To get us out of the depressing discourse loop of contemporary politics, we brought on the Scottish writer, academic, and editor of the exciting experimental lit publisher Hyperidean Press, Udith Dematagoda. We discuss Udith's recent novel, 'Horizontal Rain,' literary nihilism, and the rich history of reactionary ideology throughout early modernism: Céline, Wyndham Lewis, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Mishima, and more. There is also some discussions on painting, surrealism, failure, and pessimism. Udith has just published an excellent piece on Adam's Safety Propaganda project, which is linked below.  Udith is currently finishing a book on the confluence of technology, fascism and masculinity.   

Udith's Favorite Novels ever:
Louis-Ferdinand Céline 'Journey to the End of Night' (https://neoalchemist.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/louis-ferdinand-celine-journey-to-the-end-of-the-night.pdf)
Knut Hamsun 'Hunger' (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8387/8387-h/8387-h.htm)
Wyndham Lewis 'Tarr' (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/58340/58340-h/58340-h.htm)
Yukio Mishima 'The Sailor Who Fell From the Sea' (https://archive.org/stream/TheSailorWhoFellFromGraceWithTheSea_201607/The-Sailor-Who-Fell-From-Grace-with-the-Sea-Full-Text_djvu.txt)
Vladimir Nabakov 'The Gift' (https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.149872/2015.149872.The-Gift_djvu.txt)
Vladimir Mayakovsky 'A Cloud in Trousers' (https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/0507/Mayakovsky%2520Cloud%2520in%2520Trousers.pdf)
Robert Musil 'The Man Without Qualities' (https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/musil-1.pdf)
Joseph Conrad 'Lord Jim' (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm)


Links:   
Udith Dematagoda: https://udithdematagoda.com/about-2/  
Udith Dematagoda 'Horizontal Rain': https://hyperideanpress.com/books  
Udith Dematagoda 'On Infantilism': https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/on-infantilism-by-udith-dematagoda  
Wyndham Lewis 'Tarr': http://www.gutenberg.org/files/58340/58340-h/58340-h.htm
Adam on Bowie, Scott Walker, Alan Vega and Prince: https://mutepresence.com/haunted-modernist-troubadour/
Purple Mountains 'All my Happiness is Gone' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUBbROsXBw
Udith's band: https://uncadavre1.bandcamp.com/album/island-of-blight

A Literature of Reaction (w/ Udith Dematagoda)

Adam and filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic have been mutuals on social media for a little while now, but it wasn't until Mubi recently made Michael's films available on its streaming platform that Adam found himself burning through Michael's work and was thoroughly impressed. A frustrated artist exploits a rural horrorcore group in 'Hellaware', a raving delivery man accidentally kills a famous client in 'Jobe'z World', a performance artist locks himself in a cell as the Floyd riots rage outside in last year's 'Project Space 13'; while taking place in a tightly contained and well-crafted cinema universe, Michael's films mirror the reality of living in the contemporary culture industries to an uncanny degree.

Michael joins Adam and Will here to discuss not only his own films, but also Adam and Michael's shared love of Nick Zedd and the Cinema of Transgression, Michael's time working at legendary defunct East Village shop Kim's Video and Music, the crypto-transgression of Todd Phillips and 'Joker', and Bilandic's work with film art icon Abel Ferrara.

Link to Full Episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cinema-of-w-m-61462623?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

SOUNDTRACK:
Young Torture Killaz  "Cut Yo Dick Off" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDl2hpkxH5Y
Pissgrave "Euthanasia" https://music.apple.com/us/album/euthanasia/1447411867?i=1447411868
The Skaters "Untitled 2" https://youtu.be/0hjiUWhZoIY
Strangulated Beatoffs "Earth To Satan" https://music.apple.com/us/album/earth-to-satan/1082819667?i=1082820179
Overkill "Rotten To The Core" https://music.apple.com/us/album/rotten-to-the-core/1495646750?i=1495646755
Ultravox "Vienna" https://music.apple.com/us/album/vienna/1145526695?i=1145526836
Abel Ferrara on the making of 'Driller Killer' https://youtu.be/7CgINuXB2As

LINKS:
Michael M. Bilandic Twitter: @_RareArt https://twitter.com/_rareart
Michael M. Bilandic Instagram: @m1kebillz
Michael M. Bilalandic films at Mubi https://mubi.com/cast/michael-m-bilandic
On the films of Michael M. Bilandic https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-ww-world-viewed-reflections-on-the-films-of-michael-m-bilandic
Watch Nick Zedd's 'Bogus Man' https://ubu.com/film/zedd_bogus.html
Watch Nick Zedd compilation https://ubu.com/film/zedd_abnormal_01.html
Watch Nick Zedd's 'War is Menstrual Energy' https://ubu.com/film/zedd_war.html
Nick Zedd CoT manifesto https://ubu.com/film/transgression.html
Richard Kern video interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HXpmk-7NaM
Richard Kern 'The Evil Cameraman' https://ubu.com/film/kern_evil.html

Cinema of Transgression (PREVIEW) (w/ Michael M. Bilandic)

Created by Berto, Ortant Aper, and The Eternal Dillards. Music original.

Featuring Hayden Church (1:35), Yeerk.P (5:52), stained hanes (8:29, 18:00), Adam Lehrer (Safety Propaganda [9:12]), Oliver Bateman (12:52), New Face in Hell (28:30), Shit Glove (31:28), CrownedCaribou (33:33, 53:28), Jamie (RIP Snailbert [36:13]), Jack Mason (39:36), Aleksander Hardashnakov (40:40), Stricture (@bog_beef [45:27]), Confirmed Miscer (49:51), Ilych the Dialectical P_ (52:00), Raegan Lodge (56:54), ******** (58:44), Jennifer Sullivan (1:04:50)

10 - WORK

In this episode of Decode, Yung and Cute dive into the work of Paul Virilio. As they uncover the current strategies of the state, they examine the contemporary phenomenology of war, from Geopolitics to Cyber-warfare.

07 - DECODE - Strategy of Deception

Adam and Will are joined by New York-based artist and tattooer Will Sheldon. Will discusses his work with us: paintings and drawings of fantastical and fairy tale imagery but with a uniquely troubling and dark iteration fitting for our times. Will is also a tattooer and in contra to others working between the art world and tattoo culture (others typically tend to make clear distinction between the craft of tattooing and high art OR end up making tattooish art work) manages to create a clear communicative language between art and tattoos. We discuss this idiosyncrasy, Will's recent exhibitions, Will's recent collaborative book with British writer Charlie Fox, Hans Bellmer, and a shared appreciation for manga artist and filmmaker Hideshi Hino and Charlie Sheen's issues with Hino. Enjoy.

SOUNDTRACK: 
Liquor Store "Pumpin with Red Rocks" https://youtu.be/l42-eD4aweA
New York Dolls "Personality Crisis" (live) https://youtu.be/Ctg5FCS1wCM
Dayblygu "Fanzine" https://youtu.be/fShBVsCW5AA
Anal Cunt "Grateful Dead" https://music.apple.com/us/album/grateful-dead/173507687?i=173507931
Psychedelic Speed Freaks "Redline" https://music.apple.com/us/album/redline/1456380327?i=1456380336

LINKS:
Will Sheldon at Instagram: @willsheldon https://www.instagram.com/willsheldon/?hl=en
Will Sheldon interview: https://autre.love/interviewsmain/2021/10/20/will-sheldon-my-small-super-star
Will Sheldon and Charlie Fox 'Zoe': https://americanartcatalogues.com/catalogue/zoe/
Charlie Sheen thought 'Guinea Pig' was snuff: https://screenrant.com/charlie-sheen-guinea-pig-2-snuff-film-police-japanese-horror/
Hideshi Hino: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jmgkgg/flowers-of-flesh-and-blood

Charlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon)

Writer and co-host of the Art of Darkness podcast Brad Kelly is here. Brad's writing plays with the genre of sci-fi and pushes it to the outer realms of the weird, as evinced by his latest novel 'House of Sleep' from 2021. Here we discuss that novel, sci-fi, Phillip K. Dick, and more, as well as the opioid epidemic, Jim Jones and the People's Temple and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic.

