printing, “magic lanterns,” and motion pictures, offered organization leaders unprecedented means to create shared understandings of facts and symbols across large groups of people. The study of the process by which symbolic meanings are promulgated through social groups is called semiotics, and the period between the 1880s and the 1950s offers the semiotician a rich study of dramatic change.
Derek Vouri-Richard, a PhD candidate in American Studies at the College of William & Mary, came to the Hagley Library to research the semiotics of corporate communications. He dug into multiple collections and discovered the development of a distinctive vocabulary of visual images paired with clear and concise text that characterized the corporate semiotics of the period. Companies such as National Cash Register, E.I. du Pont, and General Motors took part in this movement, and in so doing reshaped the landscape of American communications and symbolic understanding.
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Podcast: Left Anchor (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 226 - Giorgio Agamben’s Antivax Ravings
Pub date: 2022-03-05
Today we pose the question: how the heck did famed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben turn into an anti-vaccine conspiracy nutcase? We've got Adam Kotsko, a leading Agamben scholar and translator of many of his works, on to discuss to what extent his goofball pandemic views emerge from his actual serious work. Enjoy!
Check out Adam's Slate article on the topic here, as well as his books Neoliberalism's Demons and Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory.
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Podcast: Causes Or Cures (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Epistemic Corruption, Drug Companies & Medical Science, with Dr. Sismondo
Pub date: 2022-03-09
In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Sergio Sismondo, a professor of philosophy at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada about his work titled "Epistemic Corruption, the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Body of Medical Science" published in Frontiers Research Metrics and Analytics. His years of empirical research has shed light on the various ways drug companies influence the practice of medicine and the body of medical science for profit. His research also allowed him to develop a framework for understanding the relationship between politics and pharmaceutical companies. In addition to his research, he has published two books titled: An Introduction to Science and Technology and Ghost-Managed Medicine, Big Pharma's Invisible Hands.
(Keep in mind that this is a podcast. It's a conversation and/or philosophical discussion, not news.)
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Podcast: Crossing City Limits (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 04 Cruz Garcia, Post-colonial urbanism / Ames
Pub date: 2022-03-06
A conversation with architect Cruz Garcia from WAI Think Tank, exploring the Post-colonial method, the Loudreaders education series, the alternative art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the manual of anti-racist architecture education.
Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.
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Bio:
WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. Founded in Brussels during the financial crisis of 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet Nathalie Frankowski, WAI is one of their several platforms of public engagement that include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders.
Recent projects include the shortlisted design of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow, the design of Osiri Innovation Learning Center, an invited competition for a museum in Suzhou, and the design of the Housetelier in Beijing, as well as the design of several educational, cultural and exhibition spaces, and the conception of architectural playgrounds.
Garcia and Frankowski are Associate Professors at Iowa State University. Authors of Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture, A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education, and the upcoming book From Black Square to Black Reason: A Post-Colonial Architecture Manifesto.
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Education: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Master of Architecture, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design
DEGI Research Grant, Alpha Rho Chi Medal, Henry Adams Medal
Workplace: Iowa State University
Current city: Ames, Iowa
Websites of interest:
WAI Think Tank https://www.waithinktank.com/
Loudreaders https://loudreaders.com/
Intelligentsia Gallery 智先画廊 http://intelligentsiagallery.com/
Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education https://waithinktank.com/Anti-Racist-Education-Manual
WASH-Magazine https://www.waithinktank.com/WASH-Magazine-Taliesin-2016-17
GarciaFrankowski https://garciafrankowski.com/
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Los Anarcos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o-_FFfc6E
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Worldmakers Unite! Sixth Action https://vimeo.com/580132494
A Phantastic Odyssey (WAI X UN) https://vimeo.com/430614540
Worldmakers Unite! Dramatis Personae https://vimeo.com/580128096
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 347) Kai Bosworth: Mobilizing through pipeline populism
Pub date: 2022-03-08
"That neoliberal, technocratic environmentalism is also what we would call depoliticizing... it avoids the more transformative types of policies or solutions that extend outside of the policy realm and are necessary for confronting the climate crisis as we recognize it today."
In this episode, we welcome Kai Bosworth, a geographer, political ecologist, and Assistant Professor at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century, which examines pipeline opposition movements in the central United States and the ways in which they have transformed the politics of climate justice.
Kai researches affect and emotion, radical politics, and materialism, as well as the ways in which space, ecology, and nature are enrolled in social projects of oppression or liberation.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Drones, witnessing and the view from above
Pub date: 2022-03-06
Advocates claim drones make war safer for civilians and soldiers by making it more technical and precise. But drones are also being used as a “witness” of conflict by activists keen to tell different stories about warfare and the heavy price often paid by civilians.
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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Julia Dehm, "Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-28
In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge UP, 2021), Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the creation of new legal relations, including property rights and contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical analysis of international climate law and policy that offers insights into questions of political economy, power, and unequal authority.
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ukrainian Cities at War
Pub date: 2022-03-02
with Michael Gentile, Tatiana Zhurzhenko and Vlad Mykhnenko Listen to urban researchers sharing their insights on the situation in Ukrainian cities at war, from Kyiv, Kharkiv to Mariupol. Our guests discuss Putin's identity politics and the way his propaganda hits a wall in the context of the shelling of Ukrainian cities. Countering the images of an opposition of "Ukrainian vs Russian" inhabitants as a backdrop to the war, the discussants offer a different perspective on how ethnicity and language have played out prior to the war. At the same time, they take on predominant Western European understandings of politics and economics of Ukraine and draw a picture of a complex society that becomes more united in the context of a common enemy.
Guests: Michael Gentile is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His work focuses on urban geography, geopolitics with a concentration on Central and Eastern Europe. Currently, he works as PI for the project "Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities: Urban identity, geopolitics and urban policy". For more information, see: https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/people/aca/michaege/
Tatiana Zhurzhenko is researcher at ZOiS (Centre for East European and International Studies), Berlin, and teaches East European Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. She graduated in political economy (1989) and philosophy (1993) at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) where she then taught as Associate Professor. Since 2002, Tatiana has continued her academic career in Austria, where she held research fellowships at the Institute for East European History (Lise Meitner 2002-04) and the Department of Political Science (Elise Richter 2007-11). Her research addresses memory politics, borders and borderland identities, with a focus on Ukrainian-Russian borderlands, as well as gender politics in Ukraine and the post-Soviet space. She was a visiting scholar at Helsinki, Harvard and Toronto Universities as well as at London Metropolitan University. From 2014 to 2018, Tatiana was Research Director of the Ukraine and Russia programs at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.
Dr. Vlad Mykhnenko is Associate Professor of Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. His research agenda revolves around one key question: “What can economic geography contribute to our understanding of this or that problem?” Substantively, Mykhnenko’s academic research is devoted to geographical political economy – a trans-disciplinary study of the variegated landscape of capitalism. One of key aspects of his research over the past twenty years has been the post-communist transformation in eastern Europe, Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Donbas, in particular. For full details, see https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/profiles/vlad-mykhnenko
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Podcast: SSEAC Stories (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Architecture, Climatic Privilege, and Migrant Labour in Singapore
Pub date: 2022-03-03
Migration and architecture have emerged as a new topic of research at a global level. Migrant worker dormitories in Singapore, for example, are sites where structural inequities in architecture and legal regulations have had a significant impact on the living conditions of migrant workers, and they hit the headlines in 2020 as sites for the rapid spread of COVID.
Dr Jennifer Ferng joins Dr Natali Pearson on SSEAC Stories to talk about the relationship between architecture and labour, arguing that climate change, capital, and power intersect with the forced displacement of migrants to reinforce existing inequalities of ethnicity, class, and citizenship in Singapore.
About Jennifer Ferng:
Dr Jennifer Ferng is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Academic Director at the University of Sydney. Her research addresses asylum seekers and refugees, forced displacement, and migration in the built environment of the Asia-Pacific region. Most recently, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at University College London in 2021.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Teivo Teivainen - Do Finnish companies act like colonial powers in Uruguay?
Pub date: 2022-02-25
This month we are super excited to be joined by University of Helsinki World Politics professor Teivo Teivainen (researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/…i-teivainen). In this vibrant and wide-ranging conversation, we talked with Teivo about his recent turn as a documentary film maker. Teivo has recently been in the Finnish Arctic and in Uruguay traveling along planned railway lines while reflecting on the concept of Finnish colonialism. The broader world might not immediately connect Finland and the concept of colonialism, however, Teivo brings forward some compelling arguments about Finnish actions on the world stage. Teivo’s work uncovers some of the differences between imaginaries and practice, especially in Finnish forestry and foreign investment in pulp milling. He urges people to pay more attention to corporate politics and the constellations of power that are found in corporate spaces, especially in relation to observing corporate elections. We should know who are running these companies because they have so much influence in the world.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: KPFA Special – A History of the Spanish Civil War, the Rise of Fascism in Spain, and the Infighting Among the Left
Pub date: 2022-03-02
Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of several books including, King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 among others.
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Podcast: Society for the History of Children and Youth Podcast
Episode: 13.21: Stalin's Niños
Pub date: 2022-03-02
Episode Notes Karl D. Qualls and Julie deGraffenried discuss Qualls' book, Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951 (University of Toronto Press, 2020).
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Podcast: The Forum (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Pub date: 2022-03-03
The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh is one of the most influential painters in western art. His series of still life sunflowers are known around the world today but during his lifetime in the 1800s he lived in poverty, selling very little of his work, some say just one painting, and suffered several serious breakdowns. One of his most famous works, The Starry Night, is said to be the view from his room in a French psychiatric hospital where he’d admitted himself shortly after severing his own left ear. This programme looks at the man behind these iconic paintings, explores how and why he became a painter and picks apart the various theories around his death from a gunshot wound at the age of just 37. Joining Bridget Kendall to discuss van Gogh’s life and work are Louis van Tilborgh, Senior Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam; van Gogh biographer and co-author of Van Gogh: The Life, Steven Naifeh; and British art historian Lucrezia Walker.
(Image: Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh. Credit:Getty Images)
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Podcast: Booked on Planning
Episode: Design with Nature
Pub date: 2022-03-01
Over 50 years later Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design With Nature is still teaching us how to plan with nature, not against it. “We design with nature, the with is very important.” We are joined in this episode by Frederick Steiner, co-executive director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. We dive deep into the parallels McHarg makes between space and the importance of understanding natural processes and ecology. We discuss the connection between McHarg’s work overlaying physical maps and today’s digital version of Geographic Information Systems. While the book was very much a product of its time, it has proved to also be timeless.
Links:
PBS Documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion episode 3—“The House We Live In”: https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-about-03.htm
Multiply and Subdue the Earth (1969) PBS documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nBFkARCP0I
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Podcast: The Substance (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 89: Substantive Stories | Restless Devices with Dr. Felicia Wu Song
Pub date: 2022-02-20
Felicia Song is an author, Westmont College professor, and cultural sociologist who studies the place of digital technologies in contemporary life. Having trained in History, Communication Studies and Sociology from Yale, Northwestern, and University of Virginia, her research is oriented around the rapidly evolving digital technology industry and how the adoption of social media and digital devices fundamentally alters the landscapes of family, community, and organizational life.
This week she joins us to talk about that work and her book Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age (IVP). The books two main focal points are the questions: What kind of people are we becoming with personal technologies in hand? And who do we really want to be?
We hope you enjoy our conversation with Felicia! Feel free to call or email with feedback, and if you enjoy it, the best way to help us is to share it with the people you know.
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Enola Holmes books
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Podcast: NBN Book of the Day
Episode: William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-24
Poet and jazz band musician Sun Ra, born in 1914, is one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his band “Arkestra” appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, this keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology and that the planet Saturn was his true home. In his book, Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City(University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. William Sites contextualizes this visionary musician in his home on earth—specifically in Chicago’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 Sun Ra lived and relaunched his career.
The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then still known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica—all this to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways.
Dr. William Sites is Associate Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. His fields of interest include urban and community studies, political economy, social movements, immigration, race, culture, social theory, and historical methods.
Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City. carrie-lynn.evans@lit.ulaval.ca
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Podcast: Life From Plato's Cave
Episode: Episode 15 - Bernard Stiegler’s Philosophy with Daniel Ross
Pub date: 2022-02-27
The returning soul in Plato's allegory of the Cave is not heard by the prisoners, who are too occupied with the shadows on the wall. In the most literal sense, Plato was probably speaking about how the people do not appreciate the philosophy of, for instance, his teacher Socrates, at the time when this philosopher is most needed.
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Which philosophers are not heard enough in our time? Today, we discuss the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Stiegler is known most for his magnus opus Technics and Time, but many of his works have not yet been translated into English, and the ones that have are not read enough. Daniel Ross, our guide through Stiegler's philosophy, is trying to change that.
Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2021 -free to download). He is also the co-director with David Barison of the feature documentary The Ister (rent or buy on Vimeo), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2004, and which won awards in Montreal and Marseille. Through that film, he met the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and has subsequently published eleven volumes of translation of Stiegler’s work, most recently The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism (Polity Press, 2019) and Nanjing Lectures 2016–2019 (Open Humanities Press, 2020 - free to download), along with the collective volume by Stiegler and the Internation Collective entitled Bifurcate: ‘There Is No Alternative’ (Open Humanities Press, 2022 - free to download).
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Podcast: Saving Democracy 101
Episode: Henry Giroux - Critical Pedagogy vs Fascist Politics
Pub date: 2022-02-25
In the second episode of my podcast about democratic education and citizenship, I had the honor of talking to Henry Giroux about the principles of critical pedagogy and its role in today's fight against fascism.
"Supporting capitalism is to not fully understand fascism" --> https://truthout.org/articles/henry-a-giroux-neoliberal-capitalism-sets-the-stage-for-fascism/
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Podcast: NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence
Episode: NIOD Rewind Episode 19 - Political Apologies across Cultures
Pub date: 2022-02-21
What is the value and meaning of political apologies across cultures? In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Marieke Zoodsma, who researches how apologies are expressed and received across the world. How do political authorities across the world address or redress past wrongdoings in these accounts? How can we understand the large number of political apologies in the recent past? And can political excuses effectively help processing suffering or lead to reconciliation?
https://www.politicalapologies.com/
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Audio fragment: NOS Koningspaar in Indonesië (2020)
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Podcast: Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dream Science w/ Sidarta Ribeiro
Pub date: 2022-02-22
In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Dr. Sidarta Ribeiro, professor of neuroscience and founder of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil. They talk about his new book, "The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams." Topics include what dreaming is (and isn't), why we dream, and what contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry, and genetics can tell us about this ancient evolutionary experience.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr
Pub date: 2022-02-10
Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder
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Podcast: Conjuncture
Episode: Conjuncture: Racial Capitalism and Counterinsurgency | S1 Ep4
Pub date: 2022-02-18
In this this episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with public intellectual Arun Kundnani about racial capitalism, counterinsurgency, Islamophobia, surveillance, and national security policies in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.
Arun Kundnani is an Associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a public intellectual. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (2014), The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (2007), and is currently completing a new book, Resistance is Not Enough: Radical Anti-Racism in a Neoliberal Age.
Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.
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Podcast: Refuse Fascism (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Anne Nelson: Media, Money & the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
Pub date: 2022-02-13
Sam Goldman interviews Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (get your paperback copy, updated after January 6th) and Research Scholar at Columbia University. Find more of her work at anne-nelson.com and follow her on Twitter at @anelsona. Her work investigating the Council for National Policy (CNP), which includes many well-known and not-so-well-known actors is essential for understanding the fascist movement in the US. Also see: "Religious Right Fuels National Attack On School Boards, Exploiting Parental Frustration Over Covid Restraints" in the Washington Spectator.
The conversation was rich with agreement as well as some disagreements, and we always appreciate the opportunity to dig into these substantive issues and the paths forward to solve the continuing crisis. Also mentioned in this episode: Inside Patriot Front: The Masked White Supremacists On A Nationwide Hate Crime Spree.
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 344) Scott Timcke: Algorithmic capitalism and digital dehumanization
Pub date: 2022-02-15
Scott Timcke, Ph.D., is a comparative historical sociologist who studies race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change and a fellow at the University of Leeds’ Centre for African Studies where he studies the overlap between algorithmic capitalism, FinTech, and neocolonialism. He is also the author of Algorithms and The End of Politics.
The song featured in this episode is Debt by Luna Bec.
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Podcast: Techies & Artists's Podcast
Episode: Cosmic Care
Pub date: 2022-02-10
In this final and fourth episode, we will zoom in on one of THE most important challenges in the future of tech: Climate emergency! The climate crisis is at a critical moment and future strategies is not about quick fixing sustainable solutions - hope lies in acknowledging climate change as systematic inequalities. It is not about egoes - it’s about the planet. Moving forward towards sutainable futures we need to deconstruct the human centred perspective that has led to humanity positioning itself superior to other species. In this era of climate urgency, a vertical approach to innovation is replacing the neoliberal linear move-fast-and-break-things approach. Join us as we explore sustainable futures and ecological connectedness with Gry Worre Hallberg, artistic director and PhD and Michael Reibel Boesen co-founder of Massive Earth. He is transferring talent from the old economy, to a new and more sustainable one.
Host: Katrine K. Pedersen, Specialist in Digital Culture
Guests: Gry Worre HallbergArtist, PhD
Michael Reibel BoesenDeeptech entrepreneur, PhD
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Rachel Pagones, "Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love" (Brevis, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-14
Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.
The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today.
Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine.
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Podcast: Historias - the SECOLAS podcast
Episode: Historias 157 - Rural Folktales and Empire in Puerto Rico with Rafa Ocasio
Pub date: 2022-02-12
Dr. Rafael Ocasio, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott University, joined Steven to discuss his new anthology Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico.
https://www.agnesscott.edu/directory/faculty/ocasio-rafael.html
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/folk-stories-from-the-hills-of-puerto-rico-cuentos-folkloricos-de-las-montanas-de-puerto-rico/9781978822986
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Podcast: Ear to the Pavement (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Death of the Composer as Social Critic: Marianna Ritchey on "Composing Capital"
Pub date: 2022-02-10
The expectation of radical self-sufficiency is a hallmark of the neoliberal U.S. economy in the early 21st century, and the arts are no exception. The rise of the discourse and practice of "musical entrepreneurship" within the classical music field is a case in point. In episode 21 of "Ear to the Pavement", Allison speaks with musicologist Marianna Ritchey about about her book, "Composing Capital," which looks critically at the neoliberalization of musical labor, and the broader questions it raises about what art is for, who gets to produce it and under what conditions, and how the arts serve different political ideologies.
Marianna Richey: https://www.umass.edu/music/member/marianna-ritchey "Composing Capital": https://www.powells.com/book/composing-capital-9780226640235
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining
Pub date: 2022-01-19
Roger Luckhurst speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about how the idea of the Gothic has evolved and mutated over time, from medieval-inspired architecture and 19th-century vampire fiction to politicised horror films. He also reveals how the genre has been used as a vehicle to explore society’s anxieties over time, from sex and gender to race and colonialism.
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Podcast: Carbotnic (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Solarpunk and Speculative Futurism - E82
Pub date: 2022-02-15
Great to chat with Andrew Dana Hudson a sustainability researcher and speculative fiction writer! We discussed solar punk, the future of capitalism, rearranging politics to solve planetary problems, the importance of climate storytelling, futurist urban spaces and more!
- Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures by Andrew Dana Hudson, pre-orders here!
- On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk
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Podcast: Feed (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Phil Howard on Corporate Consolidation
Pub date: 2022-02-17
In the first Feed episode about power we speak with Phil Howard, author of Concentration and Power in the Food System, a book that asks "who controls what we eat?" We dive right into big questions, asking whether Phil Howard’s ideal food future is compatible with capitalism. We also talk about the rise of organics, how is power distributed within corporations, how a US farmer’s prospects about staying a small and diversified operation has diminished over time, and how food corporations intent on growing cope with the fact that human stomachs remain the same size.
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Podcast: Reversing Climate Change (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S3E3: Farms for sale: what's wrong with the financialization of farmland?—w/ Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn
Pub date: 2022-02-15
Farmland has transformed into a financial asset class. So, what happens when land is owned by large financial institutions? How does it impact farmer autonomy? And could it be good for fighting climate change?
Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz and author of Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Dr. Fairbairn joins Ross and guest cohost Dr. Lauren Gifford to discuss the emergence of the institutional farmland investments industry and describe how land has value independent of what it produces.
Dr. Fairbairn explores what’s behind the steep decline in the number of farmers over the last century and explains how large-scale farmland ownership could have positive consequences for the environment and negative social consequences at the same time. Listen in for Dr. Fairbairn’s insights into Georgism as a potential policy response and find out what the financialization of farmland means for the small farmer, the economy and the climate.
Key Takeaways
[1:40] How Fields of Gold explores the emergence of the institutional farmland investments industry
[5:24] What Dr. Fairbairn means by ‘the financialization of land’
[9:25] The non-linear progression from communal forms of land ownership to a more and more sophisticated commodification of land
[11:51] How land has value independent of what it produces
[13:52] What’s behind the decline in the number of farmers over the last century
[18:01] The connections between the financialization of farmland and climate (and how what we ask of farmland managers is changing)
[21:12] How large-scale farmland ownership could have positive environmental consequences and negative social consequences at the same time
[26:18] How landowners in Brazil are tasked with serving society as a whole
[30:31] How Dr. Fairbairn thinks about billionaires like Bill Gates acquiring hundreds of thousands of acres of land
[34:03] Dr. Fairbairn’s take on a Georgist land value tax as a potential policy response
[40:03] The relationship between Georgism and the politics of productivity
[42:37] What Dr. Fairbairn is learning about agri-food technology through the UC AFTeR Project she’s working on now
Resources
Dr. Fairbairn at UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Fairbairn on Twitter
Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush by Madeleine Fairbairn
Dr. Lauren Gifford
USDA Discrimination Lawsuits
‘Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner’ in The Land Report
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell
The Mason Gaffney Reader: Essays on Solving the ‘Unsolvable’ by Mason Gaffney
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
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Podcast: In Our Time (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Walter Benjamin
Pub date: 2022-02-10
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most celebrated thinkers of the twentieth century. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, critic, historian, an investigator of culture, a maker of radio programmes and more. Notably, in his Arcades Project, he looked into the past of Paris to understand the modern age and, in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, examined how the new media of film and photography enabled art to be politicised, and politics to become a form of art. The rise of the Nazis in Germany forced him into exile, and he worked in Paris in dread of what was to come; when his escape from France in 1940 was blocked at the Spanish border, he took his own life.
With
Esther Leslie Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London
Kevin McLaughlin Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English, Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University
And
Carolin Duttlinger Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
Pub date: 2022-02-06
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his PhD in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. They discuss wildlife surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, as well as conservation’s colonial origins, how camera traps can be used to uphold the patriarchy, and when workplace surveillance technologies literally lead to tiger attacks.
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Further Reading:
- Negotiating the Gaze. Sanctuary Asia, December 2019
- Are Conservation Organizations Complicit in Ethnic Discrimination? The Wire 2017
- Grasslands of Grey: How the BBC's flawed Kaziranga muckraker has done harm. The Wire 2017:
- Are Treacherous Links and Claims an Illusion? Sanctuary Asia 2016
- Conservation 'Wars': The global rise of green militarization and trends in India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol L No 50. 2015.
- Digital Surveillance Tech in Conservation and their social implications
- Why we must question the militarisation of conservation
- How does Conservation Tech Cause Harm?
- Conservation Surveillance as a means for state repression?
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: ROCKING OUR PRIORS (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa: Professor Achebe
Pub date: 2022-02-02
African societies have historically respected women’s authority, spiritual power, physical strength, and moral judgement. Their cosmology upholds gender complementarity.
Professor Nwando Achebe (Michigan State University) and I discuss pre-colonial gender relations across Africa.
Transcript: https://www.draliceevans.com/post/female-monarchs-and-merchant-queens-in-africa
Book: https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Female+Monarchs+and+Merchant+Queens+in+Africa
Author, Professor Achebe: https://history.msu.edu/people/faculty/nwando-achebe/
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Podcast: CSDS-Asia Matters Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: China's Politics and Economy as the Winter Olympics Open
Pub date: 2022-02-05
The eyes of the world are on China as Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics.
A successful Games will be used by leader Xi Jinping to bolster his image and status at home and abroad; a status that was given a significant boost in November, when a major meeting of the Communist Party effectively enshrined his position in the party’s historical pantheon, alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
But while the opening ceremonies and stage-managed meetings played out without a hitch, there are still major tests for the Chinese leadership. This is especially true on the economic front, as growth slows, and concerns about a crisis in the property market persist. In this episode we look at the state of play in Chinese politics and economics with two well-placed observers.
Dr Ling Li teaches Chinese politics and law at the University of Vienna, where she was also a visiting professor. She has written extensively on topics related to corruption and anti-corruption in China.
And Dr Isabella Weber is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her recent book, ‘How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate’ provides a detailed history and analysis of the debates around economic reform in 1908s China.
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2768 - Boeing, And The Deadliness Of Shareholder Capitalism w/ Peter Robison
Pub date: 2022-02-03
Emma hosts Peter Robison, investigative journalist at Bloomberg, to discuss his recent book Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing, on the deregulation and the turn to serve the shareholders exclusively that lead up to a six month period a few years ago that saw multiple plane crashes with the 737 MAX. Robison begins by situating the crashes within the last few years, exploring how, in the wake of the first crash, Boeing dove right into a strategy of blaming the piloting of the plane, only for the second crash to affirm the whisperings of Boeing simply failing to properly train and equip their pilots. Next, he and Emma take a step back, exploring how Boeing became the corporation it is today, central to the development of the US Jet Age, working from the mid 20th Century development of the 747 jets up to the 777 in the mid-90s, both of which served as symbols of great American manufacturing in aerospace. This brings them to the massive shift that occurred as the US entered the neoliberal era, starting with Harry Stonecipher’s McDonnell Douglas acquiring Boeing and immediately shifting to the Jack Welsh model of pushing shareholder profits as the driver of the company, as Peter Robison explores in their shifting proxy statements, which went from discussing customer service and safety to cost containment and efficiency over the 90s. Next, they move to the role of the government itself, with 90s Republicans and Bill Clinton teaming up to “reinvent” government into a machine of financialization and deregulation, pushing the Federal Aviation Administration itself towards a business strategy, granting Boeing and other companies self-regulatory authorities to help push planes through manufacturing and onto the runway. Finally, they take on the compounding of these elements into the manufacturing failures of the late 2010s, with their rise parallelled by a union-busting attitude in the industry and a mass shift of profits going directly into the pockets of executives. Emma also touches on the brutality of US foreign policy, including another strike in Syria with mass civilian casualties, and a refusal to even acknowledge that people see Israeli as an apartheid state, before she dives into Rocky Wirtz, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks, and his absurd response to being questioned by someone he isn't paying.
And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt and Brandon as they take calls on Kermit the Jordan Peterson and the engineer to military defense pipeline, and Candace and Robert Malone claim that diversity of views is easier found at home, with just your family, than at public school, with thousands of different people. Tucker continues his crusade in defense of CNN correspondents who engage in sexually questionable business practices (Zucker, Cuomo, Cuomo), and Jimmy Fallon puts forwards perhaps his most awkward interview yet, as he and Paris Hilton show off their super-personalized, totally not identical apes. Nathan from Chicago discusses Pluto TV and the overlapping of news programs, Alex from NY gives his matchups, and Emma explores misogyny in journalism, sports, sports journalism, and politics… and political journalism, plus, your calls and IMs!
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Podcast: The Book Club (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Philip Oltermann: The Stasi Poetry Circle
Pub date: 2022-02-02
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Philip Oltermann, whose new book The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War, unearths one of the most unexpected corners of East German history. At the height of the Cold War, members of the GDR's notorious secret police got together regularly to workshop their poems. Was this a surveillance exercise, a training module for propagandists – or something stranger than either? And were their poems any good? Philip tells me about why poetry was such a big deal in the Eastern Bloc, how – had Petrarch but known – the sonnet was the perfect model for dialectical materialism, and where those poets are now...
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Podcast: Impressions of America: History Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Masculinity at the End of History: Late '90s Cinema with Adam Nayman
Pub date: 2022-02-06
Simon, Tobi, and Vaughn are joined by author and film critic Adam Nayman to look at the cinema of the late 1990s and in particular films such as Fight Club and The Matrix that portray the common theme of white men in comfortable office jobs rejecting their reality in search of a greater purpose.
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Art and Posthumanism with Cary Wolfe (Art after Nature Part 1)
Pub date: 2022-02-08
How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down in his new book, ART AND POSTHUMANISM. This is the inaugural volume in the new series ART AFTER NATURE, edited by Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard. The series fosters multidisciplinarity, creatively engaging with new and alternative discourses at the intersection of art, science, and philosophy. It engages with the politics and contradictions of the Anthropocene in order to problematize disciplines such as animal studies, posthumanism, and speculative realism, through art writing and art making.
Cary Wolfe is Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. Wolfe has written on a range of topics including debates in animal studies and posthumanism, has authored many books, and edits the Posthumanities series for University of Minnesota Press.
Dr. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature and the environment in art. Aloi is editor in chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.
Caroline Picard is a writer, cartoonist, curator, and executive director of Green Lantern Press.
References in the episode include:
Foucault
Agamben
Derrida
Donna Haraway
Flusser
Jacob von Uexkull
Damien Hirst
Steve Baker
Gregory Bateson
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Niklas Luhmann
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Podcast: The Funambulist Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mohamad Amer Meziane /// An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
Pub date: 2022-02-07
In May 2021, Mohamad Amer Meziane published his first book, Des empires sous la terre: Histoire écologique et raciale de la sécularisation (Subterranean Empires: Ecological and Racial History of Secularization). We speak with him about the ambitious work he develops in this book, linking European secularization (and Europe's definition of what constitutes religion) with colonial extractivism from the first industrial revolution to the alteration of the world's climate.
Mohamad Amer Meziane holds a PhD in Philosophy from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion Culture and Public and the Institute of African studies at Columbia Unversity. His first book, Des empires sous la terre, published in 2021 by La Découverte, deploys an eco-racial history of secularization. Inventing the concept of the Secularocene to describe aspects of the present climate crisis, he argues that orientalism and climate change can be seen as two facets of the secularization of empires during the 19th century.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Janne Salovaara - What is "sustainability" trying to sustain?
Pub date: 2022-01-28
This month on the EXALT podcast we were joined by Janne Salovaara from the Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Programme (DENVI) at University of Helsinki. His research looks at the discipline of sustainability science from the perspective of how it is educated at the University level. Janne’s first degree is in graphic design and his idea of design was that it was the path to change the world. He thought a lot about what are moral, ethics, and societal responsibility of a design. His frustration with design as a profession led him to the Creative Sustainability program at Aalto University. Our conversation was wide ranging and exciting. The big question we tackled is what is sustainability? It is such a buzzword today, but what does it mean in practice? What is the imaginary of sustainability actually supposed to be? What are we trying to sustain and how do we keep sustainability safe from corporate capture? We explored some of the ontological, epistemological, and practical problems of sustainability. We discussed how it is being taught and what are some of the big failings of sustainability as a concept and a practice.
If you want to learn more about Janne’s research, please check out his UH research profile and recent publications.
- Salovaara, J. J., & Soini, K. (2021). Educated professionals of sustainability and the dimensions of practices. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-09-2020-0327
- Salovaara, J. J., Pietikäinen, J., & Cantell, H. (2021). Perceptions of interconnected sustainability: Students’ narratives bridging transition and education. Journal of Cleaner Production, 281, 125336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125336
- Salovaara, J. J., Soini, K., & Pietikäinen, J. (2020). Sustainability science in education: analysis of master’s programmes’ curricula. Sustainability Science, 15(3), 901-915. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00745-1
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dig: Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
Pub date: 2022-01-28
An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.
Read Volodymyr's work:
truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-are-far-from-unified-on-nato-let-them-decide-for-themselves/
ponarseurasia.org/how-maidan-revolutions-reproduce-and-intensify-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-political-representation/
lefteast.org/ukraine-in-the-vicious-circle-of-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-hegemony/
lefteast.org/contradictions-post-soviet-ukraine-failure-ukraine-new-left/
Tony Wood on Russia: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood/
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Catherine S. Chan, "Macanese Diaspora in British Hong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-27
In Hong Kong’s Ice House Street, in the heart of the city’s Financial District, is Club Lusitano: one of the city’s premier social clubs, nestled at the top of an office tower. But the club’s roots stretch back over 150 years, when it was originally set up to serve the colony’s burgeoning Portuguese community–including many who hopped over the Pearl River Delta from the Portuguese colony of Macau.
It can be hard to remember among the glistening casino lights of modern-day Macau, but the colony used to and still does host a sizable “Macanese” community: people of Portuguese or Portuguese-Chinese heritage. As Macau turned into a sleepy, somewhat rigid community in the nineteenth century, several Macanese made the jump to look for a better life elsewhere–including in Macau’s larger, British-run cousin, Hong Kong.
Catherine Chan’s The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting(Amsterdam University Press: 2021) looks at the Macanese community in Hong Kong, and how they settled into life in the British colony.
More of Chan’s articles on the subject can be found in the following academic articles:
- ‘Diverse Cosmopolitan Visions and Intellectual Passions: Macanese Publics in British Hong Kong,’ Modern Asian Studies 56, no. 1 (2022), 350-377.
- ‘Macau Martyr or Portuguese Traitor? The Macanese communities of Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Portuguese Nation,’ Historical Research 93, no. 262 (2020), 754-768.
- ‘From Macanese Opium Traders to British Aristocrats: The Trans-imperial Migration of the Pereiras,’ Journal of Migration History 6, no. 2 (2020), 236-261.
Historian Catherine Chan received her PhD from the University of Bristol and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau. You can find more examples of her work at https://projectmacau.wordpress.com/.
We're joined again by fellow NBN host Sarah Bramao-Ramos. The three of us will talk about Hong Kong’s Macanese: what brought them to Hong Kong, the lives they built for themselves, and the niche they filled in British-run Colonial Hong Kong.
Amsterdam University Press has kindly offered listeners of the podcast a discount code! Go to the store page on the AUP website and input discount code CHAN_25 to receive a 25% discount on the book. This offer expires Feb. 28.
You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review ofThe Macanese Diaspora. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia.
Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon.
