*RWM staff picks: ten voices and ten podcasts* —
To bid farewell to this gruelling and dramatic year, we aren’t bringing you the usual list of highlights of the past twelve months. Not because there weren’t any great moments on Radio Web MACBA in 2020 – the global year of the podcast – but because we feel the urge to look inwards, to think together as the people who make RWM. To welcome 2021, the RWM Working Group has chosen ten of its essential podcasts, which are also processes and learning journeys. We bring you ten voices, sharing their thoughts out loud. We hope that as a result of relaxed, attentive, repeated listening you will find as many reasons as we did to continue assembling and disassembling the world we live in. *1/ Angela Dimitrakaki:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/LaIKJcL6EIKDmJdkeSV8xnfxh2Extz1TNdpZ5phIWTEx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «Commons, communalism, and so on are terms that have defined a radical contemporary critique, because life is too short, we are not always patient, we want things to happen now! We want post-capitalism within capitalism, we want pockets of non-capitalist relations, and we are very keen to witness them. But the problem is that capitalism uses the commons to fix its problems, to fill the gaps.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/aQPJJmW6a3OIaOKuQyqcGUJ65Z7FGnnDJNN3inxWE8kx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *2/ Hugo Esquinca:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/GU5yxjVYnUtbkkx1EInlkxJjAQ2rPJIoS8HpQ4Dv4gkx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «I cannot claim indigenous thinking as my own, because I’m already the result of a mix, I’m already part of the outcome of colonialism. A mestizo Mexican is the result of a Spanish father and an indigenous woman who was raped.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/H11EPTh6LqLz9xw8wZ7ogMrP9MM7WYKNjwQxpjXfvZ8x/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *3/ Diego Falconí Travez:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/Dxomj0et9fx1Wow9BxsO7vdMBjdrGbZrxSVAhM0xKCox/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «Because there are so many earthquakes in the region -Abya Ayala-, buildings were built to withstand earthquakes. And one of the methods that were supposed to achieve this was mixing the blood of an animal and ashes with other materials. I’m not sure if it actually helps from an engineering point of view, but it is important symbolically.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/JeEsCxdvpUWhfr0xxpguxoZxUfG00TvTvOyehm7asY8x/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *4/ Terike Haapoja:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/ahWB7Nq071xhUFsF8MT4r6f4XWKxInFM95MhwANOQiIx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «There’s one realm where these very binary categories are a reality: law. You have nature and you have culture, there’s no hybridity. Modern legislation almost anywhere in the world is divided into two categories: persons on the one hand (human and human-made constructs), and then things, nature and almost everything else. The very premises on which this apparatus is built excludes a whole bunch of creatures, beings, and also people.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/Lqn5n6aQiQ3WAa43xE74g82tXPoBEZ8m5ihmD2fSqUYx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *5/ Lars Holdhus/TCF:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/eiuHqCxjE5jpMJlvOC15v3dMA6VjmohOUuv7xuB7xQsx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «We should lower our impact so that we can take better care of our surroundings. That doesn’t just mean transport or food, it means all matters in this world. In order to do that, we need to be aware, we need to be present, and we need to have gratitude and show appreciation for the environment. And that includes bodies, it includes people, it includes… the environment in general. Everything that exists that is living and that we may not know is living yet.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/BRmkPHomnPnYA4ZRfV5ww4RlafqE5NOZa7LeJuRyHaAx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *6/ Isaac Julien:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/zYKlbnJ3qx8ZWabcCeQFkZGj9przZ5rYJnRL4ixRIhcx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «I would say there’s a particular heightened moment when we are trying to turn around the regimes of representational orders. In reality, we are striving for self-representation. Retrospectively, I now call this *reparational aesthetics*. It’s not about an aesthetic that necessarily makes you better, its role is more to give, to make pictures... How do you make pictures of things that are invisible? I think that’s a challenge.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/0dERqWxdxdj4Tt835J3UVjCAxb2Vql1cJHF6SKFnMFQx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *7/ Jon Leidecker:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/N9SBnxOnHHlix5HbhPx8vpIxT1BDOYJRGqPCLxxhGe0x/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «Any one pop song taken alone is a model of self-expression, an individual voice. At the same time, the whole of pop culture is increasingly experienced as a collage, a fabric of voices. This is where collage and sampling come in, as a way of composing closer to how most of us now experience music: the composer’s voice leaves other voices audible, it brings emulation and innovation back into balance as equally necessary elements, it shows us that copying is a creative act as well as a social one. Collage music reminds us that music is not something that one person can ever own. Rather, it is something that we are allowed to join as it sings itself through.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/48effsj0OQWxFEqxb5CHLIwtLJJS4f9hy8mrOlnOwowx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *8/ Martha Rosler:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/LatUHOKgkZRpuxOxfhETERGpZgDz800G0syzPIyG0x8x/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «We consume the world through images, but we are turning ourselves into images in order to consume ourselves. And the world becomes a backdrop for that production and consumption of the self. It’s like a form of implosion. We are constantly reinventing ourselves in relation to important monuments or people. Without that, the self-portrait is a mysterious item now.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/lb12DIikcPEdchBqDj5gkEE9oKBMKQafm9lmg450rY0x/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *9/ Alma Söderberg:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/KhE8okZfPXPgoGeyNf9fIJ9562LKUYo4XdCpzuRzUlIx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «For me, the practice of polyrhythm is closely related to a kind of political practice. It involves being in space of difference, not looking for a way out of a complex site in which a lot of different things are happening simultaneously, with sometimes conflicting information, and being able to navigate that space. I find it useful to practice polyrhythm and then practice being in the world. There is a kind of skill you can develop by practicing what musicologist Eric Davis calls “simultaneous difference”, where, he says, you are “playing a part” and “playing apart.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/zhr0jB8xxTnIoZ4L8zOzcumQTSGkExNkbUjR1OFqsDcx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> *10/ Bernard Stiegler:* <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/N6KT6AXk8GEd3xvKZ02aS5aRMV0h4dJsAKhVvQjMMPIx/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> — «As a result of the process of proletarianization people no longer work, they are employed. To work is to produce differences, to produce knowledge. Marx said it: in the end, everybody will be proletarianized. This is the situation we are in now, and it is bringing about the Anthropocene, a process that is increasing the rate of entropy in the field of thermodynamics (climate change), in the field of biology (the destruction of biodiversity), and in the field of information: the production of Trump. Stupidity at the head of America and the world.» PODCAST > <https://1816736fd70f44d0800bac1d93434f17.svc.dynamics.com/t/t/yPmk1IRJjxxbifxvYFucxCcNWppxYXyaD6GUnhxHNh4x/dQu8r1fQ1jwqcYhyH46ZiOjfBWxbYrEm7nLVP8M6sV0x> ** *List compiled by Dolores Acebal, André Chêdas, Pablo Martínez, Antonio Gagliano, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Verónica Lahitte, Violeta Ospina, Tiago Pina, Quim Pujol, Anna Ramos, Matías Rossi, Anna Irina Russell, María Salgado, and Albert Tarrats.
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