Sicko Mode ☭

We were blessed to have Vijay Prashad join us for a long-form interview. 

We talk about Animal Crossing but mainly video games much more generally

 - our faves but also the industry - and  do some marxist and cultural analysis

Featuring a segment with Marijam Didžgalvytė, and a long form interview with Holly Firmin. 

Siyang, Joe and Miriam indulge in a little stan culture of dear Mr Lenin, whilst avoiding a full hagiography.  

Join as we try to understand the 2020 oil crisis, with our chief economist Edmund Hardy, and chief ecologist Chris Saltmarsh.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/04/do-not-resuscitate-the-oil-industry

Just as David Bowie did some of his greatest work in Berlin, this is our groundbreaking New York episode - with our special guest star US class war correspondent Jihye. We talk about what’s going down in New York - analyse how it got to be the pandemic ridden neoliberal metropolitan capital of the world - and repeatedly allude to the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal.

This is the first ever ‘video club’ edition of Sicko Mode, where we watch Stuart Hall's 1983 television documentary ‘Spectres of Marx’, which is under an hour, and you can watch it on youtube here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6TZi9w6j-A&fbclid=IwAR3AdP7roW9rzEcoa8QxNBKBVNhtiSNYBJlfkNpQc-9nGe9Jyo_YcajSK78

We open up by talking about the ‘Great Lockdown’ recession modelled by the IMF, and do some other assorted analysis of the juncture between economics and Covid-19, but then we have a roving discussion about Hall’s entertaining, short documentary. Make sure to watch the doc, then listen to the episode. Although actually we are also very entertaining, so you could just listen to our witty banter and skip the doc, but the doc is less than hour so maybe just watch it.

Siyang and I read the Labour leak so you don't have to; we share some of the salacious details - and some analysis. 

For how much longer will the Labour party be our political horizon? 

Quarantine film recommendation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(film) 

Outro music:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5UU2TxOcZs 

Join Siyang and Joe for episode 3, where we discuss Corbyn's legacy, the coming recession, and our revolutionary Comrade Britney.

London Renters' Union coronavirus rent crisis info: londonrentersunion.org/c19rentcrisis/

Welcome to Episode 2, where we discuss how we got the lockdown, but not the one that we wanted. 

Catch up with your pals Siyang and Joe as we make sense of the lockdown, share our journeys of swoletarianisation, and talk about good (and not so good) things to do with your quarantine days.

Siyang and Joe discuss the coronavirus and the communist hypothesis.