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Podcast: Town Hall Seattle Civics Series (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 271. Gregg Mitman with Kerri Arsenault: How Liberia Was Transformed Into America’s Rubber Empire
Pub date: 2022-01-26
Rubber is one of those things that goes unnoticed most days, even though our modern lives depend on it for building supplies, medical and industrial equipment, and so many things that help us get around. Despite its tendency to fade into the background, the story of rubber, particularly U.S. rubber, is one worth noticing. In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. At the same time, global demand for rubber skyrocketed as the automobile industry took off. But only a tiny amount of rubber was produced on U.S. soil, and there just wasn’t enough to meet demand. How to ease the rubber bottleneck?
In his new book, Empire of Rubber, Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman described the largely unknown story of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, the tiny West African nation of Liberia, and its transformation into America’s rubber empire. Empire of Rubber claimed that Firestone reaped fortunes from stolen land and the labor of the Liberian people and contributed to instability and inequality that eventually led to civil war. Drawn from extensive research, Mitman weaved a narrative through the deeply intertwined realms of ecology, science, commerce, and racial politics — a story that offers both lessons and warnings as we consider the human costs of supply and demand.
Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the founding director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) and is also past president of the American Society for Environmental History. He is the coproducer and codirector of two films, In the Shadow of Ebola, an intimate portrait of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, and The Land Beneath Our Feet, a documentary on history, memory, and land rights in Liberia. Mitman is also the author and editor of several books, including Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, Future Remains, Thinking with Animals, and several others.
Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, teacher, book editor at Orion magazine, and nonfiction editor at the Franco-American journal, Résonance. Kerri’s work has appeared in Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, Down East, the Paris Review Daily, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, and many more. Kerri is also the author of the best-selling book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, which won the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction and the Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
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Podcast: Annex Sociology Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Creativity (Hannah Wohl)
Pub date: 2022-01-31
The Annex is back for its tenth semester. In this episode, we meet with Hannah Wohl (University of California, Santa Barbara) to discuss her book on creativity and cultural production, Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Judged (University of Chicago Press).
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Life in Plastic: Plastic's Capitalism (Part 2)
Pub date: 2022-01-28
Plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life since at least the 1960s. Yet our proliferating use of plastics has also triggered catastrophic environmental consequences. In this second episode of a two-part series, literary scholars and contributors to the volume LIFE IN PLASTIC: ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO PETROMODERNITY discuss public health, affective politics, postplastic utopias, temporality, globalism, class, geopolitics, literature, and activism as they relate to the problem and politics of plastic. Featuring Caren Irr, Crystal Bartolovich, Christopher Breu, and Sean Grattan.
Caren Irr is a professor of English at Brandeis University and author of Toward the Geopolitical Novel, Pink Pirates, and The Suburb of Dissent.
Crystal Bartolovich is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University and coeditor of Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies.
Christopher Breu is professor of English at Illinois State University. He is author of Insistence of the Material and Hard-Boiled Masculinities, and coeditor of the forthcoming Noir Affect.
Sean Grattan is an independent scholar and author of Hope Isn’t Stupid.
Works and people referenced in the episode:
Gain by Richard Powers
Fredric Jameson
N. Katherine Hayles
Jane Bennett
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Chris Jordan
Sylvia Wynter
Thomas More’s Utopia
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Podcast: The Book Club (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Christopher Prendergast: Living and Dying With Marcel Proust
Pub date: 2022-01-26
In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by Christopher Prendergast, Professor Emeritus of Modern French Literature at Cambridge and the author of the new book Living and Dying With Marcel Proust. In the centenary year of Proust's death (and the English publication of Swann's Way) he tells me (among other things) how the structure of A La Recherche is more straightforward than many think, why that madeleine was nearly a slice of toast, and about the great unsayable at the heart of Proust's great story.
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 410: There is no such thing as Spanish
Pub date: 2022-02-01
Journalist Emily Hart sat with Frank Wynne, tracing his incredible career from the start of his linguistic journey (a breakup and a bookshop in Paris) to his award-winning translation of writers across Latin America and the francophone world – particularly his work on cult Colombian author and ‘Enemy Number 1 of Macondo’ - Andrés Caicedo and his novel “Liveforever!”. Tune in for a literary episode exploring one of Colombia's least known and cult authors recounted in such an erudite fashion.
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Podcast: Hopeton Hay Podcasts
Episode: Episode 164: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Pub date: 2022-02-01
In her new book READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND, Farah Jasmine Griffinshares her stories of growing up in Philadelphia where love of black literature and the magnificence of black culture were part of her life from the time she could read. Her father nurtured her love of books and the struggle for Black freedom. READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND probes the literary works of black writers from the beginning of the republic with poet Phyllis Wheatley, to the fiery speeches of Frederick Douglass, from legendary novelist Toni Morrison to Gil Scott Herron's prophetic song Winter In America. Entwining memoir, history, and art, Griffin provides a guide to the wisdom of the songs, poems, and stories that can guide us in the ongoing struggle for democracy.Farah Jasmine Griffin is Chair of African-American & African Diaspora Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Farah Jasmine Griffin web site: https://www.farahjasminegriffin.com/ Griffin photo credit: Peggy Dilliard Toone Diverse Voices Book Review on social media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshay
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Toward Ecocentrism
Pub date: 2022-02-01
In arguing for the urgency of moving from anthropocentrism toward ecocentrism, Aaron S. Allen [1] distinguishes between environmental crises and ecological change; argues against the “balance of nature” paradigm; differentiates between strong and weak forms of sustainability; and describes the role that expressive culture and the environmental liberal arts can play in driving awareness and activism.
McDowell, Borland, Dirksen, and Tuohy, eds., Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change [2] University of Illinois Press, 2021
Allen and Dawe, eds., Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature [3] Routledge, 2016 (Image on main page by Nelson Pavlosky.)
[1] https://vpa.uncg.edu/home/directory/bio-aaronsallen/ [2] https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=85zfn3yf9780252044038 [3] https://ecomusicology.info/resources/supplementary/current-directions-in-ecomusicology/
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Injury Impoverished w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
Pub date: 2022-01-28
We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, the history of worker's compensation reforms, and what this history can teach us about coronavirus as an occupational disease that spreads at work.
Nate Holdren (@n_hold) is Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, & Society at Drake University. Buy his book here: https://bit.ly/3KR4Yec
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Podcast: The Book Review (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Chinese Language Revolution
Pub date: 2022-01-21
Jing Tsu’s new book, “Kingdom of Characters,” is about the long and concerted efforts of linguists, activists and others to adapt Chinese writing to the modern world, so that it could be used in everything from typewriters and telegraphs to artificial intelligence and automation. On this week’s podcast, Tsu talks about that revolution, from its roots to the present day.
“The story of the Chinese script revolution and how it came to modernize is really a story about China and the west,” she says. “Because without the Jesuit missionaries first coming to China in the 16th century, and trying to understand what the Chinese language was — the Chinese didn’t really see their language any differently than the way they’ve always seen it. So what happened was, as these Western technologies came in, along with imperialism and colonial dominance, China had to confront that it had to either play the game or be completely shut out. So this was a long process, an arduous process, of how to get itself into the infrastructure of global communication technology.”
Kathryn Schulz visits the podcast to talk about “Lost and Found,” her new memoir about losing her father and falling in love.
“It is, I think, the closest I could come to the book I wanted to write,” Schulz says. “The gap between what you want to do and what you are able to do is always enormous, and the struggle for writers is to close it to the best of your abilities. But kind of unusually for me, I did have a very clear sense of this book from the beginning.”
Also on this week’s episode, Elizabeth Harris has news from the publishing world; and Gregory Cowles and John Williams talk about what they’ve been reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
Here are the books discussed in this week’s “What We’re Reading”:
“Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan
“2666” by Roberto Bolaño
“The Anomaly” by Hervé Le Tellier
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
Pub date: 2022-01-22
On this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, and Muskan Shafat, an MS in Data and Society at the London School of Economics, about gender and technology. They discuss the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn’t considered “technological innovation” and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics.
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Books mentioned in the podcast:
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neill
What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Benjamin Holtzman, "The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-25
In the 1960s and 1970s, New York City was beset by a host of fiscal and social crises wrought by white flight, federal and state disinvestment, and a declining tax base. The city faced rising crime, dilapidated parks and transit, skyrocketing budget deficits, deteriorating public services, and a dysfunctional and eviscerated municipal bureaucracy. By the mid-1970s, the situation was so dire that financial institutions refused to underwrite municipal bonds and the city faced bankruptcy. The response was a shift towards privatization and neoliberalization – a process that scholars have traditionally associated with political and financial elites.
But Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2021) shows that neoliberalization was also forged at the grassroots level by ordinary New Yorkers trying to remake and repair their damaged city. Holtzman traces how block associations, nonprofits, and professional organizations turned to private market-based solutions to address problems that the city government seemed unable or unwilling to solve. In a process that Holtzman calls “popular marketization,” New York residents reclaimed buildings that landlords had abandoned, formed neighborhood watch programs to deter crime in the absence of effective city policing, and created new nonprofit organizations to rejuvenate defunded parks. These initatives were not necessarily driven by ideological commitments to marketization, Holtzman argues, but were often experimental and improvisational attempts to restore services that New Yorkers had come to expect from a once robust public sector.
Ben Zdencanovic is a postdoctoral associate at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States and the world, international politics, and political economy, and he has a particular interest in the emerging subfield of the history of social and economic human rights. Zdencanovic is currently working his first book, Island of Enterprise: The End of the New Deal and the Rise of U.S. Global Power in a World of Welfare, 1940 – 1955. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ben_zdencanovic.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Psychedelic inequality / Roberto Lovato
Pub date: 2022-01-19
Writer Roberto Lovato on his article "The Gentrification of Consciousness" for Alta Journal.
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a38326035/psychedelic-drugs-gentrification-roberto-lovato/
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Music that survived the Nazis: Part one
Pub date: 2022-01-22
There is a common misconception that music under the Nazis was either ‘Degenerate Music’ to be suppressed or propaganda music that was officially sanctioned. Historian Shirli Gilbert shows that there was a wealth of different music-making during this period, including secret sessions by Jewish musicians and others, that managed to evade official scrutiny. In this first episode, she explores the music of the Jewish Culture League, as well as the work of Lukraphon and Semer, two Jewish record labels active at this time.
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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: Revenge in colonial modernity
Pub date: 2022-01-20
It is seen as one of the great achievements of European modernity to have cast out revenge from law and politics. The colonial narrative says: where revenge rules, and thus affect, modernity is absent. But is revenge actually outside of modernity or is it rather one of its blind spots? Today, we talk with philosopher Fabian Bernhard about the place of revenge in colonial modernity.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Evangelicals Emulate Startup Culture w/ Corrina Laughlin
Pub date: 2022-01-20
Paris Marx is joined by Corrina Laughlin to discuss how evangelical Christians have adapted to modern technologies, how churches have emulated startups, the growth of the faith tech sector, and whether there’s anything that can be learned from their tech experiments.
Corrina Laughlin is the author of Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture. She’s also an instructor of media studies at Loyola Marymount University. Follow Corrina on Twitter at @CKLaughlin.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Corrina wrote an article about why evangelicals are early adopters for The Atlantic.
- Pew estimates about 24% of US adults identify as born again or evangelical Protestants.
- The 1925 Scopes Trial was over the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
- Life.Church makes a ton of high production value resources available to churches looking to start up and expand what they’re doing.
- The prosperity gospel is a pro-capitalist theological tradition preached by some very wealth pastors, including Kenneth Copeland.
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Podcast: The Empire's New Clothes (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Speculation or Revolution: with Stephen Diehl - Ep. 045
Pub date: 2022-01-17
Stephen is a software engineer working in the financial services industry and feels an obligation to speak out against the dangers that crypto could pose to the global economy and society at large.
Lyn Alden on the Petro-Dollar:
https://youtu.be/sTKObw_-OBY
Keith Dicker explains why the US Dollar is King:
https://youtu.be/gLmoJYqZuks
Jim Rogers on the Rise of China:
https://youtu.be/SfLaJtXfx3w
Paul Kingsnorth critiques Neo-liberalism:
https://youtu.be/HJViqeBovvQ
First Interview with Simon Mikhailovich:
https://youtu.be/Na9SA84JJ1E
Jeff Booth on Tech Deflation:
https://youtu.be/qlF_AG-0QC8
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Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Public Health After Covid: A New Radical Blueprint
Pub date: 2022-01-20
Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, and the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy have been well and truly exposed. But instead of pushing for radical change, the left in Britain finds itself stuck in a rearguard action focused on defending the National Health Service (NHS) from the wrecking ball of privatisation.
In January 2022, Pluto published The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical Blueprint, in which public health expert Christopher Thomas argues that we must emerge from the pandemic on the offensive - with a bold, new vision for our health and social care. He maps out five new frontiers for public health and imagines how we can move beyond safeguarding what we have, towards a revitalisation and radical expansion of the principles put forward by Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, over 70 years ago.
Beyond recalibrating our approach to healthcare, this radical blueprint calls for a fundamental redesign of our economy through 'Public Health Net Zero'; a bold new universal public health service that is fit to address the real causes of ill health; and a major recalibration in the efforts against the epidemiological reality of an era of pandemics.
Joining us on the panel are:
Christopher Thomas, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and author of The Five Health Frontiers; Dr Sonia Adesara, an NHS doctor and campaigner
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Podcast: The Forum (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Copper: From mining to microprocessors
Pub date: 2022-01-20
Copper is a metal that has been with us since the dawn of civilisation. The Romans used it to build their empire, and its high thermal and electrical conductivity led to the 19th century discovery of how to generate electricity and a revolution in telecommunications. Copper was even used to build the Statue of Liberty in New York, and it’s because of copper’s tendency to oxidise that the statue is no longer shiny brown but green. Today we still depend on this 'eternal metal', so called because it doesn’t decay or rust, and it has become a staple and necessary component in new green technologies like solar power and electric cars. But extracting copper has always been very damaging to human health and the environment - so how has our relationship with copper changed over the centuries?
Joining Rajan Datar to find out more about copper past and present is Nikita Sud, Professor of Development studies at Oxford University and the author of The Making of Land and The Making of India; the archaeologist Dr William Parkinson, who is a curator at the Field Museum, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at University College, London.
Produced by Anne Khazam for the BBC World Service.
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Podcast: The Sacred (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Minna Salami on feminism, racism and ‘sensuous knowledge’
Pub date: 2022-01-12
Elizabeth speaks to social critic, feminist theorist and poet Minna Salami. Minna is a social critic, feminist theorist and poet, and she’s founder of the blog, MsAfropolitan. She’s the author most recently of ‘Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone’.
She speaks about her childhood in Nigeria and Finland, her experiences with racism, her deep feminist identity, and what a more holistic approach to knowledge might look like.
You can read a full transcript here: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2022/01/12/minna-salami-on-feminism-racism-and-sensuous-knowledge
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-17
Are celebrities “disruptors” who revitalize the development field, or are they just charismatic ambassadors for big business? In Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development(University of Minnesota Press, 2021) the authors argue that celebrities play both roles, and that understanding why and how yields insight into the realities of neoliberal development. As elite political participants, celebrities shape development practices through strategic partnerships that are both an innovative way to raise awareness and funding for neglected causes and a troubling trend of unaccountable elite leadership in North-South relations. The authors use actor Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative to illustrate this dynamic, arguing that his charisma and reach helped bring new approaches to bear on the region’s development. Learn more about the book here.
Lisa Ann Richey (@BrandAid_World) is Professor of Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark where she works on the politics of transnational helping. She is the author of the books Batman Saves the Congo: Business, Disruption and the Politics of Development with Alexandra Budabin (2021); Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World with Stefano Ponte (2011); Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (2008) and edited Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (2016) and New Actors and Alliances in Development (2014). She also disseminates her work in popular media like Al Jazeera and The Conversation. Lisa was the founding Vice-President of the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA).
Alexandra Cosima Budabin (@ABudabin) is Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton (USA). She is a Researcher at the Platform Cultural Heritage Cultural Production of the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano in Italy. Her research on non-state actors in human rights, humanitarianism and development has appeared in Perspective on Politics, New Political Science, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, Humanity and The Conversation. Her first book Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development with Lisa Ann Richey has been published with University of Minnesota Press. Alexandra’s current research looks at transnational advocacy to confront sexual violence in conflict; digital solidarity for refugees; and the intersection of BLM activism and anti-racist protest in Italy.
Aditya Srinivasan assisted with this episode.
Lamis Abdelaaty is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She is the author of Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2021). Email her comments at labdelaa@syr.edu or tweet to @LAbdelaaty.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Eric Zemmour and the mainstreaming of the French far-right w/ Sebastian Budgen
Pub date: 2022-01-17
Sebastian Budgen joins PTO to talk about the rise of Eric Zemmour - the new star of the French far right and a candidate in April's presidential election. We discussed Zemmour's career in journalism, and why he is able to attract support from both Le Pen voters and more mainstream conservatives. We also talked about the strategic logic behind Zemmour's efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of the collaborationist Vichy government of WWII.
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Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Ideograph and a Cantonese Pun, with Eugenia Lean
Pub date: 2022-01-16
Speaker: Eugenia Lean, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
By examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in the first ever trademark litigation trial in China held in 1889. In that trial, it became evident that the emerging global trademark regime was premised on an Orientalist understanding of the Chinese character as ideograph. A second case in 1919 that also featured the alleged counterfeiting of the Xiangmao brand then reveals how the homophonic nature of Chinese and the issue of dialect were often the basis of wordplay and punning in Chinese trademarks, and that international trademark law was unable to accommodate these practices. The key legal premise that an offending trademark rested on its function to deceive the public prevented the system from recognizing (and thus, successfully prosecuting) marks that while likely to have been emulative, turned precisely on a knowing audience, willing to purchase the “counterfeit” because of the witty pun or wordplay at work. Both bring to the fore how the emerging trademark regime was premised on romance languages and failed to appreciate the complexity of both the Chinese language and the nature of the Chinese consumer market. Hardly marks that purposefully deceived in acts of “passing off,” so-called “spurious” marks aided (and arguably abetted) knowledgeable and appreciative consumers in their wily acts of consumption and were part of a larger market of rogue knock-offs in China that eluded the emerging trademark regime in the early twentieth-century and that continue to elude the global IP today.
Eugenia Lean received her BA from Stanford University (1990), and her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from UCLA. She is interested in a broad range of topics in late imperial and modern Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of science and industry, mass media, consumer culture, affect studies and gender, as well as law and urban society. She is also interested in issues of historiography and critical theory in the study of East Asia. She is the author of Public Passions: the Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (UC Press, 2007) which was awarded the 2007 John K. Fairbank prize for the best book in modern East Asian history, given by the American Historical Association.
Professor Lean’s second book, Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in theMaking of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940 (Columbia University Press, 2020), examines the manufacturing, commercial and cultural activities of maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940). It illustrates how lettered men of early twentieth century China engaged in “vernacular industrialism,” the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues that drew on the process of experimentation with both local and global practices of manufacturing and was marked by heterogeneous, often ad hoc forms of knowledge and material work.
This event is part of the Modern China lecture series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, hosted by Professor Arunabh Ghosh.
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Networked Refugees, Currency Crises, and the Algerian Hirak (S. 11, Ep. 15)
Pub date: 2022-01-13
Nadya Hajj from Wellesley College joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss her new book, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age. In the book, Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize Information Communication Technology platforms to motivate reciprocity—a cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and services—and informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community. (Starts at 0:48). David Steinberg of Johns Hopkins SAIS discusses his latest article, "How Voters Respond to Currency Crises: Evidence From Turkey," published in Comparative Political Studies. (Starts at 29:03). Thomas Serres of the University of California, Santa Cruz discusses the fortunes of Algeria's Hirak movement. (Starts at 44:58).
Music for this season's podcast was created by Bashir Saade (playing Ney) and Farah Kaddour (on Buzuq). You can find more of Bashir's work on his YouTube Channel.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: YARA KHOURY & LARA CAPTAN | Future of the Arab Script | Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures
Pub date: 2022-01-13
In this event, we talked to Yara Khoury Nammour and Lara Captan about the future of the Arab script.
Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra
Edited by: Ramzi Ramman
Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/
About Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures:
Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures is an inclusive and multi-faceted view of the future, one that not only speculates on technological advancements—but on future threats and changes whether environmental, geographical, cultural, or social. Now more than ever, we must ask pertinent questions, raise critical dialogues, and respond with clarity. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Life in Plastic: Petrochemical Fantasies and Synthetic Sensibilities (Part 1)
Pub date: 2022-01-13
Plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life since at least the 1960s. Yet our proliferating use of plastics has also triggered catastrophic environmental consequences. Plastics are derived from petrochemicals and enmeshed with the global oil economy, and they permeate our consumer goods and their packaging, our clothing and buildings, our bodies and minds. In this first episode of a two-part series, contributors to the volume LIFE IN PLASTIC: ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO PETROMODERNITY discuss plasticity and myth, stretchy superheroes, how plastic became gendered, plastic as a colonizing force, plastic in art and everyday life, and more. Featuring Caren Irr, Lisa Swanstrom, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Daniel Worden.
Caren Irr is a professor of English at Brandeis University and author of Toward the Geopolitical Novel, Pink Pirates, and The Suburb of Dissent.
Lisa Swanstrom is an associate professor of English at the University of Utah, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies, and author of Animal, Vegetable, Digital.
Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Postmodern Utopias and co-curator of Plastic Entanglements.
Daniel Worden is associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology and author of Masculine Style, editor of The Comics of Joe Sacco, and coeditor of Oil Culture and Postmodern/Postwar—and After.
Works and people referenced in the episode:
Catherine Malabou
Roland Barthes
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita
The Drought by J.G. Ballard
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters
Covehithe by China Miéville
Artist Pinar Yoldas
Plastic by Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard
Great Pacific (comic, 16-issue series)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
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Podcast: Daily Nebraskan
Episode: Campus Conversations: Julia Schleck and her book "Dirty Knowledge"
Pub date: 2022-01-10
In this week's episode of Campus Conversations, Assistant Sports and Opinion Editor Jason Han sits down with Julia Schleck, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to talk about Schleck's new book "Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism." The book covers the rise of academic freedom in the university, the economic relationships it has eroded and how to fix it.
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Podcast: In Pursuit of Development (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Rich countries’ climate policies are colonialism in green — Vijaya Ramachandran
Pub date: 2022-01-12
Vijaya Ramachandran argues that blanket bans on fossil-fuel funds will entrench poverty. By pushing a renewables only model on developing countries, and expressing fear about the future emissions of these countries, including those on the African continent, rich countries such as Norway are promoting colonialism in green.
Vijaya is an economist with extensive experience in public policy and academia, having worked for the World Bank and the UN as well as serving on the faculty of Duke University and Georgetown University. She is currently director for energy and development at the Breakthrough Institute, and a non-resident fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub and the Center for Global Development.
- Why India Can’t Wean Itself Off Coal
- Rich Countries’ Climate Policies Are Colonialism in Green
- Blanket bans on fossil-fuel funds will entrench poverty
- Why the Climate Panic About Africa Is Wrong (with Todd Moss)
- Vijaya Ramachandran on Twitter: @vijramachandran
Host:
Professor Dan Banik, University of Oslo, Twitter: @danbanik @GlobalDevPod
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Podcast: Science History Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 50. Space & the Sixties: Neil Maher
Pub date: 2022-01-11
The 60s hosted the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, which occurred in the midst of the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and civil unrest. How did the culture wars of the 1960s relate to the space race, especially in the United States? How did the Civil Rights Movement, the New Left, environmentalism, the women’s movement, and the Hippie counterculture influence NASA, and vice versa? With us to answer these questions is Neil Maher. Neil received a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College in 1986, an MA in U.S. history from New York University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in history, also from New York University, in 2001. He is a professor of history in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, where he teaches environmental history, political history, and the history of environmental justice. Neil has received numerous fellowships, awards, and grants from the Smithsonian Institution, NASA, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and Ludwig Maximilian University’s Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. His books include Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Apollo in the Age of Aquarius (Harvard University Press, 2017).
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interregnum w/ Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, Wendy Brown
Pub date: 2022-01-06
Everyone feels bad right now because conditions are awful and the outlook is bleak. What is going on, and where might things be headed? How might we become unstuck from this interregnum? Dan interviews returning guests Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Wendy Brown.
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Podcast: Trek Geeks Podcast Network (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Syfy Sistas 2.02 - Critical Race Theory in Star Trek with Dr. Crystal Fleming
Pub date: 2022-01-07
The SyFy Sistas sit down with Dr. Crystal Fleming, a critical race sociologist, author of three books and an internationally recognized expert on racism and antiracism. Her work empowers people of all backgrounds to become change agents and dismantle white supremacy. Our conversation ranges from Black Respectability politics to the myth of Utopia in the Star Trek universe, to our deep love of Deep Space Nine and Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko.
Her books include:
- Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
- How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
- RISE UP! How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
You can follow Dr. Fleming at https://twitter.com/alwaystheself
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Podcast: Forum on Religion and Ecology: Spotlights
Episode: 2.16 Dharma & Ecology, with Pankaj Jain, PhD
Pub date: 2022-01-10
This week's episode of Spotlights features Pankaj Jain, PhD, an internationally recognized academic leader in sustainability, Jain studies, film studies, and diaspora studies. He is the Head of the Department of Humanities & Languages and Chair of The India Centre at FLAME University. We discuss connections between dharma and ecology in Hinduism and Jainism, with particular attention to three books by Dr. Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability (Routledge, 2011), Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains (Routledge, 2016), and Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora (Routledge, 2019). He tweets at @ProfPankajJain, and his podcast #DiscoverIndia is on Spotify, Apple, Google, YouTube, Gaana, and other platforms.
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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Alexander Etkind, "Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources" (Polity Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-10
In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters, and in this story the leading actors are peat and hemp, grain and iron, fur and oil, each with its own tale to tell.
The uneven spread of available resources was the prime mover for trade, which in turn led to the accumulation of wealth, the growth of inequality and the proliferation of evil. Different sorts of raw material have different political implications and give rise to different social institutions. When a country switches its reliance from one commodity to another, this often leads to wars and revolutions. But none of these crises goes to waste – they all lead to dramatic changes in the relations between matter, labour and the state.
Our world is the result of a fragile pact between people and nature. As we stand on the verge of climate catastrophe, nature has joined us in our struggle to distinguish between good and evil. And since we have failed to change the world, now is the moment to understand how it works.
Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.
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Podcast: Plus Three (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: #46 - Part One: Right-Wing Psychedelia
Pub date: 2022-01-10
We discuss Brian Pace and Neşe Devenot's recently published paper: "Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency" Abstract: Recent media advocacy for the nascent psychedelic medicine industry has emphasized the potential for psychedelics to improve society, pointing to research studies that have linked psychedelics to increased environmental concern and liberal politics. However, research supporting the hypothesis that psychedelics induce a shift in political beliefs must address the many historical and contemporary cases of psychedelic users who remained authoritarian in their views after taking psychedelics or became radicalized after extensive experience with them.
We propose that the common anecdotal accounts of psychedelics precipitating radical shifts in political or religious beliefs result from the contextual factors of set and setting, and have no particular directional basis on the axes of conservatism-liberalism or authoritarianism-egalitarianism. Instead, we argue that any experience which challenges a person's fundamental worldview—including a psychedelic experience—can precipitate shifts in any direction of political belief.
We suggest that the historical record supports the concept of psychedelics as “politically pluripotent,” non-specific amplifiers of the political set and setting. Contrary to recent assertions, we show that conservative, hierarchy-based ideologies are able to assimilate psychedelic experiences of interconnection, as expressed by thought leaders like Jordan Peterson, corporadelic actors, and members of several neo-Nazi organizations.
Read it here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733185/full
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Podcast: LARB Radio Hour (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism and Fiction
Pub date: 2022-01-07
Author, activist, and novelist Arundhati Roy joins us from Delhi to discuss her new collection of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Roy is well known for her impassioned political writing, as well as her two novels, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker in 1997. She talks with us about the rise of Indian nationalism, Modi’s descent into fascism, the oppression of Muslims in India, and the role of fiction and literature in the world today. Also, Yaa Gyasi, author of Transcendent Kingdom, returns to recommend Saidiya Hartman's groundbreaking Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals.
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Podcast: Haymarket Books Live (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Just Resistance: Building Toward a Demilitarized and Decolonized Future
Pub date: 2021-12-20
Join organizers and advocates to imagine and discuss building a future safe for all and free of militarization and colonization.
The Immigrant Defense Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Haymarket Books are proud to present “The Next 20 Years: Building towards a demilitarized and decolonized future of safety for all”, the final event of a 4-part series marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11. The event commemorating International Human Rights Day brings together organizers and advocates who are building towards a world we have not yet seen, and helping to pave our collective path forward. From the abolition of borders, to the complete defunding of the military industrial complex within a future of economic, racial, gender and climate justice, we will discuss both the necessity of imagination, as well as the strategies, tactics and principles we need to win the world we deserve.
To mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Haymarket Books and our partners are pleased to present a 4-part series, "Just Resistance: 20 years of global struggle against the post-9/11 human rights crisis."
Moderator: Mizue Aizeki is the Deputy Director of the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP). Mizue’s work focuses on ending the injustices—including criminalization, imprisonment, and exile—at the intersections of the criminal and immigration systems. Mizue guides IDP’s local and state policy work, including the ICE Out of Courts Campaign and IDP’s campaigns to end the growing entanglement between local law enforcement and ICE. .
Panelists: Lara Kiswani is the executive director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), and a faculty member in the College of Ethnic Studies at SF State University. Lara has been active in movements against racism and war, for Palestinian self-determination, and international solidarity for the last 20 years.
Arun Kundnani is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain (Pluto, 2007). He has previously been an editor of the journal Race & Class and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Timmy Châu (he/him) is a Viet organizer, lawyer, and facilitator based in Zhigaagoong, also known as Chicago. He started organizing with an effort called We Charge Genocide doing cop-watch and know-your-rights trainings across the City. He is the Managing Director at the Prison + Neighborhood Arts / Education Project (PNAP) where he works on building inside/outside networks of mutual support and advocacy between incarcerated and freeworld activists, scholars, thinkers, and artists. He’s also a co-starter of Dissenters, a new youth-led anti-war organization, where he currently sits on the Advisory Committee.
Fernando Martí is a poet, printmaker, community architect, and housing activist. His work reflects his formal training in urbanism, his roots in rural Ecuador, and his current residence in the heart of Empire in an age of climate catastrophe. His poetry, prints, altar ofrendas and utopian constructions inhabit the space between ancestral traditions of place and a futurist imagination rooted in Latinx culture. For over a decade, Fernando co-directed the Council of Community Housing Organizations. His artwork can be found regularly on justseeds.org. His writing has appeared in publications as varied as El Tecolote, Street Sheet, Geez magazine, Left Turn and Shelterforce. He shares his art and writing in a zine called Amor y Lucha.
This event is sponsored by the Immigrant Defense Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Haymarket Books.
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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 240: Empire and Jihad
Pub date: 2022-01-03
In 1914, at the start of the Great War, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire called for a “Great Jihad” against France, Russia, and Great Britain. It was a logical conclusion to over fity years of conflict between European and indigenous powers in the Middle East and North Africa, a conflict that eventually became a radical Islamic insurgency supporting an ancient slave trade against Western colonialism that exploited “coolie capitalism”.
This is the complex story that Neil Faulkner tells in his new book Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920. Ranging from the Congo basin to the deserts of North Africa, he traces the complex interweaving of humanitarianism, colonialism, nationalism, and Islamism—arguing that Jihad was a reactionary response to modern imperalism.
Neil Faulkner is an archaeologist and historian, who works as a lecturer, writer, excavator, and occasional broadcaster. He is editor of Military History Matters, and the author of fifteen books.
For Further Investigation
Neil Faulkner, Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East–the precursor to Empire and Jihad Neil Faulkner, A Radical History of the World–there's much of this previous book also to be found in Empire and Jihad Last year in Episode 148 we discussed the exploitation of the Congo with Robert Harms, an intimately related topic to this. Together they're really a matching set of conversations.
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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Climate Catastrophe in the 17th century
Pub date: 2022-01-02
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were both unprecedented and widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. Changes in the prevailing weather patterns, longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers - disrupted growing seasons, causing dearth, malnutrition, and disease, along with more deaths and fewer births. Some contemporaries estimated that one-third of the world died.
Geoffrey Parker, distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History join Dan on the podcast to discuss the sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched across the 1600s. They discuss the link between climate change and worldwide catastrophe 350 years ago, and the contemporary implications: are we at all prepared today for the catastrophes that climate change could bring tomorrow?
Geoffrey is the author of ‘Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century'.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
Pub date: 2021-12-29
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s, visions of the world made popular within area studies and international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and educational policies that originated in business schools and international financial institutions. Academics within these institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the 1990s, American universities embraced this language of globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing logic of higher education.
In Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary(Duke UP, 2019), Isaac A. Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material relations within which knowledge is produced.
Dr. Kamola is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science and President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Sara Katz is a postdoctoral associate in the history department at Duke University.
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Tim Marshall on the Power of Geography
Pub date: 2021-12-29
In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tim Marshall, the author of “The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World”.
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. He is also founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Anna Marjaana Heikkinen - Can traditional livelihoods survive climate change & mining in the Peruvian Andes?
Pub date: 2021-12-31
This month the EXALT podcast was delighted to welcome University of Helsinki, Global Development Studies doctoral researcher Anna Marjaana Heikkinen. In her doctorate Anna Marjaana focuses on the role of water and climate change in the Peruvian Andes. She works with communities of peasant farmers, who are trying to hold onto traditional ways of working with their land and water in the face of pressures from globalized supply chains and the incursion of extractive industries. She highlighted a case she is working on that shows the deep entanglements between humans, other than human beings, mining, and water. Anna Marjaana also shared some great resources to help the listeners think about water and gave us insight into the ways she communicates science.
