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Links:

• Dr. Vincent Lloyd’s Faculty Bio
• Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination (Yale UP, 2022) Press website
• Villanova University Center for Political Theology and Political Theology Network Blog 
  

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Links:

• Dr. Breea Willingham on twitter and at the Jamii Sisterhood
• Volume I, Issue 1 of the Journal of Higher Education in Prison
• The Jamii Sisterhood on facebook, including the announcement of their Spring 2022 symposium
• SUNY Plattsburgh’s contribution to States of Incarceration, “Cuffs to Classroom: College in Prison — How Can Higher Education Redefine Mass Incarceration in New York’s North Country“; Mountain Lake PBS coverage of the exhibition
• Willingham’s TedXArcadia talk, “Blinded By My Black Skin: The Hyper (In)visibility of Black Women“

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Links:

• De Beistegui’s homepage at University of Warwick
• De Beistegui, “The Political Honour of Psychoanalysis” talk at Warwick (2015)
• Relevant Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries: desire; recognition; Foucault
• Combahee River Collective Statement at Black Past
• Remembering Lauren Berlant (UChicago; Duke)
• Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights
• Wendy Brown, “Suffering Rights as Paradoxes” (2000) in Constellations

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Links:

• Purdy talk about After Nature at Duke in 2015
• “The New Nature” forum at Boston Review
• Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
• Kyle Whyte, “Indigenous environmental justice: Anti-colonial action through kinship“
• Collected Murray Bookchin writings at the Anarchist Library
• William Cronon, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
• Past AAP episodes of note: James’ interview with JT Roane on plotting the Black Commons and the racial capitalocene; discussion of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter

We talk through questions of a politics of refusal (and a politics of recognition and governance by settler states), ongoingness of settler colonialism (and how Simpsons confronts it), race and indigeneity (and why BIPOC might not be so great), Indigenous and settler epistemologies, dispossession and heteropatriarchy, the libidinal economy of white saviorism, and much more. Not to mention, there is extensive and extremely deserved dragging of John Locke. Are we in a post-, de-, and/or anti-colonial frame? Tune in to find out.

And, stay tuned for the glorious return of giving advice to listener questions! We tackle a question about organizing notes, texts, sources, etc., which unsurprisingly becomes a sort of meditation on our own academic trajectories, peccadillos, and bugaboos.

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Links:

• Simpson’s homepage at Columbia
• Simpson’s 2016 Theory & Event article, “The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gendered Costs of Settler Sovereignty”
• “Reconciliation and its Discontents: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow” lecture by Simpson
• Tyler Tully, “Epistemological Sacrifice Zones and the Decolonization of Religion“
  

As you have may have guessed from our podcast series on Luxemburg and our episode on Geraldine Heng, Rachel, Sid, and John have a chapter in the volume! We rethink primitive accumulation as a concept for theories of racial capitalism. For more about the book, check out the book panel from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy conference from March 2021.

We begin by asking Gordon and Cornell about the concept of “creolization” and its relevance for the work of Luxemburg. Next we turn to ask about racism and capitalism, about social reproduction and Marxist feminism, and about how Rosa’s work points us to the co-constitutive nature of racism, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism. Finally, we ask what Rosa would think about theories of neoliberalism and contemporary forms of imperialism. Join us for this rich discussion of the creolized Rosa Luxemburg’s socialist horizons.

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Links:

• Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
• Red Rosa
• “History and Heartbreak: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg”
• Trailer, Rosa Luxemburg (film)

Links:

• Eric’s website
• Eric on the Philosophy in Color podcast
• An interview with Eric on the APA blog
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on philosophy of race, epistemology, and Latin American philosophy
• Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, edited by Sullivan and Tuana

Links:

• How to Read Donald Duck, OR Books
• Ariel Dorfman in the Guardian
• New Yorker review
• Defunctland: E.P.C.O.T.
• Donald Trump or Scrooge McDuck
• follow Zero Sum Empire podcast on Twitter
• Naomi Klein on the Chicago Boys in Chile
• Jean Baudrillard on Disney, Disneyland, and America, in “Simulacra and Simulations”

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Links:

• Gutenberg ebook of Darkwater
• NAACP biography of Du Bois
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Du Bois
• Du Bois Bibliography at the National Archives
• Keisha Blain on Du Bois, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-colonialism
• Farah Griffin on Black Feminists and Du Bois
• Ange-Marie Hancock on Du Bois and Intersectionality
• J. Phillip Thompson on “Capitalism, Democracy, and Du Bois’s Two Proletariats”
• Ella Myers on Du Bois and white sadism

