For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Dana & Elia to talk about their piece "the rise of end times fascism."
Naomi Klein is the author of Doppelganger, On Fire, How to Change Everything, the Shock Doctrine & No Logo, among others. Astra Taylor is the co-founder of the Debt Collector and is the author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, among others.
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Referenced:
Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff podcast (on all podcast apps)
Resistance is Fertile: The Star Trek Anarchist Podcast (on all podcast apps)
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Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net
Dana El Kurd is on Bluesky
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Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.
Credits:
Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Dana El Kurd (host), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).