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Andrew. wrote:mrcancelled wrote:Yay! My good friend Garrett was on Delete Your Account recently to talk about him and his co-workers' recent unionizing at Anchor Brewing in San Francisco. Good stuff.Oh yeah, Brace Belden was also on Chapo recently talking about the same thing, also a good and hilarious episode.I heard the successful vote happened. Congrats to all involved.Yeah! I'm super happy for them. Job well done indeed. Andrew. wrote:llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:Will Menaker joins Antifada for an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson!This was great! Thanks for the suggestion. Was really interested in lots of it including his interest in birding, Gary Snyder, and being outside. He is such a California hippie and makes no bones about it. I didn't realize the full extent of Fredric Jameson's direct influence on him to this day. I read a lot of FJ and was influenced by him as an aspiring literary/cultural studies scholar (one of my own academic mentors during my BA and MA was a student of FJ at Duke).That said, I've seen people claim KSR as a Marxist but I think he's more honest himself. In this interview he says literature is his religion (Sci-Fi is his hometown) and Marxist theory is just invaluable for understanding the world and that makes literature better. He's also totally out-to-lunch on hypothetical blockchain carbon markets as a path out of climate disaster. Like I say, a California hippie.KSR's humbleness and optimism along with the conversational sort of structure of the interview really made this a great listen. I haven't read any of his stuff but will surely be picking up some of his books. BTW thanks to all replied with the Youtube recommendations, good stuff.