Black Sun: Unknown Pleasures
1st episode of podcast by Karel Veselý
The podcast maps the history of sadness, melancholy and anxiety in western popular music and shows how the mood of pop culture is connected to the context of its times.
The first part, called Unknown Pleasures, examines the theme of sadness in British music from the post-punk of the late 70s to contemporary electronic music. We follow the stories of Joy Division, The Smiths, Manic Street Preachers, and Burial to the particular political situation of their times.
Author: Karel Veselý
Translation: Guy Tabachnick
Voice: John Comer
Sound design: Jiří Špičák
Institute of Anxiety. 2018
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The Institute of Anxiety creates a space for the study of anxiety, which is spreading throughout society and manifests itself through insomnia, stress, alienation, loss of empathy, inequalities, and violence. It is suppressed without success by products of the pharmaceutical industry and intensified by growing social and economic uncertainty. The institute aims to be a platform where anxiety communicates and opens itself to a potential solution and turns into a force that is capable of radicalizing and forcing structural changes in the current state of affairs.