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Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece The Genealogy of Morality (1887) sets out to explain where ideas of good and evil come from and why they have left human beings worse off. He traces their origins in what he calls the slave revolt in morality. David examines the ways Nietzsche’s story unsettles almost everything about modern social conventions and leaves us with the troubling question: what can possibly come next?
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Joyce Carol Oates to talk about the minimalist beauty in the photographs of Walker Evans, and his austere approach to his art. Colin Grant discusses the new film Nomadland, a blend of fact and fiction about US citizens who take to the road when they realize they cannot afford to grow old...and we look through a science fiction dictionary and check up on the latest writing by robots.
Walker Evans: Starting from scratch by Svetlana Alpers
Nomadland, on Hulu - UK release April 2021
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Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) is a strange and unsettling book about a world turned upside down. Usually classified as utopian or dystopian fiction, it also contains an eerie prophecy about the coming of intelligent machines. David explores the origins of Butler’s ideas and asks what they have to teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies, both then and now.
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O artista baiano relembra sua extraordinária trajetória a partir de sua recém-lançada biografia, de autoria de Pietro Scaramuzzo. A vida e a sobrevivência na pandemia, a censura nos tempos da ditadura, os novos projetos e o bloco de carnaval em sua homenagem também estão entre os temas da conversa.
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, to discuss the rise of Bellingcat, an investigative body, started in one man’s bedroom in 2014, now able to get to the bottom of even the murkiest global events; Dante, Dante, Dante…. and Anne Weber’s epic of Annette Beaumanoir; and who was Keats’s mysterious Mrs Jones? The biographer Jonathan Bate shares a theory.
We Are Bellingcat: An intelligence agency for the people by Eliot Higgins
Dante by John Took
Annette, Ein Heldinnen Epos / Epic Annette by Anne Weber
‘Cherchez la femme’ – Keats and Mrs Jones, by Jonathan Bate in the TLS
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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O magnata da internet, bilionário, e criador da SpaceX, Elon Musk, já disse que “O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias” é um dos livros mais interessantes que ele já leu. E que seu autor, Douglas Adams, é um dos maiores filósofos de todos os tempos.
Neste episódio, partimos da relação entre a filosofia de Douglas Adams e os empreendimentos de Elon Musk para falar da nova corrida espacial rumo a Marte, da influência da ficção científica sobre a ciência, e, claro, do futuro da humanidade.
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O guia definitivo do mochileiro das galáxias
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Jornalista, mestre em Science Fiction Studies pela Universidade de Liverpool (2011-2012. É roteirista e escritora freelancer, professora na pós-graduação em Formação de Escritores do Instituto Vera Cruz e escritora representada pela Agência Magh. Também é colunista na Marie Claire e faz trabalhos de ghostwriting de ficção e não-ficção.
Jornalista de ciência, colunista da Folha de S.Paulo e autor de 11 livros, dentre os quais “Extraterrestres”, “Rumo ao Infinito”, “Conexão Wright-Santos-Dumont” e dois volumes da Coleção Explorando o Ensino (MEC), sobre astronomia e astronáutica.

My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by the former slave Frederick Douglass was the second of his three autobiographies and the one that contained his most radical ideas. In this episode David explores how Douglass used his life story not only to expose the horror of slavery but to champion a new approach to abolishing it. The name for this approach: politics.
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Cal Revely-Calder, who finds that, in Samuel Beckett Studies, jargon and certainty too often crowd out impressions of the work and the importance of ‘knowing what you don’t know’; Alice Wadsworth brings snippets of interest from this week’s TLS, including ‘women who wouldn’t wait’ and Borges in Inverness; and Ruth Scurr on the history of the secretive, ritual-loving Freemasons.
Beckett’s Political Imagination by Emilie Morin
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts by Conor Carville
The Craft: How the Freemasons made the modern world, by John Dickie
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis of utilitarianism: how do we achieve the greatest happiness of the greatest number? David looks at Bentham’s rationale for this approach and the many criticisms it has faced. Bentham has often been accused of reducing politics to mechanical calculation and missing what really matters. But given the time in which he was writing, wasn’t the prioritisation of pleasure the most radical idea of all?
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