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This episode looks at what happens when political conviction replaces human connection.
It’s based on my new article When Politics Forgets the Face and asks how ideology on both the right and the left can turn people into symbols instead of subjects.
I talk about Ukraine, Syria, and Gaza, and why so many Western voices speak over those actually living through these conflicts. From there, I turn to Emmanuel Levinas and his idea that ethics begins with the face of another person, before politics or theory. I contrast that with Frantz Fanon’s view of how colonial systems destroy the very possibility of relation.
This is not just philosophy. It is about how we talk to and about each other, and how easily empathy becomes abstraction. It is about remembering that solidarity means standing with people, not speaking for them.
Read the full piece: When Politics Forgets the Face
Related episode: 52: In Defense of Leftist Self-Critique
More work: therightpodcast.org
Music: Flux of Pink Indians, "Some of us scream, some of us shout."
It’s based on my new article When Politics Forgets the Face and asks how ideology on both the right and the left can turn people into symbols instead of subjects.
I talk about Ukraine, Syria, and Gaza, and why so many Western voices speak over those actually living through these conflicts. From there, I turn to Emmanuel Levinas and his idea that ethics begins with the face of another person, before politics or theory. I contrast that with Frantz Fanon’s view of how colonial systems destroy the very possibility of relation.
This is not just philosophy. It is about how we talk to and about each other, and how easily empathy becomes abstraction. It is about remembering that solidarity means standing with people, not speaking for them.
Read the full piece: When Politics Forgets the Face
Related episode: 52: In Defense of Leftist Self-Critique
More work: therightpodcast.org
Music: Flux of Pink Indians, "Some of us scream, some of us shout."
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