W.E.B. Du Bois in 1918; from WikiMedia Commons

First edition of Darkwater; from WikiMedia Commons

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Links:

• Follow Jessica Blatt on Twitter
• A 2019 interview with Blatt at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
• A 2018 interview with Blatt on Detroit Today
• A 2018 talk by Blatt, “With a Little Help from our Friends: Scientific Racism and the Making of Modern Political Science“
• Books mentioned: Leah Gordon, From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America; Robert Vitalis, White World Order, Black Power Politics; Alice O’Connor: Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

• Empty Your Venmo (slideshow presentation here)
• “MUTUAL AID NOW: Building Collective Care” webinar
• Freedom Fighters DC
• Advocates for Youth
• “Google Docs and Synced Calendars Are A Key Part Of Lincoln and Amirio’s Modern Relationship” Bumble profile

Join James, Joanna, and Tehseen as they bring you up to speed on the plant and fungal movements and trajectories making up this psychedelic revival in its various post-1971 iterations following President Nixon’s declaration of the U.S. government’s War on Drugs. But does heralding the “revival” of psychedelia eclipse the traditional contributions of Indigenous American and African pharmacopic knowledges? Or might the revival lead to a revolution of ancestral consciousness capable of rescuing us from the crises of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene? “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” and give a listen! Special thanks to Joanna and Tehseen for providing an extensive episode bibliography!

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Links:

• “The Psychedelic Revival,” Fieldsights series, Society for Cultural Anthropology
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
• Johns Hopkins University Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
• Website of Dr. Monnica T. Williams (also see Patricia Kubala’s profile of Dr. Williams in “The Psychedelic Revival” series)
• Oakland Hyphae, a self-described collective of “Oakland-based intersectional #mycology enthusiasts. 100% Black Owned”
• Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines
• Psymposia, “adversarial” investigative journalists working on a psychedelics and society beat
• Joanna’s 2016 Epistemic Unruliness interview on mycelial movements
• Joanna’s professional site
• Tehseen’s Durham University bio and Authority Research Network scholarship

Serotonin. Image by Kelsey Brooks, via Society for Cultural Anthropology: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/the-psychedelic-revival

via reddit user lysergic_serpent on r/lsd: https://www.reddit.com/r/LSD/comments/bb675s/ayahuasca_is_a_cruel_mistress/

Tune in as we discuss these questions, possible tensions between grappling with non-human actants and theorizing human activity, the covering-over of antiblack racism and settler colonialism in discourses of the Anthropocene (and how Herodotus can or cannot help us think through this), and much more.

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Links

• Schlosser’s homepage; follow Schlosser on Twitter
• Herodotus’s Histories available online at MIT Classics
• Schlosser on what teaching Herodotus and on “Life, Death, and Herodotus“

Across our conversation, we find that Olson’s elegant work speaks to our historical and political moment in multiple ways and has much to offer the left, theoretically and practically, within and beyond academia.

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Links:

• Joel Olson archives, featuring academic and public writing, teaching materials, remembrances, and more
• Olson on white democracy and the 99%
• The Abolition of White Democracy at University of Minnesota Press

Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

• Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s website and twitter
• Becoming Human at NYU Press
• Virtual book launch for the text hosted by NYU Press
• Interview with AAIHS on the book

Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Third Precinct on Fire“; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

• Collected links of bail funds and legal aid project, organized by city
• Interview with Michael Sawyer about Black Minded by the Tree Pose Collective
• Colorado College’s write-up about this publication
• Malcolm X Project archives

Photo courtesy of Michael Sawyer

One of the images analyzed by Sawyer in the book.
Photo originally by Bob Gomel/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; sourced from http://fightland.vice.com/blog/cassius-x-when-muhammad-met-malcolm

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Links:

• Frank B. Wilderson III’s webpage
• Paul Taylor’s review of Afropessimism
• Wilderson III’s interview about Afropessimism in The New York Times 
• Covid-19 and Afropessimism
• Wilderson III reads and takes questions on Afropessimism
• Links to earlier episodes that relate to this discussion: Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism; Frank B. Wilderson III’s Red, White, and Black; and Calvin Warren and Frank B. Wilderson III on Antiblackness, Nihilism, and Politics

via frankbwildersoniii.com/

Stay tuned for the dramatic return of your (our) two favorite segments: My Tumblr Friend from Canada (but actually from Europe) with an advice question on choosing thesis topics, and a new twist on dream analysis in One or Several (or zero?) Wolves!

