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We are very happy to announce the latest member of the Longplayer Trust, a long-term friend and collaborator, and recent host of the #LongplayerAssembly, Ansuman Biswas. Here’s an image of Ansuman performing Longplayer Live at the @ybca, San Francisco in 2010. Welcome, @AnsumanB!
If you missed the repeat of the #LongplayerAssembly on @ResonanceFM yesterday from noon to midnight, or if you don’t have 12 hours to spare, you can also find each of the 24 cross-disciplinary conversations individually. Watch the ones you want: https://t.co/P8om15mQCE
Now streaming online:
Our 12-hour live relay of 24 cross-disciplinary dialogues concerning possible futures – #LongplayerAssembly – is now available to watch as part of a new complete series of individual conversations.
Watch the ones you want now: https://t.co/nWj4CYOIfZ
◾So recommended
An even wider world than we thought:
Transformative ideas, hearts, minds/feelings
Bounce across conceptual & national boundaries in astonishing 12-hour, round-world relay
Now we can dip in at will
—I'm nipping back to catch what I missed
#LongPlayerAssembly
Thank you to everyone for joining #LongplayerAssembly – our 12hour relay conversations featuring 24 leading thinkers presented live online, in association with @LRB.
You can catch up on all of the conversations and read up on the participants at: https://t.co/VLyuW1FVZG
Thank you to everyone for joining #LongplayerAssembly – our 12hour relay conversations featuring 24 leading thinkers presented live online, in association with @LRB.
You can catch up on all of the conversations and read up on the participants at: https://t.co/VLyuW1FVZG
Derek Parfit, who came up earlier, can play us out with his famous essay, 'Why anything? Why this?'
https://t.co/9nMG8dfvrA
Thanks to everybody who joined us for some of today's #LongplayerAssembly, thank you @Artangel for making it happen. Amazing day: https://t.co/dfxNEXwrgo
'Where there's certainty there isn't an opportunity to move things' @DrPreciousLunga with an incredible way to end her conversation with @JannaLevin and indeed the day!
Thank you so much for all the comments over the day.
#LongplayerAssembly
"We can never take away the need for contact and communication with another human being" - @DrPreciousLunga on the points where technically still falls short
#LongplayerAssembly is streaming live now, until 22:00 BST today. Watch: https://t.co/oOgFO8NyAm
Who lives and who dies? Paul Farmer on the iniquities of healthcare funding, from 2015: https://t.co/WqyuAAqK8X
#LongplayerAssembly @Artangel @longplayer
'On one side were the anti-vaxxers. On the other were the "sceptics". Neither stinted on vitriol. They accused each other of conspiracy, cruelty & evil. Lost in the noise were the people over whose fates they were supposedly fighting.'
https://t.co/zJxSYUIUaQ #LongplayerAssembly
'An alternative epidemiology had become entrenched in many quarters of 19th-century Europe: miasmatism – the view that environmental pollution produced the conditions which caused pestilence.'
Roy Porter on disease and the marketplace: https://t.co/kDJ4lkx29f #LongplayerAssembly
'What about the extraordinary and inalienable human pleasure of getting something that you haven’t grasped before? There are, of course, various degrees of getting things.'
Jenny Diski considers Einstein at the bus stop: https://t.co/dS0FdLsMp7
#LongplayerAssembly @Artangel
'Was Einstein’s theory a description of reality as it is, or just another hypothesis – although one of genius – that fitted the facts more neatly and in a more aesthetically pleasing fashion than any theory that had gone before.'
https://t.co/QktGQBiSDj
#LongplayerAssembly
'The space-time that physicists have spent so long trying to understand might, in the end, turn out to be an illusion.'
Carolin Crawford on the physics of the infinitely small and of the infinitely large: https://t.co/pbYKbJ4gly
#LongplayerAssembly @Artangel @longplayer
"Why is it 2020 and you made this film in 1987?" @JannaLevin on the current relevancy of #JohnAkomfrah's 'Handsworth Songs'
More here: https://t.co/H1rT3XCBTW
#LongplayerAssembly
'George Floyd's murder is an instance in a long history of death at the hands of those sanctioned by federal, state, public, private & local authorities to enforce laws that do not protect us.'
Hazel V. Carby on punishment by pressing: https://t.co/di6wGBpGdA #LongplayerAssembly
"Other ways of proximity are possible now" an amazing closing line from @cataortiza
We now have @JannaLevin joining us from a houseboat in Queens
#LongplayerAssembly is streaming live now, until 22:00 BST today.
Watch: https://t.co/oOgFO8NyAm
"Working in the symbolic realm, how do you represent and reveal those masks? – @cataortiza
I love that phrase 'colonial wounds'" – #JohnAkomfrah
#LongplayerAssembly
How do we thik about the plurality of the times?
@cataortiza referencing Arturo Escobar's 'Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds'.
Tune into #LongplayerAssembly
https://t.co/oOgFO8NyAm
"I'm coming from this idea that the future exists and you can predict it... but now I'm very conflicted about understanding time itself." – @cataortiza on what it means to think about the future whilst living in the present.
Or do we live in the future?
#LongplayerAssembly
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