Contain Podcast

This is the first half-for full 3 hour episode as well as resources, extra documents, and more plz subscribe HERE

Episode on the history of non/anti-cybernetics (Game/Automata/Double Bind Theory) developed in the UK, US, USSR, and China and what that means for us today: cognitive autonomy, surveillance, breaking out of the cyberculture, etc. Throught the 20th century complexity studies were conducted globally by social psychologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in capitalist and socialist countries alike, and despite them all adopting the same trendy word at one point or another: "Cybernetics", that wasn't exactly what they were all just doing. And they certainly weren't aiming for the same outcome of streamlined logistical matrices--and depending on the cultural, social, and national context, sometimes aimed for the opposite! 

The project turned four for so bod [包家巷] proposed we do a rundown of every single episode of from 1 until 170 and "react" to each one - the good, the bad, the ugly - every single phase from this nebulous, undefined sociology project. Afterthoughts on what worked and what didn't work, who to trust, where things are headed, and more. From cult leaders to Soundcloud rappers to transhumanists and 21st c. philosophers-after 4 long years I have finally found out what this show is about.

This is a preview, for full 3 + hour episode consider⁠ subscribing for all episodes ⁠

Comprehensive history of AI episode w/ Max Foley (Reality Gamer) (Harmless AI / Anti-Yudkowski)

Original release 8/28/23

the stupidity of E/ACC, RAND corporation 4.0, Van Neumann / Robert Oppenheimer, Game Theory, Corporate Surrealism, Andy Warhol: Cyborg, AI Alignment scam, Bayesian probability, Roger Bacon's Brazen Head,  “There is no natural religion”, #BRG, scientific realism, and more...

Full episodes, research series, and more here

for full 4.5 hour episode support the show on Patreon

4.5 hour sequel of A History of Leisure and Free Time focusing on lesser known movements, innovations, and countercultural operations of the 20th century - a consummate historical excursion into how we can redeem the Realm of Freedom in the 21st Century. 

Robert Rauschenberg's Captiva Island getaway in post 68', Bell Laboratories, Experiments in Art and Technology, and Expo 70' in Osaka, Robert Maynard Hutchin's Civilizations of the Dialogue, Book Clubs, Feminism and the 6 hour work day, The UK Free Festival Circuit: Ritual Madness at Stonehenge ft. Ozric Tentacles, Utopian Communities during the Great Depression, how labor unions turned into "a carbon copy of capitalism", Taft-Hartley act, Frank Lloyd Wright pt. 2, FDR and the spiritualization of work...

patreon.com/contain

Musician, artist, and writer Jack Skelley comes on the show to discuss his lost classic work of fiction Fear of Kathy Acker out now on Semiotext(e), William Blake, Los Angeles, Mike Kelley, and more.  

For full episode, library of episodes, music and more consider subscribing as your support makes this project possible!

Some thoughts on being a cancer transplant donor + Q & A including Droopy Dog, creative advice, and more.

This is a preview, full episode on Patreon

The ladies from my favorite podcast Texas Overture come on the show to discuss their experience of the Archives of the Impossible paranormal archive conference at Rice University amongst many other things: “In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam” Forrest Bess, Topaz Mining, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, and the mass turn towards paranormal and celestial interests.

Pt. 2- Applying Baudrillard's concept of the Fatal Strategy. Other topics: ether, anesthesia, The Waste Land, AI, the history of the mini-skirt, Emanuel Swedenborg's skull, Sophie Calle, baroque, alchemy, etc. lots of good stuff in this one.

Follow Emmalea and take one of her courses 

Full Episode On Patreon

Hour 1 of 4 hour investigative/synthetic special with Subliminal Jihad Full: ⁠www.patreon.com/contain⁠ Music from the episode: https://on.soundcloud.com/PamifH2kx93QVeYG6

Episode on the strange phenomena and para-psychology of reincarnation, life-after-death, and near-death experience recollection with my friend artist/writer Brad Phillips

For full episodes, early releases, bonuses, links and more please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

Full episode with links and bibliography up now on Patreon 

Can a deep fake be beautiful? Episode w/ writer Leszlek Stalewski on Chat GPT3, AI, geopoetics and how natural developments still shape our cultural landscape. Kojeve's book Incarnating Beauty on Kandinsky and non-representational art and his view that it is 'more total and objective' than representational painting, how youth movements form (rap), why people entertain stupid new things to obtain funding, Goethe, deep-time, mineral substances, the fossil question of Agostino Scilla (the FQ), Brocken Specters, & more...an exploration on the creation of value, appraising the value that already exists.

Art Curator/Anthropologist Aaron Moulton comes on to discuss how art/media can become both a vehicle for social engineering and the communication of spiritual aspirations. He details his research into the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, linked to the Open Society foundation and its introduction of Western/Neoliberal forms of artistic/social practice through the opening of 20 centers in the post-Eastern Bloc. The show he curated The Influencing Machine brings into question free will vs. determinism, the role activism plays in art, and how art becomes directionalized and purposed by NGOs and other coercive structures to suit their own agenda.

Other topics: Roma Witches in Bulgaria, Military E-girls, the introduction of socially engaged practice in contemporary art, AI interfacing systems vs analog creativity, the ‘permitted avant garde’ (trends, fashion), manufactured notions of creativity. esoteric knowledge, Seance Trickster Magic, secrets of the State Department and a lot more

This is a preview, for entire episode, archive, bonuses, and more please consider supporting the show. Thank you all very much. 

The elusive legend known as Lawrence (Felt, Denim, Mozart Estate), on fame, mystery, consumerism, his relationship with Martin Duffy (RIP) & Maurice Deebank, the history of Felt, cartoons, technology, how to not overexpose yourself, creating your own world, his three elements to cherish, the concept behind his new project Mozart Estate, & more. ‘I want to prove that being famous doesn’t mean you have to be a prostitute to media.’

Recorded directly from flip phone (he doesn’t own a computer or smartphone) using an advanced podcasting contraption, this interview has been in the making for months now. One of the biggest inspirations to Contain and one of the greatest lyricists of all time, there couldn’t be a better way to ring in the third birthday of this show.

Order his new album Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping. Thanks to Charlie Hannah and Matti from Cherry Red for helping make this possible. World as Soft As Lace cover intro/outro by Barrett. 

For full episodes, bonuses, and more please consider supporting the show. Thank you for listening. 

PT 1. : 2h40 minute quest into the world of action movies with Mikey MDC , from Heroic Bloodshed to Hong Kong Vengeance, everything from Barb Wire starring Pam Anderson to Sammo Hung to Future Kill and The Transporter to the Cinema du Look of The Professional. Examining the role action movies & representations of violence provide in an increasingly tedious, discursive, & pro-social cultural landscape. The militaristic boosts of Black Hawk Down to the propaganda of the China Film Group Corporation & Kung Fu Hustle. For full archive of episodes, bonuses, and more consider subscribing to the show on Patreon. 

This is a preview, for full 2 hrs, please consider supporting the project here

Episode w/ artist/researcher Kylie White on archeology, unicorns: are they real?, Goethe's volcanic explorations and its role in Faust, Plutonism vs. Neptunism: who really won?, a Leibnizian rebuttal of Deep Geological Time, Scene Revival: a psy*p?, John Duns Scotus the post-naturalist, how James Hutton was the 18th century's version of Steven Pinker, why people are tearing each other down so much right now, uniformitarianism, is Space & Time even real, Scotland + more 🪨🗿🪨🗿🪨.

