A thread for educational podcast episodes.. Anonymous 27-04-22 11:51:46 No. 10481
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.
Not videos. This is a chance for you to educate yourself while working, doing chores or exercising.
I'll go first. This episode of politics theory other was memorable because it made me reconsider the intersection of sex and politics, particularly as someone who sees themselves as becoming more skeptical about everything surrounding idpol as it's being co-opted and weaponized.
https://play.acast.com/s/politicstheoryother/tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F1136311165 Anonymous 27-04-22 12:33:29 No. 10483
>>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.
Anonymous 27-04-22 13:58:14 No. 10485
>>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 Anonymous 27-04-22 15:50:21 No. 10489
>>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.
Anonymous 27-04-22 19:16:42 No. 10495
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 the modern rasputin Anonymous 30-04-22 09:30:37 No. 10521
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 Anonymous 24-05-22 09:50:20 No. 10769
>>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.
Anonymous 24-05-22 09:54:30 No. 10770
>>10768 Thanks.
>>10769 So which episodes were memorable to you and why?
Anonymous 24-05-22 10:12:43 No. 10771
>>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).
Anonymous 25-05-22 06:38:43 No. 10776
>>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 Anonymous 28-05-22 09:38:16 No. 10816
>>10771 > >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 Anonymous 19-09-22 11:47:09 No. 11683
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
Anonymous 30-07-23 14:10:02 No. 20067
>>13027 Fair point but you can't read while doing what's required daily to be an effective political citizen. Like some cardio and calisthenics, cooking healthy food, cleaning and chores. You do all that on the daily right anon?
Dr. Cornel West is interviewed by his peer (imo) Pascal Robert on the Mau Mau Hour on This Is Revolution podcast's last episode. Listening now and he's giving comprehensive answers. He's defining himself as a workers council communist not a revolutionary vanguard communist replying to the first question. Alright then.
Can post it here if it's not on the feed.
Glownonymous 27-04-24 08:45:14 No. 22012
>>21998 Here's the follow up to the last episode: because of the explosive contents of the newly unredacted Angleton Church Committee testimony Dr Aaron Good convened a panel of experts for discussion.
>There are two separate monuments to Angleton in Israel >"You have to think of James Jesus Angleton as an Israeli agent in the US government" at or beyond the level of President These podcasts lay out the history of the US/Israel relationship at the highest levels and explain why the US + UK are willing to crash the Rules Based International Order to defend Israel today
Anonymous 20-05-24 07:48:38 No. 22128
https://www.againsttheinternet.com/ Very informative about biology and anthropology, makes a lot of daring and interesting claims. I would suggest starting from the first series of episodes "The Biology of the Left-Right Divide" and sticking to it even if you find some of the conclusions disagreeable.
VarnVlog
https://varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/ Really good informed analysis with a variety of guests.
Glownonymous 10-11-24 00:48:05 No. 22893
Secular jew Yasha Levine (Surveillance Valley) continues his recent journey of shock and awe through Judaism. Wild shit tbh.
>We talk with Rachel Feldman about messianic zionism and the Temple Movement, which wants to end Judaism as we know it and replace it with an Israelite theocracy in the Holy Land complete with animal sacrifices — to go back more than 2,000 years to before Rome destroyed Jerusalem and ended Jewish rule. We also discuss the core of Rachel’s research: Noahidism, a new global religion for non-Jews that’s being spread by messianic zionists, including Chabad rabbis, in support of this future Israelite theocracy. Along the way we discuss the religious origins of zionist ideas, the unbroken chain linking secular and religious zionism, and the increasing radicalization of Jewish society in the direction of this messianic movement. This whole thing is a lot less fringe than you might think. >Rachel Feldman is a professor of religion at Dartmouth and is an anthropologist of Judaism. This talk is inspired by her new book: Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary here's a direct link to the episode
>https://jumble.top/s/yasha/151195367/a5c52c6d44e72e9035eabbebe17284f5.mp3 Unique IPs: 19