Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You

December 31, 2021 11:17 AM

Via the Mahindra Humanities Center's YouTube channel: Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You, a series of six lectures looking at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty. The talk will consider spending time in the slowdown – time in music and stories.

Norton Lecture 1: The River

Norton Lecture 2: The Forest

Norton Lecture 3: Rocks

Norton Lecture 4: The Road

Norton Lecture 5: The City

Norton Lecture 6: Birds


Laurie Anderson previously.

posted by carrienation (5 comments total)

cool. and thank you.
posted by philip-random at 1:07 PM on December 31, 2021 [1 favorite]

It's kinda cool that the Mahindra that produced this commercial also gave Harvard $10 million to create an interdisciplinary humanities center.

It's like if Jeep skipped making that commercial with Bruce Springsteen and instead made one with, like, Margaret Atwood or somebody.
posted by box at 1:55 PM on December 31, 2021

10 hours of Laurie Anderson doing lectures?

This is the best New Year's Eve present ever! Thank you!
posted by hippybear at 2:59 PM on December 31, 2021 [4 favorites]

These lectures have been a wonderful highlight of the last year. I think my favorite (of the ones I've seen) is the third. But I have yet to watch the final one.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 11:11 PM on December 31, 2021

These are absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
posted by Sublimity at 1:46 PM on January 2, 2022