Social Discipline

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SD14 - w/ Rob Lucas - Post-Communisation? Surveillance Capitalism, Totalities and Error Oct 18, 2020

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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/rob-lucas-the-surveillance-business Error https://endnotes.org.uk/file_hosting/EN5_Error.pdf

SD13 - w/ Patricia Reed & Anil Bawa-Cavia - Seize the Means of Complexity Aug 23, 2020

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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 Sonification of Patricia courtesy of Katrina Burch. Yoneda Lemma (a.k.a. You Need a Lemon, sometimes Yoni Dilemma) Mattin and Miguel do their thing. Read Patricia and Anil text (among many other friends of the pod) buying "Construction Site for Possible Worlds", published by Urbanomic in Sept 2020. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/construction-site-possible-worlds/

SD12 - w/ Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier - Unweaving Social Sadism Jul 06, 2020

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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.

SD11 - w/ DeForrest Brown, Jr. - This is How our Holocaust Happens Jun 30, 2020

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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, in-house counter-police enforcement beats mixed with some classics from Detroit and a final gem by our guest with Kepla.

SD09 - w/ Asia Bazdyrieva & Solveig Suess - Devastation after Devastation Jun 08, 2020

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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.

SD10 - w/ Alex Williams - Dialectic of Contemporary Left Jun 06, 2020

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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 in light of Alex's most recent book "Political Hegemony and Social Complexity. Mechanisms of Power After Gramsci" (2019).

SD08 - w/ Mat Dryhurst - Everything is Perverse May 23, 2020

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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.

SD07 - w/ Elena Biserna - We are really sick, but our disease is not the Covid-19 May 17, 2020

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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.

SD06 - w/ Sonia de Jager and Martina Raponi - A Warm Cup of Puke on a Very Cold Morning May 10, 2020

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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.

SD05 - w/ Fielding Hope - Survivalist Music in the Age of Platform Despotism Apr 16, 2020

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We talk with Fielding Hope senior producer at experimental music Mecca Cafe OTO in London and co-curator of Counterflows, a Festival for Underground, Experimental and International music. .

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