140. - Survivance / Did The CIA Fund Good Art - Dominique Althoff

w/ Ojibwe musician & researcher Dominique Althoff of Black Seed Journal on indigenous post-nihilism, going from prison to UC Berkeley, and the question of whether the CIA contributed to good art... #Political assassinations, code talking, Peter Matthiessen, the Paris Review, and the CIA, Ghost Dance origins of Wounded Knee, the 1880 outlawing of ceremonial gift-giving, Black Twilight Circle, the Scorpions’ ‘Wind of Change’...Gerald Vizenor & Survivance, what would Adorno say about hyperpop, the Russian nihilist movement, Clastres and the projection of Nietzsche onto indigenous anthropology, Hitler's fascination with American Indians, Indigenous Anarchy, & more. "Nihilism was a position we were put it...it's a position to overcome" "The field of intelligence is wide open right now" Consider supporting the show featuring full archive & projects by subscribing here