PODCAST · society
Asian Provocation
by Ayoto
and the Fetish of Failure ayoto.substack.com
Episodes
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The Body Keeps the Niceness
Where is your rage? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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The Body Keeps the Fascism
Someone warned me not to write about Body Keeps the Score. So I wrote about Jung and white supremacy instead. Maybe next time I'll write about Bessel. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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The Body that Doesn't Keep the Score
When will you be against it? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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s**t
a shitty meditation This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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The Resort
What fictions do we need to tell ourselves in order to stay asleep? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Why I write
on clarity This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Das vierte Reich: Transparenz, Therapie und die neue Form des Gehorsams
on the architecture of domination This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Hot Urine, Floral Flame
Mum's squirts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Moist Ideologies
Some people want to use you, Others want to be used by you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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The Last to Arrive
I had a double-shot macchiato this morning. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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White Masochism is not Innocence
Letter to my unborn. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Whiteness Cannot Thank You
What if whiteness isn’t something possessed, but something performed—an anxious choreography of refusal, projection, and idealization? What if its power lies not in strength, but in its compulsive need to survive critique, to erase debt, to never owe? This essay does not ask whether whiteness is...
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Transit of Flesh
moving through the quiet rituals of hospital life—moisturizing mama's skin, watching my baba massage through pain, painfully. wrestling with memory, detachment, and the strange intimacy of care. a meditation on love, loss, and time in transit. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss…
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Secure Attachment, Inc.
Attachment Theory is no longer just a theory—it’s an economy. A brand. A currency. And like any economy, it thrives on belief. On confidence. On your continued sense of lack. Because the moment you heal, the market collapses. Security isn’t the goal. It’s the product. The metric of compliance. An...
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Quantum Mechanics of Racism: The Schrödinger’s Cat of White Supremacy
A sharp intake of breath. A pause, imperceptible but charged. The illusion of neutrality fractures, and something unseen is forced into view. A skull measured, a law passed, a room recalibrated. Racism is always someone else’s problem—until it isn’t. Until it is measured, but only on terms that...
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A White Horse Is Not a Horse, A Mother Is Not a Mother
I had a strange moment during this podcast recording with Professor Robert Beshara—I blanked on 媽 (mā, mother). It was the same day my mother was taken into the hospital for an aneurysm. I looked at the character and thought: This must not be it. It wasn’t just forgetting—I had refused the word...
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Attachment Theory is White Supremacy in a Lab Coat
What if your so-called “attachment issues” aren’t personal but political? Attachment Theory, wrapped in the authority of science, is less about psychology and more about empire, policing intimacy, erasing Indigenous kinship, and repackaging colonial violence as developmental norms. From British...
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Desire for Truth
Speaking about respecting and giving space for Palestinians to speak—and not letting yt voices dominate or recreate the same oppressive structures in activist spaces—is critical. But where do we draw the line between developing an awareness of structural power dynamics and replicating the logic…
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Is this Europe?
Proteus vs Procrustes This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Hostages of Empire
hey, so last night i was walking and listening to ngũgĩ wa thiong’o’s decolonising the mind, thinking about how stories mess with us—like lord of the flies pretending to be about "human nature" but really being a colonial fever dream. then i got hit with how triangle of sadness does something...
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What happened when I infiltrated a Unabomber reading group
White supremacy thrives on contradictions: exalting individualism while demanding conformity, masking insecurity as power, and rationalizing violence under euphemisms like "eccentricity" or "genius." Join Ayoto as they dissect how these dynamics manifest everywhere—from a "Not a Unabomber book...
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Assimilation Scanner
The lights above the checkpoint bathe my sensors in white surgical luminescence. The humanoids shuffle forward, their bodies exhaling data into the air. I process them one by one. Optimize. Purge. Execute. Most pass without incident. Green light. Welcome. Next. T heir relief perfumes the space,...
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The Man and the Octopus
A marathon, piercing thorns, and ink-stained desire—an NSFW journey of seduction and darkness. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Decoding the Fox
In this episode, we dive into the psychological and rhetorical gymnastics often used to sidestep accountability in conversations about Gaza. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, colonial history, and real-life role-playing scenarios, we explore how patterns of deflection, historical denial…
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Fluid Fantasies
When Squirt violates, who are we in its presence—and what do we become when we turn away? An essay on the Fluidic Turn by Ayoto Ataraxia. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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A Critical View on the Name-of-the-Grandfather with Dr. Fu Wai
Life rarely turns out the way I plan, but rather its negation. If I could trace back how this interview came about, it would be because I was part of a small reading group on Julia Kristeva’s abjection. During this time, funny enough, I brought up the artist formerly known as Kanye West…
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On manipulation
Lately, I’ve been accused of being manipulative. People look at me with disdain and doubt, keeping their distance. They unfollow me, ignore my messages, and even walk out of dinners, leaving me with the bill. Why is that? The empire’s latest weapon isn’t soldiers; it’s diagnosis—specifically, the...
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Comment response rant
Thanks to user LMdz-f1c for the thoughtful response to the episode with Dr. Robert Beshara on A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye Also, I wanted to note that the conversation I had with Dr. Beshara will never be able to replace the research he has put into his book, so I highly recommend you pick up...