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Links:

• “Is Solidarity the Key to Bridging the Racial Divide” (Hooker’s talk begins at 9:05)
• Entry on Multiculturalism and Liberalism in the Oxford Handbook
• APSA Presidential Taskforce Report on Racial and Class Inequalities by Alvin Tillery and Juliet Hooker. Chronicle of Higher Education report on the same.
• Interview on her latest book, Theorizing Race in the Americas (2017)
• Contemporary Political Theory symposium on Theorizing Race in the Americas (thanks to Neil Roberts for the suggestion)
• South Atlantic Quarterly (open-access) issue edited by Barnor Hesse and Juliet Hooker, After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore: The Challenge of Black Death and Black Life for Black Political Thought
• Juliet Hooker (2016) in Political Theory, “Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair”

via https://www.brown.edu/academics/political-science/about/people/faculty

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Links:

• COVID-19 Resources and Information Sheet (compiled by Cowing and Talukdar).
• Disability Justice Resources, Project LETS.
• Medical Industrial Complex Infographic, Leaving Evidence Blog.
• “COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People Living with Chronic Illnesses in the United States,” Healing Justice Podcast.
• Marie Solis and Naomi Klein, “Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism,’” VICE News.
• Johanna Hedva, “Sick Woman Theory,” Mask Magazine, Jan. 19, 2016.
• Prentis Hemphill, “Contagion, Consent, and Connection,” (former Healing Justice Director for Black Lives Matter Global Network).
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• Boston Review critical forum on slavery, capitalism, and justice
• Robin D.G. Kelley, video of “What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?” lecture (2017) and essay on Cedric Robinson and racial capitalism
• Chapter 13 of Angela Davis’ Women, Race, and Class
• The Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago
• Mayra Cotta on Michael Dawson, Nancy Fraser, race, and capitalism
• Video of Michael Dawson talk “Race, Capitalism, and the Current Crisis” (2019)
• Ashley Bohrer talk on “Capitalist Confinement” (2016)
• 2016 panel discussion on Race and Capitalism at U Chicago
• Michael Ralph discussing his book Forensics of Capital on Left on Black

Found at: https://whatson.guide/2019/01/28/rethinking-racial-capitalism-with-gargi-bhattacharyya/

To these questions the team has many varied but passionate responses. Some include questions about the book’s large, diffuse archive to question its central critique about capitalism and sound. Others explore the totalizing thematic of “neoliberalism” and its usefulness in discussing pop music, representation, and race, as in the book’s reading of Taylor Swift’s financialized neoliberal whiteness. But all invite listeners to ponder the political consequences of the text’s emphasis on music’s power to alter the allegories theorists use to tell stories about the world we share.

Thanks to Patreon supporter Roddy for the request to read R. James. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

• Find her book here, from Duke UP
• Robin James: website; essays at the Sounding Out! sound studies blog; on Twitter
• A review and discussion of the book at e-flux
• Eve Kosofky Sedgwick’s essay on paranoid and reparative reading (and our AAP discussion of Sedgwick)
• Relevant texts and scholar-artists: Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake; Ashon Crawley; Jonathan Sterne’s MP3: The Meaning of a Format
• AAP throwback episode on Foucault, neoliberalism, and race

In this episode, join James, Emily, and John for a discussion of Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation. We attempt to parse her engagement with/extension of Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation, and question whether the figure of the witch in this text is a historical materialist one, a metonymic one, or some combination of the two. We also ask after the analogizing of witch hunts with the slave trade, draw on James’s rich knowledge of witchcraft to interrogate the role of actual witches in the text, think through the idea of capitalism’s historical inevitability, and perhaps even reveal ourselves to be different kinds of Marxists in the process!

