Best Capitalist Exploits Podcasts (2024)

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The Singularity Bluff - Christian Nagler on Silicon Valley's Dangerous Dreams (EoP09) 1:32:22

6d ago1:32:22

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What if we handed some of the most consequential decisions about the future of humanity and the planet to a bunch of game-obsessed nerds? From artificial intelligence to the future of money, from the way we find love to the way we come to know our bodies and communities, Silicon Valley has become one of the most revolutionary and transformative for…

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Podcast 18 -Beware The Abandoned -Chapter 33 - Sightseeing 26 June 2024 29:48

7d ago29:48

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Podcast 17 -Novel - BEWARE THE ABANDONED - Chapters 31 and 32 - 14 June 2024 30:08

19d ago30:08

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Toyed With - Alfie Bown on the gamification of love (EoP08) 1:16:03

27d ago1:16:03

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In an age when our most intimate connections with others are mediated by gamified interfaces, it’s high time to revisit how the game of love became the plaything of capital. Alfie Bown joins us for episode 8 to explore the joys and horrors of the ero-tech and the burning question: can hookup apps, dating sims and thirst traps can be reclaimed for t…

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Podcast16 Novel Beware The Abandoned Chapters 27, 28, 29 and 30 on June 6 of 2024 1:07:13

1M ago1:07:13

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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"It Is What It Is" - Sophie Lewis on Love Island and the banality of capitalist eros (EoP07) 1:20:57

1M ago1:20:57

1:20:57

On the blockbuster "reality" tv show "Love Island," an even number of conventionally attractive cis men and women compete to partner up and win the audience's affection in a spectacle that, like most of its kind, sees producers push heteronormative cliches to their absurd and humiliating limits. On this episode, theorist and author Sophie Lewis joi…

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Podcast 16 -Beware The Abandoned - Chapter 27-THE INHERITANCE-12may2024 25:58

2M ago25:58

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Gaming Authority - Thiago Falcão on exploitation & far-right politics in the games industry (EoP06) 52:15

2M ago52:15

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The worldwide gaming market is estimated at $347 billion. That's a hefty chunk of change, power and influence which lies in the hands of an exceptionally few game makers primarily in the global north. How does the culture of an industry like gaming leak into the broader political sphere? Episode 6 of "The Exploits of Play" features guest Thiago Fal…

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The Cheating Other - Gargi Bhattacharyya on how racial capitalism scams us twice (EoP05) 1:03:01

2M ago1:03:01

1:03:01

Race and capitalism have always shaped one another, but what do we make of their relationship in an age when both systems increasingly toy with our lives in apocalyptic ways? How has the rhetoric of the cheat become part of a vicious racist reactionary politics, and what's the role of humour and fun in the struggle for a better world?Gargi Bhattach…

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PODCAST 15 - BEWARE THE ABANDONED - Chapter 24 (Preparation) Chapter 25 (The Day of Reckoning) Chapter 26 (Overboard) 42:51

3M ago42:51

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Frontiers of Play - Mary Flanagan on games, colonialism, and imagination (EoP04) 53:24

3M ago53:24

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Leading game scholar, game designer and game company impresario Mary Flanagan joins us to talk about themes in her new book (co-authoered with Mikael Jakobsson) Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games. Along the way we speak about the yet fully realized potential of games to transform society.Mary Flanagan i…

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Podcast 14 -Novel - Beware The Abandoned - Chapters 22 and 23 on 25 March 2024 2:08

3M ago2:08

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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All Against All - Tom Boland on our modern gladiators and the real-world hunger games (EoP03) 57:12

3M ago57:12

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From Squid Game to Hunger Games to Fortnite, how did the trope of cruel, inescapable games become so central to the stories that animate 21st century neoliberal capitalism? With tom Boland We explore how the game changes the player and how this fits into western literature's beloved 'character arc', as well as the new-age obsession with personal tr…

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Podcast 13 - Chapter 21 Naomi's Folly - Novel -Beware The Abandoned -6 March 2024 29:23

4M ago29:23

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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The Game at War with the World- S.M. Amadae on the powers behind the prisoners' dilemma (EoP02) 1:21:31

4M ago1:21:31

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From military strategy to the corporate imaginary, from public policy to the worldview of Big Tech, game theory has dramatically reshaped power and the way live. On this second episode of THE EXPLOITS OF PLAY we speak with S. L. Amadae about how game theory and its elemental puzzle, the prisoner's dilemma, won the war for our hearts and minds, and …

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Podcast 12 -Novel - Beware The Abandoned -Chapter 20 The Heiress - on 11 March 2024 15:37

4M ago15:37

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Podcast - 11 - Beware The Abandoned - Chapters 16-17-18 -19 on March 1 or 2024 28:16

4M ago28:16

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Conspiracy Plays - Hugh Davies on the temptations of alternate reality (EoP01) 1:16:10

4M ago1:16:10

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On this first episode of THE EXPLOITS OF PLAY we speak with Hugh Davies about alternate reality games and gaming and the paranoid world of conspiracism.More information: https://weirdeconomies.com/podcasts/exploits-of-playTHE EXPLOITS OF PLAY is a 10-episode podcast about how games and play have moved from the margin to the centre of global capital…

