Episode #16: Imaginary Futures with Richard Barbrook

On the last episode we talked about the Californian Ideology, for this ep we have on the man himself: Richard Barbrook, who co-coined the term and co-wrote the infamous essay back in 1995. He’s still alive and he’s still got all sorts of things to say — about the origins of the Internet, the Cold War Left, Bolshevism, cybernetic communism, YouTube documentaries, China, etc. Check it out…and subscribe!Listen to our previous episodes:* Episode #15: Behind the Silicon Curtain* Episode #14: The Soviet Jew & good riddance Los Feliz* Episode #13: Immigrant Deprogramming with Anna/Аня* Episode #12: “I didn’t want to live in a simulacrum of American life in the ruins of the Soviet Union”* Episode #11: Watching American movies in the USSR ft. Boris Levine* Episode #10: Anti-Soviet identities in the USSR* …and more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe