Brief (for me) 20-minute rumination on AI art. Apologies for the low audio.

LIKE & SHARE! Topics mentioned in this monotonous three-hour podcast include: John Waters (Irish writer) on pop culture and Philip Rieff's idea of Finnegans Wake as a "deathwork", Harold Bloom, Western canon, The Literary 100 by Daniel Burt, Shakespeare, unoriginal culture, remakes, originality, Julius Caesar, "originality", copyright law, heritage, Dante, Homer, Divine Comedy, Vita Nuova, De Vulgari Eloquentia, Iliad, Odyssey, Samuel B. Seigle at Sarah Lawrence College, group authorship, oral tradition, rap music, rhapsodes, Adam Parry, Milman Parry, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Charles Dickens, What Is Art?, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterberry Tales, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, James Joyce, modernist, Proust, Ulysses, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Satan, Virgil, Aeneid, Goethe, Faust, national epic, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Kafka, Flaubert, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Victor Hugo, The Great Gatsby, Samuel Beckett, Borges, Endgame, Atlas Shrugged, The Modern Library 100 lists, Lauriat Books, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, FakeAndyWarhol wiki, NME Top 100 Albums List, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Education of Henry Adams, The Fountainhead, "Here Comes Everyone" (a/k/a "Here Comes Everybody"), Vico's cycle of historical ages, democracy, mass psychology, Bernays, Gustave Le Bon, Walter Lippmann, Marx, Gravity's Rainbow, hierarchy, agon, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, Notorious B.I.G., Cerebus by Dave Sim, paranoid schizophrenia, The Art of Fiction by Rand, On Writing by Stephen King, obscurantism, Modernism, symbolism, avant garde, Hollywood, Roman Manifesto, James Bond books and films, libertarianism, welfare state, technological system, autonomous development, capitalism, socialism, Allen Greenspan, Federal Reserve, "electrons move through reality", tax policies, technology, mass media, prejudice, academia, Republicans, Soviet socialist realism, Cement by Gladkov, objectivism, V., Crying of Lot 49, literati, conspiracy, Catcher in the Rye, Rosicrucians, paranoia, drug culture, Jacques Ellul, preterites, Nixon, "Whole Mad Crew", Underworld by Don DeLillo, White Noise, William Gaddis, Virginia Woolf, Remembrance of Things Past, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, film sprockets, movies, Recording chapter of Warhol/Chris Chan, Factory diary, Reality TV, social media, The Eminem Show, Freud, scholars, journalists, Andy Warhol, typos, HarperCollins Perennial Classics, Vineland, cyberpunk, Zeitgeist, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, "speaking truth to power", CNN, Crossfire, Neocons, Bleeding Edge, conspiracy theories, false opposition, Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11, terms and conditions of government software, controlled opposition, Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie, magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, counter-culture, Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak, Freudian slip, useful idiots, technocracy, Whole Earth Catalog, John Brockman, Stuart Brand, Prince Andrew, Epstein, Das Netz (The Net) documentary, computer revolution, technique, cool, memes, 2016, 4chan, 1960s, Elvis, Trump, 2016 meme culture, Dark Brandon, "The Prevention of Literature", Spanish Civil War, communists, Animal Farm, "the code is the presentation", totalitarianism, lyric poet, pop star, Russia hysteria, Red Scare, McCarthyism, the current thing, Cold War, enforced orthodoxy, anti-woke, Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Russian literature, Disney, "woke", David Foster Wallace, Michel Houellebecq, Paul Auster, David Peace, Red Riding Quadrilogy, stream of consciousness, Red Riding Trilogy, Submission, House of the Dead, novellas, Elementary Particles, Serotonin, Notes from Underground, neoliberals, Notes from Underground.

