{"id":1412,"date":"2006-12-01T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2017-08-13T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:12:22","slug":"solipsistic-nation-no-14-defcember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/solipsistic-nation-no-14-defcember\/","title":{"rendered":"solipsistic NATION No. 14: DEFcember"},"content":{"rendered":"

People sometimes ask me what\u2019s the story behind the name solipsistic NATION<\/b>. I first came across the phrase \u201cSolipsistic Nation\u201d in Greg Egan<\/a>\u2018s book, Permutation City<\/a><\/i>. In the book, there are two characters who inhabit a digital universe, and because they can create and recreate their world and identities, they were truly solipsistic beings who led existential lives.<\/p>\n

You can really lose yourself in the rhythms and sounds of electronic music. It\u2019s often a faceless genre, so to some degree you can interpret the music as you like. Electronic music can both be a communal form of music and a form of individual expression. Hence, the name Solipsistic Nation. Plus, it just sounds so damn cool!<\/p>\n