Friend of the show Dr. Elizabeth Vasileva is back to talk through plateau lucky number 7, 'Year Zero: Faciality.'   What is Deleuze and Guatarri's concept of the face and how can it help us understand racism? We also get into some good stuff identity and the Body without Organs. Lots of laughs, lots of info, tons of fun for the whole family! Ok, maybe not the whole family, but the part of the family that wants to learn theory is gonna love it.  

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Finally! 

 

Dr. Elizabeth Vasileva, who wrote her dissertation on Deleuze and Anarchist Ethics, explains some basic concepts to us. We talk Difference and Repetition, metaphysics, machines, becoming, and more. 

 

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This week Black educator, artist, and revolutionary Aminah joins Woody & Lana to talk COINTELPRO and Gilles Deleuze’s famous essay Postscript on the Societies of Control. 

 

We get into COINTELPRO’s history, mission, and tactics. We talk specifically about how the FBI took down the Black Panthers from the inside out and how the noble party, which started the Free Breakfast for Children Program (just one of 60 important social programs they championed) is still suffering the effects of the covert FBI takedown. 

 

Then we read through Deleuze’s short essay on Societies of Control, providing commentary on the essay’s increasing relevance and its applicability to the FBI’s covert intelligence operations. Fluent French speaker Aminah elucidates portions of the essay which are lost in the English translation. 

 

Correction to Lana’s comment on the origin of policing in the United States: policing in the South started during the antebellum period in the form of slave patrols, whose job was to catch runaway slaves and discipline defiant slaves. 

 

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Link to film “The FBI’s War on Black America”: https://youtu.be/LYbxsXBYyk0 

Link to “Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze: https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf 

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This week, Lana & Woody discuss “587 BC- AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs” from A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari. 

 

Topics: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Guattari erasure, semiotics, Saussure, CS Peirce, Anti-Oedipus, signifier, signified, signifying regime, post-signifying regime, faciality, assemblage, line of flight

 

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What are these wacky lockdown protests all about? Why do people love Trump and hate masks? What IS the price of freedom? We do a deep dive into the discourse and talk castration, jouissance, ideology, astroturfing, faciality, and the figure of the debtor-addict.

 

Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari, Baudrillard

 

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“The two of us recorded this podcast together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. There is no ideal speaker-listener, only us, your multiplicitous podcast hosts, and you, the actual listener—we form an assemblage, we are machines, plugged into machines, machines are plugged into us. Am I getting it right? Of course there is no “I”, but then again we are not trying to reach the point where we no longer say I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether we say I. The point? Oh yes, the point is we are reading Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Welcome to the introduction: Rhizome. 

 

Read along with us: https://libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf

 

We will be reading this book like a Rhizome (NOT linearly). Up next: Chapter 5: On Several Regimes of Signs. 

 

And yes, we namedrop a lot of old (mostly French) guys in the episode. We refuse to apologize for this, and if you do not like it, we encourage you to plug the following coordinates into the Google machine: Saussure, Lacan, Baudrillard, Habermas, Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, Michel Foucault, Derrida, Marshall McLuhan, Badiou, Bataille

 

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Adorno and who-heimer? The Frankfurt what-now? Your favorite podcasters (Lana & Woody) are back to discuss the Culture Industry chapter of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. What is the entertainment industry? Whose interests are being served? What is mass culture? I don’t know, maybe you listen and find out; I’m not going to tell you everything—I’m just the episode description.

 

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New Trash Talks series QUARANTINED wherein Lana speaks to friends around the world about their experiences with COVID-19 / Coronavirus / SARS 2.0 and quarantine. 

 

In this episode, Lana chats with Shanghai-based American Katy about the origins, spread, and threat of the virus; shut-in / livestream culture; China’s wild response on social media; civil unrest; and what happens when America’s soft power congeals into hardened sewage. 

 

KATY @killerweixin based in China Mainland for 10+ years       ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ 💨 originally cofounding DIY space @basement.6 collective 🤮 pretendering in social pwactice uwu and freelancing. Later a recipient of Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency 💩 for unofficial research in digital anthropology & depressing art bullshit while meeting Lana in her wechat meme group ! ✨ WHATWAS2016✨ 

 

Now livestream / community engineering for SHANGHAI COMMUNITY RADIO @shcr_radio since 2017. LIVELINK:SHCRAD.IO 

 

An audio/visual netradio for Shanghai nightlife scene, SHCR recently launched an emergency 🚨 home stream series 《不要出门》[Dont Go Out] for the community in quarantine. With over 100 DJ streams, some mixes managed to be archived to https://soundcloud.com/shcr_radio Find the mentioned interview with 2 friends ❤️ quarantined for 20+ days in their Wuhan home ➕⛽️ on SHCR’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ShanghaiCommunityRadio

 

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In the wake of Super Lame Tuesday and the looming pandemic, Lana calls up Woody for some friendly and uplifting theory talk. 

The two discuss the symptoms and spread of the Coronavirus, what love means in times like this, why neoliberalism is the real killer, and most importantly, how to keep hope in the face of a much more insidious disease: centrism. 

 

Get tickets to Woody’s show: ceaselessfun.com

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**Update since recording the episode: CDC has started reporting numbers again! And Warren dropped out. Hallelujah. And it appears that Pepe is making a return…

This week Lana and Woodrow sit down with the world renowned clown, mime, and generally cool guy Dean Evans for our first ever interview! 

 

Clowns; you mean them guys with the crazy hair and the big shoes? No (you fool, you oaf) we mean a different, much cooler thing. Something that’s both a style of performance and an archetype that exists in almost every world culture.

 

What do you talk about with a clown? Here’s a search engine tailored list of what we did:

Where did clowns come from? What is the history of clowning? What is the clown’s relationship to language? 

Why do clowns exist? What is the function of the clown? 

Ancient Chinese clowns (Lana said that one clown’s name wrong so you’ll just have to google it)

Paradox of the clown 

Principles of clowning

Masks and concealing identity  

Radical honesty 

Presence 

Bouffon

Native American clowns, clown society 

Jester 

Status, hierarchy 

And of course Jacques Lecoq 

 

If you want more of Dean, check out his immersive clown group Slow Dance in LA or check out the Bouffon  troop he directs: Mil Grus. www.milgrus.com

 

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