Accursed Growth! Part 2 - a podcast by Ark Audio

There is no new book club this month,So instead we are going to release the audio from an event we held back in March as a part of this years KBH Læser festival (Copenhagen reader for the non-danish speakers). The theme of which this year was Growth.
The event was called Accursed growth! (with an exclamation point) and tried to explore the concept of growth from the perspective of Georges Bataille’s theory of general economy.
But this then became the jumping off point for asking question about what such a view on growth could mean for some debates surrounding feminism
The evening began with a series of readings that help us and abstract the concept of growth to make it more malleable to discussions of gender and identity within a specific economic and ecological context.
After this, in the second podcast we hear from Jon Auring Grimm and Rebecca Lund as they discuss how the literature and philosophy we have heard about so far, mixed in with radical political and feminist philosophy can help us rethink growth as something liberatory rather than oppressive.

On a technical note.
When we hold readings in Ark Books the intimacy of the space can heighten the experience. Giving it a grandeur that doesn’t really translate to the audio recording.
So to remedy this we have tried find a technical way to enhance this audio and help listeners engage with it more fully and intensely.
So through the miracles of audio engineering we have restaged Accursed Growth in The royal festival hall of London’s South Bank.
Now sit back and enjoy readings of George Bataille, Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Hang Kang and Kathy Acker performed the volunteers of Ark Books.
You can also check out the video of the Bataille reading on Ark Books Facebook page.
In part 2 of Accursed Growth! In this section you will here Rebecca Lund and Jon Auring Grimm discuss how the literature presented so far can help us to expand our notion of growth.

This event was a part of the KBH Læser festival and made possible by the support of Nørrebro Lokaludvalg.
The Ark Audio Book Club will be back next month where we will be discussing Claire Louise Bennet’s short story collection Pond.

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