The Quarantine Tapes 072: Abraham Verghese
“I think that the end of this narrative is that ultimately this will all come together, painfully so, but in a way that shapes this world to be in a better place, in a better direction.”
Jul 07, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.“ - Blaise Pascal.
The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series 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.
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The Quarantine Tapes 071: Lawrence Wilkerson
“There’s no question that the imperial aspects of our republic today, that which we call the United States of America, are eating away at our soul, much the way they ate Rome’s soul or they ate Britain’s soul.”
Jul 06, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 070: Sherry Turkle
“Privacy, intimacy, and democracy are not separate things. When we lose the capacity for privacy, we’re losing democracy and intimacy together and at the same time.”
Jul 03, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 069: Mona Eltahawy
“It’s about more than police brutality. It’s about the systems of oppression that will not leave us to be free, that we must rise up against in order to be free. This is the widest, largest, most incredible protest movement in US history and I absolutely think of it as a revolution.”
Jul 02, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 068: Sjón
“It became almost like a national sport here to flatten the curve. Every day at two o’clock two doctors and one police officer, they gave press meetings on the television, and it was all about doing this together, coming together as a people to flatten the curve.”
Jul 01, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 067: Jackie Goldberg
“We felt that all children learned better when they were learning that there were many different kinds of people in the world and you get to go to school with lots of them. We were integrationists.”
Jun 30, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 066: Rachel Kushner
“Suddenly we both went off of what I would call “traditional calendar time” and into something more like what I would call “kairos”, a non-calendar time, which in continental philosophy is thought of as the kind of event where...historical conditions have been shaped and made and irrevocably altered by something that has taken place that will fracture the calendar time. And it seems that that happened on May 25th.”
Jun 29, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 065: Toshi Reagon
“Consider your life as an opportunity for multiple changes that can lead you into a direction and that can create adaptability, so that you can face the things that are hard to face.”
Jun 26, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 064: William Kentridge
“It doesn’t work to pretend that those figures in history didn’t exist or that they didn’t leave their particular legacies behind them, but it also doesn’t work to leave them still on their pedestals, as if their historical position is unchanged. So, you need something that acknowledges the history, but shifts it.”
Jun 25, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 063: Anand Giridharadas
“At every major decision point in American life today, if there is a tension between what is good for money and what is good for people. What is good for money tends to win.”
Jun 24, 2020•35 min
The Quarantine Tapes 062: Elizabeth Alexander
“I ask questions relatively often in poems and I ask them because I don't know the answer.” - Elizabeth Alexander
Jun 19, 2020•34 min
The Quarantine Tapes 061: Natalie Diaz
“One way that I am looking at truth is that it’s a way of being asleep. As soon as something becomes true, there’s a way that I quit making inquiry or that I quit asking questions of it. Truth is also something that is gathered and then it becomes a power. When things become powers, solidified powers, that’s when I really question them.” - Natalie Diaz
Jun 18, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 060: Carolin Emcke
“There is an attempt to normalize hatred and to somehow treat it if it were an anthropological given--as if it were a spontaneous outbreak of emotion...I really resist that narrative. It’s not natural and it’s not individual...it’s something that is collectively produced.”
Jun 17, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 059: David Rieff
“That memory is a species of morality is one of the more unassailable pieties of our age.” - David Rieff
Jun 16, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 058: Christopher Knight
“The way in which one experiences the present has an effect on the way one reads art from the past.” - Christopher Knight
Jun 15, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 057: Jerry Saltz
“Art is long, it’s never not been with us for some reason. It’s the most advanced operating system our species has ever developed to examine consciousness, the invisible world, the visible world, each other--whatever--and it won’t go away until everything it’s meant to address has been addressed.” - Jerry Saltz
Jun 12, 2020•32 min
The Quarantine Tapes 056: Michael Roth
“I believe that the heart and soul of colleges and universities is the study of enduring questions from a variety of points of view.” - Michael Roth
Jun 11, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 055: Margaret Atwood
“When people are scared and they think things are falling apart, they get more conservative and they’re willing to trade civil liberties for someone taking control.”
Jun 10, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 054: Greg Grandin
“What is ultimately at the core of American exceptionalism - a definition of freedom as 'freedom from restraint' rather than a recognition of mutual dependence with other human beings.”
Jun 09, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 053: Meredith Monk
“There isn’t really a ‘normal’, because normal was the destruction of the planet and the myth of control. I think that, hopefully, a ‘new normal’ will be a world that affirms kindness, cooperation, and generosity rather than cruelty, selfishness, and violence.”
Jun 08, 2020•29 min
The Quarantine Tapes 052: Viet Thanh Nguyen
On episode 052 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Jun 05, 2020•31 min
The Quarantine Tapes 051: Dr. Jason Hill
On episode 051 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by ER doctor Jason Hill. “One thing that this pandemic has laid bare is the inequities in our healthcare system and the undue burden on the poor, on people of color. The disproportionate impact that it has had on poor communities is telling, is shocking... I think moves to address that are paramount to moving forward.”
Jun 04, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 050: Aja Monet
On episode 050 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is Joined by poet Aja Monet. “People are really feeling agency and power, not just how they show up to the rally or the riot, but how they show up to themselves.”
Jun 03, 2020•32 min
The Quarantine Tapes 049: Bernard Khoury
On episode 049 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by architect Bernard Khoury. “I’m not here to produce architecture. I’m here to produce meaning in the city.”
Jun 01, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 048: Maggie Nelson
On episode 048 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by acclaimed author Maggie Nelson.
May 29, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 047: Patton Oswalt
On episode 047 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by award-winning actor and comedian, Patton Oswalt.
May 28, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 046: Alex Ross
On episode 046 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross.
May 27, 2020•37 min
The Quarantine Tapes 045: Nik Hlady
On episode 045 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by co-founder of Los Angeles Nightlife Alliance (LANA) Nik Hlady.
May 26, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 044: Imani Perry
On episode 044 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by professor and author Imani Perry.
May 22, 2020•30 min
The Quarantine Tapes 043: Molly Crabapple
On episode 043 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber sits down with artist and writer Molly Crabapple.
May 21, 2020•30 min
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