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Te invitamos a escuchar la novena tesis de las “Tesis de filosofía de la historia”, de Walter Benjamin.

Qué sabemos sobre el ángel de la historia

Según el “Diccionario de la lengua española”, la palabra “ángel” proviene del latín tardío y del griego, y designa, “en diversas religiones monoteístas, al espíritu celeste creado por Dios para su ministerio” y, “en la tradición católica, a cada uno de los espíritus celestes que forman su noveno coro y, junto con los principados y los arcángeles, la tercera jerarquía, cuya misión es actuar como mensajeros divinos”.

De dónde proviene la palabra Ángel

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Artists and scientists see bullseyes differently but bullseyes they do see! It’s just the when and the how…
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April 13 2023 karaoke night on Main leads to the thesis... published here as a SoundCloud playlist and corresponding Soundtrap project links on June 6, 2024. Details to follow… but at just under double o’seven hours of runtime, I’m willing to defends this thesis as a remarkable innovation in McLuhanian rhetoric while it having completely defeated me in the process! Only took me 25 years, but hey, lifelong lessons or something like that in the academic business 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Twenty-five years ago… a mid-20s UBC Commerce grad named Joel Flynn leaves his 10-year college job at a grocery store in Campbell River BC and returns to Vancouver to begin what would turn into a 25-year digital media research career. The first stop in this academic research path was the British Columbia Institute to Technology (BCIT) and its brand new New Media Design program at the downtown campus. At the time, Flynn had just recorded a 5-song demo as the singer for a Vancouver Island indie band named “Halcyon Days”, and by the end of 1999 the rest of the band had moved to Vancouver, also to start school at BCIT and SFU.

Inspired by DIY “indie” artists (e.g. Swell, GBV), Flynn pushed his band as early adopters of Apple Macintosh CD burners in order to create packaged CD-Rs with artwork for selling at the band’s gigs. The very first project Flynn would work on at BCIT was a “remix” of the band’s five demo songs along with key audio samples - from films, soundtracks, and other songs - in order to create a cohesive 25-minute album listening experience. While incorporating a sampled monolog from the William Hurt film Altered States, the joke at the time was, “who the hell decides to make Dark Side of the Moon out of a 5-song demo tape? Ha! It’s Halcyon Days!” The band would play what proved to be its final show on March 10, 2000 at the legendary Commodore Ballroom, before then “taking a break” just as the dot.com bubble altered its state.

Flynn’s interest new media has always reflected his interests in music, particularly in live music through his skills as a singer and performer. These were just starting to develop in 1999 as lead singer/songwriter in “the Halcyon Days Project”, a version of the band name that refers to 1999’s videotape “found footage” cult classic The Blair Witch Project. Flynn has long been fixated on the historical development of media formats, especially the shift from physical albums on vinyl and cassette, to digital versions on computers through “ripped” CDs and mp3s.  Flynn’s investigation into digital media authoring tools - i.e. digital audio workstations (DAW) such as ProTools and Logic for “remixing” audio content - began in the BCIT New Media Design program in 1999. Twenty-five years later, his media research path has led to an unprecedented amount of remixed audio content for a Master of Applied Science and MBA from SFU. It's now his PhD research at Carleton U, distilled via Podstream Studios...

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"a dissertation is a long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done in order to receive a degree at college or university"

HAVE A LISTEN! Sure it's SEVEN hours long, but for all the advanced arguments contained within this *authored/written* piece of academic work, that's pretty economical! :)

PODSTREAM DISTILLED: Thesis/Antithesis/Playlist, a dissertation by George Crooney - June 21st, 2024

Taantumuksellisuudella on yleensä yksioikoisesti kielteinen merkityssisältö, mutta sana kuvaa hyvin pyrkimystä palata menneeseen. Käytän termiä tässä arvoneutraalisti. Muissa kielissä ei ole yhtä hyvää sanaa, vaan puhutaan reaktionäärisyydestä, eli vastareaktiosta - ensin valistukseen ja sitten sosialismiin. Mutta valistuksella ja sosialismilla on molemmilla omat taantumukselliset puolensa. Rousseau ihaili ”villejä” joita dekadentti sivilisaatio ei ole pilannut. Marxin ja Engelsin mukaan ihmiset elivät alun alkaen ”primitiivisessä kommunismissa”, jonka omaisuuden kasautuminen harvojen käsiin pilasi. 

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Duunarit ja taantumuksellisuus

Pronto cumpliré 68 años. Qué extraño abrir la puerta de la vejez y moverse dentro de esa habitación sombría.

Rafael Pérez. Municiones

Learn more about Homo Temporalis (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here:
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779565/homo-temporalis/#bookTabs=1

Transcript here:
https://otter.ai/u/_Mgs3D1W3XxriagGe4E6Sy-7nEg?utm_source=copy_url

Nitzan Lebovic is Professor of History and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University. He is the author of The Philosophy of Life and Death and Zionism and Melancholy and the coeditor of two volumes, including The Politics of Nihilism.

We spoke to Nitzan about four German Jewish thinkers who shaped much of what we know today as the modern humanities, the different concepts of time that these thinkers developed, and how our understanding of time has changed with the introduction of the modern idea of the Anthropocene age - the time period when human activities began to significantly impact the Earth.

