System of Systems

By Adam Lehrer, Matthew DenicolaArts Books

System of Systems episodes

September 15 Clancy Supporter Derangement Syndrome
Matt and Adam have LCSDS (Lindsay Clancy Supporter Derangement Syndrome)
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OST:
:Of the Wand & The Moon "Whispers of the Past"
Nocturnal Projections "Nerve Ends in Power Lines"
Unit Black Fight "Imprint Manifestation"
Budgie "Guts"

1 hr 19 min
August 19 UnSafety Propaganda (W/ Tarik Sadouma)
Artist, filmmaker and founder of the Amsterdam art collective The Unsafe House (and, yes, former member of KIRAC) Tarik Sadouma joins the crew on the occasion of the release of the Unsafe House's new film Scorched Earth. The film, which chronicles the inner conflicts of the Unsafe House in a manner that blends fact and fiction while documenting Tarik's attempts to take over the U.S. pavilion of the Venice Biennale with Curtis Yarvin (and other exploits,) is the most clear enunciation of The Unsafe House's aesthetic and values. The conversation veers from the film, to the lie that "wokeness is dead," to the importance of reading Yarvin and Michele Houellebecq as art, and not just as political critique.
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Soundtrack:
The Meads of Asphodel "My Beautiful Genocide" https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-beautiful-genocide/1445305890?i=1445305893
A Blaze Colour "The New Ones" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-new-ones/1762256954?i=1762256958
Skeptics "Spade" https://music.apple.com/us/album/spade/734206058?i=734206129
Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes" https://music.apple.com/us/album/all-the-young-dudes/155712973?i=155713011
LINKS:
The Unsafe House https://www.the-unsafe-house.com/
Watched Scorched Earth https://www.the-unsafe-house.com/scorched-earth
1 hr 36 min
July 21 Schafted (w/ Meinschaft)
Evan and EV return to the show to discuss Meinschaft's Empire of Liberty, arguably their landmark recording to date. Released in the year of the United States' 250th anniversary, the album depicts contemporary Americana as a fragmented and distorted landscape, eerie and beautiful. A rural grotesque befitting of Flannery O'Connor made manifest as electronic sound.
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OST:
Meinschaft "Biting the Hand" https://music.apple.com/us/album/biting-the-hand/6771633191?i=6771633203
Scott Walker "Bolivia 95" https://music.apple.com/us/album/bolivia-95/1877073621?i=1877073724
Laibach "Satanic Versus" https://music.apple.com/us/album/satanic-versus/828068604?i=828068627
The Doors "Moonlight Drive" https://music.apple.com/us/album/moonlight-drive/1622362830?i=1622362928
Elliot Smith "Pretty (Ugly Before)
LINKS:
Buy Empire of Liberty at Discriminate Audio's Bandcamp https://discriminateaudio.bandcamp.com/album/empire-of-liberty
Read Discipline Mag's review of the album https://disciplinemag.com/reviews/meinschaft-empire-of-liberty-album-review/
1 hr 38 min
July 08 Obsessive
Adam and Matt discuss the massive runaway successes of the low budget horror films Obsession and Backrooms, try and identify what people have responded two in them, and discuss whether they're actually any good or not.
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SOUNDTRACK
Dead Can Dance "A Passage in Time"
Cro-Mags "Show You No Mercy" https://music.apple.com/us/album/show-you-no-mercy/1533125261?i=1533125279
Porter Ricks "Port of Call" https://music.apple.com/us/album/port-of-call/496491073?i=496491084
Otis Redding "Pain in my Heart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/pain-in-my-heart/995810749?i=995810862
1 hr 26 min
June 23 Made You Loox (W/ Faina Brodksy)
Artist Faina Brodsky illuminates on the difficulty (or not) of being beautiful in the art world and her and Adam wade into performance enhancing drugs and looksmaxxing.
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OST:
UV Pop "Sleep Don't Talk" https://music.apple.com/us/album/sleep-dont-talk/1676648297?i=1676648709
Anenzephalia "Final Pulse" https://music.apple.com/us/album/final-pulse-live/281189783?i=281189890
Of the Wand and Moon "MEgin Runar" https://music.apple.com/us/album/final-pulse-live/281189783?i=281189890
The Lollipop Shoppe "Someone I Knew" https://music.apple.com/us/album/someone-i-knew/1735833654?i=1735834048
1 hr 47 min
June 08 Conversations from Weeks Past
We recorded this two weeks ago, when it looked like Spencer Pratt would still have a statistical shot at taking second place and advancing in the Los Angeles mayoral race.
New records by Ye, Drake, JPEG Mafia and Bladee discussed
Sorry for the hiatus, Adam was busy writing this for Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/god-of-euphoria-sam-levinson

