Cinder Bloc‪.‬ Red May

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.

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 ...

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 stel...

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 th...

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, trans...

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 (C...