This Is Hell!

IT For Change deputy director Nandini Chami on her article "Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance" written with Anita Gurumurthy for ROAR / Transnational Institute, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends the obvious.

https://roarmag.org/essays/intelligent-corporation-platform-capitalism/

Historian Touré Reed on Trump and Sanders, what's been removed from politics by neoliberalism, the politics of race and class and his book "Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism" from Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3166-toward-freedom

Writer Shuja Haider on the anti-Democratic politics of the Democratic Party primaries, and his article “The world’s biggest threat to democracy is the Democratic Party” for The Outline.

https://theoutline.com/post/8721/democratic-debaste-superdelegates-dnc-convention

Plus: Listener Feedback and the Question from Hell!

Economist Paul Cockshott on his book "How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day" from Monthly Review Press.

https://monthlyreview.org/product/how-the-world-works/

PLUS: Chuck gets trolled by CNN, and this week in Rotten History...

Black Agenda Report columnist and senior editor Margaret Kimberley on the history of anti-Black politics from the American executive, and her book "Prejudential: Black American and the Presidents," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen punctures the balloons and hands and feet of the faithful.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612534/prejudential-by-margaret-kimberley/

Sociologist John Bellamy Foster on the modern divide between humanity and nature and his book “The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift” from Monthly Review.

https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-robbery-of-nature/

Writer and critic Kate Wagner on the aesthetics of post-industrial decline, and her Baffler article “Staring at Hell”
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https://thebaffler.com/salvos/staring-at-hell-wagner

PLUS: Listener Feedback, and this week’s Question From Hell.

Writer Mikkel Krause Frantzen on his book "Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression" from Zero Books.

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/going-nowhere-slow

Plus: Chuck doesn't travel well, and this week in Rotten History...

Journalist Colin Kinniburgh on his article "Can Extinction Rebellion Survive?" for Dissent / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen dissects a human millipede.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-extinction-rebellion-survive

Anthropologist Marc Edelman on his article "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Rural America" for Jacobin.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/capitalism-underdeveloped-rural-america-trump-white-working-class