The 1st Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures of October 1981 emphasized the importance of vibrant regional economies at a time when the focus of the nation was on an expanding global economy. Much has happened since then. The promise of the global economy has faded in face of ever greater wealth disparity and environmental degradation. There is growing interest in building a new economy that is just and recognizes planetary limits. The speakers of the Schumacher Lecture Series continue to be at ...
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RevolutionZ: Life After Capitalism highlights social vision and strategy. You can join our community and help us grow and diversify via our Patreon Site Page
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Join me and our guests as we speak about Health, Politics, Economics, Spirituality, Education, Psychology, and living an inspired life.
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“Questions of Courage” is a video/podcast with Nathaniel Williams, leader of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum. It is an independent and unique look at questions related to technology, education, art, ecology, vocation, community, justice and meaning require a deeper, spiritual take on life. The ability to take up these issues from this perspective is a question of courage.
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Welcome to Activist #MMT. A podcast about real-world economics including Modern Money Theory, and how life changes when you discover it.
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Since 1968, the quarterly journal Telos has served as the definitive international forum for discussions of political, social, and cultural change. Readers from around the globe turn to Telos to engage with the sharpest minds in politics, philosophy, and critical theory, and to discover emerging theoretical analyses of the pivotal issues of the day. Don't miss a single issue—subscribe to Telos today at the Telos Press website, www.telospress.com.
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Crash Course is a platform designed to open up debate on how we can move out of the current crisis and make the necessary steps towards achieving social, economic, ecological and regenerative justice. Crash Course is inviting global experts to break down complex issues in lay terms and make them accessible to all so that we can understand how to shape our economic system for a just recovery and future. We are a collective of engaged activists and experts from a number of organisations. Being ...
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Real-life stories of people using collaborative economics to grow mutual aid societies for ecological and cultural survival around the globe.
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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
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Best friends and Gippslanders Josie and Steph try to unpack what life after coal could look like in Australia, a nation still reliant on fossil fuels, one story at a time.
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On a rocky outcropping off the northeastern coast of England, the monastery of Lindisfarne once stood as an outpost of religious, philosophic, and intellectual study against the “dark” times of early medieval Europe. Inspired by the foresight and dogged determination of these medieval monks, William Irwin Thompson founded the Lindisfarne Association in 1972 to gather together bold scientists, scholars, artists, and contemplatives to realize a new planetary culture in the face of the politica ...
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Can we practice hope better? Can we recognize and value the people and initiatives that inspire and embody hope in the world? What happens when we focus on these kinds of practical hope? Join Indy Rishi Singh and friends to face the shadows in our society by engaging in neuroplastic, hopeful conversations.
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SustainNOW Podcast - Exploring Climate Solutions with Innovators and Entrepreneurs
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SustainNOW interviews entrepreneurs and scientists on innovative climate solutions in sectors like agriculture, investing, carbon sequestration, and much more. Hosted by Friederike von Waldenfels, a tech entrepreneur and climate enthusiast, the podcast raises awareness and inspires action among entrepreneurs, investors, and individuals, encouraging a hopeful and engaged approach to solving the climate crisis. Our Vision: "To dig deeper in finding climate solutions." Our Mission: "Interviewin ...
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If you want to expand your knowledge about trees and forests whilst exploring ways to help them, this is the podcast for you. We talk radical ideas with guests from diverse backgrounds, delving deep into the policy, ecology, economics, attitudes and perceptions that underpin the current state of affairs, and explore meaningful interventions. This podcast is part of the Tree Radicals inquiry brought to you by The Woodland Presents CIC and Timber Strategies. https://thewoodland.co/tree-radicals/
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The Three Buddy Problem is a popular Security Conversations podcast that goes beyond industry talking points to discuss what others won’t -- nation-state malware, attribution, cyberwar, ethics, privacy, and the messy realities of securing computers and corporate networks. Hosted by three veteran security pros -- journalist Ryan Naraine and malware paleontologists Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade -- the weekly show attracts a highly engaged audience of security researchers, corporat ...
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Your insider scoop on all things cool, green and wild in metropolitan South Australia. UPDATE: The Green Adelaide Podcast is taking a little seasonal snooze — consider it our Adelaide Rosella moment, nesting down for autumn and winter. We’ll be back chirpier than ever... just as soon as we’ve fluffed our feathers! Do you want or have a career in South Australia’s environmental sector? Then this podcast is for you! We are your enviro-exclusive on the people, projects and news of metropolitan ...
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Welcome to "Once upon an island - Green tourism", the podcast that highlights ecotourism on small islands. They fascinate us with their promise of peace and freedom, but did you know that small islands are pioneer territories for a more sustainable development? Each week, the podcast gives a voice to islanders, in particular women, to develop a tourism that respects the environment. They live off the British, Greek, Tunisian coasts, or off the French, Croatian and Norwegian coasts. They shar ...
