"How do minds change?" free online course for radicals, plus Amazon podcast, etc.
I’m excited to be working with my friend Sarah Stein Lubrano on a special 3x 4-week course this fall “Mobilizing Hearts and Minds: The Art and Infrastructure of Persuasion.”
We’ll meet with artists, activists, thinkers and doers online every Tuesday, September 19 through December 5, to study and discuss what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to bringing people into movements for radical social change, ecological justice and collective liberation.
Registration is free and open to all people. More information, registration questionnaire and a welcome video can be found here.
You can also join us for an open house session on September 12 (noon Eastern, 5pm BST, etc). Register here.
There are new episodes up of The Workers Speculative Society, a podcast about the world Amazon is building and the workers and writers fighting for different futures. Most recently, we talk with
Alessandro Delfanti about robots and workers at Amazon’s warehouses
Cree author David A Robertson about Indigenous speculative imaginations and writing as community-building.
Robin DG Kelley on workers’ radical imagination
Charmaine Chua on struggles within, againts and beyond Amazon’s logistics empire
Mark McGurl on the fate of the novel in an era when one single corporation…
Subscribe now (via Apple, Google, Soundcloud, Spotify or some other corporate scumbags) to get the upcoming episodes with amazing interviewees including:
Cory Doctorow on Amazon's "chokepoint capitalism"
Syrus Marcus Ware on Black futures and activism
Alessandro Delfanti on Amazon's robots and warehouses
Leonika Valcius on the work of literary agents
Jamie Woodcock on writing as workers' inquiry
Mark Nowak on the Worker Writers School
Heike Geissler on the writer as warehouse worker
The podcast is part of the Worker as Futurist Project in which we’re supporting 13 rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction short stories about “the world after Amazon.” We hope to publish their stories in a collection to be released early next year.
Journal of Cultural Economy has published “For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang” where I serve as moderator and editor. A big thanks to Dani Admiss for initiating the panel, which took place at the 2022 transmediale festival in Berlin (you can watch a video here). The article is paywalled, but you can read a preliminary, uncorrected version on my website.