This is Hell! Radio has been broadcasting and podcasting from Chicago and “manufacturing dissent” since 1996. Between 2014 and 2021, Antidote Zine transcribed over two hundred of their in-depth interviews with scholars, activists, revolutionaries, and journalists on a variety of topics. This is of course only a tiny fraction of the fascinating material they have released, and still release on a regular basis.
Original audio and links to the show’s website are included in each post. Support This Is Hell! on their patronage site! And let us know if there are additional interviews of theirs you would like to see here in text form: antidote[at]riseup[dot]net.
Being unschooled breaks down a lot of barriers around age. In school, you’re always in your age group. In unschooling, anyone of any age can be your friend or someone you’re learning with or someone who’s teaching you. It opens up a lot of social possibilities.
Unschooling, the Sixties, and Today’s Left Read More »
Immanuel Wallerstein resonates in Iran because he not only combines all the great intellectual traditions of European and American social science, but he uses them to challenge the status quo.
Reading ‘World Systems Analysis’ in Tehran Read More »
When you handcuff ten-year-olds because they’ve had a temper tantrum in the classroom, that suggests something about the way any respect for the social, any respect for relationships, has begun to collapse.
An Assault on the Mind Read More »
It’s different to establish a council through state intervention than it is to see one established on a grass-roots level, spontaneously, from below.
1989: Not the ‘End of History’ in Venezuela Either Read More »
The Atlantic economy was qualitatively different in terms of the work that was demanded, the absolute treatment of people as chattel, the brutality, the equation of forced labor with skin color, the distances traveled, and the massive number of people who were ripped out of their homes.
“The World We Live in Is Created by Slavery” Read More »
It might be worth pointing out that it is unrealistic to think that we can catch every crime before it happens. Right? There was a movie about that.
Dragnets and Pre-Crime Read More »
I thought maybe the banks are just as confused as we are. This is so sudden, so many houses underwater at once. But then Bloomberg did an article revealing that Bank of America was deliberately doing this stuff.
Fraudulent Banks and Fatigued Movements Read More »
When you say ‘fascism,’ when you say ‘extreme right,’ what are you really talking about? What do you expect these guys to do? What do you think is going to come out of this?
Tensions in Budapest Read More »
Play is, if anything, the basis of all physical reality, it’s the ultimate natural principle. And if you think of the world that way, it’s a very different place.
Fun with David Graeber Read More »
If we understand the complexity of mechanisms by which neoliberalism maintains its power, we have to hit at many different levels that are not necessarily political, but nevertheless are instruments of power.
Neoliberalism and the “Davos Class” Read More »
