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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There remains no real antidote to the collapse, except to collapse without coming apart, while coming apart.
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The heart aches before another step, absorb the texture of whatever is touched when one touches down.
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The heart breaks.
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This is sort of my long way to ask you to speak about non-arrival, perhaps the theorist's critique of maybe what I'd call solutionism.
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But also I I I would love for you to flesh out the narrator in contrast, especially since since you say you wanted to draw out the Ismini component of Antigone, her sister.
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And
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I wonder if you could talk about
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how the narrator sees collapse, which isn't this way, though I th she's compelled, I think, by this way.
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It's not that she's completely saying no to this formulation, but it's a different she has a different formulation.
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Well, this this twinning or conjoined lifelong argument of monsters between the theorist and the narrator, between a non binary Palestinian and a black woman, is also echoed throughout, as you've already mentioned, in Triage's engagement with the play Antigone.
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And the theorist overtly calls the narrator Ismani at one point in the book.
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Ismini the
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be the rule abiding young sister to Antigone who is the defiant and rebellious one.
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And Kevin Gwashi sent me two questions and said, just choose which one worked best.
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But perhaps selfishly, as not only do I enjoy his insights, but like you, I'm so enamored with his voice and delivery.
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I'm gonna play both.
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So here here's the second question from Kevin, which sort of touches on on the Antigone uh substrata of the book and expands on it.
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Well, preparing for today, your book sort of sent me down a rabbit hole of explorations on the history of adaptations of Antigone.
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And maybe as a way to extend Kevin's question, I'm just gonna share some of what I unearthed for myself and see whether this field of information sparks any further thoughts for you about the play or your interest in it.
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You know, obviously, as you alluded to, the engagement with power and authority, whether a child versus the head of the household who is also the head of the state, a young girl against a powerful man, or how since the French Revolution, where questions of divine versus human law within the play
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