The Quarantine Tapes

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The Quarantine Tapes 072: Abraham Verghese Jul 07, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 071: Lawrence Wilkerson Jul 06, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 070: Sherry Turkle Jul 03, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 069: Mona Eltahawy Jul 02, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 068: Sjón Jul 01, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 067: Jackie Goldberg Jun 30, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 066: Rachel Kushner Jun 29, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 065: Toshi Reagon Jun 26, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 064: William Kentridge Jun 25, 2020

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“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.”

The Quarantine Tapes 063: Anand Giridharadas Jun 24, 2020

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“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.”

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