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Walking With Change episodes
- Gifting a Better Past with Federico Campagna
“Developing a familiarity with the past truly enriches our experience of living and can really give us some incredible tools for facing these impossible challenges that we have to face.”
I am very excited to share this conversation with the brilliant and passionate thinker, storyteller, and Italian Philosopher Federico Companga! In this episode, Federico discusses the role of imagination, nostalgia, storytelling, solidarity, and anarchism in creating new worlds. He emphasizes the importance of metaphysical inquiry and the need to reimagine reality. We dive into many other topics from mysticism to what is existence? what it means to be a migrant and find belonging. And the rise of reactionary politics at this time of collapse and unfolding disasters… and more! Much of the conversation stems from Federico’s new fabulous book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History.
(warning: I say beautiful a lot in this episode, because, well his ideas and stories are BEAUTIFUL!!!)
Federico is also the author of Prophetic Culture: recreation for adolescents (Bloomsbury: 2021), Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Last Night (Zero Books, 2013). Federico lives in London.
Federico Campagna's Work
Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History: Federico Campagna
Pushing Through Portals by calm.
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Show music by: AwareNess
Tech and Show Art: Chris Bergman
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1 hr 5 min - Dancing with Bayo Akomolafe
“There are tensions in modernity, and what we're witnessing now is this eruption of other intelligences, and it's what gives rise to the questions that I'm stumbling into.”
The wonderful Bayo Akomolafe joined carla for a rhizomatic conversation that moved across landscapes and into the cosmos, where they covered a myriad of topics, passions, and, yes, questions! Bayo weaves together beauty, insight, and contemplation, as he poetically evokes us to hold onto the trouble as we dance with the monstrous and create sanctuary. Plus so much more!
www.bayoakomolafe.net
www.emergencenetwork.org
Supporting the show
Show music by: AwareNess
Tech and Show Art: Listening House Media (Chris Bergman)
carla joy bergman
transcripts
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51 min - Practicing Autonomy with Raúl Zibechi
"Every day when you stand up, you begin a new day, constructing autonomy and working in autonomy."
Raúl Zibechi joined carla for the inaugural episode of Walking With Change to talk about Societies in Movement, the many anticapitalist and anticolonial pathways, pedagogy and children, the duality of resistance and creating, autonomy, feminisms, Rojava, Zapatistas, spirituality, and more!
Raúl Zibechi is a Uruguayan writer, popular educator, and journalist, and has written numerous books, with his latest being, Constructing Worlds Otherwise.
- Raúl Zibechi Book (English translation by George Ygarza Quispe)
- "Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man" (Rojava pamphlet)
- No Spiritual Surrender (Klee Benally's book)
- Supporting WWC
- Show music by: AwareNess
- Tech and Show Art: Listening House Media (Chris Bergman)
- carla joy bergman's website
Transcripts
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1 hr - An Introduction by carla joy bergman about Walking With Change!
This is a 5 min introduction to my new show, Walking With Change!
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peace,
carla joy
6 min - Mutual Aid is Kin(etic)
Mutual Aid is Kin(etic): Ten things I feel about mutual aid
written by carla joy bergman ; read by carla
produced at Listening House Media
read essay here
music by Sour Gout from the album, Endless Everyday
this essay was originally written for Pressing Concern Books, bookmark series in spring of 2021
17 min
About Walking With Change
From the publisher's feed
What would happen if we stop and listen to our imaginations more so we can uncover new questions emerging now?
Walking with Change is an invitation to "walk" with me and my guests on some brambly-filled-paths as we discover landscapes of lost or clandestine questions, or uncover new and better ones along the way. I am intentionally inviting folks into these conversations whom I feel are asking interesting and unique questions at this time, or are willing to sit with not knowing as they ponder possible questions on the horizon.
I created Walking With Change in part because, what if the most common questions swarming our minds and hearts are mere distraction, or worse, leading us further into crisis by keeping us in a feedback loop within empire by asking the same questions over and over again?
The show is a blending of conversations, short fiction, poetry, music, and some musings that dig into what it means to be present during these rapidly changing times. The format and themes of this podcast are indeed multi-layered, and at the heart of the show I’ll be asking my guests what questions are bubbling up for them at this time. And of course, we will meander into many other themes and topics.
These are some of the edges, fault-lines, and terrains that I invite you to join me and my fellow errant-body-guests on! Let's wander together on pathways that embrace the messiness of asking questions as we explore and learn together, creating new maps and delighting in the surprises that spring up along the way.
When we listen as we walk we have the potential to make and unmake ourselves and our worlds. And in these becoming-more-together practices we can bloom beautiful new realities amidst the ongoing disasters and looming dooms.
WWC is an invitation to return from the future to listen and respond to the many nows.
THANKS FOR LISTENING! 🌙
"We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet." — Subcomandante Marcos
🌙 show music by AwareNess
🌙 show art by Chris Bergman
🌙 Produced by Bergman Creatives and shared on CAW: https://www.cawshinythings.com/tag/fragments/
carla's website: https://www.joyfulcarla.com/
Support the making of the show by becoming a paid member at CAW! https://www.cawshinythings.com/
PS maybe one day I will travel to meet folks in person so we can actually walk as we talk!