Links:
Book: Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (https://www.emmiitaranta.com/memory-of-water)
Movie: Even the Rain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_the_Rain)
Dance your PhD contest by Science (correction in the episode we said this was sponsored by Nature) (https://www.science.org/content/page/announcing-annual-dance-your-ph-d-contest). Check out the entries on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dance+your+phd+2021
Some of Anna Marjaana’s popular science articles (EN/FIN/ESP)
- https://blogs.uef.fi/envirolatam/2020/04/20/not-everyone-has-the-privilege-to-wash-the-hands-covid-19-and-unequal-access-to-water-in-latin-america/
- https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/ilmasto-ja-luonnon-monimuotoisuus/aarisaat-ajavat-andien-asukkaita-ilmastopakolaisiksi-ja-maaemo-murehtii
- https://www.noticiasser.pe/la-vulnerabilidad-de-las-poblaciones-andinas-va-mas-alla-del-cambio
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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Theft is Property! Robert Nichols on Indigenous Resistance to Capitalism
Pub date: 2022-01-03
I spoke with Dr. Robert Nichols author of, 'Theft is Property: Dispossession & Critical Theory'. It's one of the most important books I've ever read on capitalism, settler colonialism & indigenous critiques of both.
I discuss w. Dr. Nichols how indigenous philosophy both augments and challenges white & Eurocentric critiques of capitalism. How the concept of property & property law was designed to steal indigenous land, and how modern indigenous groups are fighting back with both violent and non-violent resistance to disrupt the death cults of capitalism & white supremacy
For those interested in learning more, Dr. Nichols book is available as an open-access text from Duke University press: https://www.dukeupress.edu/theft-is-property
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Peru's left behind children
Pub date: 2021-12-30
Peru has been battered by Covid-19. It has the highest known death toll in the world per capita. But behind the figures there’s another hidden pandemic. By the end of April 2021 around 93,000 children had lost a father, mother, grand-parent, or other primary caregiver to the virus - that’s one in every hundred children. For Assignment, Jane Chambers travels to Lima to meet the families struggling to cope. The immediate urgency of the health crisis is masking a much deeper malaise; that of a generation of children mentally and physically scarred by loss and poverty.
Reported and produced by Jane Chambers Editor: Bridget Harney
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Podcast: mei-nus
Episode: Bridging the Gulf Episode 12 — A Compatible Contradiction? Heritage and Modernity in Gulf Cities
Pub date: 2021-12-23
The bulldozers are here. This time, they are here for Jebel Ali – the region’s first major shipping hub and dry dock located in Dubai. Like many other built relics in the Gulf, including the coral stone homes of Dubai’s rulers along its famous saltwater creek, these buildings were razed to make way for more modern structures. This is the story of the meteoric rise of Gulf cities – most of them were once sleepy pearling towns but they now embrace soaring skyscrapers and megamalls. Beyond the superlatives (the “tallest”, the “biggest”, the “most expensive” etc.), sociocultural anthropologist Sulayman Khalaf writes that Gulf architecture is not created in isolation. Rather, constituents of urbanisation, Arab/Muslim identity and the oil political economy all form a dynamic interplay in city planning. How then can we describe Gulf architecture? Consumerist? Modernist? Where does the notion of heritage fit in? Does the import of Western technical knowledge erase local khaleeji urbanism?
MEI (NUS) has had the pleasure to host the co-editors of the volume, Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf, to examine the Gulf’s engagement with architectural modernism over the decades. This discussion also aims to address the nature of the relationship between the built environment and Gulf societies.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
Pub date: 2022-01-04
Matthew Sweet explores Belmondo's central role in the revolutionary cinema of 1960s France and how he became one of the most celebrated screen actors of his generation with Ginette Vincendeau, Lucy Bolton and Phuong Le.
Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London. Lucy Bolton is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Phuong Le is a film critic based in Paris.
A BFI season focused on the films of Francois Truffaut runs across January and February and includes a BFI Player collection and a batch of Blu-rays being released in Spring 2022 and partner seasons at cinemas around the UK including Edinburgh Filmhouse and Ciné Lumière.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Tech, Democracy and Market Power
Pub date: 2021-12-12
We’ve got two segments today. First up, Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) discusses last week’s Summit for Democracy and what it accomplished. Second, we speak with Marshall Steinbaum, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah about market and monopoly power, tech platforms and antitrust.
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Podcast: Privacy is Global
Episode: Is Artificial Intelligence a Feminist Issue?
Pub date: 2021-12-15
Produced by Coding Rights for the series Privacy is Global. What would you do if an AI system told you that your daughter will get pregnant in the next six months? Well, some families in Salta, Argentina, almost had the experience with the implementation of an AI system designed to “predict” unplanned pregnancies in teenagers based on where they live. It sounds like science fiction, but it is not. Our data bodies are progressively feeding different kinds of A.I. systems used by governments to "predict" future situations that can actually influence how we access public services and exercise our rights. Could the ever-increasing system of data collection, processing and prediction actually end up dictating who we are and who we will become? Considering the powerful forces pushing for these automated systems, it is possible that these predictions are more likely to amplify and automate existing inequalities and societal prejudices. In this episode we will explore some reasons why we should consider A.I as a feminist issue, and why artificial intelligence approaches and policies will continue to influence topics at the heart of several feminist agendas. Join us to listen to Coding Rights founder directress Joana Varon in conversations with enlightening decolonial feminists Paz Peña, consultant in technology, gender and social justice, speaking from Chile from Chile, and Paola Ricaurte, associate professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey and co-founder of Tierra Comum Network, speaking from Mexico.
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Sandeep Mertia - Lives of Data
Pub date: 2021-12-11
In the 21st episode, I speak to Sandeep Mertia, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University on his new edited volume Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India published by the Institute of Network Cultures (2021). The edited volume brings together chapters from fifteen interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners who provide cutting analyses on India’s current computational culture encapsulated by big data and its historical and emergent dynamics on India’s politics and society. The volume emerged out of discussions and workshops at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Sarai Programme. The volume offers us critical ways of considering and analyzing India’s big data moment and how it manifests relationally through different political and cultural nodes in India’s socio-political context. The conversation begins by asking Mertia about the origins of the volume before unpacking how data became so powerful in India. Next, we cover how data derives value from its relational nature or the lineages, affinities, networks and layers that add to data’s value in the Indian context. Mertia then historicizes data in India going back to the 1950s to trace how distinct domestic computing histories led to the current one. The conversation then moves to understand the role data practitioners play and whether it makes sense to view technological progress through their stand alone perch or collaboratively. We end with some thoughts on specific chapters including the last few that use ethnographic accounts to map the everyday aspects of data in India today and what Mertia thinks could be India’s data future.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Chun-Yi Peng, "Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions" (Springer, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-12-15
Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions (Springer, 2021) explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media. Gangtaiqiang (Hong Kong-Taiwan accent), a socially recognizable form of mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin, has become a stereotype for many Chinese mainlanders who have little real-life interaction with Taiwanese people. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the author examines how Chinese millennials perceive gangtaiqiang by focusing on the following questions: 1) the role of televised media in the formation of language attitudes, and 2) how shifting gender ideologies are performed and embodied such attitudes. This book presents empirical evidence to argue that gangtaiqiang should, in fact, be conceptualized as a mediatized variety of Mandarin, rather than the actual speech of people in Hong Kong or Taiwan. The analyses in this book point to an emerging realignment among the Chinese towards gangtaiqiang, a variety traditionally associated with chic, urban television celebrities and young cosmopolitan types. In contrast to Beijing Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin is now perceived to be pretentious, babyish, and emasculated, mirroring the power dynamics between Taiwan and China.
Chun-Yi Peng is an Associate Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. His primary research interests are in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.
Li-Ping Chen is Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow in the East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes
Pub date: 2021-12-10
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above. Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes analyzes Bolsonarismo (the ideology and politics surrounding far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) and far-right politics everywhere.
Read Rodrigo's essays: radicalphilosophy.com/article/of-what-is-bolsonaro-the-name publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial
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Podcast: Think: Sustainability (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: # 157 - Ecological Linguistics
Pub date: 2021-12-10
What is ecological linguistics? How does the English language shape our perceptions of the environment? In this episode we discuss the different terms used to describe climate change and then highlight some more subtle ways language can shape our perceptions of the world around us.Featuring:Lee Joachim, Yorta Yorta man, Board Member of Living Languages Australia.Professor Arran Stibbe, Professor of Ecological Linguistics, University of GloucestershireDr Helen Bromhead, Linguist, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith Research Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Project Lead at the Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith UniversityDr Jeremy Walker, Co-director of the Climate Justice Research Centre, and Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences Program, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Technology SydneyProducer/Presenter: Marlene EvenMusic: Epidemic Sound‘If It’s Flooded, Forget it’, public safety advertisement, 2021, ACT Emergency Services Agency
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Podcast: The New Thinkery (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interview: Professor Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Nazism | The New Thinkery Ep. 73
Pub date: 2021-12-15
The guys are joined once again by Prof. Richard Velkley, Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. The guys dive into the messy subject of Heidegger's relationship with Nazism, as well as what Leo Strauss thought of Heidegger.
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Podcast: The Sense of Place Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 20: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape ft. Cal Flyn
Pub date: 2021-12-11
Have you ever wondered what happens to the places abandoned by humans as a result of war, nuclear damage, or just the cruel hand of time?
Initially, it may sound rather bleak, but today’s guest has found some silver linings amongst the ruins.
In today’s episode, I chat to author and journalist, Cal Flyn, about her second non-fiction book, 'Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape'.
'Islands of Abandonment', which has been named The Sunday Times' Science & Environment book of the year (2021) and shortlisted for other prestigious awards, explores ghost towns, exclusion zones, and post-industrial ruins. It aims to illustrate both the ecology and psychology of abandoned places.
In my conversation with Cal, I discover what sparked her interest in abandonments, her process for writing and researching the book, how nature benefits from our absence, and much more!
To find out more about Cal's work, be sure to check out her website: https://www.calflyn.com/
(Recorded November 2021)
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Podcast: Start the Week (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Living in the Matrix
Pub date: 2021-12-13
What if virtual worlds become indistinguishable from the real one? In 1999 the science fiction film, The Matrix, depicted a dystopian future in which people are unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, run by intelligent machines. As the fourth film, The Matrix Resurrections, is about to be released, the writer Naomi Alderman considers the influence this movie franchise has had in the last two decades, and how far virtual reality has become part of everyday life.
The philosopher, David J Chalmers, proposes that the Matrix scenario could be the future, but that rather than trapped, humanity can lead a meaningful life in virtual reality. Chalmers is one of the leading thinkers on consciousness. In his latest book, Reality+ he provocatively argues that VR is not escapism. And that we may even be living in a computer simulation already – and if that is true, it’s not so bad.
Philippa Garety is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Kings College London and has been at the forefront of treatments for problems associated with psychosis, including hearing voices and hallucinations. She is currently working on innovative treatments using digital technology, including avatars and virtual reality, to alleviate suffering. In a clinical setting VR can be managed as a safe environment for patients who struggle in the real world, as a place they can confront and understand their delusions.
Producer: Katy Hickman
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: On science and colonialism / Max Liboiron
Pub date: 2021-12-14
Max Liboiron on their article "Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion" for Nature Geoscience.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00861-7
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Podcast: Northcentral University Podcast Series
Episode: CAVO Ep. 58: The World of Digital Nomads
Pub date: 2021-12-10
Living and working in a nomadic lifestyle, digital nomads are people who travel and work from different locations. They are often world travelers who see no geographic boundaries as long as they have reliable Wifi and an appropriate device to complete their work. Rachel Woldoff, urban sociologist, professor, researcher, and educator, and Robert Litchfield, Associate Professor at Washington and Jefferson College, joins Stephanie Menefee, Associate Dean of Students in the School of Business at Northcentral University, to discuss this fast-growing community. Check out Rachel and Rob’s book Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy.
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Podcast: The Hated and the Dead (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: EP11: Alfonso XIII of Spain
Pub date: 2021-12-12
Alfonso XIII was King of Spain from 1902 until Spain became a Republic in 1931. A hubristic and deluded leader, he presided over his country's collapse into political polarisation and Civil War. The Spain of then, with unresponsive political elites and burgeoning hard left and hard right political movements and subcultures, is chillingly similar to many Western countries today. My guest for this conversation was Francisco "Paco" Romero Salvado of the University of Bristol.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gerhard Toews on Soviet Gulags
Pub date: 2021-12-03
Gerhard Toews is the RNG Assistant Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. He is also research affiliate at Oxcarre, University of Oxford, where he defended his DPhil, and the LEO, Orléans University.
Political prisoners eating lunch in the Intalag coal mine.
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Podcast: UMass Amherst History Department
Episode: Disaster Capitalism, Ecofascism, and Ecoauthoritarianism
Pub date: 2021-12-06
The gravity of climate change and the environmental emergency demands not just attention but concerted action. But what form will that action take?
Will states exercise more authority to impose solutions without democratic process? Will corporations seize opportunities to rebuild devastated communities, privatizing land and infrastructure in the process? Will political movements tap climate fears to promote exclusionary immigration policies and enact violent attacks on scapegoats? Historically and today, ecological crisis has produced numerous such cases.
In this panel discussion, Katia R. Avilés Vázquez (Institute for Research and Action in Agroecology), Rajani Bhatia (SUNY Albany) & John Aloysius Zinda (Cornell University) explore examples from China, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. that open a wider discussion of the threats to, and continued possibilities for, democratic action on climate change. Moderated by Sigrid Schmalzer (UMass Amherst).
The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible thanks to the generosity of UMass Amherst history department alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67 and associates. The series is co-sponsored by more than 3 dozen university and community organizations.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Coming of age at the end of history w/ Lea Ypi
Pub date: 2021-12-04
Lea Ypi joins PTO to talk about her new book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It tells Lea's story of growing up in Stalinist Albania, the end of communist party rule in 1990, and the country's slide into violent chaos in 1997. We talked about Albania's isolation during the cold war after schisms with first the Soviet Union, and then with China, and how the regime made sense of Albania's place in the world. We also discussed Lea's childhood and her reaction to learning that her parents were not the communist true believers she'd thought them to be. Finally, we talked about Lea's views on what liberalisation meant for Albania and why her experience of the post-communist transition left her profoundly sceptical about liberal notions of what constitutes a truly free society.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Geopolitics in a post fossil-fuel world
Pub date: 2021-12-05
What will the global political landscape look like when the world’s dependency on fossil fuels is finally over? Adjustments are already being made, but for so-called “petrostates” like Saudi Arabia and Russia, the prospects look particularly bleak. Experts warn of new inequalities and shifting power dynamics. They also warn of a fall in available energy levels as nations transition to renewables.
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Podcast: The Children's Table Podcast
Episode: Love, Return, and Resistance: Dr. Cristina Rhodes on Día de Los Muertos and Latinx Activism
Pub date: 2021-12-08
We’re excited to welcome a guest to The Children’s Table! This episode features Dr. Cristina Rhodes, an Assistant Professor of English at Shippensburg University, PA, where she teaches courses on culturally diverse literatures of the United States, ethnic literature, and academic writing. Hear Dr. Rhodes talk about the diversity of El Día de Los Muertos (and how kids’ media gets it wrong, and gets it right), the relationship between futurity for Latinx youth and bodily transformation, the compelling story of 17-year-old Latinx activist Carmelita Torres, and the irrepressible spirit of current young Latina activists – and get some reading recommendations along the way.
Follow Dr. Rhodes on Twitter @_crisRhodes, and find her research on the open-access sources Research on Diversity in Youth Literature and Latinxs in Kid Lit. See the reading list for more of Dr. Rhodes’s scholarship and links to some of the titles she mentions.
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Podcast: The Power Hungry Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Leigh Phillips: Author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defense of Growth, Progress, Industry, and Stuff
Pub date: 2021-12-07
Leigh Phillips is a Canadian science writer and the author of two books: Austerity Ecology and The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. In this episode, he explains the attraction of “doomism,” how elite academics and environmental groups became estranged from the working class, the Tennessee Valley Authority as a “cathedral of American socialism, and why Karl Marx was “an energy maximalist.”
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Podcast: Finding Humanity (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 38. Seeing Through Colorism
Pub date: 2021-12-08
Ronald fell in love with television as a child, but as a queer, black boy from a Latinx household, representation was deeply lacking. In this episode, we focus on "colorism," or discrimination that occurs based on skin color, and how misrepresentations of people of color in the media often have real-life consequences.
Featuring Ronald Hinton, actor, writer, and founder of Shared Soil Productions, ReNika Moore, Racial Justice Program Director at the ACLU, and Dr. Mia White, professor of Environmental Studies at The New School.
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Podcast: Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)
Episode: Refusing Death: Asian and Latina Immigrant Women Activists on Race, Class, and Morality
Pub date: 2021-12-06
In response, immigrant-led resistance movements against these environmental hazards are among the most dynamic in our global cities. Yet, we know little about them. In this vein, Prof. Nadia Kim in her new book, Refusing Death, chronicles how Asian and Latina immigrant women activists for environmental justice in Los Angelesnamely cleaner, more breathable airredefine racism and classism as a result of their struggles with environmental racism and classism, and their specific social positionings under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy.
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Podcast: The Philosopher & The News (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rami Ali & The allure of the metaverse
Pub date: 2021-11-19
Mark Zuckerberg wants us to believe that soon enough, we’ll be connecting to each otehr in the metaverse, a virtual reality in which our avatars will be able to meet in virtual space, have virtual meetings and share virtual experiences. It will seem to us as though we’re really there present in virtual space, and our experience will feel real, even though they won’t be.
But should we believe the hype? And even if virtual reality ends up being as exciting as Zuckerberg wants us to think, should we really trust him and his company to curate a whole new internet for us? If Facebook’s products proved to be masterful distraction machines, designed to keep us online and mine our private data, will the metaverse end up being a version of that on steroids? What is the value and significance of virtual experiences, compared to real ones? And what will be the moral status of virtual acts – like murdering someone’s avatar in the metaverse?
Rami Ali is an assistant professor of philosophy at Lebanese American University in Beirut.
And holds a PhD from the University of Miami in Florida. He works on the phenomenological movement, the philosophy of technology and the philosophy of mind and perception. He is also an avid proponent of virtual reality technology.
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Podcast: Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology
Episode: Data Materiality Episode 5: Sam Kinsley on Data, Technicity and the Industrialisation of Memory
Pub date: 2021-11-27
In this episode, we speak with Sam Kinsley, Senior Lecturer in Human Geographies at the University of Exeter, in Devon, England, and the inaugural Co-Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal Digital Geography & Society. Sam is interested in spatialities and geographical imaginations of technology and the future; about how our situated existence is inherently technical, as well as the stories we tell about technologies in our daily lives. He is a close interpreter, and occasional translator, of the work of late French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. So we took the opportunity to ask Sam about his own work, as well as Stiegler’s writing, and how it might be a way to step back and think through how and why we might think about digital data, and the systems through which data are collected and mobilised, as ‘industrial-scale’ systems of memory.
The interview for this episode was recorded in July 2021.
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Podcast: CBRL Sound
Episode: The metamorphising struggle for Syria: proxy war, sanctions and stalled reconstruction
Pub date: 2021-11-23
Syria’s conflict has metamorphised into a hybrid: a partially frozen proxy war over territory combined with a battle over sanctions and reconstruction. This lecture will explore three aspects of this contest. The lecture will look at the stalemated proxy war; the effort of the regime to use reconstruction to consolidate its power and marginalize opposition and the US effort to obstruct this. At stake is whether Syria’s sovereignty will survive and in what form or whether it’s statehood will further fail, with likely waves of spill-over to neighbours. But Syria is also a test case of the global order: whether the US can use its dominance of the world financial system to sustain its world hegemony or whether its reinvention as a “sanctions hegemon” is the last episode in the transition to a multipolar world.
This lecture was given by Professor Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St Andrews) as CBRL's AGM lecture on 17 November, 2021.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Antti Tarvainen - Is settler colonialism at the heart of the US and Israeli tech sectors?
Pub date: 2021-11-26
This month we were delighted to be joined by Antti Tarvainen, a fellow doctoral candidate in Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. His work examines the innovation economy (think Steve Jobs, apps, smart everything, etc.) and the colonial violence that that underpins its expansions. We started the discussion talking about the colonial utopia history of California and by extension in Silicon Valley. We explore some of the myriad colonial imaginaries that play out in the mythology and material culture of Silicon Valley. Antti points out that “tech” does not exist only on a digital or immaterial layer but is deeply connected to physical place and space. The effect of tech on the polis is not just gentrification, but rather more akin to settler colonialism. However, it is not just the polis that is made by this tech expansion, but rural spaces and nature itself are also made. We uncover the global geography of the resources that are extracted to build the physical infrastructure and components of the tech industry. This takes us to a broader discussion of the continued spread and influence of the tech sector. Antti shares with us his experiences doing fieldwork in the Silicon Wadi and how and where settler colonialism is present as the tech industry expands in Israel and Palestine.
Links:
Anti-eviction mapping project – urban effects of the tech sector in California
Antti’s Academic Profile and for our Finnish speaking listeners Antti’s most recent article (in Finnish).
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Podcast: Notre Dame International Security Center
Episode: Light Water Capitalism: Nonproliferation and U.S. Global Power
Pub date: 2021-11-22
Jayita Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, where she teaches diplomatic and political history. Her research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, Nonproliferation Review, and elsewhere. Her first book, Ploughshares & Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, forthcoming, 2022) examines the first forty years of India's nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics.
Recorded: Nov 16, 2021 | Speaker: Jayita Sarkar
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The futilitarian condition / Neil Vallelly
Pub date: 2021-11-30
Neil Vallelly on his book "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" from MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism
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Podcast: Take On The South
Episode: Episode 4: Reclaiming Southern Spaces with the Radical Labor of Dance (Jennifer Gunter, Tanya Wideman-Davis, and Thaddeus Davis)
Pub date: 2021-12-01
How can dance tell the story of Black progress? This episode features Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis, Associate Professors of Dance and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina and founders of the Wideman Davis Dance company. They discuss their evolutions as dancers and activists who center their work on often invisible stories of Black Southerners. In their words, their work involves, "centering Black existence--its history and liberation." Hosted by: Jennifer Gunter
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Podcast: One World, One Network‽
Episode: Herman Wasserman – Dewesternization leads to Decolonization‽
Pub date: 2021-11-29
This episode features Herman Wasserman – one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. With a panel of guest speakers, Herman critically explores the implications of One World One Network‽ This episode’s guests discuss the world’s frequent overemphasis of the West and how we can shift our focus to other narratives. They touch on the potential of media, from Netflix to digital campaigns to facilitate contra-flows that run counter to the dominant flow from “West to Rest,” while acknowledging that global access to these technologies remains a challenge. They discuss how people are using technology in creative ways that don’t always surface in the dominant media.
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Featuring:
Audrey Gadzekpo
Raka Shome
Sean Jacobs
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Herman Wasserman
University of Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.cfms.uct.ac.za/fam/staff/wasserman
www.Herman-wasserman.com
www.disinfoafrica.org
Twitter: @hwasser @disinfoafrica
Audrey Gadzekpo
University of Ghana, Ghana
https://www.ug.edu.gh/commstudies/staff/prof-audrey-gadzekpo
Raka Shome
Villanova University, United States
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/communication/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=raka.shome@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long
Sean Jacobs
The New School, United States
https://www.newschool.edu/international-affairs/faculty/sean-jacobs/
https://africasacountry.com
Twitter: @_SeanJacobs @africasacountry
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Podcast: Rear Vision (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Medical conspiracy theories through the ages
Pub date: 2021-11-28
Despite popular belief, medical conspiracy theories aren’t new. What can we learn from their ancient history and about the people who believe in them?
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Podcast: The Funambulist Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jessica Namakkal /// On French Colonialism in India
Pub date: 2021-11-18
When, in October 2021, we interviewed Priya Ange and Anita Kittery for our francophone show "Diasporas et Imaginaires des Luttes" about the Tamil diaspora from Puducherry or Tamil Nadu at large in France, we relied a lot on the work of Jessica Namakkal, who dedicated a book to "the making and unmaking of French India." We are therefore happy to provide you with an anglophone conversation with her about French colonialism on the Indian Subcontinent. This is part of a broader effort to render the complexity to the Subcontinent's recent history, which is usually depicted under the sole and uniform history of British colonialism.
Jessica Namakkal is associate professor of the practice in international comparative studies, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, and history at Duke University. She is the author of the book Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India, published by Columbia University Press is 2021. In addition, she is a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective, one of the co-editors of the Abusable Past, and a member of the South Asian American Digital Archive’s academic council.
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Podcast: Ethics for a Changing World
Episode: Surveillance Capitalism, Technology, and Islamic Ethics
Pub date: 2021-11-19
When we express our concerns about Big Tech's control of our data, it is usually in terms of a right to privacy and our data which clashes with our supposed choice to surrender it. But how can alternative ethical systems help to reframe this problem? In this episode, Middle Eastern Political Economy Professor Mehmet Asutay argues that rights-based understandings are at the root of our destructive global economy. We discuss how debates about climate change, privacy, and social credit systems look instead from an Islamic ethics perspective, and what, if anything, we should learn from it.
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: C. Brandon Ogbunu on Afrofuturism as a Tech Framework
Pub date: 2021-11-25
Science fiction has long been a medium for bringing light to societal issues, including religion, culture and race. It helps us imagine futures of hope and prosperity or warns of dystopian nightmares. And our experience of race plays a central role in our understanding of science fiction. “There’s this amazing quote from Junot Díaz, the Pulitizer Prize-winning writer, where he basically says that if it wasn’t for race, X-Men doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the history of breeding human beings through chattel slavery, Dune doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the history of colonialism and imperialism, Star Wars doesn’t make sense, right?. If it wasn’t for the extermination of so many Indigenous First Nations, most of science fiction first-contact stories don’t make sense,” says C. Brandon Ogbunu. What Afrofuturism seeks to do is reimagine the future by putting the Black diaspora community at the centre.
In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks to C. Brandon Ogbunu, a computational biologist and technologist and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University. Taylor and Brandon discuss how Afrofuturism can bring about a more diverse, inclusive community of tech start-ups and tech platforms.
Technology platforms are riddled with algorithmic bias, resulting from blind spots that exist within each development team. As many platforms span geographies, cultures and languages, it is increasingly important to be aware of the many potential harms that can result from the way the software is developed and deployed. Traditionally, Silicon Valley companies are managed by white males with a specific world view. “Anybody who is familiar with the technology and has ever been racially profiled would immediately see the problems there. I think the problem, the reason why this stuff was not a part of the conversation up front, is because the people designing the technology have never been affected by it,” says Ogbunu. He sees works of Afrofuturism, such as art, music and film, as vehicles to lift the sense of impossibility and constraint and to inspire Black and other under-represented communities to create and build new technologies and businesses.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 1
Pub date: 2021-11-19
Part one of Dan's two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba's military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line, including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony.
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Check out Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674245952
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Podcast: Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History) (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Pre-History of Multiculturalism in Canada
Pub date: 2021-11-18
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Daniel Meister, the author of The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-History of Canadian Multiculturalism published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2021. This book recounts the history of the concept of multiculturalism in the decades before the establishment of multiculturalism as an official policy of the Government of Canada in 1971. Meister examines this intellectual history through the thinking of three influential individuals: Watson Kirkconnell, Robert England, and John Murray Gibbon. In the process, they explore concepts such as scientific racism, citizenship and folk culture. A recent PhD graduate of the history department at Queen’s University, Daniel Meister is currently an independent historian based in Halifax.
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Podcast: Cuerpa Politica
Episode: Abortion rights and biopolitics in Chile. With Dr Lieta Vivaldi
Pub date: 2021-11-18
Lieta Vivaldi works at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Law Department. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, a Masters in sociology from the London School of Economics, a diploma in gender and violence from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of Universidad de Chile, and is qualified in Law, by the same institution. She also works as a researcher in the Center of Applied Ethics (CEDEA) at Universidad de Chile, and as an associate researcher of the Faculty of Law at Universidad Diego Portales. She is both board member and coordinator of the Research Program on Biopolitics at the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies, IIPSS (Santiago, Chile), and the director of the Academic Committee of the Chilean Feminist Lawyer Association (ABOFEM). Her research focuses on human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, sociology and law, biopolitics, and feminisms.
In this episode, we discuss the shape of struggles for legalised abortion in Chile, including how reproductive controls have overlapped with the rationales of neoliberalism, and political ideologies, such as during the Pinochet dictatorship, and the images or ‘political signs’ that have been alternately mobilised by feminist activists and pro-life activists in this context.
Links:
Casas, L., & Vivaldi, L. (2014). Abortion in Chile: the practice under a restrictive regime. Reproductive health matters, 22(44), 70-81. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/S0968-8080%2814%2944811-0
Vivaldi, L. (2020). Critical possibilities on social research: the abortion dispositif from a feminist perspective. Pléyade (Santiago), (25), 107-126. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0719-36962020000100107&script=sci_arttext
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology
Pub date: 2021-11-17
Jim Downs speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his book Maladies of Empire, which reveals how the conditions created by colonialism, war and slavery affected the study of disease and its spread in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Podcast: The Politics of Everything (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Rats on the Brain
Pub date: 2021-11-24
The rats are everywhere, more of them all the time, in our streets and our apartment complexes, cavorting on picnic tables and playgrounds—or so the pandemic’s hyperventilating news reports would suggest. Is the rodential bonanza real, or are we just noticing rats more? How are outdoor dining, gentrification, and climate change implicated? And why does our anxiety about rats seem to intensify after large-scale disasters? On episode 39 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene look into what’s behind our rat fears with Robert Sullivan, the author of Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, and Liza Featherstone, a regular contributor to The New Republic.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Jeff Miller, "Avocado: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-11-18
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hundred years. This is an astounding trajectory for a fruit that isn’t sweet, becomes bitter when it is cooked and has perhaps the oddest texture of any fruit or vegetable. But the idea that this rich and delicious fruit is also healthy despite being fatty and energy-dense gives it unicorn status among modern eaters, especially millennials.
Through lively anecdotes, colourful pictures and delicious recipes, Jeff Miller's book Avocado: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2020) explores the meteoric rise of the avocado, from its co-evolution with the megaherbivores of the Pleistocene to its acceptance by the Spanish conquistadores in Mexico and its current dominance of food consumers’ imagination.
Jeff Miller is an Associate Professor of Hospitality Management at Colorado State University. He is the co-author of Food Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods (2009) and was named Culinary Educator of the Year in 2017.
Amir Sayadabdi is a lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
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Podcast: Two for Tea with Iona Italia and Helen Pluckrose (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 110 - Rob Brooks - Sex, The Machine, and the Algorithmic Future
Pub date: 2021-11-14
Rob’s website: https://www.robbrooks.net/
Rob’s academic profile: https://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/our-people/robert-brooks
Follow Rob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brooks_Rob
Rob’s column for The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/columns/rob-brooks-1343
Buy Rob’s first book, Sex, Genes & Rock ’n’ Roll, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Genes-Rock-n-Roll/dp/1611682363
Buy Rob’s new book, Artificial Intimacy: Virtual friends, digital lovers and algorithmic matchmakers, here: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/1742236855
References
Rob’s Areo article, ‘How Virtual Friends Can Influence People’: https://areomagazine.com/2021/10/19/how-virtual-friends-can-influence-people/
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0091906814
Timestamps
2:04 Iona reads an excerpt from Artificial Intimacy
7:58 An outline of the book; its themes and genesis.
13:39 ‘Digital lovers’—virtual reality porn, sex robots, smart sex toys &c. Iona and Rob debate: love, sex, and deception—are all relationships in some sense illusions? Is sentience essential for real relationships? Could all elements of ‘genuine’ human relationships be replicated by machines—could human/machine relationships become ‘genuine’?
27:26 More debate on sex, friendship, and companionship in light of the artificial. Can there be ‘real intimacy’ between humans and machines?
33:31 Digital friends. Dale Carnegie’s ‘likeability algorithm’: can AI also manipulate us in this way? Iona reads a ‘chilling’ passage from Rob’s book: how much do algorithms influence us, and how much more influential will they become in time? If Carnegie with his limited vantage point was able to codify how to effectively influence people, just think about what omnipresent AI algorithms could do!
44:08 Could machines get us to like them more than we like other people by using everything they know to be nice and appeal to us, by giving us the ‘tastiest’ parts of a relationship without the downsides? Case study: Eliza the chatbot. Can we be fooled/deceived by such machines?
55:42 The most controversial view in Rob’s book: if we assume that machines are going to get better at faking human interactions, especially regarding sex and relationships, to the extent that this is enough for a lot of people, then that could potentially be a very good thing. More debate/discussion on/of this and the dominance in our lives of the online.
1:07:30 A shocking plot twist. (And: Slavoj Žižek’s sex robots.)
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Podcast: The Churchology Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 60: Felicia Wu Song on Restless Devices - Recovering Personhood, Presence, & Place in the Digital Age
Pub date: 2021-11-16
Today on the show we talk to Dr. Felicia Wu Song about her latest book Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, & Place in the Digital Age.
Felicia Wu Song (PhD, University of Virginia) is a cultural sociologist of media and digital technologies, currently serving as professor of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara. Her publications include Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together and articles in such scholarly journals as Gender & Society and Information, Communication & Society.
You can connect with Dr. Song online here.
Click here to watch a lecture from Dr. Song, 'Digital Life As Secular Liturgy'
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How we trample on tribal sovereignty
Pub date: 2021-11-11
When a development project affects Indian land, tribal leadership is supposed to be brought into the conversation at the beginning. Nick Martin is the Indigenous affairs desk editor at High Country News and a contributing editor of The New Republic. He joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the process of consultation, which was designed as a negotiation tool but is more often used to notify Indigenous communities about pipelines, mines and other major projects adjacent to sacred lands – after it’s too late for them to meaningfully voice their concerns. His article is headlined “Indian Country’s Right to Say No.”
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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: Amazon’s Colonial Headquarters in South Africa with Tauriq Jenkins, Leslie London & Nadine Dirks
Pub date: 2021-11-11
This episode welcomes Tauriq Jenkins, Nadine Dirks, and Leslie London to discuss Amazon’s construction of a new headquarters on sacred indigenous land in Cape Town, South Africa. Our chat covers the cultural and environmental implications of the new construction site and activist resistance against it.
Tauriq Jenkins is Chair at AIXARRA Restorative Justice Forum, Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town and member of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council (GKKITC). Nadine Dirks is a member of the Lisebeek Action Campaign. Leslie London is a Professor heading the School of Public and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town and chairperson of the Observatory Civic Association.
You can follow Tauriq on Twitter at @TauriqJenkins. Follow Tech Empire at @TechEmpireCast and the host, Michael Kwet, at @Michael_Kwet.
