-Sat- Feb 6 2010
Diet Soap Podcast #43: Pleasure vs. Consumption
Daniel Coffeen is back this week for the second part of our conversation about Rhetoric, the image, finding gaps, and how Capitalism may be a virus set to destroy its human host. Also featured this week is a collage tribute to JD Salinger and Howard Zinn. Chris Isto White sings “Open the Door,” the Infernal Noise Brigade drums away, Santos and Johnny play their hit “Sleepwalk” and Miriam presents another factoid. Send email to douglain@dietsoap.org. You can download the podcast here or subscribe at iTunes.
Great interview! Very synchronistic for me, having just read the e-flux interview before listening and hearing you mention it. I really liked this answer Raoul gave to a question:
” What we are facing today is an implosion of the economy as a management system. It is the collapse of market civilization and the emergence of human civilization. The current turmoil signals a deep shift: the reference points of the old patriarchal world are vanishing. Percolating instead, still just barely and confusedly, are the early markers of a lifestyle that is genuinely human, an alliance with nature that puts an end to its exploitation, rape, and plundering.”
I was surprised by the hopeful tone and prediction he gave.
Thanks, from Oly, WA
Chris,
Sorry to be responding to your comment so many days later. I’m glad you enjoyed this podcast, and following the link to your website I’m delighted to find that you sell organic soap.
Keep listening.