Tender Subject

Have you turned your flangers down? You better, because this week, we're joined by Dave Maher to talk about the film Flux Gourmet! This film had us questioning the nature of authenticity, and it also made us equate farts with noise music, but in a good way.

Dave Maher is a super cool comedian! You can view his work, such as the podcasts This Is Your Afterlife and Genre Reveal Party, at https://linktr.ee/thisisdavemaher.

Palestine Resources:

Decolonize Palestine. https://decolonizepalestine.com/.

Fauda. 2023. Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists Interview by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee (IRC). Zine. https://blackrosefed.org/interview-fauda-palestine/.

Palestine Action US. https://linktr.ee/palactionus.

Solidarity Cinema. https://www.solidaritycinema.com.

Oh, and we have a discord! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9 

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

Who's hungry? This week, all the way from the bottom of the stew, we're joined by noted Herschell Gordon Lewis expert LaborKyle to talk about Blood Feast (1963). In doing so, we summon Ishtar (which means we talk about all sorts of stuff like treating your artistic work as work, how Victorians ate mummies, and the warm piss stream of Marxism).

You can find LaborKyle on places like YouTube, Patreon, Twitter, and Bluesky! He also has the podcast All Gamers Are Bastards (AGAB) and the show Profane Illuminations with friend of the pod TheLitCritGuy.

Media Mentioned:

Arendt, Hannah, ed. 2007. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” In Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, 253–64. New York: Schocken Books. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm.

Chris, Jason, and Kevin. 2023. “Bathing in the Warm Stream: The Romantic and Gothic Strain of Marxism with Jon (TheLitCritGuy) of Horror Vanguard.” The Regrettable Century. https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/220523/13227904-bathing-in-the-warm-stream-the-romantic-and-gothic-strain-of-marxism-with-jon-thelitcritguy-of-horror-vanguard.

Cohen, Margaret. 1995. Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution. Weimar and Now. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Steven, Mark. 2017. Splatter Capital: The Political Economy of Gore Films. London: Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd.

Palestine Resources:

Decolonize Palestine. https://decolonizepalestine.com/.

Fauda. 2023. Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists Interview by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee (IRC). Zine. https://blackrosefed.org/interview-fauda-palestine/.

Palestine Action US. https://linktr.ee/palactionus.

Solidarity Cinema. https://www.solidaritycinema.com.

Oh, and we have a discord! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9 

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

"Food doesn't get a last will and testament."

This week, Kayte and Jay are joined by the designers of Head of the Family, Jacqueline Bryk/Jax Romana and Jason Burnett. What's Head of the Family? We're glad you asked!

Head of the Family is a Live Action Role Playing game (LARP) that your co-hosts were invited to participate in! Why? Because:

It's a LARP set in the world of Tender is the Flesh.

You can find Jax at https://linktr.ee/rufflejax, with links to her website, her works, and more.

You can find Jason at https://www.amnestylarp.com/, https://www.drachenfest.us/, https://www.concordolympus.com/, and https://www.realroyalty.co/.

And you can find Sereia (and hire them!) at https://sereiaspinner.carrd.co/.

Oh, and did we mention WE HAVE A DISCORD NOW?! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9 

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

This week, Jay tells Kayte about the Vajrayana Buddhist practice of chöd, where a person visualizes sacrificing their body for a feast of buddhas and demons. Through this, we explore death, the use of human remains in ritual, and the liberatory potentials of this kind of practice.

Jay also talks about this practice a little on the Empty Man episode of Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/181-the-empty-man-with-jay-from-librarypunk

And here's a Buddhist ambient black metal band: https://sadhaka108.bandcamp.com/

Sources:

Jigme Lingpa (2006). "The Longchen Nyingthig Chöd Practice: "The Loud Laugh of the Dakini"" (PDF). Zangthal.co.uk.

Stott, David (1989). "Offering the Body: the Practice of gCod in Tibetan Buddhism". Religion. 19 (3): 221–226. 10.1016/0048-721x(89)90021-3.

