[Popular Culture and Philosophy 30] • Pink Floyd and Philosophy by Reisch, George -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Pink Floyd: From Pompeii to Philosophy Pink Floyd in Popular Culture

The Four Lads from Cambridge From Waffling to Meddling The Crazy Diamond Wish You Weren’t Here Does Johnny Rotten Still Hate Pink Floyd?

2 - Life and Death on The Dub Side of the Moon

Side One Side Two Rasta Reasoning On Rasta Time “A New Broom Sweeps Clean, but an Old Broom Knows Every Corner”

3 - Dark and Infinite

Goodbye Blue Sky Nobody Home Bricks in the Wall We Don’t Need No Interpretation Feelings of an Almost Human Nature

4 - Pigs Training Dogs to Exploit Sheep: Animals as a Beast Fable Dystopia

The Dog-Eat-Dog Marketplace Pigs in the Whitehouse Sheepish Exploitation Caring Dogs Watching Flying Pigs

5 - Exploring the Dark Side of the Rainbow

Major Synchronizations Design or Chance? Synchronizations and Synchronicity Apophenia and Paradigms Thematic Synchronicity

6 - Mashups and Mixups : Pink Floyd as Cinema

Defining Cinematic Music Music Videos and Music Films Mashups and Sync Ups In the End, It’s Only Round and Round (and Round)

Alienation (Several Different Ones)

Wish You Were . . . Connected When the World You’re in Starts Playing Different Tunes Don’t Be Afraid to Care Don’t Sit Down Time, Finitude, and Death Money Any Colour of Us and Them You Like Artists and Crazy Diamonds This One’s Pink We Don’t Need No Indoctrination

8 - Roger Waters : Artist of the Absurd

(C)amused to Death That Fat Old Sun Prisms and Diamonds Welcome to the Zoo The Pros and Cons of Audiences Alienation inside the Wall Would You Help Me to Carry the Stone?

9 - Theodor Adorno, Pink Floyd, and the Psychedelics of Alienation

Part I: Interstellar Overdrive It’s Alright, We Told You What to Dream Can the Machine Be Fixed? Arnold Schoenberg had a Strraaaange . . . Method An Echo of a Distant Time: Stravinsky’s Primitivism The LSD Factor Set the Controls for Maximum Creativity Part II: From Axes to Echoes Careful with that Axe, Eugene Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Echoes The Eclipse of Musical Alienation

10 - I and Thou and “Us and Them”: Existential Encounters on The Dark Side of ...

Apples and Oranges? Or Just Apples?

Waters’s Position: Raving and Drooling, or Serious Argument? An Enduring Lapse of Identity? The Same in a Relative Way? The Echo of a Distant Time: Identity and Change Actions Brings Good Fortune: Actions, Intentions, and Evaluation A Smile from a Veil? Hypothetical and Actual Intentions Like a Cardboard Cut-Out Man: Collectives as Individuals To Join in with the Game

12 - The Dinner Band on the Cruise Ship of Theseus

Wot’s...Uh the Deal? What Do You Want from Me? Band Roster Identity Stylistic Identity Legal Identity Nominal Identity Wish You Were Here Brain Damage, or Careful with that Axe, Eugene The Show Must Go On Absolutely Curtains

13 - Distorted View: A Saucerful of Skepticism

Random Precision And What Exactly Is a Dream? Distorted View (See Through, Baby Blue) You Raver, You Seer of Visions It Takes Two to Know Wondering and Dreaming. The Words Have Different Meanings

14 - Wish You Were Here (But You Aren’t): Pink Floyd and Non-Being

The Philosophers’ Struggle with Non-Being. Non-Being as Alienation Non-Being as Absence Non-Being in ‘Postmodernism’ Meet You on the Dark Side of the Moon?

15 - It’s All Dark: The Eclipse of the Damaged Brain

All that You Love All that You Do All that You Touch, See, Taste, Feel All You Create All that Is Now, Gone, to Come Everything Under the Sun Is in Tune All that You Beg, Borrow or Steal All that You Say Everyone You Fight All You Distrust Everyone You Meet All that You Give All You Destroy The Sun Is Eclipsed by the Moon

The Art of Insanity: Nietzsche, Barrett, and Beyond

16 - Wandering and Dreaming: The Tragic Life of Syd Barrett

Syd and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy Apollo and Dionysus in Piper Dionysus and Disintegration A Parting of the Ways You Legend, You Martyr

17 - Submersion, Subversion, and Syd: The Madcap Laughs and Barrett between ...

Late Nights at the Apollo Lost in the Dionysian Wood Treading the Sand of Subversion A Long, Cold Look at the Aura and Authenticity If It’s in You, Reproduce It for the Masses “The Madcap Laughed at the Man on the Border”

18 - Thinking Outside the Wall: Michel Foucault on Madness, Fascism, and—if ...

There Must Have Been a Door There When I Came In Which Colour of Madness Would You Like? Morality and Physiology I’ve Always Been Mad. And Guilty. What about the Worms? Art, Madness, and Syd Barrett

19 - Living Pink

Capitulation—Riding the Gravy Train Medication—I Can Ease Your Pain Re-creation—A Day When You Were Young Emancipation—You’ll Lose Your Mind and Play Resignation and Exploration—I’ll Climb the Hill in My Own Way

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