System of Systems

By Adam Lehrer, Matthew DenicolaArts Books

System of Systems episodes

July 27, 2022 (TEASER) Anal Blunt (W/ JJ Ruiz)
JJ Ruiz is an Austin-based musician who has played with several punk and hardcore bands since the 2000s. With one of those bands, Naw Dude, he opened for Anal Cunt. In this episode, he relays his stories about AC's late iconic frontman and one of the greatest American performance artists of the last two decades Seth Putnam. This episode is all about Seth, an artist as important to us as Vito Acconci or Wyndham Lewis, for real.

FULL EPISODE

SOUNDTRACK: Anal Cunt "Grateful Dead" Shit Scum "Brady Bunch Massacre" Full Blown A.I.D.S. "It's all Fake" Anal Cunt "Art Fag (Live)" Executioner "War Machine" Anal Cunt "Fuck Yeah"

LINKS: Seth Putnam interview 'Slave to the Grind' documentary Anal Cunt live in 2007 Seth interviewed by Hellbound Seth interviewed by Chronicles of Chaos
14 min
July 26, 2022 Ready to Fight (W/ Udith Dematagoda)
Writer, Hyperidean Press publisher, and Adam's editor Udith Dematagoda joins the show once more. This time we're discussing the cultural resonance of Fight Club over 25 years down the line, and the importance of revolutionary violence to the masculine psyche. Other topics include the mindblowing year for American indie film that was 1999, Ukraine, why BAP is the Rob Halford of pseudo-philosophy, and some other shit.

SOUNDTRACK:
Los Llamarada "Gone Gone Cold" Blod "Raw Meat Perfume" Arditi "Legionnaires" Clandestine Blaze "Chambers" Negative Approach "Ready to Fight"

LINKS:
Follow Udith at Twitter: @Udematagoda Hyperidean Press Anti-Cringe, by Udith
1 hr 30 min
July 16, 2022 The Diving Man (W/ Brad Kelly)
Writer and co-host of the Art of Darkness podcast Brad Kelly is here. Brad's writing plays with the genre of sci-fi and pushes it to the outer realms of the weird, as evinced by his latest novel 'House of Sleep' from 2021. Here we discuss that novel, sci-fi, Phillip K. Dick, and more, as well as the opioid epidemic, Jim Jones and the People's Temple and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic.

Soundtrack:
Plastikman "Outbak"
Circle X "Current"
Bobby Beausoleil "Hellion Rebellion"
KMD "What a Nigga Know"
Intolitarian "Allegiance to the Self"
Elvis Presley "Unchained Melody (Live)"

LINKS: Brad at Twitter: @bradkelly
Buy Brad's House of Sleep
Brad Kelly
Art of Darkness podcast
Adam on Art of Darkness discussing Burroughs and Anna Kavan
Adam on Art of Darkness discussing Artaud
1 hr 53 min
July 05, 2022 Not Human (PREVIEW) (W/ Madeline Kuzak)
Prior to the day of our independence, Adam calls up his friend, the artist from Detroit and soon to move to New York Madeline Kuzak. Maddie works in painting and illustration, as well as performance and more conceptual driven work. When Adam introduced his theory of Crytographic Transgressive art in in Amphetamine Sulphate's 'Human Rights' anthology, Maddie was one of the artists he used to bolster his concept. Maddie's work is cloaked in the tropes of femininity, and feminist curators are often all too enthusiastic to drag her work into their theories. But there is actually a very interesting subversion going on here, where the theme of female victimhood is constantly being deconstructed and challenged. FULL EPISODE HERE Sountrack: Artificial Peace "Artificial Peace" Archgoat "Angel Cunt" ZZ Top "Move me Down the Line" Hidious in Strength "Torture #2" Townes Van Zandt "Snake Mountain Blues" LINKS: Maddie at Instagram: @crawl_space Read Adam's "A Primer on Crypto-Transgression" by purchasing 'Human Rights' Maddie at Darkzone Adam on Crypto-Transgression in 'Euphoria'
12 min
June 26, 2022 Charlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon)
Adam and Will are joined by New York-based artist and tattooer Will Sheldon. Will discusses his work with us: paintings and drawings of fantastical and fairy tale imagery but with a uniquely troubling and dark iteration fitting for our times. Will is also a tattooer and in contra to others working between the art world and tattoo culture (others typically tend to make clear distinction between the craft of tattooing and high art OR end up making tattooish art work) manages to create a clear communicative language between art and tattoos. We discuss this idiosyncrasy, Will's recent exhibitions, Will's recent collaborative book with British writer Charlie Fox, Hans Bellmer, and a shared appreciation for manga artist and filmmaker Hideshi Hino and Charlie Sheen's issues with Hino. Enjoy.

