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Coming to America: From Mao's China to American Suburbia

Through one family's journey from socialist China to the United States, we explore the gulf between the mythology of the American Dream and the realities of American capitalism. From the Cultural Revolution and Voice of America to racial and class hierarchies, liberal academia, a ... Show more

. 1h 48min

Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key

Gabriel Rockhill joins Breht to discuss his book Requiem for French Theory, coauthored with Aymeric Monville, and to challenge the radical reputation of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze. Situating their rise within the Cold War, Rockhill examines how intelligence a ... Show more

. 1h 35min

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

. 1h 8min

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

. 2h 5min