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Oct 2024
1h 50m

Rakesfall, Genocide, And What Comes Next

DEATH // SENTENCE
About this episode
Langdon and Eden happily return to Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall but first must unhappily return to the ongoing and intensifying genocide in Palestine. They discuss ideas that appear in both the book and our lived experiences of culpability, memory, storytelling, and future imaginaries as well as delay on the subject of hype and attention. Music played: ... Show More
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