Craig Schuftan

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Interviews

A great chat about everything from Green Day to Green Jelly, and a rousing game of 90s or Not-ies with Tom and Alex, triple j. (Fast forward to about 30 minutes in to hear it.)

Always nice to meet another Blur fan. A little talk about the history of Britpop and the future of music history in this ABC Canberra interview with Ross Solly

Michael Cathcart and I discuss the 20 year loop and try to figure out why nostalgia is such a dirty word in this interview for ABC Radio National Books and Arts

I didn't mean to tell Pete and Parusha of Goodness Greatness the entire story of my life. They just sat me down on a comfortable sofa, asked me some questions about my childhood, and the next thing you know...

A thought-provoking chat about rock music and idealism with Caitlin Welsh of The Brag 

I enjoyed this interview with Dan Bigna of the Canberra Times a lot. And not just because he compared me to Alain de Botton and Peter Conrad. Honest.

"Every art movement has a good father and a bad father". The music wars, 20 years on, with Indre McGlinn of Fasterlouder

On the 80s revival and the art of making things seem closer together. An interview with Semi-permanent for Pedestrian TV

Death, Despair, Horror and... collage. A great chat with the irrepressable Andrew Tijs in The Enthusiast

Part two of my chat with Andrew

Writing a book about Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Goethe eventually got me invited into The Philosopher's Zone. I just hope I didn't screw it up.

Here, I tell JAC radio's John Austin the amazing true tale of how I began my broadcasting career with a story about how to get a tan like Burt Reynolds.

On being a high school dropout, with FBI's Matt Levinson (scroll down to find it)

A chat with Concrete Playground about my work on the Powerhouse Museum exhibition 'The 80s Are Back'

"After reading this book, I feel like I have a much greater insight into the minds of the teenagers I work with every day". Thank you, Pop Culture Jesus!

Darryn King from The Economist and I talk metaphysics, mountains, lakes, love unextinguishable, thoughts unutterable, and the nightmare of our own delinquencies.

"The book starts out with a confession: Schuftan likes My Chemical Romance. And I have to confess, similarly, that so do I." One music writer at a time, whatever it takes...

Comedy alert! Chaser stars ridicule musicians in new gig

http://www.twothousand.com.au/read/hey-nietzsche-leave-them-kids-alone/

 http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/3591418

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15.03.13

Resist Aggression

"We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do!"

1990 | 1991 | gulf war | wild angels | primal scream

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26.02.13

Like we're gonna die young

"Churches once held sacred are now but heaps of dust and ashes; and yet we have our minds set on the desire of gain. We live as though we were going to die tomorrow; yet we build as though we were going to live always in this world. Our walls shine with gold, our celings also... yet Christ dies before our doors naked and hungry in the person of his poor."

ke$ha

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24.02.13

A suitor for agreement

"Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure of beauty is curious. It aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds. Hence it tends toward a judgement of its own validity. And like every other rational judgement, this one makes implicit appeal to the community of rational beings. This is what Kant meant when he said that, in the judgement of taste, I am 'a suitor for agreement', expressing my judgement not as a private opinion but as a binding verdict that would be agreed upon by all."

roger scruton | immanuel kant | jack black | high fidelity

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22.02.13

Keep going

"Few people would fall in love had they never heard of love. Passion and expression are not really seperable. Passion comes to birth in that powerful impetus of the mind which also brings language into existence. So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends toward self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.

pre-raphaelites | denis de rougement | love | passion | beata beatrix

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20.02.13

How You Became What You Are

"When I want to make a statue of a beautiful woman, I have a great number of them undress; all offer both beautiful parts and badly shaped parts; I take from each what is beautiful."

linder | diderot | d'alambert | the ideal

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09.11.12

Here is the news

'When faced with the myth, the questions to ask are not about women’s faces and bodies but about the power relations of the situation. Who is this serving? Who says? Who profits? What is the context?

naomi wolf