Everyday Anarchism

The authors behind the award-winning novel and TV series The Expanse join me to discuss the politics and sociology of the science fiction future they've created. The Expanse is not a dystopia or a utopia, just a regular ole topia, in which corporations and governments continue to compete and cooperate both with each other and with resistance movements and labor unions. But in space!Daniel, Ty, and I discuss the historical analogues for the governments and resistance movements in The Expanse, the humanity of their characters, and how the series differs from its peers The Wire and Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.

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 the article about American slavery that I mentioned by Nell Irvin Painter: How We Think About the Term "Enlsaved" MattersSubscribe to AIdeas for more!

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 occupations, and how much blame anarchists deserve for ruining the world. Brad and I had a bit of trouble with our setup, so the audio on his end is a bit rough.

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 forces of commerce wouldn't let craftspeople make a living unless they sold their wares to wealthy. Just don't call him an anarchist.You can also hear Ruth's previous appearances on Everyday Anarchism, covering Santa Claus and Kropotkin.Please help Everyday Anarchism continue until September 2023 by telling a friend about the show, giving financially at everydayanarchism.com, or leaving a 5-star review on Apple or Spotify!

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 catastrophe has been avoided, and climate change denial has nevertheless continued. Jon and I discuss Denial, as well as Night Moves, the film he wrote about a group of activists planning a bombing attack on a hydroelectic dam. We also talk about science fiction, organic farming, the successes and excesses of antifa, and the aftermath of the 2020 protests in the Pacific Northwest.

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 nihilism as an idea to an entire generation of Russian dissidents - including Kropotkin. Join me as the Slaters show how nihilism is portrayed in this epoch-making novel, as well as famous depictions of nihilism in Russian writers from Gogol to Dostoevsky.

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!

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.

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 hierarchy in the classroom, and fights the oppressive structures which are distorting education. If you'd like to learn more about contract grading - including how to integrate it into your syllabus - check out Asao's website: https://asaobinoue.blogspot.com/p/labor-based-grading-contract-resources.html

Welcome back to my continuing coverage of the Graeber and Wengrow book The Dawn of Everything. This week, is the conclusion of my conversation with four members of the Black Trowel Collective, a network of anarchist archeologists: James Birmingham, Lewis Borck, James Flexner, and Aris Politopoulos. This conversation covers next steps: in the wake of The Dawn of Everything and work done by the Black Trowel Collective, what comes next in this ongoing re-evaluation of humanity's origins? To hear the first part of the conversation, click here: www.everydayanarchism.com/anarchistarchaeologistsTo support underrepresented archaeologists financially, check out Black Trowel's revolutionary grant program: Black Trowel Microgrants.