This Is Hell!

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Synopsis

Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.

Episodes

  • Disability, abolition, emancipation / Keith Rosenthal

    01/09/2021 Duration: 01h19min

    Writer Keith Rosenthal on his article "Carceral Histories of Disability:An Abolitionist Analysis" for Spectre Journal. https://spectrejournal.com/carceral-histories-of-disability-an-abolitionist-analysis/

  • Racism, medical inequality and Black health / Anne Pollock

    30/08/2021 Duration: 01h18min

    Global health scholar Anne Pollock on her book "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" from The University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening

  • The ends of Roman history / Edward J. Watts

    25/08/2021 Duration: 01h27min

    Historian Edward J. Watts on his book "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome-9780190076719?cc=us&lang=en&

  • The Taliban returns to power / Martine van Bijlert

    24/08/2021 Duration: 01h20min

    Writer and researcher Martine van Bijlert on her articles "The Taleban leadership converges on Kabul as remnants of the republic reposition themselves" and "Afghanistan Has a New Government: The country wonders what the new normal will look like" for The Afghanistan Analysts Network. https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/the-taleban-leadership-converges-on-kabul-as-the-remnants-of-the-republic-try-to-reposition-themselves/ https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/afghanistan-has-a-new-government-the-country-wonders-what-the-new-normal-will-look-like/

  • Safety and justice after policing / Geo Maher

    23/08/2021 Duration: 01h23min

    Writer Geo Maher on his book "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police

  • South Africa's ruling party crisis / Niall Reddy

    05/08/2021 Duration: 01h19min

    Writer Niall Reddy on his article "A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen seeks relief in our nation's capital. https://africasacountry.com/2021/08/a-terrifying-vision-of-south-africas-future

  • Oaxaca's indigenous insurrection / A. S. Dillingham

    04/08/2021 Duration: 01h13min

    Historian A.S. Dillingham on his book "Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico" from Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29754

  • Protests, police, post-democracy / Paul A. Passavant

    03/08/2021 Duration: 01h07min

    Political scientist Paul A. Passavant on his book "Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection" from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/policing-protest

  • Toward Roma liberation / Sebijan Fejzula

    02/08/2021 Duration: 01h16min

    Sebijan Fejzula on her essay "The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/

  • On Zionist violence / Avi Garelick

    29/07/2021 Duration: 01h18min

    Writer Avi Garelick on his article "The Violence is the Point" for Hypocrite Reader. http://hypocritereader.com/98/violence-is-the-point

  • Tyranny, language and history / Jorge Majfud

    28/07/2021 Duration: 01h06min

    International studies scholar Jorge Majfud on his article "Cuba and the US: The Difference Between Dictatorship and Tyranny" for Common Dreams. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/20/cuba-and-us-difference-between-dictatorship-and-tyranny

  • The palm oil disaster / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman

    27/07/2021 Duration: 01h18min

    Journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman on her book "Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything—and Endangered the World" from The New Press. https://thenewpress.com/books/planet-palm

  • Maps of a dying planet / Christina Conklin

    26/07/2021 Duration: 01h12min

    Artist Christina Conklin on her new book "The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis," co-written with Marina Psaros for The New Press. https://thenewpress.com/books/atlas-of-disappearing-places

  • 1368: Haiti and empire / Seth Donnelly

    22/07/2021 Duration: 01h17min

    Haiti Action Committee's Seth Donnelly on Haitian politics and US / Western imperialism, and his article "The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives an avowed centrist a lesson in radical socialist leisurism https://blackagendareport.com/assassination-jovenel-moise-what-next-haiti

  • 1367: Producing Amazon workers / Panos Theodoropoulos

    21/07/2021 Duration: 01h20min

    Writer Panos Theodoropoulos on neoliberal worker identity, building a social commons to challenge capital's grasp, and his article "Rituals of submission: Amazon’s creation of the neoliberal worker" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/amazon-neoliberal-worker/

  • 1366: Individual freedom and collective disaster / Keir Milburn

    20/07/2021 Duration: 01h10min

    Writer Keir Milburn on conceptions of freedom in an unequal society, pandemic lockdowns and the climate crises to come, and his article "‘Freedom Day’ Won’t Set Us Free" for Novara. https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/19/freedom-day-wont-set-us-free/

  • 1365: Connected in crisis / Tanvi Misra

    19/07/2021 Duration: 01h22min

    Writer Tanvi Misra on her article "Broader Crises" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/broader-crises-misra

  • 1365: Vaccine corruption in Brazil / Brian Mier

    15/07/2021 Duration: 01h11min

    São Paulo correspondent Brian Mier on his Brasilwire article "Covid 19 Scandal: Brazilian Military Threatens Senate" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries to tame taboos with internet knowledge. https://www.brasilwire.com/covid-19-scandal-brazilian-military-threatens-senate/

  • 1364: Toward abolitionist agroecology / Maywa Montenegro de Wit

    14/07/2021 Duration: 01h16min

    Political ecologist Maywa Montenegro de Wit on her book "Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention" from Daraja Press and Monthly Review. https://darajapress.com/publication/abolitionist-agroecology-food-sovereignty-and-pandemic-prevention

  • 1363: Violence and humanism / Brad Evans

    13/07/2021 Duration: 01h19min

    Writer Brad Evans on his book "Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity" from Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/ecce-humanitas/9780231184632

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