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S4E3: Mayakovsky (pt. 3/3): The Epics TW TW: Suicide /Alexander Billet joins us to discuss the Soviet Futurist-Communist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 Baghdati – 1930 Moscow). Finally we get to the good stuff. Two speculative war epics, two wild elegies, messages to the future, and assorted screams into the void. The zoomers are all meetinged out. Alex dreams of a world without borders. Frank talks about the Constructicons and tears like a wolf at bureaucracy. This episode focuses on:150,000,000 /THE FLYING PROLETARIAN /ALL MEETINGED OUT /VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN /TO SERGEI YESSENIN /CONVERSATION WITH A TAXMAN ABOUT POETRY /MY SOVIET PASSPORT /AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE /PAST 1 O’CLOCK For more on the Russian Revolutions and Civil War, see:Duncan, Mike. Revolutions, Season 10. For our thoughts on Johnny Got His Gun and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, see S3E4. The Pointless Crew:Frank Fucile (he/him/his) @thtopofmyvoice – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //Alexander Billet (he/him/his) @UbuPamplemousse – Poetry, Music, Cultural Criticism, Marxist Theory & History //Rachel Hamele (she/they/her/their/hers/theirs) – History, Humanities, Queer Studies, Fandoms //Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism //Madalyn McCabe (she/her/hers) – Co-Producer, Sound Editing, European Studies // Troll us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PointlessCent// T-shirts are now available: http://www.teepublic.com/users/the-pointless-century// Watch us on Instagram: @thePointlessCentury// Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThePointlessCentury Shout out to Locust Review:https://www.locustreview.com/https://twitter.com/locustreview Bibliography: Brown, Edward J. Mayakovsky: A Poet in the Revolution, Princeton UP, 1973. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey, edited by Patricia Blake, Indiana UP, 1960. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Mayakovsky. Translated and edited by Herbert Marshall, Hill and Wang, 1965. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Poems. Translated by Dorian Rottenberg, USSR, 1972. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Selected Poems. Translated by James H. McGavran III, Northwestern UP, 2013. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Volodya: Selected Works. Edited by Rosy Carrick, Enitharmon, 2015. Morton, Timothy. Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People. Verso, 2017. Schick, Christine Suzanne. Russian Constructivist Theory and Practice in the Visual and Verbal Forms of Pro Eto. Doctoral Dissertation, UC Berkeley, 2011. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3949b3fr MUSIC: FUGAZI – “Ex-Spectator” from The Argument (Dischord, 2001) and “Public Witness Program” from In on the Kill Taker (Dischord, 1993) THE CLASH – “Ivan Meets GI Joe” from SANDINISTA! (Epic, 1980) ART:Vladimir Mayakovsky with young poets at retrospective exhibition, 1930
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S4E2: Mayakovsky (pt. 2/3): The Shitposts
Alexander Billet joins us to discuss the Soviet Futurist-Communist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 Baghdati – 1930 Moscow). We consider a couple of his pre-revolutionary futurist poems, and some of his key works from the revolutionary period of February 1917 to February 1923. Anna and Rachel talk shit on his love life and puzzle over his imagery. Frank makes some bad jokes and talks about photos you can see if you follow on Insta and Twitter. We barely scratch the surface of Pro Eto (“About That” AKA “About This” AKA “That’s What” AKA “It”), a dizzying montage of personal and political impressions. The final episode will continue with this, several longer poems of the revolutionary era, and a few remaining Communist faves.
This episode focuses on:GREAT BIG HELL OF A CITY /LISTEN! /ORDER No. 1 TO THE ARMY OF ARTS /ORDER No. 2 TO THE ARMY OF ARTS /PRO ETO “ABOUT THAT" (alternate English titles in paragraph above)
For more on ProletCult and Alexander Bogdanov, see:Guerrilla History, “Art and the Working Class w/Taylor Genovese,” 20 Jan. 2022. https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/art-and-the-working-class-w-taylor-genovese
For more on the Russian Revolutions of 1917, see:Duncan, Mike. Revolutions, Season 10.
