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Ok, we are back—this episode comes live from Osaka Japan, where we explore the free-time lost space age culture of the Showa era, the dissonance of post-WWII art, technology, Expo 70’, and how some of the lessons from the recent past can be applied to the present moment.

Parthenogenesis, cultural reform and the Showa era, artistic viability of the past, present/future, Americanized Japanese food, hikikomori incels and the extinction of futuristic coffee shops, the phenomenon of Tetsuya Yamagami cosplay and the death of Shinzo Abe, Experimental Workshop: post-war intermedia art collectives of Japan, Tate’s Light exhibition, Taro Okamoto’s Tower of the Sun: subverting the machine, soda corporations and their sponsoring of intermedia projects, Article 9: soft power, satellites, and the Cold-War, Computer Technique Group, IBM and early experiments in computerized art, Chuquimamani-Condori’s DJ E, Ekimae buildings, the synthesis of the modern and Old World, Chim↑Pom, The Unification Church, the LDP, and spiritual sales, "Adventures of the Eyes of Mr. W.S., a Test Pilot”, severe social withdrawal, struggle sessions, shrines and international pavilions, Expo Syndrome, Yung Lean’s glam rock album, + more…this was quite an adventure, had to put some of this stuff to the test and actually go there

Pt. 2 from the Volcano/Tropical Island coming up next