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BRONTË VELEZ on the Necessity of Beauty, Part 2 /140

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Anthropocene, Land, Story Telling, Progressive, Liberation, Media, For The Wild, Decolonization, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, in Part Two of our episode with brontë velez, we dive into the capacity for pleasure amidst times of great uncertainty and historical oppression. What does “pleasure in the apocalypse” mean? How might this conversation take on different meanings depending on whether we are talking about climate change as an abstraction versus the current lived experience of planetary uncertainty? As brontë defines it, pleasure is what makes us come alive, so how can we create a culture that is deep...

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