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A short preview of our first Patreon exclusive episode.  

 

Just as there's nowhere quite like Vegas, there's no film experience quite like Showgirls. We go through the gates of hell into the world of Paul Verhoeven's excess. A sharp critique of capitalism, a devastating refutation of the American Dream? A Chaplinesque queer parody? A twisted version of the Wizard of Oz? Or simply the most ridiculous erotic drama to ever grace the screen? Both a popular drinking game and the focus of much intellectual discussion, Showgirls occupies its own unique section of the "so bad it's good" film category. 

 

Join us and our guests, Justin Hancock and Dr Eleanor Janega, in our first patreon-exclusive Film Club episode as we examine sex, social relations and archetypes through this enduring cultural touchstone and camp classic.  

 

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Eve Livingston joins us to talk about her new book Make Bosses Pay : Why We Need Unions, a call to change history through union membership and organising. 

 

We discuss the variety of unions available, how traditional, inaccurate notions of work and workers can be overcome, cultural capital (as in whether your accent or how many museums you visit matters), what Sharon Graham's Unite might look like, the link between unions and The Labour Party, and the dangers of the friendly HR department. 

 

Plus, fake Labour Party disciplinary investigations. 

 

And finally, Matt gets an email.  

 

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Left/Over podcast with Alex Marshall of IWGB 

 

What Is Cultural Capital? Do I Have It? 

 

Restaurant scene from The Wire 

 

Owen Jones tweet re established fake investigation of Jess Barnard 

 

Chardine Taylor Stone investigation thread 

 

Heather Mendick investigation thread 

 

Now an MP has been targeted with a fake investigation also

AKA I Can Feel It Kamming In The Air Tonight  

 

In this episode recorded before the "investigation" of Jess Barnard, we are occupied by currents of Islamophobia. We predict the future (that Oliver Kamm's call to disband Young Labour signals a ramping up of attacks), discuss The Henry Jackson Society and how parliamentary rules were changed to mitigate its influence, fear the resurrection of NOLS, talk about Lionel Shriver, imagine the fall out from Corbyn running as an independent MP in Islington North, and lament the Labour disciplinary process. 

 

On a positive note, we look forward to The World Transformed in Brighton.

 

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Oliver Kamm's Tweets about Young Labour 

 

Who is Philip Cross?  

 

Who could he possibly be?  

 

Kenan Malik response in The Guardian to Lionel Shriver's Spectator article 

 

Phil Collins Responds To Rumours He Divorced His Wife Via Fax Machine 

 

Clip of Corbyn constituents interviewed after his suspension from the Labour Party

Joining us to talk about the fabulous collection Transgender Marxism is one of its editors, Jules Joanne Gleeson. Transgender Marxism gathers together a range of contributions on trans liberation, Marxist theory and surviving under capitalism.  

 

Note: the name obscured by some background noise at 26:49 is Farah Thompson.  

 

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Transgender Marxism - Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke (2021) 

 

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The Limits of Trans Liberalism - Nat Raha (2015) 

 

The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye (2021) 

 

Understanding Disability - Michael Oliver (1996)  

 

Judith Butler: The Early Years - Jules Gleeson (2019) 

 

How Do Gender Transitions Happen? - Jules Joanne Gleeson (2021) 

 

Gender Identity Communism: A Gay Utopian Examination of Trans Healthcare in Britain - Jules Gleeson and J N Hoad (2020) 

 

Treva Ellison: Black Trans Reproductive Labor. 2017 Talk at BCRW 

 

Pinko - Communism for fags! 

 

Invert journal - Marxism and abolition of gender 

 

Homintern - Prefrontal Paranoia Meets Anal Vision 

 

Sylvia McCheyne at the good NS 

 

Marxism and Transgender Liberation - Red Fightback (2020) 

 

Blood and Terf podcast  

 

Leftovers Facebook group 

 

Jules interviews Judith Butler in The Guardian  

 

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Queer Care Facebook group. Peer support 

 

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Are you yourself on Twitter?  Who is the real Twitter you?  Why do you send me such horny DMs? 

 

We examine the psychology of Twitter engagement, what researchers can and can't find out about your personality from your tweets, ponder whether Adam Curtis was right to posit distorted versions of ourselves in data warehouses, weigh up the political value of "authenticity", get lost in a sea of signs, interrogate our Tony Blair cover art, and then search for a sparkling exit in Andy Warhol shoes. 

