Simon Elmer on Bio-security, Crisis and Revolution

Returning for a new season with thoughts on the root question: how is this technological society shaping our ever-more-dystopian world? This is the central question in the movie 'My Dinner with Andre', which makes for a really good shmooze. Blogpost with transcript and links: https://friedavizel.com/2021/07/14/26ofpodcast/

Where I tell you everything I know on the subject, and that tells you everything I don't know as well.  Post with links:  https://friedavizel.com/2021/03/17/boxes2/

Biting off more than I can chew in an attempt to articulate what various political/philosophical terminologies mean to me. Part 1 covers liberalism, neoliberalism and libertarianism. // Link to blogpost with notes: https://friedavizel.com/2021/03/10/boxes/

In this episode I talk to Simon Elmer, who is critical of the biosecurity state from what I'll call a left perspective. We talked about why he uses the term revolution to describe what we are experiencing, why he prefers not to use the term fascism, and much more. Transcript of episode here.

I talk to fellow NYC radical Addison from Modern Heretic about technology, class, dating, leaving the city, and much more. Blog post with transcript and links: https://friedavizel.com/2021/07/28/28-of-podcast/

This is Part 2 of my conversation with Addison Reeves from Modern Heretic.  In Part 1 we talked specifically about the vaccine mandates in NYC. In part 2 that conversation is continued, but we also talk about modern life in general, what we define as success, what we consider a meaningful life, and what drives us. Blogpost with transcript: https://friedavizel.com/2021/08/18/31-of-podcast/

In the summer of 2021, I had a second conversation with Simon Elmer from Architects for Social Housing. Our first conversation was on biosecurity, crisis, and revolution. Here we talked about the need to fight for a world that is free, that is meaningful and the dangers of living in the digital spectacle. Many thanks to all of you for being there, writing, sharing, listening, during another year of the institutionalizing of a terrible new normal. Send a voice message @ https://anchor.fm/frieda-vizel/message

I’ve been reading on the rise of Nazism, in an effort to understand the mindset that gave rise to such great evil. Blog post with links: https://friedavizel.com/2021/05/12/22ofpodcast/

Another conversation with the wonderful Addison Reeves, on the need for a new political typology, which she wrote about for her blog modernheretic.com. Check out Addison's other powerful writings like her essay “It’s just...” – Why I Won’t Submit — modernheretic, Imperialism: The Antecedent of Contemporary Illiberalism — modernheretic and Progressive Hypocrisy, White Supremacy: How the Pandemic Revealed Progressive Pharisaism. Blog post with links and transcript: https://friedavizel.com/2021/09/1/33-of-podcast/

I talk to David Cayley about Ivan Illich and where the response to the pandemic comes from. David Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster, who is known for documenting the philosophies of prominent thinkers of the 20th century - among them, the work of Ivan Illich. Recently, Cayley has been written several powerful works on the Pandemic, including the Prognosis, which was published in Literary Review Canada. He joined me on my podcast to discuss the philosophy of Ivan Illich and how it might be understood in light of recent developments. Blog post with transcript and links: https://friedavizel.com/2021/08/03/29-of-podcast/