#Paul Holdengräber

[onetwofeb]

“Was the Twentieth Century a Mistake?”—a two-hour conversation between Paul Holdengräber and Werner Herzog, which took place at the New York Public Library on February 16, 2007.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The story of student debt is inseparable from the country's swing to the right that produced tax cuts that meant public education got a lot more expensive, paid for by students rather than by society. The people with means gave themselves a break and dumped a burden on the young, in other words. All those individual stories exist within the context of this collective story. Which is important to remember because it could be reversed and because it undoes the story that it's individual failing that produced the debt crisis (or that the young should just buck up like grandpa did when the UC system was free and public universities across the country were cheap).

And yeah, there could be footnotes about how private universities jacked up their prices and scam for-profit colleges bilked the naive and how metastasizing bureaucracy also made education a lot more expensive. But this transfer from the public to the private via the tax cuts and the gutting of funding for colleges is a key piece of the story.

There could be other footnotes about how people back when higher education was cheap to free were able to be idealists, to take risks, to make mistakes. I caught the tail end of that, and I feel like I sprinted through college (SFSU, then UCB) as the doors were slamming shut behind me. I've heard boomers bitch at the young for being less idealistic, but they're just less free. Between the higher cost of living, debt, and the ease with which people now fall into the homelessness it's so hard to climb out of, the homelessness that was pretty rare before Reaganomics, there are a lot of scary forces to keep people on the financial straight and narrow. It's a harder, crueler world than that peak of economic egalitarianism and funded social safety nets that was the postwar era. 

Astra Taylor, who's been a leader with the Debt Collective for a decade, says it better:  "There are 45 million student debtors in the United States. Did each one of those 45 million people just make a terrible mistake? They just somehow failed to really comprehend compound interest? No. When something is that massive, when you have 45 million people all in the same boat, it’s because of the structural issue, because that’s actually the way the economy is set up. One phrase from the Debt Collective book, which we just published maybe six months ago—it’s called Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition—one line from that book is “We are not in debt because we live beyond our means. We are indebted because we are denied the means to live.”"We’re in debt because we have a basically quasi-privatized education system in this country. 

The average student graduates from college with $35,000 in student debt, and that of course just balloons because of interest. The United States is buried in medical debt, unlike many other advanced countries, because we don’t have universal health care. This is the only country where thousands and thousands and thousands of people every year go bankrupt because their medical bills, because they got cancer, because one of their family members got sick. So we have a crisis of debt that is not a personal issue. It’s a political issue." 

[interview with Paul Holdengraber in Lithub]

[Rebecca Solnit]

#Astra Taylor #student debt #Rebecca Solnit #articles #debt #Debt Collective #structural issues

[89rooms]

We’re always going to be preoccupied by what we’re missing, by what we’ve lost, and there’s no way around it. And in other moods we can think, Well, that’s what it is to live a life, so get used to it, that’s the point. That’s not a problem, it’s the point.

Adam Phillips - interview with Paul Holdengräber 

[kammartinez]

#history #writing #literature #Maaza Mengiste #The Shadow King #books

[rulinarulina]

H Laurie Anderson σε μία συζήτηση με τον Paul Holdengräber στην Κεντρική Σκηνή της Στέγης

H Laurie Anderson σε μία συζήτηση με τον Paul Holdengräber στην Κεντρική Σκηνή της Στέγης

Δύο ημέρες πριν την εμφάνισή της στο Ηρώδειο, η Laurie Anderson θα βρίσκεται στη Στέγη. H Laurie Anderson, ιέρεια της αβανγκάρντ της μυθικής δεκαετίας του ’70 στη Νέα Υόρκη, μία από τις πιο σημαντικές φωνές της αμερικανικής τέχνης, έρχεται στην Κεντρική Σκηνή της Στέγης του Ιδρύματος Ωνάση σε μια αναπάντεχη συζήτηση με τον κορυφαίο αμερικανό διανοούμενο […] The post H Laurie Anderson σε μία…

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[shakespearenews]

On Episode 112 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Barry Edelstein, the artistic director at the Old Globe in San Diego. Barry and Paul explore some of the ways the Old Globe has found to continue making theatre under the restrictions of the pandemic. 

