On this episode, Rose and Pamela C. are joined by Allison Hewitt-Ward, a New York Platypus member and art critic. They discuss the recent crack-up at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the relationship between art and political protest. In the second segment, Sophia and Pam interview Goldsmiths University’s graduating Masters art students, Alexander Pierce, Lydia Blakeley, Fred Bungay, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif and Sara Rodrigues, about the relationship between art and freedom and if the censorship of art is ever justified.

Feedback, criticism, and questions are always welcome. Drop us an e-mail at shitplatypussays@gmail.com.

Links:
“Art and the Commodity Form”, a Platypus panel at Goldsmiths, University of London (October 11, 2016). The panel brought together Rex Dunn, independent Marxist and writer; Zhoe Granger, a director of the gallery, project space, and art publisher, Arcadia Missa; and Peter Osborne, editor of the journal Radical Philosophy and professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. Sophia of Platypus moderated the panel.
platypus1917.org/2016/12/21/art-commodity-form-3/

"A Whitney Museum Vice Chairman Owns a Manufacturer Supplying Tear Gas at the Border" (November 27, 2018)
hyperallergic.com/472964/a-whitney…s-at-the-border/

"The Tear Gas Biennial" (July 17, 2019) A statement from Hannah Black, Ciarán Finlayson, and Tobi Haslett
www.artforum.com/slant/a-statemen…y-biennial-80328

"What Warren Kanders’s Defeat at the Whitney Teaches Us About How Protest Works Now" by Ben Davis (July 26, 2019)
news.artnet.com/opinion/kanders-r…n-whitney-1580551

Spencer Leonard (Platypus) on Adam Smith, an interview with Douglas Lain for Zero Squared
youtu.be/cApVoE_A-JM

Book Review: Ben Davis, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013) by Robin Treadwell in Platypus Review 63 (February 2014)
platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/the-artist-at-work/

Pictured: Sara Rodrigues, "Degrees of Abstraction" (2019), performance & installation. Clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2FztlYeMA

Programm des Platypus-Sommelesekreises an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt im Sommersemester 2019

Douglas Lain of Zero Squared podcast for Zero Books interviews Chris Cutrone on Realizing Philosophy.

Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. He is the former head of the often contrarian Marxist group The Platypus Affiliated Society and in this podcast, we discuss the possibility of realizing philosophy.

On this episode, we chat about the HBO miniseries Chernobyl and Cold War nostalgia. Pamela Nogales discusses the ascendance of the Brexit Party in the UK with James Heartfield, a veteran Marxist and Brexit Party candidate. And Rose Freeman and Pam Nogales sit down with members at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia to talk about Platypus chapter building & the left in the region.

To learn more about the Platypus Summer Reading Group "30 years of 1989: What was Stalinism in power?" Visit:
platypus1917.org/2019/05/07/summe…linism-in-power/

James Heartfield spoke at in our Democracy and the Left panel held at Goldsmiths, University of London, in March 2019, the recording is here:
platypus1917.org/2019/03/28/democ…the-left-london/

Co-hosted by Pamela C. and Rose