Adam GreenfieldMar 1

You know I invariably hesitate to post anything that might smack of self-promotion, and never more than when the news is so unremittingly grim. But a friend reminded me it’s just when things are darkest that people need a Lifepod.

https://lifepod.transistor.fm/

Please do join me for this podcast aimed at helping us learn how to take care of ourselves in this world on fire. Our conversations are about mutual care, collective power and #autonomy — about how we develop our capacities as individuals and communities, outside the market and against the indifference, neglect or active hostility of the state. I think you’ll enjoy these conversations, if you believe as I do that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for, and I hope you’ll contribute to them.

Show threadAdam Greenfield

The first Lifepod episode is an introduction to the show, and a general overview of its themes and concerns.

I read a passage from the introduction to “Lifehouse” — situating the origins of my interest in mutual aid as a way of organizing against catastrophe in my experience of Occupy Sandy in 2012 — and use it to explain why I believe we desperately need to get beyond hope.

https://lifepod.transistor.fm/episodes/s01e00-an-introduction-to-lifepod

Lifepod | S01e00 An introduction to Lifepod

Host Adam Greenfield welcomes you to Lifepod with an overview of the show’s themes and central concerns, rooted in his book “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World On Fire” (Verso, 2024). I...

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Show threadAdam GreenfieldMar 1

Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak of the Pirate Care collective join me for the first proper episode of the show, for a conversation about their book of the same name.

In addition to the concept of "pirate care" itself, we discuss the historical and contemporary significance of the pirate figure, the criminalization of care, the inspiration we can take from the Four Freedoms of the free software movement, the notion of “queer kinning” and its implications for solidarity, and the need to care for all those who fall through the cracks in traditional constructions of belonging.

https://lifepod.transistor.fm/s1/1

Lifepod | S01e01 Pirate Care, with Valeria Graziano & Tomislav Medak

I talk to two members of the Pirate Care collective, Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak, about their book of the same name. In addition to the concept of

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Show threadAdam GreenfieldMar 1

And in the final episode of this first tranche of three, agrarian thinker Chris Smaje joins me for a conversation about *his* book “Finding Lights in a Dark Age,” an exploration of what he sees as the need for a transition from mostly urban to mostly rural “sustainable livelihood communities.”

Chris shares his journey from academia to small farming in southwest England — highlighting the challenges involved in balancing high-complexity modern technology with local autonomy. We discuss the need for a practical, local politics of livelihood, and the potential for a large-scale urban-to-rural movement that might underwrite such a politics.

https://lifepod.transistor.fm/s1/2

Lifepod | S01e02 Chris Smaje with Finding Lights in a Dark Age

I welcome Chris Smaje to Lifepod, to discuss his book

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Show threadAdam GreenfieldMar 1

If the surest cure for a sense of overwhelming passivity and helplessness is self-organized, collective action, Lifepod is designed to help you get started doing just that.

Like I say on the show, I intend for these conversations to serve as a reminder that it’s only by actively intervening in the circumstances that beset us that we’ll get through the years ahead intact in body and soul. I hope you enjoy Lifepod, and find it generative and useful.

Show threadJakob BakMar 1
@adamgreenfield assuming you are in contact with @JulianOliver on some of these topics. If not I would be very interested in hearing conversations between the two of you, or those in your respective topical networks.