Thanks to listener Jonathan Lowell for the request to read Federici. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

• Caliban and the Witch @ ak press
• Silvia Federici interview in the Boston Review
• What is Democracy? documentary ft. Federici (dir. Astra Taylor)
• Witch hunts vs. Trump claims of ‘witch hunt!’, at the Boston Review

Silvia Federici in 2014. Photo by Marta Jara, used under CC BY-SA 3.0 es license. Found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia_Federici#/media/File:La_escritora_y_activista_feminista_Silvia_Federici_(cropped).jpg

When a team of investigative journalists released a cache of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s homophobic, misogynistic, and classist chat messages in July 2019, Puerto Ricans seized the 500-year moment once again and initiated the #RickyRenuncia/#RickyResign Uprising. Nearly a million Boricuas took to the streets of San Juan, (and many more in la diaspora), staring down police tear gas canisters as they banged their pots and danced perreo to reggaeton and trap music, giving new life to the adage of Emma Goldman lore, “if I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution” (Si no puedo perrear, no es mi revolución).

Support us on Patreon to help us upgrade our recording equipment, potentially provide episode transcripts, and more – plus, you may have the chance to jump your request to the top of the request queue. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the opening and interstitial music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

National Puerto Rican Agenda

Full 889 page cache of Roselló documents from the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

The New York Times interview with Colectiva Feminista en Construcción who organized the initial protests of the Uprising

Fernando Tormos-Aponte’s Jacobin article “Puerto Rico Rises”

Sandy Plácido’s historicization of Caribbean anti-imperialist movements in The Washington Post

Video montage of “Perreo Combativo” dance protest, July 25, 2019A

NPR coverage of Bad Bunny, Residente, and iLe protest song: “Afilando Los Cuchillos”

Minority Cannabis Business Association

#RickyRenuncia protester. Photo courtesy of Resumen Latinoamerica

Drawing on complexity studies, chaos theory, the Blackened Afro-Caribbean phenomenology and kinaesthetics of Frantz Fanon, as well as participant-observation at Philadelphia’s El Carnaval de Puebla, this episode plunges listeners into the “Caribbean of the senses” (Benítez-Rojo 1992) through an exploration of the embodied, choreographic archives carnavaleros use to generate and transmit forms of knowing (Roach 1996). This performance modality, called “playing Mas” in the Anglo-Caribbean (Browne 2018), centers the affective immediacy but rhetorical indirection of communicative forms like masking, veiling, costuming and other dramaturgical aspects of Caribbean mytho-poesis. The Caribbean Carnival Complex entails a fugitive praxis that emerges from the fragments of liberatory-emancipatory potential made sensible and perceptible by mass street rituals.

A special thank you to the students who worked on the following segments:

• “Culture Chat” – Liv Elmore, Alejandra King, Jayna Jones, Megan Ruoff
• “Caribbean Curries” – Arpita Joyce and Catherine Williams
• “Sounds of El Carnaval de Puebla en Filadelfia” – Edna Olvera and Miryam Ramírez (click here for a .pdf of their listening notes)

Support us on Patreon to help us upgrade our recording equipment, potentially provide episode transcripts, and more – plus, you may have the chance to jump your request to the top of the request queue. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the opening and interstitial music, “Being in the World,” from their album FutureCommons. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Syllabus for “When the Saints go Marching in! Festivals and Parades of Latin America.”

The Traditional Mas Archive, an online resource for festival drama in the Caribbean region.

Blue Devils of Paramin. Photo courtesy of Matthew Fung, Traditional Mas Archive

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Al Diaz of the Miami Herald, via Tampa Bay Times: https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/06/27/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-two-democratic-debates-plus-a-live-stream/

• Red Rosa
• Nancy Fraser on Luxemburg
• Letters of Luxemburg

A Verso book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2079-the-complete-works-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-ii

In other words, you don’t want to miss the second installment of the first ever AAP podcast mini-series.

Support us on Patreon to help us upgrade our recording equipment, potentially provide episode transcripts, and more – plus, you may have the chance to jump your request to the top of the request queue. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their new album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

• On Luxemburg’s life, at Jacobin
• David Harvey on accumulation by dispossession
• Short biography and useful resources for further reading on Luxemburg
• A brief history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
• Marxists.org on the Spartacus League (founded by Luxemburg, among others)

Image via https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/call-for-papers-karl-marx-and-rosa-luxemburg-thought-legacy-and-contemporary-value/

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Links:

• J.T.’s Academia.edu page (with a pdf link to his article)
• Follow J.T. on Twitter
• Sylvia Wynter, “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Savacou 5 (1971): 95-102.
• Daniel O. Sayer’s book A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp (Gainesville: Univ. of FL, 2014), the results of the Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study conducted by American University

Support us on Patreon to help us upgrade our recording equipment, potentially provide episode transcripts, and more – plus, you may have the chance to jump your request to the top of the request queue. Thanks to Bağlan for requesting Thacker. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their new album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

• In the Dust…, at Zero Books
• A video analysis of Twin Peaks from the perspective of Thacker’s work, produced by Zero Books
• Thacker on WNYC’s Radiolab podcast
• Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy series at Zero Books

Thanks to Kaitlin for letting us cross-post the episode here on AAP!

