Diaries with Debby Friday

talking about art vs entertainment, industry and its economic structures, rupture, Mark Carney, truth, beauty, Hannah Arendt,  Theodor Adorno, why the artist must be a thinker, Simone Weil, and moreeee. --------------------------- Cover Image: Dallas, Texas, USA, 1981 (photography by Alex Webb) Intro Music By: Por Una Cabeza - 4Cellists Mark Carney Davos Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBkNX1-cbg Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127226.Between_Past_and_Future Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85812.Dialectic_of_Enlightenment FKA twigs on falling in love with techno and the pressures of performing https://youtu.be/HqK6tW_KGws?si=z5rVp-kRQIzxoQD2 Love in The Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36095488-love-in-the-void ---------------------------------- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about logging off, being online, history of the internet, in-between-ness, TikTok, Solvej Balle's "On The Calculation of Volume I", unreality, social media, time loops and moreeeee. ------------------------------- Cover Photo: https://pin.it/5rYiwdhyD Music: Lady Macbeth - Justin Allan Arnold Alex Beightol (on Tik Tok) https://www.tiktok.com/@abaetol On The Calculation Of Volume I by Solvej Balle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208511270-on-the-calculation-of-volume-i ---------------------------- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about finding meaning, the development of the soul, potential, unreality, work and labour, David Graeber, financialization, abstraction, the AI economy, Simone Weil, and how to make your work the work of your life, etc. ------- Music: The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Artwork: https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/25614291624353854/   Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt   Something Ominous Is Happening In The AI Economy, written by Rogé Karma https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025/12/nvidia-ai-financing-deals/685197/   -------- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about power, fear, eros, Thanathos, that Goon Squad article, the financialization of art, everything being a casino, derivatives, abstraction, knowing thyself, AI, Marion Woodman's Addiction to Perfection, ego death, simulacra and simulation, goodness, concretizing, hope frequencies, etc. ----- texts mentioned in this episode: Addiction To Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703515.Addiction_to_Perfection "The Goon Squad" by Daniel Kolitz for Harper's Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ "The Same Stream Twice" by Rob Arcand for N+1 Magazine: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-same-stream-twice/ Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22613.Simulacra_and_Simulation Teal Swan, "How To Get Over The Fear Of Responsibility": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmI6ubZEB9U ----- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about being an outsider, social rejection, difference as a gift, Madonna, Carl Jung, Marion Woodman, the parable of the talents, taking responsibility for your life, healing as an act of service, and hope frequencies, ofc. ----- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about definitions of slop, nihilism, the Charlie Kirk spectacle, internet and technology, Rudolf Steiner, Mark Fisher, complexity, hope frequencies, fear, entropy, alternative politics, etc. ----- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about pressure, transformation, suffering as fuel, answering The Call, superposition and quantum mechanics, making a choice, Sartre, letting go, and some updates about my own pivot. ---- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about stuck culture, mimetic madness, human design, the death of monoculture, resonance as the future of the arts, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Marshall McLuhan, innovation, hope frequencies, and moremoremore. ------ texts mentioned in this episode: "Clout Academy" by Katherine Dee: https://www.clunyjournal.com/cp/159136138 The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/440463.The_Gutenberg_Galaxy Feeling Is The Secret by Neville Goddard: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11485130-feeling-is-the-secret ----- substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about the fear of perception, the beauty in being misread and how to be true.