System of Systems

In this new episode, Morbid Books editor and writer Lev Parker joins the show for the second time, this time bringing along none other than the divine philosopher and poet Nina Power, who of course just wrote a beautiful afterword for Adam's new book 'Communions'. A wide variety of topics are addressed, from the middle class tendency towards being a micro-cop, to gender extremism, to the role for art against such dismal sociopolitics.

Lev has a new novel out called '4th Industrial Revolution Pimp' that none other than NY-based transgressive writer Supervert has called "the first great work of Covid literature." Nina's new book is coming out in early 2022, 'What Do Men Want?' finds Nina exploring the dilemma held by men in the 21st Century.

Soundtrack:

Prince "Jack U Off" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/jack-u-off/1544294164?i=1544294802)

Public Image Limited  "Graveyard" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/graveyard/95911817?i=95911253)

Sightings  "Hate Take Hate" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/hate-take-hate/285018097?i=285018174)

Soft Cell "Seedy Films" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/seedy-films/1444125350?i=1444125518)

Sonic Youth and Yamatsuka Eye  "No Song 2, part 3" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/no-song-2-pt-3/303175693?i=303175706)

Scritti Politti "Absolute" (https://youtu.be/L7Mk_JgesEM)

Disembowelment "Slaughtered Remains" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/slaughtered-remains/190215227?i=190222112)

LINKS:

Lev's '4th Industrial Revolution Pimp' at Morbid Books: https://morbidbooks.net/shop/fourth-industrial-revolution-pimp/

Pre-order Nina's 'What Do Men Want?": https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/what-do-men-want-an-inquiry-into-love-sex-and-power/nina-power/hardback/9780241356500.html

Nina Power Substack: https://ninapower.substack.com/

Nina lectures on men: https://youtu.be/cDqMfo8yQ2U

Lev interviewed by Luke Cohen on Safety Propaganda: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/edgelord-4-pimping-the-pandemic-by

Adam discusses 'Communions' with New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/adam-lehrer-communions-hyperidean-press-2021

In Alex Bienstock's second edition of his SOS side project, Collectin' Scalps with Stock, Alex and Adam converse with artist, curator, and former Real Fine Arts co-director Ben Morgan-Cleveland.

For 10 years, Ben was the co-proprieter (alongside artist Tyler Dobson) of Real Fine Arts. Arguably the most interesting gallery in New York during the 2010s, Real Fine Arts helped launch the careers of friends of the show and great artists including Mathieu Malouf and Heji Shin, not to mention Sex Magazine editor Asher Penn, Sam Pulitzer, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Maggie Lee and many more.

In his own work, Ben works in a vast array of media and consistently deconstructs the limits of the gallery space, whether it's making a "gallery of words" or exhibiting a massive, hand-built couch, this guy is always doing his damn thing! In this chat, the bros discuss the legacy of Real Fine Arts, Ben's work, and Adam and Ben's shared history of growing up art phag in suburban Massachusetts. 

SOUNDTRACK: 

Laibach  "Ein Untergang" 

Guided By Voices  "The Great Blake Street Canoe Race" 

Mudhoney  "Touch Me I’m Sick" 

Blink 182 "Josie" 

Shackleton "Stalker" 

Corrupted  "Sisto" 

LINKS: 

Real Fine Arts

Ben Morgan-Cleveland on the machinations of language

Adam Lehrer Art World Undercover #1

Alex Bienstock

Ben at instagram: @miami_bob

In this new episode, Morbid Books editor and writer Lev Parker joins the show for the second time, this time bringing along none other than the divine philosopher and poet Nina Power, who of course just wrote a beautiful afterword for Adam's new book 'Communions'. A wide variety of topics are addressed, from the middle class tendency towards being a micro-cop, to gender extremism, to the role for art against such dismal sociopolitics.

Lev has a new novel out called '4th Industrial Revolution Pimp' that none other than NY-based transgressive writer Supervert has called "the first great work of Covid literature." Nina's new book is coming out in early 2022, 'What Do Men Want?' finds Nina exploring the dilemma held by men in the 21st Century.

This is only a preview. The Full episode is available on Patreon. 

Soundtrack:

Prince "Jack U Off"

Public Image Limited "Graveyard" 

Sightings "Hate Take Hate" 

Soft Cell "Seedy Films" 

Sonic Youth and Yamatsuka Eye "No Song 2, part 3" 

Scritti Politti "Absolute" 

Disembowelment "Slaughtered Remains" 

LINKS:

Lev's '4th Industrial Revolution Pimp' at Morbid Books: 

Pre-order Nina's 'What Do Men Want?' 

Nina Power Substack: ]

Nina lectures on men

Lev interviewed by Luke Cohen on Safety Propaganda

Adam discusses 'Communions' with New Books Network

In this episode, we are joined by Janie, a young poet operating in the realm of Substack and a young singer who recently started posting songs to a Soundcloud page. We discuss poetry here, mostly, everything from Robert Desnos to Ghostface Killah to John Asheberry to Darby Crash, and try and ponder a role for poetry in liquid modernity. Adam also expresses disgust over the politicization of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and can't believe the erosion of due process that has been leveled at an innocent young man who defended himself against violent assailants.