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Podcast: Global Media Cultures
Episode: Telenovelas and Black Celebrity in Brazil
Pub date: 2021-11-12
In this week's episode, guest Bruno Guaraná discusses his article "Taís Araújo: The Black Helena against Brazil's Whitening Television," which traces key moments in the television career of one of Brazi's most popular television celebrities Taís Araújo, including the several times she has been slated as "the first black protagonist" on different television shows. Guaraná argues that, against Brazilian television's practices of whitening raced subjects and pushing forth a colorblind ideology, the construction of Araújo's star image has ultimately turned her into a popular symbol of black female resistance.
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Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 359: Streets are Not Just Pipes
Pub date: 2021-11-11
This week we’re joined by Miami of Ohio Geography Professor David Prytherch. David chats with us about his recent journal article in Urban Geography: Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street. We talk about businesses newfound interest in the street, equity and ethical discussions about rights to the street, and the new pandemic paradigm of open streets.
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism
Pub date: 2021-11-10
Matt and Sam dedicate an entire episode to an under appreciated but indispensable figure in the founding of post-war conservatism: Frank Meyer, the father of "fusionism."
Meyer was a man of contradictions: an ex-communist ideologue who longed for consensus; a cantankerous, unyielding debater who kept his friends and rivals close; a bohemian, individualist Jew who argued vociferously for freedom and against repressive orthodoxies, but who converted to Catholicism on his death bed. In this episode, we explore his life, work, and legacy — including a close reading of his most famous book, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo. Along the way, we ask some big questions: Why was it so important for Meyer to find a philosophical justification for fusing the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement? How did he go about doing it? And did it work?
Today, many — especially younger — conservatives consider fusionism to be a dead consensus, a marriage of erstwhile convenience in which one partner, economic libertarians, got everything they wanted, while the other, Christian traditionalists, have seen unfettered capitalism and licentious liberalism destroy the precious permanent things they had hoped to conserve: Church, family, and community. As the seams of the fusionist alliance fray, we look back to the man who conceived it in the first place.
This one is for the nerds. We hope you enjoy it!
Further Reading:
Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo(Regnery, 1962)
George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (Basic Books, 1976)
Jeffrey Hart, The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times (ISI Books, 2006)
Garry Wills, Confessions of a Conservative(Doubleday, 1979)
Kevin J. Smant, Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement (ISI Books, 2002)
Various, "Against the Dead Consensus," First Things, March 21, 2019
Frank S Meyer, "The Twisted Tree of Liberty," National Review Jan 16, 1962
L. Brent Bozell Jr. "Freedom or Virtue," National Review, Sept 11, 1962
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Podcast: Two Worlds Design
Episode: 15: Power, Racism & Systemic change in Architecture w/ Charlie Edmonds
Pub date: 2021-11-14
In this episode, I speak with Charlie Edmonds, co-founder of the Future Architects Front (FAF).
In the last year, the FAF and Charlie have been making waves in the field of Architecture raising massive awareness around the exploitation of architectural assistants in the UK. His campaign started as an Instagram poll and transformed into a national survey that was headed by the Architects' Journal. As a result of his whistleblowing campaign and continual social media activism, the Architectural Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) initiated institutional and systematic changes to address the issues and mistreatment experienced by those at the bottom of the profession.
"Future Architects Front are an informal organisation of young architectural practitioners and students. We are a fully independent group and exist beyond the pressures and interests of architectural practice, education, and media. We operate in a number of different capacities, from research to activism to quasi-political campaigning. FAF was created and is run by Charlie Edmonds and Priti Mohandas, British designers and researchers. The pair met and began the work of FAF while conducting their Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Cambridge."
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Podcast: Decolonization in Action Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S4E9: Our Histories are not Missing
Pub date: 2021-11-11
In this episode Edna Bonhomme is in conversation with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro. Mba Bikoro's work analyses processes of power & science fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles & colonial memory focusing on queer indigenous and feminist biopolitics. The artist creates immersive performative environments for alternative narratives and future speculations of colonial resistance movements led by African women of the German diaspora and indigenous communities. Sedimented in narratives of testimonial Black queer experiences of sonic nature archives, revolt, queering ecologies and postcolonial feminist experiences towards new monuments which reacts to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. The work offers complex non-binary readings pushing new investigations about the architectures of racisms in cities, the archeologies of urban spaces & economies of traditional systems by exposing the limitations of technologies as functional memory records. She has developed frameworks of rituals and healing in performance work that often reveal the entangled colonial histories of migration at site-specific spaces to dismantle prejudices and organise accessible levels of consciousness through testimonial archives of local communities to build independant emancipatory tools for liberation, education, consciousness, intimacy and healing. She is lecturer in Curating Black Visual Cultures & Philosophy at TransArt Institute New York & Fine Arts practice at the University of Liverpool, artistic & curatorial supervisor of the Artists in Training Programme at the UdK and the University of Bergen Norway. She is Artistic Director of Nyabinghi_Lab Collective, recently curating the performance programme 'Radical Mutations' at Hebbel Am Ufer Theatre Berlin with Wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio and "Free State Of Barackia: 150 Years of Decolonial Urbanisms, Solidarities and New Berlin Utopias". She moderates the annual Berlinale Film Festival & currently has an Artistic Fellowship from the Goethe Institute In Bahia Salvador and is the TURN2 Award Fellow Curator at NCAI Nairobi. Her work was recently published in ARTE Twists series "Our Colonial Heritage" and Deutsche Welle TV in a series of short films on German Colonialism and Black Resistance. Her work has been featured in several international exhibitions and Biennales including the Havana Biennale (2019), Dak'art Biennale (2012; 2018), Venice Biennale (2016) and La Otra Biennale in Bogota (2013) and RAVVY Performance Biennale Yaoundé (2018).
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Podcast: In Conversation
Episode: Narrating Extraction in the Global South with Stacey Balkan, Ph.D.
Pub date: 2021-11-09
Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Stacey Balkan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, who has been researching how the past can predict our future. Her upcoming book, "Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India," includes an investigation of new extra-activist frontiers, including solar capitalism and the and the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the subcontinent and beyond.
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Podcast: The Partial Historians (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Special Episode – Women and Money with Professor Karen Carr
Pub date: 2021-11-04
We sat down recently to have a conversation with Professor Karen Carr who is Emerita at Portland State University. She holds a doctorate in Classical Art and Archaeology and we were thrilled to discuss the ideas for her latest work. We explore Carr's research on the connections between women, money, and the economy in the ancient world.
Special Episode - Roman Women and Money with Professor Karen Carr
Carr has an impressive breadth and depth to her research work. She's the author of Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain. Carr also has a book coming out in 2022 called Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming. However, in this conversation we were focusing on her radical new theories on women and their place in economies. The conversation ranges from the Stone Age through to the modern world! Professor Carr is currently writing a book on this topic that is slated for release in 2023 through the University of Liverpool Press.
Thinking about ancient economies
Professor Carr suggests that manufacturing, and thus the production of wealth, was initially tied to the work of women. They say that money makes the world go around, so it seems like women were making the world go around since the Stone Age! They helped to produce items like beads and textiles that could be used for trade long before humans invented coinage.
This all started to change when Greeks and Romans started to export silver and gold in larger quantities, especially in the form of coinage. Mining for metals and minting the coins was largely men's work and this type of money started to be promoted as 'masculine', while items like beads and textiles were labelled as 'feminine'. As parts of the world, such as Asia and Africa, continued to engage in the manufacture of these goods for trade, foreigners also started to be associated with femininity. If you are starting to feel like the economy in the ancient world was complex, you would be correct!
Penelope and the Suitors by J. W. Waterhouse. Work that wool, Penelope!
Roman Women and Money
Tune in to hear how all of these developments may have contributed to slavery in the ancient and modern world. With the fashion industry being one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions and coming under more scrutiny for the poor conditions of workers, you won't want to miss Professor Carr's theories about how contemporary attitudes towards fast fashion may go back further than you think.
Close-up of some of the coins from the Frome Hoard. This hoard contains 52 503 Roman coins which date from 253-305 CE!
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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Vikings Who Beat Columbus to America
Pub date: 2021-11-04
Five centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot in America, the Vikings had already crossed the Atlantic. Using new dating techniques, scientists studying timber buildings at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Canada’s Newfoundland, have established the Norse settled in AD 1021, 471 years before Columbus’s first voyage. While it’s already known the Vikings landed in North America, exactly when they settled has remained an estimate, until now. Cat Jarman, world-leading Vikings expert and host of History Hit's sister podcast, Gone Medieval, joins Dan to speak to archaeologist Birgitta Wallace about this breakthrough research. Discover how a long-ago Solar storm provided vital information for the study, the significance of the date, and what's left to be discovered in the future. You can read more about the evidence here.
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Podcast: Global Media Cultures
Episode: Digital Altars and Migrant Death in Mexico
Pub date: 2021-11-05
In this week's episode, guest Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez discusses her article "Where Blackness Dies: The Aesthetics of a Massacre and the Violence of Remembering," which analyzes the digital altar created to commemorate the lives of 72 Central American migrants massacred in Mexico in 2010. Cervantes-Gómez builds on this analysis to interrogate the sensationalist depictions of migrant death, the affordances and limitations of digital media for attending to the divine, and, ultimately, the politics of blackness in the context of Mexico and the American continent.
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 116. The Politics of Acoustic Space and Sonic Montage with Joseph Clarke
Pub date: 2021-11-04
This week, we sit down with Joseph Clarke to discuss his new book Echo’s Chamber: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space. The discussion looks at the convergence of politics, acoustics, and the metamorphosis of acoustic spatial thinking from Wagner to Le Corbusier and beyond.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Cricket as a colonial weapon
Pub date: 2021-11-03
Dr Souvik Naha reveals how the Victorians used cricket to export “British virtues” across the empire
Podcast: SRB Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Soviet Flower Power
Pub date: 2021-11-05
This is the third event of the REEES Fall 2021 Series “The Soviet World in the Long 1970s.” You can see the entire event schedule here.
Guest:
Juliane Furst is the head of the “Communism and Society” department at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History. She’s the author or editor of several books and articles on Soviet youth culture, marginality, and counterculture in late soviet socialism. Her first book was Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Her new book is Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press, 2021.
Music:
Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit.”
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Podcast: The Blockchain Socialist (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Science and Communism are the Same (Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of Sci-Hub)
Pub date: 2021-10-31
For this interview I spoke with Alexandra Elbakyan (@ringo_ring) the founder of Sci-Hub, the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of academic research papers for absolutely free. As you can imagine, what she's doing is illegal and has had countless issues with government and privately owned journals that paywall science funded by the public. This means that she cannot create a bank account to accept donations to continue her work and only accepts cryptocurrency.
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Alexandra is also a Russian speaker but can understand English so I was lucky enough to get a translator to help me with this interview. You'll notice that I edited out the majority of Alexandra speaking since I assume most people who listen don't understand Russian and fade to the translator. During the interview we spoke about the difficulties she's faced upkeeping the project, why she considers Sci-Hub to be a communistic project, and why she thinks the left should be taking cryptocurrency more seriously as a tool.
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Podcast: PERC Podcasts
Episode: PERC Podcast with Neil Vallelly - Futilitarianism
Pub date: 2021-11-01
PERC director Will Davies is joined by Neil Vallelly (University of Otago) to discuss his new book 'Futilitarianism: neoliberalism and the production of uselessness'. Vallelly tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility and the common good. The book at once maps the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, develops an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounts the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. In doing so, it shows that countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.
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Podcast: The Davis Center at Harvard University
Episode: How to Kill a Superpower: Episode 4 - The Hero of Tetris
Pub date: 2021-11-02
Boris Yeltsin’s trip to a supermarket in Clear Lake, Texas, planted a seed of the USSR’s destruction. The United States won the Cold War with free-market capitalism—and Jell-O pudding pops. Still, astoundingly, the collapse of the USSR was not what the U.S. government wanted. In this episode, Dr. Yelena Biberman and Zachary Troyanovsky evaluate the Cold War confrontational narrative and offer a new perspective on how the USSR dissolved. For a transcript of this episode and more, visit https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/insights/how-to-kill-a-superpower
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Podcast: Global Media Cultures
Episode: The Politics of Blackness in Britain
Pub date: 2021-10-28
In this week's episode, guest Mohan Ambikaipaker discusses his article "Music Videos and the 'War on Terror' in Britain: Benjamin Zephaniah's Infrapolitical Blackness in Rong Radio," which analyzes the political project of the music video Rong Radio, created by British artist Benjamin Zephaniah based on his own dub poem. Ambikaipaker argues that Rong Radio illustrates an "infra-political blackness," a form of coalition building that is less tied to specific identity markers and instead builds solidarity across people of color responding to shared legacies of disenfranchisement through colonialism and imperialism. Ambikaipaker also discusses the affordances of music videos for activists looking to raise awareness of transnational issues and for educators hoping to generate discussion on complex topics in the classroom.
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Podcast: Myself With Others (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Vivian Gornick
Pub date: 2021-11-02
Vivian Gornick is a writer of essays, criticism, and literary nonfiction, a fierce feminist, and a proud New Yorker. Her 1987 book about her relationship with her mother, Fierce Attachments, was recently chosen by the book critics of the New York Times as the finest memoir of the last 50 years. In our conversation, Vivian reflected on growing up among working-class Jews in the Bronx, her struggles with her mother, her journey through the women’s liberation movement, and her relationship to desire, love, and work.
Links and References:Fierce Attachments
The Odd Woman and the City
The Press of Freedom: An Ofay’s Indirect Address to LeRoi Jones
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s - Tom Wolfe
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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-11-02
Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity’s olfactory disparities.
Hsuan L. Hsu's The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (NYU Press, 2020) outlines the many ways that our differentiated atmospheres unevenly distribute environmental risk. Reading everything from nineteenth-century detective fiction and naturalist novels to contemporary performance art and memoir, Hsu takes up modernity’s differentiated atmospheres as a subject worth sniffing out. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to, for example, explore Latinx communities exposed to freeway exhaust and pesticides, Asian diasporic artists’ response to racialized discourse about Asiatic odors, and the devastation settler colonialism has reaped on Indigenous smellscapes. In each instance, Hsu demonstrates the violence that air maintenance, control, and conditioning enacts on the poor and the marginalized. From nineteenth-century miasma theory theory to the synthetic chemicals that pervade twenty-first century air, Hsu takes smell at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence.
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Podcast: Failed Architecture (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Stories on Earth w/ Bassem Saad & Ameneh Solati
Pub date: 2021-10-28
For Breezeblock 25, Christin talks to fellow editors Bassem Saad and Ameneh Solati about "The Great Reanimation" their contribution to the Stories on Earth project, Failed Architecture's contribution to the public parallel programme of the Dutch Pavilion during the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: The colonial affects of secular Europe
Pub date: 2021-11-19
Although European societies promise religious freedom, non-Christians remain subject to considerable discrimination. In this context, it is mostly taken for granted that there is a basic conflict between the modern secular state and the passions of religion. But what about the passions of the secular? Today, we talk with sociologist Nur Yasemin Ural about the colonial affects of secular Europe.
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Snake oil or substance? Tech companies talk climate at COP26
Pub date: 2021-10-29
This week Josh Lappen, an environmental historian studying at Oxford University, returns to discuss the climate crisis and tech companies ahead of COP26. Are tech companies’ promises of technological innovation really going to save Earth? Do we need AI for the environment? What does the German government have to do with the adoption of solar panels? And who really are the biggest impediments to stopping climate change? (Hint: it’s not China.) Josh discusses the snake oil and substance at COP26, and how tech companies use the promise of the future to influence the politics of the present.
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Articles Mentioned:
Past Anti Dystopians episode with Josh—Nationalize Gmail! https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Aayx7p8uYdKcDeyEvwuzJ?si=48fF-8p7R2KgVPHZ2O-7Rw
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon? https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp9368.pdf
Biden’s First Climate Actions Are Missing Coal’s Long Tail https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/biden-climate-executive-orders-coal/
How Germany helped bring down the cost of PV https://energytransition.org/2016/01/how-germany-helped-bring-down-the-cost-of-pv/
The Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Ocean Is Still Alive—and Problematic https://gizmodo.com/the-dream-of-scooping-plastic-from-the-ocean-is-still-a-1847890573
Outer space and climate solutionism https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/alina-utrata-lost-space
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Avery Slater, The Golem and the Game of Automation (Ethics of AI in Context)
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Norbert Wiener, a foundational force in cybernetics and information theory, often used the allegory of the Golem to represent the ethical complexities inherent in machine learning. Recent advances in the field of reinforcement learning (RL) deal explicitly with problems laid out by Wiener’s earlier writings, including the importance of games as learning environments for the development of AI agents. This talk explores issues from contemporary machine learning that express Wiener’s prescient notion of developing a “significant game” between creator and machine.
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Podcast: The Feminist Present (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 28 - Jeanette Winterson
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Jeanette Winterson CBE is the author of 27 influential feminist texts, including Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Sexing The Cherry, Gut Symmetries, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, and most recently, 12 BYTES: Where We Might Go Next. In a special event partnering with the independent bookstores Politics & Prose and Books & Books, Jeanette joined Laura and Adrian to talk about how 12 BYTES engages feminist history in its probing consideration of artificial intelligence.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Time-Bombing the Future: Plastics In & Around Us with Rebecca Altman
Pub date: 2021-10-18
Hagley Center program officer Gregory Hargreaves interviews Dr. Rebecca Altman about her research into the intimate history of synthetic materials, industrial chemistry, & the human body. Altman, an environmental sociologist, has made extensive use of the Hagley Library’s vast collection of digitized materials available worldwide at digital.hagley.org.
Cattle drinking from a creek near the Ohio River ingest PFAS and become unwitting agents for the circulation of synthetic materials through the natural world. The legacies of industrial chemistry lace together society and the environment, making synthetic materials such as plastic an ideal location to study the historical relationship that exists between social and natural forces. Altman combines research from across archives to piece together a story of chemical legacies within and all around us.
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Podcast: This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
Episode: Haiti in History and Popular Culture
Pub date: 2021-10-24
In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall about Haiti in history and popular culture. Dr. Williams is Associate Professor of African American history at Monmouth University. Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall is Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator in the Department of History at California State University, San Marcos. Her research specialties include the French and Haitian Revolutions, modern Haitian history, Slavery and Film, and French colonialism as well as French-Jewish history. Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall’s latest book is Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) and she is also the author of The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism (University of California Press, 2005) and Haitian History: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2012).
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jean and John Comaroff on Theory From the South
Pub date: 2021-10-13
John Comaroff is Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology at Harvard University. Before joining the Department of African and African American Studies, John Comaroff was the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is also an Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. His current research in South Africa is on crime, policing, and the workings of the state, on democracy and difference, and on postcolonial politics. His authored and edited books include, with Jean Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution (2 vols), Ethnography and the Historical Imagination, Modernity and its Malcontents, Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Ethnicity, Inc., Zombies et Frontières A l'Ere Néolibérale, Theory from the South: or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa, and The Truth Abouth Crime: Policing and the Metaphysics of Disorder. With Jean Comaroff he is currently completing The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Law, Imposture, and Personhood in Postcolonial South Africa, and co-editing Chiefship and the Customary in Contemporary Africa.
Jean Comaroff is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology at Harvard University. Jean Comaroffwas educated at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. After a spell as research fellow in medical Anthropology at the University of Manchester, she moved to the University of Chicago, where she was remained until 2012 as the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. Her research, primarily conducted in southern Africa, has centered on processes of social and cultural transformation – the making and unmaking of colonial society, the nature of the postcolony, the late modern world viewed from the Global South. Her writing has covered a range of topics, from religion, medicine and body politics to state formation, crime, democracy and difference. Her publications include Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People (1985), “Beyond the Politics of Bare Life: AIDS and the Global Order” (2007); and, with John L. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution (vols. l [1991] and ll [1997]); Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (1992); Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2000), Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006), Ethnicity, Inc. (2009), Theory from the South, or How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (2011), and The Truth About Crime: Policing and the Metaphysics of Disorder in South Africa. In the pipeline is The Return of Khulekane Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Law, Imposture, and Personhood in Postcolonial South Africa. Also in process is an edited collection, Chiefship and the Customary in Contemporary Africa. A committed pedagogue, she has won awards for teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has worked to enable college students to study abroad, especially in Africa.
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Podcast: Intercepted (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Far-Right Health Care Companies Made Millions Prescribing Unproven Covid Remedies
Pub date: 2021-10-13
As the national push to vaccinate people against Covid-19 continues, hundreds of thousands of hacked documents show how a group of doctors is explicitly pushing unproven and potentially dangerous alternatives on people hesitant to follow public health authorities’ recommendations to get vaccinated, wear a mask, and socially distance. This week on Intercepted: Nausicaa Renner, The Intercept’s Washington editor, and Micah Lee, director of information security for The Intercept, discuss how a network of right-wing health care companies have been charging millions from people around the U.S. by promoting, prescribing, and selling unproven and ineffective medications for Covid-19. Lee, who received a trove of records from an anonymous hacker, was able to break down the complex network of organizations and companies involved in the operation. At the heart of it is America’s Frontline Doctors, a group of far-right doctors led anti-vaccine physician Simone Gold that promotes and prescribes unproven medications like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. The data Lee received not only shows how profitable the operation is, but also how wide the falsehoods pushed by this organization have spread. join.theintercept.com/donate/now
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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hans Skott-Myhre - Can Critiques of Psychiatry Help us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future?
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Hans Skott-Myhre is a Professor of Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Over the last 50 years, he has worked within a wide variety of human service settings, including residential homes, community health centers, inpatient psychiatric units, homeless youth shelters, transitional living programs, and prisons. About two decades ago, he transitioned into academia, where he now does research at the intersections of human services, psychology, cultural theory, and literature.
His recently published book titled “Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism” explored how we might be different types of people if we didn't live in a capitalist society. The book draws on Marxist and post-Marxist theory and presents a nuanced analysis of antipsychiatrists' professional writings, including Franco Basaglia and R. D. Laing, as well as the work of fiction writers, including Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez. Through this analysis, Skott-Myhre identifies alternative conceptualizations of self and community that take us beyond capitalist subjectivity.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: On The Coming Apocalypse with Ariel Dorfman
Pub date: 2021-10-20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MwFS2aG7sQ
Guest: Ariel Dorfman [1] is a renown Argentinian-Chilean-American writer and a human rights activist. Once a former adviser to Chilean President Salvador Allende in the early 70's, Ariel Dorfman would go on write countless books, plays and essays. He is the author several books including, How to Read Donald Duck, Homeland Security Ate My Speech (OR Books), and his latest, The Compensation Bureau [2] (also by OR Books) is a sci-fi novel that tackles the complexities of a forthcoming apocalypse. Ariel Dorfman is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University.
[1] https://www.orbooks.com/ariel-dorfman/ [2] https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-compensation-bureau/
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Podcast: Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Environmental Conjuncture
Pub date: 2021-10-23
This is the third seminar in a series hosted by the journal New Formations, inspired by the journal’s special issues on ‘This Conjuncture’, dedicated to the memory of Stuart Hall. In this seminar Ashley Dawson, Ben Highmore and Kate Soper discuss our contemporary environmental conjuncture. The seminar is chaired by Jenny Taylor.
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Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 81: Biopolitics meets geopolitics
Pub date: 2021-10-14
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This episode of Talk Eastern Europe attempts to add context to the situation that is taking place on the border with Belarus and Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Since June this year, the regime in Minsk has deliberately stimulated a migration crisis on the eastern border of the EU as a response to tough policies towards the Lukashenka regime. To give greater context to this issue, it is important to look through the lens of biopolitics – which is the intersection of biology and politics. During this podcast, Maciek meets with Andrey Makarychev, visiting professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies in Tartu Estonia and co-author of the book “Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: From Populations to Nations”.
Resources:
Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet, By Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Biopolitics-Post-Soviet-Populations-Nations-ebook/dp/B081XGNLF9
“River and fog instead of fence and radars: guarding Lithuania’s easternmost border”, by Gytis Pankūnas and Justinas Stacevičius. New Eastern Europe, 30 August 2021. https://neweasterneurope.eu/2021/08/30/river-an-fog-instead-of-fence-and-radars-guarding-lithuanias-easternmost-border/
Gone with the virus. How the pandemic makes Russian strategy evanescent, by Andrey Makarychev. New Eastern Europe issue 4/2020: https://neweasterneurope.eu/2020/07/07/gone-with-the-virus-how-the-pandemic-makes-russian-strategy-evanescent/
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Podcast: Dig: A History Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Werewolves, Vampires, and the Aryans of Ancient Atlantis: The Occultic Roots of the Nazi Party
Pub date: 2021-10-18
Occult Series #3 of 4. Whether we’ve ever really given it any study, we’re all at least a little familiar with the link between the Nazi party and the occult. Movies like Captain America and Hellboy have plot lines that center on supernatural obsessions of Nazi leadership, desperately trying to find magical or supernatural ways of winning the war and establishing the Nazi worldview. Indiana Jones famously fought the Nazis - more than once! - to secure the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant, which the Nazis hoped would bring them cosmic power. But this is just pop culture, embellishing what we already know was a fanatical movement to create compelling movie plots, right? Right? Well, as we always say, it’s complicated - but in short, while those movie plotlines might be exaggerated for dramatic effect, they weren’t made up out of wholecloth. The NSDAP, or the National Socialist Worker’s Party, which rose to power in the interwar period led by Adolf Hitler, was a party ideologically enabled by occultist theories about the Aryan race and vampiric Jews, on old folk talks about secret vigilante courts and protective werewolves, and on pseudoscience ideas about ice moons. In this episode, we’re going to explore the occult ideas, racial mythology, and ‘supernatural imaginary’ that helped to create the Nazi Party.
Bibliography
Kurlander, Eric. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
Paradiz, Valerie. Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
Pub date: 2021-10-18
Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just so we can struggle to achieve them. (And in some games, like Twister, the fun is in losing, even though you’re supposed to try to win.) C. Thi Nguyen is a philosopher who has developed a theory of games as an art form whose medium is agency. Within each game, we have defined goals, powers, and choices, and by playing different games we can experiment with different forms of agency. A dark side of this idea is to be found in “gamification” — turning ordinary-life activities into a game. Games give us clarity of values, and that clarity can be seductive but misleading, leading people to turn to conspiracy theories about the real world.
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C. Thi Nguyen received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He has written public philosophy for venues such as Aeon and The New York Times, and is an editor of the aesthetics blog Aesthetics for Birds. He was the recipient of the 2020 Article Prize from the American Philosophical Association. His recent book is Games: Agency as Art.
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Balzac in translation: Portraits of a turbulent 19th-century France with remarkable contemporary resonances
Pub date: 2021-10-18
”Adapting Balzac is no small feat for any filmmaker” (Variety)—or any translator. LOST ILLUSIONS and LOST SOULS are two newly translated volumes in Honoré de Balzac’s vast HUMAN COMEDY, a sprawling and interconnected fictional portrait of early nineteenth-century France. Keenly attuned to the acerbic charm and subtleties of Balzac’s prose, these editions are invaluable resources for today’s readers as they navigate the author’s copious allusions to classical and contemporaneous politics and literature. In this episode, MacKenzie is interviewed by University of Minnesota Press director Doug Armato about Balzac’s incomparable style and the intricacies of translation. (Spoiler alert: Key plot points from Lost Illusions and Lost Souls are discussed.)
Other University of Minnesota Press translations by MacKenzie include:
Red and Black (Stendhal), forthcoming in summer 2022
Italian Chronicles (Stendhal)
Diaboliques (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)
Graziella (Alphonse de Lamartine)
Brouhaha (Lionel Ruffel)
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Margaret Atwood and Omar El Akkad: Beyond Dystopia
Pub date: 2021-10-13
Dystopian versus utopian. Description versus prescription. Ideology versus art. As geopolitical and climate crises deepen, what role should writers play? A conversation with novelists Margaret Atwood and Omar El Akkad as part of the first annual PEN Graeme Gibson Talk.
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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “Becoming Belonged”: Roberto Tejada on the Political Project of Photography and Poetry
Pub date: 2021-10-19
In this episode Caro Fowler (Starr Director, Research and Academic Program) speaks with Roberto Tejada, a poet and art historian who in a professor in the creative writing program and the department of art history at the University of Houston, Texas. They discuss the decade he spent immersed in the literary culture of Mexico City, including working with Octavio Paz and the historical layers of the colonial project with the built environment there. He describes the political project of poetry and photography and shares his perspective on the changing landscape of Latin American and Latinx art within the discipline of art history. Finally, Roberto describes the possibilities and limits of what he calls “border-thinking” and “becoming belonged,” as part of his enduring commitment to the idea of encounter as an ethical position, and as a way of moving beyond the predicaments of extraction.
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Podcast: Tank Magazine Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: In conversation with Hatty Nestor
Pub date: 2021-08-23
In conversation with Hatty Nestor
One of the many freedoms lost with a criminal sentence is the possibility of being seen and acknowledged on one’s own terms. To be imprisoned entails losing control of one’s own image, a condition that grows ever more generalised in an age of mass surveillance and algorithmic policing. In this episode of the TANK Podcast, Hatty Nestor discusses her book Ethical Portraits – out with Zer0 Books – a densely researched survey of how portraiture both interrupts and intensifies the often-invisible cruelties of our carceral society.
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Class Struggle and Corporatism: A Brief History of Australian Colonialism
Pub date: 2021-10-18
Rudy joins Roxy Hall and Giacomo Bianchino for a discussion on the past, present and future of the Australian state. We talk about the history of Australian colonization with its differences and similarities with US and Canada, the squatter vanguard of settler-colonialism, the failed attempt at a bourgeois revolution that was the Eureka Stockade and the process of Federation. We then turn to the formation and pivotal role of the Australian Labor Party in Australian politics, outlining the broad pacts between labour and capital which included White Australia, the Whitlam government and the New Left period, and finish off by discussion the present prospects for struggle around the AUKUS military pact, migrant workers, housing and the environmental and indigenous struggles.
Check out Jack's article on Agricultural Labor in Australia.
Further reading:J. Roberts - "Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia" H. McQueen- "A New Britannia: An Argument concerning the social origins of Australian radicalism and nationalism." R. W. Connell and T. H. Irving - "Class Structure in Australian History " E. Humphrys - "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project"
Erratum: Harold Holt was the Prime Minister that enfranchised indigenous peoples.
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Podcast: The Climate Pod (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Climate Chaos Of Ancient Civilizations (w/ Brian Fagan)
Pub date: 2021-10-20
How did our ancestors handle catastrophic changes to their climate? Brian Fagan has been researching that very question for decades. As one of the world’s leading archaeological writers and recognized authorities on world prehistory, he has put together several great works on ancient climate change including the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming. Now, he's co-authored a new book Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors with Cambridge University-trained archaeologist and writer Nadia Durrani. In this conversation with Fagan, we explore how ancient civilizations - from the Roman Emperors to Egyptian Pharaohs and many more - dealt with extreme environmental shifts and why climate change caused so many civilizations to eventually collapse. We explore the droughts, volcanoes, glacial melts, and other climate calamities that felled once-mighty civilizations and what we can learn from their example to lead us in our decisions today.
Brian Fagan is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Podcast: What a Hell of a Way to Die (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: My Death Machine is Solar Powered feat. Jasper Craven
Pub date: 2021-10-14
Nate is out this week, and Francis speaks with defense journalist Jasper Craven (@jasper_craven) about a recent trend: trying to portray the U.S. military as ecologically concerned--call it ‘military greenwashing’ if you’d like. And it turns out, it’s not really possible when the military doesn’t disclose how much fossil fuel it consumes, not even to Congress.
Read Jasper's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/greenwashing-the-military-industrial-complex-craven
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For more on this topic: https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/military-plan-make-earth-friendly-munitions/
For this week’s bonus, This week, Nate and Milo discuss the peculiarly British phenomenon of calling for the Army to be deployed domestically--whether it's to quell a social conflict or fix a logistics issue. They love to call for the Army to be sent in. We get to the bottom of what this means, and why people want it. Get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57234686
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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Black Urbanisms - Episode 2: Black Urbanisms meet the Black City
Pub date: 2021-10-07
In this episode we address Prof Simone’s notion of the “hallucination of Whiteness”, revisit Dr Lioba Hirsh’s response on the coloniality and antiblack entanglements of Western global health, and are joined by Prof Ola Uduku who helps us consider these recordings in relation to her own research as Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.
Dr Lioba Hirsch is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Prof Ola Uduku is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.
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Podcast: Overthink (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Art as Commodity
Pub date: 2021-10-12
Today's art world is driven by multimillion-dollar auctions and fancy art fairs inaccessible to most Americans — Art Basel Miami, anyone? Those who do view art spend an average of just eight seconds per work, so it's not clear that we're even meaningfully experiencing those Monet water lilies. In episode 36, Ellie and David explore the way capitalism has turned art into a commodity. From Basquiat to Banksy, even street art seems to have been devoured by capitalism’s endless hunger for monetary exchange, selling aesthetics of revolution for millions of dollars at auction. How might intricate Tibetan sand paintings and even macaroni necklaces help us envision a future for art outside of commodification?
Works Discussed
John Dewey, Art as ExperienceWalter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Hito Steyerl, Duty Free ArtTheodor Adorno, The Culture IndustryMichael Baxandall, Painting and ExperienceDiana Crane, “Reflections on the Global Art Market”
Cynthia Freeland, What is Art?McKenzie Wark, “Digital Provenance and the Artwork as Derivative”
Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, InterestingBanksy, Love is in the BinKarl Marx, 1844 ManuscriptsChristo and Jeanne-Claude, The Pont Neuf WrappedWebsite | overthinkpodcast.com
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Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
Episode: 1869, Ep. 111 with Michael Hillard, author of Shredding Paper
Pub date: 2021-10-12
Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/HgLcUK7YW65Vd1yxvd4DqmO5LT0
This episode, we speak with Michael Hillard, author of of Shredding Paper: Labor and The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry newly published by our ILR Press imprint - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501753152/shredding-paper/
Michael Hillard is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Maine, and has published widely in the fields of labor relations, labor and working–class history, and the political economy of labor and capitalism. Michael has taught and written about the history of US corporate governance, and especially the pernicious effects of financialization since the 1980s. He regularly provides expert testimony in Maine on macroeconomic and employment issues affecting working people
We spoke to Michael about the many powerful interviews he had with the workers and managers of Maine’s paper industry, how his research found that the main culprit for the industry’s decline was not offshoring nor automation, but the Wall Street takeover of American manufacturing, and how Maine’s “folk political economy” - the lessons that the workers and managers learned during this time period - can potentially help our country shape more viable economic models for everyone involved.
