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Trauma without Aftermath [Political Pathologies ep. 2] w/ Joelle Abi-Rached Aug 4, 2026 00:51:59 Philosopher and historian of science Joelle Abi-Rached approaches the topic of trauma, asking whether it is a sufficient category for the psychic impact of the ongoing violence of Zionist settler colonialism. Joelle Abi-Rached is a philosopher and historian of science; she is Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. And the author of Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness,

Cocaine and Communism [Political Pathologies ep. 1] w/ Evan Sedgwick-Jell Jul 21, 2026 00:31:43 A talk by Evan Sedgwick-Jell on the history of communist drug treatment services in Weimar Germany, given at the Political Pathologies conference in Glasgow. Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a researcher, particularly interested in the interrelation of the psy-disciplines and mental health, with political movements and healthcare systems. Their forthcoming work Capitalist Pathology: The Cultural Logic of M

Anti-Self-Helpline [LIVE] ep. 5 w/ Prometheus Magazine Jul 14, 2026 01:15:20 A recording of the very first in-person edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline, co-hosted with Prometheus Magazine's very own Harry Holmes. This edition of the helpline was recorded at the Festival of the Oppressed, held in June. Pre-order print copies of Prometheus Magazine issue 1 at this link: https://www.ebb-books.com/shop/p/prometheus-subscription SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundt

THE 1926 GENERAL STRIKE ep 3. [ABOLISH ICE] w/ Beatrice Adler Bolton and Callum Cant Jun 23, 2026 01:27:50 In this episode Beatrice Adler Bolton, Callum Cant, and myself talk about the general strike: not as something consigned to history but as a tactic we need today. Specifically, we talk about how the strike emerged as a tactic, what that means about struggle today, and how the struggle against ICE in Minneapolis (and elsewhere) offers us a way to answer some of these questions. SUPPORT: www.buymea

Anti-Self-Helpline ep. 4 w/ Ordinary Unhappiness (Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield) Jun 4, 2026 01:32:04 Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast join for the next installment of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is where listeners write in with their experiences of political struggle so we can talk through the psychic and emotional content of those experiences. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__

THE 1926 GENERAL STRIKE ep 2. [TOUR EPISODE] w/ Callum Cant and Matthew Lee May 12, 2026 01:32:12 Callum Cant and Matthew Lee rejoin the podcast as we travel around the country speaking with people about work, struggle, and the 1926 general strike. We speak with mental health workers, trade union organisers, communists and local historians across Scotland, Manchester, and the Midlands. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicin

THE 1926 GENERAL STRIKE ep 1. w/ Callum Cant and Matthew Lee Apr 28, 2026 01:40:24 Callum Cant and Matthew Lee talk us through the history of the 1926 general strike in Britain. To mark the centenary and publication of their book The Future In Our Past: The General Strike 1926/2026, we talked about how workers in Britain brought the country to a standstill and engaged in open conflict with the British state. We also talked about what this moment tells us about class struggle tod

Post-American Politics w/ James Schneider Apr 22, 2026 01:17:51 James Schneider returns to the podcast to talk about Britains relationship to the United States of America, how this relationship is shaping the terrain of struggle in in the face of escalating imperialist aggression and the resulting economic turbulence this is causing. We also discuss his recent trip to Cuba as part of the Nuestra América Convoy. James Schneider is a writer and political organ

Francesc Tosquelles w/ Joana Masó Apr 7, 2026 01:14:54 Joana Masó joins the podcast to talk about the life and work of Francesc Tosquelles. Tosquelles was a radical psychiatrist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and a hugely influential figure in the lives of figures such as Frantz Fanon, Felix Guattari and Jean Oury. Joana explains how his life unfoleded and developed, from the co-operatives of Catalonia, to resisting nazi occupation in France, to

Demolition Psychiatry w/ Sasha Warren Mar 24, 2026 01:11:12 Sasha Warren returns to the podcast to give a talk on the political economy of madness and psychiatry. In this talk he draws on his research and experience as a community mental health worker to unpack the political terrain that shapes psychiatry; arguing that it is only by acknowledging psychiatry (and mental health care more generally) as bound up in political processes that we can actually unde

