Episode 13: Interview with Kathy Ferguson: 'Anarchist Letters: Letterpress Printing, Epistolarity and Learning in Anarchist Print Culture'

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In this episode we were delighted to be joined by Professor Kathy Ferguson (The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) to discuss her fascinating work on anarchist printing over the turn of the twentieth century. Along the way we discuss the formative role that creating print had in anarchist communities, the value of considering the 'materiality' of radical politics, and reflect on the relationship between media and movements in the current context.

Kathy's book 'Anarchist Letters' will be published in the near future, until then you can discover more of her work here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kathy_Ferguson. We particularly recommend her article 'Anarchist Printers and Presses: Material Circuits of Politics' which was published in Political Theory in 2014.

Some of Kathy's other work includes Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets (2011) which has a companion website here: www2.hawaii.edu/~kferguso/

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The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Stealing_Orchestra__Rafael_Dionsio/_Rafael_Dionsio_-_Uma_Desgraa_Nunca_Vem_S/Gente_da_minha_terra_que_mete_um_nojo_do_caralho

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The image in this episode is a photograph of Tom Keell and Alfred Marsh in the Freedom office at 127 Ossulston St in 1927, which is available in the public domain and here: https://freedompress.org.uk/history/