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 our next question for you is in
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Is in part about couches.
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This question is from the writer and thinker Sarah Dowling.
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Sarah has a book called Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form.
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It's a book that engages with the lying down figure, whether the protester or the prostitute or the depressive
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And as you might imagine, it also engages like triage with Antigone.
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Carmen Fay Maithes says of her book that dowling contests dominant figurations of uprightness.
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End quote In six chapters here is a figure draws out relations between figures and grounds, readers and art, and it argues for material reorientations, for getting down on your stomach, on the hot, dry grass, or the
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of tacky asphalt for going to the places where corpses lie concealed by spending time with artworks that handle these bodies directly.
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So here's a question for you from Sarah.
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This is a perfect segue for my question, because I think your interest in the lying down figure goes back even further than Sarah's remarkable timeline through your work.
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Uh as when you were recently doing an event for your book Plot in the UK, published 20 years ago in the US, a book that explored your apprehensions about becoming an artist and becoming a parent.
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It engaged with Virginia Wolfs to the lighthouse.
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And as you say in this event, the language of it often ends at the river, at a drowning of sorts.
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This idea of this idea of thinking of language ending at the river makes me want to ask you about the limits of language in relation to some of these questions in your book.
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For one, I think
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There's a tension between the epigraph by Ula Lucas and the book's dedication, just as there's a tension even in anxiety about questions of words versus actions in the book too.
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The epigraph goes
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Any attempts to name and describe our lives will always seem unstable because all language is a form of triage, and the dedication is for all the students who risk everything for everyone.
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The epigraph suggests all language is a form of triage when it comes to its power of description, but it feels like the notion of triage.
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