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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.”
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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
Podcasts
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,
Podcasts
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
Podcasts
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.