Hello friends! Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated! Our guest for this episode is none other than James A. Smith, co-host with David Slavick of The Popular Show. Smith is also the author of Other People’s Politics: Populism to Cor

Episode 42: Exiting the Vampire Castle – 10-Year Anniversary (w/ Efraim Carlebach)

Jan 30th, 2024 1h 25m

Welcome to Episode 42 of Fully Automated. This is a repost of Episode 11 of Class Unity Transmissions (posted on Dec 17, 2023). In this episode, we are joined by Efraim Carlebach to discuss the 10-year anniversary of the publication of Mark

Episode 41: Gaza (w/ Jamal and Mehmed)

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 50m

Hello Fully Automated listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 10 of Class Unity: Transmissions, as posted here. Transmissions is the official podcast of Class Unity, and I want to thank them for their permission to use this episode. You

Episode 40: Three Priorities for an Independent Left, Today (w/ Doug Lain)

Jul 27th, 2023 1h 24m

Hello Fully Automated listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 7 of Class Unity: Transmissions, as posted here. Transmissions is the official podcast of Class Unity, and I want to thank them for their permission to use this episode. You can

Episode 39: Gay Particularity (w/ Armand M); Labor Strikes in France (w/ Jamal)

Apr 16th, 2023 1h 34m

Hello Fully Automated listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 6 of Class Unity: Transmissions, as posted here. Transmissions is the official podcast of Class Unity, and I want to thank them for their permission to use this episode. You can

Episode 38: An Organizer’s Life (w/ Danny Fetonte)

Nov 21st, 2022 1h 41m

Hello Fully Automated listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 5 of Class Unity: Transmissions, as posted here. Transmissions is the official podcast of the Class Unity Caucus of the DSA, and I want to thank them for their permission to use

Episode 37: Class Collective (w/ Alex Shah)

Jun 1st, 2022 1h 4m

Hello listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 3 of Transmissions, a new podcast I’ve been involved with lately. Transmissions is the official podcast of the Class Unity Caucus of the DSA, and I want to thank them for their permission to use

Episode 36: Ukraine, NOBS, and the End of the End of History (w/ George Hoare)

Mar 8th, 2022 1h 11m

Hello listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 2 of Transmissions, a new podcast I’ve been involved with lately. Transmissions is the official podcast of the Class Unity Caucus of the DSA, and I want to thank them for their permission to use

Episode 35: Race and Anti-Politics, with Christine Louis-Dit-Sully

Dec 13th, 2021 1h 40m

Hello friends! Its beginning to look a lot of like Christmas, and what better way to mark the occasion than with another episode of Fully Automated! Today, we are very excited to bring you this episode with Christine Louis Dit Sully, author of

Episode 34: You Sexy Hacktivist MOOCer, with Sebastian Kaempf

Oct 18th, 2021 1h 10m

Hello friends!We are back with another great episode of Fully Automated. In this episode, we step back a little bit from the grander political themes that we are usually preoccupied with, to do an episode on the pedagogical possibilities (and

Episode 33: Can’t Get Chairman Moe out of My Head

Aug 31st, 2021 1h 39m

Hey everybody! Its your old pal, “Dr. Nick” here (Simpsons heads will get that reference pretty easily). This episode features the return of Chairman Moe, your favorite Fully Automated regular guests. Last we heard from them, they were intervie

Episode 32: The New Twenty Years’ Crisis, with Philip Cunliffe, Shahar Hameiri, Patrick Porter, and Nicholas Kiersey

Jul 14th, 2021 1h 46m

The episode features a roundtable on Philip Cunliffe’s latest book, The New Twenty Years' Crisis (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020). And, in a bit of a break with tradition, this episode also sees me jump out of the host’s seat, and invite

Episode 31: Grimes, Fully Automated Communism, PMC Ideology, and Political Correctness in Science Fiction, with KMO

Jun 12th, 2021 1h 24m

Hello friends! Its been a while. Sorry about that. Its been a busy semester, teaching an overload class, and wrapping up some publishing projects (here and here). But we are back, and we have a ton of new shows coming your way this summer! Comi