Soundtrack: 
Plastikman "Outbak" https://music.apple.com/us/album/outbak/1508187787?i=1508187803
Circle X "Current" https://music.apple.com/us/album/current/1527502073?i=1527502074
Bobby Beausoleil "Hellion Rebellion" https://youtu.be/ELYj7vlclgI
KMD "What a Nigga Know" https://music.apple.com/us/album/what-a-n-a-know/1065142256?i=1065142291
Intolitarian "Allegiance to the Self" https://youtu.be/KlIBk72pCqU
Elvis Presley "Unchained Melody (Live)" https://youtu.be/AG9ph9xkOrw

LINKS:
Brad at Twitter: @bradkelly https://twitter.com/bradkelly
Buy Brad's House of Sleep https://www.amazon.com/House-Sleep-Brad-Kelly/dp/B08SLGF4W1
Brad Kelly https://www.bradkellyesque.com/
Art of Darkness podcast https://artofdarkpod.com/
Adam on Art of Darkness discussing Burroughs and Anna Kavan https://artofdarkpod.com/the-dark-room-flatline-construct-burroughs-kavan-w-adam-lehrer/

The Diving Man (W/ Brad Kelly)

Writer, Hyperidean Press publisher, and Adam's editor Udith Dematagoda joins the show once more. This time we're discussing the cultural resonance of Fight Club over 25 years down the line, and the importance of revolutionary violence to the masculine psyche. Other topics include the mindblowing year for American indie film that was 1999, Ukraine, why BAP is the Rob Halford of pseudo-philosophy, and some other shit.

SOUNDTRACK:
Los Llamarada "Gone Gone Cold" https://music.apple.com/us/album/gone-gone-cold/483051244?i=483051256
Blod "Raw Meat Perfume" 
Arditi "Legionnaires" https://music.apple.com/us/album/legionaries/298928918?i=298928978
Clandestine Blaze "Chambers" https://youtu.be/H3TfbxJQIjk
Negative Approach "Ready to Fight" https://youtu.be/7cVwoEFDUI0

LINKS:
Follow Udith at Twitter: @Udematagoda https://twitter.com/UDematagoda
Hyperidean Press: https://www.hyperideanpress.com/
Anti-Cringe by Udith https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/anti-cringe-by-udith-dematagoda

Ready to Fight (W/ Udith Dematagoda)

A long anticipated episode, Adam and crew delve into the history and culture of black metal, enlisting the help of metalhead Psyop Resistor. The crew explains how they came to find intrigue in the genre, and then dive into some of their favorite and most evil albums of the canon. 

FULL EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/satanic-art-phag-69979359?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator

SOUNDTRACK:
(Psyop's pick) Vothana "Vi Muon Tra Thuo" https://youtu.be/YOqJ2_cAZ-M
(Adam's pick)Torgeist "Devoted to Satan" https://youtu.be/cP-XryOlbJ0
(Psyop's pick)Hate Forest "Elder Race" https://youtu.be/ihYyBmV3W4U
Boyd Rice "An Eye for an Eye" https://music.apple.com/us/album/an-eye-for-an-eye/211808790?i=211808920
(Adam's pick) Abruptum "Feci Factum Sanguine Gladios Made Fieri Factus" https://youtu.be/SKIISOlHKqY
(Psyop's pick)Arizmenda "Beyond the Shadows of Emptiness & Nothingness https://youtu.be/SKIISOlHKqY
(Adam's pick) Nuit Noire "Brume Nocturne" https://youtu.be/HYWhpa636yg
Metallica "Bleeding Me" https://music.apple.com/us/album/bleeding-me/579371716?i=579372211

