FULL EP* ON PATREON Ok, we are back—this episode comes live from Osaka Japan, where we explore the free-time lost space age culture of the Showa era, the dissonance of post-WWII art, technology, Expo 70’, and how some of the lessons from the recent past can be applied to the present moment. Parthenogenesis, cultural reform and the Showa era, artistic viability of the past, present/future, Americanized Japanese food, hikikomori incels and the extinction of futuristic coffee shops, the phenomenon of Tetsuya Yamagami cosplay and the death of Shinzo Abe, Experimental Workshop: post-war intermedia art collectives of Japan, Tate’s Light exhibition, Taro Okamoto’s Tower of the Sun: subverting the machine, soda corporations and their sponsoring of intermedia projects, Article 9: soft power, satellites, and the Cold-War, Computer Technique Group, IBM and ea ...