Podcasts about news from nowhere

In this episode I'm joined by most frequent guest: Ruth Kinna. Ruth and I continue our conversation about William Morris by discussing his science fictional work News from Nowhere. Ruth and I discuss how this work differs from Edward Bellamy's more famous fantasy of state socialism, Looking Backward, and how Morris could produce this anarchist utopia without declaring himself an anarchism.Please note that we do discuss sensitive topics in this episode, such as child abuse, as we talk about how the people in Morris' society would handle them

We're back with a "scifi" story by an old school anarchist named William Morris; the 3rd in our series about utopias. The plot is thin, but the politics are heavy in his description of a post-revolution anarchist England. We talk youth liberation, family abolition, and of course, work abolition. Sorry Darius is inside a tin can again, it'll be fixed for the next one!patreon.com/swordsandsocialismFollow the show @SwordsNSocPodEmail us at SwordsAndSocialismPod@protonmail.comDarius: @Himbo_AnarchistKetho: @StupidPuma69 

Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece, professor of economics at the University of Athens, co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement, and member of the Greek Parliament. The Guardian describes him as "a motorcycling, leather jacketed former academic and self-styled rebel who took pleasure in winding up the besuited political class." He calls himself an "erratic Marxist," and has written economics textbooks, a memoir, and popular explainers of economic ideas. But now he has produced a novel: Another Now: Dispatches From an Alternative Present. Another Now is not a typical work of fiction. It is a novel of ideas, more like one of Plato's dialogues than an airport potboiler. Varoufakis draws on the tradition of leftist utopian fiction seen in 19th century works like William Morris' News From Nowhere and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Those books tried to show readers a plausible depiction of what a socialist society might look like. In Another Now, Varoufakis is doing something similar: he shows us what our existing 21st century world might look like if the economy operated very differently and capitalism was done away with. He imagines a different timeline in which Occupy Wall Street had won and Wall Street itself had been consigned to the dustbin of history.But it's not quite right to describe this work as "utopian." Varoufakis is trying to do something extremely pragmatic: to show, using his academic training in finance and economics, that things that seem impossible are actually quite technically feasible. The attack on socialists generally is that their schemes are unworkable, and that without big banks and a class of wealthy capitalists, there could not be a dynamic, innovative economy. Varoufakis uses this story to show that this isn't true, and to explain in detail the concrete workings of a possible post-capitalist economy.If you're not used to novels that contain long descriptions of alternative banking systems, Another Now may be a challenging read. But it's exciting because it tries to seriously answer the question: "What would a realistic alternative to the capitalist economy look like?" In Varoufakis' "other now," the fruits of society's labor are not owned by capitalists, but by the people who do the work. There is some inequality, but there is a "democratic economy" in which corporate tyranny has been eradicated. Banks are public, not private, and poverty is eliminated. It is said that these days, the cramping of our imaginations has meant that it is "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." Varoufakis invites us to imagine the end of capitalism in our own time. The medium of fiction has allowed Varoufakis to include characters who are highly skeptical about whether this economy is possible, and who have to be convinced over time to believe in it. Another Now wants to speak to critics of the socialist project, and to show that the seemingly most insurmountable obstacles to eliminating capitalism (maintaining innovation and incentives, financing new projects, etc.) are actually easily solved problems. The most substantial difficulty is the creation of a political movement with the power to bring the necessary changes about.Another Now poses a serious challenge to capitalist dogma and offers an inspiring vision that should energize the left. In this conversation, Varoufakis and Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson discuss the novel and why a well-functioning socialist economy is more feasible than people assume. Warning: it gets a little bit heavy on the economics and it may be useful to read up on the history of the socialist calculation debate before diving in. The phrase "Astonishingly, There Is An Alternative!" is taken from Another Now, where it is a counterpoint to Margaret Thatcher's infamous dictum "There Is No Alternative."The interview Nathan did with the authors of People's Republic of Walmart is available here. 

Ben Balcom (b. 1986, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema. Since 2013, Microlights has hosted over 50 film and video artists from around the world. Combining elements of documentary, fictional narrative, and abstraction, Balcom's films investigate the relationship between cinematic artifice and ordinary affects. He has explored melodrama, essay film, and, most recently, regional histories. His films have been exhibited at venues and festivals such as the European Media Festival, Media City Film Festival, Anti-Matter Media Arts, Alchemy Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance. Balcom received his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his bachelor's degree in Film-Video Production from Hampshire College. The books I mentioned in the interview are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and Douglas Kearney's Sho. Garden City Beautiful from Ben Balcom on Vimeo. News From Nowhere from Ben Balcom on Vimeo.

