Cinematic Collaborators
With Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos has remade Parasite for J6 rioters
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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.”
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
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.
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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.
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
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.
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: 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,
Art Under Empire
Art Under Empire: Oree Originol
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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an excerpt from Florent Gabarron-Garcia, A People’s History Of Psychoanalysis, trans. Shuli Branson (Pluto Press, 2025)
We are sharing the introduction from the recently published A People’s History of Psychoanalysis by Florent Gabarron-Garcia (Pluto Press, 2025) translated by Shuli. The book sketches a path, from Freud to the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (Socialist Patient’s Collective) in West Germany, to demonstrate that psychoanalysis has a rich history
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Podcast Double Feature
I know what you're thinking: I just don't have enough of Vicky's voice in my life. Sure, she posts like a madwoman on various social networks but that's just not enough, I want her long-form talking points and I want them NOW!
She's Not There
Some Epigrams Against Life
Each of us believes our visions are good and right and with enough reason will be accepted generally.
Why are things like this?
A kind of absurdist fatalism has taken over discussion of "the current moment". In the last 22 months of genocide and reenergized fascism, the simple question "how are you?" has gone from almost dreadfully inappropriate, to a bit of a comic punchline in and of itself,
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The Final Straw Radio Podcast with Dani Burlison: Mutual Aid in CA’s Fire Country
Check out Dani chatting about her recent book, Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country! The conversation dives into the nuance and less heard stories around fire ecology, the land, housing pressures, and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Mutual
Art Under Empire
Art Under Empire: Gadzooks Bazooka
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
Resistance is Fertile
Faith of the Heart feat. Romeo Kokriatski
Episode #3 of Resistance is Fertile! There’s your usual hardcore trekkies, and then there’s Romeo! The bar has been set, and both of us try to reach it, but kinda fail! We do, however, meander through most of the series from the Trek universe, touching on various episodes
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The Breakup Theory Episode 25 - Practices that do the Unchoosing
In this episode, I speak with two beautiful trans writers, artists, thinkers, Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, who recently published Trans Femme Futures with Pluto Books.