Woodbine Podcast

For this week's episode, Amogh and Matt are joined by Ross Wolfe to discuss Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe 1985 book Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. We talk about the text's deconstructist take on hegemony, and their post-structuralist reclamation of Gramsci and Althusser. We reflect on the legacy of Post-Marxism in the period prior to the rise of millenn...

For our 50th episode Kazembe Balagun returns to discuss Gemini season, America 250, the Knicks Finals run, Mayor Zohran's changing NYC, Jacobin's Chris Smalls piece, and Boots Riley's new film I Love Boosters.

For this week's episode Candice Bernd and John Kendall join Matt and Sam to talk about their reporting and research into the nexus of the fossil fuel industry and the build-out boom of data centers across Texas and Pennsylvania. We discuss the repurposing and co-location of coal and fracked natural gas plants with the data centers, along with the lobbying efforts being done to situate the apparent...

For this week's episode Benj and israa' from The Peoples Want join Malek and Matt to discuss the network's new book Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto. We discuss the global uprisings since the Arab Spring leading to new understanding of revolution and internationalism. We talk about the figure of the exile, migrant, refugee, and diaspora translating new conceptions of the loc...

Chaia Heller & Mason Herson-Hord join Andrew and Matt to discuss their work with the Institute for Social Ecology, co-founded by communalist philosopher Murray Bookchin in Vermont in 1974. We reflect on the ideas and legacy of both Bookchin (1921-2006) and Occupy Wall Street; the need for joy and the celebration of life; the limitations within both Marxism and anarchism for facing our present...

Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen join Giulia and Matt to discuss their shared nomadic journey as artists, anarchists, parents, curators, teachers, partners, writers, thinkers, friends, and so much more. In 70 minutes, we discuss their last 50 years of collaboration. Meeting amidst the utopian movements of the 60s, they were influenced by their encounter and friendship with anarchist groups such as...

Sandi Hilal and Pelin Tan join Malek and Matt to discuss alternative pedagogies of unlearning in Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, and within refugee spaces in Europe and the Middle East. Together we talk about questioning our social coexistences, decolonization, conflict, and care. How and where do we learn new ethical and artistic practices amidst collapse, as our relationships to infrastructure and i...

We’re joined by Jose Rosales, Carla Bottiglieri, Luhuna Carvalho, and Giulia Gabrielli for a roundtable on Marcello Tari’s book, There is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution, published in English this spring by Common Notions. We discuss a genealogy of the concept “destituent power”, alongside the historical movements it’s been a response to: Italy in the 70s, Argentina in 2001, an...

Mary Boger, Michael Lardner, and Kazembe Balagun join Amogh and Matt to discuss the New York Marxist School, the Brecht Forum, and the Marxist Education Project--experiments in both radical pedagogy and autonomous space in NYC dating back to 1975. We trace together the how and why of our political histories, as well as the Brecht Forum’s organizational evolution from collective, to committee, to b...

Natasha Lennard and Matthew Whitley discuss some themes and questions from the updated paperback edition of Natasha’s book, Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, published last month by Verso. We talk about acting and thinking in the absence of Trump’s dominance of the mediasphere, and how we relate to debates around the “crisis of liberalism” and “collapse of the center” in a now-Democratic...

Richard Gilman-Opalsky and Jennifer Scuro discuss Richard’s recent book The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value, published by AK Press in December. We discuss communism and love as an experience and a practice, of both commitment and devotion, towards new valuations beyond exchange. We think about forms-of-life versus forms-of-governance, and the role of the “precariou...

Kazembe Balagun joins Malek and Matt to discuss Raoul Peck’s new 4-part film on HBO, Exterminate All the Brutes . We discuss recent Hollywood dramatization and the visualization of abstract political concepts, as well as decolonial thought, media, and art in the 21st century. How do we confront the ghosts of the past, and where do we find hope and meaning when politics has failed us? How can we fa...

We’re joined by friends Amin and Georgia as we approach the 10-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Together we discuss the general assembly as a module, cultivating spaces of freedom and experimentation, the performance of knowing, not knowing, and unknowing, the experience of threatening power, the accident and rupture, practicing the politics of life, and we remember David Graeber and the ma...

For the third episode in our series of podcasts on Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World , Amogh and Matt joined The Antifada's Andy, Jamie, and Sean. We continued discussing historical storytelling and the contemporary development of a worldview. How can Curtis's diagnostic fragments transform into political overcoming? How do we situate ourselves wh...

Last week Adam Curtis released a new 6-part film series, Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World . In this discussion, Amogh, Malek, and Matt begin to unpack and respond to the series, asking what Curtis means in aiming to provide an “emotional” history? What are the subterranean forces that animate ideological/social/political movements and their figure-heads? What...

This Thursday, February 11th, English filmmaker Adam Curtis will release a new 6-part film series, Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World . In anticipation, Amogh, Malek, and Matt discuss the work and project of Adam Curtis, particularly his most recent film, HyperNormalisation (2016). In our conversation we touch on Adam Curtis’ stated topic area, his methodology,...

In this interview, Haris discusses the state’s attack on the Idomeni border camp, the forced relocation of migrants to state run detention c In this interview, Haris discusses the state’s attack on the Idomeni border camp, the forced relocation of migrants to state run detention centers in the periphery of the city exposing individuals to the most toxic conditions, and efforts by Thessaloniki anti...

Overworked? Underpaid? And still get heat from the bosses that you should be doing more with less cause you’re serving the most vulnerable? Overworked? Underpaid? And still get heat from the bosses that you should be doing more with less cause you’re serving the most vulnerable? Even clinics and nonprofits claiming the most progressive intentions inherit some of the most exploitative practices aga...

The physical and psychological impact of incarceration in Germany is shocking, resulting in suicides and other sequelae. In this interview w The physical and psychological impact of incarceration in Germany is shocking, resulting in suicides and other sequelae. In this interview with an editor of the Gefangenen Magazine, we learn about the prison abolition struggle in Germany and how German activi...

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Mental health affects millions of people – 1 in 5 Americans according to some estimates, with half of them not receiving any treatment. Part Mental health affects millions of people – 1 in 5 Americans according to some estimates, with half of them not receiving any treatment. Part of the problem might be that we see the mind as orderly and contained, when really the mind seems to be characterized...

This episode was produced by Joe Kujawa & Yvette Hall in Brooklyn, NY. Reference links: When Wellness is a Dirty Word The Wellness Syndr This episode was produced by Joe Kujawa & Yvette Hall in Brooklyn, NY. Reference links: When Wellness is a Dirty Word The Wellness Syndrom Life Hacks of the Poor and Aimless How Wellness Became an Epidemic Class Combat Self as Other: Reflections on Selfca...

This episode was produced by Joe Kujawa & Yvette Hall in Brooklyn, NY.

This episode was produced by Yvette Hall in Brooklyn, NY.