Episodes

  • Lockdown Literature with Tim Abrahams

    Lockdown Literature with Tim Abrahams
    May 10 2023
    Lockdown diaries became a literary fad in 2020, but few if any were memorable. What if the real literature of lockdown was written over a century ago? This is the hypothesis behind "The Machine Book of Weird," an anthology of fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century that explores isolation, domestic confinement, and the uncanniness of home. Publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss this project, plus Freud, Mark Fisher, and more. You can donate to the project's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbow/machine-book-of-weird
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Disabling Medicine: Daniel Hadas with Medical Nemesis

    Disabling Medicine: Daniel Hadas with Medical Nemesis
    Apr 14 2023
    In this special episode, guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more. https://twitter.com/DanielHadas2 https://twitter.com/Medical_Nemesis https://medicalnemesis.substack.com/
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford

    The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford
    Mar 4 2023
    Matthew Crawford joins me to discuss his essay, "Was the Sexual Revolution a Government Psy-Op?," the politics of masturbation, Wilhelm Reich, the Frankfurt School, masculinity, the therapeutic state, and more. https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-politics-of-masturbation/ https://mcrawford.substack.com/
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • The Automation of Midwittery with Brian Chau

    The Automation of Midwittery with Brian Chau
    Feb 3 2023
    Brian Chau returns to Outsider Theory to discuss ChatGPT's woke catechism. https://cactus.substack.com/
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Exiting the Vampires' Campus with Blaise Bayno

    Exiting the Vampires' Campus with Blaise Bayno
    Dec 26 2022
    Blaise Bayno (@urgurlblaise), former critical theory PhD student and co-organizer of the conference "Society Must Be Inoculated," joins me to discuss how critical theory became uncritical cheerleading for biopolitical authoritarianism, academic labor issues, the history of the UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness program, and more.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Universal Basic MKUltra with Psyop Cinema

    Universal Basic MKUltra with Psyop Cinema
    Oct 25 2022
    Thomas and Brett from Psyop Cinema join me to discuss Hollywood and cultural engineering. Psyop Cinema: https://www.spreaker.com/show/psyop-cinema My Psyop Cinema episodes on Roland Emmerich: https://www.spreaker.com/user/15144188/shullenberger-interview https://www.spreaker.com/user/15144188/geoff-shullenberger-2
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • The Rule of Midwits with Brian Chau

    The Rule of Midwits with Brian Chau
    Aug 31 2022
    Brian Chau (Cactus Chu on Substack, @psychosort on Twitter) joins me to discuss institutions and why midwits rule them, decentralization, sorting mechanisms, right-wing aesthetics, Curtis Yarvin, William F. Buckley, and more. https://cactus.substack.com/ https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/rule-of-midwits
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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • RIP Reality with Jon Askonas

    RIP Reality with Jon Askonas
    Jul 18 2022
    Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem." Read the series here: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem
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    1 hr and 36 mins