Theory of a Short-Wave Trend with author of Island Time and Paris Review editor Olivia Kan Sperling. Is newness a natural function of the idealized image of desire or the economy? The post-historical aesthetic of Balenciaga (giving way to recent controversies), computer programming: the language of the other, learning to code, the stylized relationship to the self (from BAP to Instagram), fashion's use of theory language, Island Time, Sarah Fucking Snyder, Technometry, long-wave trends, Lacan, tearing the fabric of reality, political economy, & more...fascinating convo, learned a lot! For full episodes support &🌋subscribe here  🌻

w/ Ian Kim Judd of Nina

A look at Felt's Poem of the River (1987) and the career of Lawrence as well as Mayo Thompson, Art-Language magazine / collective, Terry Atkinson, language as art, box sets, fame, denim

Unlocked, for full episodes, music and more subcribe  HERE  🤡🔔

Alex  aka Coolwater is back from seasons 1 + 2 for this very special episode of season 1 shock-collar therapy unhinged rants: Social Dynamic Hackers, TPot/Effective Altruism Burning Man AI Statians, Hacking Social Dynamic Vibe Camp Elders, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Steve Cokely vs. The Black Skull & Bones, Marketing Bros, Technometry, Maga Communism, Right Wing Pick-Me's, BRICS, Nathan Felder's Low IQ , All About Lily Chou-Chou, Walter Breen, Lars Von Trier's Manderlay + Samuel Beckett closed theatre, Liars

All music for this episode is unreleased Coolwater stuff. It's insanely good and you should buy his first CD . Ah man, it feels good to be back.

After a short break to end last year’s run of shows we’re back with Ben Sang to talk Mormanism as a continuation of the American Utopia Series and the outgrowth of the offsite art movement in 2022. We go into the history of the Plutonist vs. Neptunist school of geology/volcanology and the life of Dolamieau, international playboy and geologist who inspired the blacksploitation movie Dolomite and was a member of Knights of Malta. Other topics: Archival Art, Nicholas Luhmen's Cybernetic Theory, Angel Maroni, Golden Plates, metadata, library arts and the structure of Memory, Maurice and Katya Krafft, Nancy Holt, Final Hot Desert, the utopia of Deseret and how all of this relates to this Very Weird moment we find ourselves in today.

Rare interview with singer/songwriter/artist Elusin on the North Sea, Norwegian folklore: crusaders, trolls/gnomes, skin walkers, Jarl of Orkney, Cathines & Sutherland, recent USA tour, the LED lightbulb deception, and more. A classic episode. Listen to Elusin's music here

Pt. 2 3 hr episode on Utopia and Crisis with Ed Berger (Pseudodoxology podcast) brushes on the history of American Utopian Communities (Mormons, Labadists, Owenites, Catholic E-Girls), their failures and successes, and long wave economic patterns…Carlota Perez, Techno Economic Paradigms, Alfred Sohn Rethel (Real Abstraction) and Finance Punk, the delinking of Gold from the Dollar, epic road trips, Plato & Deleuze, the eternal 1970’s, Apocalyptic Fantasies, the decadence movement…Ed introduces the concept of ‘Defluencing’, Global Peacekeeping and Nuclear Power, Deep Country Shamanism, The Human Potentiality movement, Hashish, frenetic standstills, ‘Lacanian Maoism’ (lol), the end of the microtrend and the introduction of the macrotrend…

“The microtrend in and of itself is like a tautology…each individual street trend is a discourse surrounding who started the trend in question, pure self referential, a hall of mirrors.”  🇺🇸 🍞 🏍

FIRST PART...for full episode consider supporting the show here

Wide-ranging 3 hr episode w/ research god and Pseudodoxology cohost Ed Berg on all things recession: reevaluating the declining rate of profit, learning how to repair stuff, exotica music, time abolishment, Baudrillard's America, post-Marxism, Desert Islands, Americana, The Great Reset, Promis Software, cornucopia, Cyborg w/ Jean Claude Van Damme as a cinematic masterpiece, production vs. commodity capitalism, retrocausality, melting in the sun, vibe-trutherism, the 2008 financial crisis, the Chicago Surrealists/Imagists, the anti-freemasonry movement, Deleuze, crisis theory, and much more.

Surefire compendium to get you through weird times. We're recessionmaxxing on an archipelago, watching John Woo action movies, care to join? 🏝️ If you enjoy this episode and more please considering subscribing here. 

Guest  Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy: a conversation on religion's role in art today: a trend, or beyond? The Overton window shift, being 'polarizing' outside of exterior cultural situations, on asceticism vs. pleasure-seeking, fabulism, accelerationism, trad, animism, Friedrich Schiller, automation, chaos magic, finding your own morality/(agency), Vajrayana, & more. Very nice to talk with someone who has a very different outlook than my own. Hunter's first solo show can be viewed at Gern NYC.

For 2 hour plus episode consider supporting here 🙏

Why do ideas that seemed radical just 6 months ago seem so played out now? Does repetition yield new becomings or burnout? Rituals can be an answer to the production of the self and the excessive search for trends and novelty. Rituals bring closure while stabilizing life and allow it to flourish. We look at all this through Byung Chul Han’s The Disappearance of Rituals, Werner Schroeter’s adaptation of the book Malina, and Desert Islands by Giles Deleuze…

We’re hanging out on Easter Island heads & listening to exotic jazz, recessionmaxxing on an archipelago now, getting heat stroke under your bucket hat, & being an idiot. Follow Emmalea Here

Jennifer Herrema, 90’s icon/singer/producer of Royal Trux goes on deep interconnection lore:

John Dean/Watergate family DC politico stories from the vault, Calvin Klein/the manufacturing of heroin chic, Latin American emerald heists, watching the Super Bowl with a dying Timothy Leary, Liquid GHB, The Gaia Hypothesis, John Hinkley’s musical career, heavy metal evangelism, Tik Tok, calling the cops and getting yourself arrested, + more from one of the last legends of the American underground 🏢📠

Please consider supporting here

For full episode subscribe here

Sleepy Time Bear is a twitter user well known for his universally beloved and beautiful romantic modern poetry. In omnipresent flashes of digital hate-release, he spreads fondness on the TL, bringing joy to anyone who comes across his Celestial Seasons avatar.

We talk about erotic poetry and the language of love, from the anonymous, steamy, adulterous lais of Marie De France to Heloise and Abbard and William Blake; an appreciation of The Ladies, just 'understanding' things, making theorycels angry, and some great advice from the bear himself. He has been described as an 'instant anti-depressant'.

"A woman's photos on her phone are better curated than any 'exhibit'"...so true.

This is a short preview: for full episode consider supporting the show 🏰HERE🏰

The crypto market has crashed. Comedy philosophy is The Key. In this episode, me and Bienstock dive deep into the idiosyncratic concept the Spectre of Finance Punk and discuss some of its conceptual origins: Leibniz, Monad theory, Chaosophy, Concept Art, Post-Art, and Mail Art, and probably the least boring explanation of Francois Laruelle Non-Philosophy around. Barrett details his infiltration of an NFT Goddess "Web 3 meets Spirituality" event this weekend and determines that he was the spectre all along on mushrooms. This is a rigorous lesson on nubased, non-BBQ, and the Omnicringe, where we get to talk about and preview the book and movie we just finished a little bit.

