EPISODE · Sep 12, 2015 · 38 MIN
Ep.1 Part 1: What happened?
from Reconnaissance · host Asa Mendelsohn and Fred Schmidt-Arenales
We talk with friends, collaborators, and strangers, asking each of them a leading question: “What happened on September 11th, 2001?” By asking people with different kinds of expertise to provide straightforward narrative accounts of the events of a day now so firmly congealed in public consciousness, we hope to learn something about the construction of political stance through language and memory. What conversations does such a question provoke?
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We talk with friends, collaborators, and strangers, asking each of them a leading question: “What happened on September 11th, 2001?” By asking people with different kinds of expertise to provide straightforward narrative accounts of the events of a day now so firmly congealed in public consciousness, we hope to learn something about the construction of political stance through language and memory. What conversations does such a question provoke?
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