When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
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A discussion of a cluster of Toni Morrison's non-fiction pieces concerned with gender, memory, and the imagination. We explore the relation between Morrison's meditations and our previous conversations about place and memory, in particular how transcendence is brought to sites through memory-work and the imagination. As well, the ways in which memory-work and the imagination entwine with landscape, meaning, and the ethics of reading emerge as both conceptually interesting and innovative and as imperatives placed on us by Morrison's deep work on the meaning of literature and literary production. How does that deep work make us different kinds of readers? How does it animate literature and our imaginations when we engage the text?
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A discussion of a cluster of Toni Morrison's non-fiction pieces concerned with gender, memory, and the imagination. We explore the relation between Morrison's meditations and our previous conversations about place and memory, in particular how transcendence is brought to sites through memory-work and the imagination. As well, the ways in which memory-work and the imagination entwine with landscape, meaning, and the ethics of reading emerge as both conceptually interesting and innovative and as imperatives placed on us by Morrison's deep work on the meaning of literature and literary production. How does that deep work make us different kinds of readers? How does it animate literature and our imaginations when we engage the text?
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Fashioning Critical Theory
1 Wynter and Quijano on Politics, Coloniality, and the Human 55:20
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA discussion of Sylvia Wynter's essay "Toward the Sociogenic Principle" and Aníbal Quijano's "Coloniality of Power" essay, with particular attention to how each diagnoses the pathologies of the colonial relation, the world is buoys, and the kinds of racial and national identities it produces. How can we think outside the coloniality of power? How can the social be constructed otherwise, such that it produces liberated forms of subjectivity, knowledge, and being?…
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1 Glissant on Difference, Opacity, Traces, and Creolization 39:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA conversation about Édouard Glissant's work on creolization, with particular emphasis on how that conceptualization of relation emphasizes both the right to opacity and the necessity of cultural contact. What happens to concepts, to art, to expressive life when it is put in contact with differences? How do vulnerable communities and traditions protect themselves in moments of asymmetrical contact? And so what are the ethics of these kinds of encounter?…
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1 Celan, Levinas, and Derrida on Representation and the Unrepresentable 44:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA discussion of Paul Celan's essay "The Meridian," along with companion pieces of Emmanuel Levinas. Claude Lanzmann, and Jacques Derrida, with particular focus on the poetic word's capacity to bring the deconstructive, dismantling, and interruptive function of absence in reckoning with traumatic experience. How does such a word reflect an ethics of speaking about catastrophe?…
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1 Spillers on Gender, Race, Naming, and Possibility 59:20
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA discussion of Hortense Spillers' essay "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book," with particular emphasis on the critical possibilities opened up by her interrogation of naming, gender, and race after The Moynihan Report. What does the Report tell us about the status of the phrase "Black woman"? And what remains to be thought after what that Report erases from our conceptual approach to the world?…
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1 Kristeva on Abjection, Misogyny, and the Symbolic-Political Order 1:01:29
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLong discussion of Julia Kristeva's The Powers of Horror, with special attention to how her theory of abjection informs political strategies of oppression and exploitation rooted in the body. Our discussion works through the conception of the abject and its relation to misogyny and patriarchal cultural formation and reproduction, with particular attention to the aging feminine body, the "formless" and "plump" girl body (Nabokov's words and example), and how abjection sits at the center of our cultural-political imagination.…
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1 Spivak on the Subaltern, Epistemic Violence, and Representation 38:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA discussion of Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?," an essay that interrogates the discursive conditions of speaking and the coloniality of such conditions. We focus here on silence, withdrawal, and the refusal to enter into discourse as a form of resistance and ethics. In particular, we are here interested in why Spivak makes this claim - what is protected, what is kept from colonial view - and what are its implications for thinking about gaps and silences in the archive of subaltern history and lives.…
