"What does it mean to actually find oneself removed from an overbearing context, or find yourselves at a loss, or confused and dizzy and dislocated from the world that itself carries a certain order, but one that's apparently life-denying, devastating, and decimating? Dizziness can present a fruitful opening for a potentially generative togetherness and interdependence through dizziness as a rejection of the current order." Natasha Lennard

"Dizziness is very helpful to understand that clarity is an illusion and fake most of the time. But it needs to be searched like wisdom: Clarity is a utopia." Alice Pechriggl

This episode starts with the radio play "Vertiginous. Part II Abdallah" by Dani Gal. This beginning leads us to deliberate on dizziness's political and sociopolitical implications. Here, the dark or "ugly face of dizziness", as Angelos Varvarousis calls it, takes shape. What havoc can dizziness create in a society? How can we shift its potential to the generative and fertile? In search of a better understanding, we time-travel to specific political turning points of the 20th century with historian Ursula Prutsch, and to different geographies, from Austria to Argentia, Brazil, the USA, Korea, and Turkey - considering the liberatory and destructive dynamics of dizziness and the dizzying systems that we enforce and those that are enforced on us. 

With contributions by Philippe Narval, Alice Pechriggl, Natascha Lennard, Angelos Varvarousis, Dan Novy, Basak Senova, Ursula Prutsch, Anna Kim, Evdokia Romanova, Yulia Strykovska.

Radio Play Speakers: David Wurawa, Alexei Korolyov, Alix Martin, Ewa Placzyńska.

"Vertiginous. Part II Abdallah" by Dani Gal

"Palabra Santa" by Eduardo Roudnicky.

Links: http://www.on-dizziness.com/

Credits:

Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein

Assistance: Laura Brechmann

Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond

Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent

Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts

Associate Producer: Livia Heiss

Photo:

"Circulating Swing," used a therapeutic tool at the Lunatic Asylum, Cork, 1818

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