From78

Intro:

In this episode of From78 I talk with a fellow Podcrade from the Lost Horizon's Network, Jason from The Regrettable Century. We talk about our own lives and our experiences as we have moved through time. The conversation gets into putting down roots v. drifting, fear of death, the pursuit of an impossible Justice to come, our ability or inability to choose our path in life, the impacts of technology on our lives as social beings, and more.

This was one of the best conversations I've had in a long time, and I hope you all enjoy it as well.

References: 

• Derrida's Specters of Marx (.pdf) 
• Parker Palmer's description of depression from On Being
• Jean-Paul Sarte (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Chris's (also from the Regrettable Century) interview on From78

Outro musics:
The outro track on today's episode is a track called Go Small by the band Seaming. It is on the album The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity, which you can stream or pre-order now on Bandcamp. 

In this episode, From78 has a conversation with Chris from The Regrettable Century Podcast. It's a long episode (90 min), and that's after editing. An unedited version of the conversation is available on From78' Patreon page. (Remember -- No matter what level you support the show at you get ALL the rewards!) 

During our conversation, From78 & Chris talk about: 

• The role of universities and religious institutions in our lives 
• Life as it might have been in medieval times
• Communities, or the lack thereof
• Places that people can gather in to just hang out and talk about things and stuff
• Starting things when you’re young but not finishing them till way later in life
• Psychoanalysis (Das Ding, object a) 
• Self-care vs people caring for one another

Today's episode is an interview with Grasshopper, another xennial who lived through the world's transition from not having the internet (and all the things & stuff that came with the internet) to a world that is totally dependent on the internet. 

Here are some things we talk about in this: 

• Is Mapquest a scam by shoe stores & Denny's 
• Emojis 
• Online dating 
• Xennials
• Red Dawn
• The three-lane way of thinking about time
• Online banking
• Buying music (with your own money!) 
• Recording songs off the radio 
• Hauntology, Ghosts, Specters
• Economic crashes 
• Cold war
• 9/11
• Retirement? Ha! 
• Si-Fi & the imagined future 
• The Westwing & House of Cards. 

This episode was also cross-posted on Adam's wonderful podcast Red Library. 

Till next time: Make Glorious Mistakes. 

This episode of From78 was a real joy for me to do because I was able to have a long conversation with Comrade Adam. Adam does his own Podcast called Red Library, and if you don't already listen to it you really really really should!

In this episode, we start to suss out each of our own ghosts and our current orientation as dialectical (revolutionary?) pessimists.

The entire uncut interview is available right this red hot second via the From78 Patreon page. 

The second part (and much more light-hearted) part of the interview I did with French Horn Hero. In the episode, we have a very meandering conversation about books, libraries, GPS, Reddit, and all sorts of other sundry things. I hope you dig listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.