Stay turned for the next installation of our Luxemburg series, coming your way in January.

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Links:

• Verso on Luxemburg; BBC program on Luxemburg
• The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II, from Verso
• On the writings of Rosa Luxemburg (letters)
  
• Quick lecture on Marx
• Harvey’s online courses on Marx
• Luxemburg as postcolonial theorist
• Summary of Accumulation of Capital
• A critique of Luxemburg
• Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Luxemburg

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Links:

• In-Between, SUNY Press
• philoSOPHIA review
• Mariana Ortega @Penn State
• Gloria Anzaldua @ Poetry Foundation
• Maria Lugones on Decolonial Feminism

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Links:

• Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis – 2015 anthology of Wynter’s writings edited by Katherine McKittrick;
• Sylvia Wynter’s audio response to her 2012 induction as a fellow by the Institute of Jamaica, summarizing her life oeuvre
•  “The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter and David Scott” (pdf at link)
• “No Humans Allowed: An Open Letter to my Colleagues”
• Greg Thomas’ interview with Sylvia Wynter at Proud Flesh

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Portrait of Jamaican novelist, dramatist, essayist and academic Sylvia Wynter, circa 1970s.”
Found at: http://kalamu.com/neogriot/2016/12/23/pov-are-you-an-intellectual/

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Links

• Haraway lecture, “From Cyborgs to Companion Species” (2003)
• Haraway lecture, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble” (2014)
• Haraway’s 2016 book, Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
  
• McKenzie Wark’s Public Seminar essay on Haraway and the Chthulucene
• Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto“
• Short clip of Haraway on “speculative fabulation”

Haraway and her dog Cayenne; image via Wikimedia Commons licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

Emily’s companion, Ripley

Derrida, with his cat (apparently named Logos) https://twitter.com/thelitcritguy/status/840148505398247424

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Links:

• Engels Cat
• Kelis – Milkshake
• Kylie Jarrett on Twitter
• Kylie Jarrett lecture on the digital housewife
• Beyonceder cross promotion brand synergy #digitallabor

The Engels Cat meme that is the focus of Chapter 5 of Jarrett’s book

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Links:

• Schuller’s website; The Biopolitics of Feeling at Duke University Press
• Schuller’s “The Trouble with White Women” essay, at Duke UP blog
• Schuller’s “Taxonomies of Feeling: The Epistemology of Sentimentalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Racial and Sexual Science” in American Quarterly

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Links:

• Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ website – with lots more links to her spaces and places online
• “We Stay In Love with Our Freedom: A Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs” from the Los Angeles Review of Books
• Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation on Left of Black
• Kodwo Eshun’s 1998 The Wire article “Drexciya: Fear of a Wet Planet” archived at Last.fm

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Links!

• “What Is Neoliberalism?”
• Interview with Han
• Han’s The Agony of Eros
• Han’s Topology of Violence
• LA Review of Books, The Burnout Society
• Art inspired by Han’s work!

Join us for this journey as we come to realize that maybe not EVERYTHING is modernity’s fault.

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The Hereford Mappa Mundi (world map) from c. 1300. Heng uses the map to demonstrate medieval modes of racialization.
By Unknown – unesco.org.uk, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41201813

Thanks to listener @conteanth for the request to discuss Tsing.

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Links:
Anna L. Tsing
New Republic review of the book.
Interview with Anna Tsing for “Allegra Laboratory”
Anna Tsing keynote on “Landscapes and the Anthropocene”
Epistemic Unruliness 14: Joanna Steinhardt on mushrooms and ecological movements
Matsutake mushrooms

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N.B. John’s syllabi are available here.

found at: http://bit.ly/2vq7gh4

We were thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with Mills – don’t miss out on the dialogue.

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Thanks to listener Marianne in Norway for the request to read Barad!

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Links!

• Karen Barad
• Meeting the Universe Halfway
• Interview with Barad for “New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies”
•  “agential realism” from ScienceTechnologyStudies wikispace
• Niels Bohr (PBS)
• Quantum Mechanics for Dummies
• Stanford Encylcopedia entry for Feminist Perspectives on Science

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Links!

