Cinder Bloc.

Red May
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Cinder Bloc. features interviews, discussions, stories, and new analyses of the world-making and world-breaking potential of life in the late capitalist era.

  1. 12/01/2022

    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 known as the Woman Life Freedom struggle.  Social Movements Lab is brought to you by Red May in coordination with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, Dinamopress, and EuroNomade.

    1h 9m

  2. 11/22/2022

    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 Revolution, and how to become a journalist. Kyle also draws heavily from Naomi Schiller’s book, Channeling The State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela. Aside from her journalistic work, which can be found on her YouTube Channel, Lainie is also a Nutritional Therapist Practitioner and Strength Coach. You can find her on her website and Instagram Our stellar theme song, Cosmic Background Radiation, was composed by Occult A/V. Check out more over on bandcamp.

    58 min

  3. 09/15/2022

    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 Destituent Urge" given in Olympia, WA. Idris Robinson is, among other things, a philosopher and writer living in Texas.  On Pain  The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World has to Offer  Letter to Michael Reinoehl  How It Might Should Be Done  Our stellar theme song, Cosmic Background Radiation, was composed by Occult A/V. Check out more over on bandcamp.

    2h 13m

  4. 08/16/2022

    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 Problem of Prosecuting Fascism." In the talk, she focuses on two recent prosecutions of notorious 2020 American vigilantes: Kyle Rittenhouse's trial for fatally shooting Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and non-fatal shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz at the Jacob Blake protests in Kenosha, WI; and the trial of the McMichaels and William Bryan for the pursuit and murder of Ahmaud Arbery around Brunswick, GA. On Monday, the McMichaels were each sentenced to life in prison +, while Bryan received a sentence to serve 35 years. While Sean interviewed Elle last week, the problems she approaches in her talk are all the more significant to consider in light of these sentencings. Listen to our brief interview at the beginning followed by a recording of Elle Herman's talk, "The Problem of Prosecuting Fascism," from earlier this year. Elle Herman is, among other things, a union and labor organizer and doctoral student at UNM.  We will release a video of this talk in the next couple of weeks. Special thanks to Idris Robinson and the Karasu Philosophical Society for sending us a recording of this talk. Our stellar theme song, Cosmic Background Radiation, was composed by Occult A/V. Check out more over on bandcamp.

    1h 15m

  5. 07/13/2022

    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 those that would compose the intellectual base of the Operaismo movements, toward new communist horizons and understandings of the complex momentum of class in the party (and partisan) dynamic. Andrew Anastasi is, among other things, a sociologist, translator, writer, and editor with Viewpoint Magazine. Andrew compiled and edited the early writings of Italian communist Mario Tronti. The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism can be picked up at Common Notions. A Betrayal Retrieved  The Autonomy of the Political  The Young Mario Tronti Dossier  A Not Merely Charitable Alliance: Anti-Poverty Workers Within and Against the State  Crisis Maneuvers Our Theorist of Outrage: Memories of Stanley Aronowitz (1933-2021)  Our stellar theme song, Cosmic Background Radiation, was composed by Occult A/V. Check out more over on bandcamp.

    1h 5m

  6. 02/04/2022

    Every Struggle Against Domination is Intersectional w/ Ashley Bohrer and Michael Bayea Reagan

    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 down into the complex dynamics of domination, that the real, human History of class antagonism under colonialism and capitalism is simultaneously the condition of being racialized, being gendered, being aged, being able-ized, being classed. Ashley Bohrer (Chicago) is, among other things, an activist-scholar, philosopher, and the author of Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism Marxism and Intersectionality: An Interview [Salvage] Gender Policing the Poor: Toward a Conceptual Apparatus Toward a Decolonial Feminist Anticapitalism Just Wars of Accumulation: The Salamanca School, Race and Colonial Capitalism The Abject Atlantic: The Coloniality of the Concept of “Europe” in its Maritime Meridien Pedagogies for Peace podcast Ashley’s website Michael Beyea Reagan (Seattle) is, among other things, a historian, teacher, activist, and the author of Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice Intersectional Class Struggle: From Shared Oppression to Unified Resistance Intersectional Class Struggle Interview [Industrial Worker] Intersectional Class Struggle: To Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time [Last Born in the Wilderness Interview] Electoral Folly The Labor Costs of Dual Enrollment Programs Michael’s website Our stellar theme song, Cosmic Background Radiation, was composed by Occult A/V. Check out more over on bandcamp.

    1h 4m

  7. 12/08/2021

    Chuang on China, Communism, and Social Contagion

    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 development of China. Chuang has just released a much anticipated collection of essays focusing on the 'China experience' of the covid-19 pandemic and its convergent crises. The book, Social Contagion and other material on microbiological class war in China, is out now with Charles Kerr Publishing Co. and available at akpress. show notes: Chuang essays from the episode Sorghum and Steel  Red Dust  Welcome to the Frontlines: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence  A State Adequate to the Task: Conversations with Lao Xie  Social Contagion (essay)  Workers Organising Under the Pandemic: Reflections from China  other references: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's Anarchism and the Black Revolution  Fang Fang a year after the Wuhan Diaries here and here  for Hu Shih on China, modernization, and America see volume 3 of his English writings for Marx on Communism, Naturalism, and Humanism, see in particular "Private Property and Communism" in the 1844 Manuscripts. Check out the Charles Kerr Publishing revival and listen to History Against Misery Listen to Antifada's podcast over at their patreon and join them live on twitch Our stellar theme song, Cosmic Background Radiation, was composed by Occult A/V. Check out more over on bandcamp.

    1h 6m

  8. 09/01/2021

    On Christopher Chitty & The Possibility of Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and M.E. O'Brien

    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 historical conditions for queer sexuality through the development of capitalism, focusing on relations and practices of solidarity and domination brought about through proletarianization and organizational hierarchy in periods of capitalist crises. Chitty sees the genesis and entrenchment of modern, queer sexualities as having "... emerged within the interstices of transformed property relations, through the population displacements from the countryside and the subsequent concentration of those workers who were superfluous to agrarian production in urban centers, as well as within the institutions that attempted to manage or capture these surplus populations- factories, workhouses, standing armies, policing, and punitive apparatuses, naval and merchant fleets, and colonial territories." A collection of Chitty's writing, Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, was released by DUP in 2020. Max Fox edited the collection and is currently working on a second volume of Chitty's writing with Madeline Lane-McKinley. * At the time of this recording all the way up until our release, workers of Duke University Press have been in a collective bargaining struggle and unionizing against their working conditions with the press management. Listeners can find out more here: https://www.dupworkersunion.org/ * Max Fox is, among other things, a founding editor of Pinko Magazine, an editor and translator. On Christopher Chitty  Mourning and Marginalia: an Interview with Madeline Lane-McKinley  a Final Straw interview on Sexual Hegemony, sexuality, liberation and class.   a Rabbles of the World interview on sexual liberation and its legacies  Sexual Hegemony book launch (w/ Chris Nealon and Tobi Haslett)  An Infantile Disorder  Madeline Lane-McKinley is, among other things, a writer and a founding editor of Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Mourning and Marginalia: An Interview with Max Fox  "Retreat" and the Sick World  The Year of the Wombat  Dear Z  Feeling Good in 'Feel Good'  Born in Flames: Fictions of Masculinity, After #MeToo  The Idea of Children  And We Mother Them Again: Motherhood at the Margins

    1h 8m
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Cinder Bloc. features interviews, discussions, stories, and new analyses of the world-making and world-breaking potential of life in the late capitalist era.

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  • Creator
    Red May
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Cinder Bloc.
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