https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rpw7b-1a7ddc5 On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains. Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks to Alex and George about organising workers…
Month: March 2026
/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tvsu7-1a72d18 On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose contents have been hollowed out. What is…
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/539/ Reading Club: Where’s Our Flying Cars?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zxter-1a6d6b7 On the slowing rate of technological progress. Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 essay, Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit. This builds on two of this year's themes:…
/538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9s5h-1a67eb8 On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and why we should ask "what…
