A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.The story of two men competing for the world Donkey Kong championship becomes a metaphor for so much in society, from celebrity culture to institutional power. We revisit THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS (2007) and celebrate two universal archetypes: Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. PLUS: fiery hot takes on the Golden Globes, the Democrats' impending midterm strategy, and the lingering discourse on the Bernie mittens meme."PIXEL BURN - A King, Konquered: The Fall of Billy Mitchell" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNLqrOqUtEM
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News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.
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Folge vom 04.02.2021Michael and Us: A Fistful of Quarters
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Folge vom 03.02.2021The Dig: Digital Party with Paolo GerbaudoDan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more powerful and less accountable? Examples from Italy (Five Star Movement) and Spain (Podemos). How does the failure to incorporate people into rooted forms of political organization undermine the left's power, coherence, and durability? Example from the USA (the funhouse mirror-appeal of a certain YouTube comedian).Related episodes from The Dig archives:Hegemony How-To with Jonathan Matthew Smucker thedigradio.com/podcast/hegemony-how-to-with-jonathan-matthew-smuckerHow Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge thedigradio.com/podcast/how-left-parties-neoliberalized-with-stephanie-mudgeSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigJoin a Dig Book Club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club
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Folge vom 03.02.2021A World to Win: Activists Tried as Terrorists w/ Ben Smoke of the Stansted 15This week, Grace talks to Ben Smoke, one of the members of the Stansted 15: a group of activists who stopped a mass deportation flight from taking off from Stansted airport in 2017, before being tried under law designed to prosecute terrorists. They discuss the details of the protest and the trial, the government's barbaric approach to migration policy, and why successive Tory governments seem so adept at breaking international human rights law. For the full episode, support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/<wbr />aworldtowinpod Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bencsmoke
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Folge vom 02.02.2021The Vast Majority: Kshama Sawant Is Under AttackIn 2013, several years before Bernie Sanders changed the American political landscape with his 2016 presidential run, socialist Kshama Sawant ran for Seattle city council — and won. Since then, she's accomplished much while facing an unending onslaught of attacks from all sides. Micah talked to Sawant about her time on the council and the lessons from her tenure for socialists everywhere. Read Sawant's piece in Jacobin about the attacks she has faced from the Right, capital, and the Democrats: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/<wbr />11/kshama-sawant-seattle-<wbr />socialist-city-council-recall-<wbr />campaign-tax-amazon For a look at what some of us on the Left were thinking about socialists and elections in 2013 after Sawant's victory, read Micah and Bhaskar Sunkara's In These Times piece "Can Socialists Win Elections in the US?": https://inthesetimes.com/<wbr />article/can-socialists-win-<wbr />elections-in-the-u-s