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Community & Social Media Adventures

Episodios

  • Distraction Therapy 081 – Driving Around or Living a Meaningful Life

    03/03/2023 Duración: 01h04min

    Ryan and I got together at the recently extended Phoenix Cinema and Digital Arts Centre in Leicester, for a chat about what makes for a meaningful life. Ryan shared his experience of getting a car and being stuck in endless traffic trying to get to work. This was the first time we’ve met in the [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 080 – 2022 Review

    30/12/2022 Duración: 01h03min

    In our final podcast of 2022, Ryan and I met for a coffee and chatted about how we are coping during the festive season, what films and books we’ve been watching and reading, and how to show sincerity when attempting to get the Christmas Feeling when buying tat in an out-of-town shopping centre!

  • Distraction Therapy 079 – Literary Leicester

    16/12/2022 Duración: 52min

    It was really nice to have a coffee this morning with Jonathan Taylor and Paul Whitehead, who are based at the University of Leicester’s Centre for New Writing. We chatted about the way that literature has faced the challenge of the consumer society, and what role literature plays in a progressive and democratic society. As [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 078 – Dafydd Roberts Listen to the Voice of Fire

    01/12/2022 Duración: 01h23min

    Today I chatted with Dafydd Roberts, about Listen to the Voice of Fire, Dafydd’s music project that encompasses sound art and experimental music performances. Since relocating to West Wales, to pursue a PhD in the alchemical writings of Thomas Vaughan (fl.1650), Dafydd has been active in DIY underground music networks since the early 90s. His [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 077 – Inspiration Beyond the Merch

    20/11/2022 Duración: 01h46s

    For the first time in ages, Ryan and I met up to chat and discuss what we’ve been up to for the Distraction Therapy podcast. This was the first time we’d met on a Sunday morning, though the coffee was on hand as ever. We spent some time discussing Ryan’s visit to the Thought Bubble [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 076 – Bikram Yoga and Symbolic Resonance

    03/10/2022 Duración: 59min

    Ryan and I met up on Saturday morning for our regular coffee and chat. Ryan came hot-footed from a bikram yoga session, and was super energised. We chatted about the after-effects of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, and how narrow many of our cultural options have become. It turns out I was a few hours away from [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 075 – Emergent Arts and Media

    20/08/2022 Duración: 01h06min

    Ryan and I caught up for a coffee again this morning, to find out what films and books we’ve been reading. We chatted about how forms of media can be thought of as emergent, and considered what a metamodern radio station might feel like. Ryan mentioned Arrow Cult Films, the films of Anton Tarkovsky and [...]

  • Distraction Therapy Podcast 074 – Surviving the Heatwave

    24/07/2022 Duración: 01h06min

    What was the heatwave like for you? That was our starting topic in this latest episode of Distraction Therapy. Ryan and I chatted about what insight we gained about climate crisis, and what manifestations of anxiety we might see emerging in films, songs and creative media, that compensate for the need for urgent action? We’ll [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 073 – Distracting Ourselves To Death

    04/07/2022 Duración: 01h05min

    The degree to which we need suitable distractions in our lives, is in direct proportion to the level of anxiety that we experience as a result of modern culture, working practices and social expectations. The more media and stuff that we try to cram into our heads, the less we are open to the experience [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 072 – Transcendental Coffee

    16/06/2022 Duración: 59min

    Ryan Clayton and I met for a coffee, neither of us knowing what we wanted to discuss. It was an experiment in seeing what might emerge! In the end we tried to discuss Kant’s transcendental philosophy, and what it’s implications might be for engaging with metamodern culture? What does a symbolic experience help us to [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 071 – Recollections

    09/06/2022 Duración: 57min

    Hi, in this episode of Distraction Therapy I’ve put some music together, and added some thoughts on what a listening-focussed approach to social deliberation might feel like. Music Played: The Bottom Line (Sunrise Session II) Ólafur Arnalds, Josin & Reykjavík Recording Orchestra                Sunrise Session II Leyohmi (Luminescence) – Carolina Eyck & American Contemporary Music Ensemble                [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 070 – Caffeinated Conversations

    29/05/2022 Duración: 58min

    How can we use popular media to bridge the gaps in our knowledge of the world? Over a coffee, Ryan Clayton and Rob Watson discuss how we can make sense of popular media, and what a metamodern outlook might encompass as we wander about the cultural wasteland… 

  • Distraction Therapy 069 – Ryan and Rob in the Metaverse of Madness

    14/05/2022 Duración: 58min

    Is the new Marvel movie, Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, a metamodern film? What would a metamodern radio station sound like, and what topics would it cover? Ryan and I chatted over a coffee and tried to figure out what to make of these things.

  • Distraction Therapy – 068 May Thoughts

    10/05/2022 Duración: 57min

    Now that spring is here, it was lovely to be able to sit in Castle Gardens and record some observations and thoughts, and to play some music. Also included in this episode is a feature I recorded with Lucy Stevens about here work Colour Coded Birds, which is in collaboration with Leicester Museum service. Music [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 067 – Meaning and Archetypes in Popular Culture

    01/05/2022 Duración: 58min

    It was a pleasure, as always, to chat with Ryan Clayton about popular culture, metamodernism and archetypal symbols that have currency in our times. This week we chatted about Fantastic Beats: The Secrets of Dumbledore, James Bond, and a load of other stuff that we hand’t prepared beforehand, but were happy to follow our intuition [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 066 – Learning to Reflect

    09/04/2022 Duración: 59min

    Once again, coffee propelled our conversation this morning, as Ryan and I turned our thoughts to the process of reflection and getting to grips with the challenges of modern life. Our conclusion was to take and share more pictures of cats and dogs, and to lighten up! It’s easier said than done, but at least [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 065 – Making Meaning Over Coffee

    13/03/2022 Duración: 57min

    There are worse ways to spend Saturday morning than drinking coffee and chatting with Ryan Clayton about the meaning crisis and metamodernism for a podcast. It gave us the chance to explore some ideas about what we are reading and watching, and how we are integrating the living mythologies into daily life.

  • Distraction Therapy 064 – Making Sense of Ukraine

    27/02/2022 Duración: 58min

    What was intended to be a general conversation about metamodernist sense-making, turned into discussion of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and how it has unfolded across our media in recent days. Rather than taking a position or a stance, Ryan and I considered the challenge of finding sure ground when faced with the exercise [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 063 – Metamodern Coffee Chat

    20/02/2022 Duración: 57min

    If postmodernity is about playful signifiers and pastiche, then how is metamoderninity different? Ryan Clayton and I met up for a coffee, and we chatted about how we think the ‘new sincerity’ that metamodern cultural practice works? Is this sensibility to be found in the artwork itself, in the creative practice, or in the relationship [...]

  • Distraction Therapy 062 – Travels in Metamodernity

    16/02/2022 Duración: 57min

    Continuing a set of vague and unspecific wanderings, where I try to form a sense of what metamodernism is in practice, this week’s episode is a mash-up of collected of extracts taken from videos discussing metamodernism on YouTube. Various people talk about metamodernism, and discuss where the concept has come from as a concept, and [...]

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