This episode also details the nature of speculative finance and its collapse, how ideas and concepts have objecthood, and are liberatory in and of themselves. We made all the music for this episode! Lots of work went into this, thanks for listening <3

For bonus segment, full episodes, and more consider supporting the project 🏰HERE🏰

Here we go: an episode w/ Ryder Ripps + Pauly0x on their RR/BAYC project, questioning whether or not the internet has agency, SJW's, destroying eth., staying hated, conceptual art, beef, making tons of money re-minting bored ape JPEGS, what is a satire, and debate some other recent topics best not even written down in the description. Can we all just get along?

This is a preview, for full episode and more please consider subscribing🏰 HERE🏰

After an intense week, here's a 'chill' one w/ artist/writer Paul (from bible) , who calls in from India (on a bad connection) to talk about media theorist Vilem Flusser,  Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and America/India on Memorial Day. We examine a natural/historical case for the recently derided act of 'schizoposting', and also talk about the direct-speak to gaslighting pipeline. Happy Wednesday!

Music is a Paul remix of Organ Tapes 'Heaven Can Wait'

Part 2: on Byung Chul Han's Good Entertainment & The Transparency Society the state of the modern trial/public hearings, the right to silence, and the rise of the Dark Triad/‘Mindless Machiavellian’ subject. How transparency can be used as a tool against freedom, Depp/Heard to Deleuzian Thembo Cease & Desist Mock Trial, & BPD

"Pathological clingling to the self...makes life impossible"...

second part of this series w/ Emmalea Russo

Shannon Cartier Lucy is a painter who went from the NYC art world to divorce, heroin addiction, to moving back home to Nashville and 'giving up' to resuming her practice (but as a painter) 10 years later and acclaim through posting them on the internet. She has  one of the most remarkable stories (and ASMR voices) around. We also discuss our love of Rinpoche Chogyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom and Shambhala Vision, how ambiguity clarifies, growing up with a parent with schizophrenia, Nunsploitation, and burnout.

Preview, for full 2 hour, 30 minute episode and more please consider supporting this show on Patreon

Conversation with Fuccboi author Sean Thor Conroe on code-switching, the cult of authenticity, basketball, buraku, memoirs vs. desubjectified nubased fiction, male vulnerability exhibitions, and misconceptions surrounding his book, Fuccboi.

'that about which one must remain silent' - LW

For full episodes, bonus episodes, and more, subscribe to the Contain Podcast on Patreon

Preview, for full 2 hour, 40 minute episode and more please consider supporting this show on Patreon 

w/ Emmalea Russo

Examining the Drain Gang Tour, celebrity romance, Ghosting, the end of internet religion & irony through the lens of Agony of Eros, Psychopolitics, and Good Entertainment, by Byung Chul Han. One of the most widely read philosophers/media thinkers of today, yet vastly underrepresented in the US.

"High Definition of information leaves nothing undefined."

Highlighting Texas artists: interview with Vincente Void, Zorn, and Maria, of Houston, TX based art/music collective Endproject, spanning nu metal ( Omerta ) soundcloud music (Daniels Gone) and digital media (Pain Proxy) - who use the internet in interesting ways to circumvent the old guard art/music institutions and building bridged physical and immaterial communities in flyover country.

Also discussed: The history of Nu Metal, Incels, r/hapas, Transylvania, MMORPGs, what makes Texas great etc.

All music in this episode contributed by Endproject.

For full episodes, bonus episodes, and more, subscribe to the Contain Podcast on Patreon

This is a preview, for full episode and more, please subscribe to the Contain Podcast. 

Live at the MET cloisters with Jordan Castro (NY Tyrant/The Novelist): 13th-16th century-stained glass, reason vs. absurdity, peoples autofiction takes, narcissism, Cleveland, “evil Rene Girard be like....”, why all literature seems the same, divinity and sanity in 2022, spending time with benedictian monks, and his forthcoming book, The Novelist, soon to be released on Softskull Press.

Jordan is a god loving man and a great guy. Preorder The Novelist HERE.

Milady's, Remilias, Tojis, what the hell is even going on...Tojicorp CEO's come on to talk about the Good Factory and the history of internet art.... Embracing mundanity, cyber factories. Banal games. Losing yourself in work. If you work in a bad way, you work in the Bad Factory. Getting rugged, ponzi schemes, Martin Kippenberger, embracing Bad Art.

“The vision of the future has become evil. As an artist, you’re in the gutter, trying to leave a record of hope in the timeline of the future”. Music by Thomas.

If you enjoy this episode, please consider supporting contain on patreon at 🕊️ patreon.com/contain

Special episode w/ the greatest conspiracy rapper of all time, the one and only RXK Nephew  aka Slitherman.

Topics: The Bible, Armageddon, conspiracy, feeling blessed all the time, consistency, prison, humility, alter-egos, Dark M*ga, and much much more. This ain't No Jumper! The definitive RXK Nephew interview.

For last 30 minute bonus full episode plus many more consider supportting the show 🏰HERE 🏰

Pt 2 Field Recordings up on Patreon 

This week I went on the ground reporting from SXSW, a tankie conference (CPI), the Stubbs Axtion Kunst, and more.

• Part I: We try "gourmet insect" tacos. "By 2050, humans will experience a giant food gap, while nearly 30% of food produced in the U.S. ends up in landfills." Crazy WEF stuff preparing for the pod.
• Part 2: Wonder House event, technology University of Arizona
• Part 3: We get gestapo'd out at the Center for Political Innovation tankie conference, friends get wrongly accused of being Maoist Infiltrators.
• Part 4: Virtual Reality/XR experience at SXSW Jakob Kudnsk Steensen's Liminal Lands
• Part 5: Matt Ox, Big Jade, S3nsi Molly Rap

Also a tangent on USSR art and media theorist Boris Groys and "what is avant garde even". Young Eddy also gives his analysis of what happened. Weirdest episode yet, took hella long to make. 

For full episode + bonuses and 99 others please consider subscribing 🏰HERE🏰

Joined by Adam Parfrey biographer Sam Vandiver Corwin (Feral House/Apocalypse Culture) and Blauergeist, editor and founder of Apocalypse Confidential, we meditate on theories of cultural apocalypse and a retrospective of the great independent media publisher Feral House-how its neutral vision applies to independent projects of today: from the death of noir, Walt Disney, the Process Church, to 'going soft'/when edginess wears off, reclaiming the conspiracy, and how to navigate the all-encompassing post-political invective of being branded a "nihilist". Chaos, hyperstition, and amorphous joy.

