Category: Audio

10. The Healthy Skeptic

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“This is an irony you couldn’t get away with in fiction—socially impaired programmers creating social media environments for society to socialize within. And the irony doesn’t stop there. Grandin points out that the programmers require intense concentration to look at information for long periods of time. Meanwhile, the technology and media they create distract and fragment people’s attention. Even Grandin, whose condition is characterized by an inability to recognize irony, recognizes this irony.”

0:00 —Intro: You’re not a hoarder, not if you can put it in order…

01:00 —Notes on weaponized autism

12:15 —Alone at the Social Skills Group Therapy

19 minutes

“Witchs Will” by Wilburn Burchette and “No Riders” by Pye Corner Audio

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9. My Selfie Hurts

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“Having been enlisted to take a picture of the happy pair in front of the city, to serve as social media trophy and prosthetic memory, I suddenly feel the weight of my duty. Maybe this is to document a special anniversary. Perhaps it’s his birthday. After briefly familiarizing myself with the gadget, I hold it at eye level.”

0:00 —Intro (Ghost in the machine)

0:39 —Photographing a couple at lookout point

05:13 — “The suspense is killing me.”

06:44 —More night trouble with the troubled neighbor

11:41 Minutes

“Baby” by Justin Bieber, “Unseen Forces” by Justin Walter, “Poa Alpina” by Biosphere  and “Blown-Out Joy from Heaven’s Mercied Hole” by A Silver Mt. Zion

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8. The Way Home

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“I look up at the hotel and wonder which of the fifteen stories of windows it might’ve originated from… The windows are dark and they all look the same. I can’t see into any of the rooms, though I’m certain that anyone looking out can see me.”

00:00 —Tonight on a very special episode of The Bachelor Fridge…

01:26 —Dirty windows and demons

04:18 —Sermon in the park

07:00 —Paper airplane

09:37 —Monsters and Mothers

10:34 —The Bachelor Fridge Recap

11:30 minutes

“Gymnopédie No. 1” by Erik Satie, “Unseen Forces” by Justin Walter and “Pathologically Bored” by Deru

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7. Interpreting the Interpreters

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“Who is this God that keeps sending wounded messengers? Is this God deranged? Or are the codes getting scrambled in some kind of cosmic game of telephone?“

0:00 —The Day the Sirkis Took Over

01:00 —Crow-nies in the park

03:27 —Notes on the stenographer and the sign-language interpreter

09:03 —Escape from Reality Island: memoirs of a night logger

12:23 —Notes on the unreality show

17:52 —The child knows what no one can unknow…

21:10—The old man dream

22 Minutes

“Unseen Forces” and “Following” by Justin Walter, “Kontakte” by Karlheinz Stockhausen, “Spiral Insana” by Nurse with Wound, “Untitled” by Constance Demby, and “Pathologically Bored” by Deru

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6. Sound Reasoning

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“The real problem is that his problem is real. His screams of pain are real, making the electric ray gun as real as anything else. This is the real problem because it leads to the next problem, which is that the ray gun is not real for his neighbors… or management… or, I assume, the vast majority of what the Greeks called the koinos kosmos, or shared world….”

0:00 —Math homework with Ted Bundy

01:33 —Junk mail (“Have you seen me?”)

09:55 —The new neighbor at night . . .

17 minutes

“Gymnopédie No. 1” by Erik Satie, “1979” by Deru, and “Blown-Out Joy from Heaven’s Mercied Hole” by A Silver Mt. Zion

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