ACFM Trip 38: Movement and Stillness
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like there’s too much change these days? Don’t worry, you’re not (necessarily) becoming more conservative. On this Trip, Nadia, Jem and Keir think about the ebb and flow of political currents, social movements and our inner lives.
What’s the difference between being still and being stuck? When does a campaign turn into a movement? Why do we talk about feminism coming in waves? How can you tell you’re approaching a tipping point? The gang turn such abstract questions into concrete history, with examples from punk to Corbyn, and from Daoism to degrowth.
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Books: David Easton – A Systems Analysis of Political Life / The Free Association – Moments of Excess / Aristide Zolberg – Moments of Madness / Gilles Deleuze – Difference and Repetition / Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari – Anti-Oedipus; A Thousand Plateaus / Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine
Music: Curtis Mayfield – Move on Up / Hiroshi Yoshimura – Urban Snow / Gang of Four – At Home He’s A Tourist / Moor Mother – Meditation Rag / Björk – It’s Oh So Quiet / Tony Scott – Za Zen / The Raincoats – The Dance of Hopping Mad
Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481
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| 0:00.0 | This is an actual. Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. |
| 0:24.0 | My name's Kia Milburn and I'm joined as usual by my very dear friends |
| 0:28.0 | Jeremy Gilbert. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello? |
| 0:31.0 | And Nadia Eidel. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello. And today we are discussing stillness and movement. Okay let's get into it. Why are we discussing still as a movement? |
| 0:39.0 | Okay let's get into it. Why are we discussing still as a movement? Has it got any relationship to what's going on at the current moment? |
| 0:46.0 | Well, he always would have. |
| 0:48.0 | It's interesting partly to think about the nature of the moment that we're in now historically in terms of what's |
| 0:55.6 | changing and what's not changing. I mean arguably that is always what the analysis of the |
| 1:01.9 | conjuncture as we like to call it following |
| 1:05.4 | ground she involves the the conjuncture is the name given in certain strands of |
| 1:11.8 | social political cultural theory or analysis just to the |
| 1:15.3 | the convergence of forces and factors that shaping any given historical moment and analyzing the conjuncture is always primarily a question of |
| 1:27.6 | asking yourself or what's changing and what's staying the same from before and when we were preparing for the show we thought in some |
| 1:37.1 | ways what characterizes the feeling of the present is that things are changing in a really bad |
| 1:41.6 | ways really rapidly and things that are bad are all things are also staying the same. So I think that's |
| 1:45.0 | staying the same. So I think that's partly why we feel it's |
| 1:51.0 | a relevant way of thinking about things and then what do you think? |
| 1:54.4 | Yeah I mean I'd agree with all of that I think on a similar vein but maybe approaching |
| 2:01.9 | it from from a different kind of framework or I don't know from a different |
| 2:07.7 | angle but also related to what you're saying Jeremy is this this kind of sense this, this social effect of, you know, the times that we're living in in the UK at the moment, where, you know, as you're saying, there's this sense that movement, like the movement or the direction that we are experiencing |
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