The Girl in The Road, Infrastructure and Standpoints
02/27/20 • 51 min
We Discuss Monica Byrne's "The Girl in The Road"
Themes Discussed:
Franz Fanon's phenomenology and race theory
The Infrastructure Space
Standpoint theory
Byrne's unusual approach to writing an audience-insert character
Embodied writing
Links:
Fanon's "Black Skins, White Masks":
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OYIKUG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Extrastatecraft (on infrastructure space):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K9MK1R6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Stanford Encyclopedia entry for standpoint theory (as well as other feminist epistemology theories):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-social-epistemology/
We Discuss Monica Byrne's "The Girl in The Road"
Themes Discussed:
Franz Fanon's phenomenology and race theory
The Infrastructure Space
Standpoint theory
Byrne's unusual approach to writing an audience-insert character
Embodied writing
Links:
Fanon's "Black Skins, White Masks":
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OYIKUG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Extrastatecraft (on infrastructure space):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K9MK1R6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Stanford Encyclopedia entry for standpoint theory (as well as other feminist epistemology theories):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-social-epistemology/
Previous Episode
Disco Elysium, Ghosts and Angels
For our podcast premiere we discussed the ZA/UM movement's game: Disco Elysium.
Themes discussed:
Mourning and Walter Benjamin's angel of history
Radical friendship
The Cartesian experiment and the cop within your head
An anarchist love letter to communism
Hauntology
Links:
Derrida's "Specters of Marx": https://books.google.com/books/about/Specters_of_Marx.html?id=sEENbAP5FZsC
Dark Crystal: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905542/
Relevant essay by Mark Fisher: https://frieze.com/article/mark-fisher-and-work-mourning-visual-essay-tony-cokes
Walter Benjamin's Concept of History: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm
Next Episode
Akira, Violence and Friendship
We discuss 1988 Anime masterpiece "Akira"
Some themes discussed:
Deleuze and Foucault's ideas of societies of discipline and societies of control
Hannah Arendt's approach to violence, and violence in leftist ideology
The rise and fall of capitalist Japan
Science as Pandora's box
Radical friendship
Catherine M. Valente's Radiance:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N03G440/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Hannah Arendt Reflections on Violence:
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