I will be at Internazionale Magazine Festival in Ferrara in September. It is said that work gives dignity and defines us. But couldn’t it be that they pushed us to believe this in order to make better use of ourselves? How to regain time for ourselves and our lives Francesca Coin sociologist Dialogue with Sarah Jaffe American […]
Upcoming Appearances & Events
Past Appearances & Events
Occupy! Ten Years After
What has been the legacy of Occupy, ten years later? How are we to locate the Occupy movement in light of earlier protest waves, such as the student uprisings of 68 and the worker protests that followed, or the anti-globalisation marches of the late 1990s? What new social and political dynamics has Occupy bequeathed us today? In this panel debate we welcome leading writers and thinkers on the Occupy movement to reflect on these questions as a part of our “Aftermaths” series of events.
Black Against Amazon: a Belabored and Black Work Talk Crossover
Just a few days after voting closes, historian Robin D. G. Kelley will join Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, co-hosts of Dissent’s Belabored podcast, and Steven Pitts, host of the Black Work Talk podcast on Organizing Upgrade, to discuss the effort, its import, and what it has to say about the state of the Black working class today.
What is Goth Communism?
If you know me at all, you know this is the Venn diagram of my interests all at once. The wonderful folks at Bristol Transformed held a virtual Halloween festival with a bunch of amazing sessions, and I joined Laura and Zoe from Season of the Bitch podcast to explain what goth communism is and why we love it.
Citations Needed: 30 Under 30 Lists and The Problem with Our Youth-Obsessed ‘Success’ Narratives
I joined Nima and Adam at Citations Needed podcast to talk about the media’s obsession with youth, achievement, and weird capitalist metrics of the good life and how toxic it all is. Enjoy!
Channel 4 News: Will Trump win the U.S. election? Lessons from 2016 for 2020
I joined Channel 4 News to discuss what we learned–and what we haven’t learned–from the 2016 election, to talk about the working class and Trump, and more.
The World Transformed Capitalism 101 with Jeremy Gilbert
One of the more fun and useful things I did this year was join Jeremy Gilbert for part one of his excellent multi-part course on capitalism, hosted by The World Transformed.
openDemocracy: How will we work after coronavirus?
This was a great conversation with two brilliant women about the future of work, the pandemic, and the multiple overlapping crises we face. Amelia Horgan and Alice Martin are two of the best possible interlocutors.
Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society
Join me and Victor Pickard for a conversation about Victor’s latest book, Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society
As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media outlets — from Facebook to Fox News — play in the spread of misinformation have exposed deep pathologies in American communication systems. Despite these threats to democracy, policy responses have been woefully inadequate. And all of that was before the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide uprisings where journalists have been assaulted by police, teargassed, and arrested on camera. We’ll talk about all of this and more. Thursday, June 4, 1pm Eastern.
Al Jazeera English
Retailers in the United States have been criticised for praising their staff as “heroes” for working during the coronavirus pandemic – while at the same time ending a system in which they receive extra pay for dangerous conditions. Unions are calling on companies such as internet giant Amazon and supermarket chain owner Kroger to reconsider. I spoke to Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi about the cuts to “hero pay” and workers’ struggle for safe conditions on the job.