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. AND Lana Del Rey's White Dress! You won't miss this!

SD23 - w/ Mark Leckey - Art is the Magic of the Left 📹🔮

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.

SD22 - w/ Sami Khatib - Real Abstraction, Reification, Alienation and NFTs

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!

SD24 - w/ Claire Rousay - Polyamory Speculations: Theory of the Conflation of Sex and Free Improv

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 Mattin

SD26 - con Mario Aguiriano y Kolitza - Comunismo y Crisis

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! 🦖

SD27 w/ Jules Joanne Gleeson: Freaks of The World Unite

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 things, we share what still gives us a kick in music nowadays!

SD28 - w/ Simon Reynolds - Depressive Hedonism and Musical Exorcism in Traptimes

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!

SD32 - w/ Matana Roberts - The Power of the Pushback

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, plants do release more oxygen than carbon dioxide 🙊

SD33 - w/ Elvia Wilk - Death by Landscape

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 hellscape.

Some resources:

(blockchain-time) Reminiscences of a Clock Operator 
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/jmysxacr/

(nfts/digital art) The Revolution Will Not Be Tokenised 
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/nl45krtx/

(bitcoin indeterminacy) Bitcointingency
https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/bitcointingency

(on memes) 
https://spectrumstore.com/en/memetic-counterculture-starter-pack

(on daos) DAOcolonisation 0x Salon Audio Report
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/fbeqr4q3/release/1?readingCollection=a777270b

Music by essential abstractions

SD 34 - w/ Wassim Z. Alsindi - ₿etween Collective Salvation and Private Enrichment

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 religion, recent congress' public hearing into "unidentified aerial phenomena'', how ancient aliens could have handed technology to humanity and much more!

Cover image by NonayahBiz
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/w92937/i_told_ai_starryai_to_show_me_the_moment_ancient/

SD36 - w/ Diana Walsh Pasulka - A New Form of Religion

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 support that he got from Anne Tallentire while he was studying at Central Saint Martins.

SD37 - w/ Hamja Ahsan - From Aspergistan to documenta fifteen

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 possibility of communizing land and its practical, legal, and geological connotations. Furthermore, we discuss the aftermath of documenta fifteen and its problems. We also get to know  about the origins of the title and the ideological differences in regards to feminism in Beirut in the last decade.

SD 38 w/Marwa Arsanios - Who Is Afraid of documenta fifteen?

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 label Difficult Fun with others. In the early 2010s, he was part of developing MayDay Rooms, a fantastic archive and resource for social movements and marginal cultures based in London. Slater is currently translating Jacques Camatte and working on his poetry. This podcast includes previously unreleased poetry from Slater.

Social Discipline EP39 Howard Slater

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 Bienal de São Paulo y las audaces propuestas que presentó para Documenta.

SD41 - con Manuel Borja-Villel - El Museo en Ruinas

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 complexity and their implications for understanding human behavior and decision-making processes. We also explore how her theories challenge traditional views of causality and control in both social and natural sciences. Additionally, Alicia shares her thoughts on the ethical dimensions of complexity, particularly how they relate to issues of freedom and responsibility in contemporary society.

SD40 - w/ Alicia Juarrero - Context Changes Everything

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 process of acceleration itself.

SD42 - W/ Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic - Cute Accelerationism

En este episodio, Sandro Brito, de la Cooperativa Cráter Invertido en Ciudad de México, nos introduce a la obra del marxista ecuatoriano Bolívar Echeverría y su biografía heterodoxa y fascinante. Como nos comenta Sandro, Echeverría, influenciado por el existencialismo de Unamuno, comenzó a interesarse en Sartre y Heidegger. Además, formó parte del grupo artístico Cortadores de Cabezas.

