In Short

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Sorry for being gone for so long. I hope you can forgive Andrew and I. I will be posting much more regularly. The essay I read for this episode. [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm])

**Labor Day Special** Albert Einstein, "Why Socialism?"

In this special episode recorded and published on Labor Day, Andrew Schlegel narrates Einstein's 1949 essay in which the famed physicist explains what he sees as the great social ill of his time and what must be done to ensure a better future.

6. "The Engineering of Consent," by Edward Bernays

Narrator Andrew Schlegel reads a foundational text written by the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, which examines the tenets of public relations and the methods through which the public's consent is to be engineered.

From Feudalism to Capitalism by Chris Harman

My notes with links to terms ⇋ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OZYK8CTjVsTXIIHDlSX4wtRGHGMV7bf7PRiuIMCnd2o The actual paper ⇋ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K0T5mPCKD44Ep45SL2Y6e-afafqjbVOB/view?usp=drivesdk

5. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," by Walter Benjamin (guest narrated by Riley Quinn)

In this installment, guest narrator Riley Quinn (@raaleh) of the TRASHFUTURE podcast (@trashfuturepod) reads Walter Benjamin's seminal essay, in which he thoroughly investigates the process of change in art and how it mirrors changes in the methods of production and re-production, as well as how fascism co-opts these changes and inherently aestheticizes war and violence.