Urbanomic

Urbanomic is a publisher and arts organization based in the UK. Our aims are: to act as an advocate for philosophical thinking as a creative practice, and for the continuing cultural importance of philosophy; to support research activities addressing crucial issues that do not fall under any one discipline or practice; to present to the public the results of that research, and an insight into the research process itself, through a variety of media; to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production.

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Episodes

Swarmachines Rewind

Unheard since its 1996 ‘performance’ at a conference at The Hacienda in Manchester, this recently rediscovered cassette tape of the audio version of ‘Swarmachines’, with the voices of Sadie Plant, Angus Carlyle, Mark Fisher, and Nick Land machinically integrated with some premium mid-90s jungle, is a very early production of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU). The text is available in Urbanomic’s collection #Accelerate. More details: https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/swarmachines-rewind...

Sep 29, 2019•42 min

The Spinal Landscape

In this epic osteogeographical podcast recorded entirely on location, we go back to the future and take a tour around Cornwall with author Thomas Moynihan to discuss his book Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History. In the last section Shaun Lewin joins us at Plymouth station to talk railway spines, worms, and vultures. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/spinal-catastrophism/ This is followed by a recording of the launch event in London in October 2019. Full details here : https://www.urbanomic.com/p...

Sep 01, 2019•4 hr 38 min

Unsound Methods

Audio Trailer for the book ‘Audint—Unsound : Undead’, edited by Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, and Eleni Ikoniadou, published by Urbanomic. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/unsoundundead/ Track listing here: https://www.urbanomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unsoundmethods.pdf

Apr 12, 2019•25 min

Deep Assignments: A Ballardian Mix

Exclusive Applied Ballardianism soundscape compiled by Philip Sanderson and mixed by DJ Huysmans. Created for the Ballardian Breakfast Briefing 21 July 2018 https://www.urbanomic.com/event/ballardian-breakfast-briefingmidnight-seance/

Jul 21, 2018•1 hr 2 min

DJ Huysmans: Hyperplastic/Supernormal - Marlowe Birthday Mix

Synthetic Fundamentalism for 4-year olds and damaged adults

Dec 09, 2016•1 hr 11 min

Songs of Labour and Pleasure

An idiosyncratic mixtape based on an impromptu listening seminar held at Labour Camp, part of Paul Chaney’s Critical Camps series at Kestle Barton, traces the relationship between work and eroticism through popular song. More details at https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/songs-labour-pleasure/

Jul 10, 2016•45 min

Archipelagic Listening: Interview with François J. Bonnet

François J. Bonnet talks about ‘The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago’, his book on the philosophy of sound and listening, explaining the motivation behind its examination of modes of listening and its mapping of plural sonic ontologies, and expanding on some of the concepts he introduces in order to take account of the ‘schizological’ nature of sound. The podcast concludes with an exclusive track by Bonnet’s alter-ego Kassel Jaeger.

May 16, 2016•52 min

Yarncast: Robin Mackay and Paul Chaney – Field, Plot, Yarn

In this episode of Urbanomic's Yarncast series, Urbanomic director Robin Mackay and artist Paul Chaney talk about the ideas behind the project and some of the background to their work. Recorded at Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015 (www.urbanomic.com/event-uf34-details.php), and featuring in depth interviews with writers and thinkers...

Feb 02, 2015•1 hr 41 min

Yarncast: Amanda Beech - Hard Cases

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, artist Amanda Beech (www.amandabeech.com) discusses the compelling power of crime fiction, TV shows and movies, the materiality of language and image, and how her video work interrogates the subject-positions and theories of knowledge and power embedded in these popular narratives. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015 (ww...

Feb 01, 2015•56 min

Yarncast: Eyal Weizman – Forensics and Counter-Forensics

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, architect and theorist Eyal Weizman discusses his Forensic Architecture project (http://www.forensic-architecture.org/), and explains why the defence of victims of state violence demands a counterforensics that introduces new types of evidence, new modes of intervention, and operates outside the courtroom, generating new public forums. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Ya...

Feb 01, 2015•53 min

Yarncast: Allison Evans – From Fact Patterns to Plots

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, creative consultant Allison Evans tells us about her work developing and preparing visual presentations for the courtroom, transforming facts into a compelling plot that will bring the jury on side. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015 (http://www.urbanomic.com/event-uf34-details.php), and featuring in depth interviews wi...

Feb 01, 2015•50 min

Yarncast: Benedict Singleton – Plots, Platforms, and Sinister Designs

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, strategist Benedict Singleton (www.benedictsingleton.com) discusses the longstanding suspicion of design as a practice of illicit manipulation, the concept of the trap, and the difference between plots and plans. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015 (http://www.urbanomic.com/event-uf34-details.php), and featuring in depth...

Feb 01, 2015•42 min

Yarncast: Henry Turner – The Stage and the Diagram

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, Professor Henry Turner, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630, discusses how the modern concept of ‘plot’ emerged during the early modern era in the theatre, where playwrights such as Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker inhabited an artisanal milieu galvanized by the popular diffusion of practical geometry. Yarncast is a aeries of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research reside...

Feb 01, 2015•1 hr 6 min

Yarncast: Gunnar Staalesen – Noir in Ultima Thule

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, Norwegian crime writer Gunnar Staalesen, creator of the private detective Varg Veum (www.vargveum.no) discusses his career, how plots are constructed, and the influence of Norway, and especially his hometown of Bergen, on his brand of ‘nordic noir.’ With readings by Staalesen from the English-language translations of his Varg Veum novels. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate...

Feb 01, 2015•51 min

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