LINKS:
Psyop Resistor at Twitter: @sanrio_pilled  https://twitter.com/sanrio_pilled
Lés Legions Noires at Dennis Cooper Blog https://denniscooperblog.com/gig-139-les-legions-noires/
Nuit Noire interview https://www.mirgilus.com/nuit-noire
Abruptum interview https://www.facebook.com/1542631672618066/posts/interview-with-it-from-legacy-magazine-2011-answers1-how-present-is-the-wold-of-/1583716551842911/

(PREVIEW) Satanic Art Phag Propaganda (W/ Psyop Resistor)

In 1978, UK industrial and experimental music pioneers Nurse With Wound, then a collaborative effort between multiple musicians before Steven Stapleton would turn the project into his braintrust some years later, released its debut album Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. That record, the title of which references an excerpt of Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, is one of the primary influences on all that which would later be known as industrial, experimental, or noise music from that point on. More important than the album, however, is its liner notes.

What has become known as the Nurse With Wound list was printed in the liner notes of the record: a list of over 200 avant-garde and outsider artists and groups that were influential on the development of Nurse with Wound in particular but that also can be used to historicize the avant-garde tendency in music writ large. From ground zero avant-rock like the Velvets to obscure European Jazz like Thrice Mice to pioneers of avant-garde composition like Karlheinz Stockhausen, the NWW list opens the floodgates to a new method of engagement with sound. 

In this episode, the boys invite Joey from the Easy Listening podcast to journey through the NWW list with all three of them finding three artists from it that appeal to their own sensibilities.

OST

Joe Potts "Airway" https://youtu.be/ZxDRFL98ipI
Robert Ashley "Automatic Writing" https://youtu.be/wwz56v1Ch7U
Chrome "SS Cygni" https://youtu.be/R0gnB-FcCV8
Le Forte Four "To the Crow" https://youtu.be/qFM7OuWut2c
Pere Ubu "Small Was Fast" https://youtu.be/lTF4tJg3VQ4
Horrific Child "Angoisse" https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/horrific-child
The Decayes "Breeding in Captivity" https://youtu.be/yrF5PjDMQP8
Alvin Lucier "Bird & Person Dyning" https://youtu.be/BjKq3Jz2fUE
Selten Gehorte Musik "Untitled"https://youtu.be/M2QFPxbxcC8

LINKS:
Easy Listening pod with John Duncan https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/easy-listening/id1586546568?i=1000535928132
NWW List: https://www.ultimathulerecords.com/nwwlist.html
NWW Brainwashed doc: https://youtu.be/Aw1OFOJcZ4g
NWW interview: https://bigtakeover.com/interviews/an-interview-with-steven-stapleton-nurse-with-wound-part-one
Bob Nickas on NWW: https://www.frieze.com/article/music-20

A Chance Meeting: NWW List (w/ Easy Listening)

Adam speaks with American harsh noise master Worth, aka William Van Gorder, who has a new record on White Centipede Noise called Sacred Violence Noise. Will recorded the album while on residency in Thailand, and throughout the conversation relays the experiences he had there and in his Southeast Asia journey more broadly. What is it like to make noise for an audience that has no fucking clue what is happening? MAGIC! Duh. 

Talking about Thailand and Southeast Asia leads these two artists to discussion of another shared interest: writer New Juche. Juche is also an artist who finds transcendence in beauty in abjection and decay – the decay of the Southeast Asian landscape, and the abjection in his own perverse sexual habits.

