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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Here's some questions for you from Sarah.
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Wow.
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Part of why I wanted to put Sarah's questions around class and privilege, but also about Palestine here is that
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given that we are all deeply implicated in the Gaza genocide, with at a minimum our tax dollars going toward it, where in one interview Omar Alakad said
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Quite often I talk about being a pacifist and about how important nonviolence is to me, but by virtue of where my tax dollars are being spent, I'm one of the most violent people on earth.
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This situation still ongoing, still unfolding, where even speech on behalf of Palestinians has led to the loss of jobs, reputations, deportations.
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Our relationship to the genocide puts a distinct pressure on this question of words versus action, and the theorist who is constantly calling the narrator to account about her passivity is
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Makes an ask of our narrator that I I want to discuss, but before I ask about it, I wanted to ask something about the theorist first.
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Because the theorist frames themselves and is also seen by the narrator as the person who acts.
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In fact, the narrator is first enamored with the theorist in college before she knows them, when she sees the theorist pulling down.
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on posters of bikini clad women in the quad.
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But normally, by definition, we don't think of theorists as actors in the way that we do activists.
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Not that these two categories are in any way mutually exclusive.
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But I realize that we never see the theorist in the book doing anything other than seemingly having the most correct analysis and giving speeches.
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And I'm sure we all know people who
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who have all the quote unquote correct positions, and yet do nothing material in the world on behalf of them, and others who have
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a more limited analysis or even in some regards a regressive one who nevertheless make meaningful material change in the world.
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I'm not saying the theorist is either of those, but calling them the theorist and also not having
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their actions in the world really dramatized in the book or known to us in the book, it creates an interesting
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generative narrative gap, I think, that I would love for you to speak to and maybe into.
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