 

Also, Danny DeVito and the Nabisco strike.  

 

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Why You Clicked on That Tweet: The Psychology of Twitter Engagement 

 

Tech companies use “persuasive design” to get us hooked. Psychologists say it’s unethical - Chavie Lieber (2018) in Vox 

 

How Twitter Fuels Anxiety - Laura Turner (2017) in The Atlantic 

 

Language of ADHD in Adults on Social Media - Guntuku et al (2017) 

 

What Do Your Spaces Say About You? - Lindsay T. Graham (2018) 

 

The 'Big 5' Personality Traits 

 

A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage - David John Hughes et al (2012) 

 

Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Adam Curtis (2021) 

 

I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience - Marwick et al (2010) 

 

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity - E. Patrick Johnson (2003) 

 

Authenticity on “Black Twitter”: Reading Racial Performance and Social Networking - Raven S. Maragh (2017)  

 

Brand Twitter and Fake Activism | A Response to Steak-Umm - Video by Zoe Bee 

 

George Mack tweet 

 

Dunbar's number 

 

A page on Jean Baudrillard and hyperreality 

 

A selection of quotes by Jean Baudrillard 

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Jean Baudrillard 

 

Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969) 

 

Introduction to Fredric Jameson 

 

American Psycho - Business Card Scene 

 

Intro to Linda Hutcheon on parody 

 

Jo Swinson's Been Forced To Deny She Kills Squirrels Thanks To A Twitter User Churning Out Viral Fake Election Stories (2019) 

 

Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Fredric Jameson (1984) 

 

A Pair of Shoes by Van Gogh (1886) 

 

Diamond Dust Shoes by Andy Warhol (1980) 

 

Tetsuo, The Iron Man dir. Shynia Tsukamoto (1989) - Trailer 

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Authenticity  

 

Nabisco bakers across the US are on strike, potentially disrupting Oreo supply 

 

Danny DeVito Abruptly Loses Twitter Verification After Tweeting Support For Nabisco Strike

Gambling, landowners, the French Revolution, Victorian gender roles, the 'Scramble for Africa', suffragettes burning down pavilions, fascist cricketers, colonialism, Marxist cricketers, West Indian independence, the boycott of South Africa, and the all-rounder who helped bring racial discrimination law to the UK. Tom Williams (of the New Socialist) and Hazel Potter join us to look at the significant part cricket has played in shaping England, its myths, and the class system; in the establishment and maintenance of British colonies; and in struggles for liberation.  

 

Plus, the TUC's furlough proposals.  

 

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1909 Conservative "Demon Bowler" election poster 

 

The tree that grew inside the cricket field at Kent's Canterbury ground 

 

Adams and Eves at the Eden Gardens: Women Cricket Spectators and the Conflict of Feminine Subjectivity in Calcutta, 1920–1970 - Souvik Naha (2012) 

 

History of Cricket | 1957 - 58 - England women in the Antipodes - Gotta have Faith 

 

Faith Thomas is the Aussie legend you haven't heard of - Sidharth Monga (2019) 

 

Australia, Explained | Crikey! Cricket & Colonialism 

 

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha (1997)  

 

Fast but black: the Krom Hendricks story - Martin Williamson (2011) 

 

England bowler Ollie Robinson suspended for eight matches for past racist and sexist tweets 

 

The latest on the Azeem Rafiq affair 

 

Beyond A Boundary - CLR James (1960) 

 

Fire In Babylon (2010) dir. Stevan Riley 

 

Michael Holding on Racism (1)

Michael Holding on Racism (2) 

 

Why We Kneel, How We Rise - Michael Holding (2021) 

 

Scorecard for Gloucestershire v Australians 1930 

 

Footage of Learie Constantine in action 

 

The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963  

 

TUC - Daughter of Furlough 

 

The TUC’s short-time working scheme has the potential to deliver bold, necessary change - Adam Peggs (2021) 

 

Englishness and Blackness: Cricket as Discourse on Colonialism - Manthia Diawara (2010) 

 

Oborne & Heller on Cricket podcast 

 

Anyone But England - Mike Marqusee (2016) 

 

War Minus The Shooting - Mike Marqusee (1997)

This week we talk about recent politics news including Labour embracing the legacy of Blair, Apsana Begum, and much more.  Our Patreon will be live very soon, we will tweet out when!