Soundtrack:

Worth "Chirping Head" https://whitecentipedenoise.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-violence-noise
Deicide "Behead the Prophet" https://music.apple.com/us/album/behead-the-prophet-no-lord-shall-live/214483523?i=214483586
New Juche Whores of Leith "Walpurgis" https://youtu.be/l3hE0FASvEc
Antony "Hitler in my Heart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/hitler-in-my-heart/447861434?i=447861503
Weak Sisters "Basement Tapes Side B" https://whitecentipedenoise.bandcamp.com/album/bt-hn-weak-sisters

LINKS: 
Worth interview https://youtu.be/X8nrprR6ERs
Worth 'Sacred Violence Noise' https://whitecentipedenoise.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-violence-noise
Prose Nagge https://naggecontent.blogspot.com/
Worth at Ende Tymes https://youtu.be/WakF8_UMT_E
Adam on New Juche for Apocalypse Confidential https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2022/01/14/new-juche-abjection-location-prostitution-and-the-unmasking-of-western-culture/

Immersed in Death (W/ Worth)

Artist/philosopher/mathematician Eric Schmid and artist, researcher, and member of industrial music collective Ono Connor Tamaka join SOS by SP. We discuss Connor and Eric's recent collaborative essay on Dimes Square, in my mind the only one of many dimes thinky pieces to get it right, as well as the connections between mathematics and art, Reza, Brassier, the state of noise music, Shadow Ring covers, Fassbinder, and a whole lot more...

Soundtrack: 
Mauthausen Orchestra "The Hole" 
Shadow Ring "Brainage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUBW7mxjpvw
Russell Haswell "One take Tub" https://music.apple.com/us/album/one-take-dub/928651709?i=928655893
The Deviants "Child of the Sky" https://music.apple.com/us/album/child-of-the-sky/873529415?i=873529475
John Frusciante "Estrus" (attached) 
The Gerogerigege "Wreck of Former Rock n Roll" https://youtu.be/UYumcZW5ssM
OUTRO Van Halen "Why Can't This be Love" https://music.apple.com/us/album/why-cant-this-be-love/319402847?i=319402879

LINKS:
Eric Shmid at Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanpierreserre
Eric at Instagram: polymath_chicago https://www.instagram.com/polymath_chicago/
Eric Schmid Website: http://ericschmid.com/
Eric Schmid 'Social Mobility' https://ericschmid.bandcamp.com/album/social-mobility
Eric Schmid 'Hans Ulrich Obrist' https://ericschmid-hansulrichobrist.bandcamp.com/album/eric-schmid-hans-ulrich-obrist-bernhard-kleist-chaotic-neutral-total-work-of-art
Eric Schmid 'Dedicated to Adam Lehrer' https://www.ninaprotocol.com/3nQTeuAwg6VKe3PeH9xmXq9ULsL147hwrTohKSEiKRMF
Eric Schmid and Connor Tomaka 'Mathematical Structuralism' https://triest.bandcamp.com/album/mathematical-structuralism
Ono 'Your Future is Metal' https://ono1980.bandcamp.com/album/your-future-is-metal
Connor at Instagram: @buzzw_arl_ord https://www.instagram.com/buzzw_arl_ord/
Eric Schmid, Laszlo Horvath, Connor Tomaka "Dimes is of the Essence: Gardeners of the creative" https://tripleampersand.org/dimes-essence-gardeners-creative/

Shadow Ring Covers (W/ Eric Schmid and Connor Tomaka)

"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, electro- dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."

This podcast System of Systems, the audio misinformation arm of Safety Propaganda, is hosted by writer/artist Adam Lehrer and artist Matthew Denicola. Conform – it's pervasive. A virus. A pandemic. How can we inoculate against it?

Links:
SOS at Patreon: www.patreon.com/systemofsystems
SOS at Libsyn: directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/systemofsystems
SOS at twitter: twitter.com/SystemofSystem3
Adam at twitter: twitter.com/SafetyPropagan1
Adam's personal website: adamlehrer.com
Adam at Instagram: @adamlehreruptown
Safety Propaganda: safetypropaganda.substack.com/

Email: thereisonlyonesystemofsystems@gmail.com

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