Notations

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