David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And maybe collapsing simply was the easiest way to do.
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in a way to keep from breaking apart.
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This question I'm going to play from another asks you to place triage in relationship to your past works.
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But I'd like to add to it that I'm also curious about collapse in relationship to this question.
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This question that is sort of about strategy is and I'm wondering if collapse itself is a new strategy and form of address, or is it something one does when there are no more strategies?
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Is it a rupture from one's past trajectory?
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Or another way of putting it, I think of how Saul Williams, when he was on the show earlier this year, he talked about how he used to say, Not in my name, but he now says, Over my dead body.
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Or Isabella Hamad's book Recognizing the Stranger, the Edward Said Memorial Speech given a month before October 7th.
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where in her afterword to the book, written post October seventh, the afterword sort of sits at a disjuncture from the book itself, and also with her former self.
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But here here's our question that is larger than this question of collapse, but I think also contains it.
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It's from the writer and scholar Kevin Quashi, teacher and scholar of black cultural and literary studies.
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Jaina Brown's description of his book, Black Aliveness or A Poetics of Being, makes me think of this question of collapse, and also collapse's meanings too, when she says
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I found great relief in Kwashi's formulation of the concept of oneness, which she insists is not akin to individualism.
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Kwashi's book has shifted decades of denial, distancing, and suppression for me, not by rescuing the eye, but by giving me one, the becoming, the relational.
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In dealing with my ontological anxieties I have dreamed of disillusion, a release into the elements of the universe of which we are all made.
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But even if we mingle with the stars we are still left with particles and forms of relation between these particles.
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What an aha moment for me reading Quashi.
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How freeing and wonderful to relate, to mingle is not a dissolve but a project.
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proliferation.
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So here's a question for you from Kevin.
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