Radiohead and Philosophy - Brandon W. Forbes [140]
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This essay is dedicated to Aaron Cowan, Robert Sievert, and Joshua Hathaway, and the power found in friendship.
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See Kate Livett, Australian Humanities Review 41 (February 2007), available online at http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-February-2007/Livett.html, accessed August 15 2008.
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Chuck Klosterman, “Radiohead: No More Knives,” Spin (July 2003), pp. 64-70.
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Serge Simonart, “Radiohead Tour Preview: A Show for the Head’, Rolling Stone (May 2004), pp. 52-53.
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BBC Radio 4 is thoroughly and quintessentially of the English establishment, but ironically it was here that allegations that the British government had “sexed up,” as they put it, the dossier concerning reasons for going to war with Iraq were first made. This led to the Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, being forced to quit.
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Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy (Continuum, 2004), p. 39.
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The track’s title is taken from Marvin the Paranoid Android in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, variously adapted for page and screen.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Vintage, 1974), p. 176.
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Ernest Gellner, The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason (Fontana, 1993), p. 91.
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Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (Harper and Row, 1962), p. 233.
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Okay, thirteen if you’re American and thus have both versions of “Creep” on your disc. But notice that whether you’re “fucking special” or just “very special,” the alienation expressed here is still strictly psychological, and thus confined to the individual and his or her experience.
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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage, 1991)
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Albert Camus, The Stranger (Vintage, 1989)
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Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (University of Minnesota Press, 1984), p. 16.
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“I Think I’m Meant to be Dead,” Guardian (22nd September, 2000).
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Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend (University of Minnesota Press, 1984), p. 13.
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Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e), 1983), p. 100.
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Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (Semiotext(e), 1983), p. 25.
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Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (University of Michigan Press, 1994), p. 6.
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Joseph Tate, “Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction,” in Joseph Tate, ed., The Music and Art of Radiohead (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), p. 107.
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Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (Indiana University Press, 1995).
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Quoted in Jim Irvin, “We Have Lift Off,” Mojo (September 1997).
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Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 162.
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Translator’s note: In French, the word duel means both duel and dual; Baudrillard plays with the double meaning, simultaneously agonal/agonist relations and reciprocal challenges, so it gets translated “duel” even in the adjectival form.
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Jean Baudrillard, Seduction (St. Martin’s Press, 1990 [1979]), pp. 82-83.
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