The Pointless Crew:Frank Fucile (he/him/his) @thtopofmyvoice – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //Alexander Billet (he/him/his) @UbuPamplemousse – Poetry, Music, Cultural Criticism, Marxist Theory & History //Rachel Hamele (she/they/her/their/hers/theirs) – History, Humanities, Queer Studies, Fandoms //Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism //Madalyn McCabe (she/her/hers) – Co-Producer, Sound Editing, European Studies
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Bibliography:
Brown, Edward J. Mayakovsky: A Poet in the Revolution, Princeton UP, 1973.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey, edited by Patricia Blake, Indiana UP, 1960.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Mayakovsky. Translated and edited by Herbert Marshall, Hill and Wang, 1965.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Poems. Translated by Dorian Rottenberg, USSR, 1972.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Selected Poems. Translated by James H. McGavran III, Northwestern UP, 2013.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Volodya: Selected Works. Edited by Rosy Carrick, Enitharmon, 2015.
Schick, Christine Suzanne. Russian Constructivist Theory and Practice in the Visual and Verbal Forms of Pro Eto. Doctoral Dissertation, UC Berkeley, 2011. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3949b3fr
MUSIC:FUGAZI – “Epic Problem” and “Ex-Spectator” from The Argument (Dischord, 2001)
ART:Vladimir Mayakovsky with Red Army soldiers in 1929 (unknown photographer)
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S4 E1: Mayakovsky (pt. 1/3): The Overshares
Alexander Billet joins us to discuss the Soviet Futurist-Communist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 Baghdati – 1930 Moscow). We consider Mayakovsky’s unique status among both modernists and poets; we begin to sketch the cultural milieu of the Russian Empire, Provisional Republic, and Soviet Union in the first three decades of the twentieth century; comparisons to other modernists, futurists, and the present day highlight the political, personal, and aesthetic elements of Mayakovsky’s work. This episode mainly deals with the poet’s pre-revolutionary life and work. Anna and Rachel talk shit on his love life. Frank laments walking waist-deep into his own sprawling, self-indulgent, biographical-political poetic epic. We all agree that Mayakovsky’s work is impressive, complex, and worthy of serious contemplation, but we also rightfully slag him as the self-important gloom coomer he advertised himself to be.
This episode begins by assessing Mayakovsky's significance historically to the USSR and personally to us. We then give a brief overview of Mayakovsky's early life and discuss:A CLOUD IN PANTS / THE BACKBONE FLUTE / I LOVE
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The Pointless Crew:Frank Fucile (he/him/his) @thtopofmyvoice – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //Alexander Billet (he/him/his) @UbuPamplemousse – Poetry, Music, Cultural Criticism, Marxist Theory & History //Rachel Hamele (she/they/her/their/hers/theirs) – History, Humanities, Queer Studies, Fandoms //Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism //Madalyn McCabe (she/her/hers) – Co-Producer, Sound Editing, European Studies
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Bibliography:
Brown, Edward J. Mayakovsky: A Poet in the Revolution, Princeton UP, 1973.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey, edited by Patricia Blake, Indiana UP, 1960.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Mayakovsky. Translated and edited by Herbert Marshall, Hill and Wang, 1965.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Poems. Translated by Dorian Rottenberg, USSR, 1972.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Selected Poems. Translated by James H. McGavran III, Northwestern UP, 2013.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Volodya: Selected Works. Edited by Rosy Carrick, Enitharmon, 2015.
MUSIC:Rites of Spring – “For Want Of” from Rites of Spring (Dischord, 1985)
FUGAZI – “Epic Problem” from The Argument (Dischord, 2001)
ART:Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1910 (unknown photographer)
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Bonus Episode: Magickal Realist Horror Happy Halloween! Anna and Madalyn gush about Ari Aster; Will talks about Brecht; Frank explains some creepy things he read on the internet; we all love these movies, but there’s reason to be disturbed by the culture that produced them. That’s horror. Hereditary. Dir./Writ. Ari Aster. Perf. Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro. A24, 2018. Midsommar. Dir./Writ. Ari Aster. Perf. Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper. A24, 2019. Rosemary’s Baby. Dir./Writ. Roman Polanski. Perf. Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer. Paramount, 1968. The VVitch: A New England Fable. Dir./Writ. Robert Eggers. Perf. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie. A24, 2015. The Pointless Crew:Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism //Frank Fucile (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //Will O’Brien (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Modernism, Ecocriticism, Drama //Madalyn McCabe (she/they) – Co-Producer, European Studies // Troll us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PointlessCent// T-shirts are now available: http://www.teepublic.com/users/the-pointless-century// Watch us on Instagram: @thePointlessCentury// Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThePointlessCentury MUSIC:Fantômas – Rosemary’s Baby (written by Krzysztof Komeda) ART:Still from The Witch, dir. Robert Eggers, feat. Anya Taylor Joy (A24, 2015)
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S3 E6: Doctor Zhivago
Anna attempts to remember a book she read last summer; Rachel laments film adaptations again; Frank offers some ideas for propaganda; we all agree that this 1965 anti-Soviet film is a disappointment, but we still find things we can learn from it.