• The LARB article
• The Onion video on queer theory video
• OpenYale lecture on Freud’s psychoanalytic model, by Paul Bloom:
• Arthur Danto’s essay “Hegel’s End-of-Art Thesis”
• “Hegel and Freud: A Comparison” article by Clark Butler
• In Search of Dreamtime by Tomoko Masuzawa

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The episode concludes with an advice question regarding some of the concerns that arise when deciding whether and how to continue on with higher education.

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Links:

• The Royal Remains at University of Chicago Press
• Review forum for The Royal Remains in the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory
• Hortense Spillers’ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: Am American Grammar Book

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Stick around for a special review/Frantz-Fanon-driven analysis of the new film Get Out by friend of the podcast/Always Already Fanon Correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou. Shadee also helps John answer listener questions about attending a conference and about glee over a frenemy’s failed Kickstarter campaign.

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Links:

Jürgen on His Stuff

wikipedia; CC-BY-SA-3.0.

But that’s not all! After the interview, this episode also includes an audio response to last month’s episode on Martin Konings’ The Emotional Logic of Capitalism from Nicholas Kiersey, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, host of the OccupyIRTheory blog, one of the hosts of the Fully Automated podcast, and the person who suggested Konings to us. Thanks to Nicholas for engaging with the episode!

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Links:

• Barbara’s Feministing profile
• Barbara’s Twitter
• Barbara’s op-ed in The Daily Tar Heel publishing UNC President’s internal memo
• UNC President Margaret Spelling’s response/op-ed to President Trump in The Washington Post  
• Sanctuary Movement information
• National Immigration Law Center

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Links!

• The Emotional Logic of Capitalism at Stanford UP; Konings’ faculty site at the University of Sydney
• Konings on American empire, in Jacobin (2013)
• Polanyi for President in Dissent (2016)
• Democracy on “The Forgotten Syllabus of American Progressivism“
• Dan Riker on “The Beginning of American Progressivism” at Daily Kos

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What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2014), Banu Bargu (Politics, The New School) analyzes the Turkish death fast movement and explores self-inflicted death as a political practice. Amid a global intensification of the “weaponization of life,” Bargu argues for conceptualizing this self-destructive use of the body as a complex political and existential act. In doing so, she theorizes a reconfiguration of sovereignty into biosovereignty and of resistance into necroresistance. To accomplish this, the book innovatively weaves together political and critical theory with ethnography in a way that enables the self-understanding and self-narration of those in and around the death fast movement to speak to canonical thinkers and concepts.

This episode features music from the Deleuze-inspired EDM musician Bad Infinity (whom we interviewed earlier this year), with clips from his songs “Being in the World,” “Mirrors,” and “The Order of Things,” all off of the 2015 album Monadology. Check out Bad Infinity on Soundcloud. Thanks also to Leah Dion for our intro music, her “Static Loops.”

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Stick around for Part 2 (coming soon) of Always Already On the Road for some dialogue about Puerto Rico and US colonialism, a visit by Kara Keeling (!), reflections on Standing Rock, and tips from a University Press editor on turning your dissertation into a book.

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What is to be done? Are there ways out of the “blame game” for a Left politics that resituates organizing and safety to spur movements in light of Trump’s racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and Islamophobic sensibilities? Perhaps we need to revisit Marx and to rethink what it means to organize under the banner of intersectionality. Perhaps the discourse on neoliberalism needs to be tempered by a renewed effort to reduce our capitalist penchants–meaning, let’s act on our theoretical inclincations. Our discussion also ranges to talk about fascism, the affects of surprise and shock, Clinton, feminism, and more. Listen for a rousing debate that brings critical theory to bear on our everyday political lives in the age of Trump.

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Links:

• Neil Irvin Painter, “What Whiteness Means in the Trump Era“
• A #BlackLivesMattter statement on Trump’s election
• Naomi Klein, “It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump“
• N. Turkuler Isikel, “Prepare for Regime Change, Not Policy Change“
• Schoolhouse Rock, “I‘m Just a Bill“
• CGP Grey, “The Problems with First Post the Post Voting explained“

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Links!

• The Earth Warrior website including information about the projects discussed in the episode: http://www.theearthwarrior.com/
• Present Futures exhibit: http://presentfutures.info/

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Links!

