AEWCH 258: SREĆKO HORVAT, UNA MULLALLY, MARK O'CONNELL on APOCALYPSE & RENEWAL

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Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

On Thursday, March 28, myself and journalist & organizer UNA MULLALLY, presented the event THE BEGINNING IS NEAR in Dublin, where we talked about the end of the world and what comes after that. It marked in person with frequent AEWCH guests, philosopher and activist SREĆKO HORVAT, and cultural critic and writer MARK O'CONNELL.
The event marked Srećko's first speaking engagement in Ireland, and also my first attempt at creating an "AEWCH event" in Ireland. I'd love to do many more.

The night was broken into halves: first, we talked about apocalypse. Then we had a short break and spoke about renewal. What arose was a challenging set of indications and prospects, failures and pathways.

Some questions that came up:

Is the apocalypse always happening?
What does the esoteric tell us about how to live beyond apocalypse?
What is the role of art in renewal?
Why is it important to evade the political realm?
What is the use of hope?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.
0:03.1	Friends, on Thursday, March 28th, myself and journalist and organizer, Unum Malali,
0:10.0	presented the event, The Beginning is Near, Apocalypse and Renewal, in Dublin,
0:15.1	where we talked about the end of the world and what comes after that,
0:18.8	with Svetko Horvatt and Mark O'Connell.
0:22.0	All three of these people have been on my show many times, but this was the first time I got
0:27.3	them all in the same room together, and also it was Svetschko's first speaking engagement in
0:33.6	Ireland. I want to introduce this episode, which is basically an edited recording of that event,
0:42.6	by talking about a statement from the Sarajevo Artistic Survival Group that was issued in 1993.
0:53.2	So this is around when the war in Sarajevo, which was an almost four-year siege as part of the Bosnian War, was happening.
1:04.0	Bombings and massacres, the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs, mostly Muslims, which ultimately resulted in the deaths of around
1:12.1	100,000 civilians, found a horrific flashpoint in Sarajevo. So here's the statement. To the
1:23.4	artists of the world, you bastards, we challenge you to make a real piece of art.
1:29.6	Come to Sarajevo and make your masterpiece here in the center of the world, in the most
1:35.1	significant city on the planet.
1:37.2	Move your fucking asses and make something real.
1:40.4	Raise your voice against fascism, save some human lives. Feed the soul of the people in pain.
1:46.7	Tell the world that aesthetics is nothing but a lie if the art cannot face the terror of the so-called civilization at the end of the 20th century.
1:56.0	You bastards, don't be stupid. Stop making excuses.
2:04.2	Don't let the art sink in shitty conformism.
2:12.6	You dear lovers are only allies. You lonely riders. Come to Sarajevo. We can make it.
2:21.0	Susan Sontag replied to this cry by going to Sarajevo to direct a production of waiting for Godot, the most famous play by the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.
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