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E225 - Dignity, Memory, and Surveillance w/ Lea Ypi

E225 - Dignity, Memory, and Surveillance w/ Lea Ypi

American Prestige

November 18, 20251h 1m

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Show Notes

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Danny and Derek speak with political theorist and author Lea Ypi about her new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined, which explores how personal memory intersects with imperial collapse, nationalism, and the surveillance state. They discuss her grandmother’s journey from Ottoman Salonika to Albania amid the rise of competing political projects; archives and the stories they erase; the challenge for universalist ideals in a capitalist world; the parallels between the 1930s and today’s anti-migrant politics; and whether collective political action remains possible as we’re shaped by platforms, algorithms, and anonymous economic power.

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