In conversation with Che Gossett How do we envision and enact a world in which justice is realised not through punishment, but the cultivation of freedom and flourishing? In this episode, writer and archivist Che Gossett discusses the politics and poetics of abolition. Gossett is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and the 2019-20 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Independent Study Program. They have written extensively on queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition. Alongside Lola Olufemi and Sarah Shin, Gossett is an organiser of “Revolution is not a one-time event”, a series of events airing every Monday this August in which activists, academics and artists reflect on abolitionist praxis and thought.

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In conversation with Che Gossett

In conversation with Faisal Devji Faced by the unfathomable character of the Covid-19 crisis, publics have forced governments to attend to the present rather than sacrificing it for the future. But their apparent shortsightedness is the surest guarantee we have for a more hopeful future. In this episode, Kia Golsorkhi-Ainslie speaks with Faisal Devji about his piece “Suspended sentence”, published in the latest issue of TANK, and the implications of the pandemic on the relationship between state and citizen.

In conversation with Faisal Devji

In conversation with Holly Fullton While the full impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the fashion world remains to be seen, an industry accustomed to quick decision-making and creative solutions has already proven itself to be remarkably adaptive, repurposing skills, supply chains and production lines to assist on the front line. One instructive example is the Emergency Designer Network, established by Holly Fulton, Phoebe English, Bethany Williams and Cozette McCreery to produce much-needed scrubs, close to personal protective equipment (PPE) standard, for the NHS. London-based designer Fulton talked to Caroline Issa about how the collective came together, the challenges she’s encountered, and her hopes for the collaboration to be more than a stopgap solution.

In conversation with Holly Fullton

In conversation with Wendy Liu How can technology become a tool of emancipation rather than capitalist extraction? Few are better positioned to dwell on this question than Wendy Liu, a tech commentator, software engineer and former start-up founder who left the tech industry to pursue a master’s degree in inequality at the London School of Economics. Since then, she has become a fervent critic of the tech industry and the growth-at-all-costs capitalism that incubated it. Liu joins Guy Mackinnon-Little to discuss her debut book Abolish Silicon Valley (2020), recently published by Repeater Books, which recounts Liu’s first-hand experience of the industry and sets out an alternative vision for how we can liberate technology from capitalism.

In conversation with Wendy Liu

In conversation with Matt Colquhoun How can the experience of death become an occasion to imagine new ways of living together? In this episode of the TANK Podcast, Guy Mackinnon-Little speaks to Matt Colquhoun about his new book Egress: Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher, which narrates the collective mourning of Fisher's death while using this experience as the basis for a new politics of community and post-capitalist desire.

In conversation with Matt Colquhoun

In conversation with Rana Foroohar Rana Foroohar is a New York-based journalist specialising in business, finance and Big Tech. She is global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times, as well as CNN’s global economic analyst. Her most recent book, Don’t Be Evil (2019), forensically traces how the world’s tech giants have enriched themselves on the fruits of surveillance capitalism, and proposes alternative frameworks to reduce their unrestricted influence.

In conversation with Rana Foroohar

TANK Book Talks: Sema Kaygusuz with Maureen Freely and Nicholas Glastonbury In 1938, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to systematically erase an entire community of Zaza-speaking Kurds in the eastern Anatolian region of Dersim, slaughtering thousands and leaving those who survived displaced and decoupled from their community and culture. Sema Kaygusuz’s novel Every Fire You Tend is a mythic reckoning with this history of violence and its afterlife in contemporary Turkey. Here, she is joined by two of her translators, Maureen Freely and Nicholas Glastonbury, to discuss translation, trauma and “Turkification”, the state-led effort to homogenise Turkish national identity through dispossession, forced relocation and, among other things, the renaming of people, places and animals.

TANK Book Talks: Sema Kaygusuz with Maureen Freely and Nicholas Glastonbury

In conversation with Alexander Zevin In Liberalism at Large: The World According to The Economist (2019), Alexander Zevin – assistant professor of history at City University of New York and an editor at New Left Review – conducts an exacting audit of The Economist’s history as a mouth-piece of free-market liberalism and examines the magazine’s shaping role in the ascent of financial capitalism. Here, he is joined by Masoud Golsorkhi to discuss the book. They talk about the tight coupling between liberalism and imperialism, “radical centrism” and why Oxbridge graduates with funny haircuts have such a thing for war making. 

In conversation with Alexander Zevin

Tina reads “Zen and the art of forgetting” by Masoud Golsorkhi Brexit has awoken a very particular very English passive-aggressive nationalism, a sorry beast of tremendous rage, uncertain claim and impossible ambition. Tina reads from Masoud Golsorkhi editor’s letter from the recently launched Cosy issue of TANK, “Zen and the art of forgetting”.

Tina reads Zen and the art of forgetting by Masoud Golsorkhi

Tina reads “Exit through the sweatshop” by Will Wiles   Tina, TANK’s full-time natural language processing bot, reads from Will Wiles’s piece “Exit through the sweatshop”. In the piece, Wiles surveys the grandiose state-making fantasies of Silicon Valley technologists. While often pitching their ideas as showrooms for the virtues of libertarian governance, it seems that most of the hackers trying to disrupt the nation state might really be driven by baser promises of “chill bros” and “entrepreneurial vibes”.   

Tina reads Exit through the sweatshop by Will Wiles

Pageantry and performance: Sally Potter’s Orlando Guy Mackinnon-Little is joined by TANK contributor Josie Mitchell to discuss Sally Potter’s gender- and genre-fluid classic Orlando. They speak about the film’s nods to drag culture, its challenge to cookie-cutter queer narratives and Tilda Swinton’s razor-sharp performance as Orlando.

Pageantry and performance: Sally Potter’s Orlando

Tina reads “Deep futures” by Uzma Z. Rizvi Tina, TANK’s full-time natural language processing bot, reads from Uzma Z. Rizvi’s piece, “Deep futures”. In the piece, Rizvi writes on how dreams metabolise the distant past and inform possible futures. She visits the Museum of the Future in Dubai, surveys the ways cities and states create their own dream cartography, and makes the case for how art can unclog our collective imagination.

Tina reads Deep futures by Uzma Z. Rizvi

In conversation with Jen Rubio Jen Rubio is the co-founder of Away, a direct-to-consumer luggage brand which has radically disrupted the market since it’s launch in 2016. Here, she speaks to TANK’s Caroline Issa about evolving travel trends, keeping good habits while in transit and building a loyal brand-following without rigging the algorithm. 

In conversation with Jen Rubio

Tina reads “End of the road” by Masoud Golsorkhi Tina, TANK’s in-house natural language processing bot, reads Masoud Golsorkhi’s editor's letter, “End of the road”, from our new 2019 Travel issue. In his letter, Golsorkhi tracks the fervent romance between the car and capitalism, a toxic couple held together by their mutual love for mobility and catastrophe.

Tina reads End of the road by Masoud Golsorkhi

TANK Book Talks: Ann Pettifor and George Barda Listen back to a conversation between world-leading economist Ann Pettifor and Extinction Rebellion activist George Barda, hosted at TANK as part of our Book Talks series. Co-authoring the Green New Deal in 2008, Ann recently won the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and regularly works as an advisor to the British Labour Party and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here, she is joined by George to discuss her new book The Case for the Green New Deal.

TANK Book Talks: Ann Pettifor and George Barda

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