Listen to Michael's podcasts Madawaska Rebellion https://beta.prx.org/stories/194809 & Remembering Mother Warren https://beta.prx.org/stories/2734
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 108. I Fucking Love Science (ft. Danielle Carr)
Pub date: 2021-10-13
We are very pleased to be joined by returning guest Danielle Carr, anthropologist and historian of science who is finishing her PhD at Columbia, to chat about her excellent new essay on the (anti-)political epistemology of the pop sci style as represented by the work of the genre’s golden boy, Carl Zimmer. We discuss science as both an institution and ideology that, like other such things with authority and power in society, must be subjected to ruthless critical analysis. And yet, nearly all critique of science has been forfeited to the most extreme right-wing denialism. No longer! It’s time to reclaim ground for a leftist, materialist examination of science.
Follow Danielle: twitter.com/_danielle_carr Read her article: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/carl-zimmer-virus/
Some other stuff we reference • Against Method | Paul Feyerabend: https://www.versobooks.com/books/442-against-method • How to Defend Society Against Science | Paul Feyerabend: https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp11_article1_defendsocietyagainstscience_feyerabend.pdf •The Eighteenth Brumaire of Bruno Latour | Simon Schaffer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11622708/ • Neoliberalism for Polite Company: Bruno Latour’s Pseudo-Materialist Coup | R.H. Lossin: https://salvage.zone/articles/neoliberalism-for-polite-company-bruno-latours-pseudo-materialist-coup/
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Podcast: Big Picture Science (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fuhgeddaboudit
Pub date: 2021-10-11
A thousand years ago, most people didn’t own a single book. The only way to access knowledge was to consult their memory.
But technology – from paper to hard drives – has permitted us to free our brains from remembering countless facts. Alphabetization and the simple filing cabinet have helped to systematize and save information we might need someday.
But now that we can Google just about any subject, have we lost the ability to memorize information? Does this make our brains better or worse?
Guests:
- Judith Flanders – Historian and author, most recently of A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- Craig Robertson – Professor of Media Studies, Northeastern University and author of The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information
- David Eagleman – Neuroscientist and author, Stanford University
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Podcast: History Workshop Podcast
Episode: Homelessness, Theatre, And History Making
Pub date: 2021-10-07
How can the power and invention of Forum Theatre inform radical histories of oppressed groups, such as the homeless? To mark World Homelessness Day on 10 October, Peter Jones speaks with Adrian Jackson, founder of Cardboard Citizens, a theatre company working with homeless people, on the latest episode of the History Workshop Podcast.
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Podcast: The Road to Now (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #209 The Corn Syrup Controversy w/ Benjamin Cohen
Pub date: 2021-10-11
How did corn syrup get such a bad reputation? While there are certainly differences between this corn-based sweetener and the sugar that comes from beets & cane, the opinions many of us hold about what separates them are rooted in much more than the scant scientific evidence on their differing impact on human health. In this episode, Benjamin Cohen joins us to talk about the history behind the corn syrup controversy, the deep roots that lie beneath our understandings of food and purity, and how understanding this story might help us make better decision moving forward.
Dr. Benjamin R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies at Lafayette College and co-editor w/ Michael Kideckel & Anna Zeide of the new collection Acquired Tastes: Stories About the Origins of Modern Food (MIT Press, 2021). His previous book, Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food (University of Chicago Press, 2019), was the topic of his previous appearance in RTN #161 Food in The Era of Adulteration. Learn more about his work at his personal website or by following him on twitter at @BRCohen95.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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Podcast: Minor Revisions
Episode: Episode 3: Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith, ‘The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.’
Pub date: 2021-10-09
Our third episode features Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith. Pavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sara is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They tell the inside story of researching writing and publishing their article, “The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.”
Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 3:25 The article’s focus & purpose 5:42 Writing together (as mentor & mentee): 12:48 Addressing comments from reviewers & others: 21:05 Revising strategies & writing styles: 27:44 The importance of journal editors: 35:26 Wise advice for fellow authors: 40:55 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 46:05 Podcast credits & further information: 52:40
The article was published in 2020, in Volume 38 Issue 7-8 of Politics & Space. It is part of a theme issue on “Feminist Political Geographies: Critical Reflections, New Directions,” which was guest edited by Caroline Faria, Vanessa A. Massaro, Jill M. Williams. The article is free to access on the journal's website so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654420901567
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Podcast: SikhArchive (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab with Professor Farina Mir
Pub date: 2021-10-07
Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from SikhArchive and welcome to the 33rd episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, researchers, and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.
In this episode we are joined by Professor Farina Mir, who is a professor of colonial and post-colonial South Asian studies with a particular interest in the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India. She is also the author of the book, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab, which is a study of the Punjabi language and its literature under colonialism (from 1849-1947), with a particular focus on Qisse, or epic stories/romances.
Today, we will be discussing more about this book, including the inspiration behind the book, the research methods and findings that surface and the role and survival of the Punjabi language under colonial rule to the current day.
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Podcast: Norrskenet – en idépodd
Episode: #3 The Brazilian climate struggle against Bolsonaro with Sabrina Fernandes
Pub date: 2021-10-07
Two days before recording this show, there were mass protests against president Jair Bolsonaro, whose covid and climate policies have been disastrous for the population. Sabrina Fernandes is a climate activist and sociologist, affiliated with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin. She spoke to Leonidas Aretakis, editor-in-chief at Flamman. "Norrskenet" is a podcast about ideas by Flamman, a Swedish leftist weekly magazine founded in 1906. Please give us a nice rating if you like the show.
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Pub date: 2021-10-02
In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Her photographs helped the campaign for recognition of the Yanomami's rights over their own land. Chris Feliciano Arnold, writer and reporter specializing in the Amazon, describes the new threats facing the many indigenous communities in the region. Plus, remembering Petra Kelly - one of the influential founders of the German Green party, tracing the birth of the Taliban, and a survivor of of the Tanker Wars in the 1980s describes the moment his ship was attacked.
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Podcast: The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: JASON W. MOORE
Pub date: 2021-10-07
Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian, historical geographer, and professor of sociology at Binghamton University. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. His books and essays on environmental history, capitalism, and social theory have been widely recognized. He also coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.
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Podcast: Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: "Desirable" Bodies, Choice, and Neoliberalism: The Fictional Romantic Marketplace
Pub date: 2021-10-05
How do romantic narratives explore or influence our ideas of which bodies are "desirable"? Dr. Christina Fattore will introduce us to neoliberalism, and we'll discuss how the ideological focus on individual agency influences our ideas of which bodies are most desirable to acquire in romantic partners and how individuals must produce desirable bodies to create "value" in a romantic marketplace.
CW: discussion of diet culture, body size, etc.
Guest: Dr. Fattore, associate professor of political science and romance reader and writer.
Discussed: Neoliberalism, "desirable" bodies, romantic partners according to dominant cultural ideologies
Guest: Dr. Christina Fattore
Associate professor of political science at West Virginia University as well as an avid romance reader. Currently working on a project on romancelandia and political participation, which was featured in the Washington Post.
Website: https://christinafattore.org/
Find on Twitter: @cfattorewvu
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 191: Education and Empire in Hawaii w/ Dr. Michelle Morgan
Pub date: 2021-10-06
In 1893, an American backed coup d’état overthrew the royal government of Hawai'i, setting the stage for the archipelago’s annexation by the United States five years later. On 7th July 1898, President McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing the islands and creating a new US territory in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This example of naked imperial aggression set the stage for the economic and political transformation of Hawai’i. The American naval presence was greatly expanded as too was the plantation-based economy. However, Americanization was also felt in the cultural sphere, through the transformation of the education system. How did American rule change the Hawaiian education system? What were the objectives of this transformation? And how did this affect the people of the islands?
Dr. Michelle Morgan
Michelle Morgan is an associate professor and coordinator of the BSED-history program at Missouri State University. She completed her PhD in American History with a minor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her teaching and research focus on the history of American education, the American West, and American empire. Her work explores the roles schools have played in competing definitions of “American” in newly acquired territories, emphasizing the participation of teachers as cultural agents and the ways in which gender and identity shape teachers’ roles in classrooms and communities.
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Podcast: Knowing Animals (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 176: Vegan men and masculinities with Kadri Aavik
Pub date: 2021-10-04
On this episode of Knowing Animals, we talk to Dr Kadri Aavik. Kadri is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the School of Governance, Law and Society at Talinn University in Estonia, as well as a postdoc in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki in Finland. We discuss her paper “Vegan Men: Towards Greater Care for (Non)human Others, Earth, and Self”, which appeared in Men, Masculinities, and Earth, a collection edited by Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman, and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.
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Podcast: Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly
Episode: VIII: 10 YEARS OCCUPY WALL STREET (Judith Butler, Max Haiven & Florian Malzacher)
Pub date: 2021-09-24
About ten years ago the series of square occupations all over the world begun – after Tunis, Cairo, Athens, Madrid the wave swept over to New York. Mid-September 2011 the fist protest begun in the midst of Lower Manhattan’s bank towers: Occupy Wall Street became a symbol of resistance against financial capitalism and big corporations. And it’s assemblies set examples for a different way of discussing and decision making that influences activists all over the word but also resonated in theatre and art. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the occupation of Zucchotti Square the 8th edition of The Art of Assembly takes a close look at its legacy: Philosopher Judith Butler, author of the probably most influential book on assemblies in recent years, asks how – in the light of recent pandemic experiences – an ethics of care can enter into our politics of assembly. Writer and activist Max Haiven summons the ghosts of Occupy and looks – in the the spirit of the late anthropologist and OWS key figure David Graeber – back at a haunted decade.
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Podcast: That Feels like Home
Episode: S3 Episode 2: The Empire at Home
Pub date: 2021-10-04
In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza talks to Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory at the University of Portsmouth and Dr Sarah Cheang, Head of Programme for the V&A Museum/RCA History of Design (MA, MPhil, PhD) in London about how many familiar domestic objects within Britain’s homes are intimately linked to imperial histories and geographies and how homemaking has connected the idea of the household to ideas about the nation and empire.
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Podcast: Diet Soap - a podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 378: Memeing Mark Fisher?
Pub date: 2021-09-30
Podcast: New Books in Mathematics (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-09-27
As algorithms become ever more significant to and embedded in our everyday lives, ever more accessible introductions to them are needed. While several excellent technical and critical treatments have emerged in recent years, i had not come across a book for the general public that would provide a deep sense for the intuitions and motivations behind their development. Chris Bleakley's new book offers this and more: conceptual rigor woven into historical vignettes in a style that i believe general readers will find truly enjoyable to read.
Poems that Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms (Oxford UP, 2020) is itself a quite poetic book, in which echoes of ideas and variations on themes can be heard throughout. Its stories encompass the early hypothetical and mechanical computers, the charactered rise of weather forecasting, the origins (and lulls) of machine learning, and the sensational competitions between master game players and artificial intelligence. The book traverses a long historical arc, but each episode is a quick read, remarkable in their ability to convey depth and rigor in crisp, plain language. It was a delight to talk with Chris about these and other aspects of his book.
Suggested companion works:
--Simon Singh, The Code Book
--George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
--Greg Kohs (director), "AlphaGo"
Chris Bleakley is Head of the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. After college, he was employed as a software consultant by Accenture and, later, as a senior telecommunications researcher at Broadcom Eireann Research.
Cory Brunson is an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data.
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Podcast: Death Panel (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Repro Utopia w/ Sophie Lewis (10/01/21)
Pub date: 2021-10-02
Sophie Lewis joins us on the occasion of the paperback edition of their book Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family to discuss the politics of pregnancy as labor, the political naturalization of the family structure, and what we mean when we say "utopia."
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-09-26
Erin Y. Huang’s Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke UP, 2020) is an expansive and ambitious book that explores the affective territory of “neoliberal post-socialist China” as it manifests in contemporary Chinese (language) cinema. Pushing beyond the geographic boundaries of the PRC and the confines of art cinema, Huang’s book reads the post-socialist condition as it manifests in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and across a variety of film genres. The term urban horror, derived from Engels’ writings on the industrial factory and theoretically developed in Huang’s book in conversation with Merleau-Ponty, Lefebvre, and Rancière, defines a “sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension.” This affect, Huang argues, reappears in Chinese cinemas within and beyond the People’s Republic.
In so doing, urban horror rehearses potential revolutionary dissent and resistance in the era of neoliberal post-socialism as it unfolds spaces beyond familiar post-socialist locales. As she works to address the changing grounds of China’s contemporary sociopolitical aesthetics, Huang considers the shifting meanings of the image as it travels between various genres and media materialities, including the intriguing “feminist blockbuster” and immersive cinema experiences. In the following interview, we discuss the questions that frame Huang’s inquiry and delve into the chapters that make up the body of her book. Readers and listeners should look forward not only to hearing about Huang’s elegant theoretical framing, but also to the compelling and lively close readings that showcase her argument across an exciting spectrum of Chinese media products.
Julia Keblinska is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Historical Research at the Ohio State University specializing in Chinese media history and comparative socialisms.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A surprising history of the index
Pub date: 2021-09-25
The index, the bit at the back of a book you mostly only turn to for reference, has a bit of a dowdy reputation – and it’s an unfair one. Dennis Duncan discusses the index’s surprising history – one that has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from office and proved a battleground for snarky academic rivalries.
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Podcast: BSP Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Giuseppe Torre - ‘Noise, Phenomena and the Digital Psychosis’
Pub date: 2021-09-25
This episode of Season 5 of the BSP Podcast features Giuseppe Torre, University of Limerick, Ireland. The presentation is taken from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online.
ABSTRACT: With respect to digital technologies, noise is something that is at once both fought and sought. We may wish to minimise noise in communications but require it for encrypting the very content communicated. We may wish to minimise noise when recording sound but also want to use it to improve the fidelity of the recording process. The catch is that noise is both an abstract idea and a concrete thing that does not sit comfortably in relation to systems that are deterministic/probabilistic, such as digital technologies. This is a fact that computer scientists know well but that is systematically overlooked in order to safeguard and improve the functioning of digital technologies, such as digital instruments. Indeed beyond the plethora of different kinds of noises, the comparison between analogue and digital technologies highlights the existence of just two types of noise: one that is naturally occurring (noise) and one that is humanly constructed (pseudo-noise). Digital technologies operate by moving from noise to pseudo noise, in order to then 1) crystallise reality into mathematical constructs and 2) create realities from mathematical constructs. This makes the digital realm a type of technology different from any other, namely, one in which noise is fiercely fought and used for the digitisation process but then relentlessly sought, and always denied, within the digital realm. This observation points to at least two further implications: one is that noise may point to essential differences between analogue and digital technologies; the second is that the presence or absence of noise may lead to either crippled or diverse phenomenologies. To this extent, digital technology, rather than revealing by challenging (Heidegger), has more to do with enabling a psychotic stance towards reality - one in which reality has been made to conform to our mathematically constructed idea of it … and one which might be too much even for a phenomenologist to overcome. These arguments will be developed from the perspective of a digital art practitioner.
BIO: I am a lecturer in Digital Arts at the University of Limerick (Ireland). My research interest lies at the crossroads between digital art practices, open source technology/culture and philosophy. These interests respond to a questioning of the relationships between art and technology and that has so far led me to question under what forms and forces truly creative efforts may, or may not, arise.
This recording is taken from the BSP Annual Conference 2020 Online: 'Engaged Phenomenology'. Organised with the University of Exeter and sponsored by Egenis and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. BSP2020AC was held online this year due to global concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic. For the conference our speakers recorded videos, our keynotes presented live over Zoom, and we also recorded some interviews online as well. Podcast episodes from BSP2020AC are soundtracks of those videos where we and the presenters feel the audio works as a standalone: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-annual-conference-2020/
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Podcast: Overdetermined: A Rethinking Marxism Podcast
Episode: Vol. 1, Ep. 2
Pub date: 2021-09-24
RM's own Maliha Safri and Ryan Watt interview Kristen R. Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence.
Rethinking Marxism is a peer-reviewed journal produced by the Association for Economic and Social Analysis and published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
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Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Future is Now: On Newborn Socialist Things, with Laurence Coderre
Pub date: 2021-09-24
Speaker: Laurence Coderre, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University
Whereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted in terms of rampant, ideologically vacuous commodification, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) is typically cast as a time of ubiquitous politics and scarce goods. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. I instead argue that the Cultural Revolution media environment and the ways in which its constituent elements engaged contemporaneous discourses of materiality and political economy anticipated the widespread commodification now so closely associated with the Reform Period (1978-present).
To that end, this talk offers a brief history of the “newborn socialist thing” (shehuizhuyi xinsheng shiwu), which, as a technical term originating in the 1950s, refers to a harbinger of a progressive future emerging in the present. Not only did newborn things, always at odds with “old things,” help define socialism as a transitional stage of development prior to communism, they also promised to integrate the material and the social under one conceptual roof. I develop a historical methodology inspired by the relational nature of the newborn thing, which traces fugitive constellations of objects, bodies, institutions, and social formations pertaining to the Cultural Revolution’s media environment. Of particular interest are the forms of mediation enacted by and through these constellations and the dialectic they were often said to create with the commodity-form.
Laurence Coderre is an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at New York University. She received her PhD in Chinese from UC Berkeley in 2015. Prior to moving to NYU, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. Coderre’s work focuses on Chinese socialist and postsocialist cultural production. She is the author of Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke, 2021), which examines the material culture of the Cultural Revolution. Her research has appeared in Comparative Studies of Society and History, Journal of Material Culture, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas, as well as numerous edited volumes. She is currently embarking on a new project on theory and the everyday in the late Mao era.
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Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
Episode: 1869, Ep. 110 with Linh Vu, author of Governing the Dead
Pub date: 2021-09-23
Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/iwZKxX1DtOtV3ZArBdL3ZRBP9Yw
This episode, we speak with Linh Vu, author of Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756504/governing-the-dead/
Linh D. Vu is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.
We spoke to Linh about how growing up in post-war Vietnam inspired her to learn more about how nations, in this case China, handled the millions of war dead from conflicts in the 20th century, the evolving concept of necrocitizenship, and the most famous of the Nationalist regime’s martyrs for the nation.
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Podcast: Night White Skies (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 086 _ Daniel Barber _ ’Climate Histories’
Pub date: 2021-09-27
Daniel A. Barber is Associate Professor and Chair of the PhD Program in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching narrate eco-critical histories of architecture and seek pathways into the post-hydrocarbon future. We discuss on this episode his most recent book 'Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Podcast: Down The Research Rabbit Hole
Episode: Militarisation of Kashmir ft. Niharika Pandit
Pub date: 2021-09-24
Niharika Pandit is a PhD candidate at the Department of Gender Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). She holds an MA in Gender Studies as a Felix Scholar from SOAS, University of London and a bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Journalism from Sophia College, Mumbai. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, sexuality, anti-colonial and anti-militarist feminist thought, and the politics of representation.
On this episode, we discuss her PhD on everyday politics and practices of living under military occupation in the Kashmir valley. As a feminist researcher, she uses feminist, anti-colonial thought and transnational feminist epistemologies to ground her ethnographic research work.
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Podcast: Tax Notes Talk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Feminism and the Tax Code
Pub date: 2021-09-24
Professors Bridget J. Crawford of the Pace University School of Law and Anthony C. Infanti of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discuss viewing the U.S. tax code through a feminist lens.
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- How Racial Diversity Shaped U.S. International Tax Policy
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Podcast: New Art on Air – Der Podcast von brut Wien
Episode: The Art of Assembly – Agonistic Gatherings (Didier Eribon, Chantal Mouffe & Florian Malzacher)
Pub date: 2021-09-22
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The assemblies of the numerous square occupations during the last decade have often been laboratories of radical forms of democracy, experimenting with non-hierarchical structures and consensus models instead of majority voting. While watching these movements with sympathy, political theorist Chantal Mouffe emphasises also the necessity of dissensus, of an agonistic pluralism in which adversaries openly fight for their hegemonic projects. Philosopher and sociologist Didier Eribon reflects on the conditions and the limits of such mobilisations and insists on the unsurpassable plurality of movements like the gilets jaunes in France, or more recently, the massive strikes and protests against the demolition of the public sector, as well as the demonstrations against racism etc. In the 7th edition of “The Art of Assembly” Eribon and Mouffe discuss how much agonism social movements can bare and how the diversity of democratic demands should be addressed.
The Art of Assembly – Gesellschaftsspiele, a series by Florian Malzacher and brut Wien, in cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele, Wiener Festwochen and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
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Podcast: Agents of Change in Environmental Justice
Episode: Azmal Hossan on the sociology of climate crises in South Asia
Pub date: 2021-09-22
Azmal Hossan joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss climate change and the ongoing water crisis in Bangladesh.
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Podcast: Historias Podcast
Episode: Historias 140 - Food security and politics in Chile with Joshua Frens-String
Pub date: 2021-09-20
Dr. Joshua Frens-String discusses with Dustin his new book Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile.
Book link: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343375/hungry-for-revolution
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Podcast: Techdirt (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Impact Of "Shadowbanning"
Pub date: 2021-09-21
The concept of "shadowbanning" comes up a lot in content moderation discussions — often from people who are spreading nonsense. But various means of deprioritizing content have been employed by platforms for many years. This week, we're joined by Dr. Carolina Are, a researcher who recently released a paper on the subject, especially how it relates to nudity and censorship on Instagram. This week, she joins us on the podcast to discuss shadowbanning, how it works, and the impact it has.
The Shadowban Cycle [Paper]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928259
Additionally, we've got a special announcement: to celebrate our upcoming 300th episode of the podcast, we'll be hosting a live stream with the return of the original co-hosts Dennis Yang and Hersh Reddy, including (hopefully, barring technical issues) the ability for viewers who back our Patreon to call in live and ask questions. The stream will happen on Thursday, September 30th at 1pm PT/4pm ET — stay tuned for more details on how you can watch the stream, and be sure to back our Patreon if you want a chance to call in!
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Podcast: Decolonization in Action Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S4E7: Taking Germany to Court: Legal Actions for Climate Justice & the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Pub date: 2021-09-18
Discussing the necessity for an ever-expanding intersectional climate justice movement, edna bonhomme and Indigenous lawyer and climate activist Yi Yi Prue are in conversation for this episode, expanding on Prue’s legal actions that took Germany to court for global warming, holding the German state accountable for the ongoing climate catastrophe, a crisis created by the Global North that has already created devastation and unlivable conditions around the world especially in the Global South. Prue shares more about her legal practice in Dhaka, Bangladesh, her journey as a climate activist, and her commitment to practicing climate justice.
Yi Yi Prue is an Indigenous lawyer and climate activist from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prue advocates for the Indigenous perspectives of the Indigenous Marma and Munda Communities of Bangladesh and Nepal, who are heavily affected by climate change-related catastrophes, that are the result of historic colonial and current neocolonial exploitation. In January 2020, she successfully led an appeal at the German Institutional Court against the insufficient German climate protection measures.
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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Nikki Hessell, "Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-09-21
Diplomatic relationships between Indigenous sovereigns and colonial and settler governments were defined by language. In some cases, cultural divides were narrowed using common metaphors. In others, objects such as wampum belts were employed as visual records of past agreements. Speeches were carefully recorded, copied, and cited in later negotiations; treaties were ‘signed’ using symbols of name, clan or nation. The treaty texts themselves sit within a constellation of other texts; this is a large, complex and still understudied archive. In Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry(SUNY Press, 2021),Nikki Hessell reveals the ways in which poetic texts figure in diplomacy in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book ranges across the colonial world, from the Grand River Six Nations, the Native South, to the Great Lakes ‘middle ground’. It then turns to South Africa and New Zealand. It is deeply researched and powerfully contextual. It is also reflective, challenging those of us who work on Indigenous / settler relations to position ourselves in relation to the history and texts we study.
Nikki Hessell is Associate Professor at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand.
Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press).
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Podcast: Plus Three (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: #45 - Part Two: Digital Capitalism on Psychedelics with Emma Stamm
Pub date: 2021-09-08
In part two of our conversation with Villanova visiting professor of philosophy Emma Stamm, we discuss the "psychedelic industry's" increasing fixation on digital capitalism. Looking at apps like MyDelica and hardware like Kernel's brain-scanning helmet, we discuss how the social implications of this technology extend well beyond psychedelia.
Co-hosts: Neşe Devenot, Brian Normand, David Nickles, Brian Pace. Editor: Matt Payne
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Podcast: The Classical Ideas Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: EP 214: Social Media and Hinduism w/Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Pub date: 2021-09-12
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. Her research examines the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Dr. Sundaram's current monograph project titled Globalizing Dharma examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a new, digital canon for Hindu religious praxis, effectively "branding" religious identities through a neoliberal "Vedicizing" of virtual spaces. Her most recent article explores how West Bengal’s Tourism initiatives use Instagram to foster virtual, ethnonationalist, social networks during Durga puja. Spotlighting issues of access/accessibility to religious spaces and the viability and visibility of online counter-narratives, especially those from minoritized/marginalized caste, gender, and class communities, Dr. Sundaram shows how Asur tribal groups who seek to recover an alternative history of their ancestor Mahisasura, are not only excluded, but, effaced through this kind of digital cultural marketing campaign. A forthcoming piece examines so-called YouTube yogis and how the commercial landscape of yoga as part of lifestyle "cures" becomes an unwitting partner in Hindu nationalist project of repatriating yoga as a national cultural artifact.
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Podcast: The Green Genius - saving our planet
Episode: ‘Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink’: a discussion with Professor Stuart Khan
Pub date: 2021-09-11
The Anthropocene, rapid population growth, improved standard of living in developing countries, ever expanding agriculture and inefficient use of water is causing rapid change to water management across the world due to the increased demand for fresh water.
1 in 3 people that live on planet earth live without a household water connection and 800 million people lack access to safe water.
Climate change is increasing the odds there will be an increase in severe drought in many parts of World and this year scientists referred to the drought in the US as the worst drought in 1,200 years’.
In Australia we are already experiencing the impacts of a changing climate, particularly changes associated with increases in temperature, frequency and intensity of heatwaves, severe weather events, intense fires and drought conditions.
Something is not right.
Can technology save us?
The desalination of saltwater is an example of a technocentric solution and there are now an estimated 20,000 desalination plants world-wide. In Australia there are 26 desalination plants with another several in the pipeline.
The rapid growth of desalination plants comes with much uncertainty and the water industry looks to become a major contributor to climate change via the significant energy usage required to operate desalination plants and the associated pollution.
The growing concern and uncertainty about the environmental impacts of desalination plants means it is critical that we continue to question if ‘desalination is the genuine and unique technological solution’ to the water crisis in the Anthropocene.
As the famous German sociologist Ulrich Beck once asked, what could be the ‘unintended consequences of these technological fixes’?
Join us for this insightful discussion with the preeminent and globally renowned water expert Professor Stuart Khan from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and learn about desalination, storm water harvesting, dams, technocracy and the policy process in times of water crisis.
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Podcast: Cuerpa Politica
Episode: Bodies as Territory, Bodies in Crisis: Reproductive Politics in Argentina. With Prof Barbara Sutton
Pub date: 2021-09-15
Professor Barbara Sutton is based in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, at University at Albany. Professor Sutton's scholarly interests include body politics, human rights, collective memory, globalization, and women's activism particularly in Latin American contexts.
In this episode, Professor Sutton gives an overview of the history of reproductive politics in Argentina, citing periods of military dictatorship, economic crises and the recent ‘marea verde’ or ‘green tide’ which resulted in the legalisation of abortion in December 2020. We also discuss Professor Sutton’s conceptual framework of ‘women’s bodily worlds’, the notion that women’s bodies have been configured as territories for civilising the nation in Argentina, and motherhood as a "hegemonic mode of feminine embodiment”. The conversation also turns to the centrality of the body to social transformation and political resistance.
Links
Sutton, Barbara, and Nayla Luz Vacarezza, eds. Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Routledge, 2021.https://www.routledge.com/Abortion-and-Democracy-Contentious-Body-Politics-in-Argentina-Chile-and/Sutton-Vacarezza/p/book/9780367529413
Sutton, Barbara. "Poner el cuerpo: Women's embodiment and political resistance in Argentina." Latin American Politics and Society 49.3 (2007): 129-162. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2007.tb00385.x
Sutton, Barbara. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. Rutgers University Press, 2010. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bodies-in-crisis/9780813547404
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Neoliberal jihad / Suzanne Schneider
Pub date: 2021-09-13
Historian Suzanne Schneider on her book "The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism" from Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2565-suzanne-schneider
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 112. Connectedness, Eroticism, and the Flâneur with David Turnbull
Pub date: 2021-09-09
Join us this week for a far-ranging and fascinating conversation with David Turnbull, architect, thinker and educator.
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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-09-09
Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology (MIT Press, 2021), Silvia Casini reveals the affective relations and materiality that turn data into image–and in so doing, gives bodies back to data. Opening the black box of MRI technology, Casini examines the bodily, situated aspects of visualization practices around the development of this technology. Reframing existing narratives of biomedical innovation, she emphasizes the important but often overlooked roles played by aesthetics, affectivity, and craft practice in medical visualization.
Combining history, theory, laboratory ethnography, archival research, and collaborative art-science, Casini retrieves the multiple presences and agencies of bodies in data visualization, mapping the traces of scientists’ body work and embodied imagination. She presents an in-depth ethnographic study of MRI development at the University of Aberdeen’s biomedical physics laboratory, from the construction of the first whole-body scanner for clinical purposes through the evolution of the FFC-MRI. Going beyond her original focus on MRI, she analyzes a selection of neuroscience- or biomedicine-inspired interventions by artists in media ranging from sculpture to virtual reality. Finally, she presents a methodology for designing and carrying out small-scale art-science projects, describing a collaboration that she herself arranged, highlighting the relational and aesthetic-laden character of data that are the product of craftsmanship and affective labor at the laboratory bench.
Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.
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Podcast: Darts and Letters (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: EP32: Academic Disaster Capitalism (w/Gary Rhoades)
Pub date: 2021-09-11
School’s back. Alongside the usual challenges of managing college and university life comes sorting out how to keep people on campus safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. Colleges and universities are trying to find their way forward after a rough 18 months, with more difficult times to come. But while the pandemic has affected higher education, it’s done so against the backdrop of “academic capitalism”–a form of neoliberal managerialism that pervades the academy. On this episode of Darts and Letters, we speak with Gary Rhoades, professor at the College of Education at the University of Arizona and former general secretary of the American Association of University Professors about academic capitalism, rising resistance to it, and how the pandemic has changed the story. Or not.
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- Start by checking out Gary Rhoades’ book, co-written with Sheila Slaughter, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy.
- Read this 2010 piece by him on what the American Association of University Professors stands for.
- Visit his homepage at the University of Arizona to find more of his work, including his 1998 book Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor.
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Podcast: Decolonization in Action Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SE4 E6 Decolonize All The Things with Shay-Akil McLean
Pub date: 2021-09-12
Edna Bonhomme interviewed Shay-Akil McLean, Ph.D. (@Hood_Biologist. Shay-Akil is a Queer Trans masculine & gender queer man racialized as Black, on stolen Indigenous land, an educator, organizer, writer, public intellectual, human biologist, anthropologist & sociologist. Shay-Akil earned his Ph.D. from the UIUC School of Integrative Biology’s Program for Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation (PEEC). Shay-Akil studies Du Boisian sociology, STS/HASTS, race/ism, human health demography, evolutionary genetics, & theoretical population genetics. He holds degrees in biological anthropology (BA & MA) & sociology (BA & MA) which he uses to study bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy of biology, population genetics, evolutionary theory, health inequities, & knowledge production. As a scholar, Shay-Akil studies how systems of human practices produce the differential distribution of health, illness, quality of life, and death. He is also the founder of the free political education website decolonizeallthethings.com & the free scientific ethics website decolonizeallthescience.com.
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 517: Countercultures and Computing
Pub date: 2021-09-17
How countercultures, subcultures and niche communities have shaped, and continue to shape, digital tech.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Disinformation Industrial Complex
Pub date: 2021-09-02
This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, we’re going to be talking about … disinformation! What else? It’s everywhere. It’s ruining society. It’s the subject of endless academic articles, news reports, opinion columns, and, well, podcasts.
Welcome to what BuzzFeed News reporter Joe Bernstein has termed “Big Disinformation.” In a provocative essay in the September issue of Harper’s Magazine, he argues that anxiety over bad information has become a cultural juggernaut that draws in far more attention and funding than the problem really merits—and that the intellectual foundations of that juggernaut are, to a large extent, built on sand.
Joe joined Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic to discuss his article and the response to it among researchers and reporters who work in the field. Joe explained his argument and described what it feels like to be unexpectedly cited by Facebook PR. What led him to essentially drop a bomb into an entire discipline? What does his critique mean for how we think about the role of platforms in American society right now? And … is he right?
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)
Pub date: 2021-09-03
This is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism‘
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Topics Discussed:
- Meaning of ‘post-truth’ and platform capitalism
- Environmentalism, political action and social media
- Mediating knowledge and politics through new media platforms
- “Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic”
- Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now’
- New media platforms are not neutral platforms
- Alienation, politics and new media
- Can it be good?
- The role of new media in the conservation and environmental movements
- South Africa’s Kruger National Park, new media and racial politics
- The difference between understanding and knowledge, and how new media plays into that
Recommended Books:
- Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
- Darwin’s Hunch by Christa Kuljian
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Podcast: The Voice of All Things
Episode: Picturing the Voices of Palestine, w/Photographer Aisha Mershani
Pub date: 2021-09-12
Aisha Mershani is a queer Arab professor, photographer, artist-activist, and parent of two young children. Since 2002, her work has focused on Peace and Conflict Studies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on documenting the construction and the humanitarian effects of the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Occupied Palestine. As founder of Project Souarna (which means “our photos” in Arabic) Aisha conducted a photography workshop for refugee and displaced youth living in and near el Wehdat Refugee Camp in Amman, Jordan in 2009. The project brought together Palestinian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, and Sudanese youth with international photographers and artists to create a body of work that expressed the situation of many living in the region through a child's eye. Her work comes from a place of concern about the injustices occuring in the Middle East, and a commitment to expose these injustices and educate those outside of the region. The expression of everyday life is the primary objective of her documentary photographic work. Aisha is currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Gettysburg College and combines her scholarly work with her media activism.
