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A frame from Adam Curtis's Trauma Zone showing a Russian soldier.

Imagine a New Collectivism: An Interview with Adam Curtis

By: Protean Magazine December 7, 2022December 9, 2022
Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga sat down with filmmaker Adam Curtis for a discussion of his new series, “TraumaZone, 1985-1999″—and had a wide-ranging conversation about his work, truth, lies, and journalism, dueling Ends of History, and more.

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Cover of The Disenchanted Earth.

The Disenchanted Earth: An Interview with Richard Seymour

By: Protean Magazine June 16, 2022June 16, 2022
Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga interviews Richard Seymour, author of The Disenchanted Earth, on socialism and degrowth, the ecofascist threat, and envisioning a planetary, humanist “re-enchantment.”

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A photo of NY activist Ramza.

“Post-Crisis, Still-Crisis:” New York City’s Violent Sweeps

By: Protean Magazine May 9, 2022May 22, 2022
Interviews

Sam Russek interviewed Ramza, an encampment resident in New York City who has been subjected to repeated arrest and police harassment. Sweeps have worsened under Mayor Eric Adams’s punitive policies.

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Off The Edge book cover.

Off the Edge: An Interview with Kelly Weill

By: Protean Magazine April 8, 2022April 8, 2022
Interviews

Shane Burley interviewed Kelly Weill on her new book, Off the Edge, fringe conspiracism, and the erosion of consensus reality.

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Interviews
Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything.

Primordial Freedoms: An Interview with David Wengrow

By: Protean Magazine March 28, 2022March 28, 2022
Interviews

Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional histories.

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Interview: Tariq Ali on Afghanistan

By: Protean Magazine November 2, 2021November 4, 2021
Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga spoke to Tariq Ali about his new essay collection on Afghanistan, the country’s history, and the devastation of the occupation.

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Jamal Rashad and Richard Hamilton in Conversation

By: Protean Magazine September 29, 2021September 29, 2021
Interviews, Poetry

Poets Jamal Rashad and Richard Hamilton in conversation: on the latter’s debut collection, Rest of US (Recenter Press, 2021), on Black poetics, imperialism and revolt, “hard truths and struggle,” and the political poem.

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Interviews, Poetry

Laziness Does Not Exist: An Interview with Dr. Devon Price

By: Protean Magazine July 29, 2021July 29, 2021
Interviews

Robert Raymond interviews Dr. Devon Price on their book Laziness Does Not Exist, out from Atria Books. How has capitalist ideology constructed and profited from our ideas of productivity and idleness?

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Edward Said’s Commitment to Palestine: An Interview with Timothy Brennan

By: Protean Magazine July 15, 2021July 17, 2021
Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga interviews Prof. Timothy Brennan, author of Places of Mind, an intellectual biography of Edward Said, on Said’s life, his Marxism, and the evolution of his advocacy for Palestine.

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Why We Fight: An Interview With Shane Burley

By: Protean Magazine May 5, 2021May 6, 2021
Interviews

Steven Monacelli interviews Shane Burley on his new book, Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse, out now from AK Press. 

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