Episodios

  • EP85: Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination (ft. Elif Genc, Payton McDonald, Max Haiven, & Alex Khasnabish)

    EP85: Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination (ft. Elif Genc, Payton McDonald, Max Haiven, & Alex Khasnabish)
    Oct 6 2023
    There's a story you can tell about the post-Occupy left gravitating towards a more state-oriented kind of politics. However, this misses strong autonomous and anarchist-inflected social movements. In this episode, we examine the theory and practice of anti-statist organizing, including the Kurds within the area formerly known as Rojava.
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    1 h y 8 m
  • EP84: Big Psychedelic (ft. Erika Dyke and David Nickles)

    EP84: Big Psychedelic (ft. Erika Dyke and David Nickles)
    Aug 29 2023
    Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing -- personal revelation, cosmic oneness, spiritual enlightenment, whatever people have called it -- and make it just another commodity? We look at the deep rifts in and around psychedelic medicine, as different camps vie for the future of these drugs.
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    1 h y 10 m
  • EP83: The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (ft. Raj Patel, Joel Bakan, and more)

    EP83: The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (ft. Raj Patel, Joel Bakan, and more)
    Jul 24 2023
    The WEF is yet another example of the scrambled ideologues of our moment. Conservatives condemn the WEF, and news organizations like Rebel cover it doggedly; at the same time, left-leaning NGOs speak there, and progressive news organizations say little. On this episode, we examine the shifting politics around our global financial elites.
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    1 h y 17 m
  • EP82: The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder

    EP82: The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
    Jul 10 2023
    What's safer than baby powder? Parents have been using it for over 100 years to powder their baby's bottoms, and they've found one brand especially trustworthy: Johnson & Johnson. Yet, numerous studies have revealed the presence of trace amounts of asbestos in this talc-based powder.
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    55 m
  • EP81: Introducing Academic Edgelords & Reading the Unabomber

    EP81: Introducing Academic Edgelords & Reading the Unabomber
    Jun 28 2023
    We're excited to announce Academic Edgelords. This is a scholarly podcast about scholarly provocateurs. Gadflys, charlatans, and shitposters sometimes get tenure, believe it or not. This is a leftist podcast that takes a second look at their peer-reviewed work, and tries to see if there’s anything we might learn from arguing with them. We start with the ultimate academic edglelord: Ted Kacynski, the domestic terrorist.
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    1 h y 13 m
  • EP80: Dr. Ex Machina (ft. Casey Ross & Ben Chin-Yee)

    EP80: Dr. Ex Machina (ft. Casey Ross & Ben Chin-Yee)
    Jun 12 2023
    Could an artificial intelligence diagnosis what ails you? Medical futurists offer a techno-utopian vision of perfect personalized risk assessments, diagnoses, and treatment recommendations. Yet, recent stories belie this optimism.
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    1 h y 10 m
  • EP79: Learning for Liberation: The Life & Legacy of Paulo Freire

    EP79: Learning for Liberation: The Life & Legacy of Paulo Freire
    May 25 2023
    Paulo Freire offers activists and academics everywhere a lesson in what it means to be a radical intellectual. He is known as the founder of critical pedagogy, which asks teachers and learners to understand and resist their own oppression. On this episode, we look at the life and legacy of Freire.
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    1 h y 2 m
  • EP78: Misinformed: The Lab Leak & the Politics of Misinformation (ft. Branko Marcetic & Nicole M. Krause)

    EP78: Misinformed: The Lab Leak & the Politics of Misinformation (ft. Branko Marcetic & Nicole M. Krause)
    May 8 2023
    The COVID-19 lab leak theory went from being dismissed as mere misinformation, to now a credible matter of debate. What's changed, and what does this teach us about science journalism and science communication?
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    1 h y 1 m