Into the future

by Taragh on September 9th, 2009

Playlist

Sneaky – Superthriller
Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears
The Future – Cut Copy
Notorious – Duran Duran
Happiness – Goldfrapp
Under the Milky Way – The Church
Mad World – Gary Jules (Originally by Tears for Fears)

Thank you Nick

Thank you to the lovely Nick Heyward for our new radio girls jingles

‘The Body from Outside’

An extract from Nikki’s current read ‘Notes of an Anatomist’ by F. Gonzalez-Crussi

Opposed to the idea of body as glory, there is the idea of body as prison. Plotinus, a pagan, regretted being “encased” in the body by nature. He refused to sit for painters or sculptors, arguing that it was coercion enough to have to carry this image for the duration of mortal life and that it was sheer nonsense to to still wish to “produce a longer lasting image of the image, as if it was something worth looking at.”

Futuristic Self Portrait

Another extract from Notes of an Anatomist;
A German painter of the first part of this century drew a skeleton, inside a musty and cobwebbed coffin and entitled it “My self portrait in 1980.” Given the leveling uniformity of death, his rendition probably gained in accuracy with the passage of time.

Optimist on Tour

Taragh interviews Mark Stevenson – author, comedian and futurologist travelling the world researching and writing ‘An Optimist’s Tour of the Future’ to be published in 2010.
www.optimistontour.com