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| 21 May 2024 | Feeling Bad, Politically w/ Hannah Proctor | 01:21:47 | |
Hannah Proctor explains why it’s important to understand the messy, emotional, and interpersonal aspects of political struggle. Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. Her most recent book is Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso Books) EVENT INFORMATION: https://bit.ly/3yu9zBl SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 19 Aug 2022 | OBJECT RELATIONS | Hannah Zeavin: Psychoanalytic Politics and the Myth of Neutrality | 00:42:19 | |
Writer Hannah Zeavin discusses the politics of the psychoanalytic encounter. Specifically she explores the supposed neutrality of the psychotherapist, the relationship between analysis and political organizing, and The Psycho-Social Foundation, the nonprofit educational organization for which she is the founding editor. Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology, and media theory. She is Assistant Professor at Indiana University in the Luddy School of Informatics. Additionally, she is a visiting fellow at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference and an awardee of the Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 20 Nov 2024 | Austerity, Panic and Policing on the NYC Subway w/ Youbin Kang and John Ferretti | 00:49:47 | |
Youbin Kang and John Ferretti discuss the compounding issues of austerity, policing, and propaganda on the New York City subway system. Specifically, they explore the way incidents of harm and violence are taken up as part of a cycle of media panics and carceral crackdowns. Youbin's recent essay All Aboard the Moral Panic, published in n+1 magazine, and John's experiences of workplace organising provide the basis for the discussion.
Youbin Kang is a writer and Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
John Ferretti is a NYC Subway train conductor and a proud member of TWU Local 100, NYC's Subway and Bus workers' union. John is also a co-founder of the Local 100 Fightback Coalition – a rank-and-file Coalition of NYC Transit workers that is made up of both Revolutionary Socialists and Progressive Democrats in our union which was founded in September of 2018. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 06 Dec 2022 | Rita Issa: Why Is the NHS Going on Strike? | 00:34:50 | |
In this episode Dr Rita Issa discusses the forthcoming strikes in the NHS. She explains the ongoing pressures faced by healthcare workers including austerity, privatization and poor working conditions and pay. Rita also explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has made all of these things worse and how workers are organizing ahead of unprecedented strike action in an attempt to turn things around for the benefit of workers and patients. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 24 Jan 2023 | Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi: Psychoanalysis in Palestine | 01:29:14 | |
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi discuss what it means to practice psychoanalysis in Palestine under constant attack from the settler colonial project of the Israeli state. They explain how Palestinian clinicians see their role in the liberation struggle and what their work teach us about the relationship between the psychic and the political. Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 10 Oct 2023 | The Reality of Trans Healthcare in Britain w/ Vic Parsons | 00:46:41 | |
Journalist Vic Parsons discusses the reality facing trans and non-binary people navigating the British healthcare system. Vic Parsons is a journalist based in London. They have written on a number of topics relating to the lives of trans and non-binary people for a number of publications including Novara Media, Democracy Now, Vogue and others. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 18 Apr 2023 | Jeremy Gilbert: The Sonic and Somatic Politics of the Dancefloor | 01:13:59 | |
Jeremy Gilbert traces the politics of the body through the counterculture's experiments in music and medicine, comparing the affordances of control and liberation available in the clinic and on the dance-floor. Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. He is the author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism, Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics and Twenty-First Century Socialism. He writes regularly in the British press, is the current editor of the journal New Formations, and hosts three regular podcasts: #ACFM (on Novara Media); Love is the Message; Culture, Power, Politics. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 11 Jul 2023 | M. E. O'Brien: Insurgent Social Reproduction and Communizing Care | 00:56:45 | |
M. E. O'Brien discusses her work on family abolition, specifically her new book Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care. Including how the crisis of capitalist over-production changed the nature of the family in the 20th century, and how we might understand what’s happening in moments of insurgent social reproduction.
M. E. O'Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines Pinko and Parapraxis. She received her PhD from NYU. She is the co-author of the novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
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| 14 Feb 2024 | Trans Misogyny and the State w/ Jules Gill-Peterson | 01:30:10 | |
Jules Gill-Peterson explains what trans misogyny is, why the state cultivates and enlists it, and how this shapes our current political moment. Jules Gill-Peterson is writer, academic, and author based in the US. She is a tenured associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Her writing has appeared in publications such as New Inquiry, Jewish Currents, The Baffler, Parapraxis, and many others. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child and A Short History of Trans Misogyny. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 28 Mar 2023 | Jamieson Webster: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Useless Organs | 00:44:51 | |
Psychoanalyst Jaimeson Webster discusses her collection of essays, Disorganization and Sex, drawing on thinkers such as Freud, Lacan and Paul Preciado to explain what psychoanalysis offers in understanding sexuality, medicine and the body. Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst based in New York. She is the author of numerous books including The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis and Conversion Disorder. Her writing has appeared regularly in publications such as Artforum, Spike Art Magazine, Apology and the New York Review of Books. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 11 Dec 2024 | 30 Years of Violence in the Department for Work and Pensions w/ John Pring | 01:17:12 | |
John Pring documents the history of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), specifically how this department has inflicted 30 years of violence and austerity on sick and disabled people in Britain.
