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151. - Reincarnation/Past Life Phenomena - Brad Phillips

Episode on the strange phenomena and para-psychology of reincarnation, life-after-death, and near-death experience recollection with my friend artist/writer Brad Phillips For full episodes, early releases, bonuses, links and more please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

Mar 24, 20232 hr 1 minSeason 5Ep. 151

*Preview* 150. - Iron Butterfly: The Disappearance of Polymaths - Kantbot

This is preview. For full 2 episode, archives, early releases, bonuses, links and more please consider supporting the show on Patreon. Highly entertaining episode with Kantbot of Pseudodoxology Podcast on music production, 60's heavy west-coast psych rock, library science, the history (and dissapearence) of the polymath/rennaisance man and subsequent reemergence (and redissapearence). Also included: Bayles Dictionary definition of China as Spinozist, Ramus, the Atom Question, Redefining Order in...

Mar 22, 202322 minSeason 5Ep. 150

148. - The Citadel: Gene Wolfe - M.E.S.H + DJH

Episode on the works of science-fiction writer Gene Wolfe (Fifth Head of Cerebrus, Book of the New Sun) with Jaime (M.E.S.H, Hesaitix) and 1djheroin1, as well as the noumenal paradigm and how language becomes an imposition on human perception. For all episodes, bibliographies, links, music bonuses, and more please consider supporting the show on Patreon

Mar 02, 20231 hr 57 minSeason 5Ep. 148

PREVIEW 146. - Geopoetics: Deepfakes in Deep-Time - Leszlek Stalewski

Full episode with links and bibliography up now on Patreon Can a deep fake be beautiful? Episode w/ writer Leszlek Stalewski on Chat GPT3, AI, geopoetics and how natural developments still shape our cultural landscape. Kojeve's book Incarnating Beaut y on Kandinsky and non-representational art and his view that it is 'more total and objective' than representational painting, how youth movements form (rap), why people entertain stupid new things to obtain funding, Goethe, deep-time, mineral subst...

Mar 01, 202321 minSeason 5Ep. 146

145. - A Podcast Against The Spoken Word - Ian Svenonious (The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysees)

For full 2 hour episode, archive, bonuses, and general support please consider supporting the show here Contain Interview w/ Ian Svenonious (Nation of Ulysees, The Make-Up, Escape-ism, Soft Focus) about his new book, an anti-literacy polemic entitled Against The Written Word, 'the book to end all books'. From advocating for universal illiteracy to banning the phonetic alphabet, I.S takes us through an odyssey of the written word and all its consequences.... Lil Yachty as the new Little Richard, ...

Feb 07, 20231 hr 43 minSeason 5Ep. 145

★PREVIEW★ 144. - Spiritual S*ros: Rituals, the SCCA, and The Influencing Machine - Aaron K. Moulton

Art Curator/Anthropologist Aaron Moulton comes on to discuss how art/media can become both a vehicle for social engineering and the communication of spiritual aspirations. He details his research into the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, linked to the Open Society foundation and its introduction of Western/Neoliberal forms of artistic/social practice through the opening of 20 centers in the post-Eastern Bloc. The show he curated The Influencing Machine brings into question free will vs. determ...

Jan 27, 202334 minSeason 5Ep. 144

143. - Romance, Chivalry, Courage - Lawrence (Felt, Denim, Mozart Estate)

The elusive legend known as Lawrence (Felt, Denim, Mozart Estate), on fame, mystery, consumerism, his relationship with Martin Duffy (RIP) & Maurice Deebank, the history of Felt, cartoons, technology, how to not overexpose yourself, creating your own world, his three elements to cherish, the concept behind his new project Mozart Estate, & more. ‘I want to prove that being famous doesn’t mean you have to be a prostitute to media.’ Recorded directly from flip phone (he doesn’t own a comput...

Jan 27, 20231 hr 7 minSeason 5Ep. 143

142. - PART 1: Action Movie Special - @mikeymdc

PT 1. : 2h40 minute quest into the world of action movies with Mikey MDC , from Heroic Bloodshed to Hong Kong Vengeance, everything from Barb Wire starring Pam Anderson to Sammo Hung to Future Kill and The Transporter to the Cinema du Look of The Professional. Examining the role action movies & representations of violence provide in an increasingly tedious, discursive, & pro-social cultural landscape. The militaristic boosts of Black Hawk Down to the propaganda of the China Film Group Co...

Jan 13, 20231 hr 20 minSeason 5Ep. 142

140. - Survivance / Did The CIA Fund Good Art - Dominique Althoff

w/ Ojibwe musician & researcher Dominique Althoff of Black Seed Journal on indigenous post-nihilism, going from prison to UC Berkeley, and the question of whether the CIA contributed to good art... #Political assassinations, code talking, Peter Matthiessen, the Paris Review, and the CIA, Ghost Dance origins of Wounded Knee, the 1880 outlawing of ceremonial gift-giving, Black Twilight Circle, the Scorpions’ ‘Wind of Change’...Gerald Vizenor & Survivance, what would Adorno say about hyperp...