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On White Loss
A two side essay and reflections. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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Sunday licks face
“Sunday licks face” 2024 Pastel on Paper This is Sunday—a white boxer. I never cared for boxers, but Sunday melts anyone’s heart. Sunday’s humans were moving to the countryside. They got married. She's the blondest woman I have ever met. She met Sunday and the black man in this city of polyamory....
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Why do you give a s**t?
Something that's bugging me for a few years. Had to let this one loose. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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The Fractional Imperialist
My family immigrated to colonial Australia, just as the English, the Irish, the Scotts, the Welsch, Italians, Germans, Dutch, and the Polish decades earlier, eating up the exported Western myth of modernity and progress. We were swiftly inducted into the lore of the loyal ANZACs, the Australian…
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A Spring of Bittersweet Melodies
Photography and words by 鄭博榕 aka Ayoto Ataraxia, published in Far Near, Vol. 5, Divergence. Special thanks to Lulu Yao Gioiello, Justine Liv and Ariana King for the edits and encouragement. Foreward Between the inception of this assignment and its publishing, my understanding of the world has...
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So long, white supremacy
on dimming the lights This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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On fear
A news headline reposted gained much response, “Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas was invading Doncaster’—A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home and thought they were from Hamas.” The…
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A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye
I speak with Robert K. Beshara روبرت بشارة, Ph.D., a scholar, psychoanalyst, musician, actor, director and artist; he has authored Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud & Said (2021), but I discovered his work through his book, A Psychoanalytic...
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Liberal White Supremacy
Over the last few years, new divisions have formed amongst people in how they express themselves, online and offline. There is the positive-no-matter-what type of people who will not be afraid to cut you off should you bring an iota of negativity since, after all, “you are the average of the five...
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Innocent Born Guilty
I speak to Leon Benson, aka El Bently 448, who I first heard his story on Josh Rivers’ podcast, Busy Being Black. Leon’s story moved me so much; today, I still forget how interconnected we can all be. We connected on social media, and we started to talk. Leon Benson spent two and half decades in...
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A Call-In to Paul
As a good millennial, I take our mantra seriously: to share and to connect. Of the people I shared my previous post regarding, “So you think you're not allowed to speak about Palestine?” was Paul. He wrote back, "Wow! This is amazing. Thank you. It’s very touchy here as it is everywhere, but in…
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Day 2 of #StrikeForGaza
Today is day 2 of the global strike for Gaza. As two unemployed artists, I called my friend yesterday about how we strike against our usual behavior patterns. I thought about my enjoyment of the same ongoing resistance against the usual weight of normalcy. If anything, it felt like a relief. Was...
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So you think you're not allowed to speak about Palestine?
Edward Said’s daughter Najla directed the above rules at the blatant misinformation from mainstream news outlets. Someone wrote in response: So I figured today, Monday December 11, 2023, as part of the global #strikeforgaza we are asked to: * Don’t buy anything, cash or online. * Don’t use your...
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Psychoanalysis Under Occupation with Lara Sheehi, PsyD and Stephen Sheehi, MA, PhD
Professor Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program, where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to...
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Sexuality Beyond Consent with Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
I attended a talk by Avgi Saketopoulou with Leon S. Brenner regarding her book, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) and was struck immediately by her courage and daringness to take on the much-needed discussion within the field of psychoanalysis. Continuing the...
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Sadness of Pleasure: Zen and the Art of Squirt book discussion with abcde
I speak to abcde Flash as she has just finished reading my book, Sadness of Pleasure: Zen and the Art of Squirt. We recorded on the day Deborah Sundahl passed away, the author and pioneer in female ejaculation. Sundahl wrote the seminal work Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot: Not Your Mother’s...
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Genocide, Shame and the Power of the Collective Imagination
In January 1904, Samuel Maharero of the Herero people and Hendrik Witbooi of the Nama rebelled against German colonial rule. In the following four years, more than 100,000 Namibians died from the genocide. Those who survived the genocide were imprisoned in concentration camps, where most died of...
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#39 The Politics and Business of Fashion, Fetish and Photography with Mistress Saturn
On this episode I speak to Mistress Saturn, a NYC dominatrix and BDSM practitioner, photographer and artist, where we speak about the Politics and Business of Fashion, Fetish and Photography. You can contact Mistress Saturn here: Worship Saturn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
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#38 Alex Zhang Hungtai
You can hear Alex Zhang Hungtai's music here on Bandcamp: https://alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/ He also stars in the 2018 film by Christopher Makoto Yogi, "August at Akiko's", which you can watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/augustatakikos "My Film with Andrei" is releasingo on Feb 14, which...
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AA0119 — Two Naked Asians on My Film with Andrei
After a bit of a haitus, I get back with Junshin to speak about My Film with Andrei, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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#37 Experiences of War with Ian Robertson
Episode 37, I interview Ian Robertson, an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer and musician, about his experiences growing up in Detroit, experiences of being deployed at war and working in New York City. You can also watch this episode, with additional images from Ian, on our Youtube channel....
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New Season Coming soon
Here's a preview of the coming season, first with Ian Robertson. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe
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