Exploring Violence, Crisis, and Rupture in Society

21min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The chapter delves into deep discussions on violence, crisis, and rupture, exploring the uneven distribution of these concepts in the world. It touches on the impact of violence on various forms of life, including humans, and compares natural processes of violence to human-inflicted violence driven by motives like control and domination. The conversation also explores the importance of addressing societal ruptures without resorting to oppressive tactics and highlights the interconnectedness of trauma on personal, ancestral, and global levels.

Our bodies know what words fail to describe.

Shifts in culture, ravages of violence, ruptures and reconciliation—the body politic lives in our own bodies, informing and inhibiting our experience in the world. Yet, we fail to recognise this connection, and the even wider one of our own bodies as part of the earth's system, which is experiencing great violence and chaos. We need to reconnect with our bodies.

Ruptures is just one of the themes Ranu Mukherjee explores as an artist. She joins me to discuss this, and the somatic experience, deep time, the lives of plants, and the violence that ripples out through society. We explore the limitations of connection in economies of scale, how this informs our power hierarchies, and the violence we then internalise, which leads us to a beautiful conversation on uncertainty.

Support journalism for a world in crisis.

Get full access to Planet: Critical at www.planetcritical.com/subscribe