Coordinated Universal Time

This is the last episode of Coordinated Universal Time. It was a successful experiment but we're calling it now. For our last episode, I couldn't imagine a better guest: Gabriele de Seta is a media anthropologist practicing in Taiwan and Italy. Thank you so much for listening.

[0:00] The Last Episode of UTC

[2:44] Gabriel de Seta

[4:50] Against Sonic Naturalism

[9:47] Representation, Technology, Etc.

[12:55] The Experience & Mystification of Sound

[24:00] Ethnography Strengths and Limitations

[34:23] Sinofuturism and the “Real” Future of China

[45:20] Hong Kong

[49:40] Chinese Social Media

[54:21] TikTok

[64:52] Closing Thoughts

[66:25] Coordinated Universal Time Signing Off

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Simulating crickets to hear the temperature. A psychogeographic journey from Chicago to Toronto to London. Music from Turdidae. J. G. Ballard's Report on an Unidentified Space Station.

[0:00] Earthshine & Crickets

[6:10] Psychogeographies: Chicago / Toronto / London

[12:01] “North by West” by Turdidae

[17:45] Report on an Unidentified Space Station

[31:58] UTC Outro

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Where are we going? A question muttered a thousand times a day. Forests are gateways to the subconscious, the mysterious, the primal. Stars are symbols of a higher self, hope, the future. We rise and we fall. Or perhaps we only strive.

[0:00] Nature Does Not Exist

[5:30] UTC Interlude

[7:40] Nature's Methods [Monologue with Terence McKenna]

[12:05] What A Way To Go [Monologue with Derrick Jensen]

[15:57] The Fallacy Of Ecology [Monologue with Slavoj Žižek]

[21:25] In Orbit / The Doctrine of Cold

[25:30] UTC Outro / Alex Seropian - Landing [Stoatley Reconstruction]

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A conversation with Angel Marcloid aka Nonlocal Forecast aka Fire-Toolz. We talk about music, cats, meditation, transfemme, and LaserDisc.

[0:00] Opening Conversation with @ntnfrno & @tyleretters

[15:24] Celestial Nervous System & Intro

[17:57] Musical Influences

[22:05] The “V” Word

[29:42] Categorizing Music

[34:12] Nonlocal Forecast

[40:03] Live Performances

[45:18] Sampling

[48:40] Transfemme Being

[52:46] Hopes

[57:12] One Message for Everyone

[58:21] angelmarcloid.com

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Hello, Earth. Welcome to Coordinated Universal Time. There is no easy way to explain the beginning. It is holographic, amorphous, multivalenced. 

[00:00] To Realize a Commoner Earth

[03:10] A Shard of the Origin Story

[08:29] The Final Dialogue Between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo

[13:08] San Jose International Airport / Shortwave Radios / Virtual Rushkoff

[17:01] Angel Marcloid

[24:04] It's Time Again to Follow St. Antony Into the Desert

[32:26] June

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