Steal This Playlist

"The dictatorship of the bureaucratic economy cannot leave the exploited masses any significant margin of choice because it has had to make all the choices itself, and because any choice made independently of it, even the most trivial – concerning food, say, or music – amounts to a declaration of war to the death on the bureaucracy. This dictatorship must therefore be attended by permanent violence."

-Guy Debord (La societe du Spectacle)


Alright, so here's the deal.

Once every month from now on [in a while] I will be uploading a fifteen track playlist along with a PDF of a work of philosophy that in some way either relates (albeit sometimes only tangentially) to music in general or to the content of the songs in each playlist. These playlists will be available to download through Google Documents (it's open to the public, so you don't need to have a Google account to download the .zip file) and will stay up (hopefully) indefinitely.

Enjoy and let me know if you have any other ideas that would help to spread the cause of good philosophy, art, and lateral education throughout the internet.

-C

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1.) "Banged and Blown Through" - Saul Williams
2.) "Time and Space" - The Cinematic Orchestra
3.) "Second and Dryades" - Galactic
4.) "Genesis" - Justice
5.) "Mic Check" - Rage Against the Machine
6.) "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" - Gnarls Barkley
7.) "Mrs. Officer" - Lil Wayne
8.) "No More Pain" - 2pac
9.) "Imitosis" - Andrew Bird
10.) "N.Y. State of Mind" - Nas
11.) "Get It On" - Grinderman
12.) "Ghosts I" - NIN
13.) "All My Money's Gone" - Mike Henderson and the Blue Bloods
14.) "Prison Sex" - Tool
15.) "Stetson Kennedy" - Wilco
16.) The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Steal This Playlist