Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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Everything Old is Regrooved Again: The Permanent Present and Vaporwave Aesthetics
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In this episode, I discuss late stage capitalism in 2021 through a look at innovation in music. We seem to be caught in a ‘permanent present’. This ‘permanent present’ is a place where we cannot imagine a radically different future for ourselves from the present that we inhabit now. We inhabit a failure of imagination. I borrow heavily on the work of Mark Fisher and his book Capitalist Realism and use his concept of lost futures to explain why there has been a possible lack of genre development in modern music. The music on the radio in 1985 sounded radically different than that of 1965 but a 20 year span between 2001 and 2021 would produce no such shock. I then explain how genres like vaporwave help fill the void of true innovation in an era of the permanent present.
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In this episode, I discuss late stage capitalism in 2021 through a look at innovation in music. We seem to be caught in a ‘permanent present’. This ‘permanent present’ is a place where we cannot imagine a radically different future for ourselves from the present that we inhabit now. We inhabit a failure of imagination. I borrow heavily on the work of Mark Fisher and his book Capitalist Realism and use his concept of lost futures to explain why there has been a possible lack of genre development in modern music. The music on the radio in 1985 sounded radically different than that of 1965 but a 20 year span between 2001 and 2021 would produce no such shock. I then explain how genres like vaporwave help fill the void of true innovation in an era of the permanent present.
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