This Is Hell!
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 649:35:21
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Synopsis
Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
Episodes
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1281: India's farm law disaster / Avik Saha
11/01/2021 Duration: 01h05minLawyer and farmer activist Avik Saha on the planned corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.
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1280: Opioid deaths and deindustrialization / Peter Ikeler
07/01/2021 Duration: 01h14minSociologist Peter Ikeler on the link between mass opioid death and deindustrialization in the US, and his paper "Labor relations and the overdose crisis in the United States" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/16066359.2020.1793962?journalCode=iart20
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1279: Mobility and climate disaster / Mimi Sheller
06/01/2021 Duration: 01h07minSociologist Mimi Sheller on the politics of movement and refuge under climate change, and her book "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/island-futures
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1278: Boxing and Blackness / Gerald Horne
05/01/2021 Duration: 01h15minHistorian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men in America, and his book “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing” from International Publishers. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-bittersweet-science-racism-racketeering-an-the-political-economy-of-boxing/
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Four border stories from Chuck's youth on drugs.
25/12/2020 Duration: 40minYour bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz shares four stories of crossing the US-Canada border on/with drugs sometime in the early 1980s. Unlocked from the Patreon podcast. Merry Christmas everybody.
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1277: Ad hoc, end of year.
17/12/2020 Duration: 55minChuck explains what he learned about farmer strikes in India from a cancelled interview, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells how he'll win the war.
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1276: Global feminisms / Lucy Delap
16/12/2020 Duration: 01h07minHistorian Lucy Delap on her new book "Feminisms: A Global History" from University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo71583482.html
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1275: Telling the truth about nature / Bram Büscher
15/12/2020 Duration: 01h09minSociologist Bram Büscher on his new book "The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520371453/the-truth-about-nature
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1274: Uber's wreckage in Kenya / Amanda Sperber
10/12/2020 Duration: 01h06minJournalist Amanda Sperber on her report "Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it's ruined their lives." for NBC News / 100 Reporters / Journalists for Transparency, and in a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen juggles delusions about democracy. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uber-made-big-promises-kenya-drivers-say-it-s-ruined-n1247964
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1273: Venezuela parliamentary election report / Federico Fuentes
09/12/2020 Duration: 01h19minJournalist Federico Fuentes reports on Venezuela's recent parliamentary elections and his article "Why Venezuela’s National Assembly elections matter" for Green Left. https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/why-venezuelas-national-assembly-elections-matter
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1272: The past and future of epidemics / Frank Snowden
08/12/2020 Duration: 01h06minHistorian Frank M. Snowden on his book " Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present" via Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192216/epidemics-and-society
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1271: Population control in 1970s India / Shivani Shedde
07/12/2020 Duration: 01h03minArchitect Shivani Shedde on poverty and population control in Indira Gandhi-era India, and her article "Housing the Poor for a Healthy Planet and Healthy Nation" for e-flux. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/sick-architecture/345269/housing-the-poor-for-a-healthy-planet-and-healthy-nation/
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1270: The future of seafloor extraction / Rebecca McCarthy
03/12/2020 Duration: 01h06minWriter Rebecca McCarthy on her Baffler article "Deep Sea Rush," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen swats the zeitgeist zombies. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/deep-sea-rush-mccarthy
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1269: Land inequality, social inequality / Ward Anseeuw
02/12/2020 Duration: 59minWard Anseeuw on the International Land Coalition report "Uneven Ground: Land inequalities at the heart of unequal societies. "https://www.landcoalition.org/en/uneven-ground/report-and-papers/
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1268: Brazil municipal election report / Brian Mier
30/11/2020 Duration: 01h09minTeleSur English's Brian Mier reports on far-right losses, and gains for both the left and center-right in Brazil's 2020 municipal elections.
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1267: Statehood and pandemic in Puerto Rico / Dave Buchen
25/11/2020 Duration: 01h18minOur Man in San Juan, Dave Buchen reports on a statehood vote in Puerto Rico, mid-pandemic and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen and his anesthesiologist give a stern warning.
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1266: On utopia / Teppo Eskelinen
24/11/2020 Duration: 01h06minPhilosopher Teppo Eskelinen on "The Revival of Political Imagination: Utopia as Methodology" from Zed Books. https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-revival-of-political-imagination/
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1265: Prisoner resistance at the start of COVID-19 / Duncan Tarr
23/11/2020 Duration: 01h12minResearcher Duncan Tarr on the report "First 90 Days of Prisoner Resistance to COVID-19: Report on Events, Data, and Trends" from Perilous. https://perilouschronicle.com/2020/11/12/covid-prisoner-resistance-first-90-days-full-report/
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1264: Breaks in the drug supply chain / Ann Neumann
19/11/2020 Duration: 01h08minWriter Ann Neumann on her Baffler article "Drugs for the People," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen stands on a principle. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/drugs-for-the-people-neumann
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1263: The end of public school / Jack Schneider + Jennifer Berkshire
18/11/2020 Duration: 01h07minJack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire on their book "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" from The New Press. https://thenewpress.com/books/wolf-schoolhouse-door