We trace the history of apocalypse as a catalyst for para-cultural art projects. Music provided by Sam aka Corwin Trains... purchase his incredible album here. Episode 100____ Thanks for listening🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

Special report on the underground nightlife world of cyber-authoritarian fantasy city Singapore w/ journalist/writer Michelle Lhooq, who specializes in drug culture and raves. From making ice, to canings, to millionaires' secret lavish parties, paranoia, narc culture, QR codes, facial recognition…we also go into which part of the US has the best covid and post-covid raves, Thailand's Marijuana industry, the Halloween generator party at Jack Parson’s Devils Dam, M Bar lore, and more. Dark, seedy, scary, this is what partying looks like after the pod. Follow her writing on Substack and here

Why do words/media seem to lose its ability to transmit meaning long term? Emmalea Russo is a writer who focuses on mysticism, horror, media studies, and we examine the way micro-movements inevitably end up in the hands of institutions and brands and gamified as commodity. The Vibe Shift is used as one such modern example, as well as Michel Serres concept of The Parasite, St. Augustine and the return to digital nominalism, Byung Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals, Joker mythology, and Bahktin's Jubilee.

Without the physical structure of the church, Christianity wouldn't have survived. We troubleshoot how immateriality becomes unseated, and some solutions on how culture may once again survive.

Think of this as a supplemental episode to the Angelicism01 one. Music contributed by Thomas. 🕸🕸🕸🕸🕸🕸🕸

Filmmaker/ex state department politico/smoking advocate Amanda Milius joins in for a far-ranging episode on the Hilary Russiagate Controversy, Royal Trux, John Milius and Zen Anarchy, multi-hyphenated gulags, Lauren Alice Avery, CD's, an interesting account of the statue of Prometheus in the State Department courtyard, learning to enjoy being the most hated person in the room, and the question of: "is there a culture war’" Let's just say this one is a bit more 'out there' than her interview on Tucker Today. A long time in the making. Embrace the chaos, Wolverines forever. FUN. Watch Plot Against The President here 

For all episodes, bonuses, + more, please consider subscribing 🏰HERE 🏰

Members of autonomous collective Inhabit on commune life, the organization's origin story, agriculture, its manifesto (Little Orange Book), morality, the return of heroism, hacking the planet, post-covid politics, alienation, guns, the death of earth, and who/what radicalized them, influencing Ye, and what makes them different from CHAZ.

An unexpectedly funny conversation.

Read Inhabit HERE  🪶👨‍🌾💥

Episode produced by Coolwater who most of you will remember : -)

w/ artist Justin Guthrie  . Two mixed-breeds talk hair metal, the Great Mystery, Sweat Lodges, Oral vs Textual Systems and podcasting, the conditions of ritual being centered in the mind, and his new book, New World Rites. New World Rites eponymously describes the forced acclimation of ancient indigenous rituals of the “Old World” to the foreign environment of the “New World.” This is not your average Oberlin undergrad mediation on identity. 

For entire two hour episode and notes please consider subscribing 🪶HERE🎸

w/ artists Ben Kellog and Lara Joy Evans - on psyop/armageddon culture…90’s Christian anti-Hollywood propaganda movie Lights, Camera, Blasphemy!, Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, natalism, sacred architecture, cartoons, techno shamanism, wendigo (mass formation) psychosis, Jung, neuroweaponry, body modification, HARP angel clouds, the Russian Embassy in Cuba, Paul Laffoley, Stealth bombers, Medieval Dancing Madness... knowledgeable these two, learned a lot! 

Knowledge is Evil 🕸🏛 for the full episode and access to every episode of Contain please consider subscribing here

Experimental Tejano duo Nudo come on to describe the modern state of agricultuture-from fed enforced 'green' farms to blockchain credit scores for farmers, alchemically dead food products, enforced faith in A.I, and inorganically mitigated nature, Eagle Pass Texas/Juarez Mexico border conditions, & more. Two local Texans and some of the smartest fellows I know...always blowing my mind w/ deep wisdom. 

Listen to their Sex mix here

For more episodes please consider subscribing HERE 👨‍🌾

Episode preview, for full 2+ hours please condider going 🏰 HERE 🏰

Theorygrams greatest and most banned poster Deleuzian Catboy comes on to talk all things radicalism: Tiqqun, militant nihilism, biopolitics, the emptiness of evil, nomadic war machines, emancipatory stupidity, Jan 6., QAnon, Nietzchian communitarianism, the power of Soyjacks, Karl Marx, "Blooms",  Alex Jones, leisure as praxis, and the ultimate escape from capital: being a cis girl with a huge dick because society is a spectre. 2+ hours of absolute liberatory funtime...become indecipherable!

If you enjoy this episode and want to hear more, please consider subscribing 🏰HERE 🏰

Utah based Acheologist/Artist Ben Sang and Biologist/Artist Hudson Kendall talk about their projects Final Hot Desert and i8i, growing up in Mormanism, alternative economies, the synthesis of nature and microplastics, idol creation,  the ontology of the oil and gas industry, the iphone as a ritualistic mirror, the internet: a book that hasnt been written, infinate repeating heavens because utopia is hell, cyclonopedia, austin osman spare, controlling how demons function, the unconcious need to develope notions of good evil, conciousness being an evolutionary mistake, the big mess of decay, only through catastrophism can we be shaped, we don't know where conciousness goes, accepting infinity, and bodies becoming smashed into dust.

Happy December, and Thank You For Listening 

Music by i8i

Is it possible to have life without suffering? Founder of the World Transhumanist Association David Pearce  and Machine Learning Specialist Duncan Wilson  try to make the case, while a skeptical Barrett (life without pain and suffering is a life undead)  makes his. What does a transhumanist look like? Will bimbo's benefit from biohacking? How does one biohack themselves to raise hedonic levels? Identity, metaphysics, crispr babies, lab cultivated meat, & post-humanism: The Transhumanism Episode.

If you enjoy this episode and others, please consider supporting 🏰 HERE 🏰

For full episode please subscribe HERE 🎀🏰

Ketamine Patrol w/ Sierra is back, this time with arsonist/author/video game creator Paul Town for a very special episode on productivity, Fake Satanism, and Crazy Wisdom. Sierra is having a tough time finishing her school assignments, Paul gives some expert advice on how to write 5 books a year, on living with schizophrenia, daydreaming, demonology, just being a girl, and more.

You can buy PT's books, get his productivity callender, read his writing, and check out his games here

Sound Artist and Electronic producer Luke Younger aka Helm on Axis (released tomorrow) synths, music technology, atmosphere anti-narrative and ideology, having no agenda, having no politics, and capturing the moment with artistic explorations into nullified darkness and industrial calcification. Forests, ice chandeliers, and the need to create in the midst of bare life

You can buy Axis now from Dais Records.

First Part, for rest and other episodes please consider going 💨HERE🕸

Podcaster 2: It All Ends With Society feat. @alexineutron & @bloodgobbler of Nymphet Alumni on editing a podcast, the parasocial, Golblincore, Waifs, EDM, Mukbang, Gamer Twitch Streams, Charli Demilio as a philosopher, suicide, @wetbrainupdates, Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, freedom in unknowing…It All Ending With Society 💫

Featuring none other than James Ellis (Meta Nomad) of the legendary Hermitix Podcast and Cute Noumena of Decode Cast.

What is a podcast? Why do people start them? Why do people listen to them? What makes one good? What makes one bad? How do you keep on going? What is a metric of success? When does it stop being a podcast and start being something else entirely? This is an investigation on the ins and outs of podcasting as a mediological study. Scary ass shit 🎃

Pt. 2 coming shortly.

