This is the ninth interview from a 2018 series by Caroline Kraabel, initially broadcast on London's art radio station, Resonance 104.4 FM. Activist, author and journalist Paul Mason (Clear Bright Future: a Radical Defence of the Human Being) talks about the uses and limitations of improvisation in activism and politics.
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Spontaneity and improvisation isn't just randomness. Whenever power does something, we know that there's a set response that they're expecting – but then you can go, 'OK, what WOULDN'T they expect?'
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from Why is Improvising Important?,
released January 23, 2019
Recorded by Caroline Kraabel; thanks to Paul Mason, Resonance 104.4 FM and John Edwards (and Lottie).
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