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The Fire These Times — 271 episodes

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1

Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)

2

Reclaiming Land in Casiavera w/ David E. Gilbert (E223)

3

James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic w/ John Drabinksi (E222)

4

November Lebanon Class: Registration Open

5

Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Waubgeshig Rice (E221)

6

The Ceuta 'Incident' w/ Ayman Makarem (E220)

7

Cosmic Dream Boogie w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (E219)

8

Solarpunk Panel 2026 w/ Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon & Andre (E218)

9

Israel Bombed My Hometown - And I Worry About a Civil War (E217)

10

Voices from Lebanon w/ Lina Mounzer & Justin Salhani (E216)

11

Israel's Wars Won't Be Contained (E215)

12

Lebanon Haunts the World (E214)

13

The War on Iran (E213)

14

Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation (E212)

15

Organizing Against ICE w/ Nicole Bedera, Ed & Aydin (211)

16

Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (210)

17

Burnout, Grief and The Solidarity Apothecary w/ Nicole Rose (209)

18

The First Masterclass is Here! (Jan/Feb 2026)

19

What Mamdani's Victory Means w/ Dana El Kurd (E208)

20

Malcolm X and Our Modern Struggle w/ The Dugout and Mohamed Abdou (E207)

21

The Limits of Palestinian-ness w/ Pablo Abufom (E206)

22

Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto w/ Daniel Voskoboynik (E205)

23

The Kashmir Question: What Comes Next w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes (E204)

24

The Kashmir Question: Resistance w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes (E203)

25

The Kashmir Question: Origins w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes (E202)

26

This Cannot Be The New Normal (E201)

27

The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor (200)

28

The Stories That Fascism Fears Most w/ Jessie Gender (E199)

29

A Liquid Convo About Venezuela w/ Laura Vidal (E198)

30

Our Region After Samir Kassir: Special 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed (E197)

31

The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid, Part 2 (E196)

32

The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid, Part 1 (E195)

33

Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg, Part 2 (E194)

34

Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg, Part 1 (E193)

35

Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration, Part 2 (192)

36

Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration, Part 1 (192)

37

Introducing "Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution"

38

We Are the Children of the Children of War w/ Justin Salhani (E191)

39

What Trump Sees in Bukele w/ Michael Paarlberg (E190)

40

Doikayt ('Hereness') Now! w/ Molly Crabapple (E189)

41

Revolutionary Aid in Sudan w/ Eiad Husham (E188)

42

Announcement - Lebanese Films Screenings

43

Hauntologies 5/ Restorative vs Reflective Nostalgia

44

Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 2 (E187)

45

Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 1 (E186)

46

What Ukraine Faces w/ Romeo Kokriatski (E185)

47

Öcalan's Statement and the Future of the PKK w/ Dîlan (E184)

48

Navalny, A Year Later (TFTT x Obscuristan)

49

Black History Month Special: Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson

50

Hauntologies 4/ Punishing the Land

51

Hauntologies 3/ Lebanon's Lost Communist Future

52

Video Essay Announcement

53

Hauntologies 2/ This Moment. Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza

54

Making Home in Exile: Stories from the New Syrian Diaspora w/ Wendy Pearlman (E183)

55

Our Mirror Worlds w/ Naomi Klein (E182)

56

Hauntologies 1/ Merry Christmas Homs

57

Don't Despair, We Got This w/ Margaret Killjoy (E181)

58

The Golan Heights, Syria and Palestine’s Intertwined Liberations w/ Banah Ghadbian (E180)

59

Lebanon: What Now? w/ Mohamad Bazzi (E179)

60

Roundtable on Syria (E178)

61

Mutual Aid in Lebanon Today w/ Serge and Abir (E177)

62

Rerun/ Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri

63

American Neocons, Christian Zionists & Israeli Fascism w/ Atalia Omer (E176)

64

The Mutual Aid Podcast: Ep #1 - Introductions

65

Beekeeping in the End Times w/ Larisa Jašarević (E175)

66

Lebanon From 1860 to the Present Day w/ Ayman Makarem (E174)

67

This Arab is Queer w/Elias Jahshan, israa' and Leila Al Shami (E173)

68

Premium Episode 2: Hezbollah (Sample)

69

The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory w/ Daniel Voskoboynik (E172)

70

What is Happening with Balochistan? w/ Lateef Johar Baloch and Hari Prasad (E171)

71

Facing the German Far Right w/ Musa Okwonga (E170)

72

Macronisme and the Far Right w/ Sahar Amarir & Rim-Sarah Alouane (E169)

73

Against Multipolar Imperialism w/ Kavita Krishnan⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Promise Li⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Romeo Kokriatski (Rerun)

74

Building Transnational Solidarity w/ Chkoun? Collective and Leila Al Shami (E168)

75

Netanyahu's Dubaization Plan for Gaza After the Genocide w/ Yasser Elsheshtawy (E167)

76

Israel-Palestine After Zionism w/ Ahmed Moor, Antony Loewenstein and Dana El Kurd (E166)

77

That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout (E165)

78

El Salvador's Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg (E164)

79

The Far Right is Not Inevitable w/ Aurelien Mondon (E163)

80

TFTT Archives: Hamed Sinno on Sarah Hegazi, Mental Health and Growing up Queer in Lebanon

81

Spaces of Exception and the Struggle for Native American and Palestinian Autonomy (E162)

82

The Gaza Genocide Changes Everything (E161)

83

Raising a Brown Child in a Time of Genocide w/ Nikesh Shukla (E160)

84

Building Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity w/ Yuliia Kishchuk (E159)

85

The Threat of Christian Fascism in Lebanon w/ Justin Salhani (E158)

86

Taking Authoritarianism Seriously w/ Bill Fletcher Jr (E157)

87

Navalny from the Periphery w/ Anna, Karena & Daniel (E156)

88

Politically Depressed Eps. 9-12

89

The '82 Israeli Siege of Beirut: Similarities and Differences with Gaza Today w/ Justin Salhani (E155)

90

Anti-Imperialism After the Syrian Revolution w/ Sahar Amarir (E154)

91

Living Like the World is Dying w/ Margaret Killjoy (E153)

92

Israel and American Jewish Dissent w/ Geoffrey Levin (E152)

93

Politically Depressed Eps. 5-8

94

Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors w/ Tory Stephens and Daniel Voskoboynik (E151)

95

The Israeli War on Southern Lebanon w/ Karim Safieddine, Michelle Eid & Justin Salhani (E150)

96

Politically Depressed - First 4 Episodes

97

How Azerbaijan is Greenwashing Genocide w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna (E149)

98

Understanding Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine w/ Diana Greenwald & Alexei Abrahams (E148)

99

From Capitalism Realism to Solarpunk Realities w/ HydroponicTrash, Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon (E147)

100

Palestine and Global Solidarity - Remastered w/ Sumaya Awad and Shireen Akram-Boshar

101

Jewish Safety Means Palestinian Liberation: Organizing In Israel-Palestine After Oct 7 w/ Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi (E146)

102

Arab Jews For Palestinian Liberation w/ Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi (E145)

103

Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives - Remastered

104

Against the Imperialist Impulse w/ Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (E144)

105

Special Episode: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach

106

Sudan in Revolution and War w/ Dalia Abdelmoniem and Raga Makawi (E143)

107

How the World Failed Nagorno-Karabakh w/ Karena Avedissian & Anna (E142)

108

How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network (E141)

109

The Moral Urgency of Degrowth w/ Timothée Parrique & Yusra Bitar (E140)

110

Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami, Romeo Kokriatski & Dana El Kurd (E139)

111

We Need To Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani (E138)

112

Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!

