Fake Andy Warhol‘s 15 Minutes (in Theory)
Outsider analysis of art, critical theory, culture, philosophy, politics, pop.
Episodes
Very long (tedious) rumination on Brian Wilson and his SMiLE album in particular. Also mentioned: NME, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Pet Sounds, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, "Good Vibrations", Smiley Smile, Van Dyke Parks, Twin Peaks, Brian Eno, Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound, Bob Dylan, Rock and Roll, John Lennon, Dr. Dre, Americana, California, Colonialism, Hawaii, Pop Culture, Pop Music, Popular Culture, Folk Culture, Culture Creati...
Brief (for me) 20-minute rumination on AI art. Apologies for the low audio.
LIKE & SHARE! Topics mentioned in this monotonous three-hour podcast include: John Waters (Irish writer) on pop culture and Philip Rieff's idea of Finnegans Wake as a "deathwork", Harold Bloom, Western canon, The Literary 100 by Daniel Burt, Shakespeare, unoriginal culture, remakes, originality, Julius Caesar, "originality", copyright law, heritage, Dante, Homer, Divine Comedy, Vita Nuova, De Vulgari Elo...
Topics and mentions: Harold Bloom, the Western literary canon, fakeandywarhol.substack.com, instagram.com/fakeandywarhol, Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Gravity's Rainbow, Atlas Shrugged, reading, "the novel", schooling, education, postwar era, popular fiction, serialization, Charles Dickens, high school English class, regimented learning, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Shakespeare, literature, grad school, acad...
Pop culture as fake culture with fake culture heroes. Discussed: JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, reactionary YouTube critics of SJW media, Walt Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Captain America, Black Panther, Wakanda, Miles Morales Spider-Man, Steven Spielberg, interpellation (Althusser), T.S. Eliot, Henry Miller.
YOU WILL NOT AGREE WITH this discussion of three NME Top 100 Albums of All-Time lists. And then a modest political tirade. Topics and soundbites include: Lou Reed on Warhol as "producer" of Velvet Underground & Nico, AcclaimedMusic.net, New Musical Express magazine, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, Sgt Pepper by the Beatles, pop music as high art, Sex Pistols, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Nevermind by Nirvana, Stone Roses, Lond...
Are you a Coffee Achiever?, Batman analysis, Grant Morrison, Scott Snyder, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, Mass Formation Psychosis, Freud, The Future of an Illusion, religion, What is mental health in an insane world?, constant crisis, the Joker, "needing" to follow leaders, 100% agreement complex, following political pundits and philosophers as if they were super-heroes, Wittgenstein, Jacques Ellul, The Technological So...
Discussion of R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek... Robots as artificial humans and their utility to the expansion and maintenance of the technological system... Mentioned: Bertrand Russell, Return of the Jedi (Star Wars, Ewoks), Marx, Chomsky... Excerpt from Bob Zmuda's anecdote about Andy Warhol and Andy Kaufman meeting, talking about Howdy Doody.
Radiohead album showdown, remembering when 1970s Bernie Sanders wanted to overhaul commercial television, and answering listener questions about Gilles Deleuze, the Enlightenment, Chris Chan, and more.
Topics: Media as imposition... Memes... Orwell's "Politics of the English Language"... Normalizing dysfunction... Two greatest threats to university... "SJW wokeism" in pop culture... Warhol said "Pop" was about "liking things"... Chris Chan... Accelerationism... Baudrillard... Communist utopia... Technological singularity... Whale leviathan of technology... Jacques Ellul... Marx... Kanye as Christ figure... Mark Fisher... Aldous H...
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