The Fire These Times

103/ The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil

Mar 18, 2022

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The Politics of Domestic Opposition in the United States

03:53

Critical Theory in a Minor Key

03:26

Critical Theory in a Minor Key

03:56

Introduction

2min

The Leftis Tradition in the Arab World

2min

The Assyrian Revolution and Critical Theory in a Minor Key to the Sean Revolution

4min

The Syrians in Lebanon

3min

Are There Kernes in Traditions That Can Be Actived?

6min

What Is the Law of My Interest?

2min

What's the Difference Between the Left and the Right?

4min

What Is Balanced Objectivity?

3min

The Politics of Domestic Opposition in the United States

4min

10.

I Think It Matters More, It Should Matter More, to Focus on the Wider Trends

4min

11.

The Patterns of the Anti-War Movement on Social Media

4min

12.

Stop the War - It Says a Lot About Us

3min

13.

What Do You Think of the Ghosts?

2min

14.

Is There Value in Reappropriating Anti Colonial Struggles?

4min

15.

Critical Theory in a Minor Key

3min

16.

Critical Theory in a Minor Key

4min

17.

The People Who Were Not Waving That American Flag

4min

18.

The Politics of Invisibility and Solidarity

5min

19.

What's the Biggest Thing About the Uprising in Lebanon?

5min

This is a conversation with Fadi Bardawil, his 2nd time on the podcast. Bardawil is an anthropologist who researches the Leftist tradition in the Arab world. In this episode, we talked about two essays he's written: "Forsaking the Syrian Revolution: An Anti-Imperialist Handbook" and "Critical Theory in a Minor Key to Take Stock of the Syrian Revolution".

What we talked about:

Thinking about the Syrian revolution
Aimé Césaire and Stalinism
Tension between Leftists in the Metropoles and Revolutionaries in the Peripheries
Learning from the Palestinian story
Domestic politics in the Metropoles becoming global politics
Focusing on wider trends instead of individual motives
Discourses that erase the Syrian revolution
Example of Hong Kong
Example of the Lebanese Left of the 60s

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Recommended Books:

The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death by Yasser Munif
الفظيع وتمثيله - ياسين الحاج صالح
Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights by R. Shareah Taleghani