Join us for an euphoric episode with our very good friends of the pod, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic. Inspired by their work on Cute Accelerationism this episode explores the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness. From its sensory and cultural impacts to its erotic and semiotic layers, we unravel how Cute opens a gate to the transcendental …

Para el presente episodio, hemos tenido el privilegio de conversar con Manuel Borja-Villel, cuya dirección en el Museo Reina Sofía ha marcado un antes y un después en el enfoque museístico moderno. Hablamos de las constantes guerras culturales que enfrenta el arte contemporáneo, del concepto de Cora, discutimos su reciente participación en la Biena…

In this episode of Social Discipline, we're joined by the renowned philosopher and complexity scientist, Alicia Juarrero. Alicia delves into the intricate world of causality in complex systems, offering insights from her seminal work, Dynamics in Action and Context Changes Everything. Throughout our conversation, she unpacks the principles of compl…

In this cultural biography from the incendiary and radical poet and thinker Howard Slater (Break/Flow), we speak about far-left culture in Britain since the 1970s and its relationship to politics and poetry. Slater started the legendary Break/Flow zine in the 90s and participated in the Virtual Future conference. In the 2000s, he began the eclectic…

In this episode, we speak with artist Marwa Arsanios about her practice, documenta fifteen, feminism, and the possibility of reshaping the political potential of art. She talks to us about her ongoing project, Who Is Afraid of Ideology?, which Arsanios did as part of documenta fifteen. In this project, she explores through collaboration the possibi…

Conversation with artist, writer and curator Hamja Ahsan on the support campaign he organized for his brother Syed Talha Ahsan, his groundbreaking book Shy Radicals, his project at documenta fifteen and the hate campaign that he is receiving from some of the German media. Hamja talks openly about mental heath issues, islamophobia and the crucial su…

Miguel Prado and fellow Guild navigator (and co-host for today's episode) Sonia de Jager meet Diana Walsh Pasulka: professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. We discuss what do we mean by agnostic when we want to be challenged by new knowledge, the UFO phenomena as a new form of relig…

We had the great pleasure of being joined by Jeffrey J. Kripal in conversation about how to lift the veil of Isis, the radical collapse of the subject-object structure, paranormal research, LaMBDA alleged consciousness, conspirituality, Esalen Institute and its impact on American culture and many other liminal topics. Jeffrey Kripal is J. Newton Ra…

Crypto collapse! Simply HODL and stay with us while we talk with Wassim Z. Alsindi: veteran of the timechain, founder and host of the 0x Salon, conducting experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems. Today he guides us through the speculative hellsca…

This week, we had the great pleasure of being joined by Elvia Wilk, writer and editor, author of Oval (2019) and Death by Landscape, a collection of essays forthcoming this July from Soft Skull Press. We talked about her new book, the pandemic, plants, the weird, LARP, the Web 3.0 and post-nuclear religious fiction!!!Errata corrige: 29:30 Yes, plan…

We had the great pleasure of being joined by Matana Roberts, multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and sound adventurer. We talked about the unequal mental health toll of the pandemic, the healing power of live music, their Coin Coin work and many other things!Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

We are back with Brazilian philosophers Gabriel Tupinamba and J.P. Caron from Círculo de Estudos da Idéia e da Ideologia, an institution with the task of investigating the political thought and collective organizational practices called for by the return of the communist hypothesis. They give us a primer on the institution and their meta-structural…

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".Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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 h…

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…

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 MattinSocial Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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!Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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.…

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.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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 Lynchiana…

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 co…

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 v…

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), q…

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 De…

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/umamihttps://nemesis.global/mem…

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: …

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…

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 Manhatt…

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.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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 …

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.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

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. .Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

Mattin and Miguel Prado talk to noise scholars Cecile Malaspina and Inigo Wilkins about the collective need of counter-bunker techniques, noise in view of Carnap's theory of probability1 and 'whack' swans.Special guest Dali De Saint Paul provides vocals and readings for our house beats and noise.Social Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

Miguel Prado, Mattin and Reza Negarestani continue the conversation in this unprecedented moments demarcated by COVID–19: Wire-guided torpedoes, conspiracy theories, the great plague London, the human sloth with an endnote from Gottfried Ben. New paradigmatic times sonified and musicalised by Mattin and Miguel Prado…

SD02 – w/ Reza Negarestani – Synthesis Between "Manichean" and "Augustinian" devils: Part 1 by Social DisciplineSocial Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu

Mattin & Miguel Prado thinking aloud about the current events regarding CODIV-19 while making sense of history as it happens. They let the unconscious improvise in this absolutely unexpected present, trying to render actual a no longer distant futureSocial Discipline tarafından oluşturuldu