Doctor Zhivago. Dir. David Lean. Writ. Robert Bolt. Perf. Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, Tom Cortenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rita Tushingham, Klaus Kinski. MGM, 1965.
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Pantheon, 1958.
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ART:Still from Doctor Zhivago (MGM, 1965)
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S3 E5: Battleship Potemkin / Man with Movie Camera
Rachel gets angry about the dramatization of an event from 116 years ago; Anna thinks really hard about shot selection and sequence; Frank swears he isn’t a tankie then recklessly glosses over the birth pangs of the most 20th-century of nations; we all agree that these films are great feats of cinema, but we have somewhat different attitudes toward the meaning and value of propaganda. For more detailed explanations of historical context than Frank gives here, please consult the podcasts in the notes below.
Battleship Potemkin. Dir. Sergei Eisenstein. Writ. Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, & Grigoriy Aleksandrov. Perf. Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Nina Poltavtseva, Prokhorenko, A. Glauberman. Mosfilm, 1925.
Man with Movie Camera. Dir. Dziga Vertov. Writ. Dziga Vertov. Perf. Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova. VUFKU, 1929.
FURTHER READING & LISTENING:
Duncan, Mike. Revolutions. Season 10: May, 2019-present.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form & The Film Sense. Translated and edited by Jay Leyda. Meridian, 1964.
Painter, Mark. The History of the Twentieth Century. Ep. 31-235 (May 2016-Apr. 2021).[This huge range of episodes obviously deals with much more than Russian history, but listening to selected episodes in this span will cover the period from the Russo-Japanese War to Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan and thus will explain everything from the events that inspired Battleship Potemkin to the era in which it was produced.]
Vertov, Dziga. Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov. Edited by Annette Michelson. Translated by Kevin O’Brien. University of California Press, 1995.
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MUSIC:REFUSED – “Tannhaüser / Dérive” (Burning Heart, 1998)SLEEP – “The Sciences” (3rd Man, 2018)
ART:Screen shot from Battleship Potemkin, Blu-Ray edition (with colorization), dir. Sergei Eisenstein (Mosfilm, 1925 / Kino Lorber, 2010)
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S3 E4: Johnny Got His Gun / Pale Horse, Pale Rider
*TW: Discussion of severe war wounds and suicide
Anna shares her expertise in heavy metal; Rachel describes a book as “peace-y”; Frank complains about Dalton Trumbo’s unwillingness to insert actual communist propaganda into his most explicitly political movie; we all think the 1939 novel version of Johnny Got His Gun is a landmark work, but splitting hairs on the value of other examples of the disjunctive post/modernist form is more difficult.
Watch Frank’s video giving an eco-materialist approach to these novels for ASLE 2021 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23807y9lQ8
WORKS CITED:
Johnny Got His Gun. Dir. Dalton Trumbo. Writ. Dalton Trumbo & Louis Buñuel. Perf. Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Diane Varsi. World Entertainment, 1971.
Metalallica. “One.” 1989. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6vqeL-ysI
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Modern Library, 1939.
Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun Lippincott, 1939. Bantam, 1989.
Further Reading & Listening:
Morton, Timothy. Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People. Verso, 2017.
Outka, Elizabeth. Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature. Columbia UP, 2020.
