Interregnum - Gaza, regional war, and Israel in the dock
Richard Seymour on the possibility of Israel's assault on Gaza leading to broader escalation in the Middle East. We talked about the strategic calculations of Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthi militia, and ...
11 Jan 202458min
Settler colonialism - from Columbus to Gaza w/ Sai Englert
Israel's assault on Gaza has led to a huge upsurge in discussion of settler colonialism and the extent to which the term accurately describes the Zionist project in Palestine. In Settler Colonialism: ...
2 Jan 20241h 25min
[UNLOCKED] Unnatural city - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s Japan
Around 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haru...
23 Des 20231h 5min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Gaza, the anti-Deutsch, and threat of global war
Richard returns to answer listener's questions on the situation in Gaza, the extent to which Joe Biden's support for Israel is about electoral calculations, the anti-Deutsch tendency and the pro-Israe...
14 Des 20231min
Parallels and contrasts - the Gaza crisis and the 1973 war w/ Leila Farsakh
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 Kip...
5 Des 20231h
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on liberal Zionist apologetics
Richard Seymour responds to the arguments of Jonathan Freedland and other liberal Zionists who, despite the marginalisation of the liberal Zionist tradition within Israel itself, continue to produce t...
28 Nov 20233min
[UNLOCKED] Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend
A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, security officials, journalists and business...
23 Nov 202329min
Excerpt - Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend
A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, security officials, journalists and business...
18 Nov 20232min
