We are joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss his great new book Resisting AI. As Jathan wrote in a blurb for the book: “With analytical and moral clarity, McQuillan makes the case for recognising the radical politics of AI and meeting its goose step march head-on.” We get deep into an excellent discussion spanning the political economy and political epistemology of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Ed is trapped in Pittsburgh where he is now forced to live as a worker in a defunct steel factory.

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We randomly ran into April Clark and Grace Freud of Girl God and decided to record. We talk about the No Loads Refused Pimped Out Cum Dump Event, Joe Biden implying Elton John has given thousands and thousands of men HIV, Mariah Carey randomly talking about 9/11 on stage, and all the pranks we've pulled over the years. 

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What is identity politics? Recent definitions have strayed some distance from the ideas laid out by the Black radical feminists of the Combahee River Collective. In their original 1977 statement, the Boston collective established a simple but undeniable truth: what you know depends on who you are.

The problem, as American philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò points out, is that the most privileged members of marginalised groups can end up speaking for the group as a whole. Identity politics has been captured by elites, says Táíwò, and the effect can either be brazenly cynical – like the CIA implementing a diversity policy – or vastly more subtle.

On Novara FM, the professor of philosophy at Georgetown University talks to Eleanor Penny about his recent book, Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations, and how we can get back to the radical promise of identity politics: socialism.

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Christopher Satoor joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion of FWJ Schelling's The Ages of the World.

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This week, Matthew Flisfeder joins Coop and Taylor to discuss his latest book, Algorithmic Desire:Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media.

Matthew is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media.

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Matthew Flisfeder - Algorithmic Desire

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 106. Pages 827-837. Don and the wraith. Discussion starts at 43:24.

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Before Last

Legiac - Banisteriopsis Caapi

Official release will be the 24th of April 2023

Its A mega Stunning Vinyl In Sound And Looks, Each One Comes With Download Card

100 through Touched Music (UK)
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The other 100 through Phainomena ( clone.nl)
clone.nl/item72184.html
Digital will be available on my Bandcamp and all other outlets later
roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/album/banisteriopsis-caapi

vinyl version will contain the following tracks:

a1.Mimosa Hostilis
a2.Psychotria Viridis
a3.Epicatechine
a4.Proanthocyanidine

b1.Solanaceae
b2.Malpighiaceae
b3.Banisteriopsis Caapi
b4.Brugmansia

For more than twenty years, Roel Funcken has been a cornerstone in electronic experimentation. Alongside his brother Don, this Dutch sound sculptor melted hip-hop, industrial and soundscapes under monikers like Funckarma and Shadow Huntaz. A prolific solo musician and collaborator as well, Funcken teams up with Cor Bolten to revive the Legiac project with the eight tracks of Banisteriopsis Caapi. Keys appear through a sorrowful haze in "Mimosa Hostilis", this machined mist difussing as distorted strings penetrate before a dawning of icy brightness. Modulated forms and shapes billow in the bubble and trill of "Pyschotria Viridis" before the orbiting interference and introspection of "Epicatechine." Percussion is reduced to a texture, the duo finding structure in droplets of water, the stretch of steel and a litany of field recordings. The partnership dive deep into their chosen sounds, elongating and expanding tones to find harmony in the absence and isol ation that is their focus. Pieces like "Solanaceae" bristle with an understated elegance, like starlight piercing a brooding night sky, while "Banisteriopsis Caapi" finds an eerie solace in its repurposing of voice as an undulating elegy. Legiac achieve a distant intimacy with their listener, a relationship forged through complex compositions, gentle movements and subtle shifts. 

released April 24, 2023

Written and Produced by Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten

Mastered by Exm (digital)

art by me, cover edit by moiCflo
artwork is here :
www.instagram.com/p/CZXkozAgHzL/

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