Screwtape - Mars in Cancer (definitely not Music) Andrew McIntosh 2024-09-28 | Put out on tape in 2009 by Black & Purple. That version had this cut in two to fit on both sides of the tape.
Antinatalism Sans Pessimism (?) Andrew McIntosh 2024-09-17 | A lot of ANs (were they to hear this) would say I'm stating the obvious. My excuse is, like a lot of people, I came to AN via pessimism. Now I'd like to see a separation, based on anti-suffering ethics for AN and resignation for pessimism. And if not, at least I can say with those chaps from the Bundy rum ad, "at least I tried" (youtube.com/watch?v=N5Kf7QPLsvs).reddit.com/r/Pessimism/comments/1ewmrcs/is_antinatalism_necessary/?sort=oldHarrison, “Antinatalism, Asymmetry, and an Ethic of Prima Facie Duties” - drive.google.com/file/d/10-HV_rUExIBCLYr6a321Kl8mQZKH--NG/viewHarrison, “Antinatalism and Moral Particularism” - drive.google.com/file/d/1w_iDrqKdL6KZc9kwFP4GUbDFm6VJ0UPr/viewMagnusson, “On Risk‐Based Arguments for Anti‐natalism” - drive.google.com/file/d/1tgYtwcgySr1KeE-kSmc4bsTjvkDPLFai/viewRachels, “The Immorality of Having Children” - drive.google.com/file/d/1taUn8HPHmM6Vo0ulZ2C2-DWlyifWM8eM/viewTranscript - youtube.com/post/UgkxprgrrQWbtqzZ5Tag0g6IA9iTXL0Zczuo
All the Cool Stuff (Music) Andrew McIntosh 2024-09-14 | Musically a bit of a tribute to Come's "Come Sunday".
The Things Fuck Up Theory of History (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-08-03 | Hegel’s introduction to “Lecture on the Philosophy of World History” - marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/introduction-lectures.htm“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” - a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifestoYanis Varoufakis on ‘techno feudalism” - https://www.penguin.com.au/books/technofeudalism-9781529926095McKenzie Wark on “vectorism” - versobooks.com/en-gb/products/887-capital-is-deadHerb Albert and the Tijuana Brass. “Spanish Flea” - youtube.com/watch?v=aBE9EQ7gXKITranscript - youtube.com/post/UgkxALgUeO4Jr7PVEqd7_9VMzzG0fH-af-q2
You Always Kill Yourself Too Late (“Music”) Andrew McIntosh 2024-07-27 | It should go without saying, but this is NOT an endorsement of people ending their own lives. Apply the usual cautions and caveats.
Ive Got a Good Mind to Give Up Living and Go Shopping Instead (Music) Andrew McIntosh 2024-06-22 | ...
From Pessimistic Pessimism to Optimistic Antinatalism to Utopian Extinctionism (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-06-01 | This isn't arguing for or against any particular positions. But it is trying to trace a line of contradictory logic from pessimism to antinatalism to extinctionism, and ask if it's possible to consciously maintain the contradiction and act on it anyway. Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/17oXIL_WfAlaD4B9SiUi_bwnjZf-By6nrmg8FXKS2U7w/edit?usp=sharing
Dada and the Triumph of Failure (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-05-18 | Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/1I9WlJoLo2cdke7UHrr2F2vbBWfQaIW8xAMPcHN6Ohgg/edit?usp=sharingDada Manifesto 1918 - arthistoryproject.com/timeline/modernism/dada/dada-manifesto"Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain" - youtube.com/watch?v=sdBaS8fgwNs
God, the Will, and Determinism (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-05-05 | Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/1ySa1ZvK6DqGR50qVyTGumxUg1ai7UJdbncJpJCrPP0E/edit?usp=sharingbiblegateway.comhttps://mobydick.wales/contents/theconversation.com/we-make-thousands-of-unconscious-decisions-every-day-heres-how-your-brain-copes-with-that-201379(I think I mispronounced Kant's name again)
Omelas, by Amanda Zukenick (Readings) Andrew McIntosh 2024-04-05 | My cynicism has been pierced at last. Could any human heart that beats in rhythmic solidarity to the pain of all suffering hearts of this world fail to be moved by the sheer "compassion" of the lyrics to this outstanding battle hymn for the new AN vanguard? A lesser person would sneer at the fact that the words was produced by Chat GPT, and that it very much shows they were produced by Chat GPT (and would go on to say they hoped that was the case, because if Amanda had actually written a few of these stanzas that'd be *really* embarrassing). They would probably go on to say that getting someone else to do the playing and singing while you mime to it is just the teensiest bit crap. Not me, though. I'm won over. I've just had to pay tribute in my own, humble, very sincere and not at all snark-all-over-the-furniture way.EXPERIENCE THE GLORY - youtube.com/watch?v=_GlX8mG510M
A Depressive Realist Dilemma (Ineffectual Question) Andrew McIntosh 2024-03-31 | I think this should be audible enough without having to post a transcript.
