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The Makers Rage Podcast

The Makers Rage Podcast

Written by: Darren Koolman
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A podcast exploring the history of ideas and creativity with topics chosen from the Arts, Sciences, and "everything in between." Upcoming episodes will include the following titles: What Is Enlightenment, Western Canons, Accidental Genius and a series on Muses. Please feel free to suggest topics on IG, Twitter, or Facebook.

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  • Amadeus (2025): Artistic Licence or Cultural Gaslighting?
    Dec 30 2025

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    Amadeus (2025) reignites a cultural fault line: who gets to rewrite history, and who doesn’t. Using the new miniseries as a starting point, I challenge the claim that race-swapping white historical figures is “harmless artistic licence” while similar changes elsewhere are branded as propaganda.

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    8 mins
  • The Muses: Terpsichore or Dance
    Dec 29 2025

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    In this episode, I turn to Terpsichore, the Muse who delights in dance, to ask a deceptively simple question: what is dance, really? Is it ritual, seduction, discipline, freedom—or something far older than language itself?

    I trace dance from the ancient Greek chorus and mythic sirens to nightclub chaos at 2 a.m., from courtship rituals in birds to the whirling transcendence of Sufis. Along the way, dance becomes my lens for exploring imitation, sexuality, ritual, power, leisure, and culture itself—how movement encodes who we are long before we can explain it.

    Drawing on mythology, anthropology, poetry, and music history, I reflect on why dance resists capture, why it survives prohibition, and why it may be the most democratic of all the arts—requiring no instrument other than the body. From cave paintings to TikTok, from metallurgy to choreography, from Yeats to Nietzsche, Terpsichore reveals dance as both primal impulse and refined discipline: the soul clapping its hands and singing.

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    13 mins
  • New Years Resolutions: Why We Fail
    Jan 18 2025

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    In this episode, I explore why most New Year’s resolutions fail. Happy New Year! :D

    #NewYearsResolutions #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Motivation #Mindfulness #Habits #MakersRagePodcast

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    9 mins
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