The Fire These Times is a podcast and multimedia project started by scholar, writer, and activist Elia J. Ayoub in 2020. Since 2021, Antidote Zine has collaborated with this project via comradely clerical support, mainly transcription.
Starting in spring 2024, we expanded our efforts. We are helping coordinate production of transcripts for all the podcasts made by the From The Periphery (FTP) media collective, while still working towards the completion of a transcript archive of every TFTT episode.
If you are interested in contributing to this effort by transcribing any favorite past or future conversation on any FTP podcast including The Fire These Times, please email us at antidote[at]riseup[dot]net and we will send you a style guide and instructions to make the whole process easier.
Edited transcripts will appear on the corresponding episode page at FTP’s website, and Antidote Zine will continue to feature our favorites here as well.
Original audio and links are included in each post below. Support From The Periphery on their Patreon site!
By reading these creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?
Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights Read More »
We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
Zine: This Can’t Become the New Normal Read More »
Standing on the side of life, in the context of genocide and ecocide and the normalization of mass death on pretty much every front—I believe that’s radical, transformational.
Zine: Our Mirror Worlds Read More »
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian Read More »
If people would accept not knowing much and were willing to learn, we’d be in a much better place. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, so here we are fighting chemical weapons denialism, which is probably the worst place we could be.
On Chemical Attacks and Genocide Denial Read More »
Leftist theory has not been updated with advancements in complexity theory, information theory, the modern technically interconnected world, cybernetics, or all these other things that have happened since the industrial revolution.
Destroy Fascism, Embrace Complexity Read More »
“Our space to be Palestinian, to be political, and to be equal partners in building the new left in Israel, is crucial.”
Abandoned Solidarities: Street-Level Politics in Israel-Palestine Read More »
There are certain types of violence and levels of death that certain forces want us to feel are normal, that it always has been and it always will be. But it’s very modern, very new, all of this.
“We must pull up chairs for the ghosts.” Read More »
The Assad regime’s open genocidal policies against its own people are enviable to people on the far right. For people whose politics come from identification with the state, this completely unrestrained killing is the highest form of freedom.
Why White Nationalists Love Assad Read More »
The idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued. The left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.
Against Multipolar Imperialism Read More »
