The Fire These Times

Luka Dowell joins Joey Ayoub to talk about Hauntings, Futurisms, and Solarpunk. Luka is the host of the podcast Solarpunk Now! which I highly recommend. They are passionate about theory, politics, art, science/tech,  sustainability. Topics that interest them include ecology, psychology, economics, digital media and online communities, and our future. -- Recs: Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List  Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website  The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

This is a conversation with teacher, linguist, and writer Rob Cameron about Solarpunk and Afro-Solarpunk.    -- Book Recs:  Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures edited by Christoph  Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri and Sarena  Ulibarri  Cities of Light: A Collection of Solar edited by Joey Eschrich and  Clark A. Miller   Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer  Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Renée  Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight    Humankind by Rutger Bregman    -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

And we're back! This is a conversation with hacker, gardener and writer Andre, aka HydroponicTrash (on Twitter, TikTok and Mastodon). You can also find Andre on Substack at AnarchoSolarpunk. The title is taken from one of Andre's essays. -- Book Recs: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Lo—TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism Julia Watson -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

In this special episode of The Fire These Times, Stadio co-host Musa Okwonga, football and MENA journalist Justin Salhani and human rights researcher Fabien Goa join Joey Ayoub to talk about the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Also, check out Stadio! Happy winter solstice, Hanukkah and Christmas Book Recs:   Justin Salhani: Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France by Laurent Dubois Musa Okwonga: The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt Fabien Goa: The Turbulance of Migration by Nikos Papastergiadis You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon @ patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on  Twitter @firethesetimes Instagram @firethesetimes TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub Instagram @joeyayoub91 Mastodon @ https://kolektiva.social/web/@ayoub The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Music by RapNRevenge, Episode design by Joey Ayoub, Podcast design by Wenyi Geng

This is a conversation with Ukrainian researcher Mariam Naiem and journalist Romeo Kokriatsk. We spoke about the ongoing situation in Ukraine, the history of Russian imperialism, cynical online discourse and life amidst war. You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com The Fire These Times will be back in October!  Recommended Books: Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism by Ewa M. Thompson Katerina by Taras Shevchenko I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

This is a conversation with Andrew Sage of the Andrewism YouTube channel and Emmi Bevensee about our respective journeys towards political radicalization.  You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Recommended Books: Emmi: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martín, Muntsa Vicente  Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Andrew: Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today by Paul Raekstad and Sofa Saio Gradin

This is a conversation with Edin Hajdarpašić, associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. He wrote an essay called "What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?" which was the basis for our conversation. You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Recommended Books: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot Bosnian Studies: Perspectives from an Emerging Field by Dzeneta Karabegovic and Adna Karamehic-Oates Beekeeping in the End Times by Larisa Jasarevic

This is a conversation with Karen Cheung, author of the book "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir." As you'll hear, we ended up finding a lot of things in common between our two cities and experiences. You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Recommended Books:  Hong Kong Without Us:A People's Poetry edited by The Bauhinia Project Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon Either/Or by Elif Batuman

This is a conversation with Andrew Dana Hudson, a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, editor and futurist and the author of "Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures."  It's also his second time on The Fire These Times. Andrew also has a newsletter called solarshades.club which publishes every other Sunday with updates on his work, process, and material reality. You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Recommended Books: The Ministry Of The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Maln Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures edited by Matthew Chrulew Kim Stanley Robinson's review of Our Shared Storm: "Hudson has found a way to strike together the various facets of our climate future, sparking stories that are by turns ingenious, energetic, provicative, and soulful"

This is a conversation with Sally Hayden, an Irish journalist and writer. A foreign correspondent, she has reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. Her book My Fourth Time, We Drowned, an investigation into the so-called migrant crisis in Europe, was published in 2022. You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Recommended Books: A Stricken Field: A Novel by Martha Gellhorn What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather Sally Rooney said this about the book: “The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read.  Every citizen of the European Union has not only a right, but also a  responsibility, to learn about the realities described in this book. I  hope that Sally Hayden’s work can help to begin a radically new and  overdue discussion about Europe’s approach to migration and borders.”