This week we are joined by François J. Bonnet, recording artist (as Kassel Jaeger) and theoretician, Director of Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM) in Paris, and producer on National French Radio France Musique. We talk with him about the recent publication of the english translation of his book "After Death" (2020, Urbanomic)in the context of the current pandemic and the general externalisation and disembodiment of death. We do end up divagating about improvisation, the sublime, romanticism and other meta-musical tropes in the direction of François' most recent book "The Music To Come" (2020, Shelter Press).

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/after-death/

https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/merch/fran-ois-j-bonnet-the-music-to-come-english-edition

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

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

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/

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.

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.

NOW! back online! Our episode with Asia Bazdyrieva & Solveig Suess from Geocinema. We discuss the relevance of their project (considering planetary-scale sensory networks as a vastly distributed cinematic apparatus)for the moment we are living and the future to come.

Score by Jessika Khazrik.

This week we are joined by Alex Williams, co-author of #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics, "Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work". We discussed Boogaloo Bois latest fashion trends, the coming of the Big Igloo, what's the role of the Dirtbag left within the hegemonic discourse, and the electoral prognosis and transformation of contemporary socialism. All this in light of Alex's most recent book "Political Hegemony and Social Complexity. Mechanisms of Power After Gramsci" (2019).

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.

We are joined by Elena Biserna: researcher and curator based in Marseille. We talked about skin starvation, feminist cross-border actions and participating in the Holy Mass via Jitsi.

Sonic contributions by Elena and Loreto Martinez Troncoso. Reggaeton queen bees accompanied us.