Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 39: Capitalism + Comics
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by remus jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical, educational + theoretical contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson.
Episode 39: Special guest Ross Hernandez join Cathy and remus to talk about how capitalism shapes the creation of comic books. We learn about different forms of labor, art’s relationship to capitalism, and how the comic book industry mashes these worlds together. Where are we right now, and what are our next steps forward? Capitalism is dying, and we should let it die.
Contact: drawingadialogue@gmail.com, Twitter
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Episode Links:
Art and Value: Arts Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics by Dave Beech - Haymarket Books
Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt - Haymarket Books
Theodor W. Adorno - Standford
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 21: Labor + Capitalism in Comics - Link
What are we reading?
Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability by Eszter Szép
I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino
Libro centroamericano de los muertos / Central American Book Of The Dead by Balam Rodrigo
Lo común / The Commonplace by Hugo García Manríquez
Theme song by Downtown Boys