Website & Photography: http://www.amershani.com
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Podcast: Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: John Witt and Sam Moyn
Pub date: 2021-09-07
Season 3 is here! In the first episode, John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, joins host David Schleicher to interview host Sam Moyn on his new book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. In the book, Sam interrogates efforts to make war more humane and the ramifications of this shift. We also discuss the chronology of when the American state began to craft more humane war; the risks that making any practice, such as war or driving cars, more humane might help legitimate it; and whether appeals toward making war humane are recent phenomena or cyclical occurrences. There’s also a sharp debate over methodology in legal history, for all you methodology heads out there, and some stern questions about what exactly Sam has against passion fruit panna cotta.
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Referenced Readings, listed below, are available at our website.
Will Smiley & John Fabian Witt, To Save the Country: A Treatise on Martial Law, (2019).
Justin Desautels-Stein & Samuel Moyn, On the Domestication of Critical Legal History, 60 History & Theory 2 (June 9, 2021).
Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Revived War (2021).
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Podcast: The UltraViolet Podcast
Episode: UV16 - Neoliberalism & Necropolitics with John Duncan
Pub date: 2021-09-03
The modern western world, and by extension its colonial projects abroad, are largely dominated by neoliberal ideology & economics. On the surface, these ideas can seem inoffensive--at least to those raised on western values: the opening of markets, the elimination of poverty via the uplifting forces of capitalism, individual responsibility, and self reliance. But when we dig a bit deeper we're confronted with the full scope of the horror that these economic policies and political prescriptions have unleashed upon the world.
On todays episode I'm joined by John Duncan, a PhD candidate researching neoliberalism and it's more macabre elements known as necropolitics: the politics of death. John spends his time investigating the ways that neoliberal economics have embedded themselves into our daily lives and seek to extract from us as much value as possible before discarding our exhausted and depleted remains on the ash heap history. Cheery stuff.
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Podcast: The Gnostic Warrior Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Neoliberalism & Satanism w/ Carl Rashke
Pub date: 2021-09-02
In this episode of the Gnostic Warrior Podcast, I have the honor of interviewing American philosopher and theologian Carl A. Raschke. Raschke is a Past Chair and Professor of Religious Studies Department at the University of Denver, specializing in continental philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the theory of religion.
He is an internationally known writer and academic, who has authored twenty books and hundreds of articles on topics ranging from neoliberalism, postmodernism to popular religion and culture to technology and society.
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Carl's most recent books include Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Postmodern Theology: A Biopic (Cascade Books, 2017), Critical Theology: An Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis (IVP Academic, 2016), and Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2015).
He is also Senior Editor for the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and Senior Consulting Editor for The New Polis. From 2016-2018 he served as managing editor for Political Theology Today (currently Political Theology Network).
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Carl on Satanism;
There was a whole PR campaign to try to sanitize what was happening, and I was the target of a lot of these groups because I had the kind of intellectual authority. Satanism was not my thing. I knew a lot about it. I'd heard a lot about it on the ground, the narrative that let's call the PR campaign, which is pushed by, I would say, less than reputable academics who were just kind of in it to protect themselves and protect their research clients.
I'm not saying there was necessarily a thing corrupt about it, though. There have been rumors that occasionally there were, you know, it's, it's, it's kind of like the tobacco industry, you know, tried to tell you, you know, in the early days, you know, tobacco is not as harmful as they're saying. So what they did was they got the road authorities together, and they created this narrative.
That Satanism was a panic, you know, based on the idea of a moral panic, that term was posed by a guy. I can't remember his name, but it was called satanic panic. It came out in the nineties. It was a sociological term that basically tried to look at the whole phenomenon as if it were just a bunch of spooked out people who didn't really understand what was going on, who were panicking.
I mean, that's totally false because the thing emerged kind of organically and slowly the go back to Satanism mean. There is no such thing as Satanism per se. Just like there is no such thing as Christianity per se, but that's, that was always the argument. You're talking about Peter Gilmore, by the way, when you mentioned the church of Satan, did you?
I had a kind of debate with him on the TV back in the early nineties. There have been all sorts of schisms and arguments, and everybody was calling themselves Satanists.
Etiology there that there must be this pure thing, purity you call Satanism, which you know, is being slandered and abused and blah, blah, blah. And you know, so the whole thing was just, you know, literally a shit show. Uh, and, uh, I got caught up in the middle of that and the book I didn't expect that I was just trying to honestly write from, uh,
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Podcast: The East is a Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Never trust imperialism w/ Patrick Higgins
Pub date: 2021-09-11
Guest hosted by Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday)
Patrick Higgins on Peter Dale Scott’s The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Louis Allday, a writer and historian, is the founding editor of Libertedtexts.com.
Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, "Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel" (LSU Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-09-06
From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. In Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel (LSU Press, 2020), Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical views of black identity and experience. In this provocative and challenging book, Daniels-Rauterkus contests the long-standing idea that African Americans did not write literary realism, along with the inverse misconception that white writers did not make important contributions to African American literature. Taking up key works by Charles W. Chesnutt, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, Daniels-Rauterkus argues that authors blended realism with romance, often merging mimetic and melodramatic conventions to advocate on behalf of African Americans, challenge popular theories of racial identity, disrupt the expectations of the literary marketplace, and widen the possibilities for black representation in fiction. Combining literary history with close textual analysis, Daniels-Rauterkus reads black and white writers alongside each other to demonstrate the reciprocal nature of literary production. Moving beyond discourses of racial authenticity and cultural property, Daniels-Rauterkus stresses the need to organize African American literature around black writers and their meditations on blackness, but she also proposes leaving space for nonblack writers whose use of comparable narrative strategies can facilitate reconsiderations of the complex social order that constitutes race in America. With Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Daniels-Rauterkus expands critical understandings of American literary realism and African American literature by destabilizing the rigid binaries that too often define discussions of race, genre, and periodization.
Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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Podcast: The Nordic Asia Podcast
Episode: Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Pub date: 2021-09-10
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel Carvalho, Asia Correspondent for the South China Morning Post, shares the story of how a group of journalists across some Asian newsrooms collaborated in a months-long investigation and uncover the stories inside the online groups spreading stolen sexual images of women and children, how the victims are struggling to have such content removed from online platforms, and how sextortion syndicates in Asia and Africa are raking in millions from targets around the world.
In a conversation with Joanne Kuai, a visiting PhD Candidate at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, the Portuguese journalist currently based in Hong Kong tells about why the cases of women threatened with the release of their intimate photos or videos have increased in recent years, how this type of abuse tears the victims’ lives apart, and how ill-equipped authorities are struggling to deal with the cases. Advocates and survivors say too little is being done to stop the abuse. While the cases proliferated in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea, some women – and a few men – have decided to take action.
The SCMP’s series of stories on image-based abuse is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute’s Asian Stories project, in collaboration with The Korea Times, Indonesia’s Tempo magazine, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and Manila-based ABS-CBN. Most of Raquel Carvalho’s investigative and in-depth stories have been focused on human rights, cross-border security, illicit trade and corruption. She was previously the chief reporter at a Portuguese daily newspaper in Macau, where she moved to from Europe in 2008.
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 111. Jean Louis Cohen and the Transurbanism of the Modern City
Pub date: 2021-08-25
Discussing his work on the transurban, Jean Louis Cohen takes us on a tour of the history of ideas that have shaped, formed, and deformed the various cities that stitch together the seams of the world. This conversation continues the ongoing conversation centering the impact of Modernism on architecture and contemporary culture in the world today.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Victoria Kiechel - How has extractivism become intertwined in our built environment?
Pub date: 2021-08-26
In this episode we talk to Victoria Kiechel, a professor from American University. She is an architect and teaches in the School of International Service. Her focus is on the relationship between the built environment and extractivism. This conversation is premised on Victoria’s contribution to the open access book Our Extractive Age (link below). We talk about building as they contribute (or don’t) to urban and social life. We discussed the lifecycle of buildings and the extent of the extraction in all forms that accompany the built environment. The extraction which accompanies the built environment spans from literal extraction from the Earth in the form of building materials, to the displacement of communities, to financialization (via profit driving more extraction), to the construction labor. This discussion highlights the complexity of the built environment and how to be aware to minimize the most negative impacts of the extraction which occurs with making buildings. It is inevitable that humans will continue to develop built environments, but it is important to avoid hyper-building and the rush to demolish. A key to countering extractivism in the built environment is fostering the development of a built environment that brings joy, flexibility in use, and can be long lasting.
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance, edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish – Link to Open Access Edition. See Victoria’s chapter - Extraction and the Built Environment: Violence and Other Social Consequences of Construction (Chapter 6, page 114-132)
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Urbanist and Danish Architect Jan Gehl (https://gehlpeople.com/)
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Podcast: The Multi-Hazards Podcast
Episode: Empire 2.0 - How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World with Dr. Kehinde Andrews
Pub date: 2021-09-05
To change the world first requires us to understand the nature of society, to look seriously at the way that it is structured. Racism, white supremacy, is the most important feature of this global system and Black and Brown people suffer the most worldwide. The reality of it all is that capitalism continues its ruthless quest to dominate, accumulate, spread across the world and strip resources. This is also the source of today's environmental crisis. If the West keeps carrying on in this way, this would literally mean the end of the entire world. This is the most urgent issue for all of us. Something drastically needs to change. Can we get the buy-in necessary for everybody to make real change?
Listen to Dr. Kehinde Andrews as he spells out how racism and colonialism are still ruling the world in Empire 2.0, from his latest book, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World!
(Adapted from "Did Colonialism Ever End? | Footnotes with Kehinde Andrews," https://youtu.be/nqcO3X2y5YY).
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Topics included: * What is the true definition of racism? * What is white supremacy? * Why are goods so cheap in the West? * What's the real reason African countries are poor? * How are African countries the lowest on many charts of life quality and longevity? * Why should the draining of African resources be discussed in racial terms? * Why did Trump get it wrong about manufacturing jobs? * How did the West use genocide, slavery & colonialism to become #1? * Why are human rights just talk without economic inequality? * How do the UN, IMF & World Bank maintain the global system of white supremacy? * How has the USA become the centre of this post-WWII global empire? * How is what we call "globalisation" really just "empire"? * What can the African Diaspora and the rest of us do? * Capitalism is going to destroy the world. What can we do?
Dr. Kehinde Andrews' Bio:
Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, where he founded, and is currently director of, the Centre for Critical Social Research. At BCU he was also one of the team who founded the first undergraduate degree in Black Studies. Andrews regularly writes for the Guardian, the Independent, Ebony Magazine, and CNN. He has been featured on Good Morning Britain, Newsnight, Channel 4 News, BBC News Channel, and Under the Skin with Russell Brand. Andrews’s first book, Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement, was published in 2013 and he co-edited the first collection of British Black Studies, Blackness in Britain, in 2016. He wrote Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century published by Zed books in 2018. And in this podcast episode we discuss his latest book, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World, published in 2021 by Bold Type Books. He lives in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Source: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/contributor/kehinde-andrews/
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Blockchain Won’t Save the Global South w/ Olivier Jutel
Pub date: 2021-08-26
Paris Marx is joined by Olivier Jutel to discuss blockchain’s pivot to humanitarianism, the questionable people behind the technology, and how their projects in the Pacific have benefited capitalist and imperial power.
Olivier Jutel is a lecturer at the University of Otago. Follow Olivier on Twitter at @OJutel.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris’ first book “Road to Nowhere” comes out in July 2022.
- Olivier wrote a paper about blockchain imperialism in the Pacific and it was covered by Motherboard.
- BCCI was an international bank established in 1972 that was shut down in 1991 for hiding money laundering and other financial crimes.
- Hernando De Soto is a Latin American economist who advised Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori and advocates neoliberal policies like land title programs. He now pushes for it to be done through blockchains, and wrote an op-ed with Phil Gramm.
- Brock Pierce is a co-founder of Tether and tried to turn Puerto Rico into a crypto paradise.
- Hillary Clinton described the freedom to connect doctrine.
- Geoffrey Bond sold Vanuatu citizenship and was connected to Sebastian Greenwood, who was part of the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
- Binance is under investigation, if not pushed out of, multiple countries.
- Fiji is facing major opposition to land reform plans.
- Books mentioned: David Gerard’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” and “Libra Shrugged,” Fred Turner’s “From Counterculture to Cyberculture,” Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s “Empire,” Herbert Schiller’s “Communication and Cultural Domination,” Armand Mattelart’s “The Invention of Communication,” Lilli Irani’s “Chasing Innovation,” and Teresia Teaiwa in “Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific.”
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: How the ordinary postwar home constructed race in America
Pub date: 2021-08-30
Dianne Harris offers a rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture in her book LITTLE WHITE HOUSES, which examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others. This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of race in America and the inequalities that persist in the housing market in the United States. Harris is an architectural historian and dean of the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences. She is joined in conversation by Mabel O. Wilson, an architect, designer, cultural historian, and curator who teaches at Columbia University. This conversation was recorded in July 2021.
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Podcast: Diet Soap - a podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 373: Socialism, Immigration, and Tinder
Pub date: 2021-08-26
Daniel Melo is an attorney and social critic who grew up in diverse cultural and political settings. His new book Borderlines explores how power and profit are perpetuated by the divisions between migrant and citizen and the resulting dehumanization of both.
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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Nicholas Harkness, "Glossolalia and the Problem of Language" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-08-24
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions, glossolalia is both celebrated as a supernatural gift and condemned as semiotic alchemy. For some it is mystical speech that exceeds what words can do, and for others it is mere gibberish, empty of meaning. At the heart of these differences is glossolalia’s puzzling relationship to language.
Glossolalia and the Problem of Language(U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates speaking in tongues in South Korea, where it is practiced widely across denominations and congregations. Nicholas Harkness shows how the popularity of glossolalia in Korea lies at the intersection of numerous, often competing social forces, interwoven religious legacies, and spiritual desires that have been amplified by Christianity’s massive institutionalization. As evangelicalism continues to spread worldwide, Glossolalia and the Problem of Language analyzes one of its most enigmatic practices while marking a major advancement in our understanding of the power of language and its limits.
Amir Lehman is an MA student in linguistics at UCL.
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Podcast: Ben Franklin's World (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 310 Rosalyn LaPier, The Blackfeet: A History
Pub date: 2021-08-31
To understand early American history, we need to investigate and understand North America as an Indigenous space. A place where Native American populations, politics, religion, and trade networks prevailed for centuries before and after the arrival of Europeans and enslaved Africans.
In this episode, we travel into the heart of the North American continent to explore the life, history and culture of the Blackfeet People with Rosalyn LaPier, a University of Montana professor, historian, ethnobotanist, and award-winning Indigenous writer. Rosalyn is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and a member of the Métis, one of the three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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Podcast: Inside Politics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Empire of Pain - with Patrick Radden Keefe
Pub date: 2021-08-25
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American writer and investigative journalist. His new book, Empire of Pain is a detailed history of the Sackler dynasty and their role in the American opioid epidemic. Known for their dedication to cultural philanthropy, the family built their wealth on pharmaceuticals, starting with tranquillisers like Librium and Valium, before eventually moving on to the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin. In this episode, the award winning author talks to Hugh about the origins of the addiction crisis, the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy trial and the mark the family left on the world.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: With Disinformation, The Past Isn’t Past
Pub date: 2021-08-12
We live in the Disinformation Age. The internet has revolutionized our information ecosystem and caused disruption totally unprecedented in human history, and democracy may not survive. ... Just like it didn’t survive the television, radio, telegram and printing press before it. Right?
When it comes to talking about the internet, all too often history is either completely ignored with bold claims about how nothing like this has ever happened before—or it’s invoked with simple analogies to historical events without acknowledging their very different contexts. As usual, the real answer is more complicated: talking about history can inform our understanding of the dilemmas we face today, but it rarely provides a clear answer one way or another to contemporary problems. This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, Quinta Jurecic spoke with Heidi Tworek, an associate professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History at the University of British Columbia. In a recent essay, she made the case for how a nuanced view of history can better inform ongoing conversations around how to approach disinformation and misinformation. So how do current discussions around disinformation leave out or misinterpret history? What’s the difference between a useful historical comparison and a bad one? And why should policymakers care?
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Podcast: Foreign Policy Playlist (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: On Israeli Surveillance and Israeli Diplomacy
Pub date: 2021-08-11
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Podcast: Getty Art + Ideas (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Riffing on Rubens in the Spanish Americas
Pub date: 2021-08-18
“You could easily say ‘I can’t believe Rubens held such sway deep into the 18th century in Latin America as a touchpoint. Wow. That’s profound.’ But that, to me, is much less important than rethinking fundamental categories of picture making.”
One of the biggest influences on art in the Spanish Americas from the 16th through 18th centuries was Peter Paul Rubens. Although the renowned Flemish artist never traveled to the Americas himself, missionaries, merchants, and colonizers flooded the region with prints of his work. These images became the basis for large religious paintings and sculptures, but the resulting works have long been written off as mere copies and have received little critical attention. In his new book Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America, Aaron M. Hyman explores how artists, particularly in Peru and Mexico, expanded on Rubens’s designs, creating their own inventive compositions.
In this episode, Hyman discusses his new framework for understanding copies and improvisation in Spanish colonial art. He also explains how studying art in Latin America sheds new light on European works of the period. Hyman is an assistant professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University.
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
Pub date: 2021-08-10
It's not just inequality of wealth. It is not just inequality of income, which is big. It's also inequality in terms of the geographical clustering of different strata of the population, of different people. It's inequality in life experiences. It's inequality in treatment. People felt mistreated by those in the upper echelons of society. So, it's not just money. It's also access to public goods, to certain spaces in the city, to education, unemployment benefits, and all sorts of things. But also, treatment.
Aldo Madariaga
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Neoliberalism here.
Aldo Madariaga is a Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales, and Associate Researcher at Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). He is also the author of Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
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- An Account of the Chilean Protests in 2019
- Description of Neoliberalism as a Political Project
- The Role of the State in Neoliberalism
- How does Neoliberalism Shield its Policies from Democracy
- Are Neoliberal Policies Fundamentally Undemocratic?
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Podcast: Spectacular Vernacular (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: TikTok Language Rabbit Hole
Pub date: 2021-08-17
On today’s episode of Spectacular Vernacular, Nicole Holliday shows Ben Zimmer an entertaining TikTok video that does some fascinating things with language. They also interview Norma Mendoza-Denton, professor of anthropology at UCLA, about her recently published article “ ‘Sticking It to the Man’: r/wallstreetbets, Generational Masculinity and Revenge in Narratives of our Dystopian Capitalist Age.” And finally, a listener joins us for some wordplay that will put your geography skills to the test. We hope you’re ready! You could win a year’s membership to Slate Plus.
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Podcast: Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and Art (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Gerald Horne on Jazz and Justice, Hip-Hop, Archives, DIY Spaces, Patriarchy, Direct Action, Charles Mingus, and Current Struggles
Pub date: 2021-08-18
Gerald Horne on Jazz and Justice, Hip-Hop, Archives, DIY Spaces, Patriarchy, Direct Action, Charles Mingus, and Current Struggles
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 109. Textile Capitalism and Architectural Patronage with Dan Williamson
Pub date: 2021-08-11
This week, we continue interrogating the modern nationalist project in India, its legacy and implications for thinking the present with Dan Williamson, professor and scholar of Mid-century Ahmedabad. We learn why and how Amedabad, a city in Western India, came to be home to some of the best and most amazing advances in Indian Modernism.
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Podcast: Ottoman History Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Mass Violence
Pub date: 2021-08-13
with Laura Robson hosted by Sam Dolbee and Deren Ertaş
| Depictions of the Middle East as a space of timeless violence pervade media, popular culture, and scholarship. In The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East, Laura Robson offers a rejoinder to such misconceptions while providing a historical explanation of these distinctly modern forms of violence in greater Syria and Iraq, also known as the Mashriq. In this episode, we discuss how a new kind of territoriality in the late nineteenth century combined with imperialist interventions to transform violence into a way of making political claims through the twentieth century and up to the present across the region. We additionally talk about historical research and writing more generally, and how Robson’s past as a trained pianist has shaped her work. « Click for More »
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Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Simon Critchley and Brian Eno: Bald
Pub date: 2021-08-18
There’s more to being bald than having no hair. Philosopher Simon Critchley and musician Brian Eno discuss the various dimensions of hairlessness in connection with Simon’s new book Bald. In typical Critchley mode though, this collection of essays spills far beyond the question of hair, or the lack of it, to take in Aristophanes, Hamlet, the mysteries of Eleusis and the joys and pains of being a Liverpool fan. As well as being one of the most influential living musicians, Eno has written several books, including the recently republished A Year With Swollen Appendices (Faber).
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Episode: [Boots Off the Ground: Security in Transition in the Middle East and Beyond] Episode 17: America’s Global Military-Labour Infrastructure
Pub date: 2021-08-12
In this episode, Dr Adam Moore discusses his latest book Empire’s Labor: The Global Army that Supports U.S. Wars. He draws on his research with Filipino and Bosnian migrant labour to sketch out the vast transnational logistical infrastructure employed in running day to day US military affairs around the world.
This podcast series is presented by Dr Alessandro Arduino, Principal Research Fellow and Dr Ameem Lutfi, Research Fellow, at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.
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Podcast: Ear to Asia (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Who's fighting for the environment in China?
Pub date: 2021-08-01
China’s natural environment has paid a high price for the nation’s economic success. And despite the Chinese government’s aversion to collective action, there are NGOs working hard to save the environment. So how do NGOs operate in this milieu? How much of Beijing’s recent concern for the environment is owed to the actions of civil society? Human geographer Professor Mark Wang and political scientist Associate Professor Fengshi Wu examine the state of environmental politics in China with presenter Peter Clarke. An Asia Institute podcast. Produced and edited by Profactual - the Podcasting Specialists. Music by audionautix.com.
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Podcast: The Slavic Connexion (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Decolonization in Eastern Europe: A Critical Geographer's Perspective with Zoltán Ginelli
Pub date: 2021-07-30
Zoltán Ginelli from Budapest joins Zach and Cullan to talk about his field of critical geography and the framing of colonial history of Central Europe following both World War II and the Cold War. We hope you enjoy this conversation!
ABOUT THE GUEST
Zoltán Ginelli is an independent researcher and a critical geographer, historian of science and global historian. His research is in the geographies of knowledge, world-systems analysis, and the histories of geography, colonialism and racism, with a focus on the historical relations between Eastern Europe and the Global South or the Third World. Zoltán presented his work at numerous international academic conferences and taught at various universities and colleges, including Milestone Institute and guest lectures at The University of Manchester and Rutgers University. Between 2015 and 2019, he worked as an assistant researcher in the 1989 After 1989 and Socialism Goes Global projects at The University of Exeter. In 2020, his project Postcolonial Hungary: Eastern European Semiperipheral Positioning in Global Colonialism in the EEGA program at The University of Leipzig explored Hungarian colonial history from a world-systemic perspective. Recently, he co-curated with art historian Eszter Szakács the exhibition Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South in May 2021 for the OFF-Biennale Budapest. Zoltán is currently working on two books. One for Cambridge University Press with James Mark and Péter Apor about the global histories of Hungarian relations to colonialism and anti-colonialism in the long 20th century, entitled "Che in Budapest: Hungary Between the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Worlds". The other is his individual book project based on his doctoral research about the global histories of the "quantitative revolution" in geography. Whenever he can, Zoltán enjoys doing research, but he also loves teaching, travelling, art, music and Mediterranean cuisine. On gloomy evenings he plays Texas blues on his prized American Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Check him out on his website at zoltanginelli.com and on Twitter: @ZGinelli.
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NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 21st, 2021 via Zoom.
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Podcast: Turkey Book Talk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Pub date: 2021-08-02
Nicholas Danforth on “The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book upends conventional wisdom about social and political shifts from 1945 to 1960, with many implications for our understanding of today's Turkey.
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Podcast: What a Hell of a Way to Die (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Antifa Olympics feat. James Stout
Pub date: 2021-07-31
This week, Nate speaks with reporter, academic, and cyclist James Stout about the history of Antifa. What started as a reaction to European fascism became a movement often cited and rarely understood, but James’s academic research is focused on this topic--and, particularly, the 1936 Popular Olypics, an anti-fascist international competiton cut short by the advent of the Spanish Civil War.
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-08-04
How can music change the world? In Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos(Bloomsbury, 2020), Malcolm James, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, introduces the concept of sonic intimacy to think through the social, cultural, and political importance of three key moments in the history of British music. The book blends the history of music, society, and technology to show the moments of community and resistance fostered by the vibe of sound systems and the hype of Jungle Pirate Radio, along with the advent of new modes of engagement fostered by Grime on YouTube. With important implications for the future of critical scholarship, as well as our current cultural context, the book is essential reading for cultural studies and social science scholars, as well as for anyone interested in music and culture.
Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Edinburgh's College of Art.
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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Wicker Mound feat. James Meadway
Pub date: 2021-08-02
A great happening has come to London. A marker of power has arisen. Fell deeds awake as we enter the era of the Mound.
Also, James Meadway (@meadwaj) returns to discuss the fading of the neoliberal paradigm and it’s replacement with something different and worse.
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Podcast: Latin Waves Media
Episode: The structure of empire with Justin Podur
Pub date: 2021-08-03
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with author Justin Podur about the structures of empire. The value transfers that fuel an economic system of inequity and injustice. How laws have been crafted to sustain empire and suppressed democratic processes.
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Podcast: Liberation Audio (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Class 1: Classical fascism, colonialism, and international political economy
Pub date: 2021-07-29
Our first class starts by examining various definitions of fascism in order to foreground how it has functioned historically as a concept-in-class-struggle, while also emphasizing the importance of a dialectical approach. This will allow us to situate fascism within the deep history of capitalism and its imperialist expansion. We then analyze how the Italian fascists and the Nazis rose to power within the constitutional parameters of bourgeois democracy--by receiving abundant funding from big industrial domestic and international capital--to run populist electoral campaigns and whip up certain sectors of the population around an ultra-nationalist and colonial program. Since every capitalist country had fascist movements in the wake of the Great Depression, we also examine what happened to these movements in the cases when they fully consolidated state power. Finally, we discuss how an internationalist, materialist perspective can help us make sense of the capitalist ruling class’s decisions to favor hegemony or repression in specific instances, and what this concretely means for fascist political practices and their visibility as such.
Course materials: Daniel Guérin, Fascism and big business https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/guerin/1938/10/fascism.htm José Carlos Mariátegui, “Biologia del fascismo” https://www.marxists.org/espanol/mariateg/1925/escena/01.htm Aimé Césaire, Discourse on colonialism, trans. J. Pinkham (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2007), 35-46.
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Podcast: The Take (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: COVID, protest, racism: The 'no-fun Olympics'
Pub date: 2021-07-23
COVID-19, racism, anti-semitism and a crackdown on protest — all dark clouds hanging over this year’s Olympic games in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee made a huge gamble in postponing the event to 2021. Has it paid off?
In this episode: Jules Boykoff (@julesboykoff), political scientist, former Olympian, and author of ‘Activism and the Olympics’
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Zachary Kaufman on Digital Bad Samaritans
Pub date: 2021-07-24
In this episode, Zachary D. Kaufman, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Houston Law Center, discusses his article "Digital Age Samaritans," which is published in the Boston College Law Review. Kaufman begins by describing "bad samaritan" laws that impose liability on certain people who fail to report crimes or other harms. He observes that these laws are common, but rarely used, and poorly suited to modern form of digital communication. He discusses a case study of a sexual assault that was videostreamed live, and how bad samaritan laws could apply to digital bypasses. He also presents a model bad samaritan law for the digital age. Kaufman is on twitter at @zacharykaufman.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: U.S. History Series – The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Pub date: 2021-07-26
Guest: James Q. Whitman is Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His books include Harsh Justice, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt, The Verdict of Battle, and his latest, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law [1].
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Podcast: Empire Museum
Episode: #7 The History of Scientific Racism (with Subhadra Das)
Pub date: 2021-07-21
Subhadra Das is a writer, historian, broadcaster, comedian and museum curator. Her main area of expertise lies within the history of eugenics and scientific racism. Until recently, she worked as the Curator of the UCL Science Collections, shaking up the status quo and breathing new life into how we tell the stories of race science and its legacies. This podcast was a treat to record, and Subhadra drew on her breadth of knowledge to illuminate this neglected history. Enjoy!
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Podcast: New Books in Communications (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-07-28
At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning in itself apart from the films being shown. Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China(U California Press, 2021) advances the idea that cinema takes place off screen as much as on screen by exploring film exhibition in China from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Drawing on original archival research, interviews, and audience recollections, Cinema Off Screen decenters the filmic text and offers a study of institutional operations and lived experiences. Chenshu Zhou details how the screening space, media technology, and the human body mediate encounters with cinema in ways that have not been fully recognized, opening new conceptual avenues for rethinking the ever-changing institution of cinema.
Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies.
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Podcast: Southpaw (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 108 – Examining Environmental Racism w/ Nadia Y. Kim
Pub date: 2021-07-28
We brought back sociologist and activist-scholar, professor Nadia Kim (episode 31) to talk to us about environmental racism and what that means to communities of color locally and for the Global South.
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Podcast: 5x15 (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Rivercide with George Monbiot and Franny Armstrong
Pub date: 2021-07-23
In this special 5x15 podcast, Join George Monbiot, Franny Armstrong on their quest to restore our rivers to their rightful place - not only in the nation’s imagination - but also to make them clean, swimmable, a rich diverse home to fish, birds and animals.
Franny and George will be discussing their innovative, "live documentary"- Rivercide- and from other leading experts and campaigners.
To find out more about Rivercide and how you can watch the live documentary on 14th July at 7pm on rivercide.tv. Twitter (@rivercide_live), Insta (@rivercide_live) and Facebook (facebook.com/rivercideTV). Rivercide is the world's first live investigative documentary, presented by George Monbiot, directed by Franny Armstrong and with the livestream produced by Peter Armstrong. The 60 minute programme will be broadcast live online - free to view - on July 14th at 7pm via rivercide.tv.
This 5x15 discussion features:
Investigative journalist, author, campaigner and self-described "professional troublemaker," George Monbiot. Monbiot is author of many acclaimed books – including Feral, Heat and Out of the Wreckage – columnist for the Guardian and environmental campaigner. George has presented many films, including Apocalypse Cow: how meat killed the planet, How Wolves Change Rivers and Nature Now. His Double Down News videos have millions of views. George is working on a new book, to be published in 2022, about how to feed the world without devouring the planet.
Former pop drummer Franny Armstrong has directed three feature documentaries – Age of Stupid, McLibel, and Drowned Out. She arguably invented crowd-funding when she raised £900,000 from 300+ investors for Age of Stupid five years before Kickstarter launched. In collaboration with the Guardian, Franny founded the 10:10 campaign in 2009 which aimed to cut carbon emissions by 10% in a year. Franny has written chapters for three books, won Sheffield Doc/Fest's "Inspiration Award", been named as one of the "World’s Top 100 Women" by the Guardian and one of “London's 1,000 most influential people” by The Evening Standard. Her latest projects are the climate comedy Pie Net Zero (2020), which trended at #9 on YouTube and What If (2019) starring Ed Miliband, Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas in a parallel universe where humans are tackling climate change.
Peter Armstrong has been innovating new forms of progressive media for 50 years, including pioneering radio-link documentaries for Radio 4, the BBC’s Domesday Project, founding the BBC Interactive Television Unit and co-founding with Anuradha Vittachi OneWorld.net, OneClimate.org and Empathymedia.org. He has pioneered the use of live-streaming from climate actions, including the Paris, Copenhagen, Cancun, Bonn and Poznan COP meetings and most recently from Extinction Rebellion on the streets of London. In 2004, he received the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement for his contributions to interactive media - only the second person to win this award, after Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Karen Shackleton is a founder member of Ilkley Clean River Group, who are now the proud owners of the first river in the UK to be awarded Bathing Water Designation by Defra. Having been always interested in wildlife from a young age, Karen joined the Wharfedale Naturalists Society and served as Vice President until recently standing down to concentrate on the Clean River Group.
Nick Hayes is a trespasser and a campaigner for the right-to-roam. He is also an author, illustrator, printmaker and political cartoonist. He has published four graphic novels and has worked for, among others, Literary Review, the British Council, The New Statesman and The Guardian. The Book of Trespass is a trespasser's radical manifesto.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Maps of a dying planet / Christina Conklin
Pub date: 2021-07-26
Artist Christina Conklin on her new book "The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis," co-written with Marina Psaros for The New Press.
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Podcast: What Matters Most (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Colin Jerolmack #864
Pub date: 2021-07-22
A far reaching discussion with ace reporter and author Colin Jerolmack on his fascinating new book, Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town. He has expertly captured one of the most complex subjects with great nuance and beautiful prose.
Colin Jerolmack is a environmental sociologist and a professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at New York University. His book, Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town is an intimate, ethnographic account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being of our communities and our planet—whether or not to extract shale gas and oil from the very land beneath our feet—is largely a private choice that millions of ordinary people make without the public’s consent. Based on time spent living in a rural Pennsylvania community, the book documents the dramatic confrontation between personal sovereignty and the public good that unfolds from the fact that landowners have the right to lease the subsurface of their property for oil and gas development.
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
Pub date: 2021-07-19
How can data be biased? Isn’t it supposed to be an objective reflection of the real world? We all know that these are somewhat naive rhetorical questions, since data can easily inherit bias from the people who collect and analyze it, just as an algorithm can make biased suggestions if it’s trained on biased datasets. A better question is, how do biases creep in, and what can we do about them? Catherine D’Ignazio is an MIT professor who has studied how biases creep into our data and algorithms, and even into the expression of values that purport to protect objective analysis. We discuss examples of these processes and how to use data to make things better.
