Dr. Anke Strauß is an organisation researcher interested in relationships between the art and the business sphere, specifically with regard to differing types of knowing, inter-disciplinary collaboration and changing modes of organizing (alternative) work-lives. Having worked at the Social Science Centre Berlin (WZB) on artistic interventions in organisations, she is currently at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Together with Christina Ciupke she is working on a project founded by the Vol...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Vanessa Wills is a political philosopher, ethicist, educator, and activist working in Washington, DC. She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. In 2019/20, she is additionally the DAAD Visiting Chair in Ethics and Practice at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität’s Munich Center for Ethics. Her areas of specialization are moral, social, and political philosophy, nineteenth century German philosophy (especially Karl Marx), and the philosophy of race. Her research is im...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Professor Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specialises on the problem of violence. He is the author of some fifteen books and edited volumes, along with over one hundred academic and media articles. Throughout 2015-17, Brad was invited to lead a dedicated series for The New York Times (The Stone) on violence. He is currently the lead editor for dedicated section on violence and the arts/critical theory with The Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2018, ...
Oct 02, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 3
The brilliant Professor Camila Vergara speaks about the revolutionary possibilities of plebian power, mass democracy, and constituent politics and resistance in Chile.
Sep 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Ciara Cremin teaches in sociology at university of Auckland and leads the gender studies programme there. She’s written a number of books that bring together Marx and psychoanalytic theory to map the human condition in capitalism today. Her books include Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism and since coming out Man-Made Woman and now The Future is Feminine.
Sep 10, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Ayesha Hameed is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London in London, UK. Since 2014 Hameed’s multi-chapter project ' Black Atlantis ' has looked at the Black Atlantic and its afterlives in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and soundsystems and in outer space. Through videos, audio essays and performance lectures, she examines how to think through sound, image, water, violence and history as elements of ...
Mar 13, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Rutger Claassen is Professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University. Most of his research is at the intersection of politics, economics and ethics, asking fundamental theoretical and normative questions about the way our economies are structured. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a research project on The Business Corporation as a Political Actor , funded by the European Research Council (ERC-Consolidat...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, journalist, and public intellectual from Chile writing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and domination. She is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia University Law School, and author of Systemic Corruption. Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020). She also is currently advising local councils in Chile to pa...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Albert Weale is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University College London, where he still teaches and researches. Earlier in his career he worked at the Universities of Newcastle, York, East Anglia and Essex. He stayed at Essex more than 17 years. His research and writing have concentrated on issues of political theory and public policy, especially health policy, environmental policy, the theory of justice and democratic theory. In...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Zack Walsh is a Senior Researcher of Economics at the One Project . He completed doctoral coursework in Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. He holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Foguang University, Taiwan and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Denison University. He was a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany where he co-led the A Mindset for the Anthropocene (AMA) project . He is also a fellow of the Courage of Care Co...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Rayelle Davis is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Western Md. She has lived in Appalachia for my entire life and started working as a counselor as the crisis of the opioid epidemic heavily impacted this area. She continues to work as a therapist and has went back to school to earn her PhD. Cultural factors that impact mental health treatment delivery in rural area such as Appalachia is my passion and research focus
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Gavin Mueller is a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy (Routledge, 2019) and Breaking Things at Work (Verso, 2021), and a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine.
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Brendan McQuade earned his BA at Hampshire College and MA and PhD at Binghamton University (SUNY). He previously taught at DePaul University in the International Studies Department and at SUNY-Cortland in the Sociology/Anthropology Department. His areas of interest are historical sociology, state theory, the critique of security, and social movements. His most recent book is Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Tanner Mirrlees is an associate professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. Mirrlees is the author of Hearts and Mines: The US Empire’s Cultural Industry (UBC Press, 2016), Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (Routledge, 2013), co-author of EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2019), and co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (Rowman ...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 23
A. Naomi Paik is an associate professor of Asian American studies with appointments in Gender & Women's studies and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She published Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (UNC Press, 2016; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017). Her book Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Centur...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Professor Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University. He is the author of more than thirty books...
Jul 14, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in Anglophone and Related Literatures in the Faculty of English and Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence, The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration, and Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.
