Radiohead and Philosophy - Brandon W. Forbes [0]
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Anyone Can Play Philosophy.
Chapter 1. - Is Radiohead the Pink Floyd of the Twenty-First Century?
The Band Is Just Phenomenological
Creeping toward Phenomenology
Standing on the Edge and Looking Underneath
Subterranean Homesick Technology
Everything Is Not OK, Computer
Who Are Your Real Friends?
Where Pink Floyd Ends and Radiohead Begins
Chapter 2. - Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop
Chapter 3. - All the Argument We Need
Arguing without Argument
All I Need: All about the World
You’re Living in a Fantasy World, This Beautiful World
Chapter 4. - Radiohead and Some Questions about Music
Radiohead and Rock Music
What Is Music?
Music: Emotion or Form?
Are Musical Experiences Universal?
Art and Belief.
Chapter 5. - New Shades
Meeting in the Abject
I Wish I Was Special but I’m Abject
You Have Turned Me into This
Pull/Pulk Abject Doors
Where I End and You Begin
How to Disappear Completely
Not Another Brick in the Wall
Rise and Shine It’s On Again Off Again
Chapter 6. - Why Such Sad Songs?
OK Catharsis
Exit Music for a Story
Emotion in Its Right Place
This Just Feels (and Sounds) Like Spinning Plates
Baby’s Got the Purgation
You Can’t Be Bulletproof
Where Tragedy Ends and Community Begins
Chapter 7. - “The Eraser”: Start Making Sense
Intelligence Gathering
Playing a Part versus Giving Voice
Against Self-Legitimation
Profanity Prayers
Don’t Turn Away
Ideology and Idolatry
There Are No Unrelated Phenomena
Radiohead and the Music Industry.
Chapter 8. - Taking the Sting Out of Environmental Virtue Ethics
Kid Akrasia
Wake Up (Morning Bell)
Fitter Happier Emitting Carbon Dioxide in Moderation
This Is Really Happening (So Do Something)
Chapter 9. - We (Capitalists) Suck Young Blood
Six Fluffy Wee Rabbits
We Want Sweet Meats
We Suck Young Blood
Crack Your Little Soul
C-M-C Music Factory
Chapter 10. - Everybody Hates Rainbows
House of Cards
Jigsaw Falling into Place
Reckoner
Up on the Ladder
Go Slowly
Radiohead’s Existential Politics.
Chapter 11. - Nietzsche, Nihilism, and “Hail to the Thief”
The Lukewarm
Let Me Hear Both Sides
Pull the Last Humans Out of the Aircrash
Hail to the Over Humans
Where the Over Humans Begin
Brush the Cobwebs from the Sky, Let the Genie Out from the Bottle
Chapter 12. - The Real Politics in Radiohead
This One’s Optimistic
What You’ll Get when You Mess with Us
Why It Really Hurts
We Are Born Again
Sing Us a Song
Somewhere We Will Meet
How to Misunderstand Politics Completely
Chapter 13. - The Impossible Utopias in “Hail to the Thief”
White People for Peace
The Sky Is Falling In
Don’t Get Any Big Ideas—They’re Not Gonna Happen
Back to the Future
Hope at the Door
Chapter 14. - Where Power Ends and Violence Begins
I Am Born Again
They Do It to Yourself
We Can Wipe You Out Anytime
Go and Tell the Thief that the Sky Is Falling In
The Fear Is Holding On
Rising Up
Chapter 15. - Evil and Politics in “Hail to the Thief”
Getting All Literal
Who Is This Devil in Disguise?
The Most Gigantic Truthful Mouth of All Time
The Self and Politics
Thinking in Rainbows
Radiohead, Heidegger, and Technology.
Chapter 16. - The Mutilation of Voice in “Kid A” (Or, My John Mayer Problem)
Surprises and Alarms
Kid A, Heidegger, and the Question of Technology
Making Sense by Not Making Sense
At Ease
Chapter 17. - Why a Rock Band in a Desolate Time?
Aliens Hover
Everything Is Broken
Open Up Your Skull
Nice Dream
They Fed Us on Little White Lies
Back to Save the Universe
Starting and then Stopping
This Machine Will Not Communicate
This Is the Panic Office
I Feel My Luck Could Change
If You Think that You’re Strong Enough . . .
Chapter 18. - The Signature of Time in “Pyramid Song”
Rhythm and Time Signatures
Time Signature and Mood in Chopin
Temporality
Knives Out
Chapter 19. - Fitter Happier Rolling a Large Rock Up a Hill
Up Above, Alienation Hovers
Kid Absurdity
Pull Me Out, or Leave Me In, the Aircrash
Phew, for a Minute There, I Lost Myself in Technology