TWENTY-KNIFE-TEEN IS HERE AND WE’RE IN A SOMBER MOOD! This episode we try to wrap our heads around a couple different international protest movements including the YPG International Academy, Hito Steyerl’s 2004 film “November”, and the Gilets Jaunes. We discuss The United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the proliferation of neoliberal imperialism. Support us and … Continue reading "Episode 25 – International Solidarity"

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Hello! Turns out “Google Murray Bookchin” is a meme, but uh, do it. If you liked our Ursula K. Le Guin episode you’ll love our new anarchist grandpa! Join us for a discussion of Post-Scarcity Anarchism, ecology, technology, self-determination, and liberation. Also we started a premium podcast about chips and snacks find it at https://d.rip/artandlabor! Audio … Continue reading "Episode 24 – Murray Bookchin"

Ezra Koenig, go on Art and Labor! You deserve this big Toblerone! Note: spoilers don’t really start til like 20 minutes in. We went to the anti-Amazon community forum and read a bunch of Bookchin, but instead of discussing either of those things we recap all of Neo Yokio. Please watch this incredible series about … Continue reading "Episode 23 – Neo Yokio is an Anti-Capitalist Masterpiece"

What will it take to make you capitulate? We appreciate Liz Ryerson!! OK, Lucia, and Liz discuss fascism, stealing, and losing your sense of self within the capitalist cannibalistic music industry. It’s a music episode!! From Beyoncé and Josh Groban to Grimes and Mitski to Machine Girl and Siivagunner–we talk pop’s relationship to the underground, … Continue reading "Episode 22 – We Appreciate Power with Liz Ryerson (Part 1)"

**SUPPORT US ON D.RIP/ARTANDLABOR FOR A FREE MUSEUM PASS** Join your two favorite gallery ghouls OK Fox and Lucia Love for a journey through the heart of hypercapitalist hellscape that is Chelsea in 2018. We used an expired press pass and expired student ID to sneak a field recorder into “Andy Warhol – From A … Continue reading "A Guided Tour of Andy Warhol at The Whitney Museum"

Debunking some bullshit from the “socially conservative” left. Red Scare triples down on ableism and Angela Nagle dips her toe in strasserism. Why is lefty media just becoming Vice 2? We also check in on Long island City, site of labor struggles and luxury apartments for Amazon executives. Stuff breaking down Nagle’s “The Left Case … Continue reading "Episode 21 – Vice 2"

BE LIKE BERLIN! That is our message for those who are ready to fight Amazon’s new headquarters. Kreuzberg successfully blocked Google, and we can too. We read some good take downs from Ben Davis and Queens Neighborhoods United. Plus we take a lot of inspiration from the new Ursula K. Le Guin documentary. Berlin’s big  … Continue reading "Episode 20 – Amazon Cuomo"

We tackle the art world’s relationship to health care (spoiler: if you’re in the US, it hardly exists). We also discuss the massive societal failures that are actively causing mass death for chronically ill or  differently abled people. Finally, we get into the government’s fraught and complicated relationships with the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Read Artie … Continue reading "Episode 19 – Heath Care with Artie Vierkant & Beatrice Adler-Bolton"

This episode we dive into the criticism surrounding Red Scare and their recent profile in The Cut.  Mostly we discuss the ideology shaped by Camille Paglia, an individualist feminist who aligns herself with the alt-right favorite’s dad Jordan Peterson. We try to appeal for lefty media unity, and find some queer relief from the writings … Continue reading "Episode 18 – Fuck off Paglia"