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Outsider Theory

The Department of Social Praxis with Sam Munson

Jun 17, 2021
01:06:21

Writer Sam Munson joins Outsider Theory to discuss the uncanny relevance of Dog Symphony, his prescient 2018 novel of plague and biopolitics, in which a nebulous entity called the Department of Social Praxis has assumed complete control over a dreamlike Buenos Aires. Other topics include the spectral place of Argentina in the North American imagination, Borges, maps and territories, and the acquiescence of the creative class to state power during the Covid era.

Buy Dog Symphony here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/dog-symphony/

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