About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of protest in a commercialized society and the need for ethical agency.

We are left on the precipice of a severe, unavoidable aporia: when the Empire can absorb and commercialize our very language of protest, the only true ethical act of agency is to stop performing the script, reject the easy answer, and step directly out into the unimaginable dark . We challenge the profound hypocrisy […]

People in this episode

Host: Steve Chisnell

Topics covered

• protest
• agency
• hypocrisy
• language
• commercialization
• ethical action

Keywords

• protest
• Empire
• language
• agency
• hypocrisy
• commercialization
• ethical action

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Empire

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