This week, Darren Lesaguis sat down in a deep chat with Andrew Brooks - who's one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate - alongside Astrid Lorange. Together, they make texts, objects, installations, and meals. Their collection of essays, Homework, was published in 2021 by Discipline. Andrew Brooks lectures in Media Cultures at UNSW, is a founding member of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network, and the author of poetry collection Inferno (2021).

Hear them chat about study as a social practice, love as a political and ways that we can find possibility and hope in unexpected places. Listen in if you want to revel in a conversation with a lot of heart, hope and knowledge. 

Readings Mentioned:
On anti-colonial radio from Algeria - Frantz Fanon, This is the Voice of Algeria
On loving action and love as dis-possession rather than possession -Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant
On understanding race a shifting construct, not as a fixed marker of identity - Stuart Hall, Race: The Floating Signifier
On the important history of Black Feminism and the origins of what we now call "identity politics" - 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement
On study as a social practice - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, All Incomplete (Brooklyn: Minor Compositions, 2021), 26.

Image: Andrew Brooks by Jacquie Manning

This week, Darren Lesaguis sat down in a deep chat with Andrew Brooks - who's one half of the critical art collective <a href="https://snacksyndicate.net/">Snack Syndicate - </a>alongside Astrid Lorange. Together, they make texts, objects, installations, and meals. Their collection of essays, <a href="http://www.discipline.net.au/snack-syndicate-homework/">Homework</a>, was published in 2021 by Discipline. Andrew Brooks lectures in Media Cultures at UNSW, is a founding member of the <a href="https://infrastructuralinequalities.net/">Infrastructural Inequalities research network</a>, and the author of poetry collection <a href="https://rosapress.net/product/inferno-andrew-brooks/">Inferno</a> (2021).
Hear them chat about study as a social practice, love as a political and ways that we can find possibility and hope in unexpected places. Listen in if you want to revel in a conversation with a lot of heart, hope and knowledge. 
Readings Mentioned:
<ul>
<li>On anti-colonial radio from Algeria - Frantz Fanon, <a href="http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-A-Dying-Colonialism.pdf">This is the Voice of Algeria</a></li>
<li>On loving action and love as dis-possession rather than possession -<a href="https://www.press.umich.edu/10262/poetics_of_relation">Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant</a></li>
<li>On understanding race a shifting construct, not as a fixed marker of identity - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PodKki9g2Pw&amp;ab_channel=thepostarchive">Stuart Hall, Race: The Floating Signifier</a></li>
<li>On the important history of Black Feminism and the origins of what we now call "identity politics" - <a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/">1977 Combahee River Collective Statement</a></li>
<li>On study as a social practice - <a href="https://monoskop.org/images/d/df/Harney_Stefano_Moten_Fred_All_Incomplete_2021.pdf">Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, All Incomplete</a> (Brooklyn: Minor Compositions, 2021), 26.</li>
</ul>
Image: Andrew Brooks by Jacquie Manning

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We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran&nbsp;
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