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119 episodes
Spirit Behind the Lens Ep 8: From the Club to the Darkroom with Emerzy Corbin
Eddie is joined by Emerzy Corbin to unpack the techniques of photography in the club today, new technological developments in the craft, and the treasured canon of cameras and communities they've worked with.
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Spirit Behind the Lens Episode 7: The Making of a Hip-Hop Photographer with Tee Max
Connect: https://otchere.shop/For this episode, Eddie catches up with Tee Max, who documented the ascending icons of the Hip-Hop scene with Eddie (and who forms part of the titular image of Spirit Behind the Lens). Tee and Eddie talk th...
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How the Railways Will Fix the Future with Gareth Dennis
Get the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/how-the-railways-will-fix-the-future-rediscovering-the-essential-brilliance-of-the-iron-road/Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key t...
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Spirit Behind the Lens Ep 6: Architecture, Jamaica, and the Space of Photography w/ Holly-Marie Cato
Connect: https://otchere.shop/Eddie is joined by Holly-Marie Cato to talk about her photographic origins photographing the riots of the early 2010s, how her background in architecture informs her use of space and light in artistic pract...
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Spirit Behind the Lens Episode 5: The Afropean Archives and Photography in Japan with Johny Pitts
Eddie speaks to Johny Pitts, photographer and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. They dive into the Afropean diasporic experience as captured through the medium of the image, the growing exclusion of the working class from contemporar...
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Spirit Behind the Lens - From Marilyn Monroe to Malcolm X: Eve Arnold's Photography
Connect: https://otchere.shop/Eddie discusses the work of legendary photographer Eve Arnold, who produced era-defining photographs of political and cultural icons such as Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and James Brown. To d...
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Owen Hatherley: Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC & DC
Get the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects-adventures-in-social-democracy-in-nyc-and-dc/A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future.I...
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Spirit Behind the Lens Episode 3: Photography and the Black Atlantic with Jermaine Francis
Connect: https://otchere.shop/In this episode, Eddie speaks to photographer Jermaine Francis about his style of "Post-Documentary" photography, representation, capturing the landscape of Black life across the diaspora, and their collect...
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Spirit Behind the Lens Episode 2: Narcissus and the History of the Selfie
Connect: https://otchere.shop/Eddie is joined by fellow Repeater author Mattie Colquhoun, writer of Narcissus in Bloom, to discuss photography as a site of self imagination and self transformation through the icon and the image....
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Spirit Behind the Lens Episode 1: Photography and Vertical Warfare w/ Giles Price
Connect: https://otchere.shop/In the first episode of Spirit Behind the Lens: The Conversations, Eddie Otchere is joined by Giles Price to discuss his beginnings in photography whilst serving in the Armed Forces, his post-service career...
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A Crisis of Elite Reproduction: The Decline of Tory Britain with Phil Burton-Cartledge
Adam from Acid Horizon joins Phil Burton-Cartledge to discus 'The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak' out on Verso Books.Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2630-falling-down?_pos=1...
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Now That's What I Call Marxism! Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Music w/ Toby Manning
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/mixing-pop-and-politics-a-marxist-history-of-popular-music/A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period’s most popular music.
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The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies
Buy the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313576/the-searchers-by-beckett-andy/9780241394229From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, thro...
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A Thousand Little Machines: Berardi and A/traverso with Kenny Novis, Jamila Squire and Seth Wheeler
The book: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machinesDigitised copies of A/traverso: https://archive.leftove.rs/documents/grid/title/A/traversoIn 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and vio...
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Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna
Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-nightTechnic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/We take for granted that only certain ...
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QUIT EVERYTHING with Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Acid Horizon, and Kenny Novis
Pre-Order Here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761928/quit-everything-by-franco-berardi/In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy a...
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Ernst Bloch's Utopian Marxism: A New Hope with Jon Greenaway
Buy the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-blochThe utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can pro...
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Welcome to the Collapse: Evan Calder Williams 'Combined and Uneven Apocalypse' (Zer0 Books Archive)
Grab the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/combined-and-uneven-apocalypseFrom the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued ci...
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WORK WILL NOT SAVE YOU: Federico Campagna's 'The Last Night: Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure'
Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-nightOur secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous, and over-production destroys bo...
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The Anti-Capitalism of the Underworld: James Hillman, Mark Fisher, and Fulcanelli with Andy Sharp
Buy the books mentioned in the discussion: The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-english-heretic-collection-ritual-histories-magickal-geography/The Astra...
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Lacan, Genre, and the Enjoyment of Music with David Burke and Acid Horizon
Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkwCan Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David ...
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Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today with Anthony Galluzzo
Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopiasAlongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of sto...
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We're All Running from The Terminator: The Radical Left Versus Capitalism
Adam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back.Books by Carl Nevil...
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Who Was Errico Malatesta? with Davide Turcato
Many leftists today know the name of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, but few know much about him. In this conversation, one of the foremost scholars on his life and ideas, Davide Turcato, discusses Malatesta’s activities during his long...
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Wales, Colonialism, and the Landscape of History: "Of Talons and Teeth" w/Niall Griffiths
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/of-talons-and-teeth-a-novel/February 2024 event with Niall: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/niall-griffiths-of-talons-and-teeth-tickets-804928511847?aff=ebdsoporgprofileAn historica...
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