# Robert Gordon

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Linda Phillips, Dr. Henry Jones and Robert Gordon

My guests include Linda Phillips from the Shelby County Election Commission. Election time is here and its importance cannot be understated. Early voting has started and she gives us an update on the numbers, locations and everything you need to know. Next, the new school year is upon us and the ...

The Cult of Pasolini | How Did Pasolini Think? | Ft: Robert Gordon | The Artists with Suchita #clip

Pier Paolo Pasolini remains one of cinema’s most fascinating contradictions: poet, filmmaker, writer, intellectual, provocateur—and an artist who refused to fit comfortably into any category. He approached cinema as a poet, not simply as a filmmaker. Without conventional film-school training, h ...

The Cult of Pasolini | How Did Pasolini Think? | Ft: Robert Gordon | the Artists with Suchita #176

Who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—and what made him one of the most fascinating, controversial, and uncompromising artists of the 20th century?A poet, filmmaker, writer, intellectual and provocateur, Pasolini approached cinema differently from almost anyone around him. He saw cinema as a "language of ...

The key to growth? Race with the machines - Erik Brynjolfsson

As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it's simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy. A riveting case for why big innovations are ahead of us ... if we thin ...

WHAT MAKES AN AUTEUR? PASOLINI | Ft: Robert Gordon | The Artists with Suchita #clip

What makes a filmmaker an auteur? Is it a recognisable style—or a deeply personal way of seeing the world? In this new episode of The Artists Podcast, we explore the idea of the auteur through the extraordinary cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini with Robert S. C. Gordon, a leading scholar of Pasolini ...

Robert S.C. Gordon, *Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century*. London: University College London Press, 2023.

Send us Fan Mail Across all human cultures, beliefs, superstitions, and stories about luck are prevalent. Our fascination with luck, intertwined with happiness, danger, uncertainty, and aspiration, makes it a captivating yet elusive concept. Different cultures reinterpret luck and seek to contro ...

The Ledge #734: RIP Cheetah Chrome

Once I learned of the death of legendary guitarist Cheetah Chrome last Sunday (9/13), it became pretty obvious that he deserved a special show devoted to his great career. The first half of the broadcast is devoted to his time with not only the Dead Boys but also the infamous Rocket From The Tom ...

Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)

A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? We revisit an episode from 2016 for a potential solution.  SOURCES: Erik Brynjolfsson, professor of economics at Stanford University. Evelyn Forget, pr ...

240. Yes, the American Economy Is in a Funk -- But Not for the Reasons You Think

As sexy as the digital revolution may be, it can't compare to the Second Industrial Revolution (electricity! the gas engine! antibiotics!), which created the biggest standard-of-living boost in U.S. history. The only problem, argues the economist Robert Gordon, is that the Second Industrial Revo ...