The KunstlerCast is a weekly audio program about the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl.
Featuring: James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere", "The Long Emergency" and other books.
Duncan Crary, host/producer, speaks with Kunstler weekly about the failure of suburbia and the inevitable end of this living arrangement with no future.
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I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. - James Howard Kunstler,
from The Geography of Nowhere |
The KunstlerCast is an ongoing conversation unfolding in no particular order. But some installments are better entry points than others. Try starting with show #8, #10, or #6.
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Most Recent Episode:
KunstlerCast #29: Tattoos and the American Costume
Violent Clowns, Oversized Babies and Other Nonconformists Just Like You
James Howard Kunstler addresses the proliferation of tattoos on the American main street. He thinks the fierce looking tattoos on young Americas are actually a sign of how deeply insecure we are as a nation. They're also a form of "non-conformist-just-like-you" consumerism. Jim also takes on the hip hop costuming that has invaded the mainstream and has made young men look like oversized babies and violent clowns.
Direct Download:
KunstlerCast_29.mp3
( 14B | 17:13 mins.)
The tragic comedy of tattoos.