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The Worker's Cauldron episodes
- Neoliberal Demonomics
An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.
How the economic crisis of the 1970's, and the capitalist response to it, popularized a belief in the demonic among American Christians. From Traditionalist Catholics to Charismatic Evangelicals, from The Exorcist to the Satanic Panic, the neoliberal era is crawling with the diabolic.
Bonus content: The sexual life of home furniture.Support the show
43 min - Class Struggle and the Loch Ness Monster
An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.
What does the social history of Scotland tell us about the mysterious monster of Loch Ness? In this episode, we explore the earliest documentation of something weird in the lake, discuss the monstrous denizens of Highland folklore, and discuss how the monster we know today emerged in the Great Depression.
Bonus content: Irresistible demonic poniesSupport the show
30 min - Is Bigfoot Racist?
An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.
This week of Sh!t Gets Weird, we explore the intersections of settler colonialism, "scientific" racism, cultural appropriation and Bigfoot.
Bonus content: Detailed discussion of bigfoot gluteal anatomySupport the show
38 min - Trotskyist Saucers and Fascists from Jupiter
An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.
The intersections of UFO beliefs of the left-wing Posadist International, the far right terror cult of Aladino Felix, and the struggle for worker and peasant power in Latin America’s 20th century.
Bonus: The use of flatulence in radical rhetoric, how to propose to a woman with Leon Trotsky’s transitional program and triangular craft over Sacramento.Support the show
45 min - Hauntology and the Hexham Head Hex
An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.
An exploration of how deindustrialization and the “Black Aquarius” impacted paranormal encounters in early 1970’s Britain. We ask if the analytical concept of hauntology as elucidated by the late critical theorist Mark Fisher can be applied to tabloid stories of the supernatural.
Bonus: Werewolf ghosts and Druid nipple tortureSupport the show
35 min - Did Ghosts Support Women's Suffrage?
An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.
This episode explores the links between poltergeist activity at a Rochester New York home and the spark that ignited the social movement for women's suffrage.
Bonus: Poltergeist activity as a path to enlightenment and when God tells you go on a diet.
Books if you want to learn more: Radical Spirits by Ann Braude, Ghosts of Futures Past by Molly McGarry, and Other Powers by Barbara GoldsmithSupport the show
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About The Worker's Cauldron
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A podcast about the cultural politics of the paranormal. Where Karl Marx shakes his fist at the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot speaks to us about the legacies of colonialism. We discuss the…
contemporary obsession with all things supernatural through a socialist, feminist lens and ask what our strange experiences and beliefs tell us about the society we live in.