Episodes
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Excerpt: /120/ Damaged Beyond Repair ft. Anton Jäger
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
- It might take a while before history starts again, Anton Jäger, Damage
- Are we all covid communists now?, Philip Cunliffe, Medium
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Excerpt: /119/ Reading Club: Digital Socialism
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
On whether new tech can help build decentralised socialism.
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We discuss Evgeny Morozov's New Left Review essay, Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data. A useful companion to this (mentioned by George in the episode) is a lecture given by Morozov, that can be found at the bottom of this page.
Thanks for all the questions, they are addressed in the last third of the episode.
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Excerpt: /118/ Three Articles: Covid
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
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Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract, Editorial, FT
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Herd Immunity is Epidemiological Neoliberalism, The Quarantimes
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We’re on the Brink of Cyberpunk, Kelsey D. Atherton, Slate
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
/117/ Against The Virus ft. John McAfee
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
On freedom in coronavirus times.
John McAfee joins us to address the lockdown, privacy and armed insurrection. Plus: why he prefers Fidel to Che, and how it came to be that his US presidential campaign HQ is in Havana, Cuba.
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Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
/116/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (1) ft. Nick Frayn
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
In the first of an occasional series of episodes on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Nick Frayn, a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign in New England. How have things gone on the campaign trail? What is next for the Democratic primaries delayed by the corona outbreak? Can Bernie regain ground in the primaries against Joe Biden? How will the corona crisis impact the Democratic primaries?
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