This week on 2ser
Author: Julia Gumbleton
Friday, February 13, 2004
Friday 13/02/2004 09:00-10:00AM
Origins of terrorism: Columbia University Professor Edward Said talks with AR's David Barsamian about the roots of terrorism to help give some understanding to the September 11 events. He integrates culture and politics in a unique way. He compares the U.S. to Captain Ahab and bin Laden to Moby Dick. Recorded on September 24, 2001.Edward Said, internationally renowned Columbia University professor, practically invented the field of post-colonial studies. His classic work, Orientalism has been translated into many languages and is widely used in colleges and universities. The New York Times called him, "one of the most influential literary and cultural critics in the world." As one of the few advocates for Palestinian rights in the US, he was the target of vilification, death threats and vandalism. The Economist said he "repudiated terrorism in all its forms and was a passionate, eloquent and persistent advocate for justice for the dispossessed Palestinians." He was a trenchant critic not just of Israeli policies, but also of Arafat, the corrupt coterie around him and the despotic Arab regimes. He felt strongly that intellectuals had a special responsibility to speak out against injustice, challenge power, confront hegemonic thinking and provide alternatives. His memoir Out of Place won the New Yorker Book of the Year Award. Edward Said died in New York on September 25, 2003.
STAGES
Friday 13/02/2004 10:00-10:30AM
This week on Stages meet one of the collaborators working on <http://www.performancespace.com.au> The Audience and other Psychopaths Amanda Stewart. Poet, filmmaker, performer, Stewart is one of Sydney's most exciting and cherished avant garde wordsmiths. Her work includes many gigs with The Machine for Making Sense and The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Also, join David Jobling and meet cast members of the production Lulu.
FRIDAY OVERDRIVE
Friday 13/02/2004 04:00-06:00PM
This week on Friday Drive James talks to German nu-jazz dons Beanfield about their latest release 'Seek'. He's also on the trail of a phenomenon known as stencil art, and there's a new festival this weekend in Melbourne devoted to it. Cinnamon chats to the creators of Nocturnal, a new show on Channel 31, showcasing electronic and underground music in Sydney; and David Jobling talks to poet Amanda Stewart about the production The Audience and Other Psychopaths. Tune in!
MUSIC FOR BIG GAME HUNTING
Saturday 14/02/2004 12:00-01:30AM
Salutations, o nebulous minkiesans, draw close to the gently revolving Astro-Pith, it is time to board our armada for the "heaven's gate", for what is a "cargo cult" without cargo, and a delirium of cargo you all shall be o minkiesans. Thee inhuman and bestial Hunters armada consists, for your necronautical pleasures, of flying cubes, triangles, hexagons, doughnuts, disks, spheres and tentacles. Objects shaped like giant metal insects and transparent flying jellyfish. A plethora of cunning conveyances with wheels, with wings, with antennas, sponging mouthparts, pointed domes, flat domes, or no domes at all. Objects of every colour of the spectrum. Giant, multi windowed "cigars" spitting blue fire from their tails to take you to Venus with love, the love of the great unknowable one, many of tentacle and rolling of eyeball. Gird thine loins o' minkiesans for it shall be soon time to leave the physical world behind and board thee Hunters armada to the stars, martinis in paw and unmentionables placed gently on top of your receiving devices for soon we must fly...
POWERSPOT
Monday 16/02/2004 01:00-03:00AM
The weekend spills over into Monday with a bit of a special on Linton Kwesi Johnson on Powerspot, plus some dub infused offerings from Bill Laswell, Tabla Beat Science live.
MONDAY OVERDRIVE
Monday 16/02/2004 04:00-06:00PM
Stacey Ann Chin and Doria Roberts from Slam Rock Femmes Fatale dr Tags