Published in 1884, Against Nature (À rebours) concerns the attempts of its cultured and neurotic anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to escape contemporary Parisian life. At his rural retreat he is able to indulge his particular artistic tastes as he muses on a range of topics including literature, religion and painting.

Although regarded as shocking on its publication, Against Nature was received with enthusiasm by the aesthetic movement and, most particularly, Oscar Wilde, who featured the book in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Against Nature marks a departure from the classic form of 19th-century literature, and this audiobook features the full text, with previously expurgated parts restored. To find out more, visit naxosaudiobooks.com/against-nature-unabridged

Joris-Karl Huysmans – Against Nature (sample)

Artist Sven Loven joins Adam in his living room where they consume edibles and discuss Sven's new show at No Gallery in New York. For the exhibition, Sven turned to portraiture and creates a time capsule, or perhaps a capsule of a moment in which time has lost meaning, of the Dimes Square meme. Subjects include: Black Dean Kissick, Art Basel Miami stabber Siyuan Zhao, Reena Spaulings Gallery and Dimes Square spiritual mother Emily Sundblad, Peter Thiel as angel, and more. 

Sven and I discuss the surrealism of digital life, Dimes Square as simulacra of art scene, new age ketamine therapy, transgenderist ideology, reality television, and more. 

FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ritualistic-w-85008258?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

SOUNDTRACK:

Disclose "Fear of the War" https://youtu.be/qI9Q8M1JKSk
Streicher "National Action" https://youtu.be/dIiJ1ZSSLKE
Klaus Schulze "Freeze" https://music.apple.com/us/album/freeze/1295620793?i=1295620799
Forest "As A Shade Above This Land"
Monoshock "Crypto-Zoological Disaster" https://music.apple.com/us/album/crypto-zoological-disaster/549677632?i=549677693
Brian Eno and John Cale "Lay My Love" https://music.apple.com/us/album/lay-my-love/684270852?i=684270862

LINKS: Sven Loven: http://svenloven.com/
Sven Loven 'Humiliation Ritual' https://www.nononogallery.com/exhibitions/sven-loven-humiliation-ritual/
Sven Loven for Safety Propaganda: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/safety-propagandist-1-sven-loven

(PREVIEW) Ritualistic Humilation (W/ Sven Loven)

France Catholique 2025-02-13 Revue du 14 février 2025

Radio Maria est née en Italie dans les années 1980. Elle s'est rapidement développée en Europe et dans le monde pour atteindre 83 pays en 2024. En France depuis 1998,  sa mission est de diffuser l'Evangile en harmonie avec la doctrine et les indications pastorales fournies par l'Eglise catholique, dans la fidélité au Saint Père, et en utilisant toutes les possibilités que peut offrir un moyen de diffusion radiophonique. Radio Maria est une radio catholique, mariale, d'évangélisation.

"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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