/edu/ - Education

>>10481
Politics is about economic shit, even war & peace stuff deep down is nothing but economic shit. There are no cross roads or intersections with anything else.

>>10481
This is Hell! is the finest interview program on the left and you can always learn something from any given episode. https://thisishell.com/
It's hard to choose any particular episode since there is so much stuff about so many subjects, but these are some favorites of mine:
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1330-adofo-minka - an excellent interview with Adofo Minka about the prison uprisings that were happening last year;

https://thisishell.com/interviews/1319-cerise-castle - an interview with Cerise Castle about fascist LAPD gangs and how the cops are completely infiltrated;

Their coverage of Brazil is pretty excellent as well, given that they have a correspondent in the country (Brian Mier) and he's pretty spot on. They've been on the air (as a radio show) since 1996, so they've got coverage on the Iraq War, on the 2008 crisis, all that good stuff as it was happening. Do check out, comrades, it's worth it.

Also Blowback is a pretty nice history of the Iraq War, and also a history of the cuban revolution (that I have yet to listen to). The Iraw War stuff is pretty nice though, very well made. https://blowback.show/

Revolutions by Mike Duncan is a classic, and it's very entertaining to see Duncan slowly radicalize himself from a total lib during his analysis of the English and American revolutions into a proper leftist by the time the Haitian revolution rolls by. I'm sure many people won't agree with his takes (he's more of an anarchist type), but his work is solid and very fair.

>>10481
History of philosophy without any gaps is a good podcast. Pretty comfy.

>>10483
Seconded. I absolutely adore This is Hell!, easily one of the best leftist podcasts.

I would recommend Parallax Views, an interview podcast on politics, history and culture. J.G. Michael is an excellent interviewer, he has a lot of credentialed guests on and the topics covered are very diverse, lots of interesting niche subjects. One of the rare podcasts covering conspiracies and parapolitics from a strong leftist position, and without rightoid brainworms: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/
In the same vein, Qanon Anonymous has good production values and is very funny, covering not just Qanon but also deep dives into the psyche of capitalist society. They also do investigative work on the scene. They currently started a miniseries about the pathologisation of mental illness, eugenics and the development of the carceral state, "Trickle Down": https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous
I like Citations Needed a lot, a podcast that criticizes the media, debunks narratives and also delves into the history of politics. Other than the occasional more lib guest, they have a very strong anti-imperial leftist stance. The episodes are very tightly produced and they stay on topic without rambling. They sort of resemble a non-lib NPR that rightfully attacks liberals for enabling and running interference for reactionary politics. They mostly cover the US, but considering the hegemony of US culture, non-americans can learn a lot too: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded

I really like Citations Needed. Kind of deep dives on US-adjacent issues. Like NPR but not lib

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/

>Less about subscribing to an individual podcast, more about listening to individual episodes and why that episode resonated.

>It's hard to choose any particular episode since there is so much stuff about so many subjects, but these are some favorites of mine

Nice recs, downloading them now.

We're all aware of the podcasts folks, or know how to find them.

this is the thread for individual episodes that are memorable to you and why, or present a new concept to you, or that give particular context on events that's not available elsewhere. You get it.

Let's be our own algorithm.

Very interested in hearing from anons who subject themselves to natsec ghoul podcasts about good episodes btw.

Just listening to the tone they take on stuff like Arms Control Wonk is too sickening at the moment, but podcasts like this sure have no problem saying the quiet part out loud. Repeatedly.

>>10487
Oh oops, sorry anon, I can't read it seems lol

>https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/johncussansreplay/
Episode on the history of the zombie figure in western media as a product of colonial fear of subaltern uprisings. Lots of interesting bits on the Haitian revolution, racism & capitalism, the theories of Georges Bataille, the use of the zombie figure in Hollywood, and the weaponization of vodou by American intelligence services and the US aligned Duvalier regimes.
>https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/grhodes2/
Super interesting episode about the actor behind Dracula, Bela Lugosi. Learned that he was a lifelong socialist that worked in manual labor, became a theater actor, held office in the first Hungarian socialist republic, escaped its overthrow and ended up in America, where he became a famous film actor, yet also was an active union organizer, fought for civil rights and was monitored by the FBI and OSS.
>https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/agood/ & https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/replay-the-global-police-state-w-william-i-robinson/
Pretty good primers on parapolitics, dark money networks, the military-intelligence-industrial-complex and the increasingly militarizitation of the liberal order.
https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/sfinley/ & https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/gorightlyperkins/
Fascinating deep dive into the history of UFO religions and Nations of Islam in particular. Paired well with the other episode, about the involvement of intelligence agencies in UFO enthusiast circles.

