Ep 203 - Literacy is Overrated w/ Ian Svenonius
Added 2023-01-18 09:43:10 +0000 UTCIan Svenonius is a rock singer turned Marxist polemicist with his new book Against the Written Word. We discuss his theory of literacy as a tool of the bourgeoisie and how rock n' roll reeducation camps might be the antidote, and why that might not go far enough for as to completely devolve to our neanderthal origins.
Buy Against the Written Word from Akashic Books
Interview with Ian about being the "sassiest boy in America" and why the workers are rock-and-roll
Read John Zerzan on The Failure of Symbolic Thought
Check out his film The Lost Record
Opening song: Nation of Ulysses - Aspirin Kid
Closing song: The Make-Up - I am Pentagon
Comments
The Internet does need to be destroyed though. When Rogers internet went down across Canada for a whole day, I had a pretty great time walking around, chatting to neighbours, surprise visits to friends. I felt free to be bored in a way that I haven't since I was a kid. The thing that sucked is that only half of us were without internet. Legitimately fucks me up to think that I could spend more time offline like that... but I just won't.
Alex Hennessey
2023-01-20 05:20:22 +0000 UTCwait this isn't satire?
The Fine Art Revolution
2023-01-19 03:11:48 +0000 UTCget some rest sean!
The Fine Art Revolution
2023-01-19 03:01:34 +0000 UTCyour sickly voice reminds me of Jon Benjamin from archer LOL
Josephsmith.. WasAPredator
2023-01-19 02:04:10 +0000 UTCoops
The Antifada
2023-01-18 20:05:48 +0000 UTCYou know?
Kin
2023-01-18 19:13:34 +0000 UTCThis might be antithetical to some of the stuff Ian is talking about, but I feel like electronic music today possess some element of that sort of primitive garden of Eden-esque ethos. Electronic music in many genres does serve to express in ways which can be without language or possesses "devolved" language. Also, like the early days of rock it's given rise to younger people without a major corporate backing to get an audience through things like netlabels.
Misha
2023-01-18 18:13:40 +0000 UTCContemporary archaeology in Spain shows Neanderthals did do complex symbolic art. It’s a myth that they had no such concept.
Rowan J.
2023-01-18 15:53:35 +0000 UTC
