WONDERFUL
“Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide” David Bowie.
I AM A HEIDEGGERIAN BORE
“Changes” David Bowie.
A SEER IS A LIAR
“Heat”, “Quicksand” David Bowie.
HOLD ON TO NOTHING
“Rebel, Rebel”, “The Supermen” “After All” David Bowie.
“‘Heroes’” David Bowie and Brian Eno.
HAMLET IN SPACE
“Space Oddity”, “Ashes to Ashes” David Bowie.
DYSTOPIA – GET IT HERE, THING
“Oh! You Pretty Things”, “Drive-In Saturday”, “Diamond Dogs”, “Future Legend” David Bowie.
LES TRICOTEUSES
“Sweet Thing”, “All the Madmen”, “Candidate” David Bowie.
THE MAJESTY OF THE ABSURD
Danton’s Death (Dantons Tod), Georg Büchner; “It’s No Game”, “Up the Hill Backwards” David Bowie.
ILLUSION TO ILLUSION
“All the Young Dudes”, “Sound and Vision” David Bowie.
DISCIPLINE
“I Can’t Read” David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels.
YEARNING
“Sound and Vision”, “Be My Wife”, “Station to Station”, “‘Heroes’”, “Let’s Dance”, “Blackout”, “5:15 The Angels Have Gone”, “Absolute Beginners”, “Survive” David Bowie.
YOU SAY YOU’LL LEAVE ME
“Heathen (The Rays)”, “Reality” David Bowie.
GIVING UP ON REALITY
“Reality” David Bowie; Watt Samuel Beckett; article in Sound on Sound David Bowie.
PLAYING ON GOD’S GRAVE
“The Width of a Circle” David Bowie; “Seven” David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels; “Word on a Wing”, “No Control”, “Slow Burn”, “The Next Day” David Bowie.
NOTHING TO FEAR
“Sunday” David Bowie; “Sunday Morning” Wallace Stevens.
SUN, RAIN, FIRE, ME, YOU
“Where Are We Now?” David Bowie.
SAYING NO BUT MEANING YES
“Blackstar”, “Sunday”, “After All”. “‘Heroes’”, “I Can’t Give Everything Away”, “Rock and Roll Suicide”, Dollar Days David Bowie.
WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO?
“You Feel So Lonely You Could Die”, “Dollar Days”, “Girl Loves Me”, “Lazarus” David Bowie.
LAZARUS, NEWTON, GRACCHUS
“Dig, Lazarus Dig!” Nick Cave; “The Hunter Gracchus” Franz Kafka.
SHEILA, TAKE A BOW
“Aladdin Sane” David Bowie; “Time Lived, Without its Flow” Denise Riley.
SIMON CRITCHLEY is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. His books include Very Little… Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers and The Faith of the Faithless. He recently published Memory Theatre, his first novel, and Notes on Suicide. He runs “The Stone”, a philosophy column in The New York Times and is fifty per cent of an obscure musical combo called Critchley & Simmons.
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