Oscar Wilde's Machine Slavery (AIdeas Crossover)
This week's episode is an edition of my new podcast, AIdeas. Oscar Wilde imagined an anarchist utopia without drudgery and without slavery. How did he propose to accomplish this? Automation. Here's th...
19 Sep 202213min
057. Slouching Towards Utopia -- Brad DeLong
This week's guest is J. Bradford DeLong, author of the new economic history of the 20th century, Slouching Towards Utopia. Brad and I discuss William Morris, pre-industrial civilization, jobs versus o...
14 Sep 20221h 3min
056. William Morris -- Ruth Kinna (1st Anniversary Episode!)
One year later, Everyday Anarchism continues!In this episode, Ruth Kinna and I discuss William Morris, the brilliant craftsman/poet/artist who set out to defeat capitalism when he realized that the fo...
7 Sep 20221h 5min
055. Upheavals, Climate Justice, and Denial -- Jon Raymond
My guest this week is Jon Raymond, novelist and screenwriter, whose most recent book, Denial, imagines a world in 2052 in which climate justice has been delivered via Nuremberg-style trials, climate c...
31 Aug 202248min
054. Nihilism in Russian Literature -- Maya Slater and Nicolas Pasternak Slater
This week we will survey nihilism in Russian literature with Maya Slater and Nicolas Pasternak Slater, translators of a new edition of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Children. Turgenev's novel introduced...
24 Aug 20221h 1min
Kropotkin's Drowning Child (AIdeas Crossover)
This week's episode is an edition of my new podcast, AIdeas. How should we teach AI about human ethics? Simple: anarchism!Subscribe to AIdeas for more!
1 Aug 202213min
053. Lucy Parsons, Goddess of Anarchy -- Jacqueline Jones
In this episode of Anarchism 101: An Anarchist Syllabus, I'm joined by Jacqueline Jones, author of Goddess of Anarchy, to discuss Lucy Parsons and her legacy.
27 Juli 202256min
052. The Liberation of Contract Grading -- Asao B. Inoue
In this episode I'm joined by Asao B. Inoue to discuss contract grading, a radical (even anarchistic?) form of grading which strengthens the student-teacher relationship, lessens the power of hierarch...
20 Juli 20221h 3min
