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To celebrate the release of Chronosis, Keith Tilford and Reza Negarestani join Robin Mackay to talk about their collaboration and the ideas that fuelled the time-twisting plot of the comic. Creative tension and backchannel bickering, cat monks, Boltzmann brains, cosmic body horror, Bertrand Russell the armchair stoner, the Harold Lloyd theory of time-reversal, psychopaths, AGI monkeys, and <em>The Mortiloquist</em> all make an appearance. 

Music: ‘Dionysus’, by Herman Polsus aka <a href="https://soundcloud.com/drew-flieder">Drew Flieder</a>, and ‘Timeshift’ by Eschaton (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/omnimusicuk">Omni Music</a>)


<a href="https://www.urbanomic.com/book/chronosis/">Get your hands on a copy of <em>Chronosis</em> now!</a>

A Serial Killer of Memories

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler on Audible:
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Summary:
 

In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened", she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever.

Bonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. A stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's finest writers.

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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, Narrated by Aldrich Barrett

An idiosyncratic mixtape based on an impromptu listening seminar held at Labour Camp, part of Paul Chaney’s Critical Camps series at Kestle Barton, traces the relationship between work and eroticism through popular song.

More details at https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/songs-labour-pleasure/

Songs of Labour and Pleasure

Matt Giroveanu, Rachel Bouton, and Kiki Mikkelson improvise a love song in Vern’s Audible special, "A Very Improvised Holiday Musical".  The prompt for the special was to create a new holiday on the spot, and the live audience chose “pickles” as the celebratory food, “periwinkle and maroon” as the holiday’s colors, and “the poop emoji” as the sacred symbol (Oh, millennials). But the resulting musical is surprisingly sweet.
 
Listen to the FULL holiday special on Audible: http://tinyurl.com/VernSpecial

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A Very Improvised Holiday Musical (Teaser Clip)

Exclusively on Audible, an original audio documentary narrated by award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker.

It’s always hard to make the crowd laugh — especially when joking about war, PTSD, and mental health. Strong Ending follows three military veterans as they attempt to turn their most painful stories into laughs by participating in a stand-up comedy boot camp.

After joining the military, deploying to combat zones, and coming home fundamentally changed, Michael Garvey, Isaura Ramirez, and Patrick Harth challenge themselves to share their stories on stage and perform original stand up-comedy about their experiences for a packed house.

Narrated by Emmy and Tony award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker and featuring interviews with professional comedians Rob Riggle (The Daily Show, The Hangover) and Maria Bamford (Lady Dynamite, Arrested Development), Strong Ending explores the science behind the healing power of laughter and the role of military-comedies in popular culture.

Is laughter really the best medicine? Listen to find out: Audible.com/StrongEnding

Strong Ending  - Maria Bamford on Mental Health & Comedy (clip)

Strong Ending - Rob Riggle On Comedy (clip)

Featuring Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Eliza Skinner.

In this scene excerpt from a live cast reading, alien commander 9-Krelblax orders his navigator, Zzarvon, to set a course for the Big Dipper but things get off track pretty quickly.

Download and listen to the full Audible Original, "The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe", at Audible.com/PoleVault!

The Pole Vault Championship - Live from SF Sketchfest - Navigating the Stars

6. I Wish I Was Sober (Kevin Devine & Julien Baker)

5. 400 Bones (Kevin Devine)

Robin Mackay is joined by Amy Ireland to talk to Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh about his book ‘Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium’, lullabies, nerds, mysticism, assassins, sorcery and hyperstition, practical magic, and more…. 

https://urbanomic.com/book/omnicide/

Music used in the podcast:  
‘Gerye Miayad Mara’ by Homayoun Shajarian
Track from ‘Baluchestan Music—The Local Iranian Music’ cassette by unknown artist 
‘Beman’ by Aida Shahghasemi

Maniac Lullabies

In this recording of the November 2019 launch event for Agnès Gayraud’s book ‘Dialectic of Pop’, published by Urbanomic, Robin Mackay and the author discuss the problematic and major themes of the book.

Music from the album Vie Future by La Féline: https://soundcloud.com/la-f-line

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/dialectic-of-pop/

The Utopia of Popularity

We discuss with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh about the nature of Omnicide, Philosophy After Dark, Seduction and Deception. Interview by Dustin Breitling

OmniSeductions w/ Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh(Updated)

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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, Narrated by Aldrich Barrett

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