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The Breakup Theory Episode 30 - WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE HELLSCAPE OF POETIC SCIENCE w/ P.
In this episode, I talk with P. about his book God, Aritifical Intelligence, and Me: Some Notes on Being Raised Catholic, God, Atheism, Consumerism, Artificial Intelligence, and Just How Fucked Up It Feels to Be Alive Sometimes :) I think that says it all!
The Christmas tree chipper at Prospect Park
The next day, the trees are gone, dismembered and shattered, like an old battleground littered with corpses blown to pieces from ordinance. But it is sap you smell not blood.
The Breakup Theory Episode 29 - Living with Trans Despair with Simon(e) van Saarloos
Taking a radical approach to despair, Simon(e) van Saarloos and Shuli Branson integrate queer nihilism with the openness of transition, delinking hope and change to operate in the shadows of a progressive rainbow that demands assimilation, rationality, and maturity.
Welcome to our Nightmare ahem Dream
Like with mutual aid, our survival is collective and interwoven.
The New Frankenstein - Shuli guests on The Spectacle Podcast
The great Io @bum.lung invited Shuli on to their podcast The Spectacle (a podcast for people who like movies and hate cops) to dig into Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of the much-adapted Frankenstein. They ask the big questions like: “Why?” “How?” and of course “Who?”
Winter Solstice Writing Circle
What will you be planting this winter? How will you celebrate the return of the sun?
Joy, interrupted... again.
This song is for all survivors. I love you.
Underneath they're all lovable
The sun pours down incessantly, beating us down with the light of love. It does hide itself from time to time, it seems to leave us seasonally, and yet the light is always there.
Cinematic Collaborators
With Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos has remade Parasite for J6 rioters
The Breakup Theory Episode 28 - Jaime Grant on What We Can Do Intimately With Each Other
In this episode, Caroline and I talk to the wonderful Dr. Jaime M. Grant, Sex and Intimacy Coach, Researcher, Writer, and longtime Activist. She has recently published Kink for Dummies, after her previous contribution to the series, Polyamory for Dummies.
Walking With Change: Gifting a Better Past with Federico Campagna
"Developing a familiarity with the past truly enriches our experience of living and can really give us some incredible tools for facing these impossible challenges that we have to face.”
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The Thin Veil Brigade or Hexing our way through this timeline
Hello marvelous murder, This is the point of year in the northern hemisphere when portals open and we convene with the ghosts across time! In some places it’s called, All Hallows Eve or Halloween or Samhain or Dia de los Muertos – a time to remember and to connect with
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 27 -- A Conversation with Simon(e) van Saarloos: Disintegrating Linear Timelines at the NY Art Bookfair
When Simon(e) van Saarloos invited me to be in conversation with them at the NY Artbook Fair surrounding their recently published Against Ageism, I was honored and excited. We had already been discussing recording a conversation, so it was serendipitous that this event came along.
She's Not There
dither
a trifle
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory, Agony Letter: The Thing That Cracks Us Open
For this episode, I invited the beautiful Dean Spade to respond to a listener letter with me from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process and over the years this has caused them to become disenchanted . . . It has gotten really bad for them.
Podcasts
Talking to My Friends
Hello my precious murder, As you may or may not know, my book, The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World has entered pre-order! You can order it through my Bookshop store here or anywhere else pre-orders are sold, although going to your local bookshop
She's Not There
Maybe everyone thinks New York belongs to someone else but feels it belongs to them.
The shark doesn’t care as it sinks its teeth into your leg. It doesn’t even want to eat you.
How Do You Love, How Do We Live
This is how we live in the frontlines of love and peace
Poetry knows more than we know, and in between the lines and voices, we hope you find somewhere to live and love.
When A Dictator Dies
As a tragically online person, I don't know whether the relatively well-adjusted and offline among us have heard the rumor that Trump is already dead, or at least on death's door. I do know, however, that it's been all over Bluesky and TikTok. This
Art Under Empire
Art Under Empire: Barnett Cohen
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
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Conversations with Poets & Rappers: Featuring chris time steele
“Art is about wandering around the borders of magical thinking and weaving in different ways of experiencing the world.”
Art Under Empire
Art Under Empire: Nicole Manganelli of Radical Emprints
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
Nitrate Fires
The Übermensch at the End of America
Of the great symbols of the American Century, there are, to my mind, three that predominate: Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola and Superman. All three with an undeniable and immediate iconicity, recognizable from silhouette, slogan, font or color palette alone, they represent an American mass-culture at ease with its benevolent corporate purveyors,