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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what that is worth, that experience that I'm having.
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What are the limitations of producing that effect in me?
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For instance, I think of when the narrator, listening to the theorist giving a talk, describes the following during the talk.
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And yet the audience's applause, resounding as it was, recalled my own reaction to Omar El Akkad's description of a team of makeshift orderlies moving in unison to lift their patient, a woman from the rubble of genocide.
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The woman who
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already resigned to the cemetery, asked if they were taking her there.
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The question was her tracheotomy.
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The airway was open, the diaphragm contracted, the ribs raised, air has reached the lungs.
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I stopped holding my breath.
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But was the second minute hour any safer?
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This feels like the fulcrum of the book to me, somehow, but I was hoping
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You could talk about triage the word and triage the action in relation to language and action, why it's the title of the work, and to what end is triage the title of the work?
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Well, in Autumn Night's Carel de Monstre performance piece, the conjoined twins work together and have attempt various tasks until one of the twins dies.
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And in the last moments before that twin dies, the other twin engages with the audience.
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She erects a Yoruban sculpture called an Ibeji, a sculpture one creates when a twin
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Twin or both twins die.
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And the living twin then reflects on her life and also on the universality of separation.
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And I mention this because in one event you did years ago now, where you read from Triage and Progress, in the passage you read, the theorist had died.
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And the story is continuing with the narrator now alongside the theorist's absence.
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And it made me wonder about the deliberation around whether to have them endure together versus having the death of one's collapsing partner as part of the collapse.
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