The scene is familiar. A small child lies on a beach with his head towards the ocean and feet on dry sand. The image of Alan Kurdi, a three year old Kurdish Syrian boy has become part of the global psyche and in his book, What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad begins with the same image. But in this version Amir is a few years older. And he gets up.

Omar El Akkad is the author of American War which looked at the possible outcome of another civil war in the not too distant American future. This new book, What Strange Paradise, looks at the migrant crisis, and by crisis I mean migrants in a crisis that the west has created. Join us for a difficult, and spoiler-free, conversation about being unmoored and displaced, the losses that create us.

The Losses That Create Us with Omar El Akkad

<p>History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, said Mark Twain.&nbsp;From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the modern world: history ebbs and flows over the centuries, driven by great tides of economic, social, political, religious, and cultural change that shape the world and everyone who lives on it. In this new series from Wondery, PhD historian Patrick Wyman (Fall of Rome) brings the cutting edge of that history to listeners in plain, relatable English.&nbsp;Episodes 1 &amp; 2 out now!</p><p>Subscribe today so you never miss an episode: https://smarturl.it/TOH</p>

Introducing Tides of History

In this episode, Silvia Federici goes over many of the details and themes in her groundbreaking book "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation," an extensive history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Silvia discusses the conditions that lead to the witch-hunts in medieval Europe, and the lasting impact these events have had on the trajectory of capitalist development into the modern era. Silvia provides a description of the social and economic system, feudalism, that governed societies in medieval Europe and how the events and struggles that occurred during that time period led to the economic and social system, capitalism, we currently exist in today. "Caliban and the Witch" is an incredibly important and relevant work, and provides a much needed context of how capitalism did not merely emerge naturally out of feudalism, but was enacted piece by piece through systemic acts of state violence over hundreds of years against the landless, the poor, and in particular women. Silvia goes over the details of her work in this episode.

Silvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, activist, and the author of numerous books, including "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation" and "Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle." She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University.


Episode Notes:

- Check out Silvia's book "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation" here: https://www.akpress.org/calibanandthewitch.html

- Also, check out Silvia's book "Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle" here: https://www.akpress.org/revolutionatpointzero.html

- Learn more about Silvia's most recent book "Wages for Housework: The New York Committee 1972–1977" here: https://www.akpress.org/wages-for-housework.html

- The songs featured in this episode are "Jstowee" and "Nvrending" by Knxwledge from the album Hud Dreems.

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#106 | Caliban And The Witch: The Body In The Transition To Capitalism w/ Silvia Federici

Welcome to episode one! Join Courtney and Hayden on the way to their day jobs. This week we discuss the emerging vision for the podcast, what it will take to get Hayden to reconcile, and run out of time on a good ol' structure/agency debate.

RED ROAD EP 1  #nativerthanyou

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian who studies how white supremacy fucks over everyone including white people. We had a good time.

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Books, organizations, websites, etc mentioned during the podcast 

Masterless Men by Dr Keri Leigh Merritt: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/masterless-men/4DA0CAD8D061BD3681AB01EFF24D6D44

Nobody Should Be Talking About Beto and Gillum in 2020 Until We Understand Stacey Abrams in 2018: from The Root about Stacey Abrams’s boom in support among rural white voters. https://www.theroot.com/nobody-should-be-talking-about-beto-and-gillum-in-2020-1831061434

Case and Deaton paper on shortening life expectancies among white non-Hispanic Americans: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/casetextsp17bpea.pdf

White Supremacy is Bullshit feat. Keri Leigh Merritt (part 1)

Cherokee Morning Song (A beautiful Native American song)

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