1869, Ep. 159 with Nitzan Lebovic, author of Homo Temporalis

Te invitamos a escuchar un fragmento del artículo “Construcción de una trinchera gráfica: la experiencia de la Agrupación de Plásticos Jóvenes y el Tallersol durante la dictadura en Chile”, de Nicole Cristi Rojas y Javiera Manzi.

Qué sabemos sobre los activismos gráficos y artísticos

Electric guitar, effect pedals, non synchronized loops, two tube amps, acoustic thunder-drums. Excerpts (partly processed) from the vocal performance "Moan" by Snow*Omen:  https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/moan. Spoken words: "Aber ein Sturm weht vom Paradiese her" (But a storm blows from Paradise): Walter Benjamin, Über den Begriff der Geschichte, These IX (1940). All sounds: Velvet Something Superdark & Snow*Omen. Mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.  Image: Paul Klee: Angelus Novus (1920), altered detail (VSS).

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Angelus Novus

Participants: John Steppling, John Bower, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, the purpose of public assassinations, Walter Benjamin’s essay “Capitalism as Religion,” America’s Venezuela problem, “The Seventh Seal” and other films about returning soldiers, TV series “The Devil in Disguise”. See Aesthetic Resistance on Substack for the links related to this episode. Music track: “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” by Charles Mingus (public domain). 

PODCAST 184

The machine loops the rhythm —
and with it, the copy of meaning.
Call it a remix, a replica, a reproduction...
Whatever re- happens to a thing,
it may alter its whatness, even its suchness,
but never its source.

Yes — Ceci n’est pas une pipe.
But its owner is still Antonio Vivaldi.

This track is not a revival.
It’s not homage.
It is the machinery mourning the original —
on a dance floor made of iron and echo.

but it is Vivaldi

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Jennifer Matsui and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Walter Benjamin’s essay “Capitalism as Religion,” America’s Venezuela problem, “The Diplomat,” Dicky Cheney’s legacy, Mayor Mamdani, government workers not being paid, the failing flailing empire—Venezuela, Sudan, Nigeria, Palestine, Ukraine, China, the “big short guy” shorts AI, the non-investigation of the Charlie Kirk assassination. See Aesthetic Resistance on Substack for the links related to this episode. Music track: “How Long Blues” by Leroy Carr (public domain).

PODCAST-185

OLD ADVENTURES IN LO-FI... 

Next to a small little cobblestone street on the edge of Vancouver's Gastown used to be a bunch of rehearsal spaces for local bands, with all the aesthetics, trappings, and varmints of a set from David Fincher's Fight Club. Matt Wilson, the ex-bassist from from late 90s Campbell River rock band halcyon days had a shared room here with his other band and in late 2008 suggested to former bandmates Joel Flynn (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Derek Lee (drums) to come on by and make use of the space. After the sudden passing of Flynn's father in December of that year, the ex-Riverite singer needed some music to work through the situation. He recruited two other ex-Riverites, his nephew Luke Schuss on guitar and Erin Lahay on piano/keyboards. 

To honour the infamous old singing fisherman - Flynn's father Doug, who had moved on to Fiddler's Green - the five-piece put together a bunch of mostly Irish-themed songs to play at a St. Patrick's Day memorial at the Media Club. The nameless group continued to get together and learn songs, some new originals and holdovers from the halcyon days era, but mostly just a bunch of cover songs that were fun to play. Borrowing Flynn's nom-de-plume of that he used for his digital media art experiments, the band played one other show at the Media Club in July of 2009, but never did anything else outside the walls and microphones of, ahem, "Cobblestone Road Studios". 

Of course, "studios" is saying a bit much, as it is basically a 15'x15' room with some randomly placed microphones. These consisted of either a Rode Podcaster or an iPod nano with a Belkin stereo mic attachment, which were later thrown together into multitrack Garageband projects. Yet this bare minimal approach did the lo-fi job and the Campbell River collective continued to play away in the space until it was closed down in early 2010. Some informal recording took place during this time, but was more note-taking and reference material for the band members than anything else. 

Later in the year, while backing up all these recordings to a new hard drive, Flynn ended up losing most of them when the brand new drive crashed within a  week (damn you LaCie!). File recovery software couldn't identify the Garageband files, and the old "throw the drive in the freezer" last resort couldn't get the drive spinning. The still nameless band never ended up finding another full rehearsal space, or play another show as a full band, while the lost Garageband recordings are still sitting unrecoverable on the busted LaCie (with the eye-catching design by Porsche). 

FAST FORWARD: While rummaging through discs, drives, and other piled up office stuff in early 2011, Flynn came across an old recovery disc from the busted LaCie drive. On it were some raw and rough mp3s taken during the group's rehearsals in 2009 that he gave a listen. With Erin now on a two-year 'round the world adventure, and the rest of the band still in limbo with other projects and a lack of a regular rehearsal space, Flynn decided to collect and coordinate some of these lo-fi recordings through a SoundCloud page, which has now been repurposed for Podstream Studio's uses.

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Handmade (Experimental) (Ambient) Sound (Art)

Velvet Something Superdark is 1/2 of  https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen

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