John Pring is founder and editor of the news agency Disability News Service. He is co-creator of the Deaths by Welfare timeline, and co-editor and specialist advisor on the award-winning Museum of Austerity project. He has written for mainstream publications including the Guardian, Observer, Daily Mirror and Private Eye, and was associate producer on the award-winning Dispatches documentary, The Truth About Disability Benefits. He is the author of Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal. Earlier this year, Pluto Press published his most recent book, The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 28 Feb 2023 | Mark Spencer: #StopCopCity is a Health Issue | 00:44:33 | |
Mark Spencer updates us on the struggle to stop the Atlanta Police Foundation building the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, Atlanta. He also explains why ‘health’ is a useful lens by which to understand the overlapping processes of racial capitalism, ecological destruction and the expanding carceral state in Atlanta and elsewhere. Mark Spencer has a MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine and a BS in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. He works as an Internal Medicine Resident physician at multiple hospitals across Atlanta. He is part of a coalition that builds support among healthcare workers for community based movements like Atlanta's Communities over Cages campaign to close the Atlanta Detention Center and also Stop Cop City. More info on Red Medicine event at The Horse Hospital on May 25th coming soon... https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/ https://atlsolidarity.org/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 31 Dec 2024 | Workers Inquiry in the Care Economy w/ Callum Cant | 01:28:04 | |
Callum Cant joins the podcast to explain 'workers inquiry', a form of research that places the working class as its centre and protagonist. He explains how it differs from other forms of theoretical work and why its so essential for building a militant working class.
Callum Cant is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Essex Business School, he is the author of Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy and the co-author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI, with James Muldoon and Mark Graham. He is an editor at the publication Notes from Below and the host of the forthcoming Notes from Below Podcast. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 01 May 2022 | Mark Neocleous: The Politics of Immunity | 00:50:21 | |
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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 18 Oct 2023 | The Future of the NHS w/ Johnbosco Nwogbo (Red Medicine at TWT) | 00:35:57 | |
Johnbosco Nwogbo from We Own It discusses the future of the NHS, to what degree it can still be considered publicity owned, and what we could expect from a Labour government.
Johnbosco Nwogbo is Lead Campaigner at We Own It. For the three years before joining We Own It, he has been a campaigner for renters and community rights as part of ACORN the community union.
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| 14 Feb 2023 | Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD | 01:15:45 | |
Nadia Abu El Haj describes the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and what it reveals about psychiatry, American imperialism and anti-war politics. She tracks PTSD’s shifting status in medical discourse from Vietnam war veteran 'rap groups' through to its depoliticized iteration in the 21st century. Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and a recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America
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| 29 Oct 2024 | Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour | 01:21:12 | |
Richard Seymour analyses the global far-right, asking how movements across the world have managed to capitalize on the resentment produced by the capitalist system to generate a form of violent rebellion that leaves that same system fully in-tact. Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine. His most recent book Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, publishes this month with Verso Books. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 23 Mar 2023 | Lynne Tillman: Caring for a Mother You Don't Love | 00:55:56 | |
Lynne Tillman discusses her recent book Mothercare. In one of the few examples of Lynne writing about her own life, Mothercare documents the period when her mother develops and then sadly passes from a rare health condition. Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, cultural critic and author of various books including Haunted Houses, Weird Fucks, American Genius and Men and Apparitions. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz
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| 31 Jan 2023 | M.E. O'Brien and Alex Colston: Parapraxis Issue 1 and the Mistakes of Psychoanalysis | 01:04:46 | |
Founded by friend of the show, Hannah Zeavin, Parapraxis is a new magazine about psychoanalysis with a commitment to uncovering the psychosocial dimensions of life. In this conversation Alex Colston and M.E. O'Brien discuss what it means to think psychoanalytically about politics and politically about psychoanalysis. As well as their experiences of putting together the magazine. M. E. O’Brien writes and speaks on gender freedom and capitalism. She has two books: a co-authored speculative novel, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072, published with Common Notions in 2022 and Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care which is forthcoming from Pluto Books June of this year. She is one of the Associate Editors of Parapraxis magazine. Alex Colston is a PhD student in clinical psychology at doo kayn University, as well as a writer, and editor. He is the deputy editor of Parapraxis and codirector of the Psychosocial Foundation.