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Darts and Letters is about ‘arts and letters,’ but for the kind of people who might hack a dart. We cover public intellectualism and the politics of academia from a left populist perspective. Put simply: we love ideas, but hate snob culture. Each week, we interview thinkers about key debates that are relevant to the left. We discuss politics, arts, culture, and ideas. But the show is for everyone. That means sometimes you'll hear from the usual suspects, like that authoritative old professor ...
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This podcast asks if we can use our experience of COVID as a wake up call to take real action on climate change. Join hosts Darragh Wynne and Ellen Hegarty, based in Dublin, Ireland, as they chat about topics including science, politics, media, the economy and more, looking at what we have learned about these areas throughout the pandemic and how that can inform our climate response. Follow us on: instagram.com/covidalarmclock twitter.com/covidalarmclock facebook.com/covidalarmclock @covidal ...
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Tøyen Podcast Village is an open podcast platform. We record live in front of an audience several times a month in Tøyen Startup Village, a co-working space and coffee bar in Tøyen, Oslo We want to have real conversations and spread ideas about a whole range of different topics that all relate to urban life, innovation and sustainability.
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NYFIKEN is a podcast about research. We want to make research available to everyone, through podcasts and articles meant for a general audience. We aim to create a complete picture of research done in Sweden, in all fields, by highlighting the diversity and complexity of work done by PhD students. NYFIKEN features podcast conversations about the research of recent PhD graduates. Find us at our webpage nyfiken.co
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Babes Talk Money is a deep dive into the world of alternative schools of economic thought. Ema and Julia throw down against the mainstream models and discuss their experiences as women in economics. Babes Talk Money originated on WOBC, Oberlin College and Community radio. New episodes air every week.
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The Green Market Agorist is a multimedia project of writer, activist, and organizer Logan Marie Glitterbomb, which focuses on agorism, environmentalism, green markets, and the circular and sharing economies in addition to related topics such as self-sufficiency, police and prison abolition, security culture, and anti-fascism among others, through articles, videos, podcasts, and more. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenmarketagorist/support
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Connecting Women's Voices on Climate Justice: Perspectives from Scotland and Around the World
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This podcast will explore perspectives on climate action from women in Scotland and around the world. Our aim is to outline the current struggles of local communities and build solidarity and awareness of women's rights within climate justice. We will bring together community leaders resisting environmental destruction and promoting collective change. With these discussions, we hope to inform environmental and social policy and widen engagement in the themes of gender and climate justice. Co ...
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“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud
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In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research forms the basis of Tom’s forthcoming book project, which has the working title Rurality 2.0: Redefining Urban-Rural Divides in the Mountains of Norway. Tom Bratrud is Associate Professor in Social Anthr…
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S2 E5: Yallourn: The Town That Disappeared – Displacement, Energy Extraction, and Loss
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Yallourn was a much loved company town built to house power industry workers and their families. It was much loved by resident's and a showpiece for the state of Victoria. After the Second World War, many migrants arrived to help run and expand the power station, mine and some took up residency in Yallourn. Unfortunately, the industry that helped b…
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Ep 365 Trumpisms, Socialisms, and WCF Health Gets Personal
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Episode 366 of RevolutionZ starts by considering a phrase frequently borrowed, nowadays, the phrase "like never before," and then moves on to a word nowadays being used more frequently and positively than in quite some time, the word "socialism." Regarding the former, why are we mimicking the verbal priorities of the Orange Monster? Can we avoid th…
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Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)
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Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization (Routledge, 2024)n discusses the place of creative village policy in the revitalization of rural Japan, highlighting how rural Japan is moving from a state of regional extinction…
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APTs pounce on React2Shell; BRICKSTORM backdoors; .gov surveillance
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(Presented by ThreatLocker: Allow what you need. Block everything else by default, including ransomware and rogue code.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 75: We dig into a CVSS 10/10 unauthenticated RCE bug causing chaos across the internet and early signs that Chinese APTs are already launching exploits, the cascading patch chaos, and a long tail of …
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Anna Zhelnina, "Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow" (Temple UP, 2025)
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Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritarian government, residents supported or opposed the redevelopment by mobilizing and organizing into local alliances. They were often shocked by the…
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Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)
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The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social production of ageing in post-Soviet Russia, highlighting the role of grandmothers as primary caregivers due to men’s traditional estrangement from family life. This expectation places grandmothers, or babus…
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We can’t get There from Here: Carbon, Climate and the Call to Wonder - Paul Hawken & Báyò Akómoláfé
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The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.…
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Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary and canonical borders to in…
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EP 365 Duvernay and WCF: Health and Class
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Episode 365 of RevolutionZ presents an essay by film director Ava Duvernay about the difficulty of writing in unimaginably chaotic times. Her's is a sentiment I share but that she expresses more eloquently. Simply put, it’s hard to write to a conclusion when the world won’t stop shouting new horrors. Then Miguel Guevara interviews Barbara Bethune a…
