Summary
Chrononormativity, duppies and post-colonial thought. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring beyond the past, present and futures.
Language in the Land of Duppies: Exploring the origins of Jamaican folklore as a gateway to understanding the legacy of slavery on the island. Produced by Laura Carty Special thanks to Alexander Powell, Carmen Johnson, Natalia Downer, Kandice Thompson and Jean Smart.
All my friends are turning into Stars Written and performed by David Amber Devereux With Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales Additional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa Catterall Featuring quotes from De Profundus by Oscar Wilde, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and In A Queer Time And Place by Jack Halberstam
Interjections on the future: There is not currently any obvious path to reconstructing a popular faith in political, economic and even some social institutions but while it might not always feel like it today, the unwinding of colonial modernity is underway and accelerating. Produced by composer and researcher, Sara Rahman. Featuring psychiatrist Isabel Valli and writers and artists Fer Boyd and Maedeline Stack.
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Produced by Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.4 | I love today's episode. |
| 0:09.0 | We have some brilliant, brilliant pieces for you. |
| 0:11.7 | I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:12.9 | It's about the hereafter, so it is slightly magical, I suppose, slightly supernatural. |
| 0:18.4 | But really, just about the real past and our real collective future this is |
| 0:27.0 | shortcuts brief encounters true stories radio adventures and found sound today Today, hereafter. |
| 0:40.1 | The one thing that is possible is world making in your art |
| 0:45.4 | and also living as though the future that you're describing |
| 0:49.2 | is already here with total certainty. |
| 0:53.0 | What's in a word? |
| 0:54.8 | How many languages has it traversed? |
| 0:57.0 | And who brought it to mine? |
| 0:59.4 | I measure the red shift as they drift away from me. |
| 1:03.5 | And I am still here blue. |
| 1:18.6 | The future is a place where sensible people make plants or people who are very down to earth work towards. To me, the concept of hereafter has a mystical sense to it. It's not as solid |
| 1:26.3 | or prosaic as thinking about the future. It's thinking about a time |
| 1:31.3 | which is completely unwritten, a time which doesn't yet have a physical space. |
| 1:39.3 | Sound artist and producer Laura Carty folds time to revisit the lived histories that we are too |
| 1:47.0 | often denied access to. |
| 1:49.0 | A heritage of resistance now rendered taboo. |
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