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ReconnaissanceAuthor: Asa Mendelsohn and Fred Schmidt-Arenales
Reconnaissance is an online podcast series exploring intersections between political realities and fictions. It was launched in September 2015 by Asa Mendelsohn and Fred Schmidt-Arenales. In English, reconnaissance is primarily a military term: the gathering of strategic and operational intelligence. Scouting, getting the lay of the land. Not necessarily to find the enemy, but to see what is there. From the French reconnaissance (recognition). These meanings frame our approach. Each episode of Reconnaissance features oral narratives of recent histories. Through interviews, archival and field recordings, and audio performances, each episode is a process of reconnaissance and recognition: of the political ambiguities, experiences, and perceptions buried within language, and propagated by it. Language: en-us Genres: History, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 10: Divest, Disgust, Discuss
Friday, 28 July, 2017
For this episode of Reconnaissance, we’re listening back to conversations that Fred had in Vienna last fall, exploring ideas about solidarity and allyship on “the left,” and how Israel figures into those politics—as both a real place, and an amorphous set of ideas. We’ve both been struck by how much symbolic weight Israel and Palestine hold for people in different parts of the world. This episode is one attempt to explore how and why that happens, in the very specific context of Vienna.
