156. Bauhaus and the Anarchic City -- Robin Schuldenfrei
Robin Schuldenfrei joins me to discuss her new book Objects in Exile, which is about the many afterlives of the Bauhaus school and its practitioners. Robin and I particularly focus on the relationship...
21 Maj 20251h 6min
155. Baseball Utopia in Eephus -- Carson Lund
"What is joy when everything has been monetized and optimized?" For Carson Lund, the answer is rec league baseball, and his new film Eephus is about how a meaningless, anachronistic activity like a lo...
7 Maj 202555min
154. Hannah Arendt and Civil Disobedience -- John McGowan
John McGowan joins the podcast again to discuss a recent republication of Hannah Arendt's essay "Civil Disobedience, which responds to Plato's Crito, Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government," and th...
30 Apr 20251h 14min
153. Organizing in the 21st Century -- Jaz Brisack
Jaz Brisack joins me to discuss their new book, Get on the Job and Organize. Jaz and I discuss why billionaires take union organizing personally, how organizing is different in the 21st century, and h...
23 Apr 202537min
152. Why Billionaires Love AI -- Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant, author of the newsletter Blood in the Machine, returns to the show to talk about the newsletter, ai, tech oligarchs, the neoliberal "abundance" agenda, jobs, and pretty much everything...
16 Apr 20251h 5min
151. Graeber's Debt Chapter 12, The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined
In which I end my series on David Graeber's Debt, apologize for mistakes, and offer some hope for a new world in which we have more money and less monetarism.Thank you to all of the listeners to this ...
9 Apr 20251h 17min
150. Secret Mall Apartment -- Jeremy Workman and Michael Townsend
When capitalists developed their neighborhood with a giant mall, eight artists developed an abandoned space in the mall into an apartment. It was art without permission, and now there's a documentary ...
2 Apr 202541min
149. Anarchy in the Big Easy -- Max Cafard and Vulpes
Max Cafard (which is a pen name) and Vulpes (which is also a pen name) join me to discuss their fantastic new graphic novel Anarchy in the Big Easy, which is just what it sounds like. Max and Vulpes a...
26 Mars 202539min
