shows // Headlights
electronica // gypsy // debate // continental // postrock
| episodes | |
|---|---|
| 5th May 2010 Jeff Halper on the Isreali-Palestinean conflict listen | |
| 28th April 2010 MUSIC: Not dead yet! listen | |
| 24th March 2010 MUSIC: Silence is Sexy! listen | |
| 17th March 2010 MUSIC: Spring Blues listen | |
| older Headlights episodes | |
Headlights stands for both fine music as well as fine debates.
Headlights, that is Indra and Christian, will speak to brightest heads of Glasgow University and beyond to talk about politics and philosophy, accompanied by selected tunes fitting the topic. We will look at both contemporary issues as well as taking a glimpse into the classical debates of moral philosophy.
You can join in by sending questions, comments and suggestions to headlights@antipattern.net
news
the reports of our death are greatly exaggerated
We are back on air, not dead like Mark Twain, whose death has been confirmed. We're running on reduced power, since Indra could not make it today, but she will be back next week, when we will hopefully airing the Interview with Jeff Halper.
So, as promised here are the articles I mentioned during the show:
- George Monbiot on vulnerability due to complexity
- Ikea Election Kitchens
- The Daily Mail Song by Dan & Dan
Posted at 11:19, 28th April 2010
bruce lawson on web standards
Headlights // 10.03.10 // Bruce Lawson on Webstandards
In today's episode, Headlights spoke to Bruce Lawson on web standards, accessibility and Microsoft's new browser choice screen.
Bruce Lawson is a web evangelist (That is indeed his official title) at Opera ASA, the company behind the Opera web browser.
Disclosure: Christian is a member of the Opera Campus Crew, for which he published an article on getting the Glasgow University website to validate.
Posted at 13:53, 10th March 2010
headlights :: upcoming shows
As usual we have tons of people on our list of potential interviewees, but whilst not everybody finds the time or the will to talk to us, we have arranged two very interesting interviews for the upcoming shows: We are going to speak to Bruce Lawson from Opera Software | webstandards.org about Web standards and the new browser choice screen adopted by Microsoft in response to to an EU lawsuit. This is for the geeks of you, albeit not exclusively so. Furthermore we are planning to interview Susan Stuart on machine consciousness, and possibly the ontology of digital objects.
As usual, feel free to send in any questions, comments and suggestions regarding these interview to headlights@antipattern.net.
Fingers crossed that everything works out as planned and you'll get an interesting show!
Posted at 02:15, 8th March 2010
elliot bulmer on the iraq war
Headlights // 03.03.10 // Elliot Bulmer on the 2003 Iraq Invasion
We have spoken to Elliot Bulmer about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the invasion he was a member of a psy-ops team. He tells us how he got into this position, what he did in Iraq and assesses the prospects for democracy.
This show isn't just a commentary on the Iraq war, but a story that could come right from a movie.
Elliot Bulmer is currently writing his Ph.D. Thesis titled "A Free Scotland? A Critique of the SNP's Draft Constitution". If you're interested in this topic, you should check outan episode of Christian's old show, Jus de Pomme: Elliot Bulmer on constitutions.
Posted at 01:56, 8th March 2010