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What happens when two experimental music veterans go full Smashmouth?  Callahan  and  Witscher's  new album Think Differently answers just that-full of wry introspection on the conditions of music, it's value, and despite misreads by music journalists as being "irony poisoned"-comes across as uniquely sincere in a way most things don't. We talk about the album, what is the value of a critique? fle...

For full full episode, music, and to support the project subscribe Here Architect/author Matt Shaw comes on to discuss his new book American Modern on the anomaly of Columbus, Indiana: a futuristic small town designed by a who's who of architects (Saarinen, Pei, Robert Venturi, Girard) almost entirely bankrolled by progressive Christian industrialist J. Irwin Miller. This is a history of that town...

For full 6 hour episode and more deep research excursions subscribe to our Patreon Part two of the experience economy episode, this one focused on the history of experience design, the combinatorial arts, and independent value creation in order to advance some solutions to the problems politics can only scratch the surface of. Topics: the rise of Kill Tony and interactive cringe comedy, Baby Invas...

This is a preview, for full 3 hour episode: patreon.com/contain Writer/journalist James Pogue  comes on to discuss his recent stint in central Africa as it undergoes one of the biggest gold rushes in human history plus: contracting Malaria in a CAR prison and your hotel getting shot up, diamond heists, geiger counters, JD Vance and the Anti-American NatCon right, the Wagner groups activities in th...

This is a preview, full episode: patreon.com/contain Episode all about oil, maybe the most important and controversial substance in the world and how it came to dominate our history and take over our planet Abiotic oil theory, climate change, is oil fake, the origin of the term fossil fuels, did Dinosaurs even exist, artificial scarcity, Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia, 'sentient oil', Soviet Neft...

Up now on Patreon (3hr20h) 3 months in the making, we get into a century of Dropping Out, DIY, and the conditions of self-preservation featuring mathematician Alexander Groethendieck, artist Lee Lozano, Cormac McCarthy, Shelly Duvall, and Sarah Records. As public life become further cauterized some will declout, some join the Santa Fe institute, and some refuse to speak to other woman for 27 years...

Full episode here Ex Guns N' Roses/Poison manager and OG Pawn Star Howie Hubberman comes on to talk about LA in the 1980's, antiquing, Hair Metal, Power Ballads, doing 1000 pushups a day while battling cancer, Slash’s Appetite for Destruction guitar, weird music industry shenanigans, the mafia, mud wresting competitions in the valley, hustling, and more. “There’s more vehicles, but less with actua...

Continuing down the "I ain't reading all of that" interview series with a very special guest bound to be a cult household classic Dan Spencer is a musician and songwriter who released my favorite album of the year Return To Your Dark Master. He’s also a longtime Contain listener (to my surprise) and a very knowledgable and thoughtful guy who went from Mortuary school to playing the CMA country fes...

First Half, full 2 hr+ episode here ...on LARPing with artists Maggie Dunlap  and Ben Werther  and his recent show When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me A Song documenting mock high stakes environments of Military Simulation (MilSim) culture. Other topics: identity construction and the fraying of the American cultural fabric, the anonymous 14th century Christian mystical text The Cloud Of Unknowin...

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Preview, for full episodes and more subscribe here 2.5 hour rundown of one of the worlds most treasured resources—the Internet Archive—with digital archive legend Jason Scott of Internet Archive . We go in on the ins and outs of the collection and why preserving pre-online digital media matters now more than ever We discuss ripping VHS tapes of Tuvalu in the 1980’s, Rick Prelinger: saving old gove...

In this collaborative episode between Contain and Rave New World, Michelle and Barrett make it to the UCLA student protest encampment just hours before it was violently shut down by the authorities. Slipping past plywood barricades into the graffiti-bombed "liberated zone," they discover an anxious scene of protestors gearing up for a confrontation with the police, as snipers prowl the roof and po...

Me and ⁠ Ben Kellog⁠ speak with writer/director Ben Hopkins (Inside (2023) w/ Willem Dafoe, Simon Magus, Lost in Karastan) on dialogue-free scripts, armageddon, and more For full episodes, resources, and more support the project on  ⁠Patreon⁠

Interview with Corin Johnson on the unveiling of his pink marble sculpture of Lawrence (Felt, Mozart Estate) in the Fitzrovia Chapel in London and his fascinating upbringing in the Spiritualist Church.  Full premium episode on Patreon

Emmalea Russo is back to analyze the new Byung Chul Han book "In Praise of Inactivity", the 2024 content creator exodus , ethereal tiredness, and more   ***Full premium 3 hr episode on Patreon ***

Reading R. Buckminster Fuller's No More Secondhand God and seeing how it holds up in today's omnicrisis. bio : https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/biography/

New show where Barrett and Alex (Coolwater) untangle geopolitics, news, and twilight as a neo-exotica PI themed music duo.  Graphic by Anson Nguyen  Music by the  Ebenezer Group  w/ The Rockford Files  Subscribe/Support ******************************************************** Haiti, Jimmy BBQ Shevalier G9 Pierre Esperance NGOs Indigenous Symbolic power vs. Skyscraper building power Victoria Nuland...

Full 3 hr episode on Patreon Part III of the non-cybernetics series focused on the little explored contributions of American Indian knowledge systems to the development of computation and algorithms. Mickey Newbury and songwriting, Navajo code-talkers during WWI/WWII, variations in native dialect, coyotes and stardust, sustaining genetic diversity, tricksters and their influence on probability stu...

This is the first half-for full 3 hour episode as well as resources, extra documents, and more plz subscribe HERE Episode on the history of non/anti-cybernetics (Game/Automata/Double Bind Theory) developed in the UK, US, USSR, and China and what that means for us today: cognitive autonomy, surveillance, breaking out of the cyberculture, etc. Throught the 20th century complexity studies were conduc...

First hour, for full 3 hour episode, show notes, documentation, and more consider supporting here Part one of a series on Cybernetics of the Future aka "how smart people end up dumb". Instead of retreading well-told examples of the 20th century we go to Leibniz, Yuk Hui, U/ACC, Muller, Ampere, etc. to figure out its ambience and omnipresence in culture, politics, the human (?) spirit, and more. No...

This episode dives into the mythological, religious, scientific, and natural geologies of giant lava-spewing cauldrons spanning centuries as well as their place in the history of art. JMW Turner', Goethe's Theory of Color, JW of Derby's Vesuvius, baptism and Christian conversion of volcanoes, "Vamp" aesthetics, Milo Rau: Theater of Democracy, Sakurajima adventure, resolving the Neptunist vs. Pluto...

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The internet is tedious, impersonal, rarely goes anywhere. Cyber-ethnographer/professor Ruby Justice Thelot comes on to talk about Checkpoints--a new book which charts the 10 + year history of an extended forum beneath a Youtube video loop of the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack full of personal stories of tragedy, triumph, and major life events that one day vanished without a trace. A history of...

FULL EP* ON PATREON Ok, we are back—this episode comes live from Osaka Japan, where we explore the free-time lost space age culture of the Showa era, the dissonance of post-WWII art, technology, Expo 70’, and how some of the lessons from the recent past can be applied to the present moment. Parthenogenesis, cultural reform and the Showa era, artistic viability of the past, present/future, American...

Continuation of Part 1. on Google architecture with a focus on the architectural history of McDonalds, Byung Chul Han’s Pais Interview: living life backwards, storyselling vs. story-telling: the death of narrative, and Ray Kroc’s corporate takeover, fast food political statements on genocidal conflict, private land-holding companies and cutting corners, Scriabin: the superiority of Painting vs. Mu...