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Symptomatic Redness: Conversation with Ed Simon (pt. 2)
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English - March 10, 2019 00:00 - 46 minutes - 44.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture philosophy surrealism marxism noise art collage Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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C Derick Varn continues his conversation with Ed Simon. Ed Simon is an editor at Berfrois, a British magazine of “Literature, Ideas, Tea,” and a staff writer at The Millions, which the New York Times has called the “indispensable literary site.” Simon is also the author of "America and Other Fictions" from Zero Books.
The conversation begins with Derick explaining the American Southern Left and their alienation, but quickly moves on to the significance of the 2016 American presidential election, Ta-Nehisi Coates, whether race or economics were most significant in 20016, and the way in which the political chattering classes cynically frame questions, white Evangelicals, the DSA, and so on and so on...