System of Systems

In this episode, Adam and Ben are joined by UK-based experimental fiction writer and poet Thomas Moore. They talk about Thomas' most recent novel 'Alone,' the beauty of the short novel, Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot, the innovative ways that Bret Easton Ellis and Bruce Wagner are publishing their new work, and a brief aside on an embarrassing profile of LA-based art dealer David Kordansky.

(SORRY ABOUT THE HISS ON THIS ONE, WE HAD TO DEAL WITH SKYPE INTERFERENCE)

Links:

'Alone' at Amphetamine Sulphate: https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com/product/alone

Dennis Cooper on 'Alone': https://denniscooperblog.com/please-welcome-to-the-world-alone-by-thomas-moore-amphetamine-sulphate/

Adam Lehrer on 'Alone': https://www.adamlehrer.com/blog/2020/10/15/in-thomas-moores-novel-alone-happiness-is-a-temporary-kink

Bruce Wagner 'The Marvel Universe': https://www.brucewagner.la/

David Kordansky Gallery Gone Woke: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/arts/design/kordansky-gallery-rashid-johnson.html

Adam drops by his pal and New York-based contemporary artist Mathieu Malouf's apartment in Chinatown to catch up and they let the hot takes roll. No coherence or theme to this one folks, just straight up raw, transgressive chit chat between canceled art bros. Topics of discussion include: The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and John Frusicante's heroin use, Roman Polanski, Lenny Kravitz's scarves, Jack Nicholson's secret gay sex with Roger Corman, the incoherent gender theory of Paul B. Preciado, the oppressive radical liberalism of Ana Texeira Pinto, the excellent pornographic biopic that should be made about Basquiat, Steely Dan, meme lord CumWizard, Mathieu's attempt to make a film about the Kardashians while his wife, the photographer Heji Shin, shot them for a magazine, and god knows what else.  (note: Adam and Mathieu also have a conversation soon to be published in the Berlin-based contemporary art journal Gruppe http://gruppemagazine.com/, be on the lookout for that too!)

Links:

Mathieu's work at Greene Naftali: https://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artists/mathieu-malouf/a-exhibitions

Mathieu and 'Luke Turner is Retarded': https://hyperallergic.com/490175/los-angeles-gallery-opens-show-with-title-targeting-artist-using-ableist-slur/

Ana Texeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier 'A Brief Glossary of Social Sadism': http://theorytuesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A-Brief-Glossary-of-Social-Sadism.pdf

Paul B Preciado 'The Impossible Dedication': https://www.artforum.com/slant/the-impossible-dedication-83023

Steely Dan 'Do it Again Live'

Ana Texeira Pinto 'You Are Right But I Disagree': https://www.academia.edu/39122929/You_Are_Right_but_I_Disagree_

Paul B Preciado 'On The Verge': https://www.artforum.com/print/202006/paul-b-preciado-on-revolution-83286

Roman Polanski interviewed by Charlie Rose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqU3Z2azUA

John Frusciante documentary 'Stuff' directed by Gibby Haynes and Johnny Depp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBj7NR338Y

John Frusciante interview 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL6a9ZbGhEw

Matt Barker on Basquiat and Vincent Gallo's band Grey: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2017/09/we-formed-band-jean-michel-basquiat-and-new-york-noise-underground

Kenneth Anger 'Scorpio Rising': https://ubu.com/film/anger_scorpio.html

Curator Isabelle Graw interviews artist Merlin Carpenter: http://www.merlincarpenter.com/talk.htm

Very special episode. To set the record straight once and for all, Adam and Ben have an anonymous Bernie 2020 organizer on to tell us all the things that he saw going wrong from the beginning. Intra-campaign chaos. Unprofessional behavior. Chapo-lite antics on the Slack. Pronoun battles. Celebrity endorsement glee. It goes on and on. We have masked the organizer's voice to protect his identity, and some details of his story have been slightly altered to similar ends.

This is an indictment of the left. They blew the biggest opportunity that working class Americans will have because they could not make the sacrifices that needed making to win people over and make Bernie president. They (we) should never, ever be forgiven.

Scipio Sattler 'How Warren and the Professional Class Undermined the Sanders Candidacy': www.collidemag.com/post/how-warren…ed-sanders-2020

Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey 'First as Tragedy then as Farce': americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/fir…n-as-farce/

Barbara Ransby 'The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership': www.thenation.com/article/activism…ives-white-left/

In this episode, Adam and Ben discuss transgression/provocation and how it successfully manifests in late modernism. In Vincent Gallo, queen Aimee Terese, and our beloved president Donald Trump, the duo understands the parameters of the cultural sphere that must be understood to not just successfully transgress the hegemony, but to transgress in a way that exposes the hypocrisies of our political world and the liberal order. 

