Reclaiming Pedagogies

Pirate Care is a term used to describe creative, public acts that challenge the "organized abandonment" of people in need. In the tradition of civil disobedience, pirate care activists intervene to show compassion and social solidarity for ordinary people. Pirate Care also highlights how the state, markets, or patriarchal families have politicized particular types of care by declaring them unpatri...

What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? This episode of FRONTIERS OF COMMONING, hosted by David Bollier, hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how they organize their commoning practices.  The three collectives are the "-" (dash) collective in Iran (with an artist who goes by the pseudonym "M" f...

At the African Art Book Fair in Dakar, we talk to photographer and writer Samuel Nja Kwa, who is here to present his new book on Manu Dibango, "Soul Makossa Man". Samuel talks about connections between the development of jazz, slavery and civil rights, and on the legacy of jazz as a music of emancipation.  A musical conversation recorded, edited and mixed by Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni wi...

During the African Art Book Fair in Dakar we meet Rosanna Puyol. Rosanna is a poet, editor and co-founder of BROOK press who publish French translations of books engaged in feminism and antiracism, texts both poetic and political. Recent Brook publications include French translations of texts by Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura Mulvey, José Esteban Muñoz,...

Dakar. We are at Cheikh Anta Diop University to meet Professor El Hadji Dieye, specialist in African linguistics. With El Hadji we discuss national and indigenous languages in Senegal, as well as the burning question of disappearing idioms and grassroots initiatives to protect them. We also consider the links between words and forms of life, the question of opacity and the power of spirituality as...

In Ouakam - Dakar, we talk to psychologist and social activist Laura Zini. After living for many years in Western Africa, Laura shares her multiple life stories, from her decision to quit working in "development" projects in Senegal to retrain to accompany migrants in Italy to face the difficulties of integration and possible return to their homelands, from her formative experience working in a ps...

KENU: Lab’Oratoire des Imaginaires" (60 minutes, May 2024) In Oukam - Dakar, we meet multidisciplinary artist and musician Alibeta, founder of KENULAB.  KENU (meaning "pillar") is an inspiring collective space whose approach and artistic methods are informed by local community knowledges. As well as hosting residencies, they run another space, ARTISTE DOU DAANU ("Artists don't fall")  that houses...

RADIO PRACTICES AND RADICAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION with Silvia, Graeme, Nikolas (firefly frequencies), Gregoire (Station of Commons), Juan, Sandro, Andrea (Radio Tropiezo), Matteo (Cashmere Radio) In the context or the Miss Read Pre-fair Program (September 2023) this public discussion involved some members of the Lumbung netwerk and focused on radio practice as a radical form of collective organiza...

This Sonic Altar is a collective offering to our compañero Gustavo Esteva who passed on the March 17 of 2022 -- one day before many of his friends and comrades gathered in سيوة‎ / ⵉⵙⵉⵡⴰ / Siwa, an oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt to participate to the Planetary Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance. We gathered one night to share bread, rum, cheese, along with memories, reflections, and inspi...

A collective reading of Ultra-red's "10 Preliminary Theses on Militant Sound Investigation" recorded during the first international gathering of firefly frequencies, “Becoming fireflies: Practices of radio, affective listening and transversal transmission”, which was held in Puglia in August 2022. Thank you Ultra-red for this wonderfully inspiring tool! Voices: Graeme Thomson, Silvia Maglioni, Ste...

Super Hive Dance is a radio performance, a music playlist, an ongoing archive and a sound piece that collects materials and desires from the National Network of Emerging and Civic Commons (Rete Nazionale Beni Comuni Emergenti e a Uso Civico). It was created by Studiovuoto in collaboration with the Mediterranean bees and flowers, and contributions of DJ Cris, DJ Turollas, Ilàchime quartet & Fabrizi...

In this informal but illuminating fragment, Sylvère Lotringer talks about his friends Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari touching upon concepts like the line of flight, vitalism, the wasp and the orchid, inter-species alliances and the practice of making assemblages. Sylvère, we will miss you! SCHIZO-CULTURE https://monoskop.org/Schizo-Culture SEMIOTEXTE http://semiotexte.com/ https://www.e-flux.co...

10 de Abril del 2021 A las personas, grupos, colectivos, organizaciones, movimientos, coordinadoras, y pueblos originarios en Europa que esperan nuestra visita: A la Sexta Nacional e Internacional: A las redes en resistencia y rebeldía: Al Congreso Nacional Indígena: A los pueblos del Mundo: Herman@s y compañer@s: Este día 10 de abril del 2021 se concentraron en el “Semillero Comandanta Ramona”, l...

