Red Medicine

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 Apr 20231h 13min

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 Apr 20231h 6min

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 Apr 20231h 8min

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 Mar 202344min

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 Mar 202355min

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 Mar 202353min

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 Mar 202354min

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 Feb 202344min