Representations of the Intellectual: Part 1

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this Intelligence Briefing, the guys go over Edward Said's book Representations of the Intellectual, which was based on his 1993 series of Reith Lectures. This book focuses on the conceptions of intellectuals and the roles that they should play within society. A very fun conversation, on a very important work! Part 2 of this conversation will be coming out as a Patreon Exclusive episode very soon. You can listen to Said's series of Reith Lectures for free here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gxr1s

Guerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Comrade tier and above will have access to all Intelligence Briefings.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.4	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.8	This is a guerrilla history intelligence briefing.
0:41.5	Our intelligence briefings are roughly twice a month, Patreon bonus content.
0:46.4	About one episode a month goes out early access on Patreon, and then the other one is a Patreon
0:50.7	exclusive as a thank you to the people who help support this show.
0:54.5	I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined by my co-hosts, as always, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:59.9	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
1:04.4	Hello, Adnan.
1:05.1	How are you doing today?
1:06.2	How is it in the Great White North up there in Canada?
1:09.3	Oh, I'm doing well.
1:10.4	Yes, it is minus 22 centigrade.
1:14.6	I don't even know what that is in Fahrenheit because I never needed to know
1:18.5	temperatures this low on that scale.
1:21.4	But it's great.
1:22.3	It's great to be with you.
1:23.8	Yeah, nice seeing you.
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