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  1. Interview with Dr. Derek Hook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology

    Mar 18

    Interview with Dr. Derek Hook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology

    What explains the "madness" of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class? Any serious analysis of Race must take into account its contradictory, libidinal, and bodily aspects (in addition to discursive and economic analysis). To this end, Dr. Hook takes his readers and us on a body-horroresque journey through the nightmarish contradictions of race, where erotic charge and murderous hatred feed one another, where fantasy disrupts the body, and where racism sinks its teeth into the flesh. We are excited to bring you this interview with Dr. Derek Hook concerning all of this and more. Enjoy! Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_VrSXB5G4gOVOcGC6INxA Music by Fabulizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4rguCBGPP0&list=RDu4rguCBGPP0&start_radio=1 Derek Hook's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@derekhookonlacan Buy Derek Hook's Book: https://www.routledge.com/Fanon-Psychoanalysis-and-Critical-Decolonial-Psychology-The-Mind-of-Apartheid/Hook/p/book/9781032308012

    1h 44m
  2. The Death Drive: An Introduction from Freud to Lacan

    12/12/2025

    The Death Drive: An Introduction from Freud to Lacan

    In this episode we offer an introduction to the Death Drive, starting from Freud's coining of the term, Lacan's contribution to the idea, and ending with its effects on society. The Death Drive is a fundamental psychoanalytic concept that informs so much of our worldview, how lack and excess constitutes us as subjects and our world as we experience it. This concept defines much of what it means to be human and that’s why we would like to take the time to explain it.

    17 min
  3. Interview with Gerald Horne: Settler Colonialism and its Vicissitudes

    12/12/2025

    Interview with Gerald Horne: Settler Colonialism and its Vicissitudes

    In this episode, we’ve invited Dr. Gerald Horne to speak about how the violent domination and exploitation of our colonial past impacts our politics and culture today. Through a discussion of whiteness, colonial history, and capitalist exploitation, we highlight the connections between the 15th century and our present reality. Dr. Horne thoughtfully answers our questions on the history of settler colonialism while frequently clarifying its connections to relevant contemporary events and policies. Dr. Gerald Horne is an esteemed historian of American, African, and Colonial History, author of some of our favorite books on these topics, including the Counterrevolution of 1776, the Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism series, and White Supremacy Confronted, and professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston. We find that no one speaks as clearly on the historical roots of Race and Capitalism in the Colonization of Africa and the Americas.

    58 min
  4. Interview with Harsha Walia on Borders: How Capitalism Divides and Dominates

    12/12/2025

    Interview with Harsha Walia on Borders: How Capitalism Divides and Dominates

    In this video we have on Harsha Walia, renown Author, Activist, and Scholar to discuss pertinent issues regarding immigration, borders, and imperialism. Harsha has dedicated her studies and activism to justice for migrants and displaced peoples across the globe. In this interview, she offers invaluable insight into how borders are engineered as a fundamental and necessary feature of capitalism. Borders are not static lines on a map, but dynamic sets of practices that, ideologically and economically, continuously reproduce the exploitable "other". Harsha argues that resisting capitalist oppression must be understood as synonymous with resisting bordering practices.

    1h 6m
  5. Commodity Fetishism: An Introduction

    12/12/2025

    Commodity Fetishism: An Introduction

    Using Marx's concept, Commodity Fetishism, we aim to answer these questions: Why are we increasingly isolated from each other, only able to relate through markets, objects? Why is production so disconnected from human needs despite our immense production capacity? What is the true cost of “freedom”? Can we be ethical consumers? How does ideology function? In this video, we give an introductory overview of Commodity Fetishism, arguably one of the most important concepts for understanding the Ideological and Economic operations of Capitalism throughout its worldwide expansion. Capitalism’s sustained grip on society rests on the centrality of the commodity and its accompanying fetishization.

    20 min
  6. Biopolitics & Biopower: An Introduction

    12/11/2025

    Biopolitics & Biopower: An Introduction

    Our second video on Michel Foucault offers an overview of Michel Foucault's Biopower and Biopolitics. We discuss how, with the rise of capitalism and the state, Biopolitics is employed to control and manage populations. We outline a genealogy of Biopolitics from slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism, and apartheid. Finally, we imagine what a leftist biopolitics would look like.

    14 min
  7. Killing the Congo: Understanding the Conflict in the Eastern Congo

    12/11/2025

    Killing the Congo: Understanding the Conflict in the Eastern Congo

    In this video, we provide an overview of the current conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We begin with the historical development of the Congolese State and the institutionalization of graft and corruption. We analyze the far-reaching consequences of colonialism and imperialism, chronically ineffective governance, ethnic divides, and the role resources play in the DRC’s development. Throughout our discussion we highlight the West’s complicity in the Congo’s underdevelopment and structural violence. The conflicts contained within the Congo are expressions of capitalist production, extraction, and war profiteering, processes which have long and violent histories. A weak Congo is a key aspect of the West's demands for cheap sources of raw materials. If you’re looking to understand the most important aspects of the current conflict in the DRC, this is the video for you.

    1h 3m
  8. Vijay Prashad - Hyperimperialism, Palestine, NATO, and the Election of Donald Trump

    12/11/2025

    Vijay Prashad - Hyperimperialism, Palestine, NATO, and the Election of Donald Trump

    In this video, we speak to Vijay Prashad about the changing material conditions of contemporary imperialism. Vijay sheds light on a number of topics, including Palestine, Donald Trump, NATO, and Ukraine, elaborating on his theory of Hyperimperialism to help us better understand the political economy of the 2020s, obscene military spending, the US-dominated world order, the successes of the right, and the motives of elites in maintaining a highly asymmetric and violent system. Vijay Prashad is the director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and the author of some of our favorite books concerning Imperialism such as The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations.

    1h 18m
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    Nicholas Tolliver and Tyler Mraz
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
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    Death Drive Radio