In this lecture, Doctor Who is situated within one of the oldest literary genres in the world and an argument is made that it meets these genre criteria better than those of science fiction.

We discuss two of the best episodes of the 1978 Key to Time season, the Stones of Blood and Douglas Adams' the Pirate Planet. We continue to examine the ways in which Second Wave feminism defines the golden age of the show and also begin engaging with the contribution Adams makes to this period with the consciousness of the extinction event that he brings to his writing. 

As we discuss Genesis of the Daleks, we get closer to the important role of the Hannah Arendt school in creating the Golden Age of Doctor Who. Here, Walter Benjamin is introduced for the first time as we discuss genetics, eugenics, and the Angel of History.

In our second class, we discuss the central themes in original Doctor Who: women's shifting roles in society and the memory of fascism. 

We return to our free course rebroadcasts, beginning with our March/April course, 13 Lectures on Original Doctor Who. The first episode covers the problematic and much-maligned Talons of Weng Chiang.

This is the first part of Los Altos Institute's seven-part podcast documentary, which uses the first British comedy in the written record, the Second Shepherd's Pageant (1420) to examine the rise of the modern world and the profound cultural, political and economic changes the world would undergo. The Pageant is an extraordinarily observant and prescient work, both embodying and remarking on the sweeping changes that would inaugurate capitalist modernity. The podcast is a series of conversations between Los Altos directors about the play.

For many years, the ending of Second Shepherd's Pageant was considered to be the most medieval thing about the play, showing an unexpected "all now" consciousness on the part of the writing. But today, this way of thinking about time seems to be on its way back.

This is the first part of Los Altos Institute's seven-part podcast documentary, which uses the first British comedy in the written record, the Second Shepherd's Pageant (1420) to examine the rise of the modern world and the profound cultural, political and economic changes the world would undergo. The Pageant is an extraordinarily observant and prescient work, both embodying and remarking on the sweeping changes that would inaugurate capitalist modernity. The podcast is a series of conversations between Los Altos directors about the play.

Inevitably, any discussion of the resurgence of English drama must lead to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age. But it is not just that the Corpus Christi plays helped to create an appetite for plays and skilled players, they ultimately transformed our labour systems. In many ways, Shakespeare and his company were not merely the greatest dramatists of their age; they were economic innovators who created many elements of the modern corporation.

This is the first part of Los Altos Institute's seven-part podcast documentary, which uses the first British comedy in the written record, the Second Shepherd's Pageant (1420) to examine the rise of the modern world and the profound cultural, political and economic changes the world would undergo. The Pageant is an extraordinarily observant and prescient work, both embodying and remarking on the sweeping changes that would inaugurate capitalist modernity. The podcast is a series of conversations between Los Altos directors about the play.

In the fourth episode, we examine how the processes identified in the play, most notably enclosure and the criminalization of poverty gave rise to novel forms of identity, most notably the idea of neighbours and neighbourliness and the emerging idea of race in the Americas.

This is the first part of Los Altos Institute's seven-part podcast documentary, which uses the first British comedy in the written record, the Second Shepherd's Pageant (1420) to examine the rise of the modern world and the profound cultural, political and economic changes the world would undergo. The Pageant is an extraordinarily observant and prescient work, both embodying and remarking on the sweeping changes that would inaugurate capitalist modernity. The podcast is a series of conversations between Los Altos directors about the play.

In the third part, we look at a genealogy of state-forced disinhabitation of the landscape beginning with Enclosure and culminating in North America's national park systems.