I missed a recent seminar presentation on Brand New Nation due to childcare and this gave me a chance to hear more about Ravinder's excellent book in  own words... thanks for posting!

@tom-chambers-942963414: Glad you enjoyed it Tom!

This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with Montreal’s Roger Tellier-Craig, known for his work with Fly Pan Am, Godspeed, Le Révélateur and others. In 2019, Fly Pan Am released C'est ça, their first record in 15 years, but their 2020 tour plans were derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tellier-Craig discusses his fascination with music as a studio art, the unexpected creative opportunities presented by quarantine, and the hyperreality of our present in which our fragile sense of reality seems poised to collapse at any moment.

Interview recorded in Montreal, May 2020
Produced and mixed in Montreal, March 2021

Read more at: https://acloserlisten.com/2021/03/14/sp-episode-18-into-the-uncanny-valley-with-roger-tellier-craig-podcast/

"la réalité qui bascule dans le néant"

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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

SP* Episode 18: INTO THE UNCANNY VALLEY - with Roger Tellier-Craig [podcast]

Melissa Gira Grant and Chardine Taylor Stone join PTO to discuss police and male violence and the murder of Sarah Everard. We talked about the importance of not seeing Wayne Couzen's role as a police officer as merely incidental to the murder of Everard and we also talked about why carceral feminist approaches that seek to combat male violence through the police and the courts are doomed to fail.  We also talked about the social media reaction to the initial vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham common and how the struggle against police violence and violence against women in general requires the building of a mass movement of collective struggle that cuts across different identities.

The entwinement of police and male violence w/ Melissa Gira Grant & Chardine Taylor Stone

At the birth of industry in England, a movement of weavers gathered together to resist the imposition of technologies which threatened their way of life. Their actions – which ranged from petitioning government to direct sabotage and destruction of the new weaving frames – were done in the name of their fictional leader, the 'mass pseudonym' Ned Ludd. The Luddites became a byword for a pointless struggle against the inevitable tide of technological progress, but perhaps they now look prophetic. In fact, claims Gavin Mueller, the Luddite rebellions set the pattern for repeated acts of workplace and community rebellion against the imposition of technologies which dispossess workers and rob us all of our freedom. 'To be a good Marxist', he claims, 'is to be a Luddite.' He joins James Butler to trace a surprising history of Luddite rebellion stretching from pre-industrial England to the hacker culture of the early internet, and the ecologically-oriented movements of salvage and repair springing up today. Gavin Mueller's Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job is available now from Verso Books. The image for this episode is taken from an early 1980s cover of Processed World, an archive of which is available online and which we commend to our listeners. https://novaramedia.com/?p=32077

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#NovaraFM: Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs

Jeremy Gilbert hits the road for a musical microdose accompanying the #ACFM Trip on Folk. Connecting different strands of folk music with their various political tendencies, Jeremy looks at the communism of Woody Guthrie and the singers of the Dust Bowl era, the Vietnam protest music of Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village scene, and the folk psychedelia of the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.

The episode includes over 40 musical examples spanning a period of around 100 years.

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

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#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music

Cold open: Alex Karp’s manifesto of futurism.

Main show: Ring the stock exchange bell: Palantir is going public! We do a deep dive into Palantir’s S-1 filing and uncover an emerging schism in Silicon Valley. This episode gets dark as we trace the deep political and philosophical connections between Fascist Futurism and Palantir’s vision of techno-nationalism. You thought this company was evil before? Well buckle up.

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).

Some episode references:
Registration Statement on Form S-1 | Palantir Technologies: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520230013/d904406ds1.htm

The Futurist Manifesto | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1909): https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manifesto_futurista.pdf

Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School | Moira Weigel: https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/

5. The Palantir Reformation

Lola Olufemi joins PTO to talk about her new book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power.  We chatted about the history of black feminist organising, the problem with mainstream liberal feminism, and the generational divide in feminist circles over trans rights.

#98 Feminism, Interrupted w/ Lola Olufemi

Sophie Lewis joins PTO to talk about her article in The Nation, 'Covid-19 Is Straining the Concept of the Family. Let’s Break It'. We chatted about how the Covid19 pandemic has underscored how dependent the nuclear family is upon the labour of others, and why the family is being called into question by mainstream political commentators. We also talked whether the call for family abolitionism is strategically the right call to be making, and whether instead the left ought to demand the extension of the beneficial aspects - of at least some families - to everyone.

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#102 What Covid-19 reveals about the family w/ Sophie Lewis

What would it mean to take climate change as seriously as it demands to be taken? What kinds of political action are adequate to the climate crisis? Why are states acting so slowly, and so inadequately? And why is the climate movement so wedded to a near-absolute pacifism? Andreas Malm, author of one of the most penetrating accounts of carbon capitalism, thinks he knows why – and what is to be done. In a new polemic, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, he makes an urgent call for the climate justice movement to take radical action against the infrastructure of death – before it's too late. He joins James Butler to discuss. The two Catholic Worker activists mentioned in the episode, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, face over 100 years each in prison. The Climate Focus is part of Novara Media’s Decade Project, an inquiry into the defining issues of the 2020s. The Decade Project is generously supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (London Office). https://novaramedia.com/?p=28949

#NovaraFM: The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow up a Pipeline

Jeremy Gilbert joins PTO to discuss why the Corbyn and Sanders projects ultimately foundered. We talked about the significance of personality and strategy versus deeper historical tendencies, and why the Corbyn leadership seemed to prefer a critique of austerity to a broader attack on the neoliberal era. Our discussion was prompted by Jeremy's article in Open Democracy, 'We lost because we weren’t big enough'.

UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

Ravinder Kaur joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India'. We spoke about how in both India, and around the world ethnonationalism in alliance with domestic and international capital seeks to rebrand entire nations as attractive investment opportunities. We talked about who and what is left out of the airbrushed picture of the branded nation, why it is that nationalism and capitalist globalisation are not antithetical as was commonly supposed in the 1990s, and we also talked about how India's democratic history and self-portrayal as open and convivial is used to favourably contrast India with China, even in the era of Hindu nationalism.

#108 Capitalist dreams and nationalist designs w/ Ravinder Kaur

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