Dec 27, 20221 hr 24 minSeason 5Ep. 140

PREVIEW 138. Geology Talk (Leibniz's Unicorn) - Kylie White - 1st 30

This is a preview, for full 2 hrs, please consider supporting the project here Episode w/ artist/researcher Kylie White on archeology, unicorns: are they real?, Goethe's volcanic explorations and its role in Faust, Plutonism vs. Neptunism: who really won?, a Leibnizian rebuttal of Deep Geological Time, Scene Revival: a psy*p?, John Duns Scotus the post-naturalist, how James Hutton was the 18th century's version of Steven Pinker, why people are tearing each other down so much right now, uniformit...

Dec 26, 202229 minSeason 5Ep. 138

137. Theory of a Short-Wave Trend - Olivia Kan Sperling

Theory of a Short-Wave Trend with author of Island Time and Paris Review editor Olivia Kan Sperling. Is newness a natural function of the idealized image of desire or the economy? The post-historical aesthetic of Balenciaga (giving way to recent controversies), computer programming: the language of the other, learning to code, the stylized relationship to the self (from BAP to Instagram), fashion's use of theory language, Island Time, Sarah Fucking Snyder, Technometry, long-wave trends, Lacan, t...

Dec 05, 20221 hr 59 minSeason 5Ep. 137

☑️PREVIEW ☑️ 136. Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld - Byung Chul Han w/ Emmalea

Full episode up on 🔔 Patreon 🔔 'We no longer inhabit the earth and dwell under the sky'. 'Information and data develop a form of life that has no stability or duration'. Episode on Byung Chul Han's recent book Non-Things (2022) w/ Emmalea Russo, a tribute to the objects that populate our world but have faded into the background of 'smart technology': jukeboxes, landline telephones, pencils, photographs, antiques, death metal cd's. Other topics: high-angle selfies, not all technology is bad, po...

Nov 29, 202239 minSeason 5Ep. 136

Poem of the River - Ian Kim Judd

w/ DJ Ian Kim Judd of Nina A look at Felt's Poem of the River (1987) and the career of Lawrence as well as Mayo Thompson, Art-Language magazine / collective, Terry Atkinson, language as art, box sets, fame, denim Unlocked, for full episodes, music and more subcribe HERE 🤡🔔

Nov 25, 20222 hr 6 minSeason 5Ep. 164

134. - Somatics - Zac Waltman / Hopper1000

Zac Waltman aka Hopper1000 (of MDE/Gothic King Cobra/89 Washes) on Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism, the origins of the Drain Aesthetic, fake Florida Hats/Redneck Americana, The Myth of Simon & Helen, Hylics & Somatics vs. World-Haters, Jung, Southern Florida + More www.patreon.com/contain

Nov 08, 20221 hr 52 minSeason 5Ep. 133

131. - Autism w/ Tao Lin

Episode on autism with author Tao Lin. For reference also read The Story of Autism: How We Got Here.

Oct 24, 20221 hr 43 minSeason 5Ep. 130

129. Wild Bitches Party - Marika Thunder PREVIEW

Interview with artist Marika Thunder, very bespoke, totally wild interview w/ lots of bespoke life experiences that should be sheltered from the world at large. Full episode here.

Oct 16, 202224 minSeason 5Ep. 129

127. Dry Talk w/ Coolwater (Return of Alex)

Alex aka Coolwater is back from seasons 1 + 2 for this very special episode of season 1 shock-collar therapy unhinged rants: Social Dynamic Hackers, TPot/Effective Altruism Burning Man AI Statians, Hacking Social Dynamic Vibe Camp Elders, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Steve Cokely vs. The Black Skull & Bones, Marketing Bros, Technometry, Maga Communism, Right Wing Pick-Me's, BRICS, Nathan Felder's Low IQ , All About Lily Chou-Chou, Walter Breen, Lars Von Trier's Manderlay + Samuel Beckett closed the...

Sep 26, 20222 hr 25 minSeason 5Ep. 127

PREVIEW 126. Metadata, Geology, and Mormonism: American Utopian Experiments 2 - Ben Sang

After a short break to end last year’s run of shows we’re back with Ben Sang to talk Mormanism as a continuation of the American Utopia Series and the outgrowth of the offsite art movement in 2022. We go into the history of the Plutonist vs. Neptunist school of geology/volcanology and the life of Dolamieau, international playboy and geologist who inspired the blacksploitation movie Dolomite and was a member of Knights of Malta. Other topics: Archival Art, Nicholas Luhmen's Cybernetic Theory, Ang...

