Thoughtrave is the immediate and most detailed archive of Lady Gaga’s emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual evolution, a reclaiming of her art (and humanity) from within the center of her celebrity during one of the most difficult transitions of her career: Summer 2013–Fall 2014.
Lady Gaga: I don’t like being used to make money. I feel sad when I am overworked and that I just become a money making machine and that my passion and my creativity take a backseat. That makes me unhappy. So, what did I do? I started to say no. Not doing that. I don’t want to do that. I’m not taking that picture. Not going to that event. Not standing by that because that’s not what I stand for.
Thoughtrave marks perhaps the most important (and unconditional, unpublished, unencumbered) insights into the music industry, the personal battles that accompanied her transition from Stefani to Gaga. “It’s one of those rare moments in life when you ask a question of someone you’ve admired for many years and receive the most honest of answers leading both people into a relationship that was and remains one of the most important of my life,” says Baum, a professor, producer, composer, writer, editor, and activist for adjunct professors. As Baum explains to Stefani in one of the many interviews published here for the first time,
Robert Craig Baum: It’s uncanny for me to look back at 2008–2011 — when I was intensely meditating on the problem “Why is there any being at all?” — to find evidence of your intervention here with me…to find you, back then…before I knew you. It was almost as if I was playing the Bruce Willis character in Twelve Monkeys, overshooting my mark in time/space, aiming for this particular conversation but speaking through Ereignis (life gives) to a moment I (and many others) call “headphones on.”
As George Elerick writes in his Introduction to the book, “In Hand-to-Hand Battle for the Users,” "The book you hold in your hands easily falls into the category of a transgression. It’s as though we are breaking into somewhere we are not meant to be (like a rave) and are invited into the mind of one of today’s musical geniuses. Maybe we can even equivocate the experience to that of being a member of the paparazzi. Their whole mode of employment is based on breaking social codes and entering into the lives of everyday-people-turned-rock-stars. That’s what this book is, a disruptive invitation to break into the life and mind of Lady Gaga, the person, not just the persona."

Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga

Gaga, Lady

Baum, Robert Craig

Biographies & Memoirs

Punctum Books

This is an aporetic text, one which presents ways of hearing (and speaking from within) the silence of being-an offering that continues to ask Heidegger's essential question, "Why is there any being at all?" Itself challenges us to get over ourselves so we can finally start thinking and living without the melodramatic longings for metaphysical unity. From within this space of infinite possibilities, Baum offers formidable readings of Heidegger's "The Turning" and later works as well as timely remixes of continental philosophy. He also retraces ereignis to show how being reveals itself to itself (a double negation) on its own terms, disclosing an aggressive infiltration of the Cartesian cogito to show how itself gives (life). DJ-like drop beats and whole interludes discuss media and popular culture in a way that moves the discussion of ereignis beyond the confines of yet another Heidegger study toward an intense meditation designed to radicalize philosophy (itself). Advanced praise for Itself: "Robert Craig Baum delivers a dense, difficult, and feisty takedown of key philosophical concepts that define our modernity and beleaguer ethical certitudes; a dazzling argument follows from the critically targeted title that carries the book." - Avital Ronell, New York University and European Graduate SchoolRobert Craig Baum is one of the few next generation thinkers who are  attempting comprehensive and meaningful Philosophy. This strong debut monograph evidences the underpinnings of his ontology, philosophical anthropology, and the lineage of his engagement with the Continental tradition. Positioned as a seminal text, it will become essential reading as Baum continues to unfold not only his thinking, but manifests a mature and full engagement with the broad cultural uncertainty which confronts us all in the coming decades."  - Matthew Steven Carlos, Oxford UniversityAbout the author: Robert Craig Baum is a philosopher from Long Island, New York. He holds degrees from The Catholic University of America, Dartmouth College, and the European Graduate School. Dr. Baum lives in Vermont with his wife and four boys.Special offer:armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/Data/2011.02/2409/24091159.955.html Enjoy the free Itself "Search-A-Word" at the Armored Penguin!

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