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AEWCH 11 – ABOUT THE EPISODE
Last year, after the Pulse nightclub shooting, I was completely overwhelmed. I found myself, like many LGBT people breaking down in the middle of the day, crying, not sure why. There had been mass shootings before, but this one intersected so deeply with my personhood and history that I couldn’t quite bear the burden of it in the same way.
I also realized I had no idea why these shootings were happening, and seemed to be happening on a grand scale (with more victims) , more and more. None of the explanations were satisfying: guns, Islam, mental illness, etc. They all seemed so…thin. Too monocausal. So I looked for people who were trying to formulate more complex ideas of what was going on, and to see what happened when their ideas intersected with my outlook.
This episode is the result.
IN THIS EP
- How revolution and and fascism are intertwined…: 2:30
- …and how the presence of Occupy and the death of Steve Jobs were evidence of that: 5:25
- Our political climate is marked by Presence: 10:00
- ISIS as the dark side of political presence: 10:20
- How the Egyptian Osiris/Seth/Isis myth ties into ISIS’s castration complex: 11:05
- How our political and social climate translates into mass shootings: 15:25
- Here’s the breakdown – neoliberalism, the contraction of time and space, and scientistic materialism lead to mass shootings: 19:10
- Mass shooters shoot to live; not people complete in their beliefs, but people who kill to complete their utterly un-complete-able selves: 22:30
- What’s our task right now?: 25:00
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Love,
CH
Conner Habib 
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