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The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 22: Seeing Red--On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 22: Seeing Red--On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

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The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 22: Seeing Red--On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

FromThe Podcast for Social Research

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Length:
142 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In the twenty-second episode of the Podcast for Social Research, Asma Abbas, Tony Alessandrini, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Rebecca Ariel Porte commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution with a conversation about its material legacy in text, music, visual art, film, architecture and technology. Panelists ask what the revolution was, why it happened, how it played out in political theory and in practice. Their conversation considers what the revolution meant in its own moment and what it means today in light of attempts to conceive different and better forms of life. Due to technical difficulties, the first part of the episode recreates a conversation originally recorded live at 61 Local; the second part of the episode, which departs from the question of to what degree we've forgotten the forms and effects of the revolution and to what degree they're still with us, preserves the panel discussion from the original event. Notations for this episode may be found here. 
Released:
Nov 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (99)

From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity and underscores the conversation’s place in a larger web of cultural conversations.