by efc8d-admin | Jun 19, 2025 | Politics and Culture
Today on Speaking Out of Place I am joined by two of my favorite guests—Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood. As always, this is a free-wheeling, unscripted conversation amongst friends and political allies. This time we talk about the New York City mayor’s race, Elon...
by efc8d-admin | Jun 2, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Antifascism, Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Gender, Labor, Philosophy, Politics and Culture, Recovering Radical Histories, Technologies
Today I talk with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide, ecocide, disease, fascism, and viral capitalism, but...
by efc8d-admin | May 25, 2025 | Capitalism, Fascism, Gender, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies
Worries about the so-called “pussification of Silicon Valley” are not at all new. Becca Lewis’ work reaches far back in American history to trace the nexus of gender, technology, and entrepreneurship, such that what we find today seems a foregone conclusion. In...
by efc8d-admin | Mar 16, 2025 | Palestine, Politics and Culture, Race, Recovering Radical Histories
In today’s show, I speak with Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi about two pathbreaking studies which create new ways of thinking about populations bound by complex and contradictory notions of loyalty and psychological investment. Based on meticulous archival research and oral...
by efc8d-admin | Mar 9, 2025 | Politics and Culture, Technologies, The Arts
Today on Speaking Out of Place I talk with Sarah T Roberts about the hidden humans behind Artificial Intelligence, which is reliant on executives and business managers to direct AI to promote their brand and low-level, out-sourced, and poorly paid content managers to...