Ep 136 - Insurrection (ft. Rihanna) w/ Phil A. Neel
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Andy and Sean sit down with Phil A. Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' to talk about his work and travels and how they helped him reconceptualize working class life in the United States and abroad. We discuss the particular geography of accumulation and exploitation that has created glittering global cities of commerce and finance, alongside impoverished and a dystopian far hinterland. We bring it up to the present with the political ramifications of this new landscape, how it reconfigures class struggle as seen in the Ferguson protests, last summer's insurrection and the waves of riots across the planet.
Outro: Eminem ft Rihanna - Love the Way you Lie
Buy the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html
Phil's article on the pandemic : https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Crowned-Plague
Nihilist Communism by Monsieur Dupont: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Just gonna stand there and watch me burn |
| 0:05.0 | That's all right because I like the way it hurts |
| 0:11.0 | Just gonna stand there and hear me cry. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, that's all right because I love the way you lie. |
| 0:21.0 | I love the tell you what it really is. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to episode 136 of the Antifada. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm here with Andy of course. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:35.2 | And we're happy to welcome Phil A. Neal, |
| 0:37.8 | author of the excellent book, Hinterland, |
| 0:40.4 | America's New Land, America's New Land of Class and conflict. What's up Phil? Hi how's it going? |
| 0:45.7 | Going quite well. You have written what is I think a very captivating book. It's part a very haunting memoir of your own experiences of life and |
| 0:57.6 | labor in the various, I don't know, peripheral areas of capital and also the center as well and it's also a critical analysis of |
| 1:05.9 | the contemporary geography of what we can call the material community of capital at this moment |
| 1:11.6 | so we encourage everybody to check out Hinterland and in the meantime |
| 1:16.0 | we're happy to have you here to have a discussion of you know some of the analysis you do the |
| 1:21.2 | main thesis of the book and then also importantly to talk about some of the analysis you do, the main thesis of the book, |
| 1:22.6 | and then also importantly to talk about some of the dynamics |
| 1:25.8 | of contemporary class struggle that have arisen |
| 1:28.5 | since 2018 when your book came out. |
| 1:30.9 | I also want to say really quickly quickly you might hear some drums in the |
| 1:34.3 | background no we're not at Zucotti Park just our neighbor is practicing drums |
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