Ark Audio

There is no new book club this month,So instead we are going to release the audio from an event we held back in March as a part of this years KBH Læser festival (Copenhagen reader for the non-danish speakers). The theme of which this year was Growth. The event was called Accursed growth! (with an exclamation point) and tried to explore the concept of growth from the perspective of Georges Bataille’s theory of general economy. But this then became the jumping off point for asking question about what such a view on growth could mean for some debates surrounding feminism The evening began with a series of readings that help us and abstract the concept of growth to make it more malleable to discussions of gender and identity within a specific economic and ecological context. After this, in the second podcast we hear from Jon Auring Grimm and Rebecca Lund as they discuss how the literature and philosophy we have heard about so far, mixed in with radical political and feminist philosophy can help us reth