My favorite This is Hell! episodes:
>https://thisishell.com/interviews/1085-tad-delay & https://thisishell.com/interviews/903-chris-lehmann & https://thisishell.com/interviews/1049-adam-ramsay
About unregulated extractivist capital, american right-wing evangelicals and dark money networks around the world. The Tad Delay episode especially was interesting, great guest.
>https://thisishell.com/interviews/1092-wendy-brown & https://thisishell.com/interviews/1224-annelien-de-dijn-
Great primer on neoliberalism and social conservatism and hierarchy being part of the package, the first episode is an interview with eminent neoliberalism scholar Wendy Brown. Goes well with readings of Losurdo or Ishay Landa, but in the case of the latter - Landa was over for two episodes on the theory podcast Jouissance Vampires, talking about about his book on the Nietzscheian aristocratic rebel spirit and the dialectical relation between fascism and liberalism: https://jouissancevampires.libsyn.com/episode-19-ishay-landa-part-1-the-apprentices-sorcerer & https://jouissancevampires.libsyn.com/episode-20-ishay-landa-part-2-nietzschean-overture
>https://thisishell.com/episodes/1205 & https://thisishell.com/interviews/1331-robert-p-baird
Great episodes on the history of racism, slavery, social spooks and capitalism. Professor Gerald Horne in the first one, excellent Marxist author.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs
Since spooks came up - very well presented, great explanation of Stirner's politics, useful even if you don't identify as an egoist (I don't). Another episode from that playlist that I really liked was on Aristophanes.

>>10489 (me)
>https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-139-of-meat-and-men-how-beef-became-synonymous-with-settler-colonial-domination
Not a vegan myself, but interesting look into how first world petit boug psychosis in the face of proletarianization manifests as hysteria over food choice, and its roots in the settler-colonial past of the USA
>https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-66-whataboutism-the-medias-favorite-rhetorical-shield-against-criticism-of-us-policy & https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-89-how-charges-of-appeasement-equate-diplomacy-with-treason
Good episodes about US foreign policy and imperialism, and how charges of "whataboutism" tend to be whataboutism themselves.
>https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist
Fun deep dive into the history of the imperialist rag, the Economist

Love my comrades utterly determined to shill their favorite pods. Full respect.

Some nice recs there. they'll be easy to download since I'm already subbed to these popular and well-known pods lololololol

In unrelated news, this thread is a fiefdom and the law is now one episode recommendation per podcast, per day. Not multiple recs from the same podcast. Not that.

The latest episode of This Is Revolution, a news round up episode, is good if you want to hear an extremely elequent guy go off about the contradictions in the treatment of ukrainian and haitian immigrants, then onto the current French scenario. Pretty wide ranging and at a good level imo. Wish he continued speaking on the concept of the almost insurmountable first-mover advantage that europeans have enjoyed since they colonised the world with Arab tech.

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/kz7jwp/TIRNRU_4_21_226so31.mp3

Here's an episode of Rev Left, it covers mostly the guest's opinions on Dugin and his history and connections to the wider right. Pretty interesting, although I've heard more detailed histories.

It's most interesting for the following discussion, and the guest's perception of the Ukraine conflict, the new left patriotic influencers from the internet spectacle thread, their connections what he calls the new Russian imperial project and the threat he thinks they represent.

It seems like he really wanted to name the Grayzone, which he did eventually, only after laying out the list of dumbasses and their antics, so that he could make negative associations. Don't think I've ever seen anyone enagage with the specifics of the Grayzone's reporting, just create negative associations.

If you don't know much about Dugin it's probably a worthwhile episode - It's a great pod to sub to though.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/dugin

this one is great
https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/historiography-wars-the-french-revolution

Perfect for this thread. An educational podcast so memorable that I dig it up and posted it in another thread.

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>>10766

leftypol/res/976710.html#987310 dammit

>>10766
>>10767
You mean >>>/leftypol/987310

https://blubrry.com/wdtatw/42848798/episode-86-sinning-quietly/

>>10481
I really enjoy the Deprogram podcast. It's not particularly informative, it's just comfy. It's with Hakim, Yugopnik, and Second Thought.

Someone shilled it in the /isg/ and I've been listening to it since. Good for when you just want to chill.

I also listened to a bunch of History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. It is also comfy but requires more active listening. Great podcast.

>>10768

Thanks.

>>10769

>Less about the parasocial more about the signal.

>Less about subscribing to an individual podcast, more about listening to individual episodes and why that episode resonated.

So which episodes were memorable to you and why?

>>10770
Fair enough. For history of philosphy, the entire arc of Plato was really cool. They are very short episodes.

https://historyofphilosophy.net/classical/socrates-and-plato

Really any episode of a Platonic dialogue is a very fun listen. I liked Gorgias, Parmenidies, and the episode on erotic love. I don't agree with Plato, or rather I'm not a platonist, but his shit is very fascinating and thought provoking. The dialogues are literally dialogues between two or more smart characters making compelling cases for their arguments regarding the point at hand.

