Anti-Self-Helpline ep. 2 w/ Erik Baker

Communist geographer Phil Neel joins the podcast for the final episode until 2027. He discusses his recent book Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory, specifically how the power of ca...

8 Sep 2h 1min

Jason E Smith joins the podcast to talk about automation, AI, service work and economic stagnation. He explains how these developments connect and inform each other by explaining the appeal of automat...

25 Aug 1h 26min

Philosopher and historian of science Joelle Abi-Rached approaches the topic of trauma, asking whether it is a sufficient category for the psychic impact of the ongoing violence of Zionist settler colo...

4 Aug 51min

A talk by Evan Sedgwick-Jell on the history of communist drug treatment services in Weimar Germany, given at the Political Pathologies conference in Glasgow. Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a researcher, part...

21 Jul 31min

A recording of the very first in-person edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline, co-hosted with Prometheus Magazine's very own Harry Holmes. This edition of the helpline was recorded at the Festival of the ...

14 Jul 1h 15min

In this episode Beatrice Adler Bolton, Callum Cant, and myself talk about the general strike: not as something consigned to history but as a tactic we need today. Specifically, we talk about how the s...

23 Jun 1h 27min

Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast join for the next installment of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is where listeners write in with their experien...

4 Jun 1h 32min

Callum Cant and Matthew Lee rejoin the podcast as we travel around the country speaking with people about work, struggle, and the 1926 general strike. We speak with mental health workers, trade union ...

12 Mai 1h 32min