Jul 03, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Vanessa Wills is a political philosopher, ethicist, educator, and activist working in Washington, DC. She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. In 2019/20, she is additionally the DAAD Visiting Chair in Ethics and Practice at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität’s Munich Center for Ethics. Her areas of specialization are moral, social, and political philosophy, nineteenth century German philosophy (especially Karl Marx), and the philosophy of race. Her research is im...
Jun 21, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Nicole R. Fleetwood is a critic, curator, and professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Fleetwood is the author of the new book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020), as well as On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (2015) and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011). Link to her new book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Mark Bergfeld is the Director of Property Services and UNICARE at the union federation UNI Global Union - Europa. He holds a PhD from Queen Mary. He has written extensively on labour issues, migration and social movements. He runs a regular newsletter on the world of work tinyletter.com/mdbergfeld . In another lifetime, he was a student of Peter Bloom . Sara Farris is sociologist teaching at Goldsmiths whose latest book is the brilliant "In the name of women's right. The rise of femonationalism"...
May 25, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This episode is in honour of Azul Rojas Marin and the struggle for LGBTQ rights around the world. Clara Sandoval is Professor of Human Rights Law at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and co-director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex. Clara is co-authored of the book Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System (OUP, 2019). Chris Esdaile is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Previously, he worked at Leigh Day, Solicitors,...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Anam Kuraishi is a PhD student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Representative in the government department of the University of Essex. Her work is focused on theorizing the post-truth phenomenon and examining citizen responses to political information in ethnically diverse democracies of the Global South. Amelia Horgan is a writer and researcher. She is currently writing a PhD on feminism and the philosophy of work. Her first book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism is out next year with ...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Dr Phoebe V Moore’s research looks at the impact of technology on work from a critical perspective. Currently, Moore is leading a large European Parliament project on workplace surveillance, data protection and privacy, where she looks at workplace monitoring and tracking practices in the context of the GPDR. Moore is writing her next book, called The Smart Worker: Symptoms and Structure of Artificial Intelligence, where she argues that the development of artificial intelligence augmented tools ...
May 03, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Doug Enaa Greene is an independent Marxist historian living in the greater Boston area. He is the author of Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution available from Haymarket Books on the 19th century revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui and a forthcoming biography of the democratic socialist Michael Harrington. A prolific author, Doug's work has been published in many places such as Socialism and Democracy, LINKS The International Journal of Socialist Renewal, and Counterpunch. His w...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Charlene Carruthers is a political strategist, writer and leading community organizer in today’s movement for Black liberation. She is the founder of the Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation and author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, available in English and Spanish languages. She has led grassroots and digital strategy campaigns for national organizations including the Center for Community Change, the Women's Media Center, ColorOfChange.or...
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 12
Councillor Matthew Brown is Leader of Preston City Council in the north of England, where he has been widely credited as the driving force behind the ‘Preston model’, an economic strategy at the city and county level that presents a comprehensive, interlinked approach to community wealth building as a practical and transformative alternative to austerity and disinvestment. First elected to represent the Tulketh ward in 2002, Councillor Matthew Brown subsequently took on portfolios that included ...
Mar 28, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 11
We welcome back podcast comrade and friend Dr. Keir Milburn. In this episode, we focus on the effect that this current pandemic will have on politics in the long term and in forging radical new forms of inter-generational cooperation and solidarity. The revolution is not only possible, it is for all ages!
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and professor at The New School in New York City. His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy introduces the concept of "platform cooperativism" as a way of joining the worker co-op model with the digital economy. His edited volumes include Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory, and Ours to Hack and to Own: Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (listed by Wired M...
Mar 12, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative building digital tools for grassroots activists. Their aim is to empower people to directly resist all forms of oppression, form more resilient and autonomous communities, and organise themselves at ever larger scales. Alex Worrad-Andrews is a member and software engineer.
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. His most recent publications include the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics and the book Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism and Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity 2020). Right now he is a Visiting Professor in the Humanities at at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Rhode Island, until May. He writes regularly for the Briti...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 7
