Title Page -- 1 Step -- Anyone Can Play Philosophy. -- 1. - Is Radiohead the Pink Floyd of the Twenty-First Century? -- The Band Is Just Phenomenological -- Creeping toward Phenomenology -- Standing on the Edge and Looking Underneath -- Subterranean Homesick Technology -- Everything Is Not OK, Computer -- Who Are Your Real Friends? -- Where Pink Floyd Ends and Radiohead Begins -- 2. - Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop -- 3. - All the Argument We Need -- Arguing without Argument -- All I Need: All about the World -- You're Living in a Fantasy World, This Beautiful World -- 4. - Radiohead and Some Questions about Music -- Radiohead and Rock Music -- What Is Music? -- Music: Emotion or Form? -- Are Musical Experiences Universal? -- Art and Belief. -- 5. - New Shades -- Meeting in the Abject -- I Wish I Was Special but I'm Abject -- You Have Turned Me into This -- Pull/Pulk Abject Doors -- Where I End and You Begin -- How to Disappear Completely -- Not Another Brick in the Wall -- Rise and Shine It's On Again Off Again -- 6. - Why Such Sad Songs? -- OK Catharsis -- Exit Music for a Story -- Emotion in Its Right Place -- This Just Feels (and Sounds) Like Spinning Plates -- Baby's Got the Purgation -- You Can't Be Bulletproof -- Where Tragedy Ends and Community Begins -- 7. - "The Eraser": Start Making Sense -- Intelligence Gathering -- Playing a Part versus Giving Voice -- Against Self-Legitimation -- Profanity Prayers -- Don't Turn Away -- Ideology and Idolatry -- There Are No Unrelated Phenomena -- Radiohead and the Music Industry. -- 8. - Taking the Sting Out of Environmental Virtue Ethics -- Kid Akrasia -- Wake Up (Morning Bell) -- Fitter Happier Emitting Carbon Dioxide in Moderation -- This Is Really Happening (So Do Something) -- 9. - We (Capitalists) Suck Young Blood -- Six Fluffy Wee Rabbits -- We Want Sweet Meats -- We Suck Young Blood.

Crack Your Little Soul -- C-M-C Music Factory -- 10. - Everybody Hates Rainbows -- House of Cards -- Jigsaw Falling into Place -- Reckoner -- Up on the Ladder -- Go Slowly -- Radiohead's Existential Politics. -- 11. - Nietzsche, Nihilism, and "Hail to the Thief" -- The Lukewarm -- Let Me Hear Both Sides -- Pull the Last Humans Out of the Aircrash -- Hail to the Over Humans -- Where the Over Humans Begin -- Brush the Cobwebs from the Sky, Let the Genie Out from the Bottle -- 12. - The Real Politics in Radiohead -- This One's Optimistic -- What You'll Get when You Mess with Us -- Why It Really Hurts -- We Are Born Again -- Sing Us a Song -- Somewhere We Will Meet -- How to Misunderstand Politics Completely -- 13. - The Impossible Utopias in "Hail to the Thief" -- White People for Peace -- The Sky Is Falling In -- Don't Get Any Big Ideas-They're Not Gonna Happen -- Back to the Future -- Hope at the Door -- 14. - Where Power Ends and Violence Begins -- I Am Born Again -- They Do It to Yourself -- We Can Wipe You Out Anytime -- Go and Tell the Thief that the Sky Is Falling In -- The Fear Is Holding On -- Rising Up -- 15. - Evil and Politics in "Hail to the Thief" -- Getting All Literal -- Who Is This Devil in Disguise? -- The Most Gigantic Truthful Mouth of All Time -- The Self and Politics -- Thinking in Rainbows -- Radiohead, Heidegger, and Technology. -- 16. - The Mutilation of Voice in "Kid A" (Or, My John Mayer Problem) -- Surprises and Alarms -- Kid A, Heidegger, and the Question of Technology -- Making Sense by Not Making Sense -- At Ease -- 17. - Why a Rock Band in a Desolate Time? -- Aliens Hover -- Everything Is Broken -- Open Up Your Skull -- Nice Dream -- They Fed Us on Little White Lies -- Back to Save the Universe -- Starting and then Stopping -- This Machine Will Not Communicate -- This Is the Panic Office -- I Feel My Luck Could Change.

If You Think that You're Strong Enough . . . -- 18. - The Signature of Time in "Pyramid Song" -- Rhythm and Time Signatures -- Time Signature and Mood in Chopin -- Temporality -- Knives Out -- 19. - Fitter Happier Rolling a Large Rock Up a Hill -- Up Above, Alienation Hovers -- Kid Absurdity -- Pull Me Out, or Leave Me In, the Aircrash -- Phew, for a Minute There, I Lost Myself in Technology -- A Large Rock Saved My Life -- Radiohead and the Postmodern. -- 20. - "Kid A" as a Musing on the Postmodern Condition -- What Was That You Tried to Say? -- Epigones in Their Right Place -- Dissecting National Anthems -- This One's Optimistic -- You're Living in a Fantasy World -- Today I Woke Up Sucking a Grammy -- 21. - Hyperreally Saying Something -- I Wish I Was Special -- No Chance of Escape -- This Just Feels Like Spinning Plates -- Then a Sheer Drop -- This Isn't Happening -- How to Reappear Completely -- 22. - Sexier More Seductive -- Et Cetera Et Cetera -- Fifteen Steps then a Sheer Drop -- I Am Trapped in This Body and Can't Get Out -- You Paint Yourself White -- I Follow to the Edge of the Earth and Fall Off -- Your Eyes, They Turn Me -- I Am in the Middle of Your Picture -- There's No Real Reason -- The Infrastructure Will Collapse -- Kiss Your Husband Goodnight -- This Place Is on a Mission -- You Are My Center when I Spin Away -- How Come I End Up Where I Started? -- Selected chronological radiohead discography -- Where we got our big ideas -- Index (for a book) -- Copyright Page.