{"podcast":{"title":"Everyday Anarchism","slug":"everyday-anarchism-4260069","podcast_index_feed_id":4260069,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/everyday-anarchism/","website_url":"https://www.everydayanarchism.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/da99d182-d8d8-4ffb-80a8-7026e2f7b177/IG_WCQ0Abb11e7-QJpw2oihg.png","author":"Graham Culbertson","episode_count":204,"summary":"The core idea of this podcast comes from David Graeber, who wrote that our everyday life is mostly run on anarchism, and at the same time people believe that anarchism doesn’t work. One of these is wrong. I hope to illuminate how our communities already depend on Mutual Aid, in big and small ways. I'll do that by excavating the historical events and cultural trends you already know about, but have never thought about in terms of anarchism. Find me at https://www.everydayanarchism.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T18:21:19.233614+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-anarchism-4260069"},"episode":{"title":"189. What's East of \"the West\" ? -- Anthony Kaldellis","slug":"189-what-s-east-of-the-west-anthony-kaldellis","published_at":"2026-05-20T10:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-anarchism-4260069/189-what-s-east-of-the-west-anthony-kaldellis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-anarchism-4260069","url":"https://www.everydayanarchism.com/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8cef79eb-8823-451a-8dcd-17148554d705.mp3","summary":"Before it became west of Islam, or China, or \"the Orient,\" \"The West\" was simply the Western Roman Empire, and what it was east of was the Eastern Roman Empire. But the westerners wanted to be the true inheritors of the classical tradition, so they renamed it \"western civilization,\" and made up reasons why the Eastern Roman Empire was actually something exotic and foreign and decadent and queer. They called it Byzantium. That's the argument of Anthony Kaldellis' new book, Phantom Byzantium , and Anthony joins me to discuss those ideas and what they mean for our understanding of \"the West\" and the ideas about politics that European thinkers appropriate from Rome. You can also listen to Anthony's first appearance on the podcast: https://www.everydayanarchism.com/the-roman-empire-lasted-because-its-rulers-were-in-a-constant-state-of-terror-anthony-kaldellis/ Anthony has his own wonderful podcast, Byzantium and Friends. I highly recommend it! https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/","meta_description":"Before it became west of Islam, or China, or \"the Orient,\" \"The West\" was simply the Western Roman Empire, and what it was east of was the Eastern Roman E…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3944,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everyday-anarchism-4260069/episodes/189-what-s-east-of-the-west-anthony-kaldellis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-anarchism-4260069/189-what-s-east-of-the-west-anthony-kaldellis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}