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    Unlocked - The Fever by Wallace Shawn

    enFebruary 03, 2020

    About this Episode

    At several listeners' requests, we're uploading the January patreon-exclusive episode, which is Ethan's performance of Wallace Shawn's 1990 play The Fever.

    The Fever is about capital and class struggle and commodity fetishism and liberalism and guilt, and about someone coming to terms with the injustice in the world and his own role within that injustice. 

    "I feel like this play covers most if not all the important points of capital, state/rev, and a lot of wretched of the earth somehow in 1hr." -dblizz66

    Music: Phill Niblock -Works for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice
    Sarah Davachi - For Voice

     

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    Unlocked - The Fever by Wallace Shawn

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    At several listeners' requests, we're uploading the January patreon-exclusive episode, which is Ethan's performance of Wallace Shawn's 1990 play The Fever.

    The Fever is about capital and class struggle and commodity fetishism and liberalism and guilt, and about someone coming to terms with the injustice in the world and his own role within that injustice. 

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    Sarah Davachi - For Voice

     
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