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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...

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 h...

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 landsc...

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 S...

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 cen...

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'...

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, phot...

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 🤡🔔

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

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

This is the First Part, full episode here I went to a permaculture/black swan commune/additive manufacturing gun compound in Central Texas to interview one of its members, CAD gun engineer/designer Tom

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. 

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 Felde...

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 wa...

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

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 trip...

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 🏜🎛🎚

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,...

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...

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. commodit...

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 tal...

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 adaptati...

Jennifer Herrema , 90’s icon/singer/producer of Royal Trux goes on deep interconnection lore: John Dean/Watergate family DC politico stories from the vault, Calvin Klein/the manufacturing of heroin chic, Latin American emerald heists, watching the Super Bowl with a dying Timothy Leary, Liquid GHB, The Gaia Hypothesis, John Hinkley’s musical career, heavy metal evangelism, Tik Tok, calling the cops...

For full episode subscribe here Sleepy Time Bear is a twitter user well known for his universally beloved and beautiful romantic modern poetry. In omnipresent flashes of digital hate-release, he spreads fondness on the TL, bringing joy to anyone who comes across his Celestial Seasons avatar. We talk about erotic poetry and the language of love, from the anonymous, steamy, adulterous lais of Marie...

This is a short preview: for full episode consider supporting the show 🏰HERE🏰 The crypto market has crashed. Comedy philosophy is The Key. In this episode, me and bienstock dive deep into the idiosyncratic concept the Spectre of Finance Punk and discuss some of its conceptual origins: Leibniz, Monad theory, Chaosophy, Concept Art, Post-Art, and Mail Art, and probably the least boring explanation...