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| 22 Nov 2022 | Sophie Lewis: Abolishing the Family for Universal Care | 00:52:02 | |
Sophie Lewis explains how the family shapes care in capitalist societies and what health might look like in a society that is no longer structured around the institution of the family. Drawing on the works of Marx, Alexandra Kollontai, Charles Fourier and the gay liberationists, she presents us with a radically different approach to healing and care. Sophie is a freelance writer living in Philadelphia and the author of Full Surrogacy Now and Abolish the Family, both published by Verso Books. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, Boston Review, n+1, the London Review of Books and Salvage. www.redmedicine.xyz @red_medicine__
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| 24 Oct 2023 | Addiction, Recovery, Liberation w/ Waithera Sebatindira | 00:57:24 | |
Waithera Sebatindira explores how it feels to live as an addict under capitalism and asks how addiction and recovery could remake the world.
Waithera Sebatindira is a Kenyan writer based in London. Their previous writing and research interests have included food imperialism, drag kings and gender transformation. They are a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University and the author of Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass (Hajar Press)
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| 17 May 2023 | Victoria Browne: A Philosophy of Miscarriage | 01:01:38 | |
Victoria Browne discusses her work developing a feminist philosophy of miscarriages, still births and pregnancy. Victoria Browne is Reader in Political Theory at Oxford Brookes University. She is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective and the author of two books Feminism, Time and Nonlinear History and Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 13 Dec 2023 | Healthcare Assistants on the Picket Line w/ Jess Thorne | 01:07:50 | |
Jess Thorne updates us on the struggle Health Care Assistants in the Wirral face to win adequate wages.
Jess Thorne is a writer, historian and trade union organiser. She works as a local organiser for UNISON in the North West region, where she has been assisting healthcare assistants on the Wirral in a re-banding dispute.
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| 11 Mar 2025 | A History of Wages for Housework w/ Emily Callaci | 00:57:45 | |
Emily Callaci unpacks the history and legacy of Wages for Housework, the feminist movement that demanded payment for the unpaid work of women required to sustain capitalism. She discusses five women at the centre of this movement: Selma James, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, Wilmette Brown, and Margaret Prescod.
Emily Callaci is a historian and writer, currently Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Street Archives and City Life and Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 12 Nov 2024 | The Politics of Motherhood w/ Helen Charman | 01:18:46 | |
Helen Charman describes some of the many political and historical struggles over the meaning and status of motherhood, by way of thinkers such as Denise Riley and Jacqueline Rose, as well as figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Helen Charman is a Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her critical writing has been published in the Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze, and The Stinging Fly among others. As a poet, Charman was shortlisted for the White Review Poet's Prize in 2017 and for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, and has published four poetry pamphlets, most recently In the Pleasure Dairy. Charman volunteers as a birth companion in Glasgow. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 27 Apr 2023 | Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla: Towards an Internationalist Politics of Health | 00:50:44 | |
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla explains how an internationalist politics can and should shape international health policy away from structures designed by and for capitalist countries in the Global North towards a system based on sovereignty and solidarity.
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla is a Cabinet member of Progressive International and leads its policy pillar, Blueprint.
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| 27 May 2022 | Boris Groys: The Philosophy of Care | 00:50:48 | |
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. @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.xyz Soundtrack by Matt Browne Artwork by Ava Gardner SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 31 Aug 2023 | Matt Colquhoun: Is Another Narcissism Possible? | 01:06:25 | |
Narcissism is often deemed the defining pathology of contemporary society. In this episode writer Matt Colquhoun examines these claims and asks if another narcissism is possible. Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull. They are the author of two books, Egress and Narcissus in Bloom, and the editor of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire. They’re also a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, and blog at xenogothic.com
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| 20 Dec 2022 | Chelsea A. Jackson: An Abolitionist Theory of Care | 00:53:19 | |
Chelsea A Jackson is an academic, activist and member of Cradle Community which is a collective of organizers committed to radical education and building understanding of prison abolition and transformative justice. Last year the collective published their first book with Hajar Press. Titled Brick by Brick, the book provides an introduction to abolitionist theory and a manifesto for those of us who want to build a society free from prisons and police. In this episode we discuss abolitionism and what an abolitionist critique entails in relationship to how we think about healthcare. Chelsea explains how prisons and police shape healthcare provisions in the UK, how austerity has made access to healthcare more predatory and dangerous, and the importance of mutual aid as a tool for building a better system. Subscribe to the podcast on Twitter at @red_medicine__ Sign up to the newsletter at www.redmedicine.xyz/supplement And donate to keep the podcast going at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 09 Nov 2023 | Entering the Age of Genomic Capital w/ Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante | 01:04:09 | |
Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante provide a marxist analysis of gene editing technology, CRISPR, and genetic engineering as they relate to eugenics, capital accumulation and ecology. Erica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King's College, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and ecological crisis. Amedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries. Together they are the authors of Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital, which published with Pluto Books later last year.
