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Podcast: Crazy Town (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse
Pub date: 2024-04-10

Consult your inner tortoise to find novel ways of slowing down and living the good life. In a world haunted by just-in-time delivery, hyperactive business, accelerating environmental calamities, and metric tons of stress, Jason, Rob, and Asher work at a fast and furious pace to savor the moments, because there aren't many left.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 1982: the debt crisis that could have destroyed Western banking
Pub date: 2024-04-10



Science Po professor Jérôme Sgard discusses his new book on the debt crisis of the 1980s on this episode of The Sound of Economics, with host Rebecca Christie and award-winning book author and journalist Paul Blustein. They explore the shockwaves that hit developing countries during this period, starting with the quasi-default of Mexico in 1982, as well as the Brady bond debt relief plan that followed. This podcast addresses the...

Podcast: Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Drag
Pub date: 2024-04-12

The word drag is synonymous with flamboyant, fun performances. But where does the term come from and what does it mean? 

This more modern story of playing with gender identity’s dates back to the 1870s, and it’s a history that takes in the wars, censorship and fears. Heaven forbid!

Taking us through this fascinating history of drag as we know it today i...

Podcast: Public lecture podcasts (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan: When science meets power
Pub date: 2024-04-08



Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied. In this IPR lecture, leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often challenges it. He dissects the complex history of states’ use of sci...

Podcast: The Culture Journalist (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the hipster economy went mainstream
Pub date: 2024-04-11

The problem with talking about hipsterism is that the term is almost impossible to define. Hipsters, whether they can still be said to exist as a subculture at all at this point, famously like denying that they are hipsters. And while you could say that the figure of the hipster has become a sort of nebulous catch-all for everything we love to hate about the 21st century, liberal-arts educated, neighborhood-gentrifying creative class (see: B...

Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich
Pub date: 2024-04-08

Forbes' annual rich list reveals that 2,781 people in the world have fortunes in excess of $1 billion. 141 people joined the list in 2023, with a combined wealth of around $14 trillion -  a $2 trillion collective increase on the previous year. There are now more billionaires than ever before. It is a grotesque state of affairs, when we reflect on the misery and hardship that have been wrought by the cost of living crisis, soaring in...

Podcast: Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
Pub date: 2024-04-12

Air Date 4/12/2024

The forces of capitalism and deregulation loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up with new focus brought to the issue by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and the series of dangerous and deadly failures from Boeing.

Podcast: Refuse Fascism (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fascism On Trial with Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux
Pub date: 2024-03-31

Sam welcomes back onto the show Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux to discuss their latest book Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy. Dr. Henry A. Giroux is a renowned educator and author of multiple books on fascism and pedagogy. He holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Follow Dr. Giroux on Twitter at @HenryGiroux and visit his website at...

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 330. The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)
Pub date: 2024-03-30



We are joined by Erin McElroy — author of Silicon Valley Imperialism — to first discuss their work as a co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and the important work they are doing on landlord tech, both as an academic and activist. Then we get deeper into their new book that offers a rich, in-depth analysis of how the racial technocapitalism of Silicon Valley has set up imperial outposts in the postsocialist countries of Ea...

Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition
Pub date: 2024-03-25



This event was the launch Zoe Hurley's new book 'Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition'. Evaluating the cases of multiple influencers, from local to transnational content creators, Hurley reveals how residents, non-citizens and migrant workers survive as influencers in the city of ‘likes.’ Providing de-Westernising perspectives of Dubai’s social media influencing industry within the broader context of global...