John Berger - Fellow Prisoners (audio essay)

Описание: John Berger reads from his essay Fellow Prisoners written in 2011, read here in 2014.

You can read the complete essay here: https://www.guernicamag.com/john_berg...

Showcasing the conjuring of thought provoking ideas in the way only John Berger can, and is still very relevant today, this particular reading was for a public lecture.

You can see the whole lecture, with a response from Noam Chomsky here:    • GRID: Times of Crisis - John Berger and No...  . From GRID's 2014 Spring Public Lecture Series: Times of Crisis. Gender Research Institute (GRID). www.dartmouth.edu/grid

This poetic, engaging and powerfully dark piece reveals the some of the hidden problems we face today. It's also a vision of possible future solutions.

John Berger’s work as a broadcaster, art critic, novelist, essayist, painter and poet helped define how we can choose to see the world.

He was a radical humanist, wonderfully subversive and one of the most engaging story tellers you’ll ever come across. Brilliant and inspirational, his programmes such as ’About Time’ and ‘Pig World’ are also on YouTube along with his most famous work ‘Ways of Seeing’. Check out the version of that without subtitles here:    • Ways of Seeing by John Berger Part 1  

His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His essay on art Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to his BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text (it was the first book suggested on my degree course too ). He lived in France for over fifty years, often manually working the land with local villagers. He passed away in 2017 aged 90 and has left us with a good body of work to explore.

There is a another, clearer version of this essay available here:
   • Fellow Prisoners by John Berger