This series is a 12 hours non-stop daisy-chain of half-hour dialogues between 24 leading thinkers in fields like infection, sociology, astrophysics, epidemiology, and many others. I must confess that I did not listen to the 12 hours of dialogues but two of them. The first dialogue was between Saskia Sassen, a sociologist, and Rupert Beale, that described himself as a cell biologist of infection. The discussion revolved around the pandemic from a scientific perspective and from the point-of-view of how today’s cities had influenced the spread and management of this pandemic. Then I listened to the dialogue between Meehan Crist, a writer, and Naomi Alderman, a novelist and game writer. This dialogue was more of a hotchpotch of topics around human nature, parenting, the pandemic. Interesting.
Just to add that Longplayer is “a one thousand yearlong musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again.”
“We can measure immunity, we can measure the virus but measuring human behaviour is really difficult”