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| 24 Dec 2024 | Ideology and the Crisis of Care w/ Alyssa Battistoni | 01:08:47 | |
If access to care is so expensive, why are care workers so poorly paid? Historically, feminist discourses have looked at how ideology structures how we understand and value care work. However, in this discussion Alyssa Battistoni makes the argument that we need to update and develop these arguments, to provide a better answer to this question.
Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019), with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. Her next book is called Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, and will be published with Princeton University Press in spring 2025. Her writing has appeared in publications such as New Left Review, The Nation, Dissent, n+1, Boston Review, and Jacobin. Her most recently published article, and the topic of this discussion, is titled Ideology at Work? Rethinking Reproduction, and appeared in American Political Science Review earlier this year. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 03 Dec 2024 | HIV/AIDS in England w/ George Severs | 01:08:19 | |
George Severs provides a history of HIV/AIDS in England, paying close attention to the various political and social formations that emerged to address the harms of the virus, which were compounded by institutional homophobia and state abandonment.
Dr George Severs is a historian of HIV/AIDS, sexual violence and sexual health in modern Britain. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland where he is working on a history of sexual health and race. He is the author of Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 19 Jun 2024 | Reviewing the Cass Review w/ Ruth Pearce | 01:19:41 | |
Ruth Pearce explains the many problems surrounding the recently published Cass Review into trans healthcare for young people.
Ruth Pearce is a Lecturer in Community Development at the University of Glasgow and a researcher specializing in trans healthcare. She has edited two books (The Emergence of Trans and TERF Wars) as well as special issues of the International Journal of Transgender Health (Fertility, reproduction and body autonomy) and Sexualities (Trans Genealogies). She is also the author of Understanding Trans Health.
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| 04 Jun 2024 | The Revolutionary Movements of the 1970s w/ Michael Hardt | 01:24:40 | |
Michael Hardt analyses the revolutionary political movements of the 1970s and what they might teach us about political struggle, social transformation, and liberation. Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author, with Antonio Negri, of the Empire trilogy and, most recently, Assembly. He is co-director with Sandro Mezzadra of The Social Movements Lab. His most recent book is The Subversive Seventies (Oxford University Press.) SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | Nick Dearden: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health | 01:08:33 | |
Nick Dearden shatters the myth that pharmaceuticals corporations (Big Pharma) play an innovative and productive role in providing people with medicines and how the realities of financialization, intellectual property law, and neocolonialism show that instead we are left with an incredibly harmful system. Nick Dearden is the director of Global Justice Now. He has been a campaigner against corporate globalisation for over 20 years, working with organizations including War on Want, Amnesty International and Jubilee Debt Campaign. He has been a leading voice in the campaign for a People's Vaccine. He regularly contributes political analysis to publications including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Open Democracy. He is the author of Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health (Verso Books.) SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 26 Oct 2021 | Gabriel Winant: From the Factory to the Hospital | 00:58:16 | |
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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 01 Aug 2023 | Arun Kundnani: What Liberal Anti-racism Gets Wrong About Racial Capitalism | 01:03:53 | |
Arun Kundnani outlines the limits of liberal anti-racism and explains why we need a radical and materialist analysis of capitalism to understand racism.
Arun Kundnani has been active in antiracist movements in Britain and the United States for three decades. He is a former editor of the journal Race & Class and was a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He is the author of a number of books including, The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain, The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror and most recently What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism which published with Verso Books last month.
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| 14 Mar 2023 | Malcolm Harris: How California Eugenicists Shaped the Modern World | 00:53:02 | |
In this episode Malcolm Harris describes the interconnected histories of eugenics and American capitalism in California throughout the 19th and 20th Century as well as how this history shapes tech and politics today. Malcolm Harris is an American journalist, critic and editor. He is the author of three books, the most recent of which is titled Palo Alto: A History of California Capitalism and the World. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 04 Apr 2023 | Joy James: Revolutionary Love and Black Liberation | 01:08:16 | |
Joy James discusses revolutionary love, care under racial capitalism and the captive maternal. Joy James is a political philosopher, academic and author. She is the author of numerous books including Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Resisting state violence, and Seeking the Beloved Community. She has edited collections including The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Imprisoned Intellectuals, and The New Abolitionists. Her most recent book In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love published with Divided Press in December of last year and includes a foreword by Da’Shaun L. Harrison and an afterword by Mumia Abu Jamal.
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| 11 Feb 2025 | Grenfell Tower is Still Burning w/ Peter Apps and Anna Stec | 01:05:57 | |
Peter Apps and Anna Stec discuss the Grenfell Tower fire, placing the incident in a longer political history of deregulation and privatisation as well as the ongoing dangers caused by the toxic nature of the fire.
Peter Apps is a journalist who has covered the housing sector for Inside Housing and other publications for over 10 years. He has reported extensively on the Grenfell Tower fire, authoring a book on the topic titled Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen.
