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May 27, 2022 Boris Groys: The Philosophy of Care
In this episode Boris Groys discusses his new book Philosophy of Care which has recently published with Verso Books. In Philosophy of Care Groys engages with figures such as Plato, Nietzsche, Bataille in the hopes of revealing the nature of care and its role in society.
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51 min
May 01, 2022 Mark Neocleous: The Politics of Immunity
Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University London and the author of numerous books including Critique of Security, The Fabrication Of Social Order, and War Power, Police Power.
His most recent book, which has just published with Verso, is called The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies and in it he explores the obsession with immunity that underpins the ideology of liberal capitalism.
In this discussion he explores how security shapes medicine, the importance of demanding a form of healthcare free from institutions like prisons and the police and what the politics of anti-vaxxers reveals about the contradictions within liberal thought.
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51 min
March 24, 2022 Jetta Grace Martin: Freedom & Health in The Black Panther Party
Jetta Grace Martin, co-author of Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party, written in collaboration with Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, explains how the Panthers developed a critique of racial capitalism and enacted programs that offer a different model of healthcare, one based in class struggle and in opposition to the repressive role of the state.
43 min
February 28, 2022 Johanna Fernández: Liberation, Health & The Young Lords
The Young Lords were a revolutionary group active throughout the 60s and 70s who organized around Puerto Rican liberation, international socialism and the radical expansion of public health. Writer, academic, educator, activist and author Johanna Fernadez, explores their contribution to the politics of health, their critique of the carceral state and why their analysis is still relevant and important today.
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1 hr 2 min
February 01, 2022 Justin Beal: Architecture and Illness
In this episode artist, writer, and author of the recently published Sandfuture, Justin Beal, explores architecture, illness, and the work of Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed The World Trade Center and the Pruitt-Igoe apartment complex. In this conversation he discusses his writing on migraines and the built environment, sick building syndrome and the long standing intimacy between architecture and medicine.
45 min
January 05, 2022 Erik Davis: The Religiosity of Medicine
In this conversation San Francisco based writer and academic Erik Davis explores whether or not the distinction between ‘alternative’ and ‘mainstream’ medicine still exists and if it doesn’t, what the implications might be for public health, political organizing, and our own relationships to healing.
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1 hr 3 min
November 30, 2021 Lyra Kilston: The Health Seekers of California
Los Angeles-based writer and author of Sun Seekers: The Cure of California, Lyra Kilston, discusses health culture in turn of the century California, including the sanatorium boom caused by the spread of tuberculosis, the complex politics of ‘returning to the land’ and the relationship between architecture, ecology, and health.
39 min
October 26, 2021 Gabriel Winant: From the Factory to the Hospital
Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift, discusses how deindustrialization made way for an economy built on a foundation of health care, a sector which currently employs more Americans than any other industry.
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59 min
September 27, 2021 Matt Ingram: Health and the Counterculture
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Graphics by Ava Gardner
Soundtrack by Matthew Browne
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46 min