The Intellectual

Dozens of incredible examples of prehistoric rock art have been found across western Europe in recent decades - but what do they mean?

Artworks can be discovered all along the Atlantic seaboard, from Spain to Scotland, where one stunning example was uncovered just last year. Ancient peoples left traces of their prehistoric cultures across the length and breadth of the landscape - but what does this art reveal about them?

In this episode Tristan is joined by Dr Joana Valdez-Tullett to discover more about the mysterious world of Atlantic rock art.

Joana's book: https://www.barpublishing.com/design-and-connectivity.html

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“Capitalism defeated traditional societies because it was more exciting than they were. But now there is something more exciting than capitalism: its destruction.” In the face of things with true power (capitalism, the law, public opinion, etc.), philosophy is not provisioned to battle them head-on. But it can wage “a guerrilla campaign against them,” writes Andrew Culp (referencing Deleuze) in his new book A GUERRILLA GUIDE TO REFUSAL. Harnessing critical theory, this book takes us on a journey through a subterranean network of communiques, military documents, contemporary art, political slogans, adversarial blogs, and captive media. This conversation among scholars traces a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it.

Andrew Culp is professor of media history and theory in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is author of A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (2022) and Dark Deleuze (2016).

Will Conway is a PhD candidate whose research centers around disability, biopolitics, and theories of resistance.

Jose Rosales is an independent researcher. With Claire Fontaine and Iman Ganji, they are co-author of Foreigners Everywhere and the author of 'Communism as the Riddle Posed to History' in The Double Binds of Neoliberalism (Rowan & Littlefield, 2022), as well as various other texts that can be found online. Currently, they are co-editor (alongside Andreas Petrossiants) of the multi-volume series, Diversity of Aesthetics. 

Violet is a queer independent researcher based in India working on theories of resistance, biopolitics, and destituent communism.

References:

Gilles Deleuze

Michel Foucault

Arlette Farge

May 68

Jean Genet

Guy Hocquenghem

Johann Most

Lucy Parsons

Friedrich Engels

Paul B. Preciado (and “Marcos”)

Christopher Chitty (Sexual Hegemony)

Karl Marx

Jacques Derrida

Roberto Esposito

Antonio Negri

Félix Guattari

Bernadette Corporation’s Get Rid of Yourself (film)

Edward Said

Eqbal Ahmad (Confronting Empire)

Frantz Fanon

Robin D. G. Kelley (Race Rebels)

Homi Bhabha

Fred Moten

Nahum Dimitri Chandler (paraontology)

Claire Fontaine

Tiqqun

Saidiya Hartman

Kwame Ture

Nanni Balestrini (The Unseen)

Keywords: archive, power, surveillance, cybernetics, refusal, political, political control, philosophy, anarchy, class, class war, transformation

Several references are made to specific current events, and as such we want to mention the date of this recording: March 31, 2022.

Today’s guests are Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the co-editors of a bracing new collection of essays about the figure of Ahab in Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. Meredith is the Assistant Teaching Professor of Core Literature at Wake Forest University. Her book Melville’s Leaks: Science, Materialism, and the Reconstitution of Persons is under contract at Northwestern University Press. Jonathan is the Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. His articles have been published in American Literature, American Literary History, and the Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies. His book Prisoners of Loss: An Atlantic History of Nostalgia, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Their new collection of essays is titled Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn (U Minnesota Press, 2021), published with the University of Minnesota Press. The collection includes contributions from a range of scholars from Christopher Castiglia, Samuel Otter, Steve Mentz, Jonathan Lamb, and Bonnie Honig, among others.

John Yargo recently received his PhD in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in the environmental humanities and early modern culture. His articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Journal for Early Modern Culture Studies, Studies in Philology, and Shakespeare Studies.

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Welcome to Episode 2 of The Interesting Times podcast. We are joined by the indomitable Ira Allen, an associate professor serving in both the English and political science departments at Northern Arizona University, to discuss the potential shapes of the lights at the end of the dark tunnel we seem to be becoming further encased in by the day. He wields a joyful and fascinating intellect that challenges us to think not only about grandiose possibilities but also the constraints that we must assume will necessarily attenuate these visions. We are so lucky to have him on the show and I am sure you will get a lot from listening to his thoughts on a host of critical and ever-pressing matters. Thanks as always for supporting this venture. I am including a link to Ira’s book as well as links to a few of the other books that come up in our conversation, below.

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Ira’s book: The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theoryhttps://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Fantasy-Rhetorical-Composition-Literacy/dp/0822965364

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/0674000781

The Law of Peoples by John Rawls

https://www.amazon.com/Law-Peoples-Public-Reason-Revisited/dp/0674005422

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity-ebook/dp/B08R2KL3VY

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290

Esther Leslie joins Long Reads for a discussion about Walter Benjamin, one of the most influential cultural theorists of the last century. His unorthodox Marxism and ideas about culture and history have inspired several generations of critical thought about the world made by capitalism. Esther is a leading authority on Benjamin’s life and work who teaches at Birkbeck University in London.

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Mythological sagas are often fantastical and push the imagination to the limit but the Popol Vuh, which originates in what is Guatemala today, has a gallery of extraordinary characters both good and bad. They get involved in a series of mind-boggling battles and challenges and this eventually leads to the creation of the human race. The Maya K’iche’ story of the Popol Vuh has come down to us in an 18th-Century transcription and Spanish translation by a priest called Francisco Ximenez, and as with many ancient stories, there are tantalising questions about the history of the manuscript and the origins of the tale itself.

Rajan Datar traces the meanings and significance of the Popol Vuh with the help of Frauke Sachse who is director of Pre-Columbian Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC; Iyaxel Cojti Ren, professor at the University of Texas; Allen Christenson who is professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah as well as an ethnographer and author of a new translation and critical edition of the Popol Vuh.

(Image: A Mayan ball player at the Great Ball Court in Chichen-Itza. Credit: Independent Picture Service/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

How do you keep your language alive while also protecting the health of elders? That's been the quandary facing Ojibwe educators during the pandemic. As native speakers, Ojibwe elders were the primary teachers of the language, but they were also the most vulnerable to COVID. Leah Lemm of Minnesota's Mille Lacs Ojibwe band tells us how she and others figured out how to continue learning while also ensuring the wellbeing of teaching elders like her own father.

Music in this episode by Airae, Gridded, Megan Woffard, Headlund, Joseph Beg, Jules Gaia, Rymdklang Soundtracks, Molecular Machine. Read a transcript of the episode here.

Some Ojibwe language resources recommended by Leah: James Vukelich's Ojibwe Word of the Day; the University of Minnesota's online Ojibwe dictionary; the  Ojibwe Rosetta Stone project; and the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe and the Minnesota Historical Society's Aanjibimaadizing book project.

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My guest today is the brilliant Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? In this episode we discuss her latest book Pure Colour, a new novel l about art, love, loss and time. It has been described as a galaxy of a novel: explosive, bright, huge and streaked with beauty. Sheila Heti has also been described as philosopher of modern experience - and I really enjoyed this conversation. Motherhood, her novel which grapples with the question of whether or not to have kids was a huge inspiration on me - and I think Sheila is one of the most talented artists of our time. Enjoy this conversation, I loved it and was on cloud nine after recording! 

• My Substack! https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Sheila Heti's Pure Colour: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781787302808
• Sheila Heti's books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/sheila-heti
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• Books Mentioned On Ctrl Alt Delete Podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcast
• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
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