En 1961, viajó a Friburgo con la intención de conocer a Heidegger, pero este lo rechazó por no saber alemán. Entonces se trasladó a Berlín, donde acabó en la Freie Universität, donde conoció a Rudi Dutschke. En esos años, Berlín era un hervidero radical donde las lecturas del marxismo subterráneo de Korsch y Lukács se combinaban con talleres de lectura de El capital fuera de la universidad. Era la época de Dieter Kunzelmann, Kommune 1, Spur,  Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Subversive Aktion y su publicación Anschlag.

En 1968, Echeverría llegó a Ciudad de México, un lugar de exilio para muchos radicales marxistas. En esos años, el marxismo en América Latina vivía un gran auge, con figuras como Óscar del Barco y José Aricó en Córdoba, Argentina. También destacaban casas editoriales como Siglo XXI, Casa de las Américas, Pensamiento Crítico, Biblioteca del Pensamiento Socialista y la Fundación Era. En 1974, comenzó la publicación de Cuadernos Políticos, donde Echeverría publicó sus primeros textos.
Hablamos también de su concepción de la enajenación y su interpretación del fetichismo de la mercancía, el trabajo y el valor de uso, y cómo estos pueden ser comprendidos más allá del capital. Acabamos con su concepción de la modernidad y lo que el llama ethos barroco.
Esta conversación tiene como trasfondo sonoro mezclas de Sandro, quien también es DJ como Emiliano Dietzgen.

SD 43 Sandro Brito La afirmación de la vida en medio de la muerte Bolivar Echeverría

Social Discipline is incredibly excited to present the adventurous life of Jeff Perkins, a hidden gem of the American underground.

This massive five-hour podcast, recorded in Berlin in June 2024, explores his fascinating journey—no one else can claim to have performed for Yoko Ono and John Cage, created legendary light shows with The Velvet Underground, Sly and the Family Stone, and The Germs, programmed the first Kenneth Anger retrospective in L.A., and encountered both Charles Manson and members of the satanic cult The Process.

Jeff joined the military in the 1960s and was stationed in Tokyo, where he met Yoko Ono in the early ’60s. He began performing some of her pieces there and later in New York. Perkins also filmed Ono’s classic Film No. 4 (Bottoms), a Fluxus work. His first independent contribution to the Fluxfilm Anthology was Shout. He was at the heart of the 1960s New York avant-garde scene, surrounded by figures like La Monte Young, Jack Smith, and Angus MacLise.

In January 1967, Perkins moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a programmer at Cinematheque 16. Influenced by Tony Conrad’s The Flicker, he began producing powerful light shows and collaborated with bands throughout the ’60s and ’70s—ranging from The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Grateful Dead to the punk scene with X and The Germs. He even refused to do a show for the Sex Pistols due to a disagreement with the promoter. Perkins was a close friend of Terry Jennings and, in fact, entrusted his archive to La Monte Young. While in L.A., he was neighbors with the artist James Turrell.

In 1980, Perkins moved back to New York and started a loft project just a block away from Ground Zero, reminiscent of George Maciunas’ artist loft spaces. To finance it, he worked as a cab driver. He remained deeply connected to cinema, particularly through Anthology Film Archives, where he proposed a John Cassavetes retrospective to Jonas Mekas and later became a manager. In 1994, Nam June Paik—who coined the term “The Fluxus cab driver” for Perkins—invited him to perform at Anthology Film Archives in a homage to Yoko Ono. His performance, Butthead, was a great success. His legendary loft became a hub where one could easily encounter visiting filmmakers like Pedro Costa and Albert Serra.

In 1989, Perkins organized a series of lectures at Anthology Film Archives with Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad, reuniting the two after years of estrangement. Flynt would become a lifelong friend. In 2008, during the financial crisis, when I lived with Jeff, we organized a series of four-hour lectures by Flynt in the loft’s kitchen, focusing on the crisis and communist economics. I vividly remember Tony Conrad attending one of them in his elegant pajamas.

Perkins has directed two critically acclaimed films—one on abstract painter Sam Francis and another on the legendary Fluxus figure George Maciunas. He is currently finishing editing a film about Henry Flynt in Berlin.

