Season 4, Episode 11: Putting Black Radical Theory into Practice
During this final episode of the season, Edna Bonhomme spoke with Zoé Samudzi.
This is Edna's last episode with the podcast after which Edna will continue to focus more on writing essays and books. You can get updates about Edna's work from www.ednabonhomme.com, Twitter @jacobinoire, or Substack Newsletter Mobile Fragments ednabonhomme.substack.com/.
Biography
Zoé Samudzi
Zoé Samudzi
Zoé Samudzi is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Verso, The New Republic, Daily Beast, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and other outlets. She is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents. Along with William C. Anderson, she is the co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press). Samudzi was a 2017 Public Imagination Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and holds a PhD from the University of California San Francisco.
Bibliography
Samudzi, Zoé and William C. Anderson with a foreword by Mariame Kaba. As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. (AK Press, 2018)
Samudzi, Zoé, “The Holocaust Analogy,” Verso Blog (July 3, 2018)
Samudzi, Zoé, “Looking After,” Artforum (July 7, 2021)
Samudzi, Zoé, “The Paradox of Plenty,” Art in America (February 16, 2021)
For some information on the Herero and Nama genocide, please visit here.
Show Credits
Interview
Edna Bonhomme
Post-production
Edna Bonhomme
music
All music is from Freesounds.org (Creative Commons)
Thank you
A special thanks to Zoé Samudzi and to Decinaction creator and host Edna Bonhomme. This season concludes with ongoing radical joy and supportive celebration of Edna's past, current, future work especially for creating this podcast and Edna’s dedication to sustain it for 4 seasons with collaborative generosity and a commitment of care. This season also closes with ongoing gratitude for the contributions of all guests on the podcast. And enormous thank yous to all listeners for being there throughout.
Looking forward to sharing Season 5 with you all in the spring of 2022.