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Discussion of books and ideas for our tangled times. Read along with us or just listen in.
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Jan 14, 2025
Jan 14, 2025
54 min
Life updates, book updates, parting thoughts.
Mentioned:
"On historical materialism and The Dawn of Everything" by David Wengrow
Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline by Jamie Merchant
Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield
Organization, Community, Continuity by Peter Gelderloos
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll
The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
Survival is a Promise: The Enternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood and "Open the Gates" by Irreversible Entanglements. (thanks to International Anthem for permission to use the song).
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Sep 12, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
1hr 31 min
Our SECOND TO LAST episode of the season! We are joined by Nick Smaligo to talk through the major themes of The Dawn of Everything, and of Graeber's work in general. Nick was full of insights.
Nick's essay on The Dawn of Everything: "Closing Paradise's Gate"
Also mentioned: The Terms of Order by Cedric Robinson
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" and "Thank You for the Path" by Big Blood.
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Aug 14, 2024
Aug 14, 2024
1hr 8 min
This is not our last episode on The Dawn of Everything, but here we discuss the concluding chapter of the book, which summarizes the book's project while moving forward on some of its new ideas.
Next time we will be joined by a guest to help us think about the book as a whole.
Mentioned:
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences (about Mircea Eliade) by Bruce Lincoln
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood.
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May 12, 2024
May 12, 2024
1hr 20 min
We are joined by two of our good friends, who deliver a nuanced Indigenous response to The Dawn of Everything, centering on Chapter 11's treatment of Mississippian culture. They also share about an indigenous earthwork that they have recently helped to construct in the city of Bulbancha (a.k.a. New Orleans, Louisiana).
Links to further reading, courtesy of our guests:
The Great Power of Small Nations by Elizabeth Ellis
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F.C. Steeves
Gods of Thunder - Timothy R. Pauketat
[Pauketat podcast interviews here and here]
ArchaeoEd: A podcast about ancient civilizations of the Americas
A Sacred Path: The Way of the Muscogee Creeks
Stolen Anarchy: Playing Indian & The Roots of Collectivism | TwinRabbit
Plains Sign & the Myth of Indigenous Illiteracy | TwinRabbit
Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South
IG: @nanihbvlbancha
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood, Selections from "Disaster Prone" mixtape by Deejay Karo.
Cover photo by Joe Darensbourg.
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Apr 12, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
1hr 48 min
In the last full chapter of the book, the Davids return to Turtle Island to argue against the inevitability of domination and to give historical context for the indigenous critique of European society.
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood.
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Mar 8, 2024
Mar 8, 2024
1hr 18 min
Hungry ancestors, play kings, and copious cosmetics. The conclusion of our discussion of Chapter 10.
Mentioned:
One River book by Wade Davis
The King Must Die book by Mary Renault
Cover image from a fresco at Knossos, on the island of Crete.
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" and "Blind Owl I" by Big Blood.
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Feb 20, 2024
Feb 20, 2024
1hr 51 min
Regarding history, teleology and the state, and the three elementary forms of power. Our discussion of the first half of Chapter 10.
Cover image from a detail of the Raimondi Stele from Chavín de Huántar, Peru.
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood. "That Glow in the Morning" by Sarah Louise.
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Jan 30, 2024
Jan 30, 2024
1hr 7 min
We finish discussing Chapter 8 and move on to Chapter 9. More early cities, and a type of democracy uncovered in Spanish chronicles of Mesoamerica.
Mentioned:
Henry Corbin, French scholar of Islamic philosophy, and his book Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood. "R Mountain" by Sarah Louise.
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Jan 14, 2024
Jan 14, 2024
2hr 9 min
Cities emerge around the world. What are they like? We return to discuss Chapter 8 of our book.
Mentioned:
Mountain Gardens website, instagram
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood. "Jewel of the Blue Ridge" by Sarah Louise.
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Oct 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023
1hr 23 min
We return from halftime to talk more about early farmers and the vast middle ground that spans foraging and agriculture.
Mentioned:
"Low Level Food Production" by Bruce Smith, 2001.
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Featured music: "Stars Sewn Into Our Skies" by Big Blood. "Offering" by Anna Luisa.
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