Failure Is Freedom
I'm exploring why Generation X failed to get free, and how the concept of "authenticity" was turned into a sort of un-freedom.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2025
The Radical Negativity of the Real Versus Desiring-Production
Deleuze and Lacan are incompatible, but I use them both to imagine how renewal occurs. Deleuze's "Desiring-Production" makes the world new by the purely positive desire for difference. However, Lacan…
Somebody Else's Idea of Somebody Else's World
June Tyson chanting "Somebody else's idea of somebody else's world, it's not my idea of things as they are," is a sacred mantra, which functions as a divine "no" hovering above the futuristic vibrati…
An Authentic Performance Rather than Performing Authenticity
When authenticity is defined by its opposition to performativity, it ironically becomes a performance. And as much as we in the Generation X loved irony, we preferred to enjoy ironically rather than …
Sh*t on Your Whole Imaginary and Symbolic Theater! Giles Deleuze
I am continuing to try to develop the concept of an "authentic performance." My generation set up a false opposition between authenticity and performance, and the resulting failure didn't lead to fre…
Performative Male Competitions
A much younger friend of mine told me about a social media phenomena called "Performative Male Competitions," which unfortunately I called "men's performative competitions" throughout the podcast. Ap…
Love Is Evil - Slavoj Zizek
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 que…
The Concept of the Remix
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 rando…
F**k These Reactionaries!
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 m…
Post Industrial, Rust Belt Collapse Sets the Stage for New Flows of Intensities
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 af…
The TB-303 Failed to Sound Like a Bass, and Was a Psychedelic Mind-Trip Because of It.
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 …
We Wanted Authenticity!
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 h…