Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on the Iran war

Chris Cutrone discusses with Doug Lain the Iran war. In the second half, they discuss pedagogy vs. punditry, writing vs. podcasting and other issues of public intellectual life. 

Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. ( . . . )

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Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on philosophy and Marxism and U.S. National Security Strategy

Chris Cutrone discusses with Doug Lain his article, “Objectivation of Spirit” published in Sublation Magazine, further response in summation to Benjamin Studebaker on Marxism and philosophy. In the second half, they discuss the new Trump Administration National Security Strategy published in November 2025.

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/objectivation-of-spirit

Chris Cutrone with Bryce Nance and Mikey Downs on Marxism, A.I. and capitalism

“Mikey and I [Bryce Nance] are joined by our friend Chris Cutrone to discuss Marxism and the world we live in today. There is a lot of hubbub going around about Artificial Intelligence and what it might do, or might be doing, or might have done already, to the economy and to political and social relations, and to the possibility of Freedom itself. We don’t answer any of these questions, that’s not really the way this works, but I think the overarching conversation can only benefit from Chris’ sober take on the situation. Come along as we interrogate notions of Labor and Value, Production and Exchange, Appropriation, Power, and many others, in a new world that includes a powerful externalized structure made of fractally abstracted Intellectual Labor that we call A.I.!”

Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on social relations and ideology, and ICE in Chicago and Gaza peace

Chris Cutrone discusses with Doug Lain his article “Social relations and ideology: an anti-critique” published in The Platypus Review issue 180 (October 2025), written in response to Benjamin Studebaker’s article “Beyond ideology critique” in Platypus Review 179 (September 2025). In the second half Parrot Room, Cutrone and Lain discuss Trump’s Gaza peace plan and the ICE raids and National Guard deployments to Chicago and Portland, Oregon.