276. China’s Zombie Economy and Capital Crackdown
We start with a visit to that smart city we all love, New Orleans, and see how the police department’s facial recognition surveillance is going. Then we revisit China, this time to lay out the broader...
18 Aug 20231h 17min
Patreon Preview – 275. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction
We kick off the TMK book club with the excellent new book – Mute Compulsion by Søren Mau – which offers a foundational analysis of power, value, capital, and social reproduction. Mau’s book is written...
15 Aug 20237min
274. Uber’s Politics of Low Expectations (ft. Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh)
We are joined by Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh to discuss their new book – Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City – which offers a rich analysis of Uber and its operations in Washingto...
12 Aug 20231h 31min
Patreon Preview – 273. Checking on Enemies, Old and New
We check in on some enemies of the show to see what’s new with them. Uber has finally posted an operating profit for the first time in history – and it only took more than $31 billion in losses, plus ...
7 Aug 20236min
272. Locked into Starlink’s Low Earth Iron Cage
We dig into the a new investigation on the exponential growth of Starlink – Elon Musk’s satellite internet communication network – its geopolitical centrality to the war in Ukraine and international t...
4 Aug 20231h 5min
Premium – 271. Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head
We jump off the absurd twitter debate about degrowth and bananas in global communism to discuss much deeper issues about why any alternative to capitalism cannot simply be premised on being better man...
2 Aug 20236min
Patreon Preview – 270. The Kayfabe of Climate Capital
We talk about the kayfabe of the green transition as the woke capitalists at Blackrock appoint Aramco to its board of directors, meanwhile the social justice warriors in the mining industry are doing ...
26 Jul 20237min
269. The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)
We are excited to be joined again by Evgeny Morozov, host of The Santiago Boys, a new narrative podcast series about the history of Cybersyn, the geopolitics of its creation in Cold War Latin America,...
22 Jul 20232h 10min
