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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Ashley Bohrer and Michael Beyea Reagan join Kyle and Sean for Cinder Bloc today. They discuss Intersectionality as a theoretical lens, how it becomes synthesized and integrated into social movements, into political struggles, and they drill dow...

Today Kyle and Sean are joined by friends at Charles Kerr Publishing and The Antifada Podcast to bring you a special interview with Chuang, an anonymous, international research group composing a new analysis of the formal and historical develop...

Welcome to season 2 of Cinder Bloc. radio! Today, Will and Kyle speak with Max Fox, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and M.E. O'Brien about the life and work of the late Christopher Chitty. Marrying Marx and Foucault, Chitty's analysis focused on the hi...

Red May organizer Will McKeithen is joined by Da'Shaun Harrison and Caleb Luna to discuss the systemic violence of anti-fatness; its role in unevenly distributing care under racial capitalism; and how leftist social and political movements migh...

With Red May 5 only a few weeks away, we will be sharing a ton of previous Red May interviews and talks, Social Movement Lab discussions, and new Cinder Bloc. episodes.  Last week on Cinder Bloc. we presented a discussion we had wi...

show notes: Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles) is, among other things, a communist theorist who writes primarily about contemporary politics, art, and philosophy.

Cinder Bloc. is a project developed out of Red May in Seattle, Washington. Episode 2 is the second half of our two-part discussion with Phillip Neel, Jarrod Shanahan, and Zhandarka Kurti. Recorded in the first week of December 2020, we wanted t...

Cinder Bloc. is a project developed out of Red May in Seattle, Washington. Episode 1 is the first of a two-part discussion we shared with Phillip Neel, Jarrod Shanahan, and Zhandarka Kurti. Recorded in...