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The PlagueAuthor: L. M. Bogad
Welcome to The Plague, the podcast where we look, not just at the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but at our nations home-made plagues, plagues created by human socioeconomic systems, that make the coronavirus more virulent and dangerous. The coronavirus infects the human body, but what illnesses in our body politic make us more vulnerable to it? Economic inequality? Environmental devastation? Labor precarity? Alienation? We pick a different societal plague each week and talk with an expert about how that plague makes the coronavirus deadlier. We then move on to discuss treatments or even cures for that plague: what kinds of political or cultural action we can take to cure it. Since many of our guest experts are also artists, they are invited to share a creative work on the topica song, poem, monologueof their own creation or choosing. Guests include poet and Friends of the Earth organizer Jeff Conant, Dr. Rupa Marya of the Do No Harm Coalition and the band Rupa and the April Fishes, performance artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, theatre activist Aryeh Shell, affordable medicine activist Merith Basey, playwright and San Francisco Mime Troupe member Michael Gene Sullivan, and many more. Your host, L.M. Bogad, broadcasts from his shelter in place bunker, while himself conspiring in ongoing creative activist campaigns on these issues. The Plague Podcast: Created, Hosted, Edited by L.M. Bogad (www.lmbogad.com), professor of political performance at UC Davis, and author of the books Tactical Performance and Electoral Guerrila Theatre, and the play COINTELSHOW: A Patriot Act. Music by Jason Montero (https://m.soundcloud.com/jamoja) and Bogads Other Friend Named Jay. Logo by Bogad, with clip art from nicepng.com. For more information on L.M. Bogad's books and performance work: www.lmbogad.com. L.M. Bogad is an author, performance artist, professor of political performance at U.C. Davis, and co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. He has performed an Language: en Genres: Arts, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Performing Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 9: The Plague of "Burn It Down" Partisanship with Princeton professor Julian Zelizer
Episode 9
Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
Our current President and his party seem to be more interested in slandering their political opponents, propagating conspiracy theories, and fomenting division and distraction in our society, than in organizing a coherent response to the pandemic, the economic crisis, and other urgent problems that a competent and responsible government would address.Have our politics always operated this way? Is this "burn it down" partisanship the same on all sides? Is this just the way the "rough and tumble" of political conflict usually works?Our guest on this episode, Dr. Julian E. Zelizer, History professor at Princeton University and CNN commentator, refers to his new book, "Burning Down The House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party," to explain that this destructive trend in the GOP is relatively new and alarming. Zelizer traces the origin of this plague to the rise of Newt Gingrich in the 1980s and 1990s, and has clear and practical recommendations for what to do about it.https://history.princeton.edu/people/julian-e-zelizerhttps://www.cnn.com/profiles/julian-zelizerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318517/burning-down-the-house-by-julian-e-zelizer/Host and Editor: L.M. Bogad: www.lmbogad.comMusic: Jason Montero https://m.soundcloud.com/jamoja, and by my other friend named JaySound effects clips from soundbible.comlogo by Bogad, with clip art from nicepng.com
