{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 53: Tradition, The Future &amp; Music, Please","description":"Alec and Nick reconvene to discuss concepts of \u201ctradition\u201d and \u201cfuturity\u201d as they relate to music. Picking up on our ceaseless cultural pull toward both the past and future, the conversation focuses on how contemporary\u2019s music\u2019s impulse to represent history and postulate a future for itself has developed its own kind of suspended, tense aesthetic condition. The conversation touches on Benedict Anderson\u2019s \u201cImagined Communities,\u201d Bang on Can\u2019s Longform Festival, Accelerationism vs. \u201ctrad\u201d culture, neorationalist philosophy, ethical and\/or relativist music appreciation, Sylvere Lotringer, The Beats, Post-Internet Art, the problems of using collapse as a vision of the future, the dubious quest for authenticity\u2014and music as a special annex for the quandaries of what\u2019s behind us and what\u2019s to come.&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Flavortone","author_url":"http:\/\/flavortone.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/27333780\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ff0000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/193167625"}