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This video could be of interest for young people studying in the academy who are considering exploring spiritual approaches to understanding and knowledge. Williams introduces a handful of scholars who have dedicated significant time to researching and publishing on Rudolf Steiner’s work and legacy, and why research in this area can take courage. R…
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Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
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Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? (W.W. Norton, 2025) is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that river…
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132: Revillaging & Social Care with Kate Hoepke
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https://www.cultivatingself.org/ Kate Hoepke founded the Village Movement California organization and led the San Francisco Village (one of the largest in the country) for over a decade. She is the epitome of community building, founding more than 40 Mothers Clubs in the SF Bay Area and being deeply involved in the field of aging since 2001. https:…
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Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that …
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Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (U Georgia Press, 2023) by Dr. Marc Sommers is at once a history of a nation, the story of a war, and the saga of downtrodden young people and three pop culture superstars. Reggae idol Bob Marley, rap legend Tupac Shakur, and the John Rambo movie character all portrayed an upside-d…
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Shai-Hulud 2.0, Russia GRU Intrusions, and Microsoft’s Regulatory Capture
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(Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 74: We attempt to parse the rumor-fog around Microsoft’s CISO at CYBERWARCON and what it reveals about the company’s shifting posture…
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Luis Malik: Capitalism & California Ecological Cycle of Large Fires
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The California ecological cycle of large fires is the subject matter of this episode, and my guest, Luis Malik, speaks about the profound and unjust double standard in how the capitalist system addresses fire disasters and how wild fires intersect with industrial development. We further discuss the history of wild fires and the political economy of…
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Allison Christine Meier, "Grave" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her, the grave has largely been invisible, an out of the way and unobtrusive marker of death. However,…
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Episode 76: Debating Postliberalism with Adrian Pabst, Michael Lind, and John Milbank
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In today's episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Adrian Pabst talks with Michael Lind and John Milbank about postliberalism, the topic of the current issue of Telos, "Debating Postliberalism." Adrian Pabst's "The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism," Michael Lind's "After Liberalism," and John Milbank's "The Politics of Virtue" a…
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Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)
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In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories “in context.” The months after Papa…
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Full audio: John Harvey reading Contending Perspectives: Chapter 11: Conclusions [EDITED]
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John Harvey reads the FINAL chapter of his book, Contending Perspectives. Here's the original video from where this audio came. Here's a list of links to John reading every chapter (released so far) in his 2021 book Contending Perspectives. I have edited both the video and audio to eliminate mistakes, coughs, interruptions, and etc. Sections in thi…
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Ep 364 Epstein and WCF: Post Convention Vision
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Episode 364 of RevolutionZ begins with a brief discussion of the Epstein phenomenon. How do elites manufacture loyalty and impose silence? How did Epstein (and Trump too) get constituencies that not only ought to have known better, but literally ought to have abhorred them, to instead become sycophants or at least friends? After that interlude, the…
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Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
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A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club (Temple UP, 2025) is Dr. Sarah Hoiland’s insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stor…
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Gemini 3 reactions, Fortinet/Chrome zero-days, a Cloudflare monoculture and a billion-dollar crypto twist
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(Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 73: The buddies react to Google’s release of Gemini 3 and its early performance, new Chrome interface changes landing on users’ machi…
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S2 E4: The Long Burn: Hazelwood Minefire, Health and Defunding Prevention
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The Hazelwood Mine Fire of 2014 left the Latrobe Valley blanketed in toxic smoke for 45 days. But the real story doesn’t end when the fire was extinguished. What came after was a reckoning: a landmark inquiry that exposed corporate negligence and health impacts. This episode asks: what did the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry change, and what did it lea…
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Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for their vast international business enterprises, the collective actions taken to oppose them are less known. In Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia …
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Heath Pearson, "Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town" (Duke UP, 2024)
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In Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town (Duke UP, 2024), Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey—a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail. Pea…
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Episode 363 of RevolutionZ as its main focus continues with another excerpt from the Oral History titled The Wind Cries Freedom. The episode opens, however, with a comment on our place and our times following on Mamdani's remarkable victory and Steve Bannon's call for Republicans to take over all institutions or face jail in about a year. In the st…
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Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh (Rutgers UP, 2021) takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen fr…
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Anthropic Claude Code automating APT hacks, KnownSec leak, Chinese buses with remote access
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Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices. Three Buddy Problem - Episode 72: We unpack Anthropic’s conflicting self-promotion around the “first AI-orchestrated cyberattack” using Claude Code and the future of…
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Ahjamu Umi: Interpreting Kwame Ture's Teachings
