show notes: 

Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles) is, among other things, a communist theorist who writes primarily about contemporary politics, art, and philosophy.

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation 

The Upstarts and the Mandarins: Reflections on the Illusions of a Class (Jason w/ Tony Smith) 

Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now pt I 

Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now pt 2 

Annie McClanahan (Irvine) is, among other things, a communist theorist who researches at the intersection of culture, economics,  and art.

Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture 

Secular Stagnation and the Discourse of Reproductive Limit 

Life Expectancies: Mortality, Exhaustion, and Economic Stagnation 

The Spirit of Capital in an Age of Deindustrialization 

TV and Tipworkification 

Late, Autumnal, Immiserating, Terminal 

Special thanks to Stephen Steen for his help producing this episode

Many thanks to Occult A/V for our new title intro song, "Cosmic Background Radiation"