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What strikes me is that we don't have any shows like these anymore. Seems like there were so many of these kinds from 60's-90's, interviews with great thinkers and writers, that you could learn from actually. So saddening, now there is truly no reason to watch TV anymore.
There certainly are still Dutch programs like these! And there's even a RU-vid channel by the "NOS". But yeah, it is transferred, in large part, to the interwebz. On the other hand, there are also events you can attend at which professors are invited to speak to the public That said, I must admit I share a feeling of nostalgia with you, that a particular type of intellectualism or civilizedness has been lost to a time gone by, replaced by other things. And, I think this feeling is founded in reality, in at least some way
These interviews nowadays happens in other ways, like podcasts or on RU-vid channels. Television has become way too commercial, and these kind of interviews aren't the biggest moneymakers.
What I don’t understand about the interview is that on the one hand Anderson (convincingly in my opinion) argues that nationalism is peculiar since nationalism is relatively arbitrary and empty as compared to other isms. But then paradoxically at the end of the interview he seems to seriously contemplate for which nation he would be prepared to give his life.
I took it as a wonderful display of honest, nuanced thinking. For it does not necessarily follow that a concept must be abandoned once it has been identified as arbitrary. We all rely on a degree of arbitrariness (seeming or otherwise) to grant meaning to our lives. Nation, family, life itself -- all arbitrary, in the end.
So glad to hear from the originating person. In this, I have tried to roughly sketch the similarities between Anderson and Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian polymath and visionary ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zwL_y_86l14.html
43:54 Benedict was asked, "Which country would you be prepared to die for?" He said nothing! That should tell you the level of betrayal he has in his heart toward the current nation which is hosting him as he pontificates about how racist white people are. That is why ethno-nationalism is the strongest and most moral and most natural way for a people to live. The left is a cancer which destroys cohesive identity and promotes cultural Marxism to emasculate a people making them easy prey for globalist thugs.
Lorem ipsum. I agree, Marxists did pick up on the fact that Nationalism as a concept hadn't been deeply academically investigated, and took the opportunity to apply critical theory to it, thus coming up with all their usual constructivism and imagined bullcrap. Watching interviews with Ben Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm, you can feel that they know they made all this stuff up, and when faced with a question like "Which country would you be prepared to die for?" you get a sense that he would like to answer, but if he did he'd prove that he doesn't believe his own crap. Who would want to die for an 'Imagined Community'? But I know I'd be able to answer the question.
he had just been dissecting how contrived and artificial while powerful it is. Would you sacrifice your life for some abstract notion of a family constructed through bureaucracy and centralisation. Your life son, after that it s void for eternity. You do know that right?
Nowadays the print is obsolete and the written word is very much internationalized. Also English is the prevalent global language which renders other languages practically obsolete. Does this means the disintegration of national cultures into international communities. I believe very much so. The identity politics based on sex and race of today is only the beginning. Subcultures are the way forward and the nation is actually dying. Funny to mention it, but the nationalism and populism of today might be actually more a reaction against the internet and smartphones than for example, immigration or terrorism.
May Anil Ram Das and Benedict Anderson both Rest in Peace. Note that by Dutch standards of 2015 I am stuck by how polite and well-informed he is. To the deaths nothing but good HOWEVER what Anderson says about Dutch is not true. Dutch dictionaries remound to the sixteenth century and the Dutch elite always spoke Dutch going back to the Middle Ages. To answer a question about Suriname: Suriname Srantong was called 'neger Engels' by the Dutch and speaking it at school was strictly prohibited.
Dat is niet helemaal waar, in Nederland sprak de elite voornamelijk Frans (de laatste woorden van Willem van Oranje waren ook in het Frans). Het volk sprak Nederlands. Er is na Willem van Oranje veel moeite gedaan om de taal van het volk prominenter te maken.
I actually think the interviewer is asking very good questions. I would have loved to see James C Scott and Benedict Anderson have a conversation about nationalism and minority communities.
Very saddened to hear about Prof. Ben Anderson's passing today. A great loss for Southeast Asian Studies and Nationalism scholarly communities. May he rests in Peace.
RIP Ben.. Ben Anderson died in Indonesia, a country that had inspired his great book, "Imagined Communities". Wonderful death... See epic moment in the ending of interview.. Time has answered.
Suharto and it's 32 years of military Junta and cronies are the real truckload of orangutansh*t to ever happened to the the history of Indonesia and Indoensia people.. Ben Anderson dedicated his whole life for Indonesia. Merdeka Ben Anderson!, May God rest your soul. - from real Indonesian.
thanks for sharing this. very good interview. btw I like the way the interviewer style and character. and for who says he is arrogant, jus see how may times he plainly acknowledged his ignorance about certain issues on TV!
character keeper If the interviewer is asking slightly "clueless" questions it is because of concern of the listener. The interviewer clearly knows alot about the subject and the answers to the questions he was asking. But the listener needs help to understand if they didn't read the book or never heard of this before.
If the interviewer "clearly knows alot about the subject and the answers to the questions he was asking" it is because of the concern of the listener. Meaning the listener could be the interviewer's ugly, fat nanny. I would think if this interviewer knew what he's talking about he wouldn't be asking those stupid questions. I can see Anderson pitying the guy over his 4th grade level understanding of IC. I know you didn't mean it when you said I haven't read Anderson - I think that was desperate of you to do that - so I'm leaving that one out.
Een goed interview met wetenschapper Benedict Anderson. Hij heeft veel geschreven over de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd van Indonesie in de jaren 1947-1949. Hij is verbonden aan de Cornell University in de USA. Nationalisme is ook zijn thema als het om Indonesie gaat.