Hidah: Jewish Counter-Colonial Thoughts

Materializing the wild
In this episode we once again invite our listeners into our process but this time with a more concrete object. The episode is the recording of our meeting to plan our collective publication entitled "Levinas against the State: Readings toward a Decolonial Philosophy." Along the episode you will hear the way we bounce ideas around as well as the way we try to build system of working together. As it is usually the case, a lot of the planning does not make it into the text and a lot of new ideas emerge once one starts working on things.
Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠, Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠
Producers: Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠)
Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠

Wild Imagination for a savage future
In this episode we invite our listeners to see how the (kosher) sausage is made and look behind the curtain of our chaotic process. This is a purposely pointless session where we set out to discuss our wild imagination of things we can produce. We mainly focus on texts we can write and references we are coming from.

Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠, Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠
Producers: Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠)
Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠

Remembering Alternative Histories Beyond Linear Timelines
In this conversation, we speak with writer, journalist and From the Periphery co-founder Elia Ayoub. We talk about the Elia’s engagement with the politics of Yiddish, Arab Jewishness, linguistic fascism, alternate futures, hauntings, thinking about histories beyond timelines, and much more. This conversation was recorded in early 2025.
Hosts: ⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠, Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠
Producers: Hannah Dvora & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠)
Music: ⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠

This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠

Another configuration is possible
In this conversation we go deeper into some of the questions addressed in the previous episode. Alexia, Daniel and Yonathan think of ways of organizing as Jews and organizing Jewish community in a different manner. We reflect on whether the best way to organize is to disorganize and if by disorganizing one can organize differently. We talk about some of the central categories in the Jewish vocabulary today to ask whether they still hold value today: whether they still help us navigate the world we live in or whether we need to find new meanings to them.

Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠, Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠
Producers: Maia Steinberg & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠)
Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠

The possibilities and impossibilities of reclaiming an idea
In this conversation, Alexia and Yonathan discuss a text by  Gabriel Abensour and Noémie Issan-Benchimol titled "Mapping diasporisms: for a Judaism of continuity." We offer a critical engagement with their ideas and try to speculate what are the option they don't take into consideration but could prove interesting. By reflecting on their arguments, we try to frame a possible conceptualization of diasporism that does not stand between the two negative. This positive account of diasporism will be developed in the next episode as part II of this conversation.
Hosts: ⁠⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠⁠, Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠⁠
Producers: Maia Steinberg & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠)
Music: ⁠⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠⁠

This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