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Episode 242: Island School of Social Autonomy — with Srećko Horvat
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On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Sre膰ko Horvat, a philosopher, author, and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.
Am and Sre膰ko discuss the journey behind launching the Island School of Social Autonomy on the Adriatic island of Vis. ISSA is a place for imagining, experimenting with and cultivating forms of knowledge-production and knowledge-sharing for the 鈥渁ge of extinction."
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About Our Guest
Sre膰ko Horvat
A Croatian philosopher and author who produced a blizzard of political works 鈥� with several books published when he was barely into his thirties. Nowadays he is known as a fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape.
If you aren鈥檛 familiar with Horvat鈥檚 work, you can probably recognise a lot of people who are. He is friends with the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; had regular visits with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, an organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. He is also a staunch friend of Slavoj 沤i啪ek, the maverick Slovenian celebrity academic with whom Horvat co-wrote a book in 2013 entitled 鈥淲hat Does Europe Want?鈥�. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel. Aside from co-founding DiEM25, which campaigns to reform the EU into a 鈥渞ealm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity鈥�, he is a founder of the Subversive festival, an annual jamboree in Zagreb of radical thought that has featured the likes of Oliver Stone and Antonio Negri.
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Johal, Am. 鈥淚sland School of Social Autonomy 鈥� with Sre膰ko Horvat.鈥� Below the Radar, 大象传媒鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 21, 2024. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/242-srecko-horvat.html.
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