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In debates around the rights of transgender people, a charge often levelled at those fighting for trans inclusion is that their arguments rest on a denial of biological facts. In this episode of Downstream, Michael Walker speaks to biologist Julia Serano about what so-called gender critical thinkers get wrong about sex and gender, and whether trans activists should embrace the argument that they were “born this way”.

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Downstream: Were Trans People “Born This Way”? w/ Julia Serano

First single from Songs for the Nervous System (out May 12 2023).

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Arun Kudnani joins PTO to talk about his article, The Racial Constitution of Neoliberalism which appeared in the Race & Class journal. We talked about how neoliberalism has generated novel forms of racism that cannot be understood simply as residual phenomena from the pre-neoliberal era, why it was that the key neoliberal thinkers were as fixated on defeating leftist movements in the global south during the Cold War as they were on defeating the European and American Labour movements, and finally we talked about whether it is possible to imagine a form of capitalism that is able to dispense with racialisation.

The racial constitution of neoliberalism w/ Arun Kudnani

Several years ago, Jon Moses realised that the stunning nature he could see from his house in rural Herefordshire was inaccessible to him. From the nearby riverbanks to the local oak woodlands, the countryside revealed itself to be a private fortress.

Now, as an organiser of the Right To Roam campaign, he's leading the call for free and fair access to land and water throughout England, via political advocacy and planned trespasses on private estates.

Jon tells Eleanor Penny about the traumatic history that separated commoners from the land, the dangers of a rural monoculture, and why the left needs to get comfortable with ideas about place and belonging.

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In this bumper Trip, the gang survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet. Nadia, Keir and Jem dredge up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of free and open communication was displaced by closed networks of e-commerce and data harvesting.

Following Keir’s recent Microdose episode with Malcolm Harris, they discuss the connections between self-optimising techies and the pseudo-science of eugenics.

They also talk about digital hygiene, the “Californian ideology”, why the Soviets didn’t invent the internet, and whether psychedelic drugs were the driver of Silicon Valley’s dominance.

Music comes from The Fall, Le Tigre and the very online Lil Pump and Macintosh Plus.

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Music: Knife Party - ‘Internet Friends’ / Le Tigre - ‘Get Off The Internet’ / The Fall - ‘Telephone Thing’ / The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - ‘Telephone and Rubber Band’ / Wiley - ‘Eskimo’ / Hannah Diamond - ‘Hi’ / Grimes - ‘Oblivion’ / Macintosh Plus - ‘リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー' / Lil Pump - ‘Elementary’ / FKA twigs - ‘Ride The Dragon’

Books and articles: Daniel Levitin - The Organised Mind / Alison Winch & Ben Little - The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism / Benjamin Peters - How Not to Network a Nation / Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron - ‘The Californian Ideology’ / Malcolm Harris - Palo Alto / Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams – Hegemony Now / Nick Couldry & Ulises Ali Mejias - The Cost of Connection

ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

Is surrealism a style of art or a mode of living? How can irrationality be a political position? Nadia, Jem and Keir follow a thread of off-kilter expression, from Dadaism and André Breton’s manifesto through to Situationism, punk and Afrosurrealism. 

The gang explore the importance of surrealism to socialist thought and anti-colonial struggle, considering Meret Oppenheim's fur cup, Lenin at the Cabaret Voltaire, surrealist women's art, Freud’s ideas of the subconscious and a canon of surreal songs from Ivor Cutler to Devo.

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Music: Ivor Cutler - 'Life In A Scotch Sitting Room' Vol. 2, Ep. 11 / Anton Giulio Bragaglia - 'Fotodinamismo Futurista' / Eric Satie - 'Gymnopédie No.1' / King Crimson - 'Moonchild' / Devo - 'Jocko Homo' / Prince Fatty & Shniece Mcmenamin - 'Black Rabbit' / Caberet Voltaire - 'Nag Nag Nag' / Prince Paul - 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Schizophrenia)' / The Coup - 'Oyahytt 

Books:  Robin D. G. Kelley - Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination / Helena Lewis - Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism / Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams / Joyce Mansour's poetry / Dorothea Tanning - Chasm: A Weekend / Phosphor magazine / Simon Reynolds - Rip it Up and Start Again

Produced by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens.

ACFM Trip 37: Surrealism

Millions have protested against the bombing of Gaza by taking part in marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other demonstrations. But what difference does it make, either to the world or to ourselves?

The gang confront a contentious topic in this Trip. Do "A to B" marches ever achieve anything? What about joining hands around an RAF base? Digging up roads? Refusing to pay your taxes? Is squatting a form of direct action?

They discuss Irish hunger strikers, Montgomery bus boycotters, Greenham Common women and the people that Suella Braverman calls "hate marchers", with music from Lowkey, the Plastic Ono Band, Steel Pulse and more.

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Music: Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man / Dylan - Masters of War / Samba extract / Public Enemy - 911 is a Joke / Lowkey - Ghosts of Grenfell / Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution / The Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance / John Lennon - Working Class Hero

Book: Charles Tilly – Social Movements: 1768-2004

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ACFM Trip 39: Protest

Is football the place for political struggle? Is there a limit to the success of fan-owned clubs? How disappointed should we be when pundits and players turn out not to be comrades? 

Cultural critic Juliet Jacques and Pro Revolution Soccer host Tom Williams unite for a conversation inspired by Mickaël Correia's book The People's History of Football. They talk about the commodification of football, how a politics of resistance has inspired teams from Moscow to Cairo to Clapton, and why a supporter-owned club would want to sell up to Disney.

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Last time on ACFM, the gang explored the impact of UFOs on politics, from deep-state conspiracies to the Posadists.

But to really understand how aliens influence our thought – and what our belief in E.T. says about ourselves – we have to go to the movies.

In this Microdose, Keir, Jem and Nadia sweep through a century of aliens on screen, from Martian invaders to Mulder & Scully.

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<strong>Films, TV & Books:</strong> H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Quatermass, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Blob, Solaris, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, The Thing, E.T., They Live, The X-Files, Men in Black, The Host, Godzilla, Cloverfield, District 9, Sector Zero, The Expanse, Arrival, Nope

Produced by Matt Huxley.

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Downstream: Were Trans People “Born This Way”? w/ Julia Serano

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