This podcast concludes with an excerpt from his piece Movies for the Blind, which features recordings of conversations with passengers from his time as a New York cab driver.

SD44 w/Jeff Perkins "The Fluxus Cab Driver"

Mattin and Miguel Prado sit down with friend of the pod and fellow NRU member Inigo Wilkins to dive into Shitshow Theory — a work-in-progress text by Mattin and Inigo — and Miguel’s own take on what he calls Entropic Modernity.

Together we try to make sense of the neo-reactionary turn, Trump-era chaos, and the cultural meltdown we’re all living through. Theorising the shitshow, one glitch at a time.

SD45 w/Inigo Wilkins - Shitshow Theory and Entropic Modernity

We’re incredibly honoured to be joined by Ray Brassier, a hugely formative thinker for both of us and one of the most important philosophers of the past 20 years. We talk about his upcoming book Fatelessness: Freedom and Fatality After Marx and, the contemporary condition of The Wretched of the Earth. Ray also gives an absolutely brilliant takedown of Nick Land and the speculative inhuman. Hope you enjoy it.

SD46 w/Ray Brassier - Beyond Extinction Lies Communism

What can LARP teach us about pedagogy, community, and collective world-making? artist, researcher, curator and mentor in Game Design, Carina Erdmann joins Miguel Prado & Mattin to talk games as art, hacking everyday platforms, the politics of play, and why we might need to train our social muscles for futures that don’t yet exist. This conversation moves through conspiracy as collective thinking, the limits of empathy, and the careful work of attunement in collaborative play. Along the way, we touch on opacity and prefigurative practices, communal living experiments like the ones exercised at PAF, and what it means to rehearse for a revolution in these bleak conditions.

SD47_Carina_Erdmann Rehearsing Revolution: LARP, Conspiracy and Collective Life

SD02 – w/ Reza Negarestani – Synthesis Between  "Manichean" and "Augustinian" devils: Part 1

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

SD03 – w/ Reza Negarestani – Grim, Bleak and Sick: Part 2

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.

SD04 - w/ Cecile Malaspina & Inigo Wilkins – Counter the Bunker Mentality

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.

SD08 - w/ Mat Dryhurst - Everything is Perverse

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 Manhattan and how America, basically is a scam.
As usual, in-house counter-police enforcement beats mixed with some classics from Detroit and a final gem by our guest with Kepla.

SD11 - w/ DeForrest Brown, Jr. - This is How our Holocaust Happens

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.

SD12 - w/ Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier - Unweaving Social Sadism

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 courtesy of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros a.k.a EVOL
Sonification of Patricia courtesy of Katrina Burch. Yoneda Lemma (a.k.a. You Need a Lemon, sometimes Yoni Dilemma)

Mattin and Miguel do their thing. 

Read Patricia and Anil text (among many other friends of the pod) buying "Construction Site for Possible Worlds", published by Urbanomic in Sept 2020. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/construction-site-possible-worlds/

SD13 - w/ Patricia Reed & Anil Bawa-Cavia - Seize the Means of Complexity

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: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II121/articles/rob-lucas-the-surveillance-business
Error https://endnotes.org.uk/file_hosting/EN5_Error.pdf

SD14 - w/ Rob Lucas - Post-Communisation? Surveillance Capitalism, Totalities and Error

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/umami
https://nemesis.global/memos/the-doom-report

SD15 - w/ Martti Kalliala - Ontological Flattening of Ethical Accountability

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 Lynchianas de Rosalía y Cañita Braba... haha Gesualdo's wife's burofax go brrr... Eso. Oro puro, NO! Bitcoin puro.

SD20 - con Miguel Noguera (de Nuevo en español) - La Meta-Ontología del “Cringe”

In the vast, unpredictable theater of now, Mattin and Miguel Prado surrendered to the whims of the unconscious, that masterful improviser, seeking to conjure into being a future that, once distant, now beckoned with the inevitability of a forgotten prophecy slowly, inexorably coming to fruition.

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