[Popular Culture and Philosophy 38] • Radiohead and Philosophy by Forbes, Brandon W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page 1 Step Anyone Can Play Philosophy.

1. - Is Radiohead the Pink Floyd of the Twenty-First Century?

The Band Is Just Phenomenological Creeping toward Phenomenology Standing on the Edge and Looking Underneath Subterranean Homesick Technology Everything Is Not OK, Computer Who Are Your Real Friends? Where Pink Floyd Ends and Radiohead Begins

2. - Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop 3. - All the Argument We Need

Arguing without Argument All I Need: All about the World You’re Living in a Fantasy World, This Beautiful World

4. - Radiohead and Some Questions about Music

Radiohead and Rock Music What Is Music? Music: Emotion or Form? Are Musical Experiences Universal?

Art and Belief.

5. - New Shades

Meeting in the Abject I Wish I Was Special but I’m Abject You Have Turned Me into This Pull/Pulk Abject Doors Where I End and You Begin How to Disappear Completely Not Another Brick in the Wall Rise and Shine It’s On Again Off Again

6. - Why Such Sad Songs?

OK Catharsis Exit Music for a Story Emotion in Its Right Place This Just Feels (and Sounds) Like Spinning Plates Baby’s Got the Purgation You Can’t Be Bulletproof Where Tragedy Ends and Community Begins

7. - “The Eraser”: Start Making Sense

Intelligence Gathering Playing a Part versus Giving Voice Against Self-Legitimation Profanity Prayers Don’t Turn Away Ideology and Idolatry There Are No Unrelated Phenomena

Radiohead and the Music Industry.

8. - Taking the Sting Out of Environmental Virtue Ethics

Kid Akrasia Wake Up (Morning Bell) Fitter Happier Emitting Carbon Dioxide in Moderation This Is Really Happening (So Do Something)

9. - We (Capitalists) Suck Young Blood

Six Fluffy Wee Rabbits We Want Sweet Meats We Suck Young Blood Crack Your Little Soul C-M-C Music Factory

10. - Everybody Hates Rainbows

House of Cards Jigsaw Falling into Place Reckoner Up on the Ladder Go Slowly

Radiohead’s Existential Politics.

11. - Nietzsche, Nihilism, and “Hail to the Thief”

The Lukewarm Let Me Hear Both Sides Pull the Last Humans Out of the Aircrash Hail to the Over Humans Where the Over Humans Begin Brush the Cobwebs from the Sky, Let the Genie Out from the Bottle

12. - The Real Politics in Radiohead

This One’s Optimistic What You’ll Get when You Mess with Us Why It Really Hurts We Are Born Again Sing Us a Song Somewhere We Will Meet How to Misunderstand Politics Completely

13. - The Impossible Utopias in “Hail to the Thief”

White People for Peace The Sky Is Falling In Don’t Get Any Big Ideas—They’re Not Gonna Happen Back to the Future Hope at the Door

14. - Where Power Ends and Violence Begins

I Am Born Again They Do It to Yourself We Can Wipe You Out Anytime Go and Tell the Thief that the Sky Is Falling In The Fear Is Holding On Rising Up

15. - Evil and Politics in “Hail to the Thief”

Getting All Literal Who Is This Devil in Disguise? The Most Gigantic Truthful Mouth of All Time The Self and Politics Thinking in Rainbows

Radiohead, Heidegger, and Technology.

16. - The Mutilation of Voice in “Kid A” (Or, My John Mayer Problem)

Surprises and Alarms Kid A, Heidegger, and the Question of Technology Making Sense by Not Making Sense At Ease

17. - Why a Rock Band in a Desolate Time?

Aliens Hover Everything Is Broken Open Up Your Skull Nice Dream They Fed Us on Little White Lies Back to Save the Universe Starting and then Stopping This Machine Will Not Communicate This Is the Panic Office I Feel My Luck Could Change If You Think that You’re Strong Enough . . .

18. - The Signature of Time in “Pyramid Song”

Rhythm and Time Signatures Time Signature and Mood in Chopin Temporality Knives Out

19. - Fitter Happier Rolling a Large Rock Up a Hill

Up Above, Alienation Hovers Kid Absurdity Pull Me Out, or Leave Me In, the Aircrash Phew, for a Minute There, I Lost Myself in Technology A Large Rock Saved My Life

Radiohead and the Postmodern.

20. - “Kid A” as a Musing on the Postmodern Condition

What Was That You Tried to Say? Epigones in Their Right Place Dissecting National Anthems This One’s Optimistic You’re Living in a Fantasy World Today I Woke Up Sucking a Grammy

21. - Hyperreally Saying Something

I Wish I Was Special No Chance of Escape This Just Feels Like Spinning Plates Then a Sheer Drop This Isn’t Happening How to Reappear Completely

22. - Sexier More Seductive

Et Cetera Et Cetera Fifteen Steps then a Sheer Drop I Am Trapped in This Body and Can’t Get Out You Paint Yourself White I Follow to the Edge of the Earth and Fall Off Your Eyes, They Turn Me I Am in the Middle of Your Picture There’s No Real Reason The Infrastructure Will Collapse Kiss Your Husband Goodnight This Place Is on a Mission You Are My Center when I Spin Away How Come I End Up Where I Started?

Selected chronological radiohead discography Where we got our big ideas Index (for a book) Copyright Page

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