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This week, DP heads south. South to Chile — a nation which ended its military junta and dictatorship through an advertising-powered referendum just as the Cold War was ending. Could there be material that's more End of History in its politics?
Chilean director Pablo Larraín [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Larra%C3%ADn] seemed to think not — producing his 2012 feature No [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_(2012_film)] — half as a celebration of the 1988 presidential referendum's ousting of General Pinochet, and half as a satirical send-up of the growth of political communications through advertising.
What happens when politics is stripped of its substance and rendered as a performative set of vibes?
Find out in today's episode.
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After a year, your hosts are ready to wrap Gen X. Season One is at a close. What did we learn about the self-professedly forgotten generation? What has Banksy to do with the spirit of the age? And, most importantly we answer the question that started it all: how did the dirty girls end up in the K-Hive?
DPP is back, baby — and this time for an encore. Chase and Sam thought they'd round out the season — find a 'capstone', if you will — for the last year. That pediment takes the form of Chris Smith's fly-on-the-wall documentary American Movie (1999).
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