• Get the book
• Link to the chapter itself, University of Sydney
• Read more about Sedgwick
• Review of Touching Feeling and Sedgwick’s work
• SEP’s entry on emotion and theory
• More on Melanie Klein’s Theories of Affect and Psychoanalysis

Later on, we’re joined by Robin Zebrowski (Cognitive Science at Beloit) to help give some advice on deciding to apply for grad school and analyze a dream about a spectral boss, tree canopies with glass walls, and telepathy.

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Links!

• Black Skin, White Masks at google books
• Find out more about Michelle Bumatay: academia.edu; blog
• Find out more about M. Shadee Malaklou: academia.edu; blog
• Find out more about Robin Zebrowski: Beloit page
• Listen to our previous episode on afro-pessimism
• Achille Mbembe lecture on Fanon and the Politics of Viscerality
• Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III on the enduring legacy of Fanon
• Lewis Gordon talk and discussion on his book What Fanon Said

How can we explain the “occlusion of embodied power” and “lack of attention to race, gender, and sexuality” in the discipline of political science, a field “that claims power as a central analytical concept” (17)? In her new book, Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics (Routledge, 2016), Mary Hawkesworth (Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University) brings intersectionality, feminist theory, and post- and de-colonial theory to bear on the mainstream study of politics. She argues for the need to move away from customary concepts of “power” and “the political” that mask state practices that construct various forms of hierarchy. These concepts and the methodologies and epistemologies they give rise to, she argues, lead the discipline unable to grapple with issues such as the carceral state or the violence of nation-building. At the same they cover over the ways that “racialization and gendering have been constitutive of knowledge production within the discipline” (17). In the interview, Hawkesworth discusses these conceptual practices of power as well as how intersectional attention to embodied power can reclaim the study of politics.

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Is the scientific value of objectivity in conflict with the social justice commitment to diversity? In her latest book, Objectivity and Diversity: A New Logic of Scientific Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2015),Sandra Harding (Education and Gender Studies, UCLA) argues not only that objectivity and diversity need not be in conflict, but that good research ought to be committed to both values at the same time. The book draws on a rich array of scholarship, spanning from 20th century philosophy of science to contemporary studies in indigenous and postcolonial philosophy and activism. It is an intricate study of the ways in which objectivity, positivism, and secularism are all deeply intertwined with their social contexts and historical moments. The book ultimately advocates a science that is both responsive to a methodological requirement for strong objectivity, and originates in local communities.

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Links

• The Movement for Black Lives demands: https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/
• Black Lives Matter Williamsburg: https://wmbrgblacklivesmatter.wordpress.com/
• Shana Hanes Twitter @andthislamp
• Travis Harris’ social media: Facebook / Twitter @ChildDeDios

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Links!

• Read all the articles on GLQ’s site at Duke University Press
• Chen’s book, Animacies
• Our episode on Animacies
• Butler’s “Your Behavior Creates Your Gender”
• Connolly on New Materialism
• Feminist Theory Keynote: Karen Barad, “Re-membering the Future, Re(con)figuring the Past: Temporality, Materiality, and Justice-to-Come“

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Links!

• mp3 file of the episode
• Mbembe’s page at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Mbembe: “Discussing African Futures”
• Mbembe: “Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Viscerality”
• Mbembe: Revolts and Resistance: A Pan African Perspective

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Links!

• J.K. Gibson-Graham profile and papers at Community Economies, a website related to the activist work of Gibson, Graham, Gibson-Graham, and their network of scholars, activists, and communities
• The End of Capitalism and A Postcapitalist Politics, from University of Minnesota Press
• Review of both books by Richard Schmitt, at Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
• Relevant Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries: markets and capitalism; Marxist feminism
• An interview with Gibson on Gibson-Graham’s book Take Back the Economy; Gibson talk on “Capitalism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Possible,” in honor of Graham; Gibson’s 2011 talk on “An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene”

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Links!

• Marcuse entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• “Marcuse Today” by Ronald Aronson at Boston Review
• Website dedicated to Marcuse and his works
• Transcribed Marcuse lecture on “Marxism and Feminism”
• Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive, edited by Brandon W. Forbes and George A. Reisch
• “Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop“, by Mark Greif at n+1

Our conversation asks about the relationship between epistemology and ontology, about the consequences of these views for democratic theory and democracy more broadly, and we even try our hand at engaging in a little Rawlsian thought experiment! We’ll leave it up to you to decide how well it plays out. The episode closes with a My Tumblr Friend from Canada question regarding some recents comments made by Bill Nye the Science Guy about the relevance of philosophy to science and in general.