PS. Thank You to all the people who came out to the Angelfest reading and the Nubased Axtion Kunst performance w/ Alex Bienstock this weekend in NYC. Was great to see you all in person!

If you enjoy this episode, please consider subscribing 🏰HERE🏰

Interview w/ Curtis Eggleston on his debut novel Hollow Nacelle with Manuel Marrero, head of Expat Lit. Hollow Nacelle is a beautifully woven tapestry of mysticism, artistic malaise, burnout culture, alienation, pharmacology, and the trappings of social media and social mobility. Curtis explains the novel, as well as some details into his cryptic background, from fighting fires and teaching children in Sao Paulo, Brazil (where he currently resides), to rubbing elbows with the glamorous in Los Angeles to exiting society. Craft, patience, and the merits of slow burn vs/ instant gratification. Manuel discusses Expat and literature's resurgence, and the trajectory of the project. One of my favorite personal episodes.

Buy Hollow Nacelle from Expat Press

For full episode please consider subscribing , thank you for your support. 

In person interview with 3-D printed gun innovator and one of the "10 most dangerous people of this decade" Cody Wilson on post-politics, post-modernism, and the state of 3-D printed firearms. Baudrillard, Sloterdijk, and the "Agony of Power" in an increasingly automated yet ultimately fragile world. Other topics: humanism and how to remain human going into the 21st century, BPD, post-humanism, new metaphysics, public scrutiny, and art.

Incredibly rare insight into the thoughts of one of the most notorious thinkers and operators on the planet 🕸🕸🕸💨

The last two years have altered our relationship w/ media and sound: songs on repeat, EDM tracks about togetherness and euphoria, Spotify "study" playlists have all entered our world in a half assed attempt to ground our fleeting sense of time. I talk writer Alexander Iadarola (Rhizome, Bomb, 032c) about his interviews of Bladee and Ecco2K, theories on endless songs, slime, the problem of techno spirituality, brain-interfacing organisms merging w/ machines, why he got into writing, & more.

Check out

Horses Don't Stop

Paradise: On EDM and Speculatuve Finance

If you enjoy this, please consider becoming a patron for exclusive episodes, mixes, and bonuses💫 here

HERE

Cringe vs. Beauty. The debate to end all debates: is BBQ being harvested by a Nu-Based machine-inside the Omnicringe. Artists Marc Horowitz, Petra Cortright, Alex Bienstock tackle the most difficult aesthetic questions of our time. Humor, new forms of entertainment. Petra makes an amazing point: “We live in a world with too many rules and not enough concequences. And I wanna live in a world with less rules and more concequences." Marc brings a boa-constrictor to work. "I would have s*x with a cowboy”

Recorded in person in Marc's studio in Altadena, California. Song: Inside The Omnicringe, by Alex Bienstock

 Hour 1, if you enjoy this episode you can find more + mixes 🍂here 💫

Master artist/conversationalist Julien Nguyen describes painting, rigor, and the pursuit of re-enchantment in the 21st century. How to put forth attention to craft without reducing it to formal equations. Temporality changing in modernity, Simone Weil, Lucien Freud, Francis Fukuyama, Velazquez, and the resonance of art making while civilization crumbles, deeper investigations. Technology will not free us, the utilitarian model is breaking.

"There's a kind of Ecstacy in Horror". Highly relevant, and recorded in person in Julien's studio in Fairfax District, Los Angeles.

Pictures here. Twitter here.

For full episode and more please consider joining 🏰 HERE 🏰

New England rap legend DJ Lucas (Dark World) w/ New England Sierra  on small town lore in the Northeast and Art Rap. Local sounds, haunted houses, eccentrics, refusing to sell out, telling your story, and more. We examine the connection between geography and art, and come to the conclusion that it still exists. Lucas is one of the most beautiful rappers in the world, the bars he spits are from the heart and soul, and speak of his experience as a real Western Mass Farm Boy. Northeast internet folk heroes usher in the Autumn Solstice.

The Hipster Nation is Crumbling...DJ DJ DJ...

If you enjoy this episode and want to hear more please consider supporting on ✶patreon

w/ artist/writer Brad Phillips : socially induced chronic pain, ideological failures, digitized torment, 12 step recovery (transposed for Instagram), higher powers, the desire to stare into the ocean forever, having to work even though we're going through a major extinction event, murdering your inner child, forced endurance contests and how wrong everyone was in the 20th century.  Clear/White/Soft/Cosmic/Hopeful. I believe people might get something out of this.

Season IV opening

For full 4 hour 20 minute episode pleasesubscribe 

Season 3 Close, thank you all for your support.  

Full episode on Patreon

Director Michael Bilandic (Jobez World) joins Tom Tuna  & B to discuss the unheralded work of absurdist provocateur filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) and his relevence to the canon of liberated heretical consciousness. An overall artist who's work spanned film, performance, opera, and installation (and whose true liberal sensibilities drew disgust from everyone from Wim Wenders to conservatives to the left), we dive into someone who represented BIG T*ARD energy in it's maximum capacity.

Terror 2000, Trash Stars, Euphoria (with Tilda Swinton) German Chainsaw Massacre, dressing up like a Hasi and giving Germany over to Globalization at the Statue of Liberty. Mike also reminisces on his time in Austin TX in the late 90's heyday of slacker boho paradise, Dirty Nasty (Simon Rex) wiggaz, and his movie Happy Life.

"I don't mind tumbling down a hill and crashing into a tree as long as it's done in a state of Euphoria" - C. Schlingensief

Writer / University Researcher Nicolas Hausdorf (Author of Superstructural Berlin) comes on to discuss authoritarian technocratic statecraft-apologists in academia and his new review of Benjamin Bratton’s book Revenge of The Real as well as the controversy surrounding Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (and how he did nothing wrong) . How you can't really talk about reality while discounting historical forces like cryptography, getting quirked up, metaphysics, and the inconvenient truth of scientism's usage as a handmaiden for power.

Lutz Dammbeck: The Net: The Unibomber, LSD, and the Internet. UFO's, Social, Engineering, and Psychological Fragmentation.  An old article for Vice where he says Wearables are bad and they altered the article to say he actually liked them.

Intro song: Absolute Unit Remix by Baddcitizen (RIPJEWELXXET) from the Spiral album and cues from Delivery LA

"Benjamin Button appears as part of a new breed of heavy-handed authoritarian leftists, who similar to creatures like Emmanuel Macron, deliver the New World Order top-down style and with a few meaningless quips against woke constructivism"

Extra bonus 30 minutes here

For full episode subscribe to the show on Patreon

Contain's most requested guest, Writer, Art Columnist, and Spike New York Editor Dean Kissick comes on to discuss leaving society, identity, and the ways in which we might free ourselves from individualism. Many people have tried on all sides of the political spectrum and failed, either through new trad movements, social media "friend" networks, and secular utopianism. Does spirituality in a base or broad sense help answer this question?

Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles, Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdyduke,  Byung Chul Han's Psychopolitics, and Tao Lin's Leave Society (reviewed in his Downward Spiral Column) set examples of ego liberation, maybe through emancipatory DADA nihilism, kratom, Jesus, baroque art, being Black Dean Kissick, and more.

Lots to unpack here, and hopefully some ideas to enjoy.

