Episode 5: Hope and Nihilism (Jan. 20)
L and M ask: what roles do hope and/or nihilism play in shaping political culture. In a meditative discussion held shortly after the US 2024 General Election, they reflect on how social movements and artistic expression hold potential to counter the isolation/alienation/exhaustion of the season ahead.
Tressie Cottom, Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nno64FGj8d0
WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935) https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
Jiirgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Ursula Le Guin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000)
Gabriel Winant, Exit Right https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/
Calvin Warren, Abandoning Time: Black Nihilism and the Democratic Imagination
https://amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst/2021/1/40
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