Son[i]a #256
Nina Power
This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Nina Power is a philosopher, teacher, writer, and activist. Her critical thought spreads through a porous web of practices and experiences linked to philosophy, feminism, art, politics, film, new technologies and labour relations.
In her 2009 essay “One-Dimensional Woman” she drew attention to the perverse way in which capitalism manipulates feminism, co-opting its demands and returning them to us in the form of sugar-coated reactionary slogans. Against this, Power proposes collectively rethinking feminism in alliance with Marxism, and organising new social, labour, sexual, and emotional networks.
For Nina Power, writing is a form of activism, and her manifestos, newspaper articles, and essays are pockets of resistance to the hegemonic narratives of consumer societies.
In this podcast, Nina Power shares her thoughts on the ideological power of language, on systems of state violence, surveillance and control, and on the need to reverse the savage logic of neoliberalism through strategies such as commoning and her own notion of “decapitalism”.
Jaume Ferrete
Mediante la creación de textos, grabaciones, performances, conciertos, sitios web, sesiones de escucha, talleres educativos y archivos de conversaciones, la obra de Jaume Ferrete (Mollet del Vallès, 1980) explora todo aquello que atraviesa y configura las ideologías de la voz. Sus proyectos eluden abiertamente cualquier naturalización de la identidad y examinan la producción vocal como un fenómeno social complejo, modelado por los ecos y las reverberaciones circundantes.
Jaume Ferrete
In a body of work that encompasses the creation of texts, recordings, performances, concerts, websites, listening sessions, educational workshops, and archives of conversations, Jaume Ferrete explores everything that affects and influences the ideologies of the voice. His projects openly refrain from naturalising identity and address vocal production as a complex social phenomenon, shaped by the surrounding echoes and reverberations.
In this podcast, Jaume Ferrete talks about Helen Harper, about the bodily discipline of telephone operators, and about the Voder as a clear example of drag. He cites deafness as a crucial phenomenon fuelling the history of sound technologies and connects some key moments—from the Voder to WaveNet—in the development of voice synthesis technologies.
Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey contextualises, updates, and elucidates on the far-reaching impact of her key text "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", where she coined the notion of the “male gaze” in classic Hollywood cinema and addressed the power asymmetry in representation and assigned gender roles, thus emphasising the patriarchal ideological agenda of the American film industry. At the same time, she opens up the debate with the notions of the “queer gaze” and the “universal whiteness” of Hollywood. Mulvey also defends orality as a form of "history from below", citing the example of “compilation films” (films that use archival footage re-written with new narrative) as a space for a new feminist film practice.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Nina Power that we were unable to include the first time around.