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Unheard since its 1996 ‘performance’ at a conference at The Hacienda in Manchester, this recently rediscovered cassette tape of the audio version of ‘Swarmachines’, with the voices of Sadie Plant, Angus Carlyle, Mark Fisher, and Nick Land machinically integrated with some premium mid-90s jungle, is a very early production of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU).

The text is available in Urbanomic’s collection #Accelerate.

More details: https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/swarmachines-rewind/ ‎

In this epic osteogeographical podcast recorded entirely on location, we go back to the future and take a tour around Cornwall with author Thomas Moynihan to discuss his book Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History. In the last section Shaun Lewin joins us at Plymouth station to talk railway spines, worms, and vultures.

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/spinal-catastrophism/

This is followed by a recording of the launch event in London in October 2019.

Full details here : https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/spinal-landscape/

Featured track ‘No Spine’ by Gabu : https://soundcloud.com/gabuofficial/

Audio Trailer for the book ‘Audint—Unsound : Undead’, edited by Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, and Eleni Ikoniadou, published by Urbanomic.

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/unsoundundead/

Track listing here: https://www.urbanomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unsoundmethods.pdf

Exclusive Applied Ballardianism soundscape compiled by Philip Sanderson and mixed by DJ Huysmans.

Created for the Ballardian Breakfast Briefing 21 July 2018

https://www.urbanomic.com/event/ballardian-breakfast-briefingmidnight-seance/

Synthetic Fundamentalism for 4-year olds and damaged adults

An idiosyncratic mixtape based on an impromptu listening seminar held at Labour Camp, part of Paul Chaney’s Critical Camps series at Kestle Barton, traces the relationship between work and eroticism through popular song.

More details at https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/songs-labour-pleasure/

François J. Bonnet talks about ‘The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago’, his book on the philosophy of sound and listening, explaining the motivation behind its examination of modes of listening and its mapping of plural sonic ontologies, and expanding on some of the concepts he introduces in order to take account of the ‘schizological’ nature of sound. The podcast concludes with an exclusive track by Bonnet’s alter-ego Kassel Jaeger.

In this episode of Urbanomic's Yarncast series, Urbanomic director Robin Mackay and artist Paul Chaney talk about the ideas behind the project and some of the background to their work. Recorded at Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015 (www.urbanomic.com/event-uf34-details.php), and featuring in depth interviews with writers and thinkers from a variety of disciplines, centered around the concepts of plot and plotting.

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, artist Amanda Beech (www.amandabeech.com) discusses the compelling power of crime fiction, TV shows and movies, the materiality of language and image, and how her video work interrogates the subject-positions and theories of knowledge and power embedded in these popular narratives.

Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015 (www.urbanomic.com/event-uf34-details.php), and featuring in depth interviews with writers and thinkers from a variety of disciplines, centered around the concepts of plot and plotting.

In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, architect and theorist Eyal Weizman discusses his Forensic Architecture project (http://www.forensic-architecture.org/), and explains why the defence of victims of state violence demands a counterforensics that introduces new types of evidence, new modes of intervention, and operates outside the courtroom, generating new public forums.

Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part of the research residency project The Ultimate Yarnwork at Bergen Kunsthall in January–February 2015(http://www.urbanomic.com/event-uf34-details.php), and featuring in depth interviews with writers and thinkers from a variety of disciplines, centered around the concepts of plot and plotting.