Social Discipline

We are back with Pan Dajing. We talk her work(that we love!), about solitude, crypticism, intimate "connection at a distance" and many other digressions into the emotional core of our "spiritual fluid".

We welcome philosopher and social scientist Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, author of The Invention of Religion in Japan (2012), The Myth of Disenchantment (2017) and Metamodernism (2021). Among many other things, we talk about his work, modernity and its alleged departure from the supernatural, Mark Zuckerberg completely misreading Snow Crash, and how philosophy help us to live a live that it is wo...

We had the great pleasure of being joined by majuscule music journalist and author Simon Reynolds. In times of "Shock and Awe" we discuss the legacy of CCRU and Mark Fisher(and its neo-reactionary co-option), depressive hedonism and the attention economy, if there are any subversive attributes left to be found in subcultures... and among many other things, we share what still gives us a kick in mu...

We are back with Jules Joanne Gleeson, writer, comedian and historian, recently co-editor of the collection: Transgender Marxism, published by Pluto Press in 2021. A groundbreaking synthesis of transgender studies and Marxist theory. We talked about gender and family abolitionism, her writing, industrial music, stand-up comedy and many other things! 🦖

Arrancamos un nuevo año con Mario Aguiriano(del podcast Café Marx) y Kolitza. Hablamos sobre la crisis, el comunismo, la pandemia, Marx, las limitaciones de la sociodemocracia y una presentación breve del movimiento GKS (gazte koordinadora sozialista). Música de J.Martina, Harrga y Mattin

A very personal conversation with artist and musician Tim Goldie about his involvement in Eddie Prévost's workshop, the London's music scene in the 2000's, his long engagement with anti-fascism and his overcoming of rough times.

Back with Claire Rousay for our horniest episode as of now. Squaring the circle of honesty and parrhesia led us to develop the novel "Theory of the Conflation of Sex, Love and Free Improvisation". Should you ask for consent before penetrating an auditory canal? A sonorous polycule. NSFW!

We had the great pleasure of being joined by techno-animist and Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey. We discuss UK Bikelife; commodity fetishism and how trainers and fashion are tokens of class with magic-like attributes; the repertory of spells the left still has against KeK's Meme Magic; TechGnosis and conspiritualism in the age of Elon Musk. AND Lana Del Rey's White Dress! You won't miss th...

We welcome cultural theorist and philosopher Sami Khatib to clarify some basic (but very slippery) Marxist terms that help us to discuss the present time as well as the crazy few weeks of NFTs drama. Triple Shot Espresso of Marxism for the gang out there.

Friend of the pod Rosemary joins us to talk about the current state of anarcho-Stalinism in the U.K, the post-Corbyn Labour landscape, the activities of MayDay rooms archive, the seminal text ‘In and Against the State,’ and many other communist things! https://maydayrooms.org/in-and-against-the-state/

Cuidado! Volvemos en español con el Eldon Tyrell del Meta: Miguel Noguera. Charlamos extensamente de lo que verdaderamente importa: la seducción por el lado oscuro del Aceleracionismo; Iker Jiménez, Coast to Coast y otros pesebres de la conspiración; su maravilloso podcast Infrashow; la terapia Gestalt; crisis de la masculinidad; visiones Lynchianas de Rosalía y Cañita Braba... haha Gesualdo's wif...

Arrancamos un nuevo año con 𝒪𝒩𝒯𝒪ℒ𝒪𝒢ℐ𝒜𝒮 𝒻ℰℳℐ𝒩ℐ𝒮𝒯𝒜𝒮, incendiario colectivo feminista que tanto ha ayudado a navegar las multiples dimensiones de un convulso 2020. Repasamos un poco sus actividades como Santuario Nocturno, Strolling you down, Feeling Raid etc... frenética actividad de relevancia capital para ser capaces de vivir el presente y poder conceptualizar y construir juntos un futuro. Discuti...

