Neoliberal NYC

We are joined by Acorrection team member Ernest Leif Boyd to discuss the episodes he will be producing for this podcast over the next few months. Ernest is a film editor, born and raised in New York City. He started out his career working in reality television for NYT Television where he was an instrumental part of Local 700, The Motion Picture Editors Guilds successful union organizing campaign.

His section of the podcast will lean towards, though by no means be exhausted by discussions of New York City and gentrification.

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Degrowth

We speak with Federico Demaria about the radical concept of Degrowth and the failure of “sustainable development.” Federico Demaria is an ecological economist at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a member of Research & Degrowth, and co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era, and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary.

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State Violence and Modernity

We speak with Maged Mandour about the huge upsurge in state violence in Egypt after the 2013 coup and the complicity of the middle class. Maged Mandour graduated from Cambridge with a Masters in International Relations. He is a political analyst and the columnist of “Chronicles of the Arab Revolt” on openDemocracy. He is also a writer for Sada, the online journal for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

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The Economics of the NBA

We talk with Matthew Miranda about the NBA. We discuss the salary cap, the economics of “small markets”, why some teams are fine with missing the playoffs and much more. Matthew Miranda writes about the NBA for SBNation, and teaches creative writing and English at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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How Fair Trade Favors the Rich

We speak with Ndongo Samba Sylla about the dangerous myths of the Fair Trade movement. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist. He is currently a Research and Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Dakar). He is the author of The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich.

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Winter Break Reading List

We thought it might be fun to put together a Winter Recess reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our nightstands now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them! Feel free to write in with suggestions for Feburary Break.

Non-fiction

King Kong Theory by Virgina Despentes

The Non-Jewish Jew by Isaac Deutscher 

Crashed by Adam Tooze

The Radical King edited by Cornel West

Digital Gold by Nate Popper

Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild

Fiction

Laura and Emma by Kate Greathead

Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga

Loner by Teddy Wayne

Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld

Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa

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Stoking the Flames: Understanding Jordan B. Peterson

This week we discuss the rise of Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos outsold the Bible last year, his youtube videos have millions of views, but his ideas are often misunderstood. We sit down with Guy Stevenson to talk about Peterson’s appeal, Jung and Nietzsche, and the work of John Gray. Guy Stevenson is a lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. He specializes in literary modernism and has a book, Henry Miller, Modernism, and the Birth of the Counterculture, due out in 2019. He is currently working on a study of conservative countercultures, from Futurism to the alt-right.

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