Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-02
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Garrison Davis discussed In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil. Vicky Osterweil discussed Debt by David Graeber. Robert Evans recommended Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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In Defense of Looting
In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil is a controversial book that examines property destruction and looting through a radical political lens, arguing that such acts can represent uprisings against oppressive systems.
Discussed“I have my special guest Vicky Astrahile who is an agitator who is a writer who has done many many things probably most famously uh writing the book uh in defense of looting um in 2020 from is Bold Press Bold Type Press.”
Where to get it
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Debt
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber is a sweeping anthropological examination of the history and social functions of debt, credit, and power across human civilizations.
Discussed“A really a really a much better book that was important was also um David Greyber's debt. Um but I think like you know and there was like a lot of like people saying things about like the agora”
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Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti is a twentieth-century sociological and literary study that attempts to analyze the entirety of human history, anthropology, and political behavior through the lens of crowd dynamics.
Recommended“There's this guy this 20th century like literary weirdo this guy uh Ilas Kennedy um Italian guy [laughter] this book called wrote this book called Crowds and Power where he attempts to describe the entirety of human history and anthropology in terms of crowds. This is obviously impossible and ridiculous, but that book has the best descriptions of crowd dynamics”
Where to get it
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“At the time a lot of people were talking about um uh embarrassingly about Hart and Negri's sort of like multitude stuff. Um a really a really a much better book that was important was also um David Greyber's debt.”
“And yeah, and you you only need to look at his opinions about uh black Africans when he was when he was in South Africa to see that or even if you even if you just read like like even if you just read like self-reliance”
“I wrote a book uh that came out last year um called In Defense of Looting um came out in 2020 um with Bold Type. Um I am currently also writing um I I'm obsessed with movies.”