Food, Diagnosis, and Anorexia w/ Amber Husain Mar 10, 2026 01:04:14 Amber Husain returns to discuss the experience of being diagnosed with anorexia after struggling to find the will to eat. She discusses the experience of diagnosis, treatment, and her reengagement with questions of food, community, and hunger that came as a result. We talk about wartime starvation experiments, psychedelic assisted therapy, and why we need a politics of pleasure that isn't about ca

Anti-Self-Helpline ep. 3 w/ Max Fox & M.E. O'Brien Feb 18, 2026 01:28:06 M.E. O'Brien and Max Fox joins the podcast to talk about After Accountability, an oral history of the concept of 'accountability' in movement spaces, and to respond to questions and comments submitted by listeners for the third episode of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is a new episode format where listeners write in with their experiences of political struggle so we can take serio

How We Fix the Social Care System w/ Notes from Below Feb 3, 2026 01:25:00 Lydia and Connor join the podcast to talk about the newest issue of Notes from Below, which explores social care in Britain via the contributions and analysis of workers themselves. Both Lydia and Connor are care workers, so we discuss their experiences of work before explaining how social care is (dis)organized in Britain, some of the larger dynamics and histories shaping social care, and the rec

Anti-Self-Helpline ep. 2 w/ Erik Baker Dec 31, 2025 01:23:56 Erik Baker, author of Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, returns to the podcast to talk about self-help and respond to questions and comments submitted by listeners for the second episode of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is a new episode format where listeners write in with their experiences of political struggle so we can take seriously the p

FREE THE FILTON 24 w/ Charlie Thomas Dec 23, 2025 01:21:03 The British state is currently imprisoning activists from the Palestine movement without trial. Many of them are engaging in a hunger strike, demanding an end to censorship, immediate bail, right to a fair trial, the de-proscription of Palestine Action, and an end to shut down the death-making work of Elbit Systems. Charlie Thomas joins the podcast to talk through these developments and reflect on

The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Death Panel Dec 16, 2025 02:43:28 I went on the Death Panel podcast to talk about the past, present, and future of the NHS. Death Panel is a podcast about the political economy of health, hosted by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, and Jules Gill-Peterson SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/

The Psychic Structure of Antisemitism & Zionism w/ Jake Romm Nov 26, 2025 01:26:57 Jake Romm joins the podcast to explain why anti-semitism and zionism have more in common than separates them. In this conversation we discuss the work of mid-century thinkers such as Jean Paul Sartre, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, as well recent scholarship from Nadia Abu El-Haj and the writing of Palestinian political prisoners, to better understand the many consistencies between anti-semitic a

Who Is Wes Streeting and Why Is He Like That? w/ Ruth Pearce and Jonas Marvin Nov 4, 2025 01:38:08 We talk about Wes Streeting. Who is he, what are his politics, and what does it mean for health policy in Britain? Jonas Marvin is a writer and researcher based in Stoke-on-Trent. He is the author of a forthcoming book, The Breaking of the English Working Class (Spring 2026, Verso), cohost of Life of the Party podcast, and blogs at Marx’s Dream Journal. Ruth Pearce is a Lecturer in Community Deve

Wilfred Bion, Corporate Retreats, and Experiences in Groups w/ Lily Scherlis Oct 21, 2025 01:23:12 Lily Scherlis joins the podcast to talk about her recent essay Experiences in Groups, which was published in the most recent issue of n+1 magazine and documents her experience of attending a Group Relations conference in the English countryside. Group relations refers to an offshoot of psychoanalytic theory and practice which applies the ideas of Wilfred Bion, to understand group dynamics and orga

Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis and Global Civil War w/ Candela Potente and Ramsey McGlazer Oct 8, 2025 01:39:09 Candela Potente and Ramsey McGlazer join to discuss the life and work of Marie Langer; a psychoanalyst who grew up in Red Vienna and fled fascism after fighting in the Spanish Civil War. After fleeing to Argentina she co-founded the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, before being forced to leave the country under the threat of anti-communist death squads. She then found herself in Mexico, suppo

