DannyL

Wild Horses
What is this podcast generally about?
Various contemporary/recent political struggles but the guy behind is Lebanese and he gets on a variety of global voices so it's not as parochial as some podcasts can be. Talks to lots of people from the Arab world, about struggles in China, Eastern Europe etc. Left/anarchist though he's unaffiliated to any groups afaik. He sees the intersectionality of various struggles - climate change, anti-authoritarianism, the Arab spring - they all feed in, and are interlinked.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses


This is probably a good example - about how machismo plays a huge role in the construction of "peace" and power-sharing.


And this is one of the most interesting conversations I've heard in a long time:

 

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'Concepts were meant to open society up like a surgeon’s knife, and we knew that the patient could well be dying any second. Look at what happened to the art world in just a few years. We were supposed to have all these great conceptual knives lying around, crying to be used (the death of the author, etc.) and what did everyone do with them—cut themselves a piece of the cake. So you’re right: theory had an incredible impact for almost ten years and changed the way artists and critics dealt with art. They all became dealers...

There’s no “other side” to capitalism, it is everywhere. Cut one tentacle from the monster and others grow faster on other limbs. Capitalism is crawling inside of us all too, the best and the worst, and we have to keep pushing its creative energy in other directions, dodging the reduction to commerce and self-interest.'

-- Sylvère Lotringer, 2006.
 
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