The Revolution will not be Scheduled / Sheila Liming

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Writer, professor and musician Sheila Liming joins us in Hell! to talk about her recently published book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time". This episode also features a Past inside the Present from Dr. Sebastian Wuepper and new responses to this week's Question from Hell! Which is "When we take over the means of production, what can we produce once in a while as a treat?" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/ Sheila Liming is an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where she teaches classes on literature, media, and writing. She is the author of two books, What a Library Means to a Woman and Office. Sheila also plays the accordion and bagpipes. http://sheilaliming.com/ Twitter: @seeshespeak

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0:00.0	Oh, you're welcome Neil.
0:15.0	Oh, you're welcome. you're welcome. This is hell.
0:35.0	Hell.
0:37.0	pretending to know what I'm talking about since 1996.
0:42.0	This is hell and wait one second I'm having
0:46.9	that static problem in my headphones again I'm switching over.
0:50.3	Lindsay... Lindsay, uh, da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
0:55.2	Much better. Oh, very much better.
0:58.1	Uh, since I get my headphones set there.
1:00.8	Oh, jeez.
1:02.2	Pretending to know what I'm talking about since 1996 this is hell and today I'm
1:07.1	pretending to know about hanging out I know I thought I had a good grasp on
1:11.1	hanging out as most people probably think they do, but at least
1:15.2	I was unaware of its radical power. Although I should have recognized it as looking back at when we used to hang out prior to the pandemic.
1:25.0	That's when some of the most radical things occurred that were definitely non-conformist and
1:30.0	our actions were definitely not sanctioned by the state, nor were the often deep conversations
1:36.0	that, you know, they were always about challenging authority.
1:40.5	It's not only the pandemic that has kept us from hanging out.
1:43.0	Not hanging out started with the advent of texting,
1:46.0	Smartphones, digital technology that makes not hanging out
1:52.0	incredibly convenient. What we lose by not hanging out is the
1:56.1	intimacy and yes the physical connection we have to you know other human beings.
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