From Reagan to Trump: Neoliberalism, Class War, and American Decadence

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O22: Organizing Against Police Brutality w/ Families Demanding Justice

October 22 is the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality (O22), a day of coordinated action across the country demanding justice for those killed and brutalized by police and an end to the epidemic of police violence in the United States. In this episode, Breht is joine ...  Show more

An Inhuman Future: Nick Land, Techno-Accelerationism, and the Dark Enlightenment

In this episode Alyson and Breht enter the strange and unsettling world of Nick Land: Marx, Nietzsche, Delueze, cybernetics, accelerationism, and the possibility that capitalism is becoming something more than a human social system. For Land, techno-capital may be an inhuman proc ...  Show more

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