In this episode for Sunday Edition, we welcome Kyle Chayka to examine Silicon Valley’s taste for minimalist design. Is this just the latest development for a style that has a long history but only emerged into pop culture during the 1960s and ‘70s when a contemporary art movement emerged to propel the taste for less into a global phenomenon?Chayka's book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (Bloomsbury, 2020), is a highly readable book that examines the historical precedents of minimalist design, its incarnation as contemporary art, and how it was co-opted by architecture, design, and fashion companies to represent a new, generic sense of luxury.The music for this episode is Darkstar’s “Timeaway,” which is taken from the new album News From Nowhere, courtesy of Warp Records (warp.net/artists/darkstar).Subscribe to Hyperallergic’s podcast on iTunes, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.

William Morris's designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman's insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. (Encore presentation.) Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, 2018 The post William Morris, Designer and Socialist appeared first on KPFA.

William Morris's designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman's insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, 2018   The post William Morris, Designer and Socialist appeared first on KPFA.

Andy goes on Corey Pein's News From Nowhere podcast to discuss the new To The Stars Academy video, the Navy's admission that the videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon are real, and what Tom DeLonge and Robert Bigelow might be after (money). Afterwards he answers Corey's questions about Posadism. Listen to the end of the episode for an essay about the Blink 182 song "Aliens Exist." If you like Corey Pein's work, subscribe to his podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere/posts For the full episode, along with all episodes Proletkult, Vampire Castle, History is a Weapon, Antifada bonuses, and access to our Discord community, become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

Sheila Jeffreys became a feminist activist in 1973, and a lesbian feminist in 1977. She is the author of 10 books on the history and politics of sexuality, and is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has been involved in many groups and campaigns against male violence towards women. Sheila's most recent book is Lesbian Revolution: Lesbian Feminism in the UK 1970-1990. On this podcast, she discusses her work with Heather Brunskell-Evans, touching on the scope, culture, ideas and practices of lesbian feminism, and the forces that led to the disappearance of the lesbian feminist movement. To quote Sheila: "Lesbian feminism is now rising again, and I hope that this book will provide fuel to that flame." Read: The Lesbian Revolution (available through News From Nowhere and others)(Apologies for the poor sound quality - this was an online discussion and our fabulous volunteer did the very best that she could with the recording!)

Sheila Jeffreys became a feminist activist in 1973, and a lesbian feminist in 1977. She is the author of 10 books on the history and politics of sexuality, and is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has been involved in many groups and campaigns against male violence towards women. Sheila's most recent book is Lesbian Revolution: Lesbian Feminism in the UK 1970-1990. On this podcast, she discusses her work with Heather Brunskell-Evans, touching on the scope, culture, ideas and practices of lesbian feminism, and the forces that led to the disappearance of the lesbian feminist movement. To quote Sheila: "Lesbian feminism is now rising again, and I hope that this book will provide fuel to that flame."(Apologies for the poor sound quality - this was an online discussion and our fabulous volunteer did the very best that she could with the recording!)Read: The Lesbian Revolution (available through News From Nowhere and others)

