#LARB Radio Hour talks with #PankajMishra about his new book, "#TheWorldAfterGaza: A History”
"[H]ow the legacy of the Holocaust has shaped the contemporary world order, including how it has shaped the government of #Israel, and the current war in #Gaza. The book grapples with how, within the relentless violence of the 20th century, #trauma can lead to #nationalism, and also how one #genocide can lead to another."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pankaj-mishras-the-world-after-gaza-a-history/
finding way a little further into Asian modern, literary & political — thanks to Yale’s Sam Hodgkin doing podcasts
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/31-dec-24-persianate-twentieth-century-samuel-hodgkin/
further with Pankaj Mishra, assisted by Vlad Vexler
https://pdbowman.studio/quareidfaciam/estate/
i am reading Pankaj Mishra (and wishing i’d been reading his stuff before now)
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/19-oct-24-pankaj-mishra-unfinished-business-of-postimperial-era/
loved reading every word of Pankaj Mishra's lecture - the way we love truths that hurt:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-mankind/
"Today, the war on terror is widely accepted as a military and geopolitical failure. But it is still not fully understood as a massive intellectual and moral fiasco: an attempt by the Western media as well as the political class to forge reality itself, which failed catastrophically, but not without embedding cruelty and mendacity deep and enduringly in public life."