Vincent Gallo's "artworks": https://www.vgmerchandise.com/store/home.php?cat=4

An essay by Vincent Gallo: https://www.anothermanmag.com/life-culture/10236/an-open-letter-from-vincent-gallo-unfiltered-and-unedited

On the Queen Aimee: https://collegium.fandom.com/wiki/Aimee_Terese

Michael Brooks on Angela Nagle: https://youtu.be/TZ1kA91_DNI

Eric Vance on why Donald Trump has been Andy Kaufman from the start: http://www.erikvance.com/donald-trump-is-the-worlds-greatest-performance-artist/

Techno producer, DJ, Internet provocateur, and operator of the MoMAPS5 account He Valencia joins Adam and Ben for a freewheeling discussion about neoliberalism's pulverizations of art, politics, and everything else in its path. He Valencia discusses the suffocating wokeness thrown his way in the electronic music world, versus the genre's history as a proletarian art form that transcended racial boundaries. Beyond that, we talk about Killer Mike's recent controversy by doing actual politics and being effective at actual politics (fuck the haters Mike, you a real one!), our class reducing daddy Adolph Reed taking petty snipes at queen Angela Nagle (what's up with that, Adolph?), and He Valencia's burgeoning friendship with pop music's last free thinker Azealia Banks.

(note: Adam mentioned industrial musician and artist Boyd Rice being connected to the alt-right, Boyd has never claimed allegiance to the alt-right and Adam meant to only emphasize what art world progressives have mislabeled Boyd as, the air quotes did not come through on the recording)

(Note: towards the end of the episode, Adam mentions that a gallery owning friend of his gets shit for now showing enough white artists, he meant black artists*)

He Valencia on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/he_valencia

He Valencia on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moma.ps5/?hl=en

Adolph Reed taking snipes at Angela Nagle on radlib supreme Katie Halper's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHXXS375AY

Killer Mike hangs with Gov. Brian Kemp: https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/kemp-and-killer-mike-try-to-clear-the-air-after-their-sitdown-sparked-uproar/CJRIH7ISBZEPDGEYKGRPOCTWNQ/

Hieroglyphic Being on Bandcamp: https://hieroglyphicbeingofficial.bandcamp.com/

Underground Resistance documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI4cBPgETnU

Endangered Species Records: https://www.endangeredspecies.biz/

Darja Bajagic at le Confort Moderne: https://www.confort-moderne.fr/fr/agenda/event/GOREGEOUS-Darja-Bajagi/2446

In this episode we are joined by theory memer and noise musician Smooth and Striated Lines to discuss elite overproduction, the inability of the nationwide protests to make coherent political demands, the radlib dysfunction of the Shahid Buttar campaign, and the internalization of identity politics into even our most radical cultural movements.

Bonus content available for our subscribers on Patreon

Adam Rothman and Barbara J Fields 'The Death of Hanna Fizer' www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articl…-hannah-fizer

Shahid Buttar's abuse of campaign staff theintercept.com/2020/07/23/shahi…ign-allegations/

Cedrick Johnson 'The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption' nonsite.org/editorial/the-trium…oliberal-redemption

Adam and Ben discuss the emotional manipulation of AOC's politics, the refusal of liberals to engage with the substance of Kanye's ideas, and eulogize their fallen comrade Michael Brooks.

Slavoj Zizek 'Violence' - shifter-magazine.com/wp-content/upl…k-violence.pdf

Adam Lehrer 'Artaud is Tweeting Again' www.adamlehrer.com/blog/2020/7/23/…-tweeting-again

Christopher Lasch 'The Culture of Narcissism' - www.scribd.com/doc/311973318/Las…of-Narcissism-pdf

Michel Foucault 'Madness and Civilization' - https://monoskop.org/images/1/14/Foucault_Michel_Madness_and_Civilization_A_History_of_Insanity_in_the_Age_of_Reason.pdf

Lou Reed on Kanye West's 'Yeezus' - https://www.talkhouse.com/lou-reed-of-the-velvet-underground-talks-kanye-wests-yeezus/

Adam Lehrer on Lingua Ignota and Kathy Acker - https://thequietus.com/articles/27150-lingua-ignota-live-review-kathy-acker

Adam is joined by his new co-host Ben, who explain what the podcast will be going forward, dissecting recent cultural and political controversies such as the renewed cancellation of Aimee Terese, the radlibbing of the entire American left, DSA's response to a recent Dustin Guastella article, Houellebecq, The Last of Us and more.

Dustin Guastella 'To End Police Violence Fund Public Goods and Raise Wages' nonsite.org/author/dguastella

Antoine Sabestiani 'The Rank and File Pipedream'

Benjamin Noys on PDF www.thebellows.org/the-rank-and-file-pipedream/