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This episode is dedicated to our ancestor, Kwame Ture, who made his physical transition to be with the Ancestors on November 15th 1998. Ahjamu Umi joins me to discuss the teachings of Ture. Ahjamu is a dedicated activist/organizer/author who has engaged in on the ground work throughout Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. for 4 de…
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I have read two longer book reviews in recent months, both in influential journals, of the growing consensus that human freedom is an illusion. The consequences elude me, and I turn to satire for relief. “Scientists around the world reach consensus that freedom is an illusion, they have now turned to the question of what the significance of this co…
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LIVE from Ring0 COUNTERMEASURE: Google v FFmpeg, Ransomware Turncoats, Samsung 0days
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Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices. Three Buddy Problem - Episode 71: The buddies travel to Canada for a live recording at the Countermeasure conference, discussing the Google v FFmpeg open-source patc…
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Episode 362 of RevolutionZ continues the oral history recounting by Miguel Guevara and his interviewees. It delves further with the motives, aims, and mechanics of a successful future revolution. This time, it asks, what if the hardest part of building a movement isn’t the opposition outside, but the pressure inside the room—and inside our heads? G…
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Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh. She explores the way these relations are changing due to climate ch…
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Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how medical students become medical doctors. She ethnographically tracks their engagements with one another, interactions with patients, experience…
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Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
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How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play in how we belong to places? Atmospheric Knowledge takes up these questions through detailed analyses of practices that generate atmospheres and in which knowledge emerges through visceral intermingling…
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Russell T. McCutcheon, "Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Our Primary Expertise argues counter to the longstanding trend in the field by seeing religion as mundane and not unique, which means that the field's research and teaching can have relevance all across human culture, and well beyond academia. Russell McCutcheon offers a timely argument by taking seriously threats to the humanities now happening al…
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Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices--living and dead, visible and immaterial--that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the…
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A Young Man encounters Vladimir Soloviev This video tells the story of the effect Vladimir Soloviev’s work and poetry on a young man from the USA and reflects on the significance of meeting other nations and language groups through art, culture. References Vladimir Soloviev: Russian Mystic by Paul Marshall Allen The Meaning of Love by Vladimir Solo…
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Ep 361 Hope Is Not Naive, Cynicism Is Counterproductive, Fight To Win
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Episode 361 of RevolutionZ continues the sequence of episodes culled from the book in process: The Wind Cries Freedom. The episode's title is "Hope Is Not Naive, Cynicism Is Counterproductive, Fight To Win." It opens with a succinct look at our own time's authoritarianism and the information ecosystem that rewards fear and lies over solidarity and …
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Patrick Brittenden, "Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria" (Regnum Books, 2025)
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Algerian and Christian are two words that many people do not put together. Dr. Patrick Brittenden does. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about his new book Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria (Regnum Books International, 2025). He invites readers into the complex, often painful,…
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Stephen Huard, "Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
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This episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies features Stéphen Huard talking about Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar (Berghahn Books, 2024), in which he takes a deep dive into the history and anthropology of village leadership in Myanmar’s central dry zone, or anya. In it, Stéphen develops “cali…
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OpenAI’s Dave Aitel talks Aardvark, economics of bug-hunting with LLMs
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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 70: Dave Aitel from OpenAI's technical staff joins the buddies to discuss the just-launched Aardvark, OpenAI’s agentic “security researcher” that claims to read code, finds bugs, validates exploits, and ships patches. We press him on where LLMs beat fuzzers, privacy boundaries, human-in-the-loop realities, SDLC budgets…
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Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)
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After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships, President José Eduardo dos Santos rolled out a national reconstruction program that sought to tran…
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Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)
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Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes. From the mid-20th century to the present, Latin America and other regions in the Global South have experienced a remark…
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Nora Kenworthy, "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare" (MIT Press, 2024)
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In Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), Dr. Nora Kenworthy presents an eye-opening investigation into charitable crowdfunding for healthcare in the United States—and the consequences of allowing healthcare access to be decided by the digital crowd. Over the past decade, charitable crowdfunding has exploded in po…
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Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
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An ecologist in California claimed that the iron laws of nature locked humanity into destroying our environment. This meant that we must take drastic measures to rein in unfettered capitalism and the American habit of overconsumption, lest we deplete our common resources. That argument made Garrett Hardin one of the most influential and celebrated …
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Ep 360 Larry Cohen on No Kings and Beyond: Tactics, Strategy, and Goals
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Episode 360 of RevolutionZ has Larry Cohen, former president of the 600,000 strong Communication Workers of America and current board chair of Our Revolution who has spent five decades organizing workers and pushing democratic reforms inside and outside the Democratic Party to assess No Kings and explore possible future directions for it and of res…
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