A Correction Podcast

We speak with Hanna Muehlenhoff about how and why the EU is normalizing militarism. Hanna Muehlenhoff is Lecturer in European Policy and European Integration at the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).

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We talk with Teddy Wayne about his new novel Apartment. Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A regular contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently adapting Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine into series for HBO and MGM Television. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Kate Greathead, and their children.

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We talk with Tom Smith about Freetown Christiania and the importance of nowtopias. Tom Smith is a postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and is an editor at the Dark Mountain Project.

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We speak with Natasha Tusikov about ‘Smart Cities’. Dr. Tusikov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation, and she is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-investigator on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant “Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century” (2016-2020). She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2018-2020) assessing data governance in smart cities with a focus on the proposed smart city development in Toronto.

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Jonathan talks with Matt Stoller about the dangers of concentrated corporate power. Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.

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We speak with Brian Hioe about the recent Taiwanese presidential election, the protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power in the region. Brian Hioe is a founding editor of New Bloom. New Bloom is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific. New Bloom was founded by a group of students and activists after the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan.

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We discuss why we need two internationales and a World Party with Sahan Savas Karatasli. Sahan Savas Karatasli is a global and macro-historical sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has been extensively studying and writing on the evolution of historical capitalism, global inequality, social movements, nationalism and labor in the capitalist world economy.

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We speak with Walter Mignolo about the difference between decolonization and decoloniality. Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. He is associated researcher at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, since 2002 and an Honorary Research Associate for CISA (Center for Indian Studies in South Africa), Wits University at Johannesburg. Among his books related to the topic are: The Darker Side of the Renaissance. Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995); Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of Decoloniality (2007), Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000); The Idea of Latin America (2006) and The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (2011). Currently, Professor Mignolo is working on two books, one co-edited with Catherine Walsh: On Decoloniality: Analysis, Concepts, Praxis, and Decolonial Politics.

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We talk with Henry Aaron about why both Sanders and Warren have it wrong. Mr. Aaron is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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We speak with Netfa Freeman about the coup in Bolivia. Netfa Freeman is an organizer in: Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the International Committee for Peace Justice and Dignity, on the coordinating committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. Netfa is also the Events Coordinator and a Policy Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-producer/host of the radio program Voices With Vision on WPFW.

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