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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

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

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)

Thanks to everyone who listened to // DIFFRACTIONS // Podcast over the years. There will be no further podcasts, nonetheless, please follow us here:
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Several tracks have been re-uploaded with enhanced sound quality. Thank you to those who listened and will continue to do so from the future into the past.