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1 Derrida on Origin, Supplement, and Deconstructive Practice 31:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA discussion of Jacques Derrida's deconstructive practice, which seeks to identify "the supplement" to any origin story or set of claims in a text. What are the characteristics of this readerly practice? What motivates Derrida to make these kind of readerly, critical interventions? And where does deconstructive practice bring us as thinkers, critics, and readers - and perhaps even writers? It is to an anti-authoritarian place, a place oriented toward a future of multiplicity and refusal of origin stories, purity politics, and imperial principles of ethics and morality.…
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A discussion of a cluster of Toni Morrison's non-fiction pieces concerned with gender, memory, and the imagination. We explore the relation between Morrison's meditations and our previous conversations about place and memory, in particular how transcendence is brought to sites through memory-work and the imagination. As well, the ways in which memory-work and the imagination entwine with landscape, meaning, and the ethics of reading emerge as both conceptually interesting and innovative and as imperatives placed on us by Morrison's deep work on the meaning of literature and literary production. How does that deep work make us different kinds of readers? How does it animate literature and our imaginations when we engage the text?…
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1 Murray and Ellison on Blues, Memory, Embodiment, and the Origins of Tradition 52:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis podcast is bookended by musical pieces by Arthur Cooper, Malaco Records recording artist and great grandfather of participant and University of Maryland doctoral student Timmy R. Bridgeman. A conversation about Albert Murray's The Hero and the Blues and two essays by Ralph Ellison, "Living with Music" and "Blues People." In this discussion, we explore the relation between Murray's and Ellison's development of blues as a form of thought, life, and expressive culture and ideas of tradition. With particular emphasis on and extension of blues and jazz as "idea emotions" (Ellison), we link their work to ideas of tradition, orality, invention, selfhood, and the relation between the bold or strong musician and their predecessors - articulating a relation of working with rather than, as with Harold Bloom, a parricidal impulse in relation to precursors. We also explore how blues, jazz, and the African American intellectual tradition reconfigures transcendence and ecstasy to locate intellectual-tradition work inside the body and inside the club, akin to the vision of poetry developed by Barbara Christian, which renders a very different sense of memory, history, and world than we find in the pessimistic work of Martin Heidegger. Participants: Katelin Ten, John E. Drabinski, Shannon Neal, and Timmy R. Bridgeman.…
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1 On Heidegger, Dwelling, Art, and the Fourfold 37:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedA process piece reflecting on our discussion of two essays by Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1936) and "Building, Dwelling, Thinking" (1951), with particular emphasis on how he rethinks the object of art and our sense of place. Heidegger's essays attend to the experience of alienation from what he calls "the fourfold," our relation to our own mortality, to the earth, to the sky, and to the divine. A key element in this, I claim, is the question of tradition. How has a sense of "the West" or "Europe" as an intellectual and human tradition been modified by the worst/essence of modernity? And what possibilities remain for thinking about being in modernity yet also outside modernity? And, most importantly, how do Heidegger's ideas travel from reflections on a Greek temple (the putative origin and foundation of European identity) to other sites of gathering of the divine, of memory, of moments of origin or transformation?…
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1 Violence, Love, and Influence in Bloom and Senghor 46:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedDiscussion of Harold Bloom's 1973 book The Anxiety of Influence , with attention to the limits of the book and also how a perversion or transformation of revisionary ratios might provide insight into anti- and even post-colonial literature and cultural production. In particular, we discuss how Bloom's work presupposes and needs antagonism and violence between poet and precursor, and then how Barbara Christian's evocation of poetry as world- and self-making via love and generosity offers a different model. That shift helps relocate the question of influence and violence in Léopold Senghor's work, where he argues that even in a colonial context there is a possibility of influence without fear of contamination. Does Bloom's book operate under a fear of contamination? Is there anything left of the revisionary ratios without that fear? What is influence without fear of contamination, without the violent impulse toward the precursor? How does love offer another kind of revisionary ratio, or perhaps embellish and transform the six outlined in The Anxiety of Influence ?…
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