Together Somehow pt3: Unfoldings, Thickenings, and Utopian visions

Music & Peacebuilding

The conclusion of this series on dancefloors, electronic dance music, and house music examines how dancefloors offer space to imagine differently. The episode looks at how the synchronous movement and entrainment of bodies propels bodies to move closer, creating a sense of “thickening” that moves toward social cohesion. We look at the importance of utopian visions to peace and reconciliation work and how these visions may be both helpful and harmful. Finally, using a case study of Bjork, we look at how dancefloors offer an unraveling and unfolding that offers space for new ways of being.

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Chapter

1. Together Somehow pt3: Unfoldings, Thickenings, and Utopian visions (00:00:00)

2. Utopias (00:01:53)

3. Ugly and Complex Feelings (00:06:41)

4. Utopian Visions (00:08:35)

5. Utopias as Embodied (00:10:58)

6. Artistic Vision-Living (00:13:05)

7. Coming Undone (00:13:53)

8. Bjork (00:16:05)

9. Roughness in Story Structure (00:17:02)

10. Stories and Cohesion (00:19:04)

11. Thickening in France (00:20:41)

12. Thickening of the We (00:21:08)

13. Thickening Reflections (00:24:50)

14. Paradoxes of Liquidarity (00:25:53)

15. Final Series Reflections (00:27:24)

16. Credits (00:29:19)