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Nignorance from across the diaspora. We discuss politics and pop culture from a left perspective. Enjoy and tell a friend.
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Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Cyberpunk and Cyberdystopia w/ RU Siris and Doug Lain
There was once a time where information and communications technology were seen as having an emancipatory potential. To some in the 1980s and 1990s, we were on the verge of a techno-utopia. However, in recent years, this dream has turned to dust with the rise of big tech capitalism, algorithmic data collection, mass surveillance, and social media disinformation. What happen to the dream of a better tomorrow? Do we live in a cyber dystopia? And what are the prospects for emancipation from this freaky machine?
RU Sirius & Doug Lain
RU Sirius, futurist, cyberpunk, and former editor of Mondo 2000 joins with Douglas Lain, formerly associated with Zer0 Books, to talk about today's Cyber Dystopia and his upcoming book The Freaks in the Machine.
About TIR
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The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw
Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Readings
Freaks in the Machine
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
From early points of Black thought in the West there has been a persistent trend rooted in the need for racial vindication and the politics of redemption. These notions are rooted in the idea that Black people must vindicate themselves collectively as a race to their oppressors in order to be redeemed. These ideas can be seen even in the intellectual work of early Haitian founding fathers as well as Black thinkers from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey. How sound has it been to assume the politics of redemption as a vehicle of Black liberation? Does such thinking do anything but replicate the power dynamics that allowed belief in racial inferiority? Is there any materialist value in such politics, or are they a burdensome relic of times gone past?
About TIR
Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents
Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube!
THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Readings
The Politics of Redemption and Black Leadership Revisited
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-politics-of-redemptio_b_2937587
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
The brutality and invasiveness of the capitalist imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was readily evident. With utter ruthlessness the imperial powers of the era smashed opened markets with gunboats and plundered the wealth of Asia and Africa through conquest and occupation. The process of decolonialization in the 1960s and 1970s raised hopes that a new era of peace and prosperity was about to dawn in those parts of the world that had been ravaged by imperialist exploitation. Unfortunately, those hopes have been dashed by the rise of informal networks and methodologies of imperial dominations. While the territorial empires of old no longer exist and imperialism is now a dirty word, behind the façade of independence, the peoples of the developing world continue to labor under foreign economic and political domination. However, today this domination is rarely exercised directly. Instead, it is often realized through indirect economic pressure with so-called international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank acting as the vanguard of this insidious neo-colonial order. What are the systems that perpetuate this state of affairs? How do the IMF and World Bank serve the interests of western capitalism? And what is the cost to people in the developing world? We ask these questions and more. This is Revolution.
Owen Schalk
Owen Schalk is a writer from Winnipeg. His short stories have been published by Fairlight Books, Sobotka Literary Magazine, Goat's Milk Magazine, and others, and his political analyses have been featured in Alborada, People's Voice, and Protean Magazine. He is a regular contributor to Canadian Dimension, and you can read his new essay on the culture industry and the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the November edition of Monthly Review.
About TIR
Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents
Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube!
THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw
Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com
Get the show's music here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/album/coronavirus-sessions
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Before the economic shock of the COVID pandemic, homelessness and affordable housing was becoming a major issue in many blue cities and states across the country. With the eviction moratorium lifted, what protections do poor and working-class people have to stave off homelessness in gentrifying cities? A recent U.S Census Bureau HouseHold Pulse survey is estimating we could have 4.3 million Americans evicted and foreclosed on. Will the Biden ``Build Back Better” infrastructure bill be enough to try to curb this potential homelessness crisis?
About Randy Shaw:
Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco's Tenderloin Housing Clinic and the Editor-in-Chief of the online daily newspaper "Beyond Chron." He is the author of three books, "Beyond the Fields", "The Activist's Handbook", and "Reclaiming America".
Get Randy's Book, "Generation Priced Out" here:
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021