12.01.2026
episode
Outsiders: Bop Fantasies - American Brutalism: Temporalities of Materialized Space in the Year of The Horse
The first episode of 2026 marks the start of a new chapter for bop fantasies. More precisely, the beginning of Book II. Bizarrely, our narrators have been contracted by a well-known Swedish techno-capitalist to create this new “book” for his own purposes.
Miles (lil.bluet) begins this consultancy with a narrative centered on exploring the abstract nature of temporality and space in the Year of the Horse, identifying 12 spaces in total across the realms of the physical, virtual, metaphysical, and musical.
Some of the spaces in question: the North Sea; child labour in Roblox; Taylor Swift as a platform; the Black genius of D’Angelo; and the United States of America.
Clear out your schedule and tune in—this one’s an epic.
Fantasia - Ralph Vaughn Williams
Malibu - Lost at sea
Malibu - Camargue
Daniel Blumberg - The Brutalist, Overture
Boyz II Men - A Song for Mama
Kilo Ali - Show me love
Hugh Downs - Prelude of the night
Ice Spice - Big guy
Final Fantasy - Balamb garden
Taylor Swift - Look what you made me do
Taylor Swift - Belong to Me
Star-Spangled Banner
Woody Guthrie - This Land is your land
Julius Eastman - Evil Nigger
Dj Blaqstarr - Hands Up thumbs down
Aly Us - Follow Me
D’angelo - Black Hole Sun Cover
D’angelo - The Root
Elysia Crampton - The way it is edit
Chuquimamani-Condori - Alborada w/ Mari Carmen w/ Zonico E DJ edit
Literature:
Byung Chul Hun - The Crisis of Narration
Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo - Exocapitalism
Ann K. Clark - The Girl: A rhetoric of desire