Pseudo-Cyclical Time, Consuming

Aired September 19, 2012, with more readings from the “Spectacular Time” chapter of Debord’s Society of The Spectacle (Theses 150-154), and more from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine audiobook. Further reflections, under the spell of Debord’s incisive theses, of how Wells’ narrator can only empathize with the human form in leisure (the Eloi), not in labour (the Morlocks). The narrator tours a future spectacle of decaying remnants in a museum, and finds himself in his “own element” when among a display of ancient machines. Nevertheless, he reflects on the “great precessional cycles” of nature and feels comforted by the “same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore” that is the Milky Way. Best quote, fighting its way out of the guitar & sax Punk-Jazz of Jaworzyn/Wilkinson: “In the universal decay, this volatile substance had chance to survive.”

Part 1

1. Round Dance – John Weinzweig
2. Experiment – Voivod
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Cracked – Off!
5. Pass The Goldon Falcon – King Cobb Steelie
6. I Don’t Live Today – Jimi Hendrix Experience (from Live In The West)
7. Fine Time – John Weinzweig

Part 2

1. Elimination – Off!
2. My Psychotic Valentine – Jaworzyn / Wilkinson
3. Psychic Vacuum – Voivod
4. You Should Be Getting Something – King Cobb Steelie
5. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains