Dr. Ellie Anderson interviews Am Johal, director of the Vancity Office of Community Engagement and codirector of the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University. They discuss his recent book O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology (Columbia UP, 2024). How should we read the (often misattributed) quote "O my friends, there is no friend", particularly in conversation with the tradition of the philosophy of friendship? How can friendship and activism shape the process of writing and reading theory and philosophy? Finally, how can "the sweetness of life" be found in capitalism's unceasing political and ecological crises?

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