 

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NLRB officer says Amazon violated US labor law

Justin Hancock is a sex educator whose website bishuk.com is visited by thousands of young people a week.  He also co-hosts the Culture Sex Relationships podcast for adults and has recently written the book Can We Talk About Consent?  We chat with Justin about the commodification of sex, sexual subjectivity, gender, what sex would be like under (or on top of) socialism, flirty politicians, Virginia Woolf's sex life, the material drivers of chemsex, Yvette and Ed's love of poppers, a Californian orgasm cult and more...  

 

Plus, David visits the Vagina Museum.  

 

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The Meg-John & Justin Podcast | Neoliberalism and Sex and Relationships 

 

The Meg-John & Justin Podcast | Her Sexual Self: Joy Townsend. Sexual subjectivities 

 

Rewriting the rules by Meg-John Barker 

 

How to understand your gender by Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker 

 

Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker 

 

The Bisexual Index 

 

Bi UK 

 

The Meg-John & Justin Podcast | Justin Chats With Eleanor Janega About The Objectification of Sex 

 

Whipping Girl - Julia Serrano 

 

'Why women had better sex under socialism' - Kristen R. Ghodsee 

 

'Republicans and Democrats Don’t Just Disagree About Politics. They Have Different Sexual Fantasies' - Justin Lehmiller 

 

Spinning, spooning and the seductions of flirtatious masculinity in contemporary politics (2010) - Candida Yates  

 

Britain's party leaders throw kitchen sink at election' (2015) - Bangkok Post  

 

'Love And Sex With Many: Research On The Health And Wellness Of Consensual Non-Monogamy' - Forbes  

 

"Storming then Performing": Historical Non-Monogamy and Metamour Collaboration (2021) - Brian M Watson and Sarah Stein Lubrano  

 

Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll - Ian Drury and The Blockheads on TOTP (1978)  

 

'What is Chemsex? And how worried should we be?' (2016) - Barbara Speed in The New Statesman  

 

The rise of chemsex: queering collective intimacy in neoliberal London (2018) - Jamie Hakim  

 

The Orgasm Cult - BBC Podcast by Nastaran Tavakoli-Far  

 

Enjoy Sex (How, When and If You Want To) by Meg-John Barker and Justin Hancock  

 

The cult of ecstasy: Tantrism, the new age, and the spiritual logic of late capitalism (2000) - Hugh B. Urban  

 

The Vagina Museum  

 

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Period Positive

Jack from Reel Politik helps us wander through New Hollywood, bringing together 45 years of reflections on Jaws, from Hiroshima to Žižek. We also assess Dennis Hopper's health tips, assert our lack of fear, and even look at the film's unfortunate impact on shark policy - and how politicians use movie myths to pursue ideology bolstering but pragmatically ineffective action.  

 

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Bill Murray sings Jaws 

 

The Jaws Effect: How movie narratives are used to influence policy responses to shark bites in Western Australia (2014) - Christopher Neff 

 

Adam Nayman on Jaws and "virtuoso populism" 

 

"History Bites Back: Confronting the Atomic Leviathan in Jaws" (2017) - Sebastian Croft 

 

The fate of the USS Indianopolis 

 

Guardian Article on Jaws - Mark Kermode 

 

Jaws clip from The Perverts Guide To Ideology - Slavoj Žižek 

 

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream 

 

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - full documentary 

 

Easy Riders, Raging Bull - Deleted and extended footage 

 

Joseph Campbell, four functions of myth 

 

The Shark Is Still Working - full documentary

We go in without safety harnesses this week, with an episode generated on the fly.  Fortunately, your Comradio hosts haven't yet completely destroyed their memory functions with masturbation, drugs, and Labourism.  Talking this week about the widely felt loss of the late Dawn Foster, the Starmer twins, the concept of statesmanship, Socialist Appeal and proscription, mandating delegates, the Tory u-turn on exempting themselves from isolation, David Aaronovich, swimmers, and fighting demons for LGBT+ Palestinians.  

 

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A bench in memory of Dawn Foster  

 

Dogs Trust's Freedom Project, Dawn's chosen charity  

 

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