About Sam Johnson-Schlee:
Sam Johnson-Schlee is an academic and writer living by the sea in North Essex. Sam is the author of Living Rooms, published by Peninsula Press. He writes non-fiction and memoir about the politics and culture of everyday life. He is interested in how paying attention to familiar objects and practices can open up new perspectives on the world we live in, and also writes a newsletter on Substack called Sifting and Sorting: a series about digitising his late father’s collection of over two thousand CDs and an occasional series of personal essays about the music.
Summary:
In this episode, we discuss the politics of the home and the interior, what it would mean to ‘abolish the family’, the privatisation and atomisation of domestic life, rentier capitalism, nature connection and domestic spaces, radical connection and collective living, the value of public space, how the interior influences public life, what it would mean to re-imagine our domestic lives and more topics.
References:
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis
They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life by Alva Gotby
Strayed Homes: Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public by Edwina Attlee
Follow Sam:
IG: @snfschlee
X: @SNFSchlee
Substack: @siftingandsorting
Credits:
Image of Sam by Kenza Barton-Schlee
Our theme music is by Alix Julian Edwards
Our design is by Somewhere Off Grid
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