Season 3, Ep. 9: Are We Pringle-Serfs in a Tube? Chung and Cutrone Recap
Spencer and Laurie recap their conversations with Chris Cutrone and Martin Chang and contemplate what it means to be potatoes in a sack or Pringles in a tube.
Dustbowl Diatribes
The podcast of the Maurin Academy: discussions on Christian Anarchism, agrarianism, Catholic Worker and related thought and practice, and how to bring community and mutual aid into our lives in uncertain times.
Dustbowl Diatribes S 3, Ep. 8: The Cutrone Zone Returns: Zombie Millennial Leftists, Post-Neoliberalism, and Catholic-Marxian Dialogue
The Cutrone Zone is back for an interesting discussion on the usefulness of the term ‘neofeudalism’ for understanding capitalism, and a fairly deep dive into what Marxists should think of religion.
Dustbowl Diatribes Season 3, Ep 6: To Be or Not To Be Anti-Capitalist and/or Post-Liberal (Recap Take 2)
In “Take 2” of their recap of the start of season 3, Laurie and Spencer take another look at their conversations with Alex Christoyannopoulos and Sean Domencic, circling around the issues of Christian action as lived out in the Catholic Worker movement.
Season 3, Ep 4: Reviewing Douglas Lain’s Hot Takes on Quasi-Feudalism
In part 1 of a two-part recap of Season 3 so far, we discuss our interview with Doug Lain of Sublation Media and the Diet Soap podcast. The original interview covered Lain’s trajectory, his views on the theory of neo-feudalism, and the problem of increasing online censorship. As we unpack our conversation with Lain, we spend time on Lain’s discomfort with the term “neofeudal” and his preference for “society of control” as a description of the current state of capitalism. We evaluate the tension between the approval of economic concentration/centralization for the advancement of future socialism and the disapproval of the use of corporate power via government pressures to inhibit some speech. We also talk about the tension between Lain’s Marxism and our own views on industrial vs. regional/local agricultural production.
Season 3, Ep. 3: Adventures in Catholic Worker-hood (Sean Domencic of Tradistae & New Polity)
Spencer and Laurie interview Sean Domencic, co-founder of the Tradistae podcast (concluded in 2022) and blog, and frequent contributor to New Polity. Both outlets identify with the Catholic Worker movement and tend to be adjacent to traditionalism, but with a critical distance. This conversation helps us explore the Church-centric wing of the Catholic Worker movement.
The Simpleton Podcast: Pursuing the “Real”
Here’s a repost of an interview Spencer Hess and Emily Larner did with Clark Massey, Founder of A Simple House https://www.asimplehouse.org/, and co-host of the Simpleton Podcast.
Season 3, Ep. 2: The Tolstoy Injection in the Catholic Worker Movement
Spencer and Laurie interview Alex Christoyannopoulis, Reader in International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University, London. His article “Leo Tolstoy’s impact on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement” is the launchpad for an interesting discussion of Tolstoy’s pacifism and his influence on Day and the movement, as well as the promises and limits of complete pacifism.
Season 3, Ep 1: Douglas Lain (Sublation Media) on Neofeudal Capitalism, Disinformation & Free Speech
Sublation Media’s Douglas Lain, YouTuber and host of the Diet Soap podcast, talks to Spencer and Laurie about what he thinks of the theory of neufuedal capitalism, his views on the campaign against “disinformation” in light of free speech rights, and how the two may relate.