SOUNDTRACK:
Liquor Store "Pumpin with Red Rocks"
New York Dolls "Personality Crisis" (live)
Dayblygu "Fanzine"
Anal Cunt "Grateful Dead"
Psychedelic Speed Freaks "Redline"

LINKS:
Will Sheldon at Instagram: @willsheldon
Will Sheldon interview
Will Sheldon and Charlie Fox 'Zoe'
Charlie Sheen thought 'Guinea Pig' was snuff
Hideshi Hino
1 hr 30 min
June 22, 2022 The Gay Cowboys of Contemporary Politics (PREVIEW) (W/ Kelby Losack and J. David Osborne)
In this episode, Adam and Will are joined by the writers and co-hosts of the Agitator podcast, J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack. Both of these honorable men have new book projects out. Kelby's new novel is 'Letting out the Devils'. And David's new book is a hallucinatory essay called 'You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun'. We discuss those new works, video games, Cronenberg, cooming, and more.

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Soundtrack:
Angry Samoans "Wild Hog Rhyde"
Archie Shepp "Abstract"
Zoviet France "Gesture, Signal, Threat"
ВѢНА "Коколь МакГ"
The Mentors "Judgement Day"

LINKS:
J David Osborne at Twitter: @brbjdo
Kelby Losack at Twitter: @HeathenishKid
Agitator podcast
Kelby Losack 'Letting out the Devils'
Adam on 'Crimes of the Future'
11 min
June 06, 2022 God Damn It Feels Good to Look Like a Gangsta (PREVIEW) (With Mikey MDC)
Mr. Mikey MDC, gangsta' stylist and menswear sartorial genius, joins the program to discuss one of our crypto fascinations: style and fashion. Style icons. Style in films. How do we dress? Is fashion design, at its best, a form of art, or should it be? All this and more.

SOUNDTRACK: Masonna - Sonic Devil 1 Darkstyle - Behind the Rainbow
Silver Chalice - Hot Tears
Stretchheads - Anal Beard
William Basinski - Melancholia IV
Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog

LINKS:
Mikey MDC at Instagram: @mikeymdc https://www.instagram.com/mikeymdc/
Mikey MDC interview
Mikey MDC on I'm so Popular
Adam on Gaspar Noé for Compact Mag
11 min
May 21, 2022 Artaud's Mexico (An Alien Landscape) (W/ DC Miller)
Writer and philosopher Daniel Miller joins SOS once more. DC has just returned from an enlightening trip in Mexico where he engaged in Peyote rituals. DC relays us his exploits and discusses the medicinal values of the Peyote cacti. We also discuss Artaud's journeys throughout Mexico, the ego death, the specific metaphysical content of Mexican artists, the end of the Covid psyop and the beginning of the Ukraine psyop, and the inescapable decay of the first world West.
SOUNDTRACK:
Aggressor "Uncontrolled Desire"
Flipper "Way Of The World [Live]"
Reversal of Man "Wives Tale"
Home Blitz "Bored"
Hawkwind "The Psychedelic Warlords"
Neutral Milk Hotel "The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. II"

LINKS:
DC Miller at Substack
DC on science and the art of deception
Peyote in Mexico
Inside a Peyote pilgrimage
Artaud in Mexico
1 hr 53 min
May 03, 2022 The Final Nail (w/ Sean Kilpatrick)
The boys are joined by poet and novelist Sean Kilpatrick to discuss the state of literature, the cultural shift, the force feeding of Toni Morrison, Darius James, Charlie Rose, the Northman, Fresh, Jim Goad, the Gen X cool girl era, the Depp/Heard defamation case and the end of #MeToo.

Soundtrack: Pichismo "Kontrau"
4A DJ Assault "Mr. Muthafukka"
Hegemon "Stigmata" Eugene McDaniels "Outlaw" Blood Axis "The Gospel of Inhumanity" () Black Sabbath "Lord of this World"

Links: Sean at Twitter: @Sean_Kilpatrick
Sean at Instagram: @shucksabouteverything Sean's blog
Sean "Exeunt"
Sean on Otessa Mosfegh and Nick Walker
Sean on Jack
Sean "Satanic Hamlet Starring Aubrey Plaza"
Sean at Good Reads
1 hr 46 min
April 28, 2022 PREVIEW Alien Possessed Demon People (w/ Benjamin Kellogg)
Artist Benjamin Kellogg and Adam discuss aliens, conspiracies, getting bogged down in the details, the art world, Lynch, the occult, the uselessness of political philosophy, architecture, and surrealism.
Links:
Benjamin at Instagram: @benjamin_kellogg
Benjamin for Cultured:
13 min

About System of Systems

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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.