S4E3 - Mayakovsky (pt. 3/3)

Episode Notes

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
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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