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Erin McElroy: Hacking in “Postsocialist” Times—Unbecoming Silicon ValleyEpisode
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...
Was Stanford Firing 23 Lecturers in Creative Writing Really Necessary? A Conversation with Lecturers and Students
Recently, twenty-three lecturers in the highly successful Creative Writing program at Stanford...
Documenting the Fight Against the Palestine Exception: A Conversation with Filmmakers Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth
The Palestine Exception opens as campus encampments increase across the US in protest against...
Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood: What to Make of the Democratic Convention?
Today we speak with journalists and political commentators Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood...
US Immigration and Abolitionist Sanctuary: A Conversation with A. Naomi Paik and Arianna Salgado
Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the...
How Are Settler Colonialism, Imperialism, and Elitism Baked into the US Constitution? Aziz Rana on The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them
Today we speak with legal scholar and historian Aziz Rana about his deep study into the ways the...
Priyamvada Gopal and Françoise Vergès on the Recent Elections in Britain and France
For our snap episode on the snap elections in the UK and France, we're joined by eminent...