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The Archipelago
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The Archipelago

Κοινωνία & Πολιτισμός Μουσική

A 60-minute talk show featuring theorists, artists and writers contemplating on the cultural moment. The Archipelago follows ideas that erupt from the abyss of human activity, diverse and divergent at first, before congealing into a new pensive framework. A podcast series as an archive of differing viewpoints, blending together into an imaginary production of the future.
Hosted by Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

επεισόδια 19
διάρκεια 18 ώρες
ηλικία
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The Archipelago #19: Dimitris Papanikolaou – The Greek Weird Wave in Cinema and its Biopolitical Realism

In the years of the Greek crisis from 2010 onwards, a new style emerged in Greek cinema. Named by curators and journalists “Weird Wave,” it gradually took over international audiences despite its vast diversity in themes and styles. In 2018, “The Favourite,” the latest feature film of one of Weird Wave’s pioneers, Yorgos Lanthimos, was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Following years of work in...

The Archipelago #18: Samo Tomšič – On Alienation, Enjoyment and the Damaged Life

With his first book ‘The Capitalist Unconscious’, Samo Tomšič, a philosopher and researcher at the Humboldt University in Berlin, provided a thorough account of the influence of Karl Marx on the work of French Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Then, in his second book, ‘The Labour of Enjoyment’, he moved even further, by proposing a fusion of the works of Marx, Freud and Lacan as a means to unravel...

The Archipelago #17: Stathis Gourgouris – The Orientalist Dream of Modern Greece

Twenty five years ago, Stathis Gourgouris, a Professor of Classics, English and Comparative Literature published his seminal work “Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece”, in which he applied the tools of psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory in Modern Greek history. In this episode of The Archipelago, the second of two specials to coincide with the...

The Archipelago #14: Tiziana Terranova – Recursive Colonialism And The Mediterranean

Since her influential book Network Culture - Politics for the Information Age came out in 2004, theorist and activist Tiziana Terranova has been studying the workings of technology's effects on society. She has elaborated on these themes in numerous essays and has been part of many research groups that dive into the various ways social relations are organized and mediated. In this episode,...

The Archipelago #13: Yannis Stavrakakis – Populism, yesterday and tomorrow

For many years, Yannis Stavrakakis, a Professor in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has been studying the issue of populism as part of his thorough research on discourse analysis. His interests range from the relationship between psychoanalysis and the political to the workings of ideology in politics. His work on populism has produced numerous books and collections of essays and has...

The Archipelago #12: Evan Calder Williams – Visions Of The Apocalypse Pt. 2

In his second book, titled “Shard Cinema,” writer, theorist, and artist Evan Calder Williams used the all-too-familiar slow-motion images of breaking glass in blockbuster films as a means to unravel the ways in which images are produced, circulated, and consumed. In the second episode of The Archipelago with Evan Calder Williams, he talks about this certain cycle in contemporary visual culture,...

The Archipelago #11: Evan Calder Williams – Visions Of The Apocalypse Pt. 1

Evan Calder Williams began exploring his ideas on post-apocalyptic thinking and politics in the blog “Socialism and/or Barbarism.” Since then, his work has expanded in two books, numerous essays, as well as films. He is part of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine and a founding member of the film collective Thirteen Black Cats. In this episode of The Archipelago, the first of two...

The Archipelago #10: Geert Lovink – Zoom Fatigue and Sadness by Design

In the following episode, Geert Lovink talks about the repercussions of the proliferation of Zoom in our everyday routine during Covid-19, the underestimated politics of social media, as well as the strategies and practices that could move us beyond our subjugation by platforms. For two decades, media theorist Geert Lovink has been writing and researching on critical internet culture. In his...

The Archipelago #9: Florian Sievers & Sean O’Toole – Geographies of Clubbing in Africa and Europe

In this episode of The Archipelago, journalist Florian Sievers, co-editor of the book, talks about our changing perspective on clubbing when we move past the Detroit-Berlin-Chicago-Manchester axis, the radical transformations of culture in Berlin and how minimal techno went stale. Sean O’Toole, author of an essay on the politics of clubbing in Johannesburg, joins in to talk about the South...

The Archipelago #7: Orit Halpern – Data Visualization, Resilience and The Smartness Mandate

In today’s episode of The Archipelago, she talks about these changes that shaped the post-war world, as well as her most recent work on the concepts of resilience and the “smartness mandate,” through which she sheds a new light on neoliberalism’s fifty-year history. In her 2014 book “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945,” Orit Halpern traced the history of post-war design...

The Archipelago #6: Leigh Alexander – Living and Dreaming Online

In this episode of The Archipelago, Leigh Alexander talks about the evolution of the internet over time and how it affects us, the conclusions drawn from having moved our lives online during the pandemic, digital memories, magical thinking in the online world, and toxic gamer culture following Gamergate. Leigh Alexander is a narrative designer whose credits include “Her Majesty” and “Game of...

The Archipelago #5: Owen Hatherley – London’s Forgotten Socialist History

In this episode, Owen Hatherley, the author of numerous books including “Militant Modernism” and “Ministry of Nostalgia,” and culture editor of The Tribune magazine, talks about the municipal socialist roots that built London's multiculturalism, the various innovative experiments of London’s municipal authorities, and how all this can inspire its residents to deal with their growing problems in...

The Archipelago #3: Matt Colquhoun – Mark Fisher and The Lost Futures Pt. 2

In his second appearance on The Archipelago, Matt Colquhoun uses Oneohtrix Point Never albums as a starting point to examine cultural practices that re-energize imagination and examine how perceptions of different temporalities affect our collective psyche. He also talks about Tarantino films, depression as illness and metaphor, and the ideas that advance or block the potential of radical...

The Archipelago #2: Matt Colquhoun – Mark Fisher and The Lost Futures Pt. 1

This episode of The Archipelago features the first of two conversations with Matt Colquhoun, in which he discusses Mark Fisher’s trajectory from the experimental counterculture of the CCRU lab in the mid-90s to his pessimistic take on Capitalist Realism. He also talks about the concept of “Egress” in practice: how Fisher’s passing affected his community, which is finding new potentialities in...