Walking With Change: Gifting a Better Past with Federico Campagna
"Developing a familiarity with the past truly enriches our experience of living and can really give us some incredible tools for facing these impossible challenges that we have to face.”
I am very excited to share this conversation with the brilliant and passionate thinker, storyteller, and Italian Philosopher Federico Companga! In this episode, Federico discusses the role of imagination, nostalgia, storytelling, solidarity, and anarchism in creating new worlds. He emphasizes the importance of metaphysical inquiry and the need to reimagine reality. We dive into many other topics from mysticism to what is existence? what it means to be a migrant and find belonging. And the rise of reactionary politics at this time of collapse and unfolding disasters… and more! Much of the conversation stems from Federico’s new fabulous book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History. You can listen via the link below, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
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I also want to share a little pre-story that feels a bit like meta time-weaving! I had asked Federico to join me on Walking With Change last fall, but due to a handful of difficult events in my life, I had to cancel and take a year off from doing this show. In the meantime, Federico put out a new book, which is a bit different from his other work to date. Once I read the new book this past summer, I stopped feeling sad about missing our conversation last year and instead felt excited to ask him to join me this year — and thankfully he generously said yes! For me that the show happened now – perhaps right on time – has been a huge gift!
(warning: I say beautiful a lot in this episode, because, well his ideas and stories are BEAUTIFUL!!!)
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I love Federico’s other books, too ! So be sure to check out: Prophetic Culture: recreation for adolescents (Bloomsbury: 2021), Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Last Night (Zero Books, 2013).
Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History: Federico Campagna
Pushing Through Portals by calm. (the song at end of the show)
Show music by: AwareNess
Tech and Show Art: Chris Bergman
Thanks for listening!
