I've got a new show with Alex Degen! It's basically Calling All Units with another, funnier guy there who knows more. It's about everything! It's just 45 minutes! We've got jokes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-yukio-mishima-coup-attempt-pizza-mix/id1614211468?i=1000555195626 https://sites.libsyn.com/404090/3-yukio-mishima-coup-attempt-pizza-mix https://open.spotify.com/episode/42mhO88UZc47ETkAsopEPf?si=76304ecd7d064821...
“But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder.” - Michel Foucault Sponsor: subnormality.ca email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com
The Wonder Of It All continues to stagger along but I've got a more regular, more focused podcast you might be interested in. twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook.com/comeinallunits allunits.libsyn.com http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/all-units?refid=stpr http://pca.st/xD1W https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/all-units/id1241776225
I talk about Twin Peaks and tv recaps. Yes, even here you aren't safe from Twin Peaks.
How making your own condiments can make you incrementally better at cooking in general with no lesson that can be applied to life in general.
I examine Ian Bogost's Atlantic article Video Games Are Better Without Stories and ask the all-important question: whose mans is this?
(AKA Interior Crocodile Alligator:The Cultural Rot Of Mystery Science Theater)
I talk about Accidental Death Of An Anarchist and Death By Hanging and, in the process, harp on about the prison of language once again.
I talk about the Resident Evil movies for 45 minutes. Sorry.
I'm joined by Brandon Soderberg to discuss his article Heroes in depth. It's a good idea to read the article before listening to this episode http://www.citypaper.com/news/features/bcpnews-heroes-20170103-htmlstory.html
Relying on trees to accept that the axe handle is one of their own
I talk about Stanley Elkin's novel The Dick Gibson Show before giving out about young people until my voice starts to give way.
I talk about 1973 film Executive Action.
I talk about two documentaries that roughly revolve around elections.
With the Great @hipped "The talkie, with the Depression, cast the world back into the blind hole. Each new film reproduces the effect of Hallelujah, threatens us with depression, with panic and can at best show us nothing more than those who escape from it, the last to have reached climax just before the deluge. The talkie dumped us back into the most sinister part of the Judeo-Christian con-game. It is the end of a fraternity." - Jean-Jacques Abrahams, Fuck The Talkies
With the great Brandon Soderberg ( https://twitter.com/notrivia ) “There is no life on the earth without the dead in the earth.”— Veljko Petrovic, The Earth
with the great @funkyassdg It can’t hurt you, so what are you getting excited about? You’re a skeleton; nothing hurts a skeleton. —Jakov Lind, 1962
"The crookedness of the Darkness was lack of perception, namely the illusion that there is no one above him." - Gnostic Scriptures, The Paraphrase of Shem
"You realize that to experience the projected figures on the movie theater screen as life-size involves the reduction of your own body to the size of a doll, while with television, conversely, you must mentally blow yourself up to the size of a giant to account for the minuscule scale of the figures on the small screen" - Mike Kelley
"If, for the first machine age, the preferred metaphor for the house was industrial, a “machine for living in”, the second machine age would perhaps privilege the medical: the house as at once prosthesis and prophylactic. In the Corbusian ‘home of man’ technology took the form of more or less benign ‘object-types’ and perfectly controlled environments… The line between nature and machine, between organic and inorganic, seemed crystal clear… Now, the boundaries between organic and inorganic, blur...
"To represent is already a murder." —Georges Bataille, 1952
with the great Mairead (@20000TinyJars) "Puppets, mannequins, waxworks, automatons, dolls, painted scenery, plaster casts, dummies, secret clockworks, mimesis and illusion: all form a part of the fetishist’s magic and artful universe. Lying between life and death, animated and mechanic, hybrid creatures and creatures to which hubris gave birth, they all may be liked to fetishes. And, as fetishes, they give us, for a while, the feeling that a world not ruled by our common laws does exist, a marve...
With the great Neil Bahadur http://nbahadur.tumblr.com/ "The humility of his pain made me feel ashamed. In order to leave him without remorse I insulted him. I was able to do so since he loved me to the point of devotion. He gave me a woebegone look, but it was charged with a poor wretch's hatred" - Jean Genet, Thief's Journal
"Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. Both enhance and protect life, yet both can stifle, lay waste, spread out of all control. Both may be used to guard intimacy or to invade it, to nurture or to consume it." - Sissella Bok, 1982
"There had been blood. Money and blood. All shoptalk, all expertise had a quality of battle about it, of exultation in the escape from danger. Something was always at stake, every moment you lived. No one could ever really afford to tell the truth. Even after hours, when the store was closed. But sometimes the truth was so good you couldn’t keep it to yourself" - Stanely Elkin, A Bad Man
"... consider how the female body is made to materialize monstrous qualities by systems of power claiming knowledge of its corporeal signs, how these monstrous qualities are marked as secrets, and how these monstrous secrets become a commodity to be dispensed within these same systems of power. " - Sarah Allison Miller, Medieval Monstrosity and The Female
"Pain seems to play a part in the process, and the way in which we gain new knowledge of our organs during painful illnesses is perhaps a model of the way by which in general we arrive at the idea of our own body" - Freud, The Ego And The Id
"...the menace is more stimulating when you're not confronting it up close" - Kathe Kollwitz
"But seriousness commands us to recognize that it’s the multitude of laws that is responsible for this multitude of crimes." - Marquis de Sade
"Waving his arms about, slowly. The music’s getting hotter. He stares out over his arm, half in the dark, he looks, his look is, incredibly intense. The fire comes back faint, then stronger. He seems to be wavering on the spot, half hunched-up, his arms close in to his chest. It’s like he’s doing some strange dance but he can’t quite balance" - Fionna Banner, The Nam