Anna Stec is Professor of Fire Chemistry and Toxicity at the University of Central Lancashire and has published extensively on the topic. Anna was also an expert witness the Grenfell Tower Enquiry.
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| 26 Nov 2024 | Left Melancholia and the Arab Political Subject w/ Nihal El Aasar | 00:51:29 | |
Nihal El Aasar discusses her recent essay, titled Left-wing Melancholia, which has been published as part of Parapraxis Magazine's Palestine issue.
In the essay Nihal explores the responses to the ongoing genocide in Gaza from people in other Arab countries. In her words “there have been certain weighted expectations for the Arab masses to react more strongly and urgently to this genocide. Some have heeded the call; some have tried and failed.” She draws on the work of people like Ghassan Kanafani, Nouri Gana, and friend of the podcast Hannah Proctor, to explore the relationship between counterrevolution in Egypt, US Imperialism, and Palestinian liberation through the lens of Arab political subjectivity.
Nihal El Aasar is an Egyptian researcher living in London. Her writing has been published by outlets such as Protean, Africa Is A Country, ArtReview, and elsewhere. Her essay can be found here: https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/leftwing-melancholia SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 23 Aug 2023 | Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek: Health & the Home After Work | 00:54:24 | |
Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek describe the home and its function as a site of unpaid labor within capitalist economies. Specifically, they explore how modernization and technology have failed to deliver on their promise of making this labor quicker and easier – and the implications this has for how we give and receive care. Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London. She is a member of the international working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press, 2014), Xenofeminism (Polity, 2018), and Post-Work (Bloomsbury, forthcoming, with Will Stronge). Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams).
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| 08 Jun 2023 | illness #1 w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll, Amber Husain, Matt Colquhoun | 01:19:18 | |
Audio from illness #1, the first Red Medicine event held at The Horse Hospital on May 25th. The evening was a night of readings from Micha Frazer-Carroll, Amber Husain and Matt Colquhoun on the political, cultural and historic significance of illness.
TIME STAMPS: 05:00 - Red Medicine introductory text 12:15 - Micha Frazer-Carroll (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346717/mad-world/) 20:50 - Amber Husain (https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/meat-love-an-ideology-of-the-flesh-br-amber-husain) 47:12 - Matt Colquhoun (https://repeaterbooks.com/product/narcissus-in-bloom/)
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. She was nominated for the Comment Awards’ Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism. She is invested in using journalism to challenge systems of power. Amber Husain is an essayist and academic, currently researching the relationship between psychosomatic medicine and neoliberal biopolitics. She is the author of Replace Me (Peninsula Press, 2021) and Meat Love (Mack, 2023), and is currently working on a new non-fiction book. Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull, UK. They are the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher (2020) and the editor of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (2021). Their next book, Narcissus in Bloom, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in 2023. Currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne, they blog at xenogothic.com. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 25 Feb 2025 | The Assisted Suicide Bill w/ Ellen Clifford | 01:02:07 | |
Ellen Clifford contextualizes the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – often referred to as the assisted dying or assisted suicide bill – within the long history of eugenic politics and welfare reform. Ellen Clifford is a disabled activist and writer. She is on the National Steering Group for Disabled People Against Cuts and is the author of The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 01 Jul 2024 | Feminism and the Police w/ Leah Cowan | 01:20:29 | |
Leah Cowan explains the long and complex relationship between British feminism and British policing. From women's suffrage, through the Women's Liberation movement of the 1970s, to recent conflicts over the murder of Sarah Everard by a London Metropolitan Police officer.
Leah Cowan is a writer, editor and previously the political editor of Gal-dem magazine. She is the author of two books Border Nation: A Story of Migration (Pluto Books, 2021) and Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? (Verso Books, 2024)
Some of My Best Enemies are Feminists: On Zionist Feminism by Sophie Lewis (https://salvage.zone/some-of-my-best-enemies-are-feminists-on-zionist-feminism/)
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| 19 Sep 2023 | Consumption, Care and Meat Love w/ Amber Husain | 00:58:10 | |
The writer Amber Hussain describes a certain kind of middle-class ethical meat consumption she has dubbed as Meat Love. She explores the culture surrounding this type of meat eating and what kind of anxieties, be they class or climate, are being worked through in this mode of consumption.
Amber Husain is a writer based in South London, UK. She is the author of Meat Love (Mack, 2023) and Replace Me (Peninsula Press, 2021). Her essays on politics, literature and art have been published in Granta, the LRB, New Left Review, The White Review, Baffler, The Believer, LA Review of Books and New York Times Magazine.
