The Brilliant

Recorded on December 18th 2015 This is one of the first episodes where B & A! seriously disagree. Probably there is just some sort of misunderstanding or perhaps race is something we are not capable of seeing eye to eye on. Entertaining listen though. Totally separately than this is a discussion about an article from the newest Black Seed by Gerald Vizenor. Join us in conversation by email Ticktock Introduction @ 2:00 Topic of the week - Identity @ 4:00 Bellamy was taught politics in college... saw some grandstanding He moved to the Bay and saw worse A! attempts to thread a needle A critique of Post-left Anarchy as tone deaf Pickup lines on Facebook Not stories, battle plans about winning Veganism Individuation and social relations Race is a geist @ 24:30 Revisiting reflections on and with the Unterrified podcast (episode 11) Can an analysis (about geist) be intrinsically European or only contingently associated Context matters! (in this case I don't know more than I know) White mans burden (colonization and evaluating other cultures) Disagreement ensues Imagination redux @ 41:20 Gerald Vizenor!!! Spoiler Alert!!! We talk about specifics of the Vizenor piece from Black Seed European authors are mentioned (Derrida, Barthes, etc) The story is about storytelling, indigeneity, sex, social pressure, racism, etc. "When you tell a story you lead with the sex and then tell about the back seat" Trickster destroys and creates the world Genocide vs the Trickster Catholicism URLs Anews Identity Locating an Indigenous Anarchism Black Seed #4 email us