ACFM Trip 44: Humility

ACFM Trip 44: Humility

Author: Novara Media August 4, 2024 Duration: 1:16:40

What happens when you lose? In this Trip, the ACFM crew explore the role of humility – and humiliation – in politics.

Should we cultivate humility to cope with political weakness? Is fear of humiliation a product of patriarchy? Can humility help us be better political thinkers and organisers? And who’s the humblest ACFM host of them all?

Nadia, Keir and Jem apply their weird-left lens to the topic with ideas from Nietzsche and Lyotard, and music from Erik Satie, Kendrick Lamar, Ravi Shankar and Joni Mitchell.

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Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

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