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The Lost and The Returned
Manage episode 496314196 series 3655799
Listening to the voices of the disappeared who have come back is a first step toward changing what's happening all around us.
Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/the-voices-of-the-returned
Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer’s Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What and get Andrea's posts first: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/DfFEA-3d8GU
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-comes-what/id1779885475
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lUaIWeKl0oET2DJVTWhy4
This episode of "Next Comes What" looks at the recent departure from El Salvador of hundreds of men President Trump deported last spring to the CECOT camp there. Andrea Pitzer remembers seeing a Peter Greenaway production in the 1990s that used an actual historical ledger of the dead bodies pulled out of the Seine in Paris two centuries ago, and thinking about accountability to history. Underlining the importance of preserving events, she talks about a Paris protest in 1961 when the historical record was deliberately muddied, and the French government tried to censor and cover up a massacre. More than a hundred Algerians were killed while protesting peacefully against a curfew targeted directly at them. Many bodies fell into the river; others were thrown in to drown. Unlike the corpses in the 19th-century ledger from the Peter Greenaway film, these bodies and the lives they represented were erased for decades by the authorities.
Andrea then looks at the reappearance in recent days of the men the US government tried to disappear into a black hold of detention in El Salvador. Addressing the importance of logging the vanished and the dead and listening to the voices of those who return, she begins to address how we might interrupt the cycle.
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Manage episode 496314196 series 3655799
Listening to the voices of the disappeared who have come back is a first step toward changing what's happening all around us.
Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/the-voices-of-the-returned
Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer’s Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What and get Andrea's posts first: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/DfFEA-3d8GU
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-comes-what/id1779885475
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lUaIWeKl0oET2DJVTWhy4
This episode of "Next Comes What" looks at the recent departure from El Salvador of hundreds of men President Trump deported last spring to the CECOT camp there. Andrea Pitzer remembers seeing a Peter Greenaway production in the 1990s that used an actual historical ledger of the dead bodies pulled out of the Seine in Paris two centuries ago, and thinking about accountability to history. Underlining the importance of preserving events, she talks about a Paris protest in 1961 when the historical record was deliberately muddied, and the French government tried to censor and cover up a massacre. More than a hundred Algerians were killed while protesting peacefully against a curfew targeted directly at them. Many bodies fell into the river; others were thrown in to drown. Unlike the corpses in the 19th-century ledger from the Peter Greenaway film, these bodies and the lives they represented were erased for decades by the authorities.
Andrea then looks at the reappearance in recent days of the men the US government tried to disappear into a black hold of detention in El Salvador. Addressing the importance of logging the vanished and the dead and listening to the voices of those who return, she begins to address how we might interrupt the cycle.
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