The dialectical method of exposition is a very powerful one which IMO has been largely lost. The book Gödel Escher Bach is a nice return to that tradition btw.

Regarding Deprogram, I recommend Episode 20, where the editor for Mint press is a guest. He has an interesting perspective on media that I haven't seen much outside Chomsky and an interesting book on Mexican think tanks I picked up once (Conocimiento y Poder, Alejandra Salas-Porras for the curious).

Really good episode of This Is Hell on Jihad as it is currently understood (Islamist holy war) being a modern phenomenon caused mostly by neoliberal policies: https://thisishell.com/episodes/1385

>>10774

NICE. Appreciate this one. Brings to mind an episode that gave a historical perspective that fundamentally informs my understanding of Jihad, Islam and wahabbism tbh. They'll make a good double bill.

Radio war nerd 147 "Destroying Yemen" with Isa Blumi

http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/download.php?filename=rwn_ep_147_v21.mp3

>>10771
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>Regarding Deprogram, I recommend Episode 20, where the editor for Mint press is a guest. He has an interesting perspective on media that I haven't seen much outside Chomsky and an interesting book on Mexican think tanks I picked up once (Conocimiento y Poder, Alejandra Salas-Porras for the curious).

This post delivers. Philosophy, an extremely memorable episode rec and a book rec ( Think Tanks and Global Politics: Key Spaces in the Structure of Power, Alejandra Salas-Porras, 2017, libgen.is).

I've just listened to two of the Deprogram episodes and the episode you mentioned stayed with me. In the exact same vein, possibly even more up to the minute with it's geopolitical analysis, is this recent episode of American Exception:

https://jumble.top/american_exception/files/post-66928158-1.mp3

It's a podcast too important to be kept behind patreon paywalls imo, so here it is:

https://jumble.top/american_exception/feed.xml

Decoding the Gurus, a couple of insufferable academolibs with a reasonable podcast, did a decent analysis of the recent "Sensemaking" online psychological guru fad. Sensemaking is Peterson for people who go to burning man, it looks like.

It's pretty funny. They focus on a podcast episode where 3 sensemaking gurus get together and….vibe. I'm gonna say that the sensemakers are adjacent to the Dark One in some way, and funded by him.

Ya Im not going to name individual podcast episodes lol, but Ezra Kleins podcast is good, especially when he has Adam Tooze on

>>10483
If you like This is Hell! Youll like KPFA - Behind the News as well, those two are my fav by far. That said idk if they are explicitly leftist or whatever, its more implied

You want to be educated on the technical details of the Nord Stream sabotage? In detail?

Get the latest episode of The East Is A Podcast. A Frenchist goes deep on how it happened and why it's probably irreversible.

A massive multi billion dollar infrastructure project between trading blocs blown up by another nation. Just mind blowing.

Latest 2 part episode from Subliminal Jihad about the rootless cosmopolitan who controls the Manhattan prosecutor is a banger. It's an extremely in depth history of the guy but also something new. An account of his influence on art scenes globally and other ONTOPS. Extremely memorable. Here's the patreon feed https://kingdex.xyz/feeds/Subliminal%20Jihad_torrent_rss.xml

Vijay Prashad giving the detailed geopolitical analysis you will not get anywhere else. The last episode of Give The People What They Want exposes France's crumbling influence in Africa, but most interestingly has specific examples of the deals done in the recent past to have troops from African countries protect French oil installations. These deals are now crumbling too as African countries no longer fear the west, Vijay exposes this with a current example and connects it to the masssive geopolitical changes happening. Great episode from a great pod. It also reports on the re-election of Canel the Cuban president.

OK, are any of these on Spotify so I can listen to them at work?

>>12865
I'd like to know too, did you check?

>>12762
>Here's the patreon feed https://kingdex.xyz/feeds/Subliminal%20Jihad_torrent_rss.xml
The free feeds are no more. Someone told Peter to stop pilling genX wine moms. There were some decent left pods in there though. Any patreon subscribers on here want to share?

>>12865
something like podchaser.com lets you download episode mp3s

literally the only good podcast to ever exist is cumtown

>>12864
>Give The People What They Want exposes France's crumbling influence in Africa, but most interestingly has specific examples of the deals done in the recent past to have troops from African countries protect French oil installations.
It's great again this week - detailed non-western geopolitical analysis and insight into the Sudan conflict. Inb4 "Is it on apple podcasts?"

Red Star Radio podcast just had an episode with a really concise history of China's foreign policy from WW2 to the present day, with an overall political analysis. Putting political developments in historical context like this has really helped me get the basic understandings. This episode in particular is great. The Red Star Radio feed is at https://kingdex.xyz/feeds

This Is Revolution ep 450 is about how sensor and drone tech has made the idea of a long physical border barrier moot.