"Cities are built with a conceit of impregnability: made by history, towering over history, making and withstanding history. They are human beings’ monuments to themselves. For a city to be shaken implies a drastic change in history’s course."

That's a quote from this week's guest, Alexander Billet's latest book – and it's also a pretty good description of what's been going on in Ferrix as we cross the midway point of episode 7 of ANDOR!

We discuss the intertwined histories of neoliberalism and fascism, 1966's The Battle of Algiers, vaping in space, whether Mon Mothma is more Nancy Pelosi or Gerry Adams, how terrifying it is when Star Wars Stormtroopers actually act like real Stormtroopers, and well, a lot of dunking on the DMV area. We apologize to those local listeners in advance.

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🏙️ Buy Alexander’s book Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis.

📰 Subscribe to Alexander's Substack “To Whom it May Concern”, read his essay on George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead”, and find his work in Jacobin and the Los Angeles Review of Books!

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👨‍💻 Produced & edited by Rusteen Honardoost

🎨 Art by Kris Mukai

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