Painter, Mark. The History of the Twentieth Century. Ep. 171-172: “Pale Horse, Pale Rider.” Oct. 2019. https://historyofthetwentiethcentury.com/2019/10/
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MUSIC:Bad Brains – “F.V.K.”Metalallica – “One”
ART:Still from Johnny Got His Gun, feat. Timothy Bottoms & Diane Varsi, dir. Dalton Trumbo (World, 1971)
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S3 E3: Blade / Black Panther
Rachel claps while talking about representation; Anna suffers through two more superhero movies; Frank says “critique” far too many times; Leah tolerates us once again; we all appreciate aspects of these films, but Anna and Frank are sure to spend some time raining on parades.
Blade. Dir. Stephen Norrington. Writ. David S. Goyer. Perf. Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N’Bushe Wright. Amen Ra / Marvel / New Line, 1998.
Black Panther. Dir. Ryan Coogler. Writ. Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Stan Lee. Perf. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya. Marvel / Disney, 2018.
Further Reading:
Horkheimer, Max & Theodor Adorno. The Dialectic of Enlightenment, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott. Stanford, 2002.
Womack, Ytasha L. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture. Lawrence Hill, 2013.
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MUSIC:Bad Brains – “F.V.K.” (ROIR, 1982)The Dirtbombs – “Jaguar” written by Banks, Mitchell, & Rocha (In the Red, 2011)
ART:Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World. Oil on canvas, 1918. Imperial War Museum.
Still from Black Panther (Disney, 2018)
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S3 E2: Nova (1968) by Samuel R. “Chip” Delany
Frank forces everyone to read a favorite SF novel of his. Leah joins for her first guest appearance.
Correction/clarification:Delany is meticulous about in noting when his novels were written at the end of each manuscript, but Frank is not quite as careful in his discussion of them. Nova was written between 1966-67; Hogg was written between 1969-73, overlapping with Dhalgren; Trouble on Triton was written between 1973-74.
Works Cited:
Delany, Samuel R. Nova. Random House, 1968.
Delany, Samuel R. Hogg. FC2, 1995.Delany, Samuel R. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. NYU, 1999.Heinlein, Robert. Starship Troopers. Putnam, 1959.Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Random House, 1952.Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Random House, 1969.
The Pointless Crew:Frank Fucile (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //Rachel Hamele (she/her/hers) – History, Humanities, Queer Studies, Fandoms //Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism //Leah Woodward (she/her/hers) – Science Fiction, Ecocriticism //Madalyn McCabe (she/her/hers) – Sound Editing, US Civil Rights Hist, European Studies
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MUSIC:Bad Brains – “F.V.K.” (ROIR, 1982)Hot Snakes – “10th Planet” (Swami, 2000)
ART:Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World. Oil on canvas, 1918. Imperial War Museum.
S. Brunier, The Pleiades (European Southern Observatory, 3 Dec. 2009)
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S3 E1: Juneteenth Movies
Rachel reminds us to include conversations about both Juneteenth and the Tulsa Massacre; Madalyn tells us about her pilgrimage through the South; Anna derides a long, open-mouthed nap; Frank harps on the limitations of individualism; we all agree that these films add something to Americans’ understanding of history, but each of them has their limitations. Jasper the tailless cat contributes some meowing and collar noises.
Amistad. Dir. Stephen Spielberg. Writ. David Franzoni. Perf. Djimon Honsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Pete Postlethwaite. Dreamworks / HBO / Amblin, 1997.
12 Years a Slave. Dir. Steve McQueen. Writ. John Ridley, Solomon Northup. Perf. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt. New Regency / River Road / Plan B, 2013.
Selma. Dir. Ava Duvernay. Writ. Paul Webb. Perf. David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey. Pathé / Harpo / Plan B, 2014.
Harriet. Dir. Kasi Lemmons. Writ. Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons. Perf. Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr. Martin Chase / New Balloon / Perfect World, 2019.
The Pointless Crew:Frank Fucile (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //Madalyn McCabe (she/her/hers) – Co-Producer, US Civil Rights Hist, European Studies //Rachel Hamele (she/her/hers) – History, Humanities, Queer Studies, Fandoms //Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism
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MUSIC:Bad Brains – “F.V.K.” (ROIR, 1982)Gil Scott-Heron – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (RCA, 1971)
ART:Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World. Oil on canvas, 1918. Imperial War Museum.
Film still from Harriet feat. Cynthia Erivo (Perfect World, 2019)
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