This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away.
This is an episode about freedom. Freedom was the title of a book I read over the holiday period. Link below.
9.38 The Article I read out from: https://culturacolectiva.com/books/on-the-road-jack-kerouac/“Without this book we might have never had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or films such as Thelma and Louise, Paris, Texas, or Easy Rider. Kerouac’s influence is such that in the biographical Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors, the band’s keyboard player, Ray Manzarek, claimed that without that book, the band might not have existed.”
12.17 Lines from the Ghost Song, by the Doors.
Links
Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/
On the Road by Jack Kerouac: LINK
“With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean,” the reviewer noted.
The Free World by Louis Menand: Book Review LINK
Menand is truly one of the great explainers. He quotes approvingly a lesson taken by Lionel Trilling from his editor Elliot Cohen: “No idea was so difficult and complex but that it could be expressed in a way that would make it understood by anyone to whom it might conceivably be of interest.” Menand puts his own practice to the test. He is accurate, he is insightful, and he is not a dumber-downer. It is notoriously hard to summarize Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, structural linguistics, serial composition in music, or the formation of Great Power rivalries in the period of decolonization. Menand’s account of each is an abbreviated tour de force. His explanations work at all levels: interpretation for scholars, review for general readers, introductions for neophytes. Where another writer would take 20 pages to tell us why someone or something mattered historically, Menand does it in two.
Howl by Ginsberg: Review LINK
Ginsberg's poem was an incantatory epic – emotionally and sexually explicit and intent on exploding the anxieties of the atomic age.
Podcasts
John Cage: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/strong-songs/id1443417194?i=1000484979414
How Not Podcast, John Cage: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-not/id1562586787?i=1000525410531
The Reason Interview, Louis Menand Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-reason-interview-with-nick-gillespie/id1485021241?i=1000529629177
Legacy, Jack Kerouac: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/legacy-the-artists-behind-the-legends/id1232652684?i=1000427749693
Witness Archive, Jackson Pollock: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/witness-history-archive-2012/id1003007466?i=1000377912938