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Podcast 10 -Novel Beware The Abandoned - Chapter 15 - Matteo Dafina - 23 Feb 2024 10:21

4M ago10:21

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Podcast 9 - Novel - Beware The Abandoned- Chapter 14 - Success 12:36

4M ago12:36

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Colour, corporations and other fictions - Max Haiven 24:41

5M ago24:41

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This essay, which explores histories of the corporation, race and (intellectual) property regimes, appeared in a catalogue published to accompany Danish artist Hannibal Andersen’s 2022 exhibition The Abstract Expression of Privatization. In that work, an installation and a large mural explored corporate claims to the ownership of certain colours. T…

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Podcast 8 - Novel BEWARE THE ABANDONED - Chapters 12 -Benji Beach and Chapter 13 -The Club 37:33

5M ago37:33

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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PODCAST 7 - Ian Duncan MacDonald's Novel -BEWARE THE ABANDONED - Chapter 10 PHILADELPHIA and Chapter 11 PURGATORY 28:49

5M ago28:49

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Podcast 6 - Chapter 9, The Sanctuary - Beware The Abandoned - 1 of 3 Novels by Ian Duncan MacDonald 44:35

5M ago44:35

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Writing SF with Amazon Workers: Introducing the Worker as Futurist Project (Max Haiven) 19:50

5M ago19:50

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Amazon, a corporation that is by some estimates the world's largest private employer, has succeeded in part because of a kind of sci-fi storytelling that places the firm at the forefront of capitalism, technology and human achievement. But if it presents a utopian narrative of itself, its workers pay the price, many of them toiling in dystopian con…

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Podcast 5 -Chapter 8, REVENGE - Beware The Abandoned - 3 Novels-23jan24 27:01

6M ago27:01

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night, I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE,…

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Podcast 4 of the novel BEWARE THE ABANDONED chapter 7 on 16 January 2023 20:17

6M ago20:17

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “..I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE…

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Podcast 3 Chapters 5 and 6 Beware The Abandoned 12 January 24 Three Suspense Novels 56:38

6M ago56:38

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “..I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE…

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Podcast 2 of the novel Beware the Abandoned Chapters 3 and 4 29:41

6M ago29:41

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “..I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE…

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BEWARE THE ABANDONED....Chapters#1 She Tried to Scream....Chapter #2 Paris 37:12

7M ago37:12

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One reader of “BEWARE THE ABANDONED”, in her Amazon review, wrote, “..I just finished this thriller book, BEWARE THE ABANDONED, I could not stop reading it. Last night I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research, and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE…

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Extrapolation, Speculation, Fabulation - Steven Shaviro on the work of science fiction (WSS013) 47:31

7M ago47:31

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Steven Shaviro is a cultural critic and leading theorist of the social roles of science fiction and author of many books, including The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (2014) and Discognition (2016). His book on science fiction, Fluid Futures, will be published in 2024. In this interview, he helps us understand the history of science fic…

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No Worker is Disposable, from Amazon to Gaza - with Mostafa Henaway (WSS012) 1:25:22

8M ago1:25:22

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In the thick of the pandemic, Montreal-based writer and organizer Mostafa Henaway worked at an Amazon fulfillment centre to learn how "essential" workers were made disposable in the name of corporate profits. In this episode, he shares stories and critical reflections on the sci-fi nature of Amazon's brand of capitalism, and the implications for wo…

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Portrait of the Author as Amazon Worker - Heike Geissler on work and writing (WSS011) 57:26

9M ago57:26

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Heike Geissler is a prominent German novelist and writer who lives and works in Leipzig, once a major city in communist former "East Germany." Today, it is a major logistics hub for Amazon and site of the "reunified" country's first strike against the American corporation in 2013.In her 2014 memoir Saisonarbeit (published in English in 2018 as Seas…

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Poetry By and For Workers - The Worker Writers School (WSS010) 59:30

9M ago59:30

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Since 2011, the poet Mark Nowak has been facilitating rank-and-file workers' writing through the Workers Writers School. In collaboration with PEN, trade unions and other organizations, the WSS's workshops "create a space for participants to re-imagine their working lives, nurture new literary voices directly from the global working class, and prod…

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Workers' Writing as Revolutionary Praxis - Jamie Woodcock on Workers' Inquiry and SF (WSS09) 50:58

9M ago50:58

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How has writing been part of the coming-to-consciousness of the working class and our ability to imagine and fight for different futures? We speak with Jamie Woodcock, senior lecturer of management at the University of Essex about the history of Workers' Inquiry, a method where intellectuals and workers collaborate to learn about the changing natur…

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Chokepoint! - Cory Doctorow on sci-fi and Amazon's empire (WSS08) 49:14

10M ago49:14

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Cory Doctorow is an essayist, novelist, activist, and public intellectual whose work focuses on themes of technology, intellectual property and the prospects for freedom in our digital age. Since the 1990s he’s been on the forefront of struggles for the rights of creators, including ongoing work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Today, he is…

