E297: Malcolm in the Meltdown w/ Malcolm Harris

NEWS ep! We talk about Sean's upcoming well-deserved Alaska vacation before shifting into some preliminary analysis on Israel's brief anti-Netanyahu general strike, the contradictions of the Israeli w...

9 Sep 202456min

Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France.We go through some of the inspirations behind her c...

4 Sep 202456min

REUPLOAD of our collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space NineIn this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time o...

1 Sep 20241h 5min

Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."For the full episode subsc...

30 Aug 202414min

Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the le...

26 Aug 20241h 6min

Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk subculture of the seventies, eighties, and nineties....

21 Aug 20241h 20min

Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing w...

14 Aug 20241h

Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, soci...

9 Aug 20249min