Read his latest column for Spike on Tao Lin's Leave Society

What is going on with music? We ask elder statesmen artist/musician Luke Calzonetti (Run Dust/Child Abuse) and Drag City artist/musician/writer Mike Donovan (Sic Alps/Peacers) on a seasoned perspective on how we might now perceive music (now?) and how mystery music and the underground became anachronistic, getting into painting and writing etc. Mike discusses his new book, an anthropological account of what Taxi driving would look like to a human 100 years from now. Will To Power of fronting a musical project in the age of covid and the need for conflict.

It doesn't matter how easy it is to do, it matters what you do! Unearthing lore from the early 2000's Library of Alexandria, this is one of my favorite episodes.

Featuring songs from Mike Donovan's new Drag City record Exurbian Quonset (Digital Dan, Hate Mail Writer) and Run Dust's Banca Nazionale (Baccus,  and Leisure Village (Distant Bloods)

If you enjoy this show consider supporting on Patreon for bonus episodes, $ecret merchandise discounts, and more

Are a lot of people going to die? We ask ex-model, conspiracy theorist, and organic health guru Troy Casey the serious questions (what should you do in order to stop snorting ketamine) and he offers some serious solutions (take a baths in a tub of ice, eat bull testicles). On the death question, he discusses survival tactics and lays out the prophecies of Mayan doomsday saga, the book of revelation, and why humanity is killing itself with soy and pancakes.

Why natural tits and ass is the best, staying healthy in a toxic world, celebrating your shadow, the law of mentalism, social engineering, testosterone boosting foods + more.

Do you like your life? Well look in the mirror and ask yourself how it's working out for you.

Check out Troy's program, book and Man Clan retreats HERE

Full episode available now on Patreon

Thank you to all who listen and support this show

Ketamine Patrol 4: featuring Honor Levy, this is a LIST episode in honor of the great VIBE SHIFT of June 1-5, Honor predicted Lindy Man would end up in the NYT's. The return of Dark Athletica, what will HOT this summer and beyond. She also goes on a wild rant about the infamous "Desert Fox", Creepypasta, Fan Fiction, Tik Tok Maximalism, new Dog Whistles, a debate on TRAD as COPE or NOT (⁍̴̆◡⁍̴̆ )⊃✫⌒*･ﾟ

If you enjoy this show, please consider subscribing to the Patreon for access to all episodes, discord, merch discounts, as well as keeping this project alive. 🤍✨

2+ hour episode episode HERE 

2+ hours w/ artists Negashi Armada and Nicholas Campbell to discuss the burgeoning reexamination of esotericism and non-philosophical nihilism and how this came to be. We dive into Berserk (Kentaru Miura), medievalism, perennialism, Sufi gnosticism, Mitchell Heisman's incredible meditation on the extinction in Suicide Note, Dark Mountain Society Angelecism01's blog, Black Mountain Society and the evaluation of whether our values really HAVE any value to begin with.

Part 1: Negashi Armada: Berserk, Medievalism, Sufism, Mechanical Grids of Violence, Mohammad & Charlemagne, Dark Mountain Manifesto

Part 2: Starts at 52 minutes: Nicholas Cambell w/ N.A: Mitchell Heisman, Peak Oil, Rene Guenon, Angelicism01, BAP

Patreon exclusive! 

Full 1hr40 episode available on Patreon

Writer/Historian Monica Belevan and Filmmaker Charlie Curran (See Know Evil) come on to discuss their projects Accursed Share and All Tomorrows Parties. Accursed Share is a digital smart contract to break the curse on the most used anonymous face on the internet. Other topics include mystification, reenchantment,  baroque paradigms, the solar economy, and navigating and defining new emerging subcultures.

For more please see the latest installment of All Tomorrows Parties 4 / Accursed Share 

Rare, first ever interview with mysterious Soundcloud legends Axxturel, Slurr, Baddcitizen, & 2Shanez, (formally of JEWELXXET) on their unique sound, demonic possession, sigils, vessels, casting spells, loving yourself, killing yourself/ego death, controlling the wind, drugs, pain, gnosis, and more. This is the best Contain ever and will go down in for all eternity. Thank you all for being here and enjoy 🌛💫

If you enjoy this show, please consider subscribing to the Patreon for access to all episodes, discord, merch discounts, as well as keeping this project alive. 

Do you want a new internet? Urbit/Tlon offers just that. Part conceptual art project/part decentralized private web 3.0 server, founders/designers Christian Langalis (aka the Bitcoin Sign Guy) and Édouard Urcades, Urbit is attempting to revolutionize the way we use the internet. From gifting your friends planets and stars to owning galaxies and sigils, the cosmology of the Urbit project is vast, conceptual, aesthetic, and ambitious.

Urbit promises to be the most peaceful place on the internet, where you can form communities away from the alienating algorithms of the old internet. This blank-slate open source OS is designed to help circumvent the brain drain of endless news cycles and debate and advance peace, openness and positive user experience.

For more information check out urbit.org

Japnese Cyberpunk...Drag Queening in Kyoto...1970's New Left Airplane Hijackings...special episode with Zach Langley, expat drag queen and host of my favorite show I'M SO POPULAR. We talk Nutso Student Revolutionary Movements of the 70's that self-disembowl, Koji Wakamatsu's United Red Army/Ecstacy of the Angels/Pinku Films, Foucaultian Biopolitics, The History of Sexuality & The Machinic Autonomism of Modern Desire, The glam cyberpunk of Pinnochio 964/Tetsuo Iron Man, and of course, Mass Extinction and what happens at the end of time 👄 💕 #jimorourke #lesrallizesdenudes

repelling Markle from the ░▒▓█ 𝔸ℕgᵉℓᶤc𝓾𝓵т █▓▒░ is a top priority. Thank you guys. 

What is it like hanging out with depressed drug addled rappers? Directors of American Rapstar (the XXXtentacion documentary), Tyler Benz and Justin Staple of All The Smoke productions talk about how to find your way in this earth through doing wrong things. They talk partying with Vincent Gallo, quitting Vice and VFiles to start their own project, how the entire entertainment industry is unsurprisingly rigged, directing the videos for Roddy Rich, Lil Pump, Lil Baby, why Lil Durk is the nicest rapper, how to make money doing anti-humanist Finance Punk shitcoin stuff, the singularity & more. We also DJ'd a Porn Hub afterparty together one time on accident. This is the 50th episode, full up now HERE 🙏🤎

Tom Tuna and Barrett give a rundown of all things Tarded Up this week. The entire spectrum is analyzed from the good, the bad, the genius, and the beautiful. Lana Del Ray, Xi Jinping, Nike, Kids in Cages Biden Edition, Tucker Carlson, Jason Mohaghegh, Justin Beiber, 𝓗𝓸𝓷𝓸𝓻 Levy, and an analysis of Angelicism01's The Retard List.

This is Eternal Gossip, 1 hour, unedited, and uncut. Every person who was ever a genius was also a little bit retarded. Happy April 1st!

Full episode on Patreon

What are vibes? This difficult question is analyzed and answered with the help of Jungian memetics expert Chris Gabriel ( MemeAnalysis on youtube) and  art critic/writer antagonist Adam Lehrer.

