PostAmerican.ist
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPostAmerican.ist is a project to counter narratives of american exceptionalism and capitalist realism through the production of analysis, research, and fiction. We investigate how we relate to the future through exploring technology, futurism, science fiction, and speculative arts from a socialist vantage.
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No Better Future: Utopia, Part 1
September 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBThe word 'utopia' was once brand new, the invention of an English statesman and writer named Thomas More. But it's an ancient idea (e.g. Plato's Republic), and a modern one as well (the utopian socialists, 'intentional communities', etc.). It names the possibility of imagining a radically better society, and even attempting to create it. Marxists criticize utopia as an unscientific notion, since it detaches our social and political desires from the real movement of history. But early modern...
Killing the Moonlight w/ Dr. Clara Orban
June 29, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBIn this episode, Emilia and Jasper discuss the history and legacy of Italian Futurism and interview Dr. Clara Orban of DePaul University. As one of the first Avant Gardes of Modernism, the Futurists envisioned a world of speed, strength, new technologies, and the complete obliteration of the past. The dawn of world war realized their vision and the rise of Mussolini further enforced their values. Artistically innovative and seduced by all that is New, the Futurists give us a version of the f...
Fighting at the Edges of Capitalist Realism w/ Breht O’Shea
June 01, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBIn the hundreds of dystopian futures presented across popular culture and media, one of the most pervasive tropes is Capitalist Realism, most succinctly explained by the phrase “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” No genre embodies this phrase more fully than dystopia. On this episode Emilia, Jasper, and Jordan will be discussing Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film, “Children of Men,” with Breht O’Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio. Breht O’Shea hosts of Revolution...
Marxism, Technology, and a Socialist Future w/ Derek Ford
May 18, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBThe future and technology are almost synonymous in popular culture and psychology, whether in dystopian apocalypse or utopian fantasy, the technological “advancement” of humanity is presumed. On this first episode of the People's Future, Jasper and Tina talk with academic and organizer Derek Ford about how to understand and analyze the effects of technology on society through the Marxist lens of dialectical materialism. Derek Ford is an Assistant Professor of Education Studies at DePauw Uni...