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| 27 Sep 2021 | Matt Ingram: Health and the Counterculture | 00:45:22 | |
Samples taken from "Crisis In A Crowd" documentary about the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic - https://bit.ly/3ukxhtI Graphics by Ava Gardner Soundtrack by Matthew Browne SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 28 Feb 2022 | Johanna Fernández: Liberation, Health & The Young Lords | 01:01:21 | |
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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 01 Sep 2022 | OBJECT RELATIONS | Lewis R. Gordon: Frantz Fanon and Black Conciousness | 01:14:59 | |
Lewis R Gordon discusses the philosopher, psychiatry and revolutionary Frantz Fanon as well as his own work on Black consciousness. Gordon is a philosopher, educator, public intellectual and the author of numerous books on topics including existentialism, phenomenology and postcolonial theory. His most recent book The Fear of Black Consciousness was published earlier this year by Penguin and Macmillan.
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| 31 Oct 2023 | Warfare, Biopower and the Long Attica Revolt w/ Orisanmi Burton | 01:13:13 | |
Orisanmi Burton discusses the criminalized and incarcerated Black radical tradition through the lens of a series of prison rebellions in the New York prison system throughout the 1970s.
Orisanmi Burton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University and the author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.
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| 27 Feb 2024 | How the Police Became an Army w/ Julian Go | 01:06:35 | |
Julian Go explains the 200 year history of police militarization in Britain and the U.S. He highlights the relationships between race, moral panics, and criminalization before describing how these connections shed light on the struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and policing.
Julian Go is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (Oxford, 2016). He is the winner of Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology given by the American Sociological Association and former President of the Social Science History Association. His new book Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US is now available from Oxford University Press. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 05 Aug 2022 | OBJECT RELATIONS | John Foot: The Radical Psychiatry of Franco Basaglia | 00:46:38 | |
Historian John Foot discusses the movement in 1960s Italy to reform and eventually abolish the psychiatric asylum system. Specifically, he’ll be focusing on the work of Franco Basaglia, whose antifascist politics drove him to radically alter the way in which mental health treatment is managed in Italy. John Foot is a historian and author based at the University of Bristol. He is the author of numerous books on Italian history and most relevant to the discussion today he is the author of The Man who Closed the Asylums, published by Verso books in 2015 and recently co-edited Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community with Tom Burns. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 17 Jan 2023 | Beatrice Adler-Bolton (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the SPK? | 01:10:48 | |
In the second in a two-part interview with Beatrice Adler-Bolton, she discusses the work and legacy of the Socialist Patients Collective. Beatrice is a writer, artist & co-host of Death Panel, a podcast about the political economy of health. She is a co-author, (along with Artie Vierkant) of the recently published Health Communism from Verso Books. Twitter: @Red_Medicine__ Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 03 May 2023 | Keir Milburn: How We Smash The Cosmic Right and Build The Weird Left | 01:19:21 | |
Keir Milburn analyses the 'Cosmic Right' a new wave of reactionary politics built around conspiracy theories and new age spirituality and calls for the construction of a Weird Left to counter this worrying turn.
Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and political activist. His most recent book is Generation Left. He works on municipalism, economic democracy and political economy for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and is a research associate for the think tank Common Wealth. He co-hosts the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media and is part of the Red Plenty Games collective.
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| 15 Oct 2024 | illness (3) w/ Richard Seymour and Helen Charman | 01:13:42 | |
This episode features a recording of live discussion with Richard Seymour and Helen Charman about the medical imaginaries of the far right. This recording is from illness (3), the third in the event series that runs alongside the podcast. We discuss why the far-right has so many paranoid fantasies about medicine, from race science and eugenics, to attacks on trans and reproductive healthcare.
Helen Charman is a Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her critical writing has been published in the Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze, and The Stinging Fly among others. As a poet, Charman was shortlisted for the White Review Poet's Prize in 2017 and for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, and has published four poetry pamphlets, most recently In the Pleasure Dairy. Charman volunteers as a birth companion in Glasgow. Her first book Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood is now available.
Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine. His most recent book Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization is now available.
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| 03 Oct 2023 | Extractivism and Healing w/ Centric Lab | 00:45:31 | |
Rhiannon Osborne, Araceli Camargo and Josh Artus from Centric Lab explain the work they do in supporting communities fighting for health justice.
Centic Lab is an organization that provides tools for racialised and marginalised communities facing the effects of extractivism and ecological breakdown.
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| 23 Jan 2024 | Frantz Fanon w/ Adam Shatz | 01:05:14 | |
Writer Adam Shatz discusses the life and work of the revolutionary, psychiatrist, and philosopher Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is also a visiting professor at Bard College, and the host of the podcast “Myself with Others." He is the author of two books: Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso); and The Rebel’s Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (FSG) and the editor of Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel (Nation Books). SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 05 Jan 2022 | Erik Davis: The Religiosity of Medicine | 01:02:43 | |
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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 12 Apr 2023 | Erik Baker: Grief and Toxicity in the Shadow of Industrial Capitalism | 01:06:18 | |
Erik Baker discusses two of his recent essays which cover the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and the history of bereavement leave. In reflecting on both of these pieces, Erik asks what it would mean to politicize experiences of grief and illness.