Barry believes that theatre is a public good. He tells Paul about how one of the challenges of the past few months has been discovering how to continue bringing this art form to as wide an audience as possible. Barry and Paul dig into what Barry fears might be lost for theatre in the wake of the pandemic as well as what programming the Old Globe hopes to continue beyond the constraints of this moment.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #the old globe #barry edelstein #artistic director #podcast #the quarantine tapes #Paul Holdengräber #san diego #theater #theatre #art in the time of covid #art in the time of corona

[thebookbeard-blog]

This is worth a listen for the staggeringly beautiful poem Ursula reads about halfway through alone, but the entire interview is just the most charming.

#writers #ursula k. le guin #interviews #a phone call from paul #paul holdengräber

[elizabethanism]

"She smiled delicately/she knew I was alone on foot and therefore unprotected/she understood me.

For one splendid, fleeting moment something mellow flowed thru my deadly tired body. I said to her, open the window, from these last days onward I can fly. "

’For the 1st time, some sunshine; I thought this will do you good, but now my shadow was lurking beside me’

—Werner Herzog/Lotte Eisner

The journey through the book is itself a walking on foot; slow, meditative, observational.

‘We are made for travelling on foot/ seeing things w intimacy’

—Werner Herzog to Paul Holdengräber

https://brickmag.com/was-the-twentieth-century-a-mistake/

#Werner Herzog #Lotte Eisner #Film #Kino #Cinema #Of Walking in Ice #film critics

[protoslacker]

'On episode 091 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Robin Kelley. As a historian, Robin provides a long view of the ongoing crises in the US, talking with Paul about how to slow down in this moment and the importance of keeping the big picture in mind.  They talk in-depth about issues of racial capitalism, environmental justice, and a culture of care. In their discussion, Paul and Robin call out influences like Thelonious Monk and Cedric Robinson and take time to hear about the three words that guide Robin’s approach to his work: love, study, struggle.'

#racial capitalism #love #study #struggle #history #robin kelley

[itsmassivecollectionpatrolus]

. . .that feminine beauty is nonetheless absolute, an absolute which appears: no matter how fragile and deceptive this beauty is at the level of substantial reality, what transpires in/through the moment of Beauty is an Absolute—there is more truth in the appearance than in what is hidden beneath it.

Therein resides Plato’s deep insight: Ideas are not the hidden reality beneath appearances (Plato was well aware that this hidden reality is that of ever-changing corruptive and corrupted matter); Ideas are nothing but the very form of appearance, this form as such—or, as Lacan succinctly rendered Plato’s point: the Suprasensible is appearance as appearance.

For this reason, neither Plato nor Christianity are forms of Wisdom—they are both anti-Wisdom embodied. (because they are non-conformist!)

That is to say, what is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences, say, through a gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through a warm caring smile of a person who otherwise may seem ugly and rude—in such miraculous, but extremely fragile, moments another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded, it all too easily slips through our fingers, and must be treated as carefully as a butterfly.

#christianity #non-conformist #wisdom as conformnity #slavoj žižek #paul holdengraber #wisdom

[finita--la--commedia]

When people say, “I’m the kind of person who,” my heart always sinks. These are formulas, we’ve all got about ten formulas about who we are, what we like, the kind of people we like, all that stuff. The disparity between these phrases and how one experiences oneself minute by minute is ludicrous. It’s like the caption under a painting. You think, Well, yeah, I can see it’s called that. But you need to look at the picture.

Adam Phillips in the interview with Paul Holdengräber

#interview #psychology

[onetwofeb]

"In my life I've seen art pushed off to the side...I think we're starting to see the results of that in our public life, because art has always been the way of teaching people to smell bullshit."

– George Saunders

[chrisengel]

“A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer,”Susan Sontag once said. The object of the writer’s observation isn’t just the outer world but also — and perhaps even more so — the inner. In that regard, the writer bears a striking similarity to another professional observer — the psychotherapist. That’s precisely what Adam Phillips — Britain’s most celebrated psychoanalytical writer and the author of such immeasurably stimulating reads as Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life, and the particularly wonderful On Kindness — explores in his wide-ranging conversation with Paul Holdengräber, several years in the making, part of The Paris Review’s legendary interview series.

[stuartelden]

Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt’s Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19 ‹ Literary Hub

Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt’s Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19 ‹ Literary Hub

https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-171-samantha-rose-hill Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.On Episode 171 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Samantha Rose…

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[andiloop]

[finita-la-commedia]

There’s something about these books that we want to go on thinking about, that matters to us. They’re not just fetishes that we use to fill gaps. They are like recurring dreams we can’t help thinking about.

Adam Phillips, in the interview with Paul Holdengräber