SOUNDTRACK: Alvarius B "Dracula Frizzy" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/dracula-frizzi/553850357?i=553850367)

The Germs "Lexicon Devil" (https://youtu.be/08MqYvU-yuM) US Maple "Letter To ZZ Top" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/letter-to-zz-top/1082950697?i=1082950707)

Buttechno "Bbbase" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/bbbase/1483216773?i=1483216774)

Masayuki Takayanagi "Mass Hysterism 1" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/mass-hysterism-1/200813560?i=200813616)

Janie Diamond "Heart Burst"

LINKS

Janie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/

JanieDied Janie's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-175981317

We're celebrating Halloween, fear, terror and disquiet for this two part episode folks! Announcing herself as a new reoccurring guest host, fan favorite Bimbo Ubermensch joins Adam and Will to discuss our favorite horror-tinged records and visual art works.

Favorite Horrific Records:

Adam:
Dead Reptile Shrine 'Burning Black Infinity' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bdVJfwmB34)
Ligeti 'Volumina 1961-2' (https://youtu.be/wbLcI9-Js0U)

Sandra:
Halim El-Dabh's 'Crossing Into the Electromagnetic' (https://youtu.be/WR2YprO04zk)

Will:
Whitehouse 'Quality Time' (https://youtu.be/i4DvBYtXLwQ)

Favorite Horrific Art Works:

Adam: Heji Shin "Baby" photographs (https://www.fraeulein-magazine.eu/the-brutality-of-nature-an-interview-with-heji-shin/) Rudolf Shwarzkogler "3rd Aktion" (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/schwarzkogler-3rd-action-t11848)

Sandra: Goya "Disasters of War" lithographs (https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.430/s13/MIT21L_430S13_Goya_1.pdf)

Will: Richard Prince "Spiritual America" (https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/richard-prince-spiritual-america)

Soundtrack:
Rapeman "Hated Chinee" (https://youtu.be/YV-q8M4vJ6M) Whitehouse "Told"
Halim El-Dabh "Crossing Into The Electromagnetic"
Dead Reptile Shrine "Return To The Ancient Battlesite"
Gyorgy Ligeti "Volumina"
Evoken "In Graven Image" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-graven-image/340213526?i=340213886)
Oxbow "Saturn" (https://youtu.be/XmJvRFDfM-8)
Coil "London's Lost Rivers" (https://youtu.be/NNLVz5lsn2c)
The Shadow Ring "Basic Everyday Life" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-graven-image/340213526?i=340213886)

In 'Collectin' Scalps with 'Stock', a System of Systems side project, Adam takes second mic handing over creative direction to none other than based swaggot, artist, and former guest Alex Bienstock. In this series, the boys go undercover in the scourges of the New York art world, interviewing friends and foes alike to get to the bottom of the transgressively creative id that drives us to do this shit.

In the first episode, we interview artist, puppeteer and sex worker Alice Aster to talk about her work, her philosophy, her side hustles, and more. Enjoy!

FULL EPISODE AVAILABLE TO PATRONS ONLY

SOUNDTRACK:

Alice Aster "Life After Death Lilith’s Nest Part 1" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IpjIyocFA&lc=Ugx_ps88_bXQr5kSGX14AaABAg)

Alice Aster "Means To Advance In The Realm Of Demented Damsels" (https://soundcloud.com/alice-aster/means-to-advance-in-the-realm-of-demented-damsels)

Lake of Dracula "Dracula Killed Frankenstein" (https://youtu.be/-6q4VwIlkGg)

Saputhuran "Write Upon My Words" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/write-my-words-upon-the-winds/678107579?i=678107609)

Hijokaidan "38 Years On" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/38-years-on/1269956875?i=1269956878)

Coil "The Wheel" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgf8pj4nYkg)

LINKS:
Alice Aster 'Real Society of the Spectacle': https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g4YKk1Blp8YMeluPL6k5GZ50nzIUvrJd/view

Alice Aster linktree: https://linktr.ee/lilumnia

Alex Bienstock on twitter: https://twitter.com/ESCBAS

Bienstock Instagram: @alexbienstockart

We're celebrating Halloween, fear, terror and disquiet for this two part episode folks! Announcing herself as a new reoccurring guest host, fan favorite Bimbo Ubermensch joins Adam and Will to discuss our favorite horror-tinged novels and films.

Tune in next week for part 2, where we will discuss our favorite scary records and visual art works.

