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Against Everyone with Conner Habib

AEWCH 143: SREĆKO HORVAT or LIBERATE TIME!

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

I talk with philosopher and activist Srećko Horvat about why we need to liberate time & space if we want to avoid the destruction of everything we love. So, yeah, we should probably get on that.

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Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib, a weekly podcast featuring my conversations with

0:05.2

countercultural figures and presenting the intersections of spirituality, philosophy, and politics

0:10.5

in an engaging and accessible way. Well, friends, before I start this episode with Svetschko Horvatt,

0:18.5

I want to talk about three conundrums that hopefully I go on to

0:26.6

solve in collaboration or give a glimpse of an answer to in collaboration with Svetko Horvatt,

0:33.6

the philosopher, author, activist.

0:36.6

So the three conundrums, one is about morality, who are about the philosopher, author, activist.

0:38.3

So the three conundrums, one is about morality and time,

0:42.3

one is about the phantom nature of social forces,

0:45.3

and one is about the problem of space.

0:49.3

And I'm going to give really sort of on-the-ground examples for these, so you can understand what I'm talking about and I'm not just going into theory jargon.

1:01.4

The first, which I said is about morality and time, I'm going to start by telling a story.

1:06.6

Right after Trump was elected, in fact, I think that night, or maybe the night after,

1:14.9

I went with my friend Joanne McNeil, who's been on the show.

1:19.0

She's an internet scholar, historian, and cultural critic.

1:25.5

She and I went to go see Rebecca Solnett, the author, speak in L.A.

1:31.9

And Rebecca, we thought Rebecca Solnoy was going to talk about maps, but actually because of the

1:40.2

election, she ended up talking mostly about Trump and Hillary Clinton. And, of course,

1:47.0

the audience questions were these kinds of timid, frightened questions about the future. And

1:53.6

one of the things that Rebecca Solman said, she just said, you know, if we don't participate

1:59.7

in this climate agreement, it's over. It's game over.

2:04.9

She said something, at least equally declarative to that. And, you know, with due respect,

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