Red Medicine

Communist geographer Phil Neel joins the podcast for the final episode until 2027. He discusses his recent book Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory, specifically how the power of capital is able to transform us and the world in new and horrific ways. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine

Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington

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Jason E Smith joins the podcast to talk about automation, AI, service work and economic stagnation. He explains how these developments connect and inform each other by explaining the appeal of automation in a time when more and more workers find themselves in the service sector. 

Jason E Smith is a writer and academic. His work often appears on the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail magazine, and his book Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (published with Reaktion books in 2020.) He is currently working on his next book which looks at demography and population change in relationship to capitalist development. 

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Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington
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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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Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington

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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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