Cosmopod

The Platform is the Message

Aug 8, 2022

Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own approach to social media that takes into account the values encoded into tech platforms.

Narrated by: Allen Lanterman

Intro Music: ворожное озеро...

The Tortoise and the Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution, and Socialism

Aug 1, 2022

Amelia Davenport argues for the relevance of cybernetics to the project of developing a communism that transcends the modernist project.

Read by Will

Intro Music: ворожное озеро Гроза vwqp remix Outro Music: We are Friends Forever performed by Felix Dzerzhinsky...

Ireland: Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution with Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston

Jul 24, 2022

Rudy joins Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, authors of Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution for a discussion on Irish history from colonization to the present. We discuss the earliest colonization attempts, the Ulster plantation and the formation of the planter/gael binary...

No End in Sight: On the War in Ukraine

Jul 21, 2022

Alexander Gallus pushes against the haze of propaganda to assess the current course of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Article read aloud by John Turner.

Constructive Criticism: The Dialectics of Unity & Struggle

Jul 17, 2022

Jean, Jess, Annie and Rudy sit down to discuss Gracie Lyons' Constructive Criticism: A Handbook based on their organizing experiences. They discuss the events that led them to take an interest in this book, how this book uses Marxism and Maoism to frame (self)criticism in ways that go beyond-self help, before going...