Olivia Laing
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938 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
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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Fascism never really went away.
It just changed form, went underground, periodically exploding back into the daylight.
If you believe Pasolini, if you read the articles he's been publishing in Corrieri, the signs everywhere, the bombing in Milan in 1969, the attempted coup in 1970, the bombing in Brescia last May, only 20 miles from Salo.
All these things signify that fascism is still alive, still straining at the leash.
But Danilo knows too, with the same kind of sideways seeing, that his friend is in hell, that he is totally alone, and that the film is coming from this desperate place, this place of desolation.
If it's hard to watch, how much harder to live?
Make the film, he thinks to himself, make it like an exorcism.
Then let's see where we
We're going to talk about books.
I really like this book, Ambivalence, by Brian Dillon.
It is a book about being a particular kind of reader and a book about becoming a particular kind of writer.
It's a story about education.
It's a story about learning who you are by way of an education system, a deep travel into an education system.
It goes through school.
It goes through university.
It goes through master's.
It goes through PhD.
And it goes through becoming a professional academic while feeling all the time at a slant that education system.
and simultaneously practicing a different kind of more personal, more quixotic education.
It's a book about being young.
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