Podcast Friday - Palestinian art and cemeteries of numbers

[frandroid]

Quick hit.

All Things Palestinian Canadian - Rana Nazzal: Research, Human Rights, Art and Activism

The CJPME has a podcast, which I've started listening to once in a while. This episode featured Rana Nazzal, a Palestinian-Canadian artist. She discusses making political art, making art for a specific audience, and the difference between how her art is received in Palestine itself and in Canada. I think she could have talked about how "Canadianized" the reaction to her art in Canada is but she was being constructive rather than bitchy ;) She's currently finishing a documentary on cemeteries of numbers, places where Israel keeps dead Palestinian bodies (sometimes under the excuse of continuing to serve prison terms!) since the Israeli supreme court has allowed the withholding of dead bodies in 2015. We need to find an expression to describe the ghoulishness of the Zionist state without it sounding like some sort of blood libel.

A related article, more broadly about Israel necropolitics and desecration of Palestinian bodies, at Al Jazeera.

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Okay, another quick hit:

La STM en balado - Planification et construction du métro de Montréal

Une courte histoire orale de la planification et de la construction du Métro de Montréal. On y entend quelques architectes et politiciens qui ont parlé de comment ils ont poussé certaines décisions cruciales au design et à la construction du métro. On y entend aussi un travailleur qui était sur le chantier avec ses mains et outils, de quoi avait l'air la sécurité à l'époque, et aussi sa fierté à travailler sur un tel projet.

Comments

[sabotabby]

We need to find an expression to describe the ghoulishness of the Zionist state without it sounding like some sort of blood libel.

Do we fucking ever.

I think necropolitics works, though. It connects it to other extractive, colonial movements and isn't racialized.

That said as a Jew who has to actively fight back against blood libel all the time, it'd help if the Zionists didn't keep desecrating Palestinian graves and murdering Palestinian kids and then claiming that they were doing it for all Jews.

[ioplokon]

That's one of the reasons I thought Butler's Precarious Life was an interesting project, in that it's constructed as a defense of Arab Muslim lives rooted in the Jewish philosophical tradition. I guess it probably wouldn't persuade anyone but still seems like a thing that was worth doing?

[sabotabby]

I haven't read it but I imagine I'd agree.

[frandroid]

Interesting indeed!

[ioplokon]

🙀 ce balado sur le métro de Montréal a l'air tellement cool!