Elia Ayoub reads his Hauntologies essay "Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation" (00:00 to 09:50) and reflects on it (09:50-36:49).

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• Check out Politically Depressed's latest video "What Are Tankies Really?" since it's so clearly related to what I'm talking about here.

• The Hezbollah essay I mentioned

• My conversation with Hong Kongers

  
  

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