350) Brad Evans: Reclaiming community and the power of silence
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
“We’ve collapsed the idea of community with 'connectivity'. But being 'connected' doesn’t mean you have any sense of community. To have a community, you need something very visceral, you need to be in close proximity with people, to communicate on a day-to-day basis, to understand the flaws of people. It’s not about curated existences.”
In this episode, we welcome Brad Evans, a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, who specializes in the problem of violence. His work is particularly concerned with addressing the multiple forms violence takes in the world, while developing a more poetic critique that highlights the importance of the arts and the imaginary.
The author of nineteen books and edited volumes, along with over a hundred academic and media articles, he currently holds a Chair in Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, United Kingdom.
(The musical offering in this episode is Debt by Luna Bec.)
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| 1:23.6 | If we can say that violence, as you point out, is a continuum throughout human history, but |
| 1:31.9 | we don't think that violence is necessarily natural, then how do we account for the ways |
| 1:38.2 | in which violence can constantly reinvent itself and can be constantly re-smuggled back into the social system. |
| 1:47.0 | Today we're speaking with Professor Brad Evans, a political philosopher, critical theorist and writer whose work specializes on the problem of violence. |
| 1:59.0 | His work is particularly concerned with addressing the |
| 2:01.8 | multiple forms violence takes in the world, while developing a more poetic critique that highlights |
| 2:07.3 | the importance of the arts and the imaginary. The author of 19 books and edited volumes, |
| 2:12.7 | along with over 100 academic and media articles, he currently holds a chair in political violence and aesthetics at the University of Bath, United |
| 2:21.4 | Kingdom. |
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