Prisoners of History (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-02-18 | The critic Walter Benjamin had this to say about the mono print “Angelus Novus”, by his friend, the artist Paul Klee. “This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress”.We can never be free of this storm, because it’s this storm that makes the world and therefore makes us. We are the debris being swept up and projected forward, until we as individuals collapse and crumble and more debris is simply swept up in the same way. History is the collective consciousness of our species. Prehistory is our subconsciousness. Whatever we were and did in those times before we could record language, it has stayed in our unconsciousness. It has not evolved away into the emptiness of prehistory, it stays and shapes our present. Our history is merely the record of the results, as much as our consciousness can feebly understand them. Or even comprehend them. The crimes and failures of the past are what makes us, but they do not inform us. In fact, in many cases these crimes have been deliberately pushed into the subconscious as deeply as possible so as not to annoy us. The history of Australia, for example, is a history of invasion, dispossession and slaughter, and because of that it is impossible for we basically good Australians of today to admit that, without completely betraying everything we’ve made up about ourselves and admitting what we really are. Any wonder any attempt to bridge the gap and tell the truth is met with hostility, resistance and denial. The conquest must continue in some way or another.But then, what is the alternative? What would come of dredging up the past and putting it on trial? Because Australia’s bloody history is deeply buried in the subconsciousness of all of us, conquerer and conquered, and any restructuring would simply repeat the same crimes. There is no going back to a past before history that is gone and conquered, however much remembered or mis-remembered, not for Australia or anywhere. History wiped away pre-history and set itself as the engine of the world, fuelled as much by pre-history as its own hubris. The only present we have is the present that that history has made, and the only future we may have can only be made from the materials of the present. And this is why we are doomed to a constant present of conflict, struggle and failure. And that’s how it is all over the world, and has been all through time. Even though the effects of all that history is felt in the immediate here and now, history cannot be shaken off to re-invent ourselves into something new. Such a thing would be impossible. All we have to build from is what history has given us, and that cannot be counted on to make something that defies the very materials we would build with. We counted on technology to liberate us, but didn’t count on the venality of the ruling classes, because we chose to forget the violent and aggressive forces of history that brought those classes into being. So now we are disappointed even with technology, and once again face the future as simply an empty repetition of the past, only with more led lights. We counted on the revolutions to liberate us, but didn’t count on the stupidity of the leaders of those revolutions, who believed that history could be completely and consciously swept aside in a matter of a generation or two, to birth an entirely new species of human. So millions and millions of people were pushed into the same pre-revolutionary feudalistic privation and captivity for nearly a century until the whole enterprise collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. All our imagined utopias of the future are just made from the selective memories of the past. The good old days simply rebranded as the good new days. At this stage in our history we cannot imagine the future any more, outside of post-apocalypse fantasies. Even the good new days are the good old days now, back to the blurry nostalgia they always were. History has not ended. The storm still blows from Paradise. There is a teleological end to it all, but because we are being blown backwards we cannot see it and probably couldn’t get it properly. We’ll hit it when we hit it, and when we do, then we can count on the end of history and our liberation from its prison. Of course, none of us will be around to enjoy it, but that’s precisely the point.
Were All On the Death March (Music) Andrew McIntosh 2024-01-27 | Illustration - "The Blind Leading the Blind", Bruegel the Elder.
The Drive Towards Death and the Drive Away From Death (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-01-24 | Just throwing a hodge podge of ideas I've read about and find interesting together in the hopes of coming up with a synthesis that doesn't mean much in the end anyway. It's not like I believe there are such things as "Death Drives" and "the Will" and all that, they're more metaphorical for what is probably more mundane, neurobiological stuff going on in our stupid brains.Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/1rlV_MM4YnKyyblSTfPMJXZLgMwYlVm4RbM-udhHXJpw/edit?usp=sharingWikilinks - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead (Philosophy of Redemption)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereological_nihilism Abioism - youtube.com/watch?v=aq1yllaJtfI
Philosophy of the Cleaner (Pointless Piffle) Andrew McIntosh 2024-01-13 | Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/1eEyJUuVv-ZBkaUpIXFjYfJLOT_T1122bQ2t4I70Eri8/edit?usp=sharingThink I might have slowed the tempo of the spoken audio a bit too much on this. Still have to find the right balance.
On the word Antinatalism being put in the Cambridge English Dictionary (Ineffectual Whinging) Andrew McIntosh 2024-01-02 | Now that we have a definitive definition in English, does that settle a lot of the debates about what antinatalism is, or should be? Is anyone who doesn't meet this definition not an antinatalist? Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/1azIudUcgerCAGy5Z2rJiJD-3t_MLYelAP0ogAKCiPOk/edit?usp=sharing
Why Noah Got Drunk (Fiction and Doggerel) Andrew McIntosh 2023-12-24 | Illustration - "The Drunkenness of Noah" by Lorenzo Ghiberti.Transcript - docs.google.com/document/d/1tmNvZJIy5e2Be4Sc6UcGGrU5XPaAlSt8tP_3BWa4iS4/edit?usp=sharing
The Arrogant Man in Hell (Fiction and Doggrel) Andrew McIntosh 2023-12-16 | Illustration - Georg Pencz, "The Rich Man in hell and Lazarus in heaven".
