Between Mythic Zones – Japan, Campbell and the Problem of Cultural Understanding
When I visited Japan in November 2025, travelling through Nagoya and Osaka, I did not feel that I was simply moving through another country. I […]
Japanese Indie, Rock and The Feeling Of Passing Through
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-05-20-Mixdown.mp3This Distraction Therapy mix moves through Japanese indie, rock, alternative pop and electronic-adjacent music as a sequence of thresholds. It is not a strict genre […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Quiet Thresholds
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-05-16-Mixdown.mp3This music mix episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds less as a sequence of songs than as a slow passage through altered emotional weather. The tracks […]
Distraction Therapy – Structures of Sentiment in Contemporary Japanese Sound
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-05-12-Mixdown.mp3I’ve been listening to a lot of Japanese music lately, so this mix is less a playlist than a map of emotional atmosphere. The tracks […]
Myth Bearers – Beyond Identity
Much of our public language now begins with identity. We ask who people are by naming the categories to which they belong. We speak of […]
Protectors, Promoters, and the Psychology of Social Balance
But protection and security are only valuable when not excessively cramping to our existence: and in the same way the superiority of consciousness is desirable […]
Beyond Ideology – Idealisation, Empathy, and the Collective Psyche in the Digital Age
The recent Beyond Gender conversation with Gurwinder Bhogal is ostensibly about social media, attention, addiction, and political contagion. Yet beneath the immediate discussion lies a […]
Feeling Is Not Just Emotion – Jung, Popular Culture, and the Drama of Human Valuation
What do we usually mean when we say that someone is “a feeling person”? In ordinary speech, we often mean that they are emotionally expressive, […]
When Empathy Becomes an Orthodoxy in Gender Identity Discussions
The recent Beyond Gender podcast discussion with Jasmin Faulk, Stella O’Malley, and Bret Alderman raises an important question about how empathy, and its corollary protection, […]
Distraction Therapy – Constellations of Meaning, Youth, and the Unlived Psyche with Dr Bret Alderman
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-04-06-Mixdown.mp3There are conversations that move in straight lines, and there are conversations that circle, return, and deepen. This discussion between Rob Watson and Dr Bret […]