People's History poster by Tim Simons - Taken from www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily

Here’s both the audio recording and text (PDF) of the double talk WM1 and WM2 gave at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, on April 5, 2011.
On the previous day we’d given the same talk at Duke University, Durham, NC. The UNC version is slightly different, because it took into account things emerged in the Duke Q & A.
We wish to thank, among many, Mimmo Cangiano, Roberto Dainotto and Federico Luisetti, who invited us and organised the whole thing; Laura Moure Cecchini, who put us up in her flat; the comrades of El Kilombo Intergalactico, for an eye-opening afternoon of “counter-tourism”; Michael Hardt, for being always the gentleman; Fredric Jameson, for supporting the initiative; Michal Osterweil, with whom we share precious memories of the penultimate uprising.
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This could be both stupid and interesting to someone (but we don’t know whom). It’s just an idea we had while translating the two talks we’ll give in North Carolina on April 4-5. These are the first five minutes (out of about 45) of each talk. They’re read by a certain “Alex”, ie the male voice of a text-to-speech software we happen to be tinkering with these days.

WM2 – How to tell a revolution from something else

WM1 – We are all February of 1917