We dive into synchronicities, vibes, randonautica adventures, alchemy, anime girlfriends, ghosts, apophenia, Jack Parsons, Bataille, luxury, collective-unconscious, and play a game where Chris throws out random words and asks us if they vibe or not.

Ethereal interludes courtesy USER-0

Vibes are the only way.

Adam's Substack , Chris's Substack

Exoteric Brand Cultsultant and Strategist Gritcult with Heartlocket XO, this episode dives deep into future speculation, cults, self-improvement, and how to create value for others. This one-time fashion student at Central Saint Martens gives his advice on finance, crypto, existence, health, mental clarity, self-optimization, and more. Seeking physicality and practicality. Find more info here: cult - YourLink (snipfeed.co)

First Hour, full episode on Patreon 

With special guest, the artist and digital/physical medium innovator Petra Cortright ! From landscaping, soccer, to unbridled tweeting, to Beeple and NFT’s, this is posi, quirked, based and unfiltered. She gives expert advice on different species of fauna, Why the middle of everything is almost always equivalent to death, finding inspiration in the basic things, why making stuff is infinitely better than talking about it and is always good and fun to do, the hybridized existence of zennials, escaping the victim matrix, & more. 🥲🧑‍🌾💫🌻🙏

Website

Comme des Garcons

First 25 minutes, full episode on patreon.com/contain 

Freeform conversation with the mimetic artist/designer and FUCT collaborator Been Shill. We discuss the time he sent a lewd paintings to Jerry Saltz, the Waco Siege, and the 1996 campaign finance controversy, haphazardly trying to draw parallels between two major events of the 1990's and the present. Al Gore being funded by drug brothels in Macaw? You bet! This is non-talking, soothing passive information on billionaire Indonesian families and David Koresh, modern day religious experiments, the Hsi Lai Temple funding scandal, and more. This is ADHD ASMR.

w/ Tom Tuna, Dayton (Earthworm.nyc) and Barrett

On experiencing the midst of the big Texas Storm, the Captain Planet Syndrome that impedes critical thinking,  the Cuomopocalypse, China has a Wilhelm Reich Cloud Buster that modifies the weather, global warming sponsored by MTV and Al Gore, spassing out in public on your first day as a litmus test to know if she's "marriage material", and we go VERY HARD on Adam Curtis and his new docuseries Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Back in Black and still without electricity 🌪🌬⚗

1 week late because of the Texas Storm and 2 years after it was first announced Sierra Armour's Ketamine Patrol is now HERE. Featuring special guest, the outsider artist/convict known as Nitefag: an aural phantasm about Puritanism, the story of how her Ethics Professor impregnated his son’s girlfriend, crime, drugs, assault, Deanna Havas, Texas, Breaking The Waves, & getting a 500k like viral tweet.

Outro song is ZZ Top "Legs" mashed w/ Gene Hunt's Horror Ghetto House classic "Freddie's Dead", produced by Contain

Idiots are the people of the future. Joining CONTAIN today are artist and webmaster Dayton of earthworm.nyc and Tom Tuna discussing delirium and lunacy using Lars von Trier’s prescient film “The Idiots” (1998) as a frame for a free-wheeling discussion on “insurrection”, our cultural moment, mass hypnotism on a generational scale, alien logic, and more.

Be urself. Embrace your inner idiot.

Full episode on all Patreon tiers

New Texas transplants Barrett & Justin Murphy embark on a nocturnal pilgrimage to the Infowars HQ to record a makeshift episode there and discuss M/F age-gap relationships, Alex Jones, why pedophiles are not that interesting-but also stumble upon an Occult playground where George Bush Sr. clearly did some weird shit with a Caananite diety.

Music cues by Delivery LA

Subscribe to Justin's newsletter and Youtube 

Full Episode on Patreon 

Singer, Designer, Artist, and Drain Gang / Yung Lean collaborator OD aka W*ndha Mountain converses on the state of nature, creation, Mongolia, and Tengrism. Why humanity needs to get back in touch with its own inner nature, no matter how dark, anachronistic that might look. A detailed look into the history and social climate of Mongolia, present and past.

Recorded some months back, but after careful editing-finally released.

Favorite Black Metal Musician/Rapper/Artist/Comedian Alex Bienstock joins in on the subjects of Non Philosophy and Francois Laruelle, Schizophrenia, Social Media Meta Art Projects, post-Kantian philosophy and it's application to mythology and art, Esoteric Hitlerism, Nation of Islam and the story of Yakub, The Finance Punk Manifesto, how to make 7K on Instagram, and much more.

Alex is one of the funniest cats I've ever spoken to. Laughed my ass off the entire time.

Website

Physical Media Artbooks/Albums

Episode features music by Alex from his German and ESCBAS projects

Full episode on Patreon 

Beloved guest Dasha Nekrasova joins us for a free-ranging convo on dreams, Jungian psychoanalysis, how Barrett and Dasha secretly knew each other since they were 18, self-help, podcasting as escapism, gnostic buffets, occult bookstore grifters, and more. Sam and Dasha also talk Paul Schrader, movies and acting in this mellow apolitical episode.

Embrace Esoteric Dasha-ism, thanks for listening 🎇

2021 Project And Life Special w/ Barrett & Sam. Sam got engaged, Barrett is moving to Texas, and we’re sharing some uneducated tips on psychic survival, what to do and what not to do, and what’s in store. Criticism and negative dialectics are kinda dead rn. Arthur Lee's songwriting captured the fundamentally-off gnosticism of Los Angeles. Time to get into NFT's and 3-D printed guns !

First 15 minutes, subscribe to our Patreon for full episode

Our last episode of the year; a discussion with distinguished artist/renaissance man Jonny Negron live, in studio. This easygoing conversation extends to everything from Anna Nicole Smith, the Occult, Yukio Mishima, prog rock, eroticism and religious symbolism in art, Dennis Rodman, ghost encounters, boxing...set to the backdrop of lurid street sounds and relaxing gutter psychosis.

We also picked a boxing match out of a hat and did some makeshift commentary on it, you can watch us watching a glitched out Oscar De La Hoya fight on our Youtube Channel

You can buy Jonny's merch and books here.

Barrett and Sam are joined by our favorite podcaster Jack of The Perfume Nationalist fame. Jack also has covid. 30 minutes later legendary Beverly Hills Rockstar Ariel Pink hallucinagenically manifests himself into the conversation and posits that noone ever really knows what they're talking about. His impassioned treatise on mail-in voting and how MASH is the worst show of all time, and how America is no longer a country will move you. His voice vaporizes into a 5G ether, magically as he explains how he's a self-hating Jew. We put all rumors to rest and settle all grievances. This rare entanglement with the sublime will surely change broadcasting forever.

This is one of the greatest podcast episodes ever recorded.

Barrett and Sam on gratitude and inspiration, a non-revisionist history of thanksgiving and King Phillips War, overcoming existential depression, breaking c*vid lockdown rules, another very wholesome white-pilled Holiday episode....if you are lonely, feel free to reach out + discord chat later.

We are incredibly grateful for you all, sincerely, for keeping us afloat 🦃

Everything seems f*cked; from highly-intelligent lying technocratic totalitarianism with a human face to the corporate fabrication of pain so that you can buy the worst stuff imaginable, Barrett sits down with Newlife.AI creator Vector Newman to talk about the fear-based technocracy power grab of Covid-19, the future of decentralized currency and creative projects, why Trump is a Marxist, and why transhumanism is stupid.

