Failure Is Freedom

I'm exploring why Generation X failed to get free, and how the concept of "authenticity" was turned into a sort of un-freedom.

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Podcasting since 2025 • 52 episodes

Failure Is Freedom

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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 hom...

May 28, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 5 • 1:16:18

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 peop...

May 27, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 4 • 1:18:44

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 ...

May 14, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 3 • 1:31:29

Hermeneutic Circles: Jesus is Tested

I post this crossover episode as an example of the possibilities for hermeneutic circles as a religious practice. And as a reminder that our only freedom is the open and even playful interpretation of being. And I always love pointing out to pe...

May 14, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 2 • 1:02:41

Season 3: Making All Things New

This season will be focussed on how we can reinterpret our inheritance to make it new through the practice of interpretation. Nothing that is given to us from the past can be received without interpretation. The practice of interpretation is ca...

May 05, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 1 • 1:09:18

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