Episode 30: Space Expansionism & Planetary Geopolitics, with Daniel Deudney

Feb 4th, 2021 1h 32m

Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated!This is not only our 30th episode, but it is the first episode of our fifth year bringing you the most fully-automated space-aged communist podcast around! And, to mark the occasion, we are retu

Episode 29: The Iranian Nuclear ‘Crisis,’ with Hal Tagma and Paul Lenze

Jan 1st, 2021 1h 23m

Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated!With the inauguration of Joe Biden just around the corner, many are pondering what new approaches his team might bring to US foreign policy. Despite President Trump’s penchant for bombast and be

Episode 28: The New Economic Governance,’ with Vanessa Bilancetti

Nov 16th, 2020 1h 11m

Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated!Today, we’re bringing you an interview with Dr. Vanessa Bilancetti, Lecturer in Political Sociology at UniNettuno University, in Rome. Vanessa is one of those rare scholars who can bring togethe

Episode 27: “Stay in Your Lane!” — Special Commentary Episode on the 2020 US Election, and the Puzzling Prevalence of the K-Hive in American Academia

Nov 11th, 2020 26m 27s

This episode is coming to you on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, just a few days after the media called the 2020 US presidential election for Joe Biden. Its an unusual episode for this show, insofar as it doesn’t feature an interview (we have a g

Episode 26: The Dead Pundit Strikes Back, with Adam Proctor (Part II)

Oct 23rd, 2020 1h 24m

Greetings! Welcome to Part Two of Episode 26, where we continue our interview with Adam Proctor. As I noted last time, while this is a long interview, it was also a long overdue interview. There was so much good stuff to talk about, it seemed w

Episode 26: Rise of the Dead Pundit, with Adam Proctor (Part I)

Oct 21st, 2020 1h 21m

Hey everyone! Welcome to Episode 26 of Fully Automated… or, at least, Episode 26, Part One!This is a super long overdue episode with a guest I have wanted to have on the show for a long time: Adam Proctor, the host of Dead Pundit's Society.

Episode 25: Cosmopolitan Dystopia, with Philip Cunliffe

Aug 4th, 2020 1h 15m

Philip Cunliffe, excorcizing the demons of Cosmopolitan DystopiaHello everyone! Welcome to Episode 25 of Fully Automated. This week we are joined by Dr Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent. Phil

Episode 24: Foucault & Neoliberalism, with Magnus Paulsen Hansen

1 Apr 28th, 2020 1h 17m

Hello, Fully Automated friends! For your coronavirus lockdown listening pleasure, we are today releasing a really special episode. Our guest is Dr. Magnus Paulsen Hansen, who is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Bu

Episode 23: Coronavirus, Catastrophe & Agamben, with Garnet Kindervater

Mar 19th, 2020 1h 34m

This episode is about the biggest story of the decade so far, COVID-19, or the coronavirus. But its also an episode with someone I’ve been wanting to have on the show for a long time, Garnet Kindervater.Before we get started, just a few obs

Episode 22: Sinn Féin and the 2020 Irish election, with Colin Coulter

Feb 20th, 2020 1h 7m

Today we are joined once again by Colin Coulter, of National University of Ireland, Maynooth. You might remember Colin from way back in Episode 8. That was like. 3 years ago! I didn’t even know I’d been doing this for three years!But I want

Episode 21: Morbid Symptoms on Brexit Day, with Owen Worth

Feb 6th, 2020 1h 18m

This episode comes to you on February 6, 2020, just six days after so-called “Brexit Day.” That is, the day Britain legally departed from the European Union. In honor of this occasion, in this episode we talk to another returned guest, Owen Wor

Episode 20: UK General Election with Lee Jones

Jan 5th, 2020 1h 23m

Hello friends, and welcome to Episode 20 of Fully Automated, an Occupy IR Theory podcast.Its January 4, 2020, and kicking off our fourth season of the show 2020 with two episodes on the recent elections in the UK. In this episode, we are jo