Erik Baker is a historian of science and labor at Harvard, and an associate editor at The Drift. He is currently writing a book for Harvard University Press titled Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern America.
It Is Happening Again: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/it-is-happening-again/ The Right to Grieve: www.jewishcurrents.org/the-right-to-grieve
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| 22 Nov 2023 | Palestinian Liberation and Media Complicity w/ Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi, James Schneider | 01:39:12 | |
Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi and James Schneider discuss events currently unfolding in Palestine and the strategies used media to stifle support for Palestinian liberation and normalize settler colonialism.
Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology program. Co-editor of Studies in Gender & Sexuality and of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
Stephen Sheehi is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary, where he is also a Professor of Arabic Studies. Stephen is the author of a number of books including Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar), Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910, and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims and Foundations of Modern Arab Identity.
Together Lara and Stephen are also the authors of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine.
James Schnieder is a political organizer, writer and Communications Director for Progressive International. He co-founded the left-wing grassroots movement Momentum. He is also the author of Our Bloc.
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| 23 Jul 2024 | The Neoliberal Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper | 01:21:20 | |
Melinda Cooper describes the combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes neoliberal monetary policy and how these ideas emerged from the crises of the 1970s. Melinda Cooper is Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She is the author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism and Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.
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| 08 Mar 2023 | Natasha Lennard: Jane’s Revenge and Reproductive Rights After Roe | 00:54:42 | |
In this episode Natasha Lennard reports on the story of two reproductive rights activists who are being charged under a law intended to protect abortion clinics, as well as the broader implications this may have on the struggle for reproductive care and bodily autonomy more generally. Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum and the New York Times, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research in New York and is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.” EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz
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| 07 Oct 2024 | Writing in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst | 01:05:53 | |
Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst discuss The Intellectual Situation, a new anthology of writing from the literary magazine n+1. The anthology brings together writing from the period of 20014-2024, including contributions from people such as Gabriel Winant, Alyssa Battistoni, Tabi Haslet, Nikil Saval, and many others. In this conversation Lisa and Dayna discuss putting the collection together, how it feels to read back essays written during different political struggles from the last decade, and how they think about the relationship between writing and organising.
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| 27 Jun 2023 | Micha Frazer-Carroll: Making Mental Illness Political | 01:05:12 | |
Micha Frazer Carroll explains why we need to re-politicize our understandings of mental illness, mental health and madness. Micha is a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. She was nominated for the Comment Awards’ Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism. Her new book Mad World is now available from Pluto Books. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 07 Feb 2023 | James Wilt: How Capitalists Caused an Alcohol Health Crisis | 01:05:05 | |
In this episode James Wilt explains how alcohol corporations have caused and profited from a health crisis relating to drinking. He explains how capitalist accumulation and expansion has caused a health crisis that disproportionally effects working class, racialized and colonized communities internationally. We also discuss how the left need to balance the complex harms caused by the corporate alcohol industry with people’s real desire for collective pleasure. James Wilt is a freelance journalist, PhD student, and the author of two books, firstly Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk published in 2020. And more recently Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy which was published by Repeater Books in the summer of last year.
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| 29 Jul 2022 | OBJECT RELATIONS | Camille Robcis: Institutional Psychotherapy in Post-War France | 00:58:47 | |
Object Relations is a series of discussions about the relationship between politics and the psyche produced in collaboration with The Polyphony. Taking its name from the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theory of how psyches develop in relationship to one another, this series will explore some questions about the politics of psychotherapy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Episodes will be published every Friday for the next four weeks, beginning (on July 29) with a conversation with Camille Robcis about institutional psychotherapy in France and North Africa. Institutional psychotherapy refers to a movement within psychiatry that occurred in the aftermath of the rise of fascism in Europe. Medical practitioners such as François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon and Jean Oury began to apply social and political critiques to the practice of psychiatry in the hopes of producing ways of living that alleviated suffering and avoided the fascistic ways of relating to one and other produced by institutions. Camille Robcis is a professor of French and history at Columbia University and the author of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France, which was recently published by The University of Chicago press. In this conversation she explores the experiences of fascism and ‘concentrationism’ that produced the conditions for Institutional Psychotherapy to emerge and how it relates to a broader history of psychiatry. She also reflects on what this movement offers us in understanding questions of the political, the personal and the psychic. Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Artwork by Ava Gardner SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 15 Sep 2022 | James Schneider: Fighting for Health, Care, and Socialism | 00:55:21 | |
In this episode James Schneider outlines a strategy for the left in Britain drawing on his new book OUR BLOC: How We Win. He argues that the left must organize an alliance of socialists in Parliament, the Labour grassroots, the trade unions and social movements. Specifically, Schneider reflects on the severity of our current crisis, the tentative confidence of the British left and why demands around health and care are central to a 21st century socialist project. James Schneider co-founded Momentum in 2015 and went on to serve as Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesperson and Head of Strategic Communications. He is Communications Director for Progressive International and a regular voice in the UK media. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 15 Nov 2023 | Cybernetics of Control w/ Acid Horizon | 01:22:34 | |
Craig, Adam and Will from Acid Horizon discuss their book Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape, including reflections on cybernetics, police, paranoia, disability, and Ocularity.
