End of Radio is an ephemeral webradio consisting of over 48 hours of progamming split accross more than forty segments. Ranging from original interviews to ambient music and experimental audio narratives, the content has been curated and created as part of a broader reflection on the structuring power of digital technology and its relationship with capitalism, surveillance, and fascism. End of Radio is also a playful, creative experiment in cultural reproduction that nods to anarchist, post-Marxist, and autonomist methodologies, as well as engages with recurrent themes in social justice studies.
You can listen to the radio by pressing the "play" button below or by visiting this page.
You will find a list of all segments being played further down. These segments are pre-recorded but are played live in random order. Even further down, you will find an essay that contextualize and explains this project. At the bottom of the page, there is guestbook where you can leave a message if you wish.
The radio is streaming live from the ReImagining Value Action Lab and the stream is distributed through the servers of Autistici.
I can be contacted here or here.
Enjoy your stay :-)
kuzyn
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POSTSCRIPT (11/11/2024)
End of Radio was always ment to be ephemeral. The live broadcast is now offline. You can still listen to some of the content below.
POSTSCRIPT (23/05/2024)
It seems necessary to acknowledge the influence of Steve Albini over this project after his recent and suddent passing. In some ways, the project was constructed around the premise of me interviewing Albini for bragging right and evolved from there. Not only did he inspire the name, his position on technical labor and money ("I'd like to be paid like a plumber"), and his passion for the analog were formative in my budding critical interpretation of technology (and radio) well before I became politicized -- as were the countless records he had a hand in. His eventual turn into a self-aware and self-critical genx/boomer who acknowledged his own role as a toxic model for pale, male, stale, "edgelord" bullies was surprising, especially in contrast to other cornballs musicians of his generation. But it was consequent with his lifelong attempt to keep everyone -- including himself -- perpetually accountable. As Ian Mackaye once said, in the punk scene, the auto-cleaning oven is always on. Albini and I exchanged emails through January 2024 trying to find time for an interview after I had reached out to him, out of the blue, with the gist of my project ("I do *not* want to talk about In Utero"). Although ultimately this interview did not happen, he was surprisingly responsive, enthusiast, and game to talk with me; we simply could not find time. Rest in Plane.