Topics and mentions: Harold Bloom, the Western literary canon, fakeandywarhol.substack.com, instagram.com/fakeandywarhol, Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Gravity's Rainbow, Atlas Shrugged, reading, "the novel", schooling, education, postwar era, popular fiction, serialization, Charles Dickens, high school English class, regimented learning, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Shakespeare, literature, grad school, academia, bureaucracy, teachers, liberal arts, public schools, "it's the system, man!", independent study, Sarah Lawrence College, World War II, technology, Jacques Ellul, Unabomber, autonomous development, transference, consumption, the humanities, Hamlet, Madame Bovary, writing workshops, James Joyce, Ulysses, rap, hip-hop canon, John Lydon, Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols, universities, colleges, School of Rock, rock 'n' roll, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Random House, Modern Library, movies, pop music, poetry, music, The Anxiety of Influence, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Andy Warhol, How To Read And Why, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Genius, George W. Bush, Nietzsche, Jane Austin, The Western Canon, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Foucault, postmodernists, Derrida, identity politics, media, mass media, New York Times Review of Books, literati, Western tradition, T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, epic, culture, mythology, undercommunication, Claude Levi-Strauss, grand narratives, Star Wars, Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queene, The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, genre fiction, HCE (Here Comes Everyone), Virginia Woolf, Fabian Socialism, overcommunication, artificial habitat, specialization, history, Hard Times, Scrooge, Four Quartets, civilization, philosophy, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, creative writing, imagination, Freud, psychoanalysis, Wilhelm Reich, Edward Bernays, Bruno Bettelheim, advertising, propaganda, mass psychology, group psychology, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Future of an Illusion, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Guattari, interiority, stream of consciousness, modernism, the internet, television, Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Emily Dickinson, film, comics, Endgame, William Faulkner, intertextuality, masterpieces, Dave Bautista in Blade Runner 2049, Infinite Jest, masterworks, sci-fi, science-fiction, Philip K. Dick, Fight Club, American Psycho, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, The Simpsons, hipsterism, American literature, sensitivity, depression, oversensitivity, Mark Fisher, seductive sadness, Nirvana, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Moby-Dick, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, the Beats, William S. Burroughs, Queer, Junkie, The Naked Lunch, drugs, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, counter-culture, Black Spring, hipster nonsense, Thanos, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, culture industry, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, Americana, Bob Dylan, American folk music, New York City, The Distributist, "fake all the way down", Leo Tolstoy, Paradise Lost, Aldous Huxley, "the permanent revolution", Proust, brand names, consumer culture, interpellation, Don DeLillo, White Noise, socialism, democracy, Walt Whitman, Democratic Party, RollingStone, MTV, frat boys, Republican Party, neocons, capitalism, Obama, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, thought crime, culture heroes, Luke Skywalker, Captain America, Milan Kundera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, Bill Clinton, 1984, George Orwell, Hillary Clinton, working class, New York Yankees, sportsball, NPCs, Ronald Reagan, Michael Jackson, Superman, Spider-Man, Green Arrow, Patrick Leahy, superhero movies, Super Bowl, NFL, Marvel, television broadcasts, communists, guilt-tripped children of the bourgeoisie, "Josephine the Mouse-Singer".

Pop culture as fake culture with fake culture heroes. Discussed: JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, reactionary YouTube critics of SJW media, Walt Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Captain America, Black Panther, Wakanda, Miles Morales Spider-Man, Steven Spielberg, interpellation (Althusser), T.S. Eliot, Henry Miller.

