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Empire Unhinged with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana Jun 11, 2020

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Dan interviews returning guests Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the long history behind the crisis of American imperial legitimation that has become so manifest amid the pandemic.

Some works by Bâli and Rana cited in this interview:
bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/asl%C4%B1-u-b%C3%A2li-aziz-rana-sanctions-are-inhumane%E2%80%94now-and-always
lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/constitutionalism-and-american-imperial-imagination

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Antibody, Ep 2: Making Contact Jun 08, 2020

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Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all.

In this episode:

The Corner (featuring Pablo Alvarado and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network)

Stranger Pleasure (featuring Samuel Delany; produced by David Gutherz)

One House in Oakland (produced by Sophie Kasakove)

Role Call (produced by Andrea Long Chu)

Support day laborer economic survival with a contribution at ndlon.org

Uprising with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali Jun 04, 2020

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Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed.

Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.org

Check out Malaika’s short film Left Out.

Antibody, Ep 1: Existing Conditions May 31, 2020

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Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all.

In this episode:

Zoom Canvass (featuring Nikil Saval)

Hardwood Flesh (produced by Ari Mejia)

Dial 3 to Admit Your Personal Failure (produced by Ian Lewis and Caroline Kanner)

You Can’t Go Home Again (written by Alex Press)

The International Trans Person Helpline (produced by Cass Adair and Arlie Adlington)

Introducing Antibody, a Dig special series on COVID-19 May 29, 2020

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From The Dig and Jacobin: a new narrative series about how COVID-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. The first of three episodes is coming soon.

Ebola in West Africa with Adia Benton May 23, 2020

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Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today.

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Science for the People with Nafis Hasan and Frank Rosenthal May 17, 2020

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Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science.

Subscribe to Science for the People at magazine.ScienceForThePeople.org

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From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser May 09, 2020

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Dan is playing catch up. Here’s a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism’s totality, including socially reproductive work that makes possible the world that capitalism exploits. This is painfully relevant today as people everywhere do the work of staying at home and social distancing to beat this pandemic while capitalists reap the rewards of the world’s reproduction.

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Don’t Blame Robots with Aaron Benanav May 01, 2020

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Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn’t that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse.

Read “Automation and the Future of Work” in New Left Review. Parts one and two.

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Bigger Than Bernie with Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht Apr 23, 2020

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Dan interviews Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, the authors of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, to assess the campaign and the way forward.

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