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

This week, Kayte and Jay discuss two books about the relationship between capitalism, the meat industry, and the exploitation of both human and non-human animals. We also talk about how people involved with cannibal media keep going vegetarian: Guillermo del Toro, Bryan Fuller, Agustina Bazterrica, and now Kayte!

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh by Amber Husain

Clip at the end from Episode 01 of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

Did somebody order head cheese? If you did, you're in luck! This week, we're joined by Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, to talk about the one, the only, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre! We ask the important questions, such as, "does Leatherface represent feminized labor?" and "is Leatherface trapped in an MLM?"

(We worry about Leatherface's wellbeing a lot.)

Readings:

“Blood for Oil,” Chuck Jackson

Men, Women, and Chain Saws, Carol Clover

Splatter Capital, Mark Steven

“The American Nightmare,” Robin Wood

“Cannibalism, Class, and Power: A foodways analysis of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Mark Bernard

“Horrible Form,” Evan Calder Williams

“Headcheese and a Side of Benjamin,” Jerry D Metz

“Film Bodies: Genre, Gender and Excess,” Linda Williams

Jo’s links: 

Twitter handle @StepfordDotter

Stepford Daughters link 

Facebook horror group

Blind Field Journal

Precarious Souls (a super DIY movie they're making with friends)

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

Strike Information:

https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/

Leon from The Left Page and Here Be Media joins us to discuss season 1 of everyone's favorite queer cannibal show: Hannibal! And what is a podcast? Is it not when people come together and forge a connection? The boundaries between the Self and the Other merging like so many sound waves?

Tell me, Will...is your Self so different from my Other?

Additional music:

Prelude in B Minor, BWV 923 - J.S. Bach

Agrippina, Act 2 Prelude - G.F. Handel

Find Leon (and Frank) wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

We're finally gonna talk about cannibalism and The ChurchTM...but probably not in the way you expect! Justin from the librarypunk podcast joins us to discuss such things as the existential paranoias of 2nd century Christians, whatever happened to Jesus' foreskin, and the reason gay sex is so cosmologically threatening.

Articles and books mentioned:

Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Douglas, Mary. Leviticus As Literature. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. Second revised ed. Autonomedia, 2014.

McGowan, Andrew. "Eating People: Accusations of Cannibalism Against Christians in the Second Century." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 2 no. 4, 1994, p. 413-442. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.0.0202.

Moss, Candida R. "Infant Exposure and the Rhetoric of Cannibalism, Incest, and Martyrdom in the Early Church." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 29 no. 3, 2021, p. 341-369. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.2021.0023.

Listen to Justin (and Jay!) on the librarypunk podcast, wherever fine podcasts are distributed. You can find them at librarypunk.gay, or on Bluesky and Twitter @librarypunk.

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

We're due a good manifesto, don't you agree? This week, we're joined by Frank from The Left Page/Here Be Media podcasts to discuss the Manifesto Antropófago, or the Cannibalist Manifesto, by Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade.

The translation we're working from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20119601

Frank's references:

"Cem anos da Semana de Arte Moderna: O gabinete paulista e a conjuração das vanguardas" by Lena Tenório da Motta ("100 years of the Modern Art Week: The São Paulo Cabinet and the Conjuration of the Vanguards")

"A Ideologia Modernista: A Semana de 22 e sua Consagração", by Luís Augusto Fischer ("The Modernist Ideology: The Week of 22 and its Consecration")

06 - Baya episode of Imaginarium : An Alternate History of Art

Find Frank on Twitter and Bluesky as FrankGothic.

Find their podcasts The Left Page & Here Be Media wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

Jon aka TheLitCritGuy, one of the two co-ghosts of Horror Vanguard, joins us to discuss Brandon Cronenberg's debut film Antiviral. Make sure you get your vaccine series of celebrity and the Spectacle, and don't forget your boosters of radical collectivity and the importance of being a weird little guy.

You can find Jon on Twitter and Bluesky as thelitcritguy.

Listen to Horror Vanguard wherever you get your podcasts!