Red Medicine

Philosopher and historian of science Joelle Abi-Rached approaches the topic of trauma, asking whether it is a sufficient category for the psychic impact of the ongoing violence of Zionist settler colonialism.

Joelle Abi-Rached is a philosopher and historian of science; she is Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. And the author of Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East, co-author of Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, and coeditor of Lebanon: Anatomy of a Collapse, a forthcoming collection of essays on Lebanese politics and society.

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A talk by Evan Sedgwick-Jell on the history of communist drug treatment services in Weimar Germany, given at the Political Pathologies conference in Glasgow.

Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a researcher, particularly interested in the interrelation of the psy-disciplines and mental health, with political movements and healthcare systems. Their forthcoming work Capitalist Pathology: The Cultural Logic of Mental Health, examines depression as represented in contemporary non-fiction and its implications for the capitalist subject and a new radical politics of mental health. Their current research examines the convergence of social medicine and radical politics in Weimar Germany. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine

Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington

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A recording of the very first in-person edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline, co-hosted with Prometheus Magazine's very own Harry Holmes. This edition of the helpline was recorded at the Festival of the Oppressed, held in June. Pre-order print copies of Prometheus Magazine issue 1 at this link: https://www.ebb-books.com/shop/p/prometheus-subscription SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine

Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington

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In this episode Beatrice Adler Bolton, Callum Cant, and myself talk about the general strike: not as something consigned to history but as a tactic we need today. Specifically, we talk about how the strike emerged as a tactic, what that means about struggle today, and how the struggle against ICE in Minneapolis (and elsewhere) offers us a way to answer some of these questions. 

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Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast join for the next installment of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is where listeners write in with their experiences of political struggle so we can talk through the psychic and emotional content of those experiences. 

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Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington
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