Month: May 2021

This week, I am pleased to share with you a subject that is very close to my heart (and often on my mind, for that matter.) I recently sat down with Jesse and Matt, co-hosts of the Future is a Mixtape, to discuss the theory and praxis of anti-anti-utopia. Anti-anti-utopia happens to be the subject of my doctoral research and, as such, is something that I have been writing about ad nauseum for the last, oh, I dunno, two and a half years or so? And I’ve been thinking about it for at least twice as long so, suffice to say, it’s something that I’m really passionate about and interested in. But what, exactly, is anti-anti-utopia, anyway? Well, in this first episode of our two-part special collaboration with the Future is a Mixtape, Jesse, Matt, and I lay out the theory of anti-anti-utopia by discussing four main vectors: utopia, dystopia, anti-utopia, and anti-anti-utopia. Stay tuned for next week’s episode where we’ll move on from discussing the theory of anti-anti-utopia and share a dialogue about anti-anti-utopian praxis. Visit The Future is a Mixtape’s website and follow them on Twitter. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is proud to be part of the Rev Left Radio Federation. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!  Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

We are back in action, once again, with another episode of Coffee with Comrades. I recently sat down with my friend and comrade, Cindy Milstein, to talk about her new edited anthology, There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists. Cindy is one of the most gentle, compassionate, and lovely people we’ve ever had the pleasure of hosting on this show. Cindy and I discussed the compatability of Judaism and anarchism, the synthesis of identity, antifascism and antisemitism, international solidarity against settler colonialism and state oppression, queer and feminist Judaism(s), and the joys of youth and rebellion.  Pick up a copy of There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists!  Follow Cindy on Twitter and Instagram. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is proud to be part of the Rev Left Radio Federation. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!  Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

We are back with your weekly helping of Coffee with Comrades and, boy, do we have a show for you! I sat down with my friend and comrade, author and activist Shane Burley, who’s new book, Why We Fight, is available now through AK Press! Shane and I discussed a whole host of topics: fascism and the far-right, anti-fascism and militant resistance, and the ongoing apocalyptic times we’re all living through. The conversation was lovely. Shane kicks ass and this collection of essays is absolutely spectacular—I cannot recommend it enough. Pick up a copy of Why We Fight! Follow Shane on Twitter and support his Patreon! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel      Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is proud to be part of the Rev Left Radio Federation. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm      Books & Café. Check out our reading      recommendations! Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy      some art.

This week, author and activist Eric Laursen joins me to discuss his new book, The Operating System: An Anarchist Critique of the Modern State available May 4th, 2021 through AK Press. Eric and I discuss the origins of the modern state, its relative brevity in world history, the ways the State insinuates itself into our lives and perpetuates itself through replicative cycles of colonization, command, and control, and the folly of revolutionaries who believe they can strike down capital without also felling the State.  Pick up a copy of Eric’s book, The Operating System! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is proud to be part of the Rev Left Radio Federation. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!  Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.