113

Re-membering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd (E137)

114

When War Gets Normalized, Or What's At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem and Romeo Kokriatski (E136)

115

Radical Legacies of the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik (E135)

116

Unlocked. When You're Not The Target Audience: Two Arab Millennials Talk About Seinfeld w/ Ayman Makarem (Premium 1)

117

Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel (E134)

118

Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran (E133)

119

Let's Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman (E132)

120

Commoning in Lebanon's Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri (E131)

121

Armenian-ness and Solidarity in a Changing World w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna (E130)

122

The Meaning of Time in Prison w/ Morgan Godvin and Molly Hagan (E129)

123

The Islamic Regime of Iran Will Fall w/ Vicky and Kiana (E128)

124

Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski (E127)

125

Premium Episode 1: Watching Seinfeld as Arab Millennials w/ Ayman Makarem (Sample)

126

The Memory We Could Be: Fear and Our Ecological Future w/ Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik (E126)

127

Understanding (Anti-)Fascism in a World in Crisis w/ Shane Burley (E125)

128

Jessie Gender on how Star Trek deals with neurodiversity, race, and queerness (E124)

129

Hauntings, Futurisms and the Present Movement w/ Luka Dowell aka Solarpunk Now! (E123)

130

In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron (E122)

131

Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash (E121)

132

Special: How to Make Football Radical, a 2022 FIFA World Cup Retrospective w/ Musa Okwonga, Justin Salhani and Fabien Goa

133

Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem & Romeo Kokriatski (E120)

134

Lessons on the Path to Radicalization w/ Andrew Sage & Emmi Bevensee (E119)

135

Bosnia, False Histories and Fact-Free Politics w/ Edin Hajdarpašić (E118)

136

The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung (E117)

137

Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson (E116)

138

Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden (E115)

139

Why Nostalgia in the Periphery Feels Different w/ Efe Levent (E114)

140

Taiwan's Wen Liu & Brian Hioe on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen (E113)

141

From Yarmouk to the World: On Syria, Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nidal Betare (E112)

142

What is Happening in Tigray? w/ Teklehaymanot Weldemichel (E111)

143

Special: On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse w/ Michael J. DeLuca

144

Climate Narratives that Go Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Alyssa Hull (E110)

145

Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd (E109)

146

What Asexuality Says About Society w/ Angela Chen (E108)

147

Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson (E107)

148

🌻 Ukraine Special: 3. The threads that bind us from Syria to Ukraine

149

#Qatar2022, Russia and What Comes Next w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani (E106)

150

What 'Living With Covid' Actually Means w/ Martin Paul Eve (E105)

151

The Urgency of the IPCC Report w/ Dr Rupa Mukerji and Dr Lisa Schipper (E104)

152

🌻 Ukraine Special: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger) w/ Romeo Kokriatski

153

The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil (E103)

154

ARCHIVE: the Legacy of Chemical Weapons from Halabja to Ghouta w/ Sabrîna Azad

155

On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body w/ Amro Ali (E102)

156

🌻 Ukraine Special: 1. A View From Syria w/ Leila Al-Shami

157

Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation w/ Cindy Milstein (E101)

158

The Story of Three Black Mothers: Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin and Albert King w/ Anna Malaika Tubbs (E100)

159

ARCHIVE: Disinformation, Russia and Syrian-Ukrainian Solidarity w/ Peter Pomerantsev

160

Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies w/ Marie Berry and Milli Lake (E99)

161

Crossover: The Strange Amnesia of Lebanon's Wars w/ New Lines

162

Space, Nostalgia and Retro-Futurism in Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nat Muller (E98)

163

Why I Stopped Writing About Syria w/ Asser Khattab (E97)

164

The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression w/ Dana Moss (E96)

165

Reproductive Justice & Complicating Acts of Advocacy w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam (E95)

166

The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson (E94)

167

It Could Happen Here: On The New Periphery

168

Mangal Media: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable

169

Voice Messages From The Balkan Route

170

Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights w/ Shareah Taleghani (E93)

171

Big Tech and Data Colonialism w/ Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon (E92)

172

Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use w/ Jefim Vogel & Julia Steinberger (E91)

173

The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies w/ Paz Peña (E90)

174

Tiananmen, Denialism and History w/ Mia Wong (E89)

175

A History of Nothing w/ Susan A. Crane (E88)

176

Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World w/ Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer (E87)

177

Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism w/ Bram Büscher (E86)

178

I read the names of the Beirut port explosion victims

179

August 4th 2020: "It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open" (With Lina Mounzer)

180

The Legacy of the Great Lebanon Famine w/ Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari (E85)

181

Space, Fiction and Growing Up in ‘Postwar’ Lebanon w/ Naji Bakhti (E84)

182

Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives w/ Tareq Baconi (E83)

183

The Populist Hype, ‘the People’ and the Far Right w/ Aurelien Mondon (E82)

184

Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future w/ Phoebe Wagner (E81)

185

Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics w/ Marwa Daoudy (E80)

186

Erasures, Borders and the Afterlife of the Armenian Genocide w/ Sophia Armen (E79)

187

Pedagogies of Liberation, Gender and the Syrian Revolution w/ Banah Ghadbian (E78)

188

From Hong Kong to Lebanon, Basebuilding Against Authoritarianism w/ Promise Li (E77)

189

Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives w/ Daniel Randall (E76)

190

The Precariatized Mind and the Case for a Basic Income for All w/ Guy Standing (E75)

191

Special Episode: Palestine and Global Solidarity

192

Intervention: Majed Abusalama #GazaUnderAttack

193

[Repost]: Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse

194

A Conversation on Israel-Palestine, (Anti)Zionism and International Solidarity (Special Episode)

195

The Political Economy of Car Dependence: Understanding Systems of Provision w/ Giulio Mattioli & Julia Steinberger (E74)

196

1958: Re-imagining a Revolutionary Year in Revolutionary Times w/ Jeffrey Karam (E73)

197

The Inherent Toxicity of France’s ‘Islamo-Leftism’ Obsession w/ Rim-Sarah Alouane (E72)

198

Lebanon’s ‘Postwar’ Hauntings w/ Ely Dagher (E71)

199

(Post)Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East w/ Nader Hashemi & Danny Postel (E70)

200

The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements w/ Aida A. Hozić (E69)

201

Solarpunk, Youth Liberation and Why Revolution Needs Therapy w/ Saint Andrew (E68)

202

Cultural Dementia: How the West Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else w/ David Andress (E67)

203

Intervention: Anti-Fascist Solidarity in Lyon (English/Français)

204

Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd (E66)

205

#StopAsianHate [Repost] Sex Workers' Rights, Basebuilding and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)

206

Shifting Towards Climate-Just Mobility w/ Anne Kretzschmar (E65)

207

In the End, It Was All About Love w/ Musa Okwonga (E64)

208

Queerness, Literature and Revolution w/ Saleem Haddad (E63)

209

How to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C: A Societal Transformation Scenario w/ Kai Kuhnhenn and Linda Schneider (E62)

210

A Class Analysis of the Arab Spring w/ Anand Gopal (E61)

211

(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 2 w/ Emmi Bevensee (E60)

212

(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 1 w/ Emmi Bevensee (E59)

213

Democracy, Counterrevolution and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism w/ Rohini Hensman (E58)

214

The Psychology of Silicon Valley w/ Katy Cook (E57)

215

A Region in Revolt: The Uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran (E56)

216

Lessons from Workers' Resistance in China w/ Zhongjin Li & Eli Friedman (E55)

217

What Management Theory Can Learn From Anarchism w/ Martin Parker & Thomas Swann (E54)

218

Masculinity in Pop Culture: The Toxic and the Subversive w/ Jonathan McIntosh (E53)

219

The Palestinian Left and Its Decline w/ Francesco Saverio Leopardi (E52)

220

The Case for People-centered Recovery Processes in Beirut w/ Mona Harb (E51)

221

Reflections on the first 50 episodes and upcoming projects

222

The Anatomy of a Nazi Party in 21st Century Europe w/ Loukas Stamellos (E50)

223

The Moria Camp and Fortress Europe's Deadly Xenophobia w/ Ghias Al Jundi (E49)

224

Our Climate Emergency Present w/ Peter Kalmus (E48)

225

The Current Crises in Lebanon w/ Lara Bitar (E47)

226

Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotional Cost of Disinformation w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam (E46)

227

Ethiopian Migrants' Saudi Hell/Ethiopia's Anti-Government Protests w/ Zecharias Zelalem (E45)

228

That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon w/ Hamed Sinno (E44)

229

The World's Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide is Happening in Xinjiang w/ Rayhan Asat and Yonah Diamond (E43)

230

The Beirut Explosion w/ Lina Mounzer (E42)

231

Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter and Syria w/ Mariam Barghouti (E41)

232

Queer Transnational Activism in the Middle East and Beyond w/ "The Queer Arabs" (E40)

233

Basebuilding, Sex Workers’ Rights and Mutual Aid w/ Kate Zen (E39)

234

My Father and Syria's Forcibly Disappeared w/Wafa Mustafa (E38)

235

The Racialisation of Migrant Labor Under the Kafala System in Lebanon w/ Daryn Howland (E37)

236

Lebanon’s Deep Crisis Explained w/ Timour Azhari (E36)

237

The EU's Violence Against Asylum Seekers w/ Jack Sapoch (E35)

238

34/Remembering Through Storytelling in Times of Hardship in Lebanon (with Ronnie Chatah)

239

Mutual Aid is Sweeping the World w/ Zoe Smith (E33)

240

Syria, Palestine and Discourse w/ Mohammed Sulaiman (E32)

241

Disinformation, 'Post-truth' and What To Do About Them w/ Peter Pomerantsev (E31)

242

Intervention: Ghanaian woman on surviving slavery in Lebanon. #AbolishKafala

243

Poetry, Tripoli and Navigating the Moment w/ Zeina Hashem Beck (E30)

244

Intervention: Saleem Haddad on the death of Sarah Hegazy

245

Syria's Women Journalists w/ Rula Asad (E29)

246

Grief, Borders and Music w/ Yousef Kekhia (E28)

247

The Risks of Psychologising Patriarchal Oppression w/ Chuck Derry (E27)

248

The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On w/ Ziad Majed (E26)

249

Intervention: Street Action #BlackLivesMatter

250

Resistance, Rescue and Waging Non-Violence w/ Bryan Farell (E25)

251

Bellingcat: Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World w/ Eliot Higgins (E24)

252

Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon w/ Ayman Makarem (E22)

253

Taiwan Since the 2014 Sunflower Movement w/ Brian Hioe (E21)

254

Primo Levi, Lebanon's Revolution and Life in the Midst of History w/ Lina Mounzer (E20)

255

Our Women on the Ground w/ Zahra Hankir (E19)

256

Living Fernando Pessoa’s Dreamlife in Lisbon w/ Saleem Haddad (E18)

257

What the Lebanese should know about Ethiopia w/ Zecharias Zelalem (E17)

258

The Second Wave of the Lebanon Protests w/ Nadim El Kak (E16)

259

Yiddish Bundism w/ Molly Crabapple (E15)

260

Revolution, disenchantment and the Lebanese New Left w/ Fadi Bardawil (E14)

261

Being the good immigrant in an ungrateful country w/ Musa Okwonga (E13)

262

Independent media versus the Lebanese oligarchy w/ Julia Choucair Vizoso (E12)

263

Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference w/ Kareem Shaheen (E10)

264

Lebanon’s October Uprising Six Months Later w/ Timour Azhari (E8)

265

Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta w/ Sabrîna Azad (E7)

266

Lebanon: A Country in Fragments w/ Andrew Arsan (E6)

267

Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers: Between the Coronavirus and Slavery w/ Banchi Yimer (E5)

268

Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine w/ with Crimethinc (E4)

269

Venezuela and the Right to Narrate w/ Laura Vidal (E3)

270

Lebanon Must Abolish The Kafala System w/ Mesewat and ARM at Beirut's Migrant Community Center (E2)

271

Hong Kong's Protests w/ JP from Lausan Collective (E1)