Failure Is Freedom
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Podcast Overview
<p>I'm exploring why Generation X failed to get free, and how the concept of "authenticity" was turned into a sort of un-freedom. </p><p><a href="https://www.martinessig.com/">https://www.martinessig.com/</a> </p>
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8/14/2025
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Recent Episodes
May 28, 2026
Out of Darkness: What Is Otherness?
What is Otherness? Out of Darkness 2022 directed by Andrew Cumming fits into a number of horror categories, but we've decided to do it on our nature horror series. When we were kids back in the 80s, there were two bizarro movies about early hominids, "Quest for Fire" and the "Clan of the Cave Bear." Both have proved to be quite incompatible with more recent paleo-anthropological findings. Many of those fallacies have been cleared up to great effect in Out of Darkness. The two most glaring of ...
May 27, 2026
Warehouse Parties: Three Decades Later
In this episode we explore the sort of house music that I and other deejays played at the warehouse parties of the 90s in Chicago. I recently mixed again with my original equipment from way back when in the 90s at a warehouse party for old people hosted by my friend "Chicago Tommy" at his company's warehouse. We painted, thanks to Tommy's homemade easels and canvases, and danced, and ate, thanks to everyone who brought a dish to share, and it was all over around 9PM because while our spirits ...
May 14, 2026
Hermeneutic Circles: Annihilation
Here is another example of Hermeneutic circles in action. Annihilation, both the book and the movie, are like David Tracy's "Classics" to me because they provide an inexhaustible wealth of possible interpretations, especially because they both deal so strongly with the ambiguity of identity, including the ambiguity of the apparently determinate nature of our genetic inheritance. My partner Char and I have a horror podcast in which this episode first appeared that deals with ideas around the v...
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- What is Failure Is Freedom?
<p>I'm exploring why Generation X failed to get free, and how the concept of "authenticity" was turned into a sort of un-freedom. </p><p><a href="https://www.martinessig.com/">https://www.martinessig.com/</a> </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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