Neighbor Science

Alex and Tony of Minion Death Cult join us to delve into the wild world of libertarian thought. If I sound weirdly quiet at the beginning it's because I had to re-record some lines. If I sound normal then it's because the recording actually went perfectly and there were no technical issues.

Kris and Ryan talk big stupid ugly buildings Show Notes We have a new "open borders communism" shirt design: Merch site

Illegal mining/sand mining Show notes Check out the new Wano Open Borders Communism shirt design: https://teespring.com/open-borders-communism

Ryan and una (@trewbot) discuss Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica

Kris and Ryan do a little bit of imagining what an ecocommunist utopia might look like. Absolutely nothing wrong with that

Kris and Ryan talking about freaking political economy and freaking anime!

Part 2 of our Indonesia episode, freed from the shackles of the paywall since it's an important subject

Kris walks us through a brief history of Indonesia as a background to the current unrest. Show Notes Note, there are some audio issues with this episode, so your phone is fine. Apologies to Alexander of Minion Death Cult for getting his name wrong!

Mel (@coldbrewedtool) from Coffee with Comrades joins us to talk about the history and political economy of the printing and publishing industry. Show notes *This episode was released early on the Patreon feed. To get access to episodes ahead of time, donate to our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/neighborscience  

The second of our series, on Superfreakonomics, with @yungneocon Neighbor Science Merch

Yungneocon comes back for an episode on the extremely popular and extremely bad economics book, Freakonomics. Further reading, courtesy of yungneocon: Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature A Simple Test of Abortion and Crime Abortion and Crime in Canada: A Test of the BMDL Hypothesis Looking Through Broken Windows: The Impact of Neighborhood Disorder on Aggression and Fear of Crime is an Artifact of Research Design The Illusion of Free Markets Punishment and Inequality in America The Growth of Incarceration in the United States The Political Movement that Dared not Speak its own Name: The Neoliberal Thought Collective Under Erasure

**This is part 2, if you haven't heard part 1 this will be weird for you** Ryan and Kris are joined by Sean (@SeanMcCarthyCom), Yogi (@Yogi_Paliwal), and Andy (@andipalmur) of Grubstakers (@grubstakerspod) for an episode on the political economy of fascism. Grubstakers is a podcast about billionaires which we highly recommend! Show notes    

Ryan and Kris are joined by Sean (@SeanMcCarthyCom), Yogi (@Yogi_Paliwal), and Andy (@andipalmur) of Grubstakers (@grubstakerspod) for an episode on the political economy of fascism. Grubstakers is a podcast about billionaires which we highly recommend! Show notes  

Kris and Ryan mine a surprisingly rich topic for its nutrients Show notes Main source: Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Gregory T. Cushman

**This is part 2 of 2. If you didn't listen to part 1 of 2, go back to the previous episode** Part 2 of the second Neighborhood Bloc Party

We go in with no particular topic with Soyboi (@halfasstroknot), Sloane (@SloaneVARipley), John (@exJohnValdez).

Kris and Ryan discuss the evolution of the factory system. Sorry about the abrupt ending, I didn't make time to record an outro and would rather just give you the content now. Show Notes Szostak 1989 - this is the article we reference for most of this part

Kris and Ryan discuss the evolution of the factory system. Sorry about the abrupt ending, I didn't make time to record an outro and would rather just give you the content now. Show Notes Szostak 1989 - this is the article we reference for most of this part

An episode about pirates, with a return appearance by our favorite drunken sailor, Soyboi of the Deep (@halfasstroknot) Show Notes  

**This is Part 2, if you have not listened to Part 1, go to the previous episode first** We are joined by John (@exJohnValdez) from Pastrami Hour to talk about an article Ryan wrote on the state & class. Article