Aporia Podcast

John Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.  His six major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994), Running on Emptiness (2002), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005), Twilight of the Machines (2008), and Why hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015).   ------------   If you'd like to subscribe to my Substack and learn about giftedness, stupidity, and other interesting things: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com   If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

Jason Miller is an American communications strategist, political adviser and CEO, best known as the chief spokesman for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and transition of Donald Trump. He was a Senior Adviser to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. In March 2021, Miller became a contributor for Newsmax. Miller left his position as Trump's spokesman in June 2021 to become the CEO of GETTR, a micro-blogging social network with a conservative user base.

Ed Dutton is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Poland. Find out more about him here: https://edwarddutton.com/  If you'd like to subscribe to my Substack and learn more about giftedness, stupidity, and other interesting things: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

David Roberts studied undergraduate International Relations and Politics with an emphasis on the developing world. Inspired by a tutor, he undertook and completed a PhD on peacebuilding in Cambodia, at the time of biggest ever post-Cold War United Nations peacekeeping operation. His research centred on why the Khmer Rouge guerrillas refused to participate in the peacebuilding operation, and he followed his thesis up by locating and interviewing senior Khmer Rouge officers in hiding in northwestern Cambodia. He also worked on research programmes in Viet Nam, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. A central leitmotif of his work has been the study of power and oppression, informed intellectually by the likes of Foucault and critical and radical feminists like Spivak and hooks from the global north and south.  After 25 years of research-informed teaching deriving from fieldwork in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, David has turned his attention to teaching-informed research in multimedia learning and visual pedagogies. David presently teaches specialist modules and courses on business entrepreneurship in postconflict spaces and on visual communication. He was appointed Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2017 and runs a consultancy that supports multimedia learning development and training in universities in the UK, Europe and US.   Find more about David's work below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/db-roberts-43154713/ https://www.davidrobertsonline.org/professional

Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. His research and teaching interests include political violence, pacifism and nonviolence studies, anarchist studies, political thought, politics and religion, and critical security studies. Read Alex's article here:  https://theconversation.com/ukraine-nonviolent-resistance-is-a-brave-and-often-effective-response-to-aggression-178361

Dr. Joseph Renzulli is a leader and pioneer in gifted education and applying the pedagogy of gifted education teaching strategies to all students. The American Psychological Association named him among the 25 most influential psychologists in the world. Dr. Renzulli received the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Award for Innovation in Education, considered by many to be “the Nobel” for educators, and was a consultant to the White House Task Force on Education of the Gifted and Talented. Joseph S. Renzulli is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, where he also served as director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. His research has focused on the identification and development of creativity and giftedness in young people and on organizational models and curricular strategies for total school improvement. A focus of his work has been on applying the strategies of gifted education to the improvement of learning for all students. Dr. Renzulli currently leads the Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development. Dr. Renzulli’s ground breaking work on The Three Ring Conception of Giftedness, the Enrichment Triad Model, Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM), Curriculum Compacting and Differentiation were pioneering efforts in the 1970s. He has contributed hundreds of books, book chapters, articles, and monographs to the professional literature, many of which have been translated to other languages. Dr. Renzulli’s enrichment-based and differentiated teaching model has been utilized by more than 35,000 teachers from around the world since 1978.

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist and prominent proponent of Blue Labour. He is a regular columnist for UnHerd.

Peter Hitchens is an English journalist and author. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. Peter has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, and the New Statesman. Peter has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory. In this interview we talk about education, grammar schools, and the family.   ---------  I can only continue to do this with your support. If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep DISCORD:   https://discord.gg/gQwFE7a77H

Matt Wilson is the author of Rules Without Rulers: The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism. He is currently doing his second PhD at the University of Nottingham. The book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it would mean creating new forms of social organisation which, whilst offering more freedom than state-capitalism, would nonetheless still entail certain limits to freedom. In making this argument, a secondary point is made, which highlights the books originality; namely, that, whilst anarchism is defended by an increasing number of radicals, the reality of what an anarchist society might look like, and the problems that such a society might encounter, are rarely discussed or acknowledged, either in academic or activist writings.  If you want to support alternative media, you can do so for just $1 on Patreon and get your name in the credits as well as my heart ❤️ (+ other goodies):  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Prof Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University and he reviews books for the The Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. We mainly talk about his magnum opus, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, which won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize and the British Council Prize. In that book, Jonathan revealed that the British working classes were far more well read than had previously been thought.  ---------------------   Liked the video? Grab me a "coffee":  https://ko-fi.com/ideas_sleep To support the show on Patreon and get your name in the credits as well as my heart ❤️ (+ other goodies):  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep DISCORD:   https://discord.gg/gQwFE7a77H