The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 22: Seeing Red–On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution
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.
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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 preserves the panel discussion from the original event.
Cover of the Portfolio for the Congress of Committees on Rural Poverty (1918)
Propaganda image of Lenin and Stalin
Advertising poster for beer (1925), Alexander Rodchenko
Bus stop, Gagra, Abkhazia, Zurab Tsereteli
Model for the Monument to the Third International (1919 – 1920), Vladimir Tatlin
Design for the Monument to the Third International (1919 – 1920), Vladimir Tatlin
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919), El Lissitzky
Poster: “Books,” with Lilya Brik (1924), Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
Spanish Civil War-era Poster: “For a republic that advances the liberation of women”
Album Cover: You Could Have It So Much Better (2005), Rich Costey and Franz Ferdinand
Photoshopped image in support of Hillary Clinton (2016)
Egypt Will Rise (2011), Nick Bygon
MoMA Reproduction: Suprematist Tea Set (original designed by Nikolai Suetin; 1923)
Black Square (1915), Kazimir Malevich
Unisex Sportswear Designs (1928), Varvara Stepanova
Textile Designs (1920s), Varvara Stepanova
Box for “Our Industry” Caramels (1923), Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko
Model Worker’s Club (1925), Alexander Rodchenko