Red Medicine
A podcast about the politics of health, medicine, and the body.Support at www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine
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Do We Live in Hell? w/ Phil Neel (opens the original)
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Communist geographer Phil Neel joins the podcast for the final episode until 2027. He discusses his recent book Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory, specifically how the power of capital is able to transform us and the world in new and horrific ways. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/
Smart Machines and Stagnating Economies w/ Jason E. Smith (opens the original)
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Jason E Smith joins the podcast to talk about automation, AI, service work and economic stagnation. He explains how these developments connect and inform each other by explaining the appeal of automation in a time when more and more workers find themselves in the service sector.
Trauma without Aftermath [Political Pathologies ep. 2] w/ Joelle Abi-Rached (opens the original)
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Philosopher and historian of science Joelle Abi-Rached approaches the topic of trauma, asking whether it is a sufficient category for the psychic impact of the ongoing violence of Zionist settler colonialism. Joelle Abi-Rached is a philosopher and historian of science; she is Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. And the author of Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East, co-author of Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management
Cocaine and Communism [Political Pathologies ep. 1] w/ Evan Sedgwick-Jell (opens the original)
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A talk by Evan Sedgwick-Jell on the history of communist drug treatment services in Weimar Germany, given at the Political Pathologies conference in Glasgow. Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a researcher, particularly interested in the interrelation of the psy-disciplines and mental health, with political movements and healthcare systems. Their forthcoming work Capitalist Pathology: The Cultural Logic of Mental Health, examines depression as represented in contemporary non-fiction and its implications for
Anti-Self-Helpline [LIVE] ep. 5 w/ Prometheus Magazine (opens the original)
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A recording of the very first in-person edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline, co-hosted with Prometheus Magazine's very own Harry Holmes. This edition of the helpline was recorded at the Festival of the Oppressed, held in June. Pre-order print copies of Prometheus Magazine issue 1 at this link: https://www.ebb-books.com/shop/p/prometheus-subscription SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/
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