Political theorist and award-winning filmmaker H.L.T. Quan in conversation with Annie Paradise, author of The War on the Social Factory, on the current state of feminism, democracy, and the upcoming election.

H.L.T. Quan is a political theorist and an award-winning filmmaker. She is an Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Quan is the author of Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World and editor of Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance. Annie Paradise is the author of The War on the Social Factory: The Struggle for Community Safety the Silicon Valley and a member of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, a transterritorial research collective, and a collaborator with the Universidad de la Tierra Califas, an autonomous learning initiative, both based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a researcher with the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab.