173. From William Morris to Bauhaus to Midcentury Modern -- Robin Schuldenfrei

173. From William Morris to Bauhaus to Midcentury Modern -- Robin Schuldenfrei

Robin Schuldenfrei rejoins me to talk more Bauhaus! In this episode, we discuss her book Luxury and Modernism, covering the complexities of the Bauhaus, which had a leftwing ethos but produced luxury objects, and made them by hand to appear machine made. Robin talks us through how the contradiction between luxury and egalitarianism ran from Morris's arts and crafts movement to the Bauhaus, and modernism only became a truly "everyday" part of life during the colossal expansion of middle-class wealth in the midcentury, as celebrated by Life magazine and recreated in the show Mad Men

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027. Anarchism is...James Fallows's Our Towns

027. Anarchism is...James Fallows's Our Towns

This episode features my conversation with James Fallows, a legendary journalist whose work Our Towns is one of the inspirations for Everyday Anarchism. James and his wife Deb flew all over the countr...

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026. An Anarchist Pilgrimage to Barcelona with Dave Zirin and Mike Stark

026. An Anarchist Pilgrimage to Barcelona with Dave Zirin and Mike Stark

This week we go to Barcelona - today's Barcelona, where the memory of the heroic anarchist revolution of the 1930s mostly goes unmemorialized. My guests, Dave Zirin and Mike Stark, traveled to Barcelo...

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025. Education as Gift with Andreas Wittel

025. Education as Gift with Andreas Wittel

This week's episode is another in my ongoing series about the takeover of higher education by bureaucracy and managerialism. I'm joined by Andreas Wittel of Nottingham Trent University to discuss his ...

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024. Peter Kropotkin - "Anarchism" for Encyclopedia Britannica

024. Peter Kropotkin - "Anarchism" for Encyclopedia Britannica

In this episode of Anarchism 101: An Anarchist Syllabus, I read Kropotkin's historical overview of anarchism, published in the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. If you would prefer to read the ...

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023. Emma Goldman's "Anarchism" with Kathy Ferguson and Penny Weiss

023. Emma Goldman's "Anarchism" with Kathy Ferguson and Penny Weiss

In this first discussion episode of Anarchism 101, I'm joined by eminent Goldman scholars to discuss Emma Goldman's "Anarchism: What it Really Stands For." Join me, Kathy Ferguson, and Penny Weiss as ...

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022. Anarchism is...Martin Luther King's Universal Basic Income

022. Anarchism is...Martin Luther King's Universal Basic Income

This week's episode comes out a little early in honor of MLK!This episode places Martin Luther King Jr. right where I think he belongs: in the midst of the anarchist tradition. The focus is on Univers...

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021. Anarchism is...FC St. Pauli with Fabian Fritz

021. Anarchism is...FC St. Pauli with Fabian Fritz

On Tuesday, January 18, German soccer giants Borussia Dortmund take the field against FC St. Pauli, a second division soccer team from Hamburg (in the US you can watch it on ESPN+). So who is FC St. P...

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020. Critical University Studies with Liz Morrish

020. Critical University Studies with Liz Morrish

In this week's episode I'm joined by Dr. Liz Morrish, a leading critic of the current state of universities. Liz and I discuss the craze for evaluating people based on numbers and the damage it does t...

5 Jan 202253min

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