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Podcast: PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Radical Democracy & Protest Politics (ft. David Matijasevich)
Pub date: 2021-07-16
Professor David Matijasevich, author of Radical Democracy and Its Limits, joins Matt and Victor to discuss the limits of radical democracy and the aesthetic ideal of protest politics, and how they are often the luxury of those who are already cozy in a political system wherein are not threatened by existing power structures. He contends that our understanding of political action should be broadened to include that which does not occur against the backdrop of liberal democracy, including his case studies in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
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Podcast: A World to Win with Grace Blakeley (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: IGNORANCE IS POWER: An interview with Linsey McGoey
Pub date: 2021-07-15
This week, Grace speaks to Linsey McGoey, professor of sociology at the University of Essex and author of The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World and No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy. They discuss how politicians make use of ignorance and uncertainty, the difference between ignorance and deliberate misinformation, and why if "knowledge is power," then ignorance is too.
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Podcast: Tel Aviv Review (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Many Faces of Edward Said
Pub date: 2021-07-19
Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, has published a new biography of Edward Said, the feted Palestinian-American scholar and public intellectual, and his former PhD advisor at Columbia University. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said explores the different aspects of a quintessential 20th-century intellectual.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano
Pub date: 2021-07-15
Critical theorist Alberto Toscano joins Am Johal in conversation about his work and writings, as he joins SFU as a visiting faculty member with the Digital Democracies Institute in SFU’s School of Communication.
In this episode, they discuss Alberto’s writing on the philosophy of fanaticism, and conflicting discourse and counter-histories around the figure of the fanatic, which historically takes many forms, from abolitionist leaders to peasant revolutionaries. Alberto and Am also dive into global and historical trends of authoritarianism, racial capitalism and the notion of ‘late fascism.’ Alberto speaks to expanding our concept of fascism, to recognize iterations outside of what could be thought of as European fascism. They also talk about neoliberal tendencies in post-secondary administration, and the workings of mechanisms that maintain or fortify power structures within institutions.
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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Dancing Mania
Pub date: 2021-07-19
In the summer of 1518, one of the most bizarre afflictions in history struck the city of Strasburg; dancing mania. This epidemic of dancing spread, almost like a plague, through the population with many hundreds of people dancing wildly and seemingly uncontrollably often to the point of collapse and even death. Perhaps, even stranger is that the outbreak in Strasbourg is far from the only recorded incidence of this phenomenon. But what caused it? To help delve into this fascinating subject Dan is joined by Dr John Waller, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and author of A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518. John explains the atmosphere of fear and tension in Strasbourg in which the dancing mania took hold and how the power of superstition and belief can take the human mind and body in almost unbelievable directions.
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Podcast: Down The Research Rabbit Hole
Episode: Constructing Sociological Knowledge ft. Shai Dromi
Pub date: 2021-07-18
Dr. Shai Dromi is a lecturer at Harvard University's department of Sociology. He is a cultural and comparative-historical sociologist with research on international humanitarian organisations and movements, transnational advocacy, and political culture. His research looks at the role of religion and cultural beliefs in creating civil society organisations and movements, and in shaping the production of social knowledge. Shai is currently co-authoring the book Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science, under an advance contract with the University of Chicago Press, which we discuss in this episode. You can find out more about Shai and his research on his website.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Joan Howarth on Lesbian History
Pub date: 2021-07-16
In this episode, Joan Howarth, Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law and Dean Emerita of Michigan State University College of Law, discusses her article "First and Last Chance: Looking for Lesbians in Fifties Bar Cases," which is published in the Souther California Review of Law and Women's Studies. Howarth begins by discussing the cases and archival records she used to tell the stories of lesbians living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s. She reflects on the dehumanizing language police, prosecutors, and judges used to describe gay people at the time, and how the cases still preserve a valuable record of the lives and experiences of gay people. She also discusses the process of archival research and how it can helpfully inform legal scholarship. Howarth is on Twitter at @JoanHowarth1.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: Musing Mind Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Capitalism to Acid Communism, with Emma Stamm
Pub date: 2021-07-09
On this episode, I explore data capitalism, acid communism, and the psychedelic ties between them, with Emma Stamm.
Emma holds a PhD in cultural & social thought, and works at the intersections of the philosophy of technology, critical theory, and science and technology studies. She has taught at both NYU & Virginia Tech, and is now a professor in the philosophy department at Villanova University.
Our conversation explores the relationship between data capitalism & consciousness, using psychedelic science as a way of illuminating those aspects of consciousness that cannot be rendered via data's language.
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Podcast: 7am (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The growing Australian surveillance state
Pub date: 2021-07-11
Over the past few years the federal government has passed more and more laws granting police and security agencies greater access to our private communications.
Law enforcement agencies claim the powers protect Australians from criminals, but there are growing concerns that they actually weaken our online security.
Today, writer for The Saturday Paper and chair of Digital Rights Watch Lizzie O’Shea on Australia’s ever expanding surveillance powers, and if they could actually make us more vulnerable.
Guest: Writer for The Saturday Paper and chair of Digital Rights Watch Lizzie O’Shea.
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Podcast: The Red Line (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 47 - The Resurgence of Africa's Conflict Diamonds
Pub date: 2021-07-11
Diamonds have been used to pay militias and rebel groups for decades due to their ease of transportation, global demand, and reliable value. After diamonds fuelled conflict across Africa, the Kimberley Process was created to stop the use of conflict diamonds, but its limitations have left key loopholes open. Exploiting these has allowed this trade to rampage through the African continent once again. How can this process be reformed? And who will pay the price? On the panel this week. Brad Brooks Rubin - Global Initiative Russel Shor - Minerals Journalist Shamiso Mtisi - Kimberley Process Follow the show on @TheRedLinePod Follow Michael on @MikeHilliardAus For more information visit - www.theredlinepodcast.com
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Podcast: CounterSpin (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld
Pub date: 2021-07-09
Nestle's profitability relies on a chocolate supply chain that includes literal slave labor in the Ivory Coast.
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Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-07-14
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across scales—from China, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as privatization, fiscal reform, deregulation, state restructuring, and the expansion of free trade, contributors reveal neoliberalism as a process marked by historical contingency.
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present(U Pittsburgh Press, 2020) fundamentally reframes accepted narratives of both neoliberalism and postmodernism by demonstrating how architecture has articulated changing relationships between state, society, and economy since the 1960s.
Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Adjunct Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture.
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Ever-Changing Brain with David Eagleman and Brian Eno
Pub date: 2021-07-09
What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time, but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Why did many people in the 1980s mistakenly perceive book pages to be slightly red in colour? Will we one day be able to control a robot with our thoughts, just as we do our fingers and toes? Why do we dream at night, and what does that have to do with the rotation of the planet?
These are just some of the questions David Eagleman answered when he came to Intelligence Squared for this exclusive online event. Eagleman is a leading neuroscientist, as well as one of the world’s most dynamic and engaging science communicators. He specialises in brain plasticity – the idea that our brains are constantly changing and reconfiguring the world around us. The more experiences we have, the more the brain absorbs and the more it adjusts. In conversation with musician and producer Brian Eno, Eagleman discussed his latest findings which he outlines in his new book, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. And he showed that far from getting less malleable as we get older, our brains can continue to learn and absorb information quickly, if we keep on providing them with stimuli and new experiences.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture with Grace Ong Yan
Pub date: 2021-07-12
Hagley oral historian Ben Spohn interviews Grace Ong Yan about her recent book, Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture. In her book, Ong Yan explores the development of corporate Modernism through architectural branding. She does this by examining the design and construction of four corporate headquarters: the PSFS Building by George Howe and William Lescaze, the Johnson Wax Administration Building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lever House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the Röhm & Haas Building by Pietro Belluschi. Ong Yan draws on company archives to detail the relationships between company leaders and architects to communicate their company’s identity and messaging to the general public through the medium of architecture.
Grace Ong Yan, Ph.D. is an author, architectural historian, educator, and designer. She is currently Assistant Professor in Interior Design & Interior Architecture at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Ong Yan Co-edited Architect: In the Words of the Pritzker Prize Laureates. She is also an architect and interior designer as Ong Yan Studios.
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Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of the Olympics
Pub date: 2021-07-12
Since the games’ inception, the international olympic committee has argued that the olympics are apolitical, and promote a world message of peace. Yet, the truth of the matter is that the Olympics are political. Whether it is the politics of corruption as olympic officials take expensive gifts in return for their vote in granting host-city … Continue reading The Politics of the Olympics
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Podcast: Foreign Policy Playlist (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Extremism and the German Military
Pub date: 2021-07-14
Foreign Policy recommends: Day X
This week, Foreign Policy Playlist plays a special episode of a new series — Day X by the New York Times.
Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Times Berlin Bureau Chief Katrin Bennhold on the infiltration of far-right extremism in Germany’s security services. Together, they take a deep dive into reporting on the subject and history of extremism in Germany.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history
Pub date: 2021-07-12
Fern Riddell, author of Sex: Lessons from History, discusses what we can learn from looking at sexual culture in the past, and gives her thoughts on what we get wrong about the sex lives of our forebears, from contraception and sex work to the joy of sexual connection.
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Podcast: Land of the Giants (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Who's Driving Whom?
Pub date: 2021-07-06
Without delivery workers, there is no DoorDash or UberEats or Grubhub. And workers in this slice of the gig economy get access to a level of flexibility that most people in traditional employment situations can only dream of. But how much control do delivery workers really have over their schedules, their pay and the terms of their employment? These questions are at the heart of a political battle playing out across the country with stakes that are deeply personal for delivery drivers nationwide.
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Podcast: Weekly Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Greenwashing
Pub date: 2021-07-02
With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re going to spend the next five episodes of the podcast looking at some of the biggest climate issues – starting this week with greenwashing.
Last month 20 young people and scientists attempted to occupy London’s Science Museum. They were protesting the fact that a new exhibition on the climate crisis was being sponsored by Shell. Protestors accused Shell of using their sponsorship to ‘greenwash’ its reputation. The occupation ended after the museum swiftly called 40 police officers out to remove them.
Greenpeace has recently said that we’re living in “a golden age of greenwashing” and the Treasury set up a new group to clamp down on the practice in the financial sector. But what is greenwashing? Why are companies like Coca Cola and H&M suddenly desperate to prove their green credentials? And is it lulling us into a false sense of security that we’re tackling the climate crisis?
Ayeisha is joined by Alice Bell, director of communications at Possible and author of the upcoming book, Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis which is available to pre-order now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/our-biggest-experiment-9781472974778/
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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Proust's Way
Pub date: 2021-07-07
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Adam Watt, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, to mark 150 years since the birth of Marcel Proust, whose legacy seems stronger than ever; Sarah Lonsdale, the author of 'Rebel Women Between the Wars', re-considers ‘Diary of a Provincial Lady’, a funny novel about interwar life in deepest Devon whose darker tones tend to be overlooked; plus, Mary Beard on new developments at the Colosseum.
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Podcast: New Books in Performing Arts (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Benjamin Steege, "An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-07-07
“What are we thinking about when we think about music in non-naturalistic terms?” asks Benjamin Steege—Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Columbia University—in his new book An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2021). This deceptively subtle question exercised the minds of some of Europe's most delicate musical thinkers at a time of great social and political upheaval, and continues to be of interest to musicologists today. Putting a little-discussed set of German-language primary sources into historical context (among others, the writing of Günther Anders (né Stern), Gustav Güldenstein, and Herbert Eimert) and expertly introducing them to an Anglophone audience, Steege explains the shared interests of a post–World War I constellation of musical thinkers whose disinterest in psychological and music-historical orthodoxy coalesces into a vital, if not entirely homogeneous, program for the phenomenology of music. Enriched by convincing music-analytical examples, careful handling of philosophical terms of art, and an ethical sensitivity not unlike that of its historical interlocutors, Steege's book—and the writers whose work it examines—is sure to draw attention from music historians and historians of philosophy alike, who will question the relative unfamiliarity of its subject matter and set out to reach out across this gap to explore the models of historical listening it offers.
Eamonn Bell (@_eamonnbell) is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in the Department of Music. His current research project examines the story of the compact disc from a viewpoint between musicology and media studies.
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Podcast: The Art of ... (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Art of the Body
Pub date: 2021-07-05
In this episode we revisit Paula Rego’s work to talk about the body, reproductive justice and abortion rights.
Listen to Polyester Zine’s editor in chief, Ione Gamble and curator, writer and researcher, Maggie Matić talk to artists Polly Nor and Rene Matić about Paula Rego, their own work, and Polyester’s recent zine Saving Ourselves.
See the Paula Rego exhibition at Tate Britain 7 July – 24 October 2021.
Please note that this episode contains sensitive content, including discussions on abortion which some audiences may find upsetting.
The Art of the Body is a Polyester Zine production for Tate. Produced by Ione Gamble, edited and produced by Olivia Graham.
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Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World | Benjamin Bratton
Pub date: 2021-07-05
In Episode 197 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Benjamin Bratton, professor of visual arts at UC San Diego and the author of “Revenge of the Real: Politics, for a post-pandemic world.”
Bratton’s book explores how our collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates a critical inability on the part of society to govern itself. The pandemic in this sense serves as a sort of non-negotiable reality-check that upends the comfortable illusions of a world that increasingly bears no resemblance to the one we have vacated.
Benjamin raises important questions about not only how we came to find ourselves in our current predicament of mask wars, urban riots, and institutional decay, but also, how we might go about constructing a world that is more representative of reality and the needs of the present moment.
In the overtime, Bratton and Demetri explore what a post-pandemic world might look like and what this means for our conceptions of governance and the individual.
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Podcast: RADIKAAL (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 41. Robbie Shilliam on Decolonizing Politics and the Rastafari Movement
Pub date: 2021-07-04
My guest is Robbie Shilliam. Robbie is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. His latest book is Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction, which is just out with Polity and is a fascinating read. Robbie is also a scholar-activist of the Rastafari movement, involved in a host of activities focused on highlighting the histories and significance of the Rastafari movement for contemporary politics. Two of these projects are Rastafari in Motion, which focuses on Britain, and Iniversial Development of Rastafari, which focuses on the Baltimore and DC area.
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Podcast: Curious Objects (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
Pub date: 2021-06-29
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration funded an interracial labor program in Wisconsin that employed over five thousand women to craft handmade goods: the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. Especially noteworthy among the rugs, quilts, costumes, and books that the women produced is a run of exquisitely crafted and clothed toddler-sized dolls. Host Benjamin Miller learns from scholar Allison Robinson about how these dolls—made to represent different ethnic groups both foreign and domestic—provide insight into New Deal–era debates over women’s labor, race, and cultural nationalism . . . and into the origins of Barbie and American Girl.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems
Pub date: 2021-06-30
HIV's origins and colonial history have inspired the collection of poems by Kayo Chingonyi, which has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021. Paisley Rekdal is currently the Poet Laureate of Utah. Her latest collection of poems was inspired by Ovid. She's been thinking about where stories come from and what we mean by appropriation. Dr Nasser Hussain is interested in ‘lost’ fragments of language and in what we notice and what we ignore. New Generation Thinker Florence Hazrat studies punctuation. They join host Sandeep Parmar for a conversation about experimentation ahead of the Ledbury Poetry Festival.
Sandeep Parmar is a poet and Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She has been running the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme alongside Sarah Howe. This project encourages diversity in poetry reviewing culture, aimed at new critical voices. Ledbury Poetry Festival runs from 2 - 11 July 2021.
Kayo Chingonyi's book is called A Blood Condition.
You can find the full list of poets shortlisted for the Forward Prize at https://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/
Paisley Rekdal's collection of poems, Nightingale, re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses. She has published an Essay Appropriate: A Provocation https://www.paisleyrekdal.com/
Dr Nasser Hussain teaches poetry at Leeds Beckett University. He published ‘SKY WRI TEI NGS’, a book of conceptual writing that composes poetry from IATA airport codes, and is working on an autobiographical poetic project Playing with Playing with Fire and The Life of Form.
Dr Florence Hazrat is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield studying rhetoric, punctuation and Shakespeare's use of music. She is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select academics to turn their research into radio.
This episode was made in partnership with the AHRC, part of UKRI. You can find a playlist exploring New Research on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Generational Encounters in Arab Cinema [afikra Roundtable series]
Pub date: 2021-06-25
We talked to Amani Hassan (Program Director at Arab British Centre) and Rabih El Khoury (SAFAR) on the 2021 edition of SAFAR curated around the theme of Generational Encounters in Arab Cinema as part of the Shubbak Festival x afikra Roundtable series. This collaboration between Shubbak and SAFAR will be showcasing contemporary and classic films with emergent youth, familial disparities, and societal tensions at their center.
Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra
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About the Shubbak Festival x afikra Roundtable Series:
Taking place in the days and weeks leading up to this year's festival which starts on the 20th of June, 2021, the series of 4 events will feature candid conversations with key figures from the Shubbak team and will highlight some of the artists and themes on display during this year's festival. All events will take place on Zoom, will be free and open to all, and discussions will be in English. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
About Shubbak Festival:
The Shubbak Festival is the UK's largest biennial festival of contemporary Arab culture, bringing new and unexpected voices alongside established artists to London every two years. The festival returns this summer with an ambitious program that connects audiences and communities with the best of contemporary Arab visual arts, film, music, theatre, dance, literature, and debate.
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 80/ Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics (With Marwa Daoudy)
Pub date: 2021-06-27
This is a conversation with professor Marwa Daoudy, associate professor at Georgetown University and the author of the recently published book The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security.
Topics Discussed:
- Climate change did not cause the Syrian revolution, despite this narrative continuing to dominate in many circles, and why this deterministic narrative strips away the agency of Syrian revolutionaries
- The ‘securitization’ of language, how refugees and migrants going to global north countries are treated through militarized language, and how calling them ‘climate migrants’ can be problematic
- How did the pre-2011 drought affect the uprising, if at all?
- Bashar Al-Assad urban/rural divide and conquer strategy
- Assad’s neoliberal reforms and their impacts on water and food politics
- The role of ideology (baathism, neoliberalism etc) in Syria
- The issue of ‘state security’ rhetoric and how a Human-Environmental-Climate Security (HECS) framework can help understand reality better
- The relationship between the World Bank and the Syrian regime
- Neo-Malthusian politics and its presence in international politics
- Europe’s extractivist economies and the complicity in scapegoating ‘climate migrants’
- The idea of ‘climate security’ and why it’s problematic
Book Recommendations:
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- The Crossing by Samar Yazbeck
- The Impossible Revolution by Yassin Haj-Saleh
- The Shell by Mustafa Khalifa
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- Samira’s Letters on Al Jumhuriya
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Arturo Escobar - Why are communities key to transforming the world?
Pub date: 2021-06-25
Arturo Escobar is a Professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He also works in Colombia as a Research Associate with the Culture, Memory, and Nation group at Universidad del Valle in Cali and the Cultural Studies groups at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota. He has published widely on political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of development, social movements, and technoscience. This exciting conversion ranged extensively over so many rich topics. We started the discussion with who are you and got some reflection and insight into how Arturo sees himself in world and the journey he has taken to get to his current academic work as an intellectual activist. We also discussed the role of academic knowledge and activist knowledge in addressing the pressing concerns of our times. In particular we explored the interconnectedness of all beings in the world and the idea of radical interdependence. He highlights 6 axes or strategies for enacting transformative alternatives, with a highlight on the role of communities in transformation and learning how to stop outsourcing the making of life.
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The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence. https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/
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Podcast: Time to Eat the Dogs (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery
Pub date: 2021-06-27
Catarina Madruga talks about Portuguese exploration in the nineteenth century as European powers made plans to conquer Africa and colonize its peoples. Madruga is a post-doctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum of Berlin. She’s the author of “Expert at a Distance: Barbosa du Bocage and the Production of Scientific Knowledge on Africa,” published in the Journal for the History of Science and Technology.
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Podcast: Poliko
Episode: Displacements, Surplus Workers and Surplus Capital: Discussing Urban Displacements by Susanne Soederberg (Book Preview)
Pub date: 2021-06-29
In today’s episode, we examine the interdependence between urban displacements, surplus populations and surplus capital in Susanne Soederberg’s recent book “Urban Displacements. Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism” published in late 2020 with Routledge. We explore the links between surplus money and surplus workers, social and rental housing, precarious work and urban poverty under capitalism, but also the political role of state actors in the reproduction of surplus capital and surplus populations producing cycles of urban displacements.
Check out Susanne's book "Urban Displacements. Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism"Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Displacements-Governing-Surplus-and-Survival-in-Global-Capitalism/Soederberg/p/book/9780367236199
You can follow Susanne on Twitter @soederberg1
Susanne's departmental webpage: https://www.queensu.ca/devs/susanne-soederbergSusanne's publications on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susanne-Soederberg/research
For a sample of Susanne's previous workDebtfare States and the Poverty Industryhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781315761954/debtfare-states-poverty-industry-susanne-soederbergEvictions: A Global Capitalist Phenomenonhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dech.12383
Other readings recommended by Susanne
The Financialization of Housing by Manuel Aalbers
https://www.routledge.com/The-Financialization-of-Housing-A-political-economy-approach/Aalbers/p/book/9781138092907
In Defence of Housing by David Madden and Peter Marcuse
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2111-in-defense-of-housing
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Podcast: Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History) (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Decoding Indigenous Governance in the First Centuries of Contact
Pub date: 2021-06-25
Patrice Dutil talks with Heidi Bohaker, Professor History at the University of Toronto, about the symbols various Anishinaabe communities used to identify themselves in their vast territory during the 17th and 18th centuries. Bohaker makes the point that these doodems were symbolic of various constitutional arrangements as well as social and legal codes. She also discusses how they evolved with time Bohaker is the author of Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, published by University of Toronto Press. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Becoming Data Episode 5: Data & Racial Capitalism
Pub date: 2021-06-14
In the final episode of our season, “Becoming Data,” scholars Sareeta Amrute and Emiliano Treré join our host, Natalie Kerby, to discuss the concept and lived reality of racial capitalism. The episode explores how data-centric systems perpetuate racial capitalism, and how different communities, particularly in the Global South, have resisted this datafication.
Sareeta Amrute (@SareetaAmrute) is an anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Washington, and Director of Research at Data & Society.
Emiliano Treré (@EmilianoTrere) is a senior lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation and co-director of the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University.
"Becoming Data" is co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books.
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Podcast: Boston Athenæum (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"
Pub date: 2021-06-18
Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production. With new quantitative evidence for more than five hundred thousand works of art, Diana Seave Greenwald provides fresh insights into the nineteenth century, and the extent to which art historians have focused on a limited—and potentially biased—sample of artwork from that time. She addresses long-standing questions about the effects of industrialization, gender, and empire on the art world, and she models more expansive approaches for studying art history in the age of the digital humanities.
Examining art in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greenwald features datasets created from indices and exhibition catalogs that—to date—have been used primarily as finding aids. From this body of information, she reveals the importance of access to the countryside for painters showing images of nature at the Paris Salon, the ways in which time-consuming domestic responsibilities pushed women artists in the United States to work in lower-prestige genres, and how images of empire were largely absent from the walls of London’s Royal Academy at the height of British imperial power. Ultimately, Greenwald considers how many works may have been excluded from art historical inquiry and shows how data can help reintegrate them into the history of art, even after such pieces have disappeared or faded into obscurity.
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Podcast: The East is a Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Bordering midnight w/ Suchitra Vijayan
Pub date: 2021-06-21
Suchitra Vijayan's book, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India, is available now. Check out the Polis Project and their podcast.
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Podcast: Sociological Imaginations at Boğaziçi
Episode: Episode 5, Part 2 # Cihan Tuğal: Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions
Pub date: 2021-06-23
Megaprojects were central to job creation, mass housing, and legitimacy before their marginalization following the 1970s. They made an apoliticized, market-oriented, and less inclusive come back starting with the 1990s. Scholars have argued that megaprojects' turn away from issues of employment, and their focus on attracting tourists and professionals, are among the core traits of neoliberalism. Turkey, though once seen as a paragon of neoliberalism, problematizes this generalization. "Neoliberal statist" megaprojects have created jobs and residence for millions, and are at the core of popular consent for the Erdoğanist regime. Yet, this is not an idiosyncratically "Turkish," or even "emerging market," aberration. Trumpist US has also attempted a similar transformation, but failed. An analytical contrast with Erdoğanism demonstrates that some sociological factors so far underemphasized in the literature account for the frustration o f Trump's ambitions. Megaproject-driven growth and popular consent, however, are fragile in Turkey itself. Emergent market countries' turn to "neoliberal statism" is unsustainable, but does precipitate the end of the neoliberal era. Theories of megaprojects and neoliberalism need to be critically reconstructed to make full sense of these dynamics.
Cihan Tuğal is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Tuğal works on politics, economic change, and religion. His first book Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford, 2009) studied pro-capitalist Islam and its popularization among the poor. In his second book The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso 2016), Tuğal analyzed Islamic movements and regimes in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Iran. His most recent book Caring for the Poor (2017, Routledge) discusses liberalism's uneasy relations with charitable ethics. He now explores populism and revolution in the contemporary world system.
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Podcast: Discovery & Inspiration
Episode: Lester Tomé, “Movement and Modernism: Carpentier’s Transatlantic Ballet”
Pub date: 2021-06-19
Though modernist ballet is often associated with European companies such as the Ballets Russes, the ideas and concepts that emerged from this movement soon found their way around the globe. In Latin countries such as Cuba, this foreign cultural form was adapted to meet local needs and provided an important way to articulate national identity.
In this podcast, Lester Tomé, associate professor of dance at Smith College, discusses how artists such as Alejo Carpentier adopted and reimagined the formal methods of modernist ballet in order to promote an indigenous form of Afro-Cuban culture. In doing so, he suggests, they developed a distinctive visual language through which to resist and oppose widespread colonial stereotypes.
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Unborn Future: Lecture # 2 | Lessons Learned
Pub date: 2021-06-17
Philosopher Todd Dufresne has written a three-part lecture series for IDEAS, entitled: Climate Change and the Unborn Future: Capitalism, Philosophy, and Pandemic Politics. He argues that the way we live needs a stem-to-stern overhaul — and a new philosophy of the Anthropocene to see the world with new eyes. This is his second lecture, Lessons Learned.
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Decolonize/Decenter: Planning in the South
Pub date: 2021-06-18
‘How can academic research be of service to envisioning alternative planning agendas that reflect the realities of the so-called Global South?’ is the central question that our guest host Inhji Jon stresses in this episode.
Since Western-centric planning approaches imposes norms on places and times where they are inappropriate, we need to explore the possibilities of city making and planning which recognize the value of informal and transient structures of the lives the people have that make up the city itself. Follow the discussion between Smruti Jukur, Prince K Guma, and Mark Davidson on what needs to be addressed when challenging Western planning agendas. Therefore, our guests debate the epistemological contentions between theory and practice and the processes of deciding what makes a ‘good policy’. Last but not least, have a listen to their takes on how researchers and planners can make a positive contribution in the lives of urban dwellers and to transformative urban agendas.
Our guests: Smruti Jukur is an urbanist working based in India and extended work in Asia and Sub-Saharan African cities. Smruti is currently the Programme leader at SPARC-Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centre which is an affiliate for the transnational Slum Dwellers International (SDI) network, which spans over 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is presently based at Mumbai and works with an organised network of the urban poor on issues of rehabilitation and relocation, gentrification,access to basic services -water, sanitation and housing. The network operates from the premise that organized communities of the urban poor are central to the generation of inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. Her recent work is in working with communities of development induced displacement and relocated sites in cities. She also works closely with Urban planning and Architecture universities to bridge the research and practice gap.
Prince K Guma is a researcher of cities, infrastructures and technologies in eastern Africa and currently a Research Fellow and Assistant Country Director at the British Institute in Eastern Africa. His recent work, at the intersection of STS, urban studies, and postcolonial studies, to examine the contingent and place-based articulations of cities, and how these are mediated through the diffusion and uptake of new plans, technologies and infrastructures both small and big. His findings are hoped to provide a menu for new explorations and contribute insights to debates on technology and urbanity in the global South and beyond.
Mark Davidson is a Professor of Urban Geography in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. His research has examined the relationship between cities and politics, city finances, and the drivers of contemporary urban change. Mark has an international reputation for his research on gentrification, critical urban theory and urban sustainability. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation and the International Olympic Committee. Prior to joining Clark University, Mark held fellowships at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Centre for Public Policy and Social Science, Dartmouth College, and the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney. He holds a BA (Hons) and PhD in Geography from King's College London.
Host: Ihnji Jon is a Lecturer in International Urban Politics at the University of Melbourne, interested in planning/political theory, urban governance, environmental politics, and interdisciplinary feminist STS (Science and Technology Studies). I have taught courses in environment planning and urban politics, with invested readings on more-than-human philosophies, critical pragmatism, and situated justice. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, I have obtained master's degree from Sciences Po Paris (in Urban Governance) and PhD from University of Washington Seattle (in Urban Planning)
Relevant writings: Jon, I. (2021). The city we want: Against the banality of urban planning research. Planning Theory & Practice, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2021.1893588 Jon, I. (2020). Reframing postmodern planning with feminist social theory: Toward "anti-essentialist norms". Planning Theory, 19(2), 147-171. [PDF] researchgate.net Jon, I. (2020). Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a communicative approach. In The power of pragmatism (Jane Wills & Bob Lake eds.). Manchester University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351893083_Pragmatism_and_contemporary_planning_theory_Going_beyond_a_communicative_approach
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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Privatized State and Government Outsourcing of Public Powers
Pub date: 2021-06-15
Contributor(s): Dr Chiara Cordelli | Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatised government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot. In this new book, Chiara Cordelli argues that privatisation constitutes a regression to a precivil condition—what philosophers centuries ago called “a state of nature.” Chiara is going to discuss her book and issues such as privatisation in the democratic state , role of private actors and a new way of administering public affairs with LSE academic Kate Vredenburgh. Meet our speaker and chair Chiara Cordelli (@chiaracordelli) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She is the co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies. Kate Vredenburgh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE. Stephan Chambers will provide a brief welcome speech. Stephan is the inaugural director of the Marshall Institute at LSE. He is also Professor in Practice at the Department of Management at LSE and Course Director for the new Executive Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship. More about this event The Marshall Institute (@LSEMarshall) works to improve the impact and effectiveness of private action for public benefit through research, teaching and convening. You can order the book, The Privatized State, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop, Pages of Hackney. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEPrivatizedState
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 17th Century Climate Crisis
Pub date: 2021-06-22
The effects of climate change are here and serious. While it may seem like uncharted waters in the modern era, our ancestors in the 1600s faced a global climate crisis in a century wracked by wars, famines, and social unrest. Historian Geoffrey Parker discusses the lessons of the 17th century, where elites — with the exception of Tokugawa Japan — responded to the “Little Ice Age” with wars and scapegoating. (Encore presentation.)
Resources:
Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century Yale University Press, 2013
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Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Perils of Space Expansionism
Pub date: 2021-06-18
The expansion of humanity into the far reaches of space has long been a dream portrayed in science fiction and assessed by academics. The resources that can be mined from asteroids and other planets, the guaranteed survival of humanity if an existential catastrophe were to strike Earth all seem like compelling arguments. But what if … Continue reading The Perils of Space Expansionism
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Podcast: Infectious Historians (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 64 - Commerce, Capitalism, and the Making of Modern Medicine with Zachary Dorner
Pub date: 2021-06-11
Zachary Dorner (University of Maryland) comes on to discuss his new book, Merchants of Medicine, which discusses the role of merchants, commerce, and capitalism in changing how medicine was made, administered, and thought about across the 18th century. Zack discusses the ideas about medicine before the 18th century and then highlights the dramatic changes in commerce and capitalism that shaped how people consumed and thought about what medicine should do by the end of the century. He highlights the role of early modern states and the development of what would become pharmaceutical companies in this process, while linking these changes to questions of race and ethnicity among others. At the end, Zack connects these new ideas about medicine to how we think about disease today, the often neglected role of social factors, and how medical ideas have been used during Covid that continue this legacy to the present.
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Podcast: Boundaryless Conversations Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep. 19 Nathan Schneider – From Platform Coops to Exit to Community
Pub date: 2021-06-14
We explore how entrepreneurship within cooperative movements help to drive community ownership in the online economy. We’re excited to be joined by Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, who we know from the early days of the platform coop movement, when he participated in the first ever Ouishare Fest in 2013.
The very fact that Ouishare Fest brought Nathan together with Trebor Schultz for the first time is telling of what a powerful space that Ouishare Fest provides. And this year, Ouishare Fest is back, organised next week right at the outskirts of Paris - from 23 to 25 June. Check it out at http://ouisharefest2021.com/.
Currently, Nathan Schnieder directs the Media Enterprise Design Lab, and he has written books on cooperative enterprise, the Occupy movement, God, and the Internet. He is truly fascinated by the chronicling of ideas, of perfect worlds, of ordinary imaginations in practice. With his experimental attitude, Nathan believes that every word is a hypothesis and a test.
Tune in to this episode as we explore the cooperative movement and the different forms of community opportunities it provides. We also discuss ‘benevolent dictatorship’, levels of community participation, multi-stakeholder structures, and what we mean by community.
Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our Medium publication: https://platformdesigntoolkit.com/Podcast-S2E19-Nathan-Schneider
To find out more about Nathan’s work:
Website: https://nathanschneider.info/
MEDLab: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/
Other references and mentions:
Ouishare Fest: https://www.ouishare.net/fest
Start.coop: https://start.coop/
Stocksy United: https://www.stocksy.com/
Nathan Schneider, Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy, 2018: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Everyone-Radical-Tradition-Shaping-ebook/dp/B078W6L1V7
Loco: https://loco.coop/
Morshed Mannan and Nathan Schneider, Exit To Community: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy, 2021: https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/exit-to-community-strategies-for-multi-stakeholder-ownership-in-the-platform-economy/GLTR-05-2021/
Nathan Schneider, Mediated ownership: capital as media, 2020: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0163443719899035
S2 EP. 18: Software and Protocols for a new way of Organizing — with Bryan Peters, Rob Solomon & Sascha Kellert: https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/software-and-protocols-for-a-new-way-of-organizing-with-bryan-peters-rob-solomon-sascha-710b858dd77b
The Metagovernance Project: https://metagov.org/
Nathan Schneider, Primavera De Filippi, Seth Frey, Joshua Z. Tan, Amy X. Zhang, Modular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities, 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449090
Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at www.platformdesigntoolkit.com/podcast
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Recorded on 1 June 2021.
