Anarres Project

In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, we talk with Matilda Bickers, the co-editor of a new anthology, "Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex" (PM Press, 2023), which is a collection of reflections by sex workers on the nature of their labor. She explains how she got into this form of advocacy and what similarities sex work has to other forms of labor under capitalism. Given those overlaps, we then discuss what it means for sex workers to struggle for their rights and how others can demonstrate solidarity with sex workers as part of a labor movement focused on the rights and dignity of all workers.

In this episode of TrekWars@OSU, we consider the sci-fi, fantasy, and other speculative fiction that helped us to imagine futures free of domination, exploitation, war, and empire.

In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, we talk with Dr. Jesse Cohn about his essay "Demodernizing Anarchism". This essay appears in Issue 33 of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory and you can read it here.

For more information on the Institute for Anarchist Studies, check out their website here.

In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, we talk to Avery Jade, one of the organizers of the Really, Really Free Market in Corvallis, Oregon. The Really, Really Free Market movement is a global movement that creates space for mutual aid--making clothes, toiletries, literature, and other necessities available for free.

In this episode, Joseph Orosco talks with Maria Castro and Javier Castro, about their recent essay "Bibliophilia and Anarchism in Star Trek: Picard", published in October 2022 in Perspectives in Anarchist Theory.

Maria and Javier argue that throughout Season One of Star Trek: Picard several books are mentioned that echo the radical themes and anti-authoritarian perspectives of the main characters in the series.  While the Federation and Star Fleet may not be anarchist utopias, Star Trek: Picard does hint at the importance of anarchist ideas and values for making the world a better place.

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In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, co-directors Joseph Orosco and Tony Vogt discuss their encounters with the work of Staughton Lynd, who passed away in 2022.

They talk about the important ways in which Staughton Lynd, along with his wife Alice, devoted themselves to providing historical resources to spark our imagination about forms of activism and organizing that we might use today, and how they modeled, in their relationship and their own lives, a kind of non-hierarchal leadership that can inspire social movements today.

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In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, co-directors Joseph Orosco and Tony Vogt discuss their encounters with the work of Dave Forman, who passed away in 2022.

They talk about the importance of Forman's work in creating the radical environmental group, Earth First!, and the limitations of this approach to movement building.

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In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, co-directors Joseph Orosco and Tony Vogt discuss their encounters with the work of Barbara Ehrenreich, who passed away in 2022.

They talk about the importance of Ehrenreich's works including Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, and Witches, Midwives, and Nurses.

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In this episode of Conversations on Anarres, co-directors Joseph Orosco and Tony Vogt discuss their encounters with the work of historian Mike Davis, who passed away in 2022.  

They talk about the importance of Davis' books including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and Magical Urbanism.  

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Christian Matheis presents the keynote presentation for The Word for World is Forest Symposium, honoring the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ursula Le Guin's anti-war novella.  

This talk was given in October 2022.  It is entitled "Devious as Nerves: Teaching the Fine Balance of Reason and Dream."

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