1 hr 32 min
April 28 Euphoric Rises, Pathetic Falls
Adam and Matthew discuss the return of Sam Levinson's pop art spectacle Euphoria, new art work by Nordic photographer Torbjorn Rodland, and the final collapse of Tucker Carlson and the "retard right's" credibility.
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OST:
Miss Kittin and the Hacker "Stock Exchange" https://music.apple.com/us/album/stock-exchange/308664562?i=308664609
Husker Du "Everything Falls Apart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/everything-falls-apart/1249140194?i=1249140590
Bulbous Creation "Fever Machine Man" https://music.apple.com/us/album/fever-machine-man/924210928?i=924210938
Inquisition "Memories within an Empty Castle in Ruins" https://music.apple.com/us/album/memories-within-an-empty-castle-in-ruins/1725034200?i=1725034595
Inxs "Never Tear Us Apart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/never-tear-us-apart-2017-remaster/1614037635?i=1614037849
LINKS:
Adam on the return of Euphoria https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-sam-levinson-and-shlock
1 hr 38 min
April 27 The Prodigal Jasian Son (w/ David Jager)
The Prodigal Jasian Son (w/ David Jager)Nov 25, 2025
Since we last posted, Adam became a father.
Writer David Jager joins the show and he, Adam and Matt wade into some of his recent writing topics, like the Cape Cod cult origins of the Palestarded suicide martyr Aaron Bushnell and the brilliance of Gavin McInnes.
OST:
Acid Mothers Temple "Mammary Intercourse"
Merzbow "Nil Vagina Mail Action 4"
Boyd Rice "Disney Land Can Wait"
Amen Corner "Black Thorn"
Mac Miller "Cinderella"
Follow David on X: @highroadjives
David's Website: https://www.davidhiroshijager.net/
1 hr 41 min
April 27 Epstein Opens Doors (Or Not)
The boys reconnect. Adam reflects on early fatherhood, Mattio documents his trip to Mexico City to see Ye, and both chronicle the absolute abysmal moral panic unleashed by the Epstein Files.
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SOUNDTRACK:
Clipse "Keys Open Doors"
Midgards Soner "November 30"
Asylum Party "Play Alone"
Wolfsmond "Dusterworld" https://music.apple.com/us/album/d%C3%BCsterwald/1321259736?i=1321259959
NOFX "S&M Airlines" https://music.apple.com/us/album/s-m-airlines/1485033293?i=1485033300
LINKS:
Adam on the life and career of Kanye West as a long, slowly unfolding performance art platform: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/kanyes-apology-and-fame-as-ultimate
Adam on "Epstein Apophenia" https://x.com/tabletmag/status/2018333211227460069?s=20
1 hr 26 min
April 27 Iran Out of Content
A catch up episode, covering the Iran war, antisemite influencers, and Adam being iced out by old friends
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SOUNDTRACK
Rhythm and Sound "See mi Yah" https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-mi-yah/52996963?i=52995478
Toiling Midgets "4-track Mind" https://music.apple.com/us/album/aarons-song/1513830226?i=1513830228
6 Comm "Like Stukas Angels Fall" https://music.apple.com/us/album/pipes-of-gold/311867520?i=311867695
X Marks the Pedwalk "Human Desolation" https://music.apple.com/us/album/desolation/946071535?i=946071548
Forteresse "La moisson de la liberte" https://music.apple.com/us/album/la-moisson-de-la-libert%C3%A9/1796587075?i=1796587076
Tricky "Makes me Wanna Die" https://music.apple.com/us/album/makes-me-wanna-die/1443717694?i=1443717885
LINKS:
Adam on Elena Velez and incongruities in gendered cancellation https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/cancellation-and-female-narcissism

1 hr 43 min

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All culture is propaganda. Everything you hold dear is connected to that which subjugates you. Deconstruct art, culture, and politics, and attempt to understand the pervasive conformism that has saturated it all.