Outsider Theory

Subversive Mobility vs Academic Orthodoxy with Jacob Shell

Apr 4, 2022

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Ivan Ilitch - Is There a Book by Riht?

05:59

The Effect of Academic Theories on the Culture at Large

05:10

The Subversive Mobility of Information

03:40

Introduction

3min

The Trucker Protest in Canada

6min

The Subversive Mobility of Transportation Workers

4min

Trucking

3min

Canadian Trucking Industry

3min

The Importance of Digital Control in the Trucking Industry

4min

The Historical Pattern of Transport Workers

4min

What Are the Motivations of the Canadians?

2min

The Overproduced Leats and the Aagesy Discord

3min

10.

The Struggle Between the Old Guard and the New School of the Humanities

3min

11.

I'm Not a Professor, I've Been There, but I'd Like to Say That

4min

12.

I Think the Boomer Academics Start Ed Getting Me Tod

3min

13.

The Revolt of the Boomers

2min

14.

Academic Free Speech and Juussus, Feelings of Academic Security Are Under Attack?

1min

15.

The Effect of Academic Theories on the Culture at Large

5min

16.

Academic Freedom, I Think, Is a Mixed Bag, but I'm Not Sure if That's the Case.

4min

17.

I Think the Cat Is Out of the Bag, Right?

4min

18.

Is There a Lock Down of the Economy?

2min

19.

The Struggle Against Capitalism Has Now Become the Struggling to Preserve Life

4min

20.

Ivan Ilitch - The Fetus and the Blue Disk

4min

21.

The Similarity to Covid Is Abbreviated, Right?

4min

22.

Is There a Concreteness in Climate Change?

3min

23.

Ivan Ilitch - Is There a Book by Riht?

6min

24.

Ilich's Influence on Environmentalism, Right?

4min

25.

I'll Have To, Um, Have to - Um, I'm Gonna Have To, Um, Have to Dive Into This Thinker.

6min

26.

Are You Pro Growth or Anti Growth?

4min

27.

Ilic, Ek, Butit, I'm Trying to Sort of Test Out Here, Right?

6min

28.

Is Degrowth a New Ideology?

4min

29.

Is There a Left Wing Version of Decomodification?

5min

30.

Is There a Way to Shut Down a Pipe Line?

2min

31.

What Does He Think? And What Does He Say to Winer Rae?

4min

32.

Is, Is the Word Woke Resonating With Everyone?

2min

33.

The Relationship Between Religion and Growth

3min

34.

Is the Transition From New Historicism to Post-Ucturalism Really What's Done?

2min

35.

The Humanities, You Know, Is a Good Idea?

2min

36.

A 95, Hm, I Think It's a Very, Very Good Idea

5min

37.

The Subversive Mobility of Information

4min

38.

I've Always Found a Bit of a Paradoxical About the Internet, You Know?

5min

Jacob Shell is Associate Professor of Geography at Temple University and the author of Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (2019) and Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility (2015). He joins me to share his insights into the Canadian trucker convoy, the congealment of radical theories into stale academic orthodoxies and establishment aplogias, the blind spots of environmentalism, plus Ivan Illich, de-growth, elephants, and more.

https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/shell-jacob

https://twitter.com/JacobAShell

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