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ON THIS EPISODE
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The clash between artists and philosophers
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The problem with “fun” music
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Why we sum up what a song is “about” from its lyrics
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Characters in music and ideas as characters
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How songs never end
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Deleuze, Guattari, the power of Becoming, set free and turned into art
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The way that most artists and political commentators are merely staying in pre-created logics
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“Content” vs art
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The Secret Histories of music and when it breaks through, and being possessive of the underground music that you like
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Stephen’s role in the coming utopia
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Bad corona art
SHOW NOTES
• Adorno is a great philosopher, and I talk about him at length on AEWCH 89 with Brian O’Connor. But he sure had a lot of problems with art. And there’s a conspiracy theory/meme (maybe it’s just a joke?) about Adorno being the driving force behind The Beatles.
• My one foray into music writing was a conversation with my friend Chris Leo, who has been in a number of great bands, but here we specifically talk about The Van Pelt.
• The Fall, which was basically their frontman, Mark E. Smith, remains one of the greatest bands of all time, and has had a huge influence on both Stephen as a musician and me as a thinker.
• One of my favorite episodes of my show is AEWCH 45 with Ben Chasny of Six Organs Of Admittance. We talk about the occult power of music.
• Here’s a live video of Nina Persson singing her excellent song, “Clip Your Wings” but I’m telling you, you just can’t get it unless you see her.
• Here’s Stephen in the infamous conversation with the infamous Ian Svenonious(who is also a fav musician of mine).
• César Aira is an incredible author, and the best novel of his to start with is The Miracle Cures Of Dr. Aira.
• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (pictured) take center stage in this episode. There’s so much to explore with their work, but the best place to start, I think, is the biography by Francois Dosse. In this episode, I draw on concepts in Anti-Oedipus, its sequel, Thousand Plateaus, and What Is Philosophy? , as well as Deleuze’s Difference And Repetition.
• And, as promised, here’s a photo of Lungfish’s Dan Higgs.
• William Craddock‘s book is unfortunately not on Bookshop.org, but here’s his wiki, and you can look him and his work up from there.
• Walter Benjamin’s work is more important than ever. I was so happy to hear that Stephen was a fan, too. He mentions a work I haven’t read, the massive (and so exciting to me, even though I haven’t read it yet), The Arcades Project.
Until next time, friends
CH
Conner Habib 
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