Un racconto sonoro che parte dal quartiere Borgovecchio a Palermo, dove un’equipe di educatori ed educatrici di strada lavora da dieci anni. Le loro voci, insieme a quelle delle ragazze che frequentano il centro, aprono ad esperienze e riflessioni sulla scuola che ridisegnano percorsi e sentieri, lontani dalle retoriche dei quartieri difficili. A sonic encounter with a team of street educators in...

11 March 2021 FUKUSHIMA AT 10 (organized with Sabu Kohso and 16 beaver) PART 2 Keeping Wake, A Vigil, A Vigilance with: (Pt.1) Ayreen Anastas, Ben Morea, Rolando Vasquez, Rene Gabri, Sabu Kohso, Yoko Hayasuke, Norihito Nakata, Angela Melitopoulos, Fulvia Carnevale (Claire Fontaine), Jason Waite (Pt.2) Sabu Kohso, Franco Bifo Berardi, Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun (The Oto...

11 March 2021 FUKUSHIMA AT 10 (organized with Sabu Kohso and 16 beaver) PART 1 Keeping Wake, A Vigil, A Vigilance with: (Pt.1) Ayreen Anastas, Ben Morea, Rolando Vasquez, Rene Gabri, Sabu Kohso, Yoko Hayasuke, Norihito Nakata, Angela Melitopoulos, Fulvia Carnevale (Claire Fontaine), Jason Waite (Pt.2) Sabu Kohso, Franco Bifo Berardi, Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun (The Oto...

REIMAGINING EDUCATION #2 "Within and Against the Neoliberal University" (featuring Manolo Callahan, John Foran, Keri Facer and Alessandra Pomarico) is the second in a series of podcasts produced by Firefly Frequencies reworking talks and conversations from the Re-imagining Education global gathering (March 2021).Manolo Callahan Manolo Callahan’s work explores three interwoven areas: the US/Mexico...

REIMAGINING EDUCATION #1 "Remembering Our Roots, Acknowledging Our History" (featuring Four Arrows and Sara Jolena Wolcott) is the first in a series of podcasts produced by Firefly Frequencies reworking talks and conversations from the Re-imagining Education global gathering (March 2021). Donald Trent Jacobs, also known as Wahinkpe Topa or Four Arrows, is an American college professor, writer and...

Ilaria Lupo reads a short extract from “Une écologie décoloniale - Penser l'écologie depuis le monde caribéen” by Malcom Ferdinand. Une écologie décoloniale Une colère rouge recouvre le ciel. Les vagues s’agitent, l’eau monte, les forêts tombent et les corps s’enfoncent dans ce sanguinaire gouffre marin. Les cieux tonnent encore devant ce spectacle : le monde est en pleine tempête.
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Warming Up to the Pluriverse - Talk #6: On being plural   In this talk, we meet Camila Marambio – a being as plural as the worlds she inhabits, falls in love with, and seeks to protect. Camila is the founder of Ensayos  a nomadic interdisciplinary research program that has been collectively unraveling the eco politics of the archipelago of Karokynka a.k.a. Tierra del Fuego for about a decade now. ...

Research by Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute reported that from 1990 to 2015 the contribution of cumulative carbon emissions by the richest 10% of the world’s population (63 million people) was around 50%, while the poorest 50% (3.1 billion people) were responsible for 7% of cumulative emissions. With regard to this carbon inequality, it is important to note that the effect of a suppo...

Voces en tinta y al aire (Librería La Cosecha, Chapas) Con mucha alegría presentamos nuestro primer programa radial, la autodeterminación el primer tema a reflexionar y conversar. Desde: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México. Nos acompañan: Melissa Elizondo (documentalista) + Bruno Baronnet (investigador) + Fermín Ledesma (investigador). Invitados en cabina: Xun Betán (poeta y traductor tsot...

From the series LEARNING OTHERWISE, hosted by Udi Mandel In this podcast we talk to Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned writer and activist in the environmental and food sovereignty movement and in the struggle against biopiracy and corporate globalization. Originally trained as a physicist and philosopher, Vandana Shiva is the author of numerous influential books on ecofeminism, the green revolution...

(Hosted by Abhishek Thakore) Inspirations is a series of conversations with iconic masters rooted in Indian local, traditional wisdom and ethos, who spent decades working for social transformation. They share insights and lessons from their ongoing experiences, offering a decolonized perspective on relevant issues of our times.

From the series INSPIRATION (hosted by Abhishek Thakore) Inspirations is a series of conversations with iconic masters rooted in Indian local, traditional wisdom and ethos, who spent decades working for social transformation. They share insights and lessons from their ongoing experiences, offering a decolonized perspective on relevant issues of our times.