awareness of time itself. Chopin uses changes in time signature to this effect in his Nocturnes and so does Radiohead in "Pyramid Song." Both are drenched in feelings of nostalgia and a burgeoning awareness of our existence in time. By disturbing the regular rhythms we are accustomed to feeling in our everyday lives, these peculiar, otherworldly works demand that we sit up and take account of the experiences of our lives as embedded in time. This has been a major focus of philosophical phenomenology. Philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and others have struggled to specify exactly how and in what ways time affects our lives and our understanding and experience of ourselves.

Against the conventional view that we simply live _through_ time as disconnected observers (likein _The Differend_ , "What assurance is there that humans will become more cultivated than they are?" (p. 181). None, but you can be optimistic.

#  **You're Living in a Fantasy World**

The postmodernism lurking in _Kid A_ is not articulated only by Lyotard. The last four songs of the album, "In Limbo," "Idioteque," "Morning Bell," and "Motion Picture Soundtrack," connect to the writings of another French postmodern thinker, Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). With "In Limbo," for example, we take a step from Lyotard toward Baudrillard by being immersed in distorted vocals, layers of sounds and effects that again point to Lyotard's conception of a postmodern message without an addressee, "I got a message I can't read." The song's chorus declares, "You're living in a fantasy world," and repeats this