Favorite Horror Films:
Adam: Juraj Herz The Cremator
Will: Psychic TV First Transmission, Mr. Bungle "Quote Unquote" video
Sandra: Pawel Pawlikowski Ida

Favorite Horror Novels: 
Adam: Arthur Machen The Great God Pan, Gabrielle Wittkop The Necrophilliac
Will: Peter Sotos Tool
Sandra: EM Forster "The Machine Stops"

SOUNDTRACK:
Cadaver in Drag "Surrounded by a Bunch of Fucking Idiots"
Dead Infection "Xenomorph"
Henry Flynt: "Rockabilly Boogie"
John Frusciante: "My Smile is a Rifle"
SpaceGhostPurrp: "Like a Strippah"
Alvarius B: "You Only Live Twice"

PREVIEW (Full Episode on Patreon): Electronic music producer, sound artist, and Diagonal Records head honcho Oscar Powell joins the show to discuss imminent fatherhood, his evolution from a burgeoning global DJ to a muted and surreal sound artist, his new album 'Piano Studies', working alongside the late Editions Mego head and experimental music god Peter Rehberg, drugs/psychedelic limit experiences, and mass media.

Full Episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/piano-studies-w-57589350?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Powell "Piano Music 3": https://music.apple.com/us/album/piano-music-3/1576662579?i=1576662582
Powell "On the Feed of a Wind": https://music.apple.com/us/album/rise-world-unfold-iii/1536736221?i=1536736229
Powell "Getting Paid to be Yourself": https://music.apple.com/us/album/gettin-paid-to-be-yourself-als-kick-ass-mix/1135974288?i=1135974471
Powell "Track Seven": https://music.apple.com/us/album/track-seven/262236237?i=262236491
Iannis Xenakis chamber music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/herma/1220777588?i=1220777800
Elliot Carter "Night Fantasies": https://youtu.be/oW2DmmDvyHk Coil "Never": https://youtu.be/OhtrWOAXxmQ

Links:

Powell 'Piano Music': https://odbpowell.bandcamp.com/album/piano-music-1-7

Diagonal Records: https://diagonal-records.com/

Peter Rehberg RIP: https://youtu.be/-Ds7CROi_eY

System of Systems, at long last, is back. First things first, Ben AKA the Perpetual Self Optimizer is no longer the producer/co-host, and we want to thank him for all the great work done on this program. 

Replacing him is none other than former guest Will Samson, who takes over production duties and second mic. Welcome him!

In our first episode back, we have Ellroy Boys co-host and Apocalypse Confidential editor Blauergeist! specifically to take on the colossal disaster that is The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. Somehow, as bad as this film could be (cheesy as fuck casting, thin plot, aesthetically flat and gross) it's somehow so, so, so much worse. It's the kind of spinoff film that complicates the entire legacy of its source material. The great work of American pop art reduced to a shitty, faux edgy dirtbag leftist meme.

SOUNDTRACK:

Alabama 3 "Woke Up This Morning": https://music.apple.com/us/album/woke-up-this-morning-the-sopranos-mix/667102458?i=667102844

Mystifier "The Witch Resides Our Goat": https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-witch-voisin-recites-our-gloat-osculum-obscenum/299352750?i=299352756

Fusitsusha "Magic IV: https://youtu.be/Oy0njwl-AHc 

Souls of Mischief "A Name I Call Myself": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888

Black Humor "Undancing in the Dirt": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888

LINKS:

Will Samson's Twitter: @_Will_Samson_ https://twitter.com/_Will_Samson_

Blauergeist at Twitter: @blauer_geist https://twitter.com/blauer_geist 

Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/ 

Ellroy Boys podcast: https://soundcloud.com/ellroyboys

Adam on Many Saints of Newart: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/based-safetty-vs-cringe-propaganda

In this episode, Adam is joined by Bimbo Ubermensch aka SANDRA and host of the Pleasure Helmet podcast Ilydivna aka Dana to talk about two recent pop culture spectacles equally flawed and fascinating. We are talking about Kanye West's 'DONDA' and the release parties that Kanye threw to celebrate its publication, as well as Leos Carax's new English language Sparks-soundtracked, Adam Driver-starring avant-musical film 'Annette'. While both art works are wildly imperfect, there is something about the spectacle around the art works themselves that creates a Debordian situationist spectacle that demands attention with outré ideas. This is something to be celebrated. We also shit talk the middle class, which is the worst class.

SOUNDTRACK:

Adam Driver and Sparks - Sympathy for the Abyss https://music.apple.com/us/album/sympathy-for-the-abyss/1577154280?i=1577154295

Kanye West - Junya https://music.apple.com/us/album/junya/1583449420?i=1583449436

Kanye - Welcome to Heart Break https://music.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-heartbreak-feat-kid-cudi/1441410287?i=1441410305
Agitation Free - Ala Tul https://music.apple.com/us/album/ala-tul/1518200907?i=1518201156

Underground Resistance - Technology Gap https://music.apple.com/us/album/technology-gap/269752629?i=269752972

LINKS:

Dana at twitter: https://twitter.com/Llydvina
Sandra at twitter: https://twitter.com/bimboubermensch
Pleasure Helmet podcast: https://soundcloud.com/pleasure-helmet
Dana's Mundus Imaginalis Substack: https://mundus.substack.com/
Adam on Leos and Kanye part 1: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/kanye-leos-and-a-new-pop-cultural
Adam on Leos and Kanye Part 2