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 380: Protests in Colombia: Graffiti and Urban Artwork in the context of the Paro Nacional
Pub date: 2021-06-15
In the context of the on-going #paronacional protests in Colombia, it's time for the Colombia Calling podcast to take a look at another angle of what is going on in the streets, on the walls and all over the underpasses in the country. In short, during the unrest, which began on 28 April 2021, urban art, protest art and graffiti have proliferated to extend and spread the message of the youths' discontent with the status quo in Colombia. This is our chance to chat to Jahir (Jay) Dimate of the Bogotá Graffiti Tour (http://bogotagraffiti.com) to discuss what is going on with reference to this genre of art, the cultural movement of graffiti and enjoy a conversation that this national strike is far from a: "left versus right debate." About the Bogotá Graffiti Tour Bogotá Graffiti Tour started in 2011 when a Aussie street artist and a Canadian graffiti writer decided they wanted to share Bogota’s unique, prolific urban art scene and help expose local artists to a wider international audience. The tour has changed a bit over the years, and it’s now considered one of the best things to do in Bogotá. The team (a group of artists and creative minds) get together just about every week to talk about graffiti, plan how to best help out artists’ projects, and to brainstorm the best ways to bring our own projects to life.
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Podcast: BFM :: The Breakfast Grille (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The EPL: Billionaire Money And Rising Americanisation
Pub date: 2021-06-11
Billionaire owners, rising Americanisation, and the fall of European Super League; BFM's Roshan Kanesan speaks to football financial analyst Kieran Maguire about the state of the English Premier League and how money has changed it, for better and for worse.
Kieran Maguire is a football financial analyst, author of the Price of Football, and Professor of Football Financial Analysis at the University of Liverpool.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Etienne Toussaint on Blackness as Fighting Words
Pub date: 2021-06-15
In this episode, Etienne C. Toussaint, Associate Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, discusses his article "Blackness as Fighting Words," which is published in the Virginia Law Review Online. Toussaint begins by explaining how the First Amendment "fighting words" doctrine resonates with Black experience of policing and racial injustice. He observes that the state and the police treat blackness and Black dissent as a form of fighting words, excluded from protection. And he reflects on what it means for how we think about speech in relation to other constitutional rights. Toussaint is on Twitter at @EtienneT_Esq.
This episode was hosted by Maybell Romero, Felder-Fayard Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law. Romero is on Twitter at @MaybellRomero.
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Podcast: VOICE OF THE YOUTH
Episode: EP 9 - The Big C's : Colonialism, Capitalism and Climate Change
Pub date: 2021-06-12
In this episode hosts Aishwarya Puttur and Sayma Zaman interviews guests Shik and Timothee Parrique on the relation of colonialism and capitalism to the climate crisis. They break down each of these topics and explore concepts such as degrowth, regeneration, ethical consumption and green capitalism.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 141: The Neoliberalization of Affordable Housing w/ Tracy J. Rosenthal and the Saturday Crüe
Pub date: 2021-06-11
Before Nomadland, won for best film there was a sweep of a homeless encampment near the theater. The film details the journeys of a woman who becomes housing insecure due to not just the closing of a factory, but the entire town that houses the workers as well. A despondent irony that the presence of actual homeless people would ruin the glamorous red-carpet catwalk that the film industry’s elite grace on Awards night.
We often hear the term “Affordable Housing” as part of the solution for the unhoused problem. But as our guest Tracy J. Rosenthal explains, the public private partnership is a relationship that doesn’t equal very good results for those truly in need of affordable shelter.
From her piece in The New Republic:
“The Affordable Housing paradigm is not a benign compromise between public and private interests; it is the institutionalization of racism and the red scare, a system bent into shape by the power of real estate not designed to serve tenants’ human needs.”
We’ll discuss the myths of “Affordable Housing” with the founder of the L.A Tenants Union Tracy J. Rosenthal.
From Tracy's Website (tjr.xxx) I've written about Los Angeles, art, and housing justice for publications including The New Republic, The LA Times, The Nation, Jewish Currents, Art in America, and FENCE. For three years, I was the editor of The Art Los Angeles Reader, a biannual newsprint about the words in its title.
My first book, Abolish Rent, written with Leonardo Vilchis, is forthcoming from Verso in 2022, and I'm working on a novella about a mall you can live in, in Glendale, California.
I helped found the L.A. Tenants Union, a dues-funded, autonomous union now with over 2,000 members. I’m a current a network fellow of UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy. I author the widely-shared Two-Evils Voter Guides, for local and national elections. I have a 1989 Volvo with 2Evils plates.
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Podcast: Big Ideas (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The decline of the British Army
Pub date: 2021-06-16
Journalist, Simon Akam, investigates the failures of the British Army, including alleged war crimes, in his provocative book, The Changing of the Guard. He examines what has gone wrong with the British Army since 9/11, how it has changed, and what it has learnt from unsuccessful campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Nuclear Menace, Climate Danger
Pub date: 2021-06-15
According to Joseph Masco [1], the two key existential dangers of our time are climate disruption and nuclear weapons. The first, he maintains, is the product of petrochemical capitalism; around the second an elaborate, fear-based U.S. national security culture has been constructed. Masco contends that addressing these twin crises requires grasping their origins and pursuing fundamental structural transformation. Joseph Masco, The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making [2] Duke University Press, 2021
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[1] https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/joseph-masco [2] https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-of-fallout-and-other-episodes-in-radioactive-world-making
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Podcast: The Blockchain Socialist (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Crypto Mining is Doing a Speed Run of Capitalism in Front of Our Eyes
Pub date: 2021-06-06
This week I spoke with Dr. Filipe Calvao (@filipecalvao), a socio-cultural anthropologist and professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies in Geneva and trained gemologist with ethnographic research in diamond mines in Africa. He is the author of two different papers published comparing crypto mining with physical mining : “Crypto-miners: Digital labor and the power of blockchain technology” and “Digital extraction: Blockchain traceability in mineral supply chains”.
During the interview we talked about his research on the similarities with the progression under capitalism with crypto mining and other types of mining, how mining can foster solidarity through meaning-making, and how mining companies' attempts to use blockchain for supply chain traceability may create new forms of control.
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Podcast: COVIDCalls
Episode: EP #288 - 06.07.2021 - The Politics of Compassion: COVID-19 in China w/Bin Xu
Pub date: 2021-06-08
Today I welcome Professor Bin (HSU) Xu to discuss COVID-19 and the legacy of the Sichuan Earthquake in China, alongside cultures of mourning around the world today.
Bin Xu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture, including collective memory, civil society, cultural sociology, and social theory. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford, 2017), which won the 2018 Best Book Prize for Culture and Honorable Mention for Asia from the American Sociological Association, and Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge, forthcoming in 2021). His articles have appeared in leading sociological and China studies journals. He is working on his third book The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (under contract with Polity Press, UK) and two ongoing projects pertaining to mourning, commemorations, and symbolic politics of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Rodrigo Nunes: On Neoliberalism, Denialism & The Shape of Things to Come
Pub date: 2021-06-06
I spoke to Dr. Rodrigo Nunes on Neoliberalism, Denialism and the question of what political forms and economies may exist in the near future. We also discuss the paradoxical popularity of leaders like Trump, Bolsanaro and Neoliberalism itself.
For more w. Dr. Nunes, I highly recommend his essay for Public Books 'Are we in Denial about Denial?" , and look out for his new book ' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization' out May 2021 on Verso.
Public Books Essay can be found here: https://www.publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial/
Verso Book Here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
You can also follow Dr. Nunes on Twitter: @OrangoQuango
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Podcast: The History of Computing (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Origins of the Modern Patent And Copyright Systems
Pub date: 2021-06-07
Once upon a time, the right to copy text wasn’t really necessary. If one had a book, one could copy the contents of the book by hiring scribes to labor away at the process and books were expensive. Then came the printing press. Now, the printer of a work would put a book out and another printer could set their press up to reproduce the same text. More people learned to read and information flowed from the presses at the fastest pace in history.
The printing press spread from Gutenberg’s workshop in the 1440s throughout Germany and then to the rest of Europe and appearing in England when William Caxton built the first press there in 1476. It was a time of great change, causing England to retreat into protectionism, and Henry VIII tried to restrict what could be printed in the 1500s. But Parliament needed to legislate further.
England was first to establish copyright when Parliament passed the Licensing of the Press Act in 1662, which regulated what could be printed. This was more to prevent printing scandalous materials and basically gave a monopoly to The Stationers’ Company to register, print, copy, and publish books. They could enter another printer and destroy their presses. That went on for a few decades until the act was allowed to lapse in 1694 but began the 350 year journey of refining what copyright and censorship means to a modern society.
The next big step came in England when the Statute of Anne was passed in 1710. It was named for the reigning last Queen of the House of Stuart. While previously a publisher could appeal to have a work censored by others because the publisher had created it, this statute took a page out of the patent laws and granted a right of protection against copying a work for 14 years. Reading through the law and further amendments it is clear that lawmakers were thinking far more deeply about the balance between protecting the license holder of a work and how to get more books to more people. They’d clearly become less protectionist and more concerned about a literate society.
There are examples in history of granting exclusive rights to an invention from the Greeks to the Romans to Papal Bulls. These granted land titles, various rights, or a status to people. Edward the Confessor started the process of establishing the Close Rolls in England in the 1050s, where a central copy of all those granted was kept. But they could also be used to grant a monopoly, with the first that’s been found being granted by Edward III to John Kempe of Flanders as a means of helping the cloth industry in England to flourish.
Still, this wasn’t exactly an exclusive right but instead a right to emigrate. And the letters were personal and so letters patent evolved to royal grants, which Queen Elizabeth was providing in the late 1500s. That emerged out of the need for patent laws proven by Venicians in the late 1400s, when they started granting exclusive rights by law to inventions for 10 years. King Henry II of France established a royal patent system in France and over time the French Academy of Sciences was put in charge of patent right review.
English law evolved and perpetual patents granted by monarchs were stifling progress. Monarchs might grant patents to raise money and so allow a specific industry to turn into a monopoly to raise funds for the royal family. James I was forced to revoke the previous patents, but a system was needed. And so the patent system was more formalized and those for inventions got limited to 14 years when the Statue of Monopolies was passed in England in 1624. The evolution over the next few decades is when we started seeing drawings added to patent requests and sometimes even required. We saw forks in industries and so the addition of medical patents, and an explosion in various types of patents requested.
They weren’t just in England. The mid-1600s saw the British Colonies issuing their own patents. Patent law was evolving outside of England as well. The French system was becoming larger with more discoveries. By 1729 there were digests of patents being printed in Paris and we still keep open listings of them so they’re easily proven in court. Given the maturation of the Age of Enlightenment, that clashed with the financial protectionism of patent laws and intellectual property as a concept emerged but borrowed from the patent institutions bringing us right back to the Statute of Anne, which established the modern Copyright system. That and the Statue of Monopolies is where the British Empire established the modern copyright and patent systems respectively, which we use globally today. Apparently they were worth keeping throughout the Age of Revolution, mostly probably because they’d long been removed from the monarchal control and handed to various public institutions.
The American Revolution came and went. The French Revolution came and went. The Latin American wars of independence, revolutions throughout the 1820s , the end of Feudalism, Napoleon. But the wars settled down and a world order of sorts came during the late 1800s. One aspect of that world order was the Berne Convention, which was signed in 1886. This established the bilateral recognition of copyrights among sovereign nations that signed onto the treaty, rather than have various nations enter into pacts between one another. Now, the right to copy works were automatically in force at creation, so authors no longer had to register their mark in Berne Convention countries.
Following the Age of Revolutions, there was also an explosion of inventions around the world. Some ended up putting copyrighted materials onto reproducible forms. Early data storage. Previously we could copyright sheet music but the introduction of the player piano led to the need to determine the copyright ability of piano rolls in White-Smith Music v. Apollo in 1908. Here we saw the US Supreme Court find that these were not copies as interpreted in the US Copyright Act because only a machine could read them and they basically told congress to change the law. So Congress did.
The Copyright Act of 1909 then specified that even if only a machine can use information that’s protected by copyright, the copyright protection remains. And so things sat for a hot minute as we learned first mechanical computing, which is patentable under the old rules and then electronic computing which was also patentable. Jacquard patented his punch cards in 1801. But by the time Babbage and Lovelace used them in his engines that patent had expired. And the first digital computer to get a patent was the Eckert-Mauchly ENIAC, which was filed in 1947, granted in 1964, and because there was a prior unpatented work, overturned in 1973. Dynamic RAM was patented in 1968. But these were for physical inventions.
Software took a little longer to become a legitimate legal quandary. The time it took to reproduce punch cards and the lack of really mass produced software didn’t become an issue until after the advent of transistorized computers with Whirlwind, the DEC PDP, and the IBM S/360.
Inventions didn’t need a lot of protections when they were complicated and it took years to build one. I doubt the inventor of the Antikythera Device in Ancient Greece thought to protect their intellectual property because they’d of likely been delighted if anyone else in the world would have thought to or been capable of creating what they created. Over time, the capabilities of others rises and our intellectual property becomes more valuable because progress moves faster with each generation. Those Venetians saw how technology and automation was changing the world and allowed the protection of inventions to provide a financial incentive to invent. Licensing the commercialization of inventions then allows us to begin the slow process of putting ideas on a commercialization assembly line.
Books didn’t need copyright until they could be mass produced and were commercially viable. That came with mass production. A writer writes, or creates intellectual property and a publisher prints and distributes. Thus we put the commercialization of literature and thoughts and ideas on an assembly line. And we began doing so far before the Industrial Revolution.
Once there were more inventions and some became capable of mass producing the registered intellectual property of others, we saw a clash in copyrights and patents. And so we got the Copyright Act of 1909. But with digital computers we suddenly had software emerging as an entire industry. IBM had customized software for customers for decades but computer languages like FORTRAN and mass storage devices that could be moved between computers allowed software to be moved between computers and sometimes entire segments of business logic moved between companies based on that software. By the 1960s, companies were marketing computer programs as a cottage industry.
The first computer program was deposited at the US Copyright Office in 1961. It was a simple thing. A tape with a computer program that had been filed by North American Aviation. Imagine the examiners looking at it with their heads cocked to the side a bit. “What do we do with this?” They hadn’t even figured it out when they got three more from General Dynamics and two more programs showed up from a student at Columbia Law.
A punched tape held a bunch of punched cards. A magnetic tape just held more punched tape that went faster. This was pretty much what those piano rolls from the 1909 law had on them. Registration was added for all five in 1964. And thus software copyright was born. But of course it wasn’t just a metallic roll that had impressions for when a player piano struck a hammer. If someone found a roll on the ground, they could put it into another piano and hit play. But the likelihood that they could put reproduce the piano roll was low. The ability to reproduce punch cards had been there. But while it likely didn’t take the same amount of time it took to reproduce a copy Plato’s Republic before the advent of the printing press, the occurrences weren’t frequent enough to encounter a likely need for adjudication. That changed with high speed punch devices and then the ability to copy magnetic tape.
Contracts (which we might think of as EULAs today in a way) provided a license for a company to use software, but new questions were starting to form around who was bound to the contract and how protection was extended based on a number of factors. Thus the LA, or License Agreement part of EULA rather than just a contract when buying a piece of software.
And this brings us to the forming of the modern software legal system. That’s almost a longer story than the written history we have of early intellectual property law, so we’ll pick that up in the next episode of the podcast!
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Podcast: Century Of Lies
Episode: Century Does Psychedelics
Pub date: 2021-06-09
This week: Century does psychedelics. We hear from Professor Peter Hendricks, PhD with the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on special considerations for evaluating psilocybin-facilitated treatments in vulnerable populations; and from Jazmi...
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Podcast: Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video
Episode: For a Reparatory Social Science
Pub date: 2021-05-26
Contributor(s): Professor Gurminder K Bhambra | The social sciences are implicated in the reproduction of the very structures of inequality that are ostensibly their objects of concern. This is partly the result of their failure to acknowledge the ‘connected histories’ of one of their primary units of analysis – the modern nation-state, postcolonial scholar Gurminder K. Bhambra will argue. In the inaugural Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Keynote Lecture, Professor Bhambra will explore the social sciences’ failure to acknowledge the extent to which modern nation-states were bound up with relations of colonial extraction and domination. Without putting such relations at the heart of our analyses, we cannot address global inequality effectively. Positing colonial histories as central to national imaginaries and the structures through which inequalities are legitimated and reproduced, she will explore a framework for a reparatory social science, oriented to global justice as a reconstructive project of the present. The past cannot be undone, she will conclude, but its legacies can be transformed to bring about a world that works for us all. Meet our speaker and chair Gurminder K. Bhambra (@gkbhambra) is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the British Academy (2020). She was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She is author of Connected Sociologies and Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination and co-editor of Decolonising the University. Armine Ishkanian (@Armish15) is Associate Professor of Social Policy and the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at LSE. Her research focuses on the relationship between civil society, policy processes, and social transformation. She is co-convenor of the Politics of Inequality research theme based in the International Inequalities Institute. More about this event The Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme is a Global South-focused, funded fellowship for mid-career activists, policy-makers, researchers and movement-builders from around the world. Based at the International Inequalities Institute, it is a 20-year programme that commenced in 2017 and was funded with a £64m gift from Atlantic Philanthropies, LSE’s largest ever philanthropic donation. The International Inequalities Institute (@LSEInequalities) at LSE brings together experts from many LSE departments and centres to lead cutting-edge research focused on understanding why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges. This event will have live captioning and BSL interpreters. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEInequalities
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Podcast: BSP Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: D. R. Koukal - ‘Teaching Phenomenology as a Heuristic Tool in Architectural Design’
Pub date: 2021-06-05
Season five of our podcast continues with another presentation from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online. This episode features D. R. Koukal, University of Detroit Mercy.
ABSTRACT: In this paper the author will report on an ongoing experiment: teaching graduate-level students of architecture how to use phenomenology as a technique of discovery to assist them in their design process. This experiment originated in directed readings that attempted to theoretically engage phenomenologically-informed “schools” of architecture, and over fifteen years has evolved into a small seminar-workshop that is focused on having students produce their own rigorous phenomenological analyses in the service of their various thesis projects. The paper will convey the challenges of grounding non-philosophers in the demanding literature of phenomenology and its place in modern thought, and then move on to outline the basic features of the course: exposure to the “orthodox” methodologies of phenomenology; highlighting examples of phenomenological analyses of place and space by philosophers and practicing architects; and an exploration of different ways of doing phenomenology collaboratively. However, most of the paper will be focused on the “practical” dimension of the course, where every member has a say in refining an adopted collaborative methodology to phenomenologically explore a different architectural “theme” every week, all of which are chosen by the class as a whole. These explorations have taken a variety of forms over the years, including peer-reviewed free writing, directed “free” writing, sketches, illustrations, word clouds, meaning-schematics, collaborative narration, and computer-generated eidetic imagery. In the end, the author will report on the course’s successes and failures, but will ultimately conclude that the biggest challenge to any “engaged” phenomenology is motivating others to “see” or intuit what phenomenology can reveal to them, and that the best way of doing this is giving them the tools to “do” phenomenology for themselves.
BIO: D.R. Koukal's research has centered on the phenomenological method and the problem of expression. They have published articles on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. They are interested in the actual practice of phenomenology, and have undertaken several investigations of the experience of media, lived space and the body.
This recording is taken from the BSP Annual Conference 2020 Online: 'Engaged Phenomenology'. Organised with the University of Exeter and sponsored by Egenis and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. BSP2020AC was held online this year due to global concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic. For the conference our speakers recorded videos, our keynotes presented live over Zoom, and we also recorded some interviews online as well. Podcast episodes from BSP2020AC are soundtracks of those videos where we and the presenters feel the audio works as a standalone: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-annual-conference-2020/
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The British Society for Phenomenology is a not-for-profit organisation set up with the intention of promoting research and awareness in the field of Phenomenology and other cognate arms of philosophical thought. Currently, the society accomplishes these aims through its journal, events, and podcast. Why not find out more, join the society, and subscribe to our journal the JBSP? https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution with Sibel Kusimba
Pub date: 2021-06-01
Money on the Left speaks with Sibel Kusimba, Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of South Florida, about her work on mobile money and digital finance in Kenya. In her recently published book with Stanford University Press titled Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, Kusimba both theorizes and critiques Kenya’s thriving M-Pesa mobile phone-based payment system as a constitutive component of Kenyan social life. In doing so, Kusimba explicitly eschews the postcolonial drive to develop more effective approaches to microloans or means for so-called “financial inclusion.” Instead, she offers a sophisticated culturally embedded analysis of mobile money, informed by her twenty-plus years of ethnographic study and archaeological fieldwork in Kenya. Understanding money as “wealth-in-people,” she traces mobile money’s role in shaping complexly gendered social networks and agencies, while simultaneously underscoring the political injustices of public austerity and privatized payment systems.
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Podcast: Upstream (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Thea Riofrancos on Climate Change and a Green New Deal (In Conversation)
Pub date: 2021-06-01
COVID has in many ways monopolized the public imagination in the last year or so, and at times it’s seemed like many other conversations were put on hold — or at least had their volume turned down. Now, with the threats of COVID subsiding — at least in the U.S., and at least for the time being — we’re remembering some of the other important conversations that need to be picked up again. Perhaps the most pressing of all is the conversation around climate change.
In this Conversation, we spoke with Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and co-author, along with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Alyssa Battistoni, of "A Planet to Win: why we need a green new deal," published by Verso.
In this conversation, Thea gives us an update on where we are on climate change — and what the Biden administration is proposing to do about it (spoiler alert: it’s not nearly enough). We also talk about the problems with neoliberal attempts to address climate change, how capitalism is at the heart of the climate crisis, and why we need a Green New Deal.
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: China's Grassroots Intellectuals: John Raimo interviews Sebastian Veg
Pub date: 2021-05-31
Guest host John Raimo interviews Sebastian Veg, professor of the intellectual history of twentieth-century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS) in Paris, about his book, Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals (Columbia University Press 2019, and paperback 2021).
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Podcast: Foreword
Episode: Decolonizing Music
Pub date: 2021-06-02
What does opera look like today? What stories are being told with opera, and who is telling them? How is opera, and classical music generally, responding to social justice movements like Black Lives Matter?
Our first episode of series two features our conversation with Dr. Nina Penner, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and specializes in opera, musical theatre, and film music. This past year, Dr. Penner has been teaching the "Music in Global Cultures" and "Music in Western Cultures" courses and she will share how the teaching of music history in North America is changing. She will also demystify the world of opera and share with us how modern opera is responding to social justice movements.
Dr. Penner is the author of the recently published book Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater (Indiana University Press). The book is an exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told.
Transcript available online at brocku.ca/humanities.
Links Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater (Indiana University Press)
Dr. Nina Penner faculty bio
Brock University Department of Music
"'Opera can make us see, feel and hear the world differently': the UK's opera chiefs tell us why their art form matters" (Guardian 9 May 2014)
Christopher Jenkins “Is Classical Music Racist: An Aesthetic Approach”
The Industry’s Sweet Land (2020)
Nashville Opera, One Vote Won (2020)
Against the Grain Theatre, Messiah/Complex
Against the Grain Theatre, La bohème
Ian Cusson, new aria for Louis Riel
Ian Cusson, Fantasma (forthcoming)
Ian Cusson (and others), Namwayut, spearheaded by Marion Newman (Kwagiulth/Stó:lō)
Tapestry Opera
Key Change a podcast from the Canadian Opera Company
Credits Thank you to listening to Foreword.
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Podcast: Discovery & Inspiration
Episode: Rachel Watson, “Evidence and Racial Discourse in Segregation-Era Literature”
Pub date: 2021-05-31
When we read most novels, we assume that characters are the most important components of a story. However, in noteworthy American literature of the segregation era, it is often forms of evidence that structure novelistic worlds, making us recognize and question the ways that details of ordinary life can take on particular significance.
In this podcast episode, Rachel Watson, assistant professor of American literature at Howard University, considers how the treatment of evidence in literature can help us to illuminate the simultaneous development of discourses around race, criminology, and crime science. She suggests that at its best, the crime genre can challenge readers by encouraging them both to question the world around them and to suspend widely held assumptions about identity and typology.
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/rachel-watson-evidence-racial-discourse-segregation-era-literature
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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Matthew Heineman: The Boy from Medellin
Pub date: 2021-05-28
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman joins Eric to talk about his latest documentary, THE BOY FROM MEDELLIN, which centers on reggeton superstar J Balvin (the voice and creative force behind such massive hits as MI GENTE, I LIKE IT,, AGUA, and countless other songs). Heineman's camera turns its gaze on Balvin as the pop star returns to his home city of Medellin for the last stop on his world tour. That homecoming takes a dramatic turn as the country is plunged into anti-government protests led by Colombian youth. Heineman shares what it was like to capture a superstar caught between the desire to entertain and the demands of fans on social media that he speak to the political crisis of his homeland; to witness a brilliantly talented performer with his reputation and tour all on the line. Also, Claire Phillips, author of A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia drops by to talk with Kate and recommend Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Medical Science by Ronald Chase.
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Podcast: New Thinking, from the Center for Court Innovation (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Policing, Race, and a Crisis in Mental Health
Pub date: 2021-06-01
One of every four people killed by police is experiencing a mental health emergency. Changing how we respond to crisis in the moment, and to widespread, ongoing mental health needs, means deferring to the leadership of people with lived experience and putting racial equity at the center of every reform. On today’s episode, listening to the people who know how to fix systems, because they’re surviving those systems’ harms.
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Black Wall Street
Pub date: 2021-06-02
100 years ago, Black Wall Street was destroyed. But how was it built? And what does it take to get restitution? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
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Podcast: e-flux podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Wet-Togetherness [2]—Decomposing: Daisy Bisenieks and Royce Ng (Zheng Mahler) and Tuo Wang presented by Shanghai Biennale
Pub date: 2021-06-02
Bodies exceed humanity. They remind us that we are part of something vaster—and smaller—more complex, more connected than our mere existence as an atomized species. Our bodies, and bodies in general, are composed out of heterogeneity and multitudes. All bodies are wet collective bodies, defined by how they link to other bodies, places, environments, technologies. Think of breathing, clogging, decomposing, discharging, flushing, lubricating, melting, menstruating, transfusing. Bodies exist as trans- and extra-territorial beings. They live in hybridity. This porous condition produces a planetary wet-togetherness, a “commoning” force that constitutes all bodies as collective hydro-subjects.
Wet-Togetherness is a collaboration between e-flux and the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water, curated by Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and YOU Mi, and organized and promoted by the Power Station of Art. It consists of 9 sound pieces in which 21 artists, activists and researchers enact aqueousness through sound. The series has been edited by José Luis Espejo and Rubén Coll with the sound design of Tomoko Sauvage, coordination by Roberto González García, and locutions by Yang Yang.
Episode 2. Decomposing: Daisy Bisenieks and Royce Ng (Zheng Mahler) and Tuo Wang Organic bodies break down and decay, aided by other bodies. As microorganisms feed on dead plants, and animal and human remains, they deconstruct intricate life forms into their simplest components. Water, carbon dioxide and nutrients are building blocks of earth beings and their socio-natural collectives. We are in a continuous process of body breaking and making.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1345: The meaning of crowds / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Pub date: 2021-06-02
Literary theorist Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on his book "Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity" from Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33653
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Podcast: Darts and Letters (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: EP22: The Colonial Lens (ft. Uahikea Maile, Max Liboiron, & Pam Palmater)
Pub date: 2021-05-28
Scholars want to decolonize everything, and universities say they are doing the hard work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But is anything really being done, or is it all for show? In this episode, we approach these questions through three words that are common inside and outside of academia: decolonize, reconciliation, and colonialism.
- First (@7:05), Uahikea Maile is Assistant Professor of Indigenous politics at the University of Toronto. Last summer, he was part of a land defense against the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope that would be built in Hawaii on Mauna Kea, which is sacred to Native Hawaiins. He takes us inside the struggle and explains that the telescope will not be built despite the powerful forces, including governments that wish it to be.
- Then (@18:39), Max Liboiron is an Associate Professor in Geography at Memorial University and head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research. They explain what colonialism is and how it relates to land and research, including “well intentioned” environmental work that is itself colonial and dispossesses Indigenous peoples. They also make the distinction between “decolonialism” and “anti-colonialism.”
- Finally (@38:58), Pam Palmater is Chair of Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University. She points out that the point of reconciliation is to uncover and expose the truth in the service of making amends but politicians have appropriated the term and rendered it superficial in the service of their own ends. So too have universities. She asks how universities and others hold themselves to account and take action when it comes to reconciliation — or not.
——————-FURTHER READING AND LISTENING——————-
- Review the Canadian Astronomical Society’s update on the Thirty Meter Telescope
- Check out Uahikea Maile’s research, including his chapter “Threats of Violence: Refusing the Thirty Meter Telescope and Dakota Access Pipeline.”
- Visit Max Liboiron’s Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research and take a look at their newly released book Pollution is Colonialism.
- Read Pam Palmater’s blog post “Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Universities and Colleges” and then listen to her podcast, Warrior Life, especially the episode where she talks about higher education and reconciliation. For more, visit her publications page and YouTube channel.
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This episode received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research, as part of a project looking at higher education policy in Canada. The lead academic advisor is Dr. Marc Spooner at the University of Regina, and Franklynn Bartol is the research assistant
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fashion, Art, and the Body
Pub date: 2021-05-26
Wearing denim, workwear, or sharp tailoring makes a statement about how we think of ourselves. Charlie Porter has been exploring the relationship between artists and clothes. He joins writer Olivia Laing and Ekow Eshun for a conversation about clothing, bodies, and our expression of our sexuality, hosted by Shahidha Bari.
Olivia Laing's latest book is called Everybody: A Book About Freedom
Charlie Porter has published What Artists Wear. A former Turner prize judge, he writes and curates and is a visiting Fashion lecturer at the University of Westminster.
British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor's work is on show at the Serpentine Gallery in London from 19 May - 22 October 2021.
Ekow Eshun has curated An Infinity of Traces, which runs at the Lisson Gallery in London from 13 April – 5 June 2021, featuring UK-based established and emerging Black artists whose work explores notions of race, history, being, and belonging.
Jade Montserrat, one of the artists featured in Ekow's show, talked to Free Thinking in a programme about collage and Dada https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k9ws
Producer: Emma Wallace
You can find more conversations in the Free Thinking archive and available to download as Arts & Ideas podcasts, including;
Olivia Laing on her novel inspired by Kathy Acker, and a discussion of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7mryz The body past and present, discussed by painter Chantal Joffe, historian Catherine Fletcher, and philosopher Heather Widdows - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7my7k Fashion stories in museums, with guests including V&A curator Claire Wilcox - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2by JJ Bola, Derek Owusu, and Ben Lerner on the changing image of masculinity - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b0mx How do we build a new masculinity? Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare, and Alona Pardo - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gm6h The politics of fashion and drag with Scrumbly Koldewyn, and a report from the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zcjch
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1343: Public assistance, state surveillance / Spencer Headworth
Pub date: 2021-05-26
Sociologist Spencer Headworth on his book "Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo88749892.html
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jeffrey Merrick, "Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France" (Cambridge Scholars, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-05-24
We know more about men who sought and had sex with men in eighteenth-century Paris than in any other city at the time. Police records provide information about thousands of sodomites who were arrested and thousands more who were not. Michel Rey explored the sodomitical culture of the capital in five articles, based on one set of sources, published from 1982 to 1994. No one has completed his pioneering work in the archives and challenged his anachronistic conclusions about identity, community, and effeminacy. Jeffrey Merrick's book Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France (Cambridge Scholars, 2020), the first on the subject based on extensive research in all of the relevant series of police records, explores patterns and changes in the lives of men who desired men and in the surveillance and punishment of same-sex relations across the century. The book examines what the extant sources do and do not tell us about the heads, hearts, and hands of men detained or mentioned by the police. To that end, it includes a generous selection of documents that allow us to hear voices from the archives, including many that require us to rethink what we thought we knew about the subculture.
Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.
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Podcast: RevDem Podcast
Episode: Lawrence and Laybourn-Langton: Remaking politics in response to the assault on the natural world
Pub date: 2021-05-20
RevDem Editor Ferenc Laczo is discussing the book "Planet on Fire. A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown" by Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton with its authors.
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Podcast: State of Power (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep42: The problem with COVAX: In conversation with Harris Gleckman.
Pub date: 2021-05-27
From a human rights perspective, the global vaccine distribution problem would for example aim to get the COVID vaccine to communities and peoples in the Global South quickly, safely, at low or no cost without political-, class- or gender-discrimination. It would lead toward a solution that combines a WTO waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-related products and processes, maybe a General Assembly declaration that health is a global public good, a multilateral global humanitarian relief fund underwritten by rich country governments, and an international distribution system directed by the World Health Assembly.
But that is not the vision that has prevailed.
Instead, what we have is COVAX, a multistakeholder group that represents the vision and goals of a World Economic Forum (WEF) or a Gates Foundation perspective. Their aim is to get the COVID vaccine to communities and peoples in the Global South without disrupting the global pharmaceutical market, with a mechanism that circumvents long standing multilateral humanitarian relief systems while steering the vaccines to preferred allies in the Global South. Today on the podcast, we’re taking a closer look at COVAX, the program touted as the solution to the global vaccine distribution problem. Our guest on the podcast argues that COVAX is actually a mechanism through which corporate interests have hijacked UN processes and used them to safeguard their profits, with little regard to the attendant social costs. Harris Gleckman is a sociologist who has spent much of his career at the United Nations and has a detailed understanding of corporate global governance across multiple issues. His work at the UN and his ongoing research at the university of Boston in Massachusetts and also with the Brussels based Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability gives him deep insight into how the UN might be restructured to better handle bigger crises in the health, environment and social areas.
Read Harris Gleckman's report here.
For more about the corporate capture of global governance and what we can do about it, see this resource.
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Keywords:
Vaccine, Vaccination, Covax, COVID-19, Multistakeholderism, Corporate Capture, Corporate Power
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Podcast: COVIDCalls
Episode: EP #284 - 05.27.2021 - COVID Data in Authoritarian Regimes
Pub date: 2021-05-28
Today I welcome Ruth Carlitz for a discussion of COVID in authoritarian regimes.
Ruth Carlitz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, where she teaches courses on international development and African Politics. Her research focuses primarily on the politics of public goods provision in low-income countries, from the perspectives of both governments and citizens. Her work has been published in World Development, Perspectives on Politics, Public Administration, and other outlets. In addition to her academic research, she has worked on evaluations commissioned by USAID, the International Budget Partnership, DFID, and the World Bank.
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