Unruly Subjects is back in the building and back in your feed! After a long, hot summer hiatus we’re returning with a very special episode recorded live at the Socialism Conference in Chicago, featuring a conversation with the legendary scholars and thinkers Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.

Chenjerai, Femi, and Ruth dig into these big questions: How do we reckon with this moment? And where do we go from here? (A huge thank you to our comrades at Haymarket Books for organizing the conference and for their ongoing support of independent media.)

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Further reading & sources from this episode:

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore:

• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
• Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò:

• Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And What We Can Do About It)
• Reconsidering Reparations

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Before we relaunch our new season later this month, we wanted to share a special update!

We just dropped an interview with journalist and media producer Natalie Bencivenga for our Patreon community. [ LISTEN HERE ]

Natalie is also joining us at the Socialism Conference this weekend, where Chenjerai will be taking the stage across four live events alongside a lineup that includes Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Hasan Piker, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Demetrius Noble, Cat Salonek Schladt, Alex Hanna, Sarah Jaffe, and Yotam Marom.

Plus, we're staging our marquee live event: UNRULY SUBJECTS Live: A Reckoning with Our Moment!

Chenjerai will be sharing behind-the-scenes updates from the conference all weekend long, and if you get a chance to say hello in person, he might just give you a sneak peek at our brand-new Unruly merch... so don't miss out!

👉 Click here for Chenjerai's full Socialism Conference session schedule, panel topics, location details, and the Natalie Bencivenga interview.

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This week, Chenjerai interviews reporter Daniel Boguslaw about his recent WIRED article, US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows. They discuss how tech corporations, law enforcement at the federal level, and even local institutions are collaborating to frame people in the fast growing resistance to AI and data centers as terrorists and threats to domestic security. Bogsulaw lays out what’s happening in detail and also tells us how people are fighting against these labels.

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Additional Music in this episode is from Blue Dot Sessions

Unruly Subjects is created in partnership with Rowhome Productions

Further reading & sources from this episode

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/

https://danboguslaw.substack.com/

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