Musical interludes provided by analog techno/ambient sorceror Delivery LA

Today's episode is a dedication to being in this world; celebrating humanity through examining our own origin stories. We examine the bloodlessness of today's alienated social climate. Sam talks about his late great grandfather, the spiritual brokenness of men, and Barrett talks about family life in Alaska as well as the phenomenology of family and the sincerity it can bring. Tears were shed in the making of this wholesome episode

Soundtrack off of Bruce Langhorn's Hired Hand, outro song "Dawn" by Fairport Convention

w/ Sandra Soliman 

Election special: unexpected fringe online post political dissent, the laptop from h*ll, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann Trial experience / the Banality of Evil, the nature of Totalitarianism: Muting the Granularity of Experience, Glenn Greenwald suppression + 💉💉💉

thank you for your support 🙏

A cognitive dissonance and psyop-shattering Fall themed soundscape; a monastic recalibration tool backed by research and results, with the familiar sounds of recorded water, birds, binaural frequencies, sustained and phased guitar...tired of music therapy and alpha frequency music that sounds like psy trance? This sounds like 70’s Popol Vuh. Up now on Patreon.

Recorded/composed by @barrett_a_87

Artwork by @heartlocket.xo

interview with magician/artist @l.8.l.8.l.8.l on Witchcraft/ritual experiments in Bulgaria, Haiti, and Romania: sponsored by the State Department as a cultural ambassador of the United States. Q Anon, Gnosticism, what it was like living in Sundance Utah, growing up in the Mormon church, being contacted by government agencies: obtaining NASA contractors to create purest gold coatings for magical ornaments, perfume-making, + more

An expose on hidden and esoteric American life.

Very special episode on the Axial Age and history of Sacrifice, with personal experiences ranging from Native Funeral Potlatches to MMA stories, the ritual of Tibetan Sky Burial Ceremonies, Blood Rites in the 1300’s, robber monks, De Maistre, Director Sam Peckinpah (Sam tells stories about his grandpa on the set of Wild Bunch) + more

A well researched and wholesome episode, thank you for listening

Flesh + Blood and Van Halen are today’s topics of conversation, as we talk maximalist music and movies, excess, Sinthome, and Jouissance, the virtues of being messy, and the flickering light between pleasure and pain. We celebrate the innovation and beauty of Van Halen’s masterpiece 1984 and the garish and sublime Paul Verhoevan juggernaut, Flesh + Blood, and the transcendental transgression that keeps us wanting to create.

Set to a soundtrack of some of EVH's best synth and guitar moments, Lacan's relationship to the Buddha, etc.

Full 2 hours on Patreon 

w/ Geoff Schullenberger and Barrett Avner

Geoff is an NYU language lecturer and writer. He joins in to talk about  QAnon, the post-Fordist control society, meme warfare, Peronism, the meritocracy sham, elite secession, MKUltra, Targeted Individuals, Messainic movements of the early 20th century, and more.

"The system rewards skills that are only beneficial to the current economic dispensation that we have now, so you would have to reorganize economic incentives to change that framework"

Geoff writes at Outsidertheory and has articles published at The Bellows, Spectator USA, The New Atlantis Journal, Tablet and more

FULL EPISODE ON PATREON

First up close and in depth audio interview with the artist Buum on his experience as a member of the infamous human-trafficking social media cult, Daylife Army (also known as Tumple). From his work with Pain Matrix, he has been exposing enclosed-control environment-cults that offer false purpose for lost souls. Cultic-patterns for the social-media age, God,  conceptualized cultural history, how one can "DJ" reality, and more.

Please donate to Buum here via Pain Matrix IG; and follow him on his main  IG

You can support former daylife army members @ yasminkbendavid & @ desertpearle  on IG as well.

Eris is one of the most interesting, creative people I've met online in the past year and it's been a pleasure discussing her strict upbringing in a Calvinist reform church & life as a 20 year old living in Gothic New England, the dark minimalism of writers Joy Williams and Alain Robbe-Grillet, David Lynch / Kenneth Anger Americana, patriotic surrealism, schizophrenics we've encountered, living vicariously online through others, her secret project Ketamine Patrol, & more. Set to a musical backdrop of Bohren & der Club of Gore. She's a 🌟.

Eris on Twitter @Unbridled_id

Barrett, Sam (@rubberwidow), & Asher Penn of Sex Magazine have a discussion about the relaunch of SEX, on self-platforming, why consuming and creating long, physical media is important, Paul Schrader, Samuel R. Delaney, the creative help guide of Julia Cameron, and how much more you could get away with in 2004.

Buy the excellent SEX issue #11 here:   http://sexmag.info/

FIRST PART ONLY: Full episode at patreon.com/contain

Our first Patreon post, the beginning of season 2, and an introduction to the beautiful mind of our old friend (and new regular) Sam @rubberwidow. Here we talk about enduring male friendship, the spiritual dimension, past-struggles with delinquency + addiction, AA, movies, and what motivates us to keep going despite all the calcification & cultural drudgery. Our friendships mean the world to us.

Music: Merle Haggard, Kebin Scorpion Thumb "PacsunRow13" (R.I.P)

This episode we are joined by academic heavyweights and #cancelled hall of fame inductees Nina Power & Jonty Tiplady to discuss the cultural impact of Kanye West running for president. Will soundcloud rap get better or worse under a Ye presidency? Tibetan lives matter. Also the rising trend of cottagecore under quarantine forced domestic life. This is an extended mix complete with bleeps, hexcore soundtracks, and original Contain music by @yayay

Nina Power:
@nina__power
ninapower.net/

Jonty: gOOgle: JontyTiplady_theundying

Episode 15: Om Fork De-Cringe Private Retreat Hex

Our snake brains are encased in a digital catchphrase database cycling endless "Pandemic! / Back the Blue! / Racism! / 5G! / Karen" takes and ahistorical clout musings.

Do you want exit?

Special de-cringe episode w/ 1814.1 Hz, 79.14 Hz, 230.90 Hz, birds, & water.

Hex the world w/ tranquility & peace

Guests Smooth & Striated Lanes and Beyond Woke & Problematic join us for a heady discussion on theory, politics & meme-making. TFW rigorous philosophical text gets distilled into IG post? No problem! We go in on "Weird Theory Instagram". Meme'ing defanging certain taboos that no one should be afraid of, choosing "not" to read as the ultimate reading. TFW cybernetics hit u V Fast. For 20th century Francophiles only ;-)

Beyond Woke & Problematic:
IG: www.instagram.com/beyond_woke_and_problematic/

Smooth & Striated Lanes
IG: www.instagram.com/smooth_and_striated_lanes/

We interview Texas extreme music stalwart Rusty Kelley of Breathing Problem Productions/Total Abuse on art-making, transgression, noise-pastiche and some of his favorite authors of the profane:

Dennis Cooper, Peter Sotos, Marquis De Sade, Antoine d'Agata, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, Georges Bataille, & More.

This is a good one, and we're very happy to have him here.

Rusty Kelley:
bigcartel.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe…bfb3c1eb4

breathingproblem.bandcamp.com/

IG: @rustykelleyrules