In the first installment on the Robin Hood mythos, we consider how the legend of Robin Hood has evolved from a series of brutal tales of a medieval outlaw bandit in the fifteenth century to that of the swashbuckling champion of the poor of modern pop culture, and how he picked up sidekicks like Friar Tuck and Maid Marion along the way; we consider the literary significance of the early stories as an expression of the frustrations and aspirations of the yeoman class.

Suggested further reading:  Maurice Keen, "The Outlaws of Medieval Legend";  J. C. Holt, "Robin Hood";  A. J. Pollard, "Imagining Robin Hood."

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Image:  Woodcut illustration of the yeoman from a late fifteenth-century edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, shortly after reused to depict Robin Hood.

Myth of the Month 18: Robin Hood -- pt. 1: The Master of the Forest

I join with Geoff Shullenberger of "Outsider Theory" to discuss the sweeping and challenging new book, "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. We consider the book's marshalling of new archaeological evidence to debunk mechanistic and deterministic assumptions about the rise of civilization, its deep rejection of Marxism, and its insistence on the human ability to imagine and create an infinite range of social and political futures. We examine the weaknesses and limitations of the book, including its over-emphasis on personal freedom, its gross inaccuracy with regard to the eighteenth century, and its blindspot regarding the profound powers of myth, ritual, and the natural environment, all of which deeply guide and shape societies in ways that Graeber & Wengrow ignore or casually discount.

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Other books & authors mentioned:

Marshall Sahlins, "The Original Affluent Society"
Yuval Noah Harari, "Sapiens"
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain"
Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Savage Mind"
Victor Turner, "The Ritual Process"
Karl Wittfogel, "Oriental Despotism"
John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"
Francoise de Graffigny, "Letters of a Peruvian Woman"
Niccolo Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy"
Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
JN Heard, "The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," LSU thesis
David Graeber, "On Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit,"  "Debt: The First 5000 Years"
Karl Polanyi, "The Great Transformation"
Mark Fisher, "Capitalist Realism"
Orlando Patterson, "Slavery and Social Death"
Bruno Latour, "We Have Never Been Modern"
Roberto Calasso, "The Ruin of Kasch"
Ivan Illich
Rene Girard
Richard Wolff
Thomas Sowell
Divya Cherian

Dissecting the "Dawn of Everything" -- A Conversation with Geoff Shullenberger

Eugene Holland, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, and author of several books ranging from Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism to to his upcoming book, Perversion of the Market: Sadism, Masochism and the Culture of Capitalism.

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https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/book_review/author/eugene_holland/



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Eugene Holland - Perverse Capital

This episode features Aaron and his Peace Studies of the American Century students in conversation with retired CIA officer Ray McGovern. The discussion ranges across Ray’s experiences as a CIA officer from the Kennedy administration to first George Bush administration—as well as his post-CIA work as a peace activist weighing in on Iraq WMD, CIA torture, Julian Assange, and the Russiagate hoax.

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Episode 11: The CIA and the Deep State w/Ray McGovern

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor sit down with Lacanian philosopher Lorenzo Chiesa to discuss his work The Not-Two: God and Logic in Lacan and his forthcoming work God Is Undead to discuss the legacy and practice of psychoanalysis, its interrelations with Marxism, the logic and illogic of the sexual relation, the status of God in strong agnosticism and atheism, the ontological implications of incompleteness and inconsistency, and the exploration of what the author calls 'meta-critical realism.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Chiesa

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/not-two

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Lorenzo Chiesa - The God Hypothesis

We welcome Gerald Horne back to the show to talk about most recent book "The Counter-Revolution of 1836 - Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism." Stay tuned and learn of this week's whale-snack sized hangover cure, hear this week's Question from Hell!, and learn from Seb's Soapbox about some of the origins of Whiteness.

Texas, and the Origins of American Fascism / Gerald Horne

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Timothy Blauvelt is Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Regional Director for the South Caucasus for American Councils for International Education. His newest book is Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.

Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia

We have on Tarence Ray from the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast to discuss the devastating effects of recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky and how the government response affected the poor and working class.

Flooding in Eastern Kentucky / Tarence Ray

This week Taylor and Coop discuss Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. The discussion includes threads on libidinal economy, depression, narcissism and more.

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Episode #196: Exercise Dosing

Economist Radhika Desai and Ben Norton analyze imperialism, the failure of neoliberalism, and the new cold war that the US is waging against China and Russia.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVIpyOwJRW4

This is part 2 in a series discussing Radhika's new book "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy".

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Imperialism, neoliberalism's failure and the new cold war, with Radhika Desai

History lectures by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I focus on the historical myths and distortions, from "the Middle Ages" to "Race," that people use to rationalize the world in which we live.   More info at www.historiansplaining.com

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Myth of the Month 18: Robin Hood -- pt. 1: The Master of the Forest

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