Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 21, 2012
Italian political philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi, author of numerous books including “The Uprising,” discusses precarious labor, the destruction caused by finance capitalism, and resistance.
Against the Grain
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 20, 2012
Sarah Schulman, author of “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the political consequences of AIDS, including facilitating massive gentrification. (Encore broadcast.)
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 19, 2012
Anthropologist Agustin Fuentes separates myths from facts about aggression, cooperation, human nature, men and women.
Against the Grain – November 12, 2012
David McNally connects zombie imagery in popular culture to wage labor and manic consumerism; Sasha Lilley describes the contours, and perils, of left-wing catastrophism.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 7, 2012
Pavlos Stavropoulos talks about the collapse of the Greek economy and the rise of the fascist party Golden Dawn.
Against the Grain – November 6, 2012
Cynthia Kaufman’s new book “Getting Past Capitalism” examines what capitalism is, how it is reproduced, and how it can be challenged.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 5, 2012
Sleep, insomnia, and capitalism with Matthew Wolf-Meyer, author of “The Slumbering Masses.”
Against the Grain – October 31, 2012
Max Haiven talks about the positioning of universities and the role of cognitive labor in the neoliberal capitalist order.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – October 30, 2012
John Arena, author of “Driven from New Orleans,” explains how nonprofits played a key role in the privatization of public housing in New Orleans.
Against the Grain – October 29, 2012
Dr. Marcia Angell makes the case for physician-assisted dying; Julie McCormick discusses memory in the context of storytelling and the ancient Greeks.