Part 2 of our talk with Arun Gupta(@arunindy) continues on dissecting "conspiracy" from "conspiracy theory." We cover: Trump, conspiracy theory as campaign strategy, the Bundys in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, dealing with Trump supporters, Qanon as a source of power for the disconnected, how to handle high school reunions, explaining is not excusing, 9/11 Truthers and how Truther theories mutate, and what happens when Establishment media is compelled to do Cletus Safaris. -- Check out Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep46-conspiracy-just-like-a-theory-part-1-feat-corey-pein-arun-gupta -- Recs: - -Kim Moody's _From Welfare State to Real Estate_ -The Disinformation Guides -Lefttube (e.g. ContraPoints, HBomberguy, Philosophy Tube, Peter Coffin, Lindsay Ellis) -Octave pedals -Giovanni Arrighi & Beverly J Silver's _Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System_ -Giovanni Arrighi's _The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times_ -Alex Rosenberg's _How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories_ ---- -Here's Corey's Baffler essay on conspiracy theorists as shitty detectives: https://thebaffler.com/magical-thinking/protocols-moron-pein -Arun's examination of George HW Bush's role in Iran-Contra: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/ -Corey's book: Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey to the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley http://liveworkworkworkdie.com/ -Contribute to Corey Pein's patreon and get his podcast News From Nowhere: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere -Support independent journalism and Arun Gupta's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter ---- Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @ashesforfoxes @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Corey Pein(@coreypein) and Arun Gupta(@arunindy) return to the show in this first half of a two-part episode to help us suss out the difference between conspiracies and the social phenomenon of conspiracy theories, exactly how conspiracy theories work, and why we create them. What's the difference between investigative journalism and conspiracy theorizing? What happens when the people in power start believing the conspiracy theories? Qanon, the Pisstape, George HW Bush, Iran-Contra. We run the gamut with this one, folks. -- Check out part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep46-part-2-a-conspiracy-does-not-a-theory-make-feat-arun-gupta -- -Here's Corey's Baffler essay on conspiracy theorists as shitty detectives: https://thebaffler.com/magical-thinking/protocols-moron-pein -Arun's examination of George HW Bush's role in Iran-Contra: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/ -Corey's book: Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey to the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley http://liveworkworkworkdie.com/ -Contribute to Corey Pein's patreon and get his podcast News From Nowhere: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere -Support independent journalism and Arun Gupta's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter ---- Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @ashesforfoxes @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Corey Pein of the podcast News From Nowhere and the forthcoming book "Live Work Work Work Die" joins Adam and Shane to talk about the ongoing crises in Saudi Arabia, nationalist marches in Poland, and how the concepts of accelerationism and hypernormalization might play a big role in these and other crises around the world. 

Podiversary (Free! Highlight Show) This is first free public show since we moved to a weekly subscription program, featuring clips from Corey’s interviews with Ken Silverstein (Washington Babylon), Klint Finley (Wired), Michael Brooks (Majority Report/TMBS), and Shane (Beast Coast). Subscribe on Patreon for weekly shows!

Camping Trip (with Andrea Pitzer) Corey talks concentration camps, from Auschwitz to Guantanamo, with Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps. Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website Andrea’s website A Washingtonian magazine review of Andrea’s book

Fire and Fury (with Tim Shorrock and Jason Wilson) Corey Pein receives a report from Jason Wilson in Charlottesville, and speaks to Tim Shorrock about North Korea. Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website Jason’s articles at the Guardian Tim’s articles at The Nation

Media for the Apocalypse (with Jason Wilson and Michael Brooks) Corey talks to Jason Wilson about the far-right media landscape, from AmRen to Infowars, and to Michael Brooks about podcasts, persuasion, and power. Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website Jason’s articles at the Guardian Jason’s report from the AmRen 2017 conference in … Continue reading "News From Nowhere Ep. 15"

The Online Culture Wars Corey Pein chats with Angela Nagle about her new book “Kill All Normies.” Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website Angela on Twitter Angela’s Baffler essay, The New Man of 4chan

The Secret Policeman at the Marathon Corey Pein talks about the Spanish Civil War with writer and historian Adam Hochschild. Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website Adam’s book Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 The Harper’s review of Adam’s book Adam’s faculty profile at the UC Berkeley … Continue reading "News From Nowhere Ep. 13"

Techies and Tankies Corey Pein discusses tankies with Michael Brooks and all things life-extending with Elmo Keep. Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website Urban Dictionary entry for Tankies Elmo’s Smithsonian magazine piece on life extension Michael’s shows at majority.fm

Against the Fascist Creep Corey Pein traces the history of 20th century fascism with Alexander Reid Ross, the author of Against the Fascist Creep (AK Press, 2017). Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website A review of Alex’s book on Truthout Alex’s own work on Truthout Alex’s essay on the Portland killings and … Continue reading "News From Nowhere Ep. 11"

Hashtag Resistance Corey Pein talks to Michael Brooks about his Baffler piece, coauthored with David Slavick, on the failure of institutional centrism to provide adequate resistance to the far right. The piece was “No Time for a Negative Peace.” Corey also speaks to “Louise Mensch,” the former British Tory MP and current prolific Twitter influencer, … Continue reading "News From Nowhere Ep. 10"

Burn It Down We’re back! Corey Pein brings his ninth episode of News from Nowhere to The Baffler. Within he discusses David Attenborough’s Planet Earth series with Amber A’Lee Frost and Will Menaker, and whether the left should arm with Adrian Bonenberger. Notes And Links This podcast at The Baffler’s website The other Baffler podcast, … Continue reading "News From Nowhere Ep. 09"