Cinder Bloc.
Cinder Bloc. features interviews, discussions, stories, and new analyses of the world-making and world-breaking potential of life in the late capitalist era.
Podcasting since 2021 • 13 episodes
Cinder Bloc.
Latest Episodes
Social Movements Lab #8 Woman, Life and Freedom
You are listening to Social Movements Lab hosted by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra. To kick off the new season, Michael and Sandro speak with Paola Rivetti and Frieda Afary, navigating the social crises in Iran undergirding the upheaval kn...
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Channeling Caracas w/ Lainie Cassel
Sean and Kyle talk with Lainie Cassel about her time as an independent journalist in Venezuela during the Bolivarian Revolution. We dig into what it felt like to be at the reelection of Chavez, how western media portrayed the Bolivarian Revolut...
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On Pain and the Destituent Urge w/ Idris Robinson
Kyle and Sean talk with Idris Robinson about the realities of pain in cycles of crisis and struggle as well as the notion of destitution. This is followed by a 2020 recording of an early draft of Robinson's forthcoming essay "the Destitu...
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The Problem of Prosecuting Fascism w/ Elle Herman
Sean talks with Elle Herman about the varieties and modalities of fascism and the carceral dynamics at stake in the institution of criminal prosecution. Elle recently gave a talk for the Karasu Philosophical Society in Albuquerque titled "The P...
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The Weapon of Organization w/ Andrew Anastasi
Andrew Anastasi joins Kyle and Sean for Cinder Bloc to discuss class antagonism, political dynamics, and the (prophetic) theoretical lens of the young Mario Tronti. Andrew talks about the European and Italian preconditions that led Tronti, and ...
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