by efc8d-admin | Dec 8, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Labor, Political Economies, Politics and Culture, Technologies
Today I am delighted to welcome activist and scholar Erin McElroy to the podcast. She is the author of a remarkable book, Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies in Postsocialist Times. At the center of this rich and provocative study is the Romanian city of...
by efc8d-admin | Dec 4, 2025 | Feminism, Human Rights, Iran, War
Today I am honored to speak with Nilo Tabrizy, co-author of a remarkable and powerful book, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising. This interview complements another episode I did with her collaborator, Fatemeh Jamalpour. Ms...
by efc8d-admin | Dec 1, 2025 | Feminism, Human Rights, Iran, Journalism
Today I am deeply honored to speak with journalist Fatemeh Jamalpour about her book, For the Sun After Long Nights, which she wrote with fellow journalist Nilo Tabrizy. In September 2022, the world learned of the murder of a young Kurdish woman in Iran, Mahsa Jina...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 28, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Empire and Colonialism, Environment and Biosphere, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am both excited and frightened to talk with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang, two individuals whose research, writing, and activism has for years insisted on the materiality of the technologies that have brought us things like artificial intelligence, the Cloud,...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 24, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Anti-Zionism, Organizing, Palestine, Technologies
Today I talk with Omar Zahzah about his new book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. This is an immensely informative study, which details the convergence of Zionism, Silicon Valley Big...
