Jeremy Gilbert: The Sonic and Somatic Politics of the Dancefloor
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 da...
18 Huhti 20231h 13min
Erik Baker: Grief and Toxicity in the Shadow of Industrial Capitalism
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 wo...
12 Huhti 20231h 6min
Joy James: Revolutionary Love and Black Liberation
Joy James discusses revolutionary love, care under racial capitalism and the captive maternal.Joy James is a political philosopher, academic and author. She is the author of numerous books including S...
4 Huhti 20231h 8min
Jamieson Webster: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Useless Organs
Psychoanalyst Jaimeson Webster discusses her collection of essays, Disorganization and Sex, drawing on thinkers such as Freud, Lacan and Paul Preciado to explain what psychoanalysis offers in understa...
28 Maalis 202344min
Lynne Tillman: Caring for a Mother You Don't Love
Lynne Tillman discusses her recent book Mothercare. In one of the few examples of Lynne writing about her own life, Mothercare documents the period when her mother develops and then sadly passes from ...
23 Maalis 202355min
Malcolm Harris: How California Eugenicists Shaped the Modern World
In this episode Malcolm Harris describes the interconnected histories of eugenics and American capitalism in California throughout the 19th and 20th Century as well as how this history shapes tech an...
14 Maalis 202353min
Natasha Lennard: Jane’s Revenge and Reproductive Rights After Roe
In this episode Natasha Lennard reports on the story of two reproductive rights activists who are being charged under a law intended to protect abortion clinics, as well as the broader implications th...
8 Maalis 202354min
Mark Spencer: #StopCopCity is a Health Issue
Mark Spencer updates us on the struggle to stop the Atlanta Police Foundation building the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, Atlanta. He also explains why ‘health’ is a u...
28 Helmi 202344min