We would also like to announce the launch of our new Patreon account. The first few minutes of the episode are replete with details regarding donating to the podcast, and rewards for our patrons. Please give it a listen, check out the site here, and consider sponsoring us if you are a fan! We are greatly appreciative and (we hope) appropriately humbled and reflexive by/about our neoliberal subjectivity. Thank you for your support!

Thanks to listener dmf of Synthetic Zero for suggesting we read these texts.  Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. Get the mp3 of the episode here. RSS feed here. Thanks to Leah Dion and to B for the music.

Links!

• Mol’s homepage
• Essays we read: “Ontological Politics“; “Actor-Network Theory“;  “A reader’s guide to the ‘ontological turn’“; “Who knows what a woman is…“
• Mol’s book The Body Multiple
• Mol lectures on YouTube: “Feeling, wording, eating” (2013) and “What methods do” (2009)
• Bill Nye’s BigThink video on philosophy; “Why are so many smart people such idiots about philosophy” by Olivia Goldhill on qz.com

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As of last week, you can now support our own neoliberal podcast subjectivization by contributing to our Patreon campaign! – more info here.

Links!

• Richael’s website
• Freed Bodyworks, where Richael is shaman-in-residence
• Video of Richael reading her short story “(Re)Embodied” published in G.R.I.T.S. Girls Raised in the South: An Anthology of Southern Queer Womyn’s Voices and Their Allies

The conversation also focuses on Barber’s working through Deleuze’s idea of immanence as an ongoing dynamic of re-expression that demands and opens up the possibility for the political act of world making. Barber presents this view of Deleuze as useful for a theology and religious studies focus on a post-secular immanence. Questions of temporality and the difference between epistemology, metaphysics, and ontology make their appearance along with lots of crystals before the episode closes with the interpretation of a sweaty but affirming dream.

Thanks to listener Tapji for suggesting we read this text.  Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. Get the mp3 of the episode here. RSS feed here. Thanks to Leah Dion and to B for the music.

Links:

• Barber’s page at ICI Berlin and the book’s page at Edinburgh UP
• Review of the book by Joshua Ramey at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• An interview with Barber on the My Name is My Name podcast
• Barber’s other book, On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity

How can we de-colonize critical theory from within, and reimagine the way it grounds its normative claims as well as the way it relates to post- and de-colonial theory? Amy Allen (Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University) takes up this project in her book The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia Univ. Press, 2016). The work challenges the way that the Frankfurt School of critical theory constructs and deploys concepts of normativity, history, and progress, in the process offering rich interpretations of Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst. Allen then turns to the work of Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault in order to articulate a different perspective on these issues, one that enables a radical self-critique and de-colonization of critical theory. She concludes by exploring alternative means for critical theory to justify its normative claims as a way for it to more deeply engage with post- and de-colonial theory.

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• Lester Spence’s website
• Faculty page at Johns Hopkins
• Knocking the Hustle at punctum books

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More links!

• The Frankfurt School
• Horkheimer on Critical Theory
• Horkheimer’s critique of instrumental reason

Links for Bad Infinity: Soundcloud , Facebook, Twitter, Bad Infinity can also be found on Spotify.

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Links!

• In Other Worlds at Google Books
• PDF of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
• “The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work”, a lecture by Spivak at UC-Santa Barbara
• “In Conversation with Gayatri Spivak” at DAWN

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Links!

• Karen Kelsky, “Is The Academy Good“
• New Feminist Formations issue on “Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University”, including a roundtable featuring friend of the podcast/previous guest host Lindsey Whitmore
• James Mulholland, “Academics: Forget about Public Engagement, Stay in Your Ivory Towers”
• Slate Culture Gabfest podcast episode talking about Mulholland’s piece (at 39:30)
• Interview with Willow and Jaden Smith in T Magazine by Su Wu
• An anonymous philosophy prof interprets the Smiths, at Vice
• Jaden Smith models Louis Vuitton womenswear
• Jack Qu’emi Gutiérrez on Jaden Smith’s modelling and gender binaries, at Black Girl Dangerous
• Willow Smith’s ARDIPITHECUS on Spotify
• Willow explains the album title and origin to Fader

From the T Magazine interview: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/