The Legendary Spectacle of Helen & Enion

No.249, aired February 19, 2014. During instramental tracks, short exerpts from the following three books were read in rotation:

William Blake – Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Night The First
Guy Debord – Society Of The Spectacle, nos.26-39.
Christian Bok – Eunoia, ch. “e”

Not to place a superfluous weir across the free-flow of the listener’s own thoughts, but there’s a fairly obvious theme of separation happening here. In Society of the Spectacle, Debord provides an update to Karl Marx’s observations in the 1850s & 60s on the separation of the worker from the product of labour (commodities). For Debord, writing in the 1950s, the entire world appears as a continuous flow of commodities, with the conditions of their production concealed behind the smooth, illusory sheen of market values, so our separation from reality becomes a general condition. William Blake, anticipating Marx a half-century earlier (c.1800), writes of humanity’s power to shape material existence (Tharmas) separating from our desired vision of the world (Enion). Apart from each other, Tharmas becomes a greedy spectre struggling for existence (in other words, a modern worker), and Enion becomes an aged, vagrant earth-goddess, representing nature devoid of imagination. Bok’s Eunoia separates the five English vowels each into their chapters. Chapter E tells the tale of Helen’s escapades in Troy, separated from her native Greece – for further thots, see my amazonian Eunoia review.

Part 1

1. Dueti (for 2 vioins) No.8 – Luciano Berio
2. Losing My Religion – Kleins96
3. Dueti (for 2 vioins) No.9 – Luciano Berio
4. Stoup-Stained Graves – Rehashed
5. Dueti (for 2 vioins) Nos.10-15 – Luciano Berio
6. Bars – Point Break
7. Mary Jane – William Tell & The Marksmen
8. Go Home Grosep – Kleins96 -- (with some unplanned web audio mixed in)
9. Venture 91-200 – Secret Saucer
10. Fuck My Life – Rehashed

Part 2

1. Right Here Right Now – Ripcordz
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Derive 2 – Pierre Boulez