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Duration: 26 min 30 s
Description: Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 3. Pages 20-27: Ken Erdedy continues to anticipate his marijuana delivery. Discussion starts at 21:17.

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Anthropologist Marc Edelman explores the intersections of poverty, capitalist predation and authoritarian populism in rural America - as financial capital picks clean the remains of large swathes of community and individual wealth, the impoverished working class finds itself isolated from community and politics, and turns its rage outward, but never upward.

Marc wrote the article How Capitalism Underdeveloped Rural America for Jacobin.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/capitalism-underdeveloped-rural-america-trump-white-working-class

Deep poverty, capitalist predation and isolation in rural America.

Kim G. pyse er en tydelig svett dverg,
 en vimsete klyse og et sykelig spekkverk.
 Keiko har våkna og vi disser en svett nerd,
 den bleikeste måka, motbydelige fettberg.
 Får seg aldri fitte. Ingen damer liker’n. 
Spettet hans er mindre enn den aller minste spiker’n.
 Lite sympatisk, kortvokst og simpel.
 Syter dramatisk, bleikfeite insel. Det styggeste trynet.
 Sy på deg duck face. Gå og tygg deg i trynet.
 Hold kjeften med duct tape. 
Vennlig tips: Ikke snakk med jenter.
 Hold deg i mørket med en sjukt svær genser
. En feitere mann har jeg aldri sett.
 Verdens teiteste mann, holder aldri kjeft. 
Kim Kakemonster: Hold deg unna Oslo.
 Still deg ut i monter. Ikke nevn meg på Facebook.

Sludder Vs Kim Gangsta

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani debunk the latest right-wing freakout about migration. Plus, Government corruption on PPE, submissions close for the Labour Leaks inquiry and why we all need Joe Biden to stop talking.

Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

TyskySour: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

Although we are both grown men who seem to have our stuff together, it wasn’t always that way.  We had a lot of rough patches along the way, most of which occurred during young adulthood, due to some unsound decisions we made.  Looking back now, we have realized that there are tons of traps for young adults that are disguised as rewards.  In this episode, Blueprint and Illogic break down seven traps that young adults face that have the power of setting their lives and art back if they aren’t navigated properly.

219: The Traps of Young Adulthood

The US West Coast is suffering from record breaking forest fires. Will the disaster jolt the country into climate action? Plus, Alan Sugar wants you back in the office, Labour Friends of Israel celebrates an influx of MPs, and thousands complain after ITV airs homage to Black Lives Matter. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

TyskySour: Apocalyptic Skies

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 2. Pages 10-20: a present-day Hal is admitted to the ER, a baby Hal eats something he isn't supposed to, and we meet Ken, who's waiting for a marijuana delivery. Discussion starts at 27:43.

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Part 2

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 3. Pages 20-27: Ken Erdedy continues to anticipate his marijuana delivery. Discussion starts at 21:17.

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Part 3

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 5. Pages 37-42: Wardine's momma aint treat her right, and Hal and Mario have a late-night chat. Discussion starts at 15:40.

Part 5

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 7. Pages 49-54: Hal gets high in secret; the attaché keeps watching the cartridge. Discussion starts at 28:30.

Part 7

Mohamed Abdou on his essay "Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/

1257:  Let it all fall / Mohamed Abdou

“‘Oh!’ say the technophiles, ‘Science is going to fix all that! We will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody healthy and happy!’ Yeah, sure. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. Thus it will take a long and difficult period of trial and error for the technophiles to work the bugs out of their Brave New World (if they ever do). In the mean time there will be great suffering.”
—T. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995).

Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020.

Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.

Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com

SOURCES (Ep. 7):
 - The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), dir. Mick Grogan, on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ; 
 - Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”, ed. and introduction by David Skirbina, 2010: amzn.to/2STTFYH ;
 - Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854): bit.ly/35RyPPQ ;
 - Patrick Conley: bit.ly/3pGdIIL ; 
 - Ken Baumann: bit.ly/2WUmHK1 ; 
 - Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ; 
 - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (1951): amzn.to/34TDrFl ; 
 - The History of Violence in America, eds. H.D. Graham & T.R. Gurr (1969): amzn.to/3rCmGsl ; 
 - Chester C. Tan, Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century (1971): amzn.to/3aUNCgQ ; 
 - L. Sprague de Camp, The Ancient Engineers (1963): amzn.to/3o8lavW ; 
 - “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” by Bill Joy (WIRED, Apr., 2000): bit.ly/3hw5uQD ;
 - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

The Relentless Picnic: CABIN

Cabin - Ep. 7

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Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was born December 21, 1949 in Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), which, at the time, was a West African French colony. Sankara, a fierce enemy of the global system of neocolonial, imperialist capitalism (as well as all forms of bigotry and oppression), was assassinated on October 15, 1987, just four years after the people lifted him up as the president of their new revolutionary nation-state.

Like other influential socialists of the twentieth century Sankara’s life and anti-colonial and decolonial legacy continue to inspire anti-imperialist and Pan-African youth movements across Africa and beyond. A charismatic yet notably humble figure, Sankara is often referred to as the Ché Guevara of Africa [1]. Sankara is considered to have been one of the world’s most notable pan-African socialist revolutionaries.

However, unlike most of his peers Sankara wrote no major works for revolutionaries to study and learn from. What is available is a handful of speeches laying out the basic contours of his radical analysis and non-dogmatic revolutionary vision crafted for a popular audience. Sankara’s major contributions today are not only the historical example he set and the part he payed in the liberation of his own country and others, but also to the way he primarily expressed his political practice pedagogically.

Read the full article:
https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-71-years-later/

Thomas Sankara: Leadership and action that inspires 71 years later

We discuss the work of director Jacques Tourneur and talk about his career in the shadow of Val Lewton, his masterpiece noir OUT OF THE PAST, and his films that time forgot - like his colourful western CANYON PASSAGE.

Listen to exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub

Check out Justin's other podcast THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie) as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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#245 - Jacques Tourneur's Horrors of Ambiguity

Imperial expansion is as much about conquering nature as it is about subjugating people. The Russian state’s expansion to the edges of the Eurasian continent exemplifies the challenge of turning frozen and inhospitable land into livable space or converting lush landscapes into profit and prosperity. To get a better understanding of this process in some of the far reaches of Russia, I turned to two people Sharyl Corrado and Paul Josephson to talk about Sakhalin and the Arctic respectively and relationship between Russian imperial expansion and nature, and how environment was imagined and shaped in the process.



Guests:



Paul Josephson, the author of 13 books, is professor of history at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, and visiting, part-time professor at Tomsk State University.  A historian of big science and technology, he conducted archival research in Arctic regions while working on his monograph, The Conquest of the Russian Arctic.  His most recent book, with Polity Press, is called Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory.  He is working now on a global nuclear environmental history.



Sharyl Corrado is Associate Professor of History and History Program Director at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.  She has published articles on the environmental history and historical geography of the imperial Russian Far East in a variety of academic journals in English and Russian. She is also known within Russian Baptist circles for her research on Russian Baptist and Evangelical history, including a monograph published in Russian and an edited volume on East European Baptist History.  She is currently working on an annotated collection of letters written by a Red Cross sister serving in the Sakhalin Penal colony.

Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic

a podcast about a book called Infinite Jest. 

By Molly O'Brien (@missmollymary on twitter)
And Chris Wade (@saywhatagain on twitter)

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