We are back with Slovene philosopher Samo Tomšič, author of The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan (2013) and more recently, The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy (2020. We talk about allergic reactions to left-accelerationism, how constitutive alienation works, populism and the right wing programme etc. Borusiade is vibing in the background.

En este episodio contamos con el lujo de estar acompañados por la leyenda viva del arte de acción en el estado español: Esther Ferrer. Conversamos acerca de su visión del anarquismo, Max Stirner, los encuentros de Pamplona, paseos covidianos furtivos... y todo con el regalo adicional de una serie de piezas sonoras de Esther(de nada fácil acceso), que muy generosamente ha compartido para su difusió...

This week we are joined by François J. Bonnet, recording artist (as Kassel Jaeger) and theoretician, Director of Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM) in Paris, and producer on National French Radio France Musique. We talk with him about the recent publication of the english translation of his book "After Death" (2020, Urbanomic)in the context of the curren...

Deep fried new pod with Covid survivor Martti Kalliala, co-founder of nemesis.global and 1/2 of Amnesia Scanner. He told us about his descent into the spiky fuzz-ball world and we discuss two of Nemesis's most recent memos: The Umami Theory of Value and their GPT-3-laden: The DOOM! Report. https://nemesis.global/memos/umami https://nemesis.global/memos/the-doom-report

We are back! Double shot of communisation. We are joined by Rob Lucas (Endnotes), we discuss his critique of Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and his magnific text Error. Be aware of the conditions of possibility of a communist overcoming of the capitalist mode of production! Rob's critique of Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II121/articles/r...

We are back with original Xenofeminist Patricia Reed and speculative computer scientist Anil Bawa-Cavia to discuss their text 'Site as Procedure as Interaction'. We confront (with optimism? openness?) this second wave of abject worldings from the poor grasp of reality of GPT-3 to the U.K. outcry with A-levels algorithm debacle. Sonification of Anil courtesy of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros a.k.a EVOL So...

Mattin and Miguel Prado talk with uncompromising art-theory-mavericks: Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier about their crucial text: "A Brief Glossary of Social Sadism". More relevant than ever in these times of generalised brutality. Artwork: Parker Bright, "Confronting My Own Possible Death", 2018.

We are back with DeForrest Brown, Jr. | Speaker Music. We talked about the East Village in the age of COVID, DeForrest's forthcoming book: "Assembling a Black Counter Culture" in light of the killing of George Floyd and the BLM demonstrations all over the world. Discussion ends touching never released Final Fantasies, moving from Alabama to Manhattan and how America, basically is a scam. As usual,...

NOW! back online! Our episode with Asia Bazdyrieva & Solveig Suess from Geocinema. We discuss the relevance of their project (considering planetary-scale sensory networks as a vastly distributed cinematic apparatus)for the moment we are living and the future to come. Score by Jessika Khazrik.

This week we are joined by Alex Williams, co-author of #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics, "Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work". We discussed Boogaloo Bois latest fashion trends, the coming of the Big Igloo, what's the role of the Dirtbag left within the hegemonic discourse, and the electoral prognosis and transformation of contemporary socialism. All...

This week Miguel Prado and Mattin talk with Mat Dryhurst: interdependent polymath from the Solarpunk intelligentsia. We discuss the pandemic effects of music streaming platforms, the difficult balance between pragmatic and normative approaches, and the Russian doll-hell that is twitter.

We are joined by Elena Biserna: researcher and curator based in Marseille. We talked about skin starvation, feminist cross-border actions and participating in the Holy Mass via Jitsi. Sonic contributions by Elena and Loreto Martinez Troncoso. Reggaeton queen bees accompanied us.

Friends of the Pod: Sonia de Jager and Martina Raponi join us to talk about miasmatic-fractal-Trump as a dark corona that is eating into us and the lack of new forms of oppression. Sonic contributions by Martina and Kostis Kylimis, music selection by Sonia and grinded by us during the pod.