Acid Horizon is a podcasting collective of artists, musicians, and philosophers formed in 2020 with a focus on Marxist, post-structuralist, and anarchist philosophy. They also run seminars on philosophers such as Deleuze, Foucault, and George Bataille and run a sub-imprint, Zer0 Horizonz, over on Zer0 Books.
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| 08 Nov 2022 | Joe Glenton: Towards an Anti-Fascist Brazilian Jiu Jitsu | 00:49:48 | |
Joe Glenton reflects on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu’s complex and intimate relationship with various currents of right-wing politics. He explores the dominant cultures within BJJ including the prevalence of reactionary conspiracy theories and how Brazilian fascism continues to shape the upper echelons of the sport. We also discuss Comunidade Jiu Jitsu, an invitation only gym founded to create a welcoming and inclusive space built on commitments to anti-racism, LGBTQ+ inclusion and gender equality. Joe is a journalist, film-maker and award-winning writer. He is the author of Veteranhood, which was published by Repeater books in 2021, a book about the political world of veterans and militarism in Britain. Joe is a veteran turned conscientious objector and anti-war campaigner who served in Afghanistan before going AWOL and using the ensuing legal case to mount a critique of The War on Terror and British Imperialism. www.redmedicine.xyz @red_medicine__ SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 26 Mar 2024 | Class Struggle in the Care Economy w/ Taj Ali and Gabriel Winant | 01:29:11 | |
Gabriel Winant and Taj Ali discuss the surge of labor organising that has taken place in British and American healthcare over the last few years. Gabriel Winant is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. His writing has been published in Dissent, n+1, Jacobin, The New York Review of Books. Taj Ali is the co-editor of Tribune Magazine and has been writing about trade unions and workers rights for a number of years. He has a forthcoming book about the history of political activism in the British South Asian Community.
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| 06 Dec 2023 | Freedom, Fascism, and Elvio Fachinelli w/ Ramsey McGlazer | 00:58:37 | |
Ramsey McGlazer discusses the work of radical psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli. Specifically, he traces the history of an anti-authoritarian kindergarten which Fachinelli founded, how this informed his broader engagement with psychoanalysis, and how that work might inform our own understanding of authority, adulthood and freedom.
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| 09 Apr 2024 | Black Resistance to British Policing w/ Adam Elliott-Cooper | 01:06:35 | |
In today’s episode I’m speaking to Adam Elliott-Cooper about histories of Black resistance to British policing, specifically how figures such as Claudia Jones, Darcus Howe, and Stuart Hall have theorized and resisted Policing’s role in upholding British Imperialism, racial capitalism, and neoliberalism.
Adam Elliott-Cooper is Lecturer in Public and Social Policy at Queen Mary and the author of Black Resistance to British Policing and co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State. Adam also sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist organization, challenging state racisms and racial violence.
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| 22 Oct 2024 | Prole Psychiatry Threat w/ Sasha Warren | 01:44:42 | |
Sasha Warren explores the history of psychiatry in relationship to the development of capitalism. We discuss how best to frame the different movements that have emerged with the intention of transforming or abolishing psychiatry. We then spend some time talking about figures such as Foucault, Fanon, and R. D Laing that may be familiar to listeners as well as some lesser-known figures such as Sylvia Marcos, and Marie Langer.
Sasha Warren is a writer based in Minneapolis publishing work on madness, psychiatry, and the history of medicine. His first book Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, Revolt published earlier this year. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 10 Jan 2023 | Beatrice Adler-Bolton (Part 1): All Care for All People | 00:51:08 | |
In this, the first of a two-part interview, Beatrice Adler-Bolton explains how capitalism shapes what we think of as health. Beatrice explains how health communism provides us with the tools to critique the National Health Service from the left. Specifically, we discuss the the long history of healthcare being used as a way to discipline and punish the working class and why we shouldn’t be afraid to demand more from the NHS despite the establishments enforced austerity. Twitter: @Red_Medicine__ Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/ | |||
| 23 Apr 2024 | Is Your Landlord Trying to Kill You? w/ Nick Bano | 00:58:30 | |
Nick Bano explains how landlords and the state collaborate to produce the housing crisis, generating harm and violence in the process of wealth accumulation.
Nick Bano is an author and Barrister who specializes in representing homeless people, residential occupiers, and destitute and migrant households. He has written for Tribune, the New Socialist, and Jacobin. He is the author of Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis.
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