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January 16, 2023 85. Dispatches from the Apocalypse - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US
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Readings & Resources:
“Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards”
https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords
“AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare”
https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060
“Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police”
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/
“Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/
Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.
Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/
“New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn”
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/
“Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990
“Understanding the AI Alignment Problem”
https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/
E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928.
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-Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
-Outro: "Let It Play” by Miguel Migs (ft. Martin Luther)
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1 hr 44 min
January 09, 2023 84. Sad Beige - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast
A discussion of the "sad beige" trend and other aesthetic choices in childrearing that carry thinly-veiled messages of classism, moralism, and misogyny.
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Readings & Resources:
"The Sad Beige Trend Goes against All My Wild Instincts"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/04/the-sad-beige-trend-goes-against-all-my-wild-instincts
"The Miseducation of Maria Montessori"
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miseducation-of-maria-montessori
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-Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
-Outro: "Prey for Peace" by Joyce Muniz
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49 min
January 02, 2023 83. I Promise I Am Alive - Left POCket Project Podcast
A quick update
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-Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
-Outro: "(Just Like We) Breakdown" by Hot Chip
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12 min
May 11, 2022 82. Words that Light Fires - Interview w/Brent of Rad Reads - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, we speak to Brent of Rad Reads, a youtube channel where discussions of radical texts takes center stage.
Readings & Resources
Audio/Video:
Rad Reads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFDSgzcZsjOi8XnWD2TlKg
-Review: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_b-0ab5ljE
-Discussion: Struggling with Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJdHNl4zcs
-Other Media:
Twitter: RadreadsB
Instagram: radreads94
Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72413401-brent
Marxist Paul -”Wretched of the Earth with Rad Reads”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDDjC9ZlYA
Louis Allday - Liberated Texts: https://liberatedtexts.com/
Louis Allday - “Our Enemies Know the Power of Books” (Interview) - Millennials are Killing Capitalism Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/our-enemies-know-the-power-of
Left POCket Project Podcast - “Combahee River Collective Statement” (Reading Revolution Discussion): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-combahee-river-collective-statement-readingrevolution/id1329313097?i=1000489874990
Books/Essays/Articles
H. Rap Brown - Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Constance Farrington Translation)
James Yaki Sayles - Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
George Jackson - Blood in My Eye
Robin D. G. Kelley - Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonalism
J. Moufawad-Paul - Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: A History
Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
Sanyika Shakur - Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy
Toni Morrison:
Playing in the Dark
The Bluest Eye
Sula
Dan Berger - ““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika”
https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/
Atiba Shanna - “On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: a New Afrikan Perspective http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Republic_of_New_Afrika/513.RNA.Atiba.Shanna.On.Captured.Citizens.pdf
Additional Authors Mentioned:
Gloria Naylor
Ursula K. Le Guin
Octavia Butler
Walter Rodney
Gerald Horne
1 hr 6 min
January 24, 2022 81. Love as the Practice of Freedom (discussion) - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode - a Reading Revolution installment - we discuss the essay "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks and how it can apply to our contemporary leftist formations and debates on revolution.
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Readings & Resources
bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (essay)
https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf
"Love as the Practice of Freedom" (audio)
https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/77-love-as-the-practice-of-freedom-readingrevolution-left-pocket-project-podcast
Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJKJZU7xXU&t=532s
bell hooks on Freire
https://t.co/vIrwItLrO4
The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks
Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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1 hr 21 min
January 12, 2022 Mutual Aid Alert - MASKS
I'm taking requests again for N95s
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11 min
December 31, 2021 80. My Problem with China in Africa - Left POCket Project Podcast
A spicy take to close out 2021 and Podmas on "China in Africa"
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-Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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37 min
December 31, 2021 79. What Goes Unsaid on Family Social Media - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #20, I talk about the dark underbelly of mom and family based social media.
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Readings & Resources
"Biracials Are Fighting for Their Lives on TikTok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJBW8VkeZM
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40 min
December 30, 2021 79. What Goes Unsaid on Mom Media - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #20, I talk about the dark underbelly of mom and family based social media.
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Readings & Resources
"Biracials Are Fighting for Their Lives on TikTok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJBW8VkeZM
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40 min
December 28, 2021 78. Anger - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #19, I talk about anger.
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Readings & Resources
"What will the pandemic look like in 2022?" interview w/ Eric Topol
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2021/12/16/what-will-the-pandemic-look-like-in-2022
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Image by Noa Denman
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43 min