Will Harry and Meghan bring down the monarchy? Ash Sarkar is joined by gal-dem political editor Moya Lothian-Mclean and Novara Media's very own James Butler to discuss how we ended up with a family of dysfunctional aristocrats at the very top of British society, why republicanism is still so marginal, and the collision course between celebrity culture and 1200 years of feudalism.

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

Downstream: Abolish The Monarchy

Emma Dowling joins PTO to talk about her new book 'The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It'. We chatted about the scale of the care crisis today, how social reproduction theory can help us to make sense of the crisis, and we also talked about how conservatives conceive of care and of how they believe practices of care should be undertaken.

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? w/ Emma Dowling

At the birth of industry in England, a movement of weavers gathered together to resist the imposition of technologies which threatened their way of life. Their actions – which ranged from petitioning government to direct sabotage and destruction of the new weaving frames – were done in the name of their fictional leader, the 'mass pseudonym' Ned Ludd. The Luddites became a byword for a pointless struggle against the inevitable tide of technological progress, but perhaps they now look prophetic. In fact, claims Gavin Mueller, the Luddite rebellions set the pattern for repeated acts of workplace and community rebellion against the imposition of technologies which dispossess workers and rob us all of our freedom. 'To be a good Marxist', he claims, 'is to be a Luddite.' He joins James Butler to trace a surprising history of Luddite rebellion stretching from pre-industrial England to the hacker culture of the early internet, and the ecologically-oriented movements of salvage and repair springing up today. Gavin Mueller's Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job is available now from Verso Books. The image for this episode is taken from an early 1980s cover of Processed World, an archive of which is available online and which we commend to our listeners. https://novaramedia.com/?p=32077

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#NovaraFM: Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs

Expandable Habitats

three names in one day

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Simon Whetham - (R)ASSEMBLE - YARMONICS 2020

"Listening is and always has been at the core of The Quiet Club’s (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea) work combined with their policy of not discussing the work before or after its performance this has been the hallmark of their practice. 

Unable to listen to each other perform during the Covid 19 Lockdown the duo resorted to Telepathic Listening. Uninterested in Zoom, Facetime etc. the duo decided to each perform in their own separate studio’s miles apart at a given time on appointed days for twenty minutes. The concept was that then the two recordings would be combined together unedited.

On June 16th 2020 (Bloomsday) the artists inspired by Joyce, performed separately but at the same time and the recordings were then combined together unedited to form Telepathic Lockdown Tape No 7.

There are several other works in the series including one which they both played at 4:33pm as a tribute to John Cage. Telepathic Lockdown Tape No 9."

The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes

TR079 - The Quiet Club - The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes [excerpt]

There is no more fundamental form of work than work that provides us with food. Yet most of us have only a vague sense of the round-the-clock work done to put food on our plates – which some workers say is like 'sacrificing your life' to feed the rest of society. Can that last? 

As part of Novara Media's Future of Work focus, Sophie Hemery and Craig Gent have been out talking to workers throughout the food supply chain, from dairy farmers to wholesale traders and grocers. They join James Butler in the studio. This work is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (London Office). 

Our special thanks to Matt Huxley for his production work, and to 65daysofstatic for their music. 
https://novaramedia.com/?p=25885

Work All Day, Work All Night: 'Sacrificing Your Life' for the Food Supply Chain

Alison Phipps joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism'. We chatted about the MeToo movement and what it reveals about the mainstream of feminist politics, how violence against women is necessary to the project of capitalist globalisation and how the image of the imperilled white woman has been central to the project of empire both formal and informal.

#106 The trouble with mainstream feminism w/ Alison Phipps

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animation and art by anthony clementi

Moon From a Well

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