Audio from our live event! A panel about the way social media and technology effect our day to day lives and our future as a species with Eric-John Russell of Cured Quail, and Fiona Pearl Miller and Zoe Laris-Djokovic of Clocked Out Magazine. Recorded (mostly) last Friday, August 8 at Woodbine.

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How to Smile Without Using You Eyes: https://curedquail.com/How-to-Smile-Without-Using-Your-Eyes

Preview of Platforms of Proletarianization: https://curedquail.com/Platforms-of-Proletarianization

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Water Cooler Talk/Icarus Again: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/water-cooler-talk

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Interview with Roy Lee: Maybe We'll Want to Be AI's Servant: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/roy-lee Song: Audrey Nuna & Niki - Clocked Out

Andy and Sean are joined by two anon members of the Heatwave Collective to discuss their new project: a better magazine for a worse world. How might we imagine the communist project under conditions of climate chaos? What does political economy tell us about the limits to capitalist politics in the current moment? How has history led us to such an impasse and what might we, as a class, do about it?

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DFW Support Committee for arrested protesters and their fundraiser with updates: http://givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors

Song: Julien Baker - Heatwave

Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives?

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Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/

Thomas Chatterton Williams book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/22/summer-of-our-discontent-by-thomas-chatterton-williams-reivew-a-muddled-take-on-us-race-politics-and-class

Shemon & Arturo texts: The Return of John Brown: White Rice Traitors in the 2020 Uprising: https://illwill.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising

On car caravans: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation

The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising Book

George Floyd Uprising book by Vortex Group

Song: Bonnie Gentry - Courtyard

Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto returns to talk about his new book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis--a trip through the three leftist conceptions of how to survive the climate crisis with recommendations for the present.

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Article about Shell consulting gig: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html

Emmanuel Carrere on the G7: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/15/my-trip-g7-summit-emmanuel-macron-emmanuel-carrere

Tooze's NYT review that calls Harris “ the left-wing alter ego to the liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/books/review/whats-left-malcolm-harris.html

Song: The Walters - What's Left

Sarah Schulman chats about her latest book "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity", a meditation on the category of solidarity informed by her decades of experience as a writer, academic and activist.

Also by Sarah Schulman and mentioned in the episode: "Conflict Is Not Abuse," "Let the Record Show," an oral history of ACT UP, "The Gentrification of the Mind," and the lesbian noir Maggie Terry.

Song: Black Uhuru - Solidarity

&ers & &y talk about James Gunn's woke, punk, millennial, pro-Palestinian, anti-ICE Superman!

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Resources on Communization: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2017/02/28/resources-on-communization/

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Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Z's back to dive deep into Trump's BBL, Alligator Alcatraz and future detention centers, LA and Chicago's immigration showdowns, and the Brandon Johnson's failed campaign against the restaurant from The Bear.

In the fun half we talk about if the Cuomo-voting Bronx will join the New York Commune, and share some HILARIOUS Hot Commie Summer tips from McSweeney's.

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Show notes:

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Passes - The Intercept

Prison Officials Discuss Trump Budget - Mother Jones

Tim Dillon Video Exclusive: Operation Excalibur - Ken Klippenstein

Cross the Courts Off the List - Hamilton Nolan

Chicago Braces for Immigration Raids - Block Club Chicago

Chicago Alderman capitulates to Trump

Mr. Beef Mansion Tax Plan - Illinois Policy

Defend Harlem

How to Have a Hot Commie Summer - McSweeney's

Song: Bjork - Declare Independence

As history repeats itself, we dissect Zohran Mamdani's stunning Democratic primary victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in NYC's mayoral race—a win that sent shockwaves through Wall Street and sparked what hedge fund CEO Dan Loeb dubbed "Hot Commie Summer." How did the Democratic Socialist candidate pull of one of the biggest political upsets in recent New York history? And what potentials does the win provide outside political spectacle?

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Links:

• ICE Update in LA
• Zohran wins "Broad Middle"
• NYT Commie Corridor Analysis
• Billionaire Meltdown Compilation
• Chris Hayes with Ezra Klein
• Wall Street Reactions
• Peter Thiel's Millennial Letter
• Ross Douthat on Thiel

Song: Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer

Our final predictions and analysis for the 2025 NYC Democratic mayoral primaries with Mattie Lubchansky of the No Gods, No Mayors podcast.

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Modern Ferret Monthly: https://web.archive.org/web/20070610044439/http://www.modernferret.com/pressreleases/nyc05212001.html

McMansion Hell endorsement: -https://mcmansionhell.com/post/786540193484341248/mcmansion-hell-urges-all-new-yorkers-to-rank

Lander will keep Jessica Tisch: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/02/lander-would-keep-nypd-commish-jessica-tisch-several-his-mayoral-opponents-would-too/403280/

Pre-order Mattie’s new book Simplicity: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739012/simplicity-by-mattie-lubchansky/

Intro music: Avalon Emerson DJ snippet: https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9xVm6sMxa/?img_index=1

Outro music: Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7XLqeDRmk