Best Daniel Hobbs Podcasts (2025)

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Julia Brock, "Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South" (UNC Press, 2025) 55:23

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In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers an innovative history of hunting in the New South. The implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional…

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Michael Amoruso, "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:13:00

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In the sprawling city of São Paulo, a weekly practice known as devotion to souls (devoção às almas) draws devotees to Catholic churches, cemeteries, and other sites associated with tragic or unjust deaths. The living pray and light candles for the souls of the dead, remembering events and circumstances in a rite of collective suffering. Yet contemp…

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John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024) 48:57

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The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 (UNC Press, 2024) reveals that Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and pr…

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WL/WR "No Kings" Protest and Israel-Iran/WW3? 2:16:59

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WL - L.A. RIOTS and HOBBES 1:17:41

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WL - Pt. 2 Expertise Crisis and The Autodidact Problem 1:25:19

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WL - Pt. 1 Expertise Crisis and The Autodidact Problem - Douglas Murray and Dave Smith on JRE 1:06:43

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Brittany Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025) 50:52

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In Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, Dr. Brittany Friedman delves into how the California Department of Corrections deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques—including officer alliances with imprisoned white supremacists—to suppress Black political movements, revealing the …

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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio 56:35

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Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, stud…

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God, Esoteric and Apophatic - WL and WR crossover episode 53:22

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WL - The Benjamin Black Pill 1:16:12

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So hard to swallow most people will kick into instant name-calling, scategoating, or lesser evilist modes of displacement and disavowal. If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessa…

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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice 55:43

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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as th…

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Why Left - Cutrone on the PCFM vs Revolutionary Subject and The Dictatorship of the Proletariat 1:55:50

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Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020) 51:58

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Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation, The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power…

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WL - Ft. Doug Lain | The Proletariat vs PCFM (Potato Class Fractured Mass) Post-Platypus Panel 1:34:55

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A post-Platypus convention panelist debrief. David McKerracher of Theory Underground and Doug Lain of Sublation Media, with Why Left co-host Benjamin Studebaker! PCFM vs dictatorship of the proletariat, how to organize today, and what we ultimately agree on. If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we in…

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Why Left - Groking a Dugin/Haz converdiction with Benjamin Studebaker on BRICS 3:23:48

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Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025) 28:19

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In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield political power for the greater good. Yet, as Michael Rosino shows in Democracy Is Awkward (UNC Press, 2025), progressive political organizations in the United States have frequently failed to …

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María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:08:53

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In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived…

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WL - How to NOT write like A.I. | Ft. Daniel Garner 1:10:09

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WL - Monasteries and Churches as Bildungmech? | Adolescence & Structural Stultification of Timenergy 1:30:00

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WL - New Left "Radicalism" - Weather Underground THEN and Bill Ayers NOW | TU AGORA special event 3:30:48

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WL - What IS "Democracy" | Daniel Garner and Benjamin Studebaker with the TU Tour Crew 1:22:15

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Tragic Sociology VS Left QANONism - Garner, McKerracher, Studebaker & Nance - In The AGORA 2:09:18

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WL - Texting war plans with the boys + What Obama and Trump Agree On 2:30:55

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ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work…

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WL - Nobody cares about China, Ukraine/Zelenskyy/Trump + TU Tour and Studio Update 1:41:00

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ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work…

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WL - What is a Citizen? 1:27:57

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ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work…

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WL - Was Obama the worst U.S. President? - Message to Democrats pt. 3 2:37:25

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Why Left? - What IS Society? 1:10:45

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Nov. EMSTU - Digital Warlords, Subjectivity, and Cybernetic Populism with Haz Al-Din 1:37:08

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Comment Section Review: WU/WR review Why Left's "Musk's "Sieg Heil" & Dog Whistles in the PCFM" 4:15:14

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That survey we put together during the last half is available here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... The thing we went and did in the classroom on campus is available to TU subscribers who get involved in the work of socioanalysis and alien anthropology. If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we…

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Why Left? Musk's "Sieg Heil" & Dog Whistles in the PCFM | Why Us? Naming is Negating 2:57:40

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Why Left? Trump's 2nd First Month - A Message To Democrats pt. 2 2:33:39

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Why Left? AGAINST the Overton Window / Mainstreaming / Radical Flank theory + Why Us? 4:05:45

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Why Left? Radical Flank Effect and “Overton window” | Why Us - Alien Anthropology, AGORA Tour, and Classification Struggles If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a work…

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Why Left? Trump Greenland Cutrone | What's Right? HOMESTEAD | Mikey Seminar on Therapism & Superego 3:53:54

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We've never done a stream like this! A Why Left episode followed by a What's Right episode followed by the first hour of a Mikey seminar! Only at TU. If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe Theory Underground exists to cultivate the condi…

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Jamie Woods & Ash Rowell 57:40

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Welcome to episode 83! Please ignore the echo and animals (we were in a new location for recording). Happy Halloween! Sources: Heights teen-ager gets 40 years for girl's murder Murder draws life for teen Jeremy Keith Coffey v. The State of Texas--Appeal from 27th District Court of Lampasas County Riveting testimony ensues at murder trial of 16-year…

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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:05:57

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Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceratio…

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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:07:40

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Most US history textbooks contain a familiar map: shaded colors stretch across North America, clearly and neatly demarcating the extent of US expansion from 1776 thru the late nineteenth century. In The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limites of Manifest Destiny (UNC Press, 2025), University of Kansas distinguished historian Andrew…

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Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:11:27

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The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation …

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Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:07:10

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On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across…

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Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024) 54:20

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The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a wo…

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Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:19:45

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Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and migrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell this desirable food. In Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War I…

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Why Left - The Infamous Vivek Ramaswamy 1:53:03

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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn 1:12:17

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Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) by award-winning historian Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers. Dr. Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson. Johnson was the owner…

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Why Left? The Olds 1:30:50

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Legacy politicians have a passing the torch on problem. If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political ca…

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Bob Dylan's death drive - Plato and Lacan vs. Deleuze - Benjamin Studebaker and Michael Downs 2:28:27

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From December. Benjamin's piece: https://substack.com/home/post/p-153650327 ABOUT / GET INVOLVED Looking to accelerate your way into a fresh understanding of our current situation? That’s what Theory Underground is all about. We are a seminar, lecture, and book publishing organism for workers with earbuds and professionals who see no hope in existi…

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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra 1:07:44

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Our book is: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra (UNC Press, 2025), by Ericka Verba, which explores the life of Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967). Parra is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and t…

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Why Left? Ep. 13 pt. 3 (Marxist?) Monasteries 1:49:17

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Why Left? Ep. 13 pt. 2. Symptomatic Luige Mangione 1:08:42

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Why Left Ep. 13 pt. 1 - Lily Phillips 1:15:15

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Why Left? e12 - Message To A Young Theorist: What's Your Hurry? 9:39:48

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