Cinder Bloc.

You are listening to Social Movements Lab hosted by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra. To kick off the new season, Michael and Sandro speak with Paola Rivetti and Frieda Afary, navigating the social crises in Iran undergirding the upheaval known as the Woman Life Freedom struggle. Social Movements Lab is brought to you by Red May in coordination with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, Dinamopress, and EuroNomade.

Sean and Kyle talk with Lainie Cassel about her time as an independent journalist in Venezuela during the Bolivarian Revolution. We dig into what it felt like to be at the reelection of Chavez, how western media portrayed the Bolivarian Revolution, and how to become a journalist. Kyle also draws heavily from Naomi Schiller’s book, Channeling The State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela.Aside from her journalistic work, which can be found on her YouTube Channel, Lainie is also ...

Kyle and Sean talk with Idris Robinson about the realities of pain in cycles of crisis and struggle as well as the notion of destitution. This is followed by a 2020 recording of an early draft of Robinson's forthcoming essay "the Destituent Urge" given in Olympia, WA.Idris Robinson is, among other things, a philosopher and writer living in Texas. On Pain The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World has to Offer Letter to Michael Reinoehl How It Might Should Be Done Our stel...

Sean talks with Elle Herman about the varieties and modalities of fascism and the carceral dynamics at stake in the institution of criminal prosecution. Elle recently gave a talk for the Karasu Philosophical Society in Albuquerque titled "The Problem of Prosecuting Fascism." In the talk, she focuses on two recent prosecutions of notorious 2020 American vigilantes: Kyle Rittenhouse's trial for fatally shooting Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and non-fatal shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz at th...

Andrew Anastasi joins Kyle and Sean for Cinder Bloc to discuss class antagonism, political dynamics, and the (prophetic) theoretical lens of the young Mario Tronti. Andrew talks about the European and Italian preconditions that led Tronti, and those that would compose the intellectual base of the Operaismo movements, toward new communist horizons and understandings of the complex momentum of class in the party (and partisan) dynamic.Andrew Anastasi is, among other things, a sociologist, trans...

Ashley Bohrer and Michael Beyea Reagan join Kyle and Sean for Cinder Bloc today. They discuss Intersectionality as a theoretical lens, how it becomes synthesized and integrated into social movements, into political struggles, and they drill down into the complex dynamics of domination, that the real, human History of class antagonism under colonialism and capitalism is simultaneously the condition of being racialized, being gendered, being aged, being able-ized, being classed.Ashley Bohrer (C...

Today Kyle and Sean are joined by friends at Charles Kerr Publishing and The Antifada Podcast to bring you a special interview with Chuang, an anonymous, international research group composing a new analysis of the formal and historical development of China. Chuang has just released a much anticipated collection of essays focusing on the 'China experience' of the covid-19 pandemic and its convergent crises. The book, Social Contagion and other material on microbiological class war in China, i...

Welcome to season 2 of Cinder Bloc. radio! Today, Will and Kyle speak with Max Fox, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and M.E. O'Brien about the life and work of the late Christopher Chitty. Marrying Marx and Foucault, Chitty's analysis focused on the historical conditions for queer sexuality through the development of capitalism, focusing on relations and practices of solidarity and domination brought about through proletarianization and organizational hierarchy in periods of capitalist crises. Chitty...

Red May organizer Will McKeithen is joined by Da'Shaun Harrison and Caleb Luna to discuss the systemic violence of anti-fatness; its role in unevenly distributing care under racial capitalism; and how leftist social and political movements might build fatter forms of collective liberation.show notes:Da’Shaun Harrison is, among many other things, the author of the forthcoming book The Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness from Penguin Random House. You can see more...

With Red May 5 only a few weeks away, we will be sharing a ton of previous Red May interviews and talks, Social Movement Lab discussions, and new Cinder Bloc. episodes. Last week on Cinder Bloc. we presented a discussion we had with Annie McClanahan and Jason E. Smith around the shifting terrain of economic productivity in the US, the historical factors pushing labor toward service sector work, gigification, and how these conditions transform social struggles today. This week, we a...