plaguepod-day21 (3)

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  Well, GMT is AOE. It's 0100 hours here at Urbanomic GMT. Hang on, wait. It's 0100 hours here. Urbanomic Studio HQ. 1.8 clicks from Goon Gumpus in the heart of British summertime, intensive temporal zone in the solar trance lockdown. The hard pants are off. The pizza is sliced. The protein packed peanut punch…

• 00:34:29

  Well, I think a lot of what you just said is the things that are on my list. So the time lag that displaces the present and the stopping of time. And I think that's a really important thing. And I think that's a really important thing. And I think that's a really important thing. And I think that's a really important…

• 00:55:00

  And I think we're in a situation where it's taken a long time to actually take control of the virus, and to take causality seriously in epidemiology, because for so long it was just based on statistics, where there was a kind of agnosticism about, like, human decision involved in it. And then once you get to, like…

• 01:18:44

  So is it a portrait? What do you mean? Well, it's like if you say, OK, we're going to stop time. What does that mean? You know, in filling that in and saying this is what it is to stop time, you're drawing a picture of time. And that picture of time is a picture of... the uninhibited explosion of the virus. Right…

• 01:42:34

  So, you know, maybe it's. Another way in which the virus situation is accelerating everything. I think so. I know a lot of people that are starting to stream on Twitch for hopes of getting an income right now. Yeah, I mean, I'm doing this. I've earned some coffees. Yeah, I'll have to buy you a coffee after this…

• 02:21:57

  They'd forgotten what kind of control apparatus was available to them and what it was for and when it would be used. And so people saw China do this and they thought, my God, what is that? You know, we can't. I can't even think of doing that. And then a month later, everyone's doing that because that's what these…

• 02:46:35

  So there's a lot of debate about the actual course of climate change as much as the general veracity of human . But it's always kind of a partial knowledge. But we also have to remember, like in the famous title of McKenzie's book that models are models and engine, not a camera, that the existence, the presence…

• 03:04:15

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