For this two-part episode, we invited Rana Dasgupta, Lara Garcia Diaz, and Timothy Snyder to reflect on the model of the nation-state and what it means for Europe.
Rana Dasgupta is a novelist and essayist. Through his varied body of work, he has consistently explored themes of globalization, migration, and the twenty-first-century city. His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled, was published in 2005. Solo (2009) won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In 2014 he published Capital, a non-fiction account of the stupendous changes engulfing New Delhi as a result of globalization. Dasgupta is currently working on a book about post-national futures.
Lara Garcia Diaz is a Ph.D. researcher at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts. Since 2016, she is doing research around practices of Commoning operating in the Cultural field as a possible social practice of alternative subjectivities that clashes with the sexualized, racialized, naturalized, marginalized, and precarious bodies constructed by Capital. The research is executed by an interdisciplinary team directed by sociologist Pascal Gielen at the Culture Commons Quest Office.
Timothy Snyder is Housum professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. An expert on Eastern and Central Europe and the second world war, he has written several books.
A bonus track features a reading by Rana Dasgupta of his prologue to his book Tokyo Cancelled accompanied by a piece of music composed by Lara Garcia Diaz in collaboration with musicians Francesc Fornos and Jose Galbis.
🚀 Propelled by Ausha
