And introducing, WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Eight: Butthole Surfers!  We’re joined by NPR World Cafe’s Raina Douris to take a look at the Texas-tinged acid-fried world of these genuine rock n roll maniacs, smash the fire cymbal, and commit a little Culturcide along the way.

Check out World Cafe here: https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/
And check out Blind Eye Sees All: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW0mXU2mkgo

Songs
Butthole Surfers - Butthole Surfer
Butthole Surfers - The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey Oswalds Grave
Butthole Surfers - Lady Sniff
Butthole Surfers - Creep in the Cellar
Butthole Surfers - American Woman
Butthole Surfers - Gary Floyd/Sweet Loaf (Live, Atlanta, May 15 1987)
Butthole Surfers - Sweet Loaf
Butthole Surfers - The O-men
Culturcide - Bruce
Butthole Surfers - Jimi
Butthole Surfers - John E. Smoke
Butthole Surfers - Who Was In My Room Last Night?

And Introducing

#93 BUTTHOLE SURFERS! (ft. Raina Douris)

Extract from the CD with Cat. Nr. SYM:04: 
For the first time both long active veterans of the experimental / post industrial / field recording scene have collaborated, and created a mesmerizing one-tracker (56+ min.) with many breathtaking moments from the very beginning... an incredible new virtual sonic reality, taking you on a journey to the microworlds of the "more than human" lifeforms.. a "Phloem" is the part of plants that transports organic compounds = photosynthates. 

order:
https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=21323

FRANCISCO LOPEZ & DANIEL MENCHE - Sacrificed Phloem (Zannec Line)

Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO for the final part of our conversation on his new book, co-authored with Alex Williams, Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and How We Win it back). In this part of our conversation we talked about some of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's key concepts, including the assemblage and multiplicity, and how their ideas inform Jeremy and Alex's understanding of political change and left strategy.

Hegemony Now (part three) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert

What is it about Twitter that turns us into such objectionable creatures? What has social media done to the language we use and the way we interact with each other? Ash Sarkar talks to Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, about the state of social media: tweets, memes, grief trolling, outrage porn, duckface, Spidermen and Jorts the Cat. Could our urge to tweet be diverted towards a more politically useful kind of writing?

Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

Downstream: Twitter's Toxic Downfall w/ Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour discusses Britain's fraying public infrastructure and the wave of strikes that are taking place, including the first ever nationwide strike by NHS nurses. We chatted about the extent to which the public perceive the UK as being in a state of increasing decline, the state of the trade unions, and how current industrial action compares with the so-called winter of discontent of 1978-79. Finally, we talked about how the Conservative government, and the Labour opposition, are responding to a revivified labour movement.

Interregnum - Britain unravelling

Prominent French intellectual Emmanuel Todd argues the Ukraine proxy war is the start of WWIII, and is “existential” for both Russia and the US “imperial system”, which has restricted the sovereignty of Europe, making Brussels into Washington's “protectorate”.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=82WPLWEN_9M

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/14/world-war-3-us-russia-china-emmanuel-todd

French ambassador: US ‘rules-based order’ means Western domination, violating international law: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/21/gerard-araud-france-us-rules-based-order

CIA and NATO are waging sabotage attacks inside Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/29/cia-nato-sabotage-attacks-russia

'World War 3 has already started' between US and Russia/China, argues French scholar

A familiar voice joins the show to discuss the latest leader of the loser men, Andrew Tate. We discuss Tate's link to the political far right, the nature of his conception of masculinity, the crisis of young men online and much more!

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Dimitri talks with curator Aaron Moulton about THE INFLUENCING MACHINE, his controversial 2022 exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, which explores the largely forgotten but deeply consequential activities of the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in early ‘90s Eastern Europe, including:

How the SCCA “landed like a UFO” in former eastern bloc countries from 1992 to 1995, engineering the scripted avant-garde, the rise of socially-engaged practice, comparing and contrasting SCCA with the CIA’s promotion of abstract expressionism, ontologies of randomness and meritocratic achievement in the art/media world…

Unleashing a dump truck of cash on two dozen cities at the height of shock therapy and currency collapse, the curiously advanced new media practices of the Centers, a Trojan Horse called “art”, grooming local artists to embrace Open Society values, subtly blacklisting artists who thrived under the socialist system of Artist Unions, building early internet infrastructures in Romania, Eastern Europe as the bleeding edge of the cyber-frontier, “cowboy wizard internaut” Jonathan Peizer, artists as the first point of call for any new technology, the mysterious "British spy lol" Bill McAllister, the 1994 “Alchemic Surrender” false flag exhibit on a Ukrainian battleship…

Suzy Meszoly’s intriguing journey from SCCA “czarina” and faithful Soros lieutenant to Buddhist vibrational healer and New Age conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, the challenges of discussing George Soros the Boogeyman, the prescient 1989 profile of Soros from a recently deceased friend of the show named TRAIN, comparing Meszoly’s 1990 Romanian exhibit “The Media Were With Us” with the 2003 German documentary “Checkmate: Strategy for a Revolution”, the CIA dramaturgy of Ceaușescu’s overthrow, Josh Harris, Pynchon’s “Bleeding Edge”, Gelitin, 9/11, Marina Abramovic and crossing the Pizzagate event horizon…

Part one of two.

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[#142] ALCHEMIC SURRENDER: George Soros & the Rise of the Influencing Machine w/ Aaron Moulton, Pt 1

Dimitri and Khalid begin to set the setting for a profound, ecstatic, therapeutic anti-heroes’ journey into the figures, fables, and fallacies that are fueling the modern psychedelic renaissance. 

PHASE ONE: INTENTIONS

Dimitri and Khalid share their intentions for this journey, which include: holding space for the promise of entheogenic therapies while acknowledging the vast Jungian shadow energy of Peter Thiel’s various psychedelics startups, his employee Hamilton Morris splashing around in a pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck, the endless subliminal jihad of mainstream promotion of psychedelics from Michael Pollan to Joe Rogan, attempts to patent psychedelic molecules and therapy spaces, Psymposia’s trenchant critiques of the “corporadelic” revival, toxic therapy practices seeping into MAPS clinical trials, New York Magazine/Psymposia’s “Cover Story” podcast about sexual abuse cover-ups in the psychedelic underground, potential for spiritual/emotional addiction, the growing right-wing embrace of psychedelics that really ain’t nuttin’ new, Tim Leary’s claims that LSD cured Allen Ginsberg’s homosexuality, and why everybody suddenly stopped talking about the Machine Elves…

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[#144] SUS PSYCHEDELICS, INC., Part One: Profits for Prophets

Cory Doctorow — returning champion, friend of the show, and author of the new novel Red Team Blues — joins us to chat about fiction (science), finance (crypto), forensics (accounting), and much more. You never knew forensic accounting could be so radical and thrilling, but Red Team Blues is an immanent critique of techno-financial capitalism in the guise of a page ripping novel. We cover a lot of ground, all of it fascinating, as we always do when Cory comes on TMK.

••• Buy Red Team Blues: https://craphound.com/shop/
••• Follow Cory: https://twitter.com/doctorow 
••• Cory’s blog: https://pluralistic.net/ 

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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)

We talk about the history of AI by drawing out the often very explicit millenarianism that undergirds so much of this technology and its culture over the last 70 years. This strange brew of Eschatological Evangelism and Technological Theology has sustained a cultish faith in AI’s ability to bring about a New Age.

••• Making God | Emily Gorcenski https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/
••• The Taming of Tech Criticism | Evgeny Morozov https://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism 

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302. God is the Machine

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