Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Society & Culture
On this edition of Parallax Views, sociologist William I. Robinson returns to the program to discuss his new book Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic. Picking up where his last book, Global Police State, left off, Global Civil War explores the growing global discontent in the age of transnational capitalism and the 21st century's emergent, high-tech surveillance society in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. Among the topics discussed on this edition of the show.
- The digital revolution, the biopolitical regime, and the transformation of global capitalism
- The transnational capitalist class and the Davos-based World Economic Forum
- Social control, surveillance, and the disciplining of the global working class
- The digital revolution and the exacerbation of global inequality and the rapid expansion of the ultra-wealthy's fortunes since the pandemic
- The new, dramatic crisis of global capitalism and the history of crises within the capitalist system
- The emergence of a biopolitical regime
- The political crisis of state legitimacy and the global revolt
- The 1800s and the explosion of imperialism and colonialism in response to crisis
- Fordism-Keynesianism, redistributive capitalism, and welfare states in the 20th century
- The crisis of 1970s, the neoliberal counterrevolution, the redisciplining of the global working class by the global ruling class or transnational elite
- Divisions within the transnational capitalist class over how to resolve the current crisis and the right-wing authoritarian turn amongst major sectors of global capital
- The massive new round of restructuring of global capitalism based on digitalization
- The lack of national solution to the global crisis
- The role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, the internet of things, nanotechnology, 5G, facial-recognition technology, 3D printing, and other technologies in the current global transformation and social control
- Big tech and the biomedical-industrial complex, global financial conglomerates, and the military-industrial complex
- On-demand and remote work, automation, robotization, the threat of displacement and degradation of labor, precarious employment, and "surplus humanity"
- The automation and robotization of agriculture
- China's 996 work regime, Taylorism, and scientific management
- The restructuring of time and place to exercise greater control over the global working class
- New technologies and the fragmentation of labor
- The need for a digital proletariat to organize in new ways and examples of global revolt occurring and the transnational capitalist class responding to it
- Emergency mobilization after the pandemic, states of exception, and the history war game-style pandemic response scenarios such as the "Lockstep Scenario"
- The problem with right-wing conspiracy theories about the transnational capitalist class, the pandemic, and other issues
- The problem of disinformation
- And much, much more!
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Team Jorge: The Israeli Private Contractors Involved in Global Election Meddling Ops w/ Dr. Emma L. Briant
Rampage in Huwara: Israeli Settler Violence in Palestine’s West Bank w/ Richard Silverstein
Secret Power: Wikileaks and Its Enemies w/ Stefania Maurizi
Private Military Contractors and The Rise & Fall of the Mozart Group w/ David Isenberg
Sympathy for the Raging Boll: Re-Evaluating Filmmaker Uwe Boll, from the German QAnon Shooter Docudrama HANAU to the Columbine-Inspired HEART OF AMERICA w/ Uwe Boll
Your Waking Nightmare: Exploring the UFO Through the Lens of Horror and Techno-Realism w/ David Metcalfe
Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America w/ Joshua Frank/U.S. Foreign Policy & Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems w/ Yint Hmu
Lula Goes to Washington: What Lies Ahead for U.S.-Brazil Relations, Lula’s Foreign Policy, & the Recent Lula/Biden Meeting w/ Andre Pagliarini
The Chinese Spy Balloon Incident & U.S.-China Relations w/ Mel Gurtov
The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis w/ Jared Yates Sexton
The American Surviellance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent w/ David H. Price
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries w/ Rick Emerson
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy w/ Joseph Fishkin
Violence Erupts in Israel/Palestine (Jenin Massacre & E. Jerusalem Shooting) w/ Richard Silverstein/Did Thomas Friedman Run Cover for an Israeli Nuclear Smuggling Operation? w/ Grant F. Smith
Pro-Social Deep Fakes? w/ Stephanie Lepp
Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann, & the Problems With the Banality of Evil Hypothesis w/ Ramon Glazov
The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft w/ Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever w/ Nomi Prins
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