Inward Empire

"The past is another country; they do things differently there." Inward Empire explores the role of ideas and ideology in American history -- how the surface of actions and events can be shaped by undercurrents of thought and belief. Accessible and thoroughly researched, each episode is a window into a world that is both profoundly foreign and strikingly similar to our own. Visit www.inwardempirepodcast.wordpress.com for pictures, maps, updates on the show, and more!

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Inward Empire

Episodes (16)

Sep 1, 2025 Birth of the Replicant
Jun 27, 2024 Selling Out
Jul 18, 2020 The Diem Experiment (Part Five)

Inward Empire

Sep 1, 2025
59¼ minutes
45 MB

Something strange happened in America at the turn of the 20th century: a society based on individualism began to celebrate identical, replicable people. This episode tells the story of two men who drove this profound change in American culture. One was a business consultant named Frederick Winslow Taylor. The other was an artist named Charles Dana Gibson. Each created an identical human being, a replicant who would serve the needs of the economy. Taylor's replicant was Schmidt, a worker who could be "scientifically managed" for limitless productivity. Gibson's was the Gibson Girl, a woman who would be liberated by c...

Inward Empire

Birth of the Replicant

Inward Empire

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