Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground in 1864 which is considered to be one of the first existentialist works, emphasising the importance of freedom, responsibility and individuality. It is an extraordinary piece of literature, social critique and satire of the Russian nihilist movement as well as a novel with deep psychological insights on the nature of man.

Dostoevsky’s most sustained and spirited attack on the Russian nihilist movement is voiced by one of the darkest, least sympathetic of all his characters – the nameless narrator and protagonist known as the Underground Man, revealing the hopeless dilemmas in which he lands as a result.

Notes from Underground attempts to warn people of several ideas that were gaining ground in the 1860s including: moral and political nihilism, rational egoism, determinism, utilitarianism, utopianism, atheism and what would become communism.

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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas… on the soft fibers of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires.

M.F.

Chiara + Worriedaboutsatan + Capac + Oneill Mitu.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

A.H.

Released January 28, 2022.

Written and produced by Terje Vegan
Mastered by Espen Høydalsvik at OSLO:Fuzz

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During his lifetime, Charles Bukowski produced a large, distinctive, widely beloved body of work and changed modern American writing by bringing poetry to a street level where it could be read and enjoyed by the average man.

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Shot using: Rode NT1 Condenser Microphone, 4K Video Downloader, QuickTime Screen Recording, and Sony A6300 with Vario Tessar 16-70mm Lens.

I – ILLUSION OF CHOICE
II – COMMENTARY ON THE MEDIUM
III – ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PLAYER AND ARTIFICE
IV – THE DISJOINTED NATURE OF GAMES
V – THE AMBIGUITY OF THEMATICS
VI – HOW A GAME ENDS

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