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Failure Is Freedom

Martin

Société & Culture

Religion & Spiritualité

Musique

Fréquence : 1 épisode/1j. Total Éps: 46

I'm exploring why Generation X failed to get free, and how the concept of "authenticity" was turned into a sort of un-freedom.

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The TB-303 Failed to Sound Like a Bass, and Was a Psychedelic Mind-Trip Because of It.

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

jeudi 14 août 2025 • Durée 34:52

Sometimes the things that don't work right, work perfectly. Artificiality used to be the measure of inauthenticity, but "synthetic" sounds became the currency of Generation X's triumphant failure to repeat the music of the past. Electronic equipment at the beginning of the 70s did not do well at replicating "real" musical instruments, and it cost a shit-ton of money, just ask Rick Wakeman. But by the early 80's there was cheap and readily available electronic equipment a plenty at the local pawn shop, "readily available" because it sounded artificial, and "real" musicians didn't want it. How did artifice become the "authentic" sounds of the future?

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We Wanted Authenticity!

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

jeudi 14 août 2025 • Durée 33:18

How did Generation X's obsession with authenticity turn us into a bunch of posers? The 50 year old dude who demands that a 20 year old wearing a Nirvana teeshirt name three songs is a poser, and he has been made such by his obsession with authenticity. The trick about "being-real" is that it can't be too intentional; otherwise, it looks like the "trying-too-much" of a "phony." Unfortunately, Holden Caulfield's ability to pick out phonies became essential to Generation X's definition of itself, and we suffered for it. Come with me on a journey to find out how Generation X's desire to be free of the values and conventions of white-bread, consumer culture became yet another failed attempt to get free. However, this retrospective doesn't end in the cynicism so associated with my generation. We will be learning from the artists, musicians, and philosophers who influenced Generation X about what freedom, authenticity, and love can mean for our desire to be made new.

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The Concept of the Remix

Saison 1 · Épisode 5

samedi 16 août 2025 • Durée 40:55

The sorts of collage art that we in the Generation X made at school involved cutting up magazine pictures and gluing them in bizarre configurations on a piece of paper. Sometimes they were just random, but sometimes we tried to make a statement, like when we were supposed to make collages about "what it means to be an American," as I had to do multiple times in Social Studies Class. The collage shares a lot in common with the concept of the remix. The remix allows one to put different pieces in different places to different effects as well as to different affects, while retaining some fractured continuity with the past. Remixing the past is the only way that we can intervene in what already has been. Nostalgia is a desire to repeat a past that never was out of hatred for and fear of difference. The remix is a desire to reinterpret that past to renew the present as a presentation of difference. Sample-based music was the heart and soul of Generation X's love of pastiche, and its desire to rearrange the past to make the world new.

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F**k These Reactionaries!

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

samedi 16 août 2025 • Durée 35:50

Generation Jones may have been cynical because they came of age during the 70's economic downturn and after the failure of the Hippies to produce a revolution, but they weren't reactionaries. Their most enduring musical productions, Glam Rock, Punk, Disco, and Hip Hop were testaments to openness, inclusivity, and exuberance. It was the reactionary Boomers of the Love Generation who tried to squelch their high spirits by proclaiming, "Disco Sucks!" The "Disco Demolition" at Comiskey park in Chicago witnessed the destruction of records that had little to do with Disco per se, and more to do with a barely disguised hatred of Black and Latin music, and of the Queer Culture that these bigots associated with Disco. Unfortunately, the 80's also saw a growth in the reactionary punks of the "hardcore" scene who just like the reactionary bigots of the Right sought a return to some sort of lost purity. However, the Disco and Funk party of the 70's couldn't be stopped. Dance music went underground and became house music, and Funk and Jazz got sampled and became Hip Hop and Electro. And Punk fractured into a million difference "Post-Punk" subgenres that you were only allow to like with something like detached irony rather than direct enjoyment.

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Post Industrial, Rust Belt Collapse Sets the Stage for New Flows of Intensities

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

vendredi 15 août 2025 • Durée 35:29

Generation X includes those folks born between 65 and 80. But the stage was set for the new forms of art and music that defined us in the 70's. Particularly by the "deterritorialization" of cities affected by the death of manufacturing jobs and "White Flight" to the suburbs. Punk, Disco, Hip Hop, and Electro were all birthed in the 70, and not by Generation X. It was the generation in between X and the Boomers, called "Generation Jones (54-65)," that made something beautiful and new out of the urban squalor and general failure of Hippy Culture that they inherited. The famous economic down turn and stagflation of the 70's became the ground of one of the most intensive inflows of new forms of expression the world has ever seen. Let's explore the causes and conditions.

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Love Is Evil - Slavoj Zizek

Saison 1 · Épisode 6

dimanche 17 août 2025 • Durée 41:42

How do I know what I like? This is the question at the center of this podcast. Do I like what I like because it's what others like, or do I like it because I like it. Another form of this central question is, is it even possible to be authentic? The language that you speak, the concepts that you think, and the desires of your heart, all came from outside of you. So, what can authenticity even mean to a self that has been determined by outside forces since before it came into being? Let's try to get to the bottom of this, is authenticity an illusion, or is it possible to get free? And let's use 70's DeeJay culture to show us the way.

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