Olivia Laing
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938 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
Olivia Laing’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It will merge with consumerism.
It will have devastating effects on ecology.
It will have devastating effects on culture.
It will have devastating effects on society.
He had this sort of
far-seeing quality because I think what he was describing hadn't come into being in the 70s, but it very much has come into being now.
And even the sort of more ridiculous, you know, he wrote a lot of essays and some of them, some of his positions, I think, are quite wild and out there and even sort of naive or potentially laughable.
But one of the things that he complained about all the time was television.
He was like, television is destroying Italy.
It's destroying Italian culture.
It's destroying our soul.
And one of the things I think really interesting about that is
What happens after Pasolini dies in Italy?
You have Berlusconi, the television president.
And who does Berlusconi open the doors for really but Donald Trump?
It's exactly the same model.
And I think he saw that there was a way in which television created a sort of cartoonish version of reality and the kind of character who could come to power inside that.
That's among Pasolini's revelations.
things, right?
And he literally says, so there's a lot of eating shit in it.
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