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Prototyping Ways of Being - Syrus Marcus Ware on sci-fi activism and imagination (WSS07) 52:56

10M ago52:56

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Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, Syrus Marcus Ware explores the importance of future imagining for Black, queer, trans, disability and collective liberation projects. He speaks to us about the importance of speculative fiction for social movement organizers and radical dreamers. Syrus is a Vanier…

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Future Books - Léonicka Valcius on the work of the literary agent (WSS06) 51:10

10M ago51:10

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Léonicka Valcius is a literary agent specializing in championing the work of racialized and equity-seeking writers in genres including YA fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, kid lit, romance and sci-fi. In this interview, Léonicka breaks down how the publishing industry is changing and the consequences, good and bad, for emerging authors trying t…

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Robots+workers+warehouses - Alessandro Delfanti on technology and struggle at Amazon (WSS05) 42:10

11M ago42:10

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Amazon presents its "revolution" in logistics as a bloodless technological coup against the forces of convention, waged in the name of customer satisfaction. But in Alessandro Delfanti's book The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon, the University of Toronto professor reveals that its labour exploitation all the way down. In this episode he hel…

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"We've been through our own apocalypse" - David Robertson on Indigenous speculative fiction (WSS04) 49:16

11M ago49:16

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In his 2020 memoir Black Water, award-winning author David A. Robertson reflects on how his Cree heritage and his family's survival of colonialism has shaped his imagination. In this conversation, he speaks of the joys and challenges of writing speculative fiction for adults and children, informed by Indigenous worldviews and struggles. Approaching…

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Amazon VS the Radical Imagination - Robin DG Kelley on the importance of freedom dreams (WSS03) 35:40

12M ago35:40

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The legendary thinker and radical historian Robin DG Kelley joins us to discuss the importance of the radical imagination and the history of workers' writing. Kelley is author of many books on the history of labour and anti-racist struggles, and about luminary proletarian creative figures. These include: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imaginatio…

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Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02) 40:06

12M ago40:06

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Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. H…

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Empire of Words - Marc McGurl on Amazon and the fate of Literature (WSS01) 45:08

12M ago45:08

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In Marc McGurls " Everything and Less" the Stanford University professor of American literature explores the fate of the novel in the "Age of Amazon." Well known for his illuminating studies of the institutions that surround how we read and write, McGurl turns his attention to what he suggests may be the most important shift in literature in our mo…

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An interview with an (ex)conspiracist - with Brent Lee (CGCG20) 1:00:01

2y ago1:00:01

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For 15 years Brent Lee not only believed in conspiracy theories but helped produce and popularize them. Today, he warns others about both the danger and the appeal of conspiratorial world-building. We have been taught to imagine that people fall into the proverbial "rabbit hole" because of isolation, idiocy and paranoia. But in this interview, Bren…

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The empire plays back: Postcolonial countergaming - With Souvik Mukherjee (CGCG19) 1:03:38

2+ y ago1:03:38

1:03:38

How do today's videogames inherit and reiterate colonial ideologies, tropes and ways of seeing the world? Can such games be played “against the grain" in ways that defy the colonial script? We speak with Souvik Mukherjee.Dr Souvik Mukherjee is assistant professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India. Souv…

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We have seen the conspiracists and they are us - with Clare Birchall and Peter Knight (CGCG18) 1:01:26

2+ y ago1:01:26

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The line separating conspiracy theories from "legitimate" political discourse or critical theory is far from sharp. Renowned scholars Peter Knight and Clare Birchall join us to to reveal what's at stake and the broader (neoliberal capitalist) context.Clare Birchall is Reader in Contemporary Culture at King’s College London. She is the author of Kno…

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Listen, Gamer! For radical play and playful radicalism - with Marijam Didžgalvytė (CGCG17) 50:03

2+ y ago50:03

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The left's relationship with games is "complicated." We're joined by labour organizer, YouTuber, writer and teacher Marijam Didžgalvytė to explain why, and what can be done about it.Marijam Didžgalvytė is a creator of content at the intersection between videogames and politics. She lectures at the Royal Holloway, University of London and is a Marke…

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Anti-capitalist games and other creative conspiracies - with Paolo Pedercini (CGCG016) 1:03:23

2+ y ago1:03:23

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With game designer and professor Paolo Pedercini we explore the possibility of anti-capitalist games and what's behind today's conspiracy movements.Paolo Pedercini is a game developer, curator and educator. He teaches digital media production and experimental game design at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2003 he works under …

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We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself (book presentation with Isa Fremeaux and Jay Jordan) 55:40

2+ y ago55:40

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Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan of the Laboratory for the Insurectionary Imagination present their 2021 book **We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones** published by the RiVAL-affiliated VAGABONDS series of Pluto Press in cooperation with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest============For a video version of …

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Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism 24:31

2+ y ago24:31

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The following piece by Max Haiven, A. T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou was pubished in the Los Angeles Review of Books on Saturday, 13 November 2021 and is available here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/whither-harmony-square-conspiracy-games-in-late-capitalismBy RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab

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