The show charts the struggles and revelations of your narrator’s journey through the world of online radio and offline health care provision. Asking: Who or what shapes our thoughts? Join us to listen to a year long process of cultural and spiritual journalism from sub_ʇxǝʇ’s Alex Head.

In the United States everyone loves ‘Obamacare’ providing you refer to it by a different name. In the UK people love the idea of Obamacare though they have no idea what it means or entails or how it works. There, in a country where healthcare is rapidly falling to private health workers, small companies and other alternatives, a deep sense of paranoia concerning the quality and appropriateness of a given form of medicine has only just begun. But can broadcasting banish our woes? Connecting the dots that make up a diagnosis in the sick bay of Spaceship Earth. Could online radio be the answer to your ailment?

#Obamacare #Healthcare #Narcissism #HolographicKinetics #Healing #Medicine #Music #Culture #SunRa #AlessandroBosetti #PJHarvey

Samples and Tracklist:

Sounds recorded with Zoot Lynam in London, Chris Peck in Bristol and from Mike Nelson’s works - The Deliverance and The Patience, and I, IMPOSTER - at the Hayward Gallery show Extinction Beckons earlier in 2023.
Hum Ghar Sajan - Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo
Sun Ra - Somebody Else's World (a.k.a. Somebody Else's Idea)
The Muckrake Podcast
Front Line by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott
Joshua Oppenheimer interview concerning his work The Act of Killing
mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/custo…MedievalLibrary.php
A Chris Morris sketch
Pj Harvey - Before Departure
DISORDER LAND - How to be an ADHD Boss - with Dr. Ayesha Khan & Jesse Meadows
Jared Yates Sexton speaking to Karl Folk of Weaponised Unreality on the Muckrake Podcast
Last words from Vanessa Kisuule

In this special show Alex Head meets author, broadcaster, historian and commentator Jared Yates Sexton (US). They discuss everything from the current decline of the British way of life to toxic masculinity, algorithmically governed culture, conspiracy theorist useful idiots and more.

 Sexton’s recent work in print, The Midnight Kingdom, is available on Penguin Random House.



Audio composition: Alex Head


Programme artwork: Bread Line by Clare Leighton, New York, 1932

Catching up with minimalist percussionist Bex Burch, Alex Head visits her new studio…

The long awaited second publication from artist, researcher and radio producer Alex Head: Ricochet - Cultural Epigenetics and the Philosophy of Change (Ljå Forlag, Oslo), launches on sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. The term ‘ricochet’ is a means to discuss unintended consequences, rapidly delivered information and viral outbreaks, but it is also used to describe the way in which sound echoes or reverberates against objects in space. As the saying goes, genetics loads the gun and the environment pulls the trigger. Initiated during the return of politicised radical hatred across the globe in 2017, the author set out to understand how Far Right ideas had begun to mutate. What he discovered throws light on mechanisms of cultural imperialism and hegemony that stretch all the way back to the Fertile Crescent of 12,000 before the common era (bce), with consequences for the urban environments of future and current generations.