YOU WILL NOT AGREE WITH this discussion of three NME Top 100 Albums of All-Time lists. And then a modest political tirade. Topics and soundbites include: Lou Reed on Warhol as "producer" of Velvet Underground & Nico, AcclaimedMusic.net, New Musical Express magazine, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, Sgt Pepper by the Beatles, pop music as high art, Sex Pistols, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Nevermind by Nirvana, Stone Roses, London Calling by the Clash, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Exile on Main St. by the Rolling Stones, It Takes a Nation of Millions and Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare, the Smiths, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Exit Planet Dust by the Chemical Brothers, global influence of boomer-era popular music vs. influence of other collective works, Thriller by Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, James Brown, David Bowie, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Prince, canon and hierarchy, Mirwais, Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow, Kanye West, Music and Words by Paul Morley, I Am Sitting in a Room by Alvin Lucier, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue, George W. Bush, terrorism, Iraq War, "completely unreliable assholes" from The Shining, Henry Kissinger, Dulles brothers, George H.W. Bush, collapse vs. singularity, mental illness of guardian class, everyone in academia constantly on verge of psychological breakdown, people unable to admit they were wrong about anything ever, anti-war protests, U.S. operation/occupation in Afghanistan, Obama, "weapons of mass destruction", John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, "Axis of Evil", McCain, Romney, "uniparty", RollingStone, Rudy Giuliani, "post-truth" world, interconnections supersede personal responsibility in technological society, drone strikes, Biden, Trump, hyperbolic hysterical media, George Costanza (Seinfeld) on lying, double-think, "The Cathedral" by Curtis "Moldbug" Yarvin, "deep state", public education and schooling, "dumbing down", false opposition, Tucker Carlson, Tragedy & Hope by Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton, "blow off steam" and "vote the rascals out", Nixon, JFK, Chuck Schumer on the intelligence community, Ted K Unabomber movie, "Am I Crazy?" by Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), Alan Watt on Vince White's book, "Sucks to Be You" by Prozzak, Joe Strummer on music and meaning.

Are you a Coffee Achiever?, Batman analysis, Grant Morrison, Scott Snyder, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, Mass Formation Psychosis, Freud, The Future of an Illusion, religion, What is mental health in an insane world?, constant crisis, the Joker, "needing" to follow leaders, 100% agreement complex, following political pundits and philosophers as if they were super-heroes, Wittgenstein, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, overrating memes, wojaks, internet arguments, internet stalking, transference, "Florida Guy" radio host, bidets, Warhol's dirty underwear, Warhol / Chris Chan, Warhol's time capsules, "dirty crapped briefs", "anal symbolism in Hollywood movies", John Adams (podcaster), numerology, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Unabomber, AnPrim Gang (anarchoprimitivism), "return to monke", remakes, traditional culture heroes, Greek mythology, capitalism, Shakespeare's plays, folktales, Faust, Marlowe, Goethe, ancient Greek tragedy, Sophocles, conceit of originality, copyright laws, everything being recorded, Baudrillard, hyperreal, nostalgia, Britpop, Oasis, Beatles, Tony Blair, John Lydon, Tom Snyder interview, Do people deserve a better world?, Elon Musk, "Why Aren't They Dead Yet?", people openly wishing death on large swathes of the population, affect of pandemic lockdowns on kids, Andy Warhol's childhood, "think of the children", Klaus Schwab, autism, Blake Gopnik, two years of low-level trauma, Batman '89 movie, Frank Miller, adults consuming kids' entertainment, Lord of the Rings movies, Batwoman tv show, group psychology, My Dinner with Andre, Unabomber, anarcho primitivism, Spider-Man, Superman, Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, comic books, villains, coitus interruptus, mega-capitalists, bailouts, philanthropy, Keynesian economics, the magic money printer, welfare, grievance, Marxist interpretation, stimulus checks, the Rat Utopia experiment, Zarathustra, leaving the city, Charles Galton Darwin, Nick Gillespie, dystopian literature, 1984, Soviet Union, Victoria Jackson, Obama, cult of personality, Bush, Trump. Closing song: "Arch of the Aorta" by Fad Gadget.

Discussion of R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek... Robots as artificial humans and their utility to the expansion and maintenance of the technological system... Mentioned: Bertrand Russell, Return of the Jedi (Star Wars, Ewoks), Marx, Chomsky... Excerpt from Bob Zmuda's anecdote about Andy Warhol and Andy Kaufman meeting, talking about Howdy Doody.

Radiohead album showdown, remembering when 1970s Bernie Sanders wanted to overhaul commercial television, and answering listener questions about Gilles Deleuze, the Enlightenment, Chris Chan, and more.