Sep 23, 202231 minSeason 5Ep. 126

Ep. 125: Mycelium Casket w/ Elusin

Rare interview with singer/songwriter/artist Elusin on the North Sea, Norwegian folklore: crusaders, trolls/gnomes, skin walkers, Jarl of Orkney, Cathines & Sutherland, recent USA tour, the LED lightbulb deception, and more. A classic episode. Listen to Elusin's music here

Aug 30, 20222 hr 16 minSeason 4Ep. 125

Ep. 144 *Preview*: Recessionmaxxing pt. 2-American Utopia w/ Ed Berg

Pt. 2 3 hr episode on Utopia and Crisis with Ed Berger ( Pseudodoxology podcast ) brushes on the history of American Utopian Communities (Mormons, Labadists, Owenites, Catholic E-Girls), their failures and successes, and long wave economic patterns…Carlota Perez, Techno Economic Paradigms, Alfred Sohn Rethel (Real Abstraction) and Finance Punk, the delinking of Gold from the Dollar, epic road trips, Plato & Deleuze, the eternal 1970’s, Apocalyptic Fantasies, the decadence movement…Ed introdu...

Aug 30, 202232 minSeason 4Ep. 144

*Preview* Ep. 123: Bring Back Games Workshop w/ Swan Meat

Preview, for full episode Concept episode w/ Honky Tonk ambience centering on Sound Design, the 80’s-90’s Loudness Wars, Psychoacoustics, theatrics, Warhammer 40k, hardcore, Jimmy Page, dynamic range with sludgecore innovator recorded at Sam’s Town Point…Up Now 🏜🎛🎚

Aug 15, 202224 minSeason 4Ep. 123

Ep. 122: All That's Solid Melts Into Air w/ Matt Shaw

Episode about modern architecture w/ Matt Shaw (Architects Newspaper, SCI-Arc). Dubai, Megadevelopments, Hudson Yards, Foucalt’s Boomerang, Modernism & Folk Architecture, Special Economic Zones, Charles Moore, Disneyland, High Modernism, Exuberance of Color, global vs. local, Displacement of the Space and the self, the post-critical era, trying to create progress, early modernism and transparency, the internet is what realized the avant-garde (Groys), Dreams of Space, forensics, Marshall Ber...

Aug 12, 20221 hr 22 minSeason 4Ep. 122

★PREVIEW★Ep.121: Shooter Recovery w/ Zach Emmanuel

For full episode and access to the show's archive please consider supporting here Zach Emmanuel has explored the fringes of American life through his journalism for the mainstream press before working independently. From interviewing prison gangs to campaigning and doing the last John McAffee interview, the man has had some wild experiences. Other topics: Expert of the Card Table (Bernays) and the social matrix, Lake Chad and the greening of the Sahara/climate change, Gucci Mane, Native Ghost St...

Aug 12, 202221 minSeason 4Ep. 121

Ep. 120: Recessionmaxxing w/ Ed Berg

Wide-ranging 3 hr episode w/ research god and Pseudodoxology cohost Ed Berg on all things recession: reevaluating the declining rate of profit, learning how to repair stuff, exotica music, time abolishment, Baudrillard's America, post-Marxism, Desert Islands, Americana, The Great Reset, Promis Software, cornucopia, Cyborg w/ Jean Claude Van Damme as a cinematic masterpiece, production vs. commodity capitalism, retrocausality, melting in the sun, vibe-trutherism, the 2008 financial crisis, the Ch...

Jul 31, 20222 hr 59 minSeason 4Ep. 120

Ep. 119: Nadaa w/ Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix (PART 1)

Guest Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy: a conversation on religion's role in art today: a trend, or beyond? The Overton window shift, being 'polarizing' outside of exterior cultural situations, on asceticism vs. pleasure-seeking, fabulism, accelerationism, trad, animism, Friedrich Schiller, automation, chaos magic, finding your own morality/(agency), Vajrayana, & more. Very nice to talk with someone who has a very different outlook than my own. Hunter's first solo show can be viewed at...

Jul 18, 202229 minSeason 4Ep. 119

The Disappearance of Rituals: pt. 3 Summer w/ Emmalea Russo

Why do ideas that seemed radical just 6 months ago seem so played out now? Does repetition yield new becomings or burnout? Rituals can be an answer to the production of the self and the excessive search for trends and novelty. Rituals bring closure while stabilizing life and allow it to flourish. We look at all this through Byung Chul Han’s The Disappearance of Rituals, Werner Schroeter’s adaptation of the book Malina, and Desert Islands by Giles Deleuze… We’re hanging out on Easter Island heads...

Jul 13, 20222 hr 6 minSeason 4Ep. 118
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