Culture Club

The Culture Club is a radio segment I've been presenting and producing for triple j since 2001. It's about art, literature, philosophy and modernism - and it tells the story of how those things have shaped the music we listen to today. The ideas are big, the duration is short, and the music is loud and defiantly populist.

An Alternative History of Alternative Rock

Featuring Sonic Youth, The Pixies, The Breeders, Hole, L7, Nirvana, Blur, Oasis, Elastica, No Doubt, Beck, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Pavement.

Modern Art, Rock and Roll, and Other Stuff Your Parents Warned You About

Featuring Beck, The Breeders, The Sex Pistols, Bloc Party, Fluxus, The Situationist International, Gnarls Barkley, Salvador Dali, Luigi Russolo, Grandmaster Flash, John Cage, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Marcel Duchamp and Ben Folds

The End of Civilisation as We Know It

Featuring The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, John Keats, Robert Burton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kanye West, Friedrich Nietzsche, MGMT and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Hey! Nietzsche!

Featuring The Gossip, Kings of Leon, Ben Harper, Queen, Meat Loaf, Richard Wagner, AC/DC, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Dizzee Rascal and My Chemical Romance.

Acceptable in the 80s

Featuring Ladyhawke, Peaches, Cut Copy, Mylo, Calvin Harris, Run DMC, Madonna, Marcel Proust, Giorgio Moroder, David Lee Roth, Theodor Adorno, Karl Marx and Michael J. Fox.

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

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

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

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

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

Craig Schuftan