Anti-Self-Helpline ep. 1 w/ Hannah Proctor Sep 23, 2025 01:20:04 Hannah Proctor, author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, returns to the podcast to talk through questions and comments submitted by listeners for the first episode of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is a new episode format where listeners write in with their experiences of political struggle so we can take seriously the psychic and emotional content of politi

The Dialectics of Liberation Congress w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll and Sasha Warren Jul 22, 2025 01:52:18 Micha Frazer-Carroll and Sasha Warren are back on the podcast to discuss the Dialectics of Liberation Congress: a conference that brought together the likes of R. D. Laing, David Cooper, Kwame Ture (FKA Stokely Carmichael), Herbert Marcuse, Allen Ginsburg, CLR James, Angela Davis, Carolee Schneemann, and many more in London, 1967. The congress attempted to theorize and resist violence in all its f

Chronic Fatigue and the Politics of Diagnosis w/ Emily Lim Rogers and Rouzbeh Shadpey Jul 2, 2025 01:16:56 Emily Lim Rogers and Rouzbeh Shadpey join the podcast to talk about the history of chronic fatigue under capitalism. We explore the way in which medical knowledge reflects and enacts the need for capitalist society to monitor, measure and discipline workers before situating conditions like ME/CFS within these dynamics. Emily Lim Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke U

[ANNOUNCEMENT!] THE ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE Jun 10, 2025 00:41:26 The ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE is a place to share and make sense of our experiences of political struggle. Political struggle is hard; yet there are very few resources for thinking through the emotional and psychic dimensions of these experiences. Those of us who want to radically change the world are often exposed to the depoliticizing tendencies of mainstream therapy, the disciplining functions of self

Tell Me About Your Mother... w/ Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman May 14, 2025 01:15:39 Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman return to the podcast to discuss the history of technology, media and mothering throughout the 20th century. We discuss the role media and technology play in the labor process of mothering, how media often becomes a site of panic and pathology, and what this all tells us about the relationship between the state and the so-called private household.Hannah Zeavin is As

An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne Apr 22, 2025 01:14:21 Jess Thorne returns to the podcast to discuss workers' self-management – from the Lucas Plan of the 1970s to Yugoslavian workers' councils. She explains how workers have challenged the idea that innovation only happens thanks to top-down management structures and asks what worker autonomy offers in the face of current political problems.Jess Thorne is a trade union organiser who has spent the last

D. W. Winnicott w/ Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield Apr 8, 2025 01:45:42 The hosts of Ordinary Unhappiness join the podcast to discuss D. W. Winnicott; one of the most influential figures in the history of psychoanalysis in Britain. They explain how Winnicott's work was shaped by the traumatizing effects of World War 2, debates between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, and the place of mothers in the construction of the British welfare state. We also discuss how this histo

Pop Psychology for Entrepreneurs w/ Erik Baker Mar 26, 2025 01:14:24 Erik Baker returns to the podcast to demystify the entrepreneurial work ethic – from depression era spiritualism to contemporary pop-psychology via struggles over the meaning of work throughout the twentieth century. Erik Baker is Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, n+1, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, and The Drift, where he is Senior Edit

A History of Wages for Housework w/ Emily Callaci Mar 11, 2025 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

The Assisted Suicide Bill w/ Ellen Clifford Feb 25, 2025 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

Grenfell Tower is Still Burning w/ Peter Apps and Anna Stec Feb 11, 2025 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, authori

Workers Inquiry in the Care Economy w/ Callum Cant Dec 31, 2024 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

Ideology and the Crisis of Care w/ Alyssa Battistoni Dec 24, 2024 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

30 Years of Violence in the Department for Work and Pensions w/ John Pring Dec 11, 2024 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 A

HIV/AIDS in England w/ George Severs Dec 3, 2024 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 Genev

Left Melancholia and the Arab Political Subject w/ Nihal El Aasar Nov 26, 2024 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 ha

Austerity, Panic and Policing on the NYC Subway w/ Youbin Kang and John Ferretti Nov 20, 2024 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 p

The Politics of Motherhood w/ Helen Charman Nov 12, 2024 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 publis

Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour Oct 29, 2024 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

Prole Psychiatry Threat w/ Sasha Warren Oct 22, 2024 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 Sylvi

illness (3) w/ Richard Seymour and Helen Charman Oct 15, 2024 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. Hele

Writing in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst Oct 7, 2024 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

The Neoliberal Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper Jul 23, 2024 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 A

Feminism and the Police w/ Leah Cowan Jul 1, 2024 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

Reviewing the Cass Review w/ Ruth Pearce Jun 19, 2024 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 (F

The Revolutionary Movements of the 1970s w/ Michael Hardt Jun 4, 2024 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 Movem

Feeling Bad, Politically w/ Hannah Proctor May 21, 2024 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, Th

Is Your Landlord Trying to Kill You? w/ Nick Bano Apr 23, 2024 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 Landlor

Black Resistance to British Policing w/ Adam Elliott-Cooper Apr 9, 2024 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 Bla

Class Struggle in the Care Economy w/ Taj Ali and Gabriel Winant Mar 26, 2024 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

How the Police Became an Army w/ Julian Go Feb 27, 2024 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 a

Trans Misogyny and the State w/ Jules Gill-Peterson Feb 14, 2024 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

Frantz Fanon w/ Adam Shatz Jan 23, 2024 01:05:14 Writer Adam Shatz discusses the life and work of the revolutionary, psychiatrist, and philosopher Frantz FanonAdam 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 aut

Healthcare Assistants on the Picket Line w/ Jess Thorne Dec 13, 2023 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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwit

Freedom, Fascism, and Elvio Fachinelli w/ Ramsey McGlazer Dec 6, 2023 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. How to Touch Grass by Ramsey McGlazer: https://www.nplusonemag.com/onl

Palestinian Liberation and Media Complicity w/ Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi, James Schneider Nov 22, 2023 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

Cybernetics of Control w/ Acid Horizon Nov 15, 2023 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,

Entering the Age of Genomic Capital w/ Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante Nov 9, 2023 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 Resear

Warfare, Biopower and the Long Attica Revolt w/ Orisanmi Burton Oct 31, 2023 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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redme

Addiction, Recovery, Liberation w/ Waithera Sebatindira Oct 24, 2023 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

The Future of the NHS w/ Johnbosco Nwogbo (Red Medicine at TWT) Oct 18, 2023 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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/red

The Reality of Trans Healthcare in Britain w/ Vic Parsons Oct 10, 2023 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/redmedicineSoundtrack by M

Extractivism and Healing w/ Centric Lab Oct 3, 2023 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. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark Pilkingtonwww.redmedicine.xyz SUPPORT:

Consumption, Care and Meat Love w/ Amber Husain Sep 19, 2023 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

Nick Dearden: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health Sep 5, 2023 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

Matt Colquhoun: Is Another Narcissism Possible? Aug 31, 2023 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 N

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek: Health & the Home After Work Aug 23, 2023 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 th

Arun Kundnani: What Liberal Anti-racism Gets Wrong About Racial Capitalism Aug 1, 2023 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

M. E. O'Brien: Insurgent Social Reproduction and Communizing Care Jul 11, 2023 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-edi

Micha Frazer-Carroll: Making Mental Illness Political Jun 27, 2023 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

illness #1 w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll, Amber Husain, Matt Colquhoun Jun 8, 2023 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 text12:15 - Micha Frazer-Carroll (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346717/mad-world/)20:50 - Amber H

Victoria Browne: A Philosophy of Miscarriage May 17, 2023 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

Keir Milburn: How We Smash The Cosmic Right and Build The Weird Left May 3, 2023 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 Luxem

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla: Towards an Internationalist Politics of Health Apr 27, 2023 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. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZP

Jeremy Gilbert: The Sonic and Somatic Politics of the Dancefloor Apr 18, 2023 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, Anticap

Erik Baker: Grief and Toxicity in the Shadow of Industrial Capitalism Apr 12, 2023 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 U

Joy James: Revolutionary Love and Black Liberation Apr 4, 2023 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 Intell

Jamieson Webster: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Useless Organs Mar 28, 2023 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

Lynne Tillman: Caring for a Mother You Don